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John Lennon CREDIT: New York Times Co./Larry C. Morris/Getty Images John Lennon was “bubbling over” with excitement about returning to the UK in a phone call the night before he was shot dead, a newly released letter written by his aunt has revealed. The former Beatle was killed by Mark Chapman outside the entrance to his Manhattan flat on December 8, 1980. A month later his aunt Mimi Smith replied in a letter to Daily Express journalist Judith Simons, who had written a letter of condolenc...

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

A LETTER sent by John Lennon’s aunt, who was living in Poole, has revealed the former Beatle was “bubbling over with excitement” about…

FORMER Beatle John Lennon was “bubbling over with excitement” about returning to the UK in a phone call the night before he was assassinated in…

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

Mimi Smith had raised Lennon in Liverpool from infancy and he later bought her a house in Poole, Dorset, when he found fame.

Trending Years later, Yoko Ono bought the house and donated it to the National Trust. It has been preserved exactly as it was when Lennon was growing up. Mimi was a notoriously strict guardian, with very rigid ideas about proper behaviour and a powerful sense of moral and social superiority. She did not regard music as a suitable or respectable pursuit and looked down on Lennons Beatles bandmates as being from a lower class area of Liverpool. Mimi famously told Lennon, "The guitars all right Jo...