Artist tweets picture of glasses worn by singer when he was shot dead in 1980,and says US has become like 'war zone'Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – "You are water. I'm water. We're all water in different containers. That's why it's so easy to meet. Someday we'll evaporate together." – Yoko Ono has taken to the social network site to offer a more visceral message, tweeting an image of John Lennon's bloodstained glasses as piece of a call for greater gun control.
The 80-year-old artist and musician tweeted a picture of the glasses worn by Lennon on the night he was shot dead coupled with the message: "Over 1057000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980." The photo, and showing the glasses on a windowsill with New York's Central Park in the background,was the cover of Ono's 1981 album Season of Glass, her first recording after her then husband was murdered by brand Chapman external their apartment building in the city.
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Source: theguardian.com