The Dakota
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Nov 2, 2026
Peter KingGUEST
The volume was maybe about half the decibels that you would hear on Sunday.
Peter KingGUEST
But that was, my other favorite thing about Madden is We get to New York and he's got an apartment at the Dakota.
Peter KingGUEST
Now, the Dakota is where John Lennon was shot.
Greg CoteHOST
Yep.
Peter KingGUEST
Yeah.
Sammy PetersenHOST
He needed Lennon to mean something, and he needed that meaning to survive the destruction of the man himself.
Sammy PetersenHOST
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon returned to Dakota, his apartment building overlooking Central Park, carrying the promise of a new beginning.
Sammy PetersenHOST
He was 40 years old, a father, a husband, and an iconic musician who had finally returned to recording after five years away.
Sammy PetersenHOST
A stranger had asked him for an autograph that afternoon.
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Sammy PetersenHOST
For most admirers, that meant an autograph, a photograph, or the excitement of seeing a famous musician walking through the streets of New York.
Sammy PetersenHOST
For one man, it meant something much darker.
Sammy PetersenHOST
Chapter 11 The Dakota Dakota occupies a distinctive place in New York's architectural history.
Sammy PetersenHOST
Located at 1 West 72nd Street opposite Central Park, the building was completed in 1884.
Jeremy CohenHOST
They move into a fancy new building.
Jeremy CohenHOST
Did they move into the Dakota? It's the building that John Lennon lived in was the Dakota when he was unfortunately assassinated.
Jeremy CohenHOST
I don't know if they live in the Dakota.
Jeremy CohenHOST
I know they talk about it, but I'm for some reason drawing a blank.
Jeremy CohenHOST
But I want to say it's that building.
TJ ShanoffHOST
This one I haven't gotten tired of.
TJ ShanoffHOST
And in fact, along with Strawberry Fields, this is one, and Watching the Wheels, this is one I listen to a lot when I'm at the Dakota in New York.
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All these places
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
had their moments
speaker_0HOST
four hours a day, but that's free.
speaker_0HOST
He lived in the Dakota.
speaker_0HOST
He doesn't provide like a massive amount of context on in the book.
speaker_0HOST
Do you know what the Dakota is?
EdwardHOST
Is that the building where John Lennon got shot? Because that's where he lived.
EdwardHOST
Correct
speaker_0HOST
So this is one of the most prestigious buildings to live in, in probably the whole world.
speaker_0HOST
At least according to Wikipedia, Madonna applied to live there, but was rejected by the building board.
Mike ParryHOST
Do you know what? I'd heard about this before this programme came out.
Mike ParryHOST
When he lived in the Dakota, he used to literally...
Mike ParryHOST
They had two apartments.
Mike ParryHOST
One of them was for Yoko's fur coats, the other one they lived in.
Mike ParryHOST
He was the most famous man in the world, probably, you know, when she was living with him in New York.
Mike ParryHOST
And Andy Peebles went to the
Mike GrahamHOST
Dakota and met him.
Mike GrahamHOST
In fact, I remember, was it not, do you remember, I'm pretty sure it was the Andy Peebles interview that they then ran, because I remember waking up one day in England to the news that he'd been shot.
Tim SestitoHOST
Now I have to, after work, watch a two hour and 12 horror movie.
Tim SestitoHOST
And all I can say is the opening shot establishes that the apartment building we're going in is the Dakota on the Upper West Side of New York.
Tim SestitoHOST
And for those of you unfamiliar with the name Dakota, it is the apartment building John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in for a decade until he was shot outside of that building.
Tim SestitoHOST
So, uh, a spooky building to begin with, with like a long storied history, one of like the most, one of the most famous buildings in New York.
Tim SestitoHOST
That's not, uh, an office building or something.
Antony RotunnoHOST
I wasn't sure if he was real.
speaker_6HOST
And they all seem like they were interviewed from inside the Dakota.
speaker_6HOST
I was looking at the view.
speaker_6HOST
It's always Central Park behind them.
Andrew RimbyHOST
So, yeah, but I think.
Andrew RimbyHOST
When I bring up that idea, though, of celebrity culture, I'm so curious about it because right away, you know, you take us, Emma, into like the world of the Dakota building.
Andrew RimbyHOST
And I just kept thinking about in your novel, like, you know, you call it right, a sapphic paranormal romance.
Andrew RimbyHOST
But I was also just curious about like the.
Andrew RimbyHOST
Iconic.
Andrew RimbyHOST
architecture like with the Dakota building that we find Franny in where she you know meets the 1960s ghost mom Elsa and I'm thinking of like now that you're in LA you're surrounded by that architecture like you're surrounded by you know memories of Sunset Boulevard with Norma Desmond or like there's just such that gothic kind of history too with I think of the Tower of Terror, for example, or like these 1920s art deco buildings.
Andrew RimbyHOST
I mean, is that something like you're drawn to is architecture as you're constructing your narrative?
Emma R. AlbanGUEST
In some ways, I have always loved really big buildings, impressive buildings, whether they're Gothic or they're more Gilded Age, or I went to London and just kind of wandered around going, look at all the buildings.
Chris ReasonHOST
John Lennon in New York at approximately 5 p.m. on December 8, 1980.
Chris ReasonHOST
Lennon autographed a copy of Double Fantasy from Mark David Chapman before leaving the Dakota with Yoko Ono for a recording session at the record plant.
Chris ReasonHOST
After the session, Lennon and Yoko returned to the Dakota in a limousine.
Chris ReasonHOST
At around 10.50 p.m., they left the vehicle and walked through the archway of the building.
Chris ReasonHOST
Chapman then shot Lennon twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range.
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