Editing John Lennon (section)

===''Walls and Bridges'', the Lost Weekend, and ''Double Fantasy''===

Following a period of personal turbulence — including an eighteen-month separation from Yoko Ono during which he lived in Los Angeles with May Pang, a period he referred to as his '''Lost Weekend''' — Lennon released ''Walls and Bridges'' (1974), which produced his first US number-one solo single, ''Whatever Gets You Thru the Night'', featuring [[Elton John]].

After the birth of his son [[Sean Lennon]] in 1975, Lennon largely withdrew from public life for five years, becoming a self-described househusband and primary caregiver in the Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He returned to recording in 1980 with ''Double Fantasy'', a duet album with Yoko Ono that received mixed reviews upon release but was in the process of being reassessed when Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota on December 8, 1980, by Mark David Chapman. He was forty years old.

''Double Fantasy'' was subsequently awarded the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1981.