In what year was the musician who was photographed on the day he was assassinated by Annie Leibovitz shot dead?
Murder of John Lennon John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. On Monday, December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.
Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1922) Theodore Malcolm "Ted" Nash (October 31, 1922 - May 12, 2011) was a noted jazz and studio musician who played saxophone, flute and clarinet and was a first-call session musician in the Hollywood recording studios for many years. He was the featured alto sax soloist on almost all of Henry Mancini's movie and television soundtrack projects beginning in the late 1950s.