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All you need is ... a second Lennon blue plaque
Jamie Welham4 Sep 2009
John Lennon is set to be honoured with a blue plaque outside the London house that was the setting for a notorious nude photo shoot with Yoko Ono for an album cover.
The late Beatle will be one of just a handful of people to be commemorated with the honour more than once by English Heritage.
There is already a plaque to his memory outside his Liverpool home.
Lennon and Ono only lived in the flat at 34 Montagu Square in Marylebone for three months.
Other stars who made their home in the building included fellow Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney - who were pictured leaving there to collect their MBEs at Buckingham Palace in 1965 - and Jimi Hendrix.
It has been dubbed "the ultimate rock 'n' roll pad", and now the owner, record label owner Reynold D'Silva, is hoping Lennon's name will take pride of place outside.
A planning application for the plaque was lodged with Westminster council this week, but the identity had been kept a secret by English Heritage.
Lennon and Ono took the picture for the cover of their Two Virgins album in 1968 at the flat.
The couple were in the throes of heroin addiction at the time, leading to a drugs raid which resulted in them being evicted.
