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One of the photos was later used as the cover of lennons posthumous single "archway." >> when he was there, he was holding a copy of "double fantasy" in his left arm and this guy approached me and he said are you waiting for lennon? i said yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. so, i said, if youre from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent? and he said, wel...

Gorish. paul gorish had come to know lennon personally. one of the photos was later used as the cover of lennons posthumous single "archway." >> when he was there, he was holding a copy of "double fantasy" in his left arm and this guy approached me and he said are you waiting for lennon? i said yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. so, i said, if youre from hawai...

This guy approached me and he said are you waiting for lennon? i said yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. so, i said, if youre from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent? and he said, well, originally, im from georgia." i said, oh. so i said, where are you staying while youre in the city, and with that he turned to me and said, why do you want to know? >>...

Lennon? i said, yeah. he said, do you work for jon? i said no. he said, oh. he said, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that, he had a southern accent. so i said, if youre from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent? he said, well, originally im from georgia. and i said, oh. so i then said, whl, where you staying while youre in the city? and with that he turned to me and said, "why do you want to know?" >> sometime before 5:00 p.m., lennon and o...

Know? >> sometime before 5:00 p.m., lennon and ono leave the apartment to go to his last recording session. chapman and gorish are on the sidewalk. and chapman silently hands lennon his copy of "double fantasy." >> and john turned and said to him, "do you want me to sign that?" he nodded, john took the album. john said, do you have a pen?" he handed him a pen. john started to sign the album, and i had my camera on my neck, and it looked like a good picture, so i looked through the view finder, a...

This guy approached me and he said are you waiting for lennon? i said yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. so, i said, if youre from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent? and he said, well, originally, im from georgia." i said, oh. so i said, where are you staying while youre in the city, and with that he turned to me and said, why do you want to know? >>...

Surprised you while you were at the recording studio. tell me about that. >> that was mind-blowing. i didnt know he was coming. so it was like a big surprise. i wanted to fall out. but its a recording session, you cant do that. you have to sing. >> what did you do? what was your reaction? >> speechless, basically. i just wanted a hug. thats all. >> did you get a hug out of it? >> yeah. when i was singing -- i was singing his song actually. >> which song was it? >> "ribbons in the sky." i had to ...

And i said yeah, and he said do you work for john? and i said no. and he said, oh, he said my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that, he had a southern accent. is so i said, if you are from hawaii how come you have a southern accenaccent, he said originally im from georgia, and i said, oh, well where are you staying while you are in the city and with that, he turned to me and said, why do you want to know. >> shortly that lennon and ono left for the la...

Approached me and he said, are you waiting for lennon? i said yeah. he said, do you work for john? i said no. he said, oh, my name is mark. he said, im from hawaii. what struck me strange is when he said that he had a southern accent. i said, well, if you are from hawaii, how come you have a southern accent, and he said, well, originally, im from georgia. i said, oh. so i said, where are you staying while youre in the city, and with that he turned to me and said, well, why do you want to know? >...

Happy new year who did you bring along? >> this is ellis doing explosion detection work. >> he is a good doggy. happy new year, im going put my glasses on. about 3:00 this afternoon, the -- which way did they go? times square lights started handing these out. 50 tons of goodies are going to be piled up. back to you. megyn and bill are live ot at at times square stage. >> welcome back. million dollar quartet is based on a true story, a recording session brought together elvis presley, johnny cash...