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You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. While John Lennon withdrew from public life during the late 70s, he was still writing.

Not music per se, but book writing. He wrote over 200 pages. Part of it was autobiography,

part of it was Lenin's witty observations, and all of it was punctuated with Lenin's quirky

illustrations. The title of the book was, Skywriting by Word of Mouth, a typical Leninesque play on words.

But after he was assassinated in 1980, the manuscript was stolen by one of his staff.

Several years later, the police recovered the manuscript, and Yoko published Skywriting by Word

of Mouth in 1986. But John and Yoko published Skywriting by Word of Mouth in 1986.

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