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Yoko goes home

John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Sep 7, 2010 Updated Sep 8, 2010

Yoko Ono has made an emotional return to late husband John Lennon's childhood home.

During the visit, Yoko said "He was a very sweet and gentle person at home....I was lucky to have someone like that with me".

Ono was in Liverpool to open a children's centre at Lennon’s former school Dovedale in the city’s Mossley Hill area.

Later in the day she visited Mendips, the house Lennon shared with his Aunt Mimi from 1945 to 1963. After surprising fellow tourists, an emotional Ono said, "Each time I come here I go into John's bedroom and it makes me choke up to know he was in there dreaming of what he was going to do."

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John Winston Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th...

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