John Lennon ‘still with me in spirit’, states Yoko Ono

She said: ”He was a very sweet and gentle person at home, he would make an effort and he would say ‘love is something you have to water every day’.

”I do not know how he knew this but I was lucky to have someone like that with me.

”I’m doing a lot of things now and I think ‘well how am I doing it?’ and I think that John’s probably helping me.”

The former Beatle was shot dead outside his New York home in 1980, at the age of 40.

To mark his birthday Ono first visited Dovedale School in Liverpool, where she also opened a new Sure Start children’s centre.

Lennon attended both infant and junior school there – a fact marked by a handwritten entry detailing his name, address and date of birth in the school’s ledger.

Ono, who was given a rapturous welcome by hundreds of Dovedale pupils, stated she felt ”very emotional” being at the school because she stated her husband had talked about it many times as it was ”where he started.”

She also looked at some of the centre’s facilities, including a sensory room and a walking piano which she donated to the school after seeing it in the film Big.

After her visit she took a trip to Mendips in Woolton, the semi-detached family home John shared with his aunt Mimi from 1945 to 1963.

She purchased the house in 2003 and donated it to the National Trust so that it would be preserved in the same say as when Lennon lived there.

Describing her feelings visiting the house, Ono said: ”Each time I come here I go into John’s bedroom and it really makes me choke up because to know he was actually dreaming in such a small space but dreaming of the whole world and what he was going to do – I’m sure he knew on some subconscious level.”

She stated it did not feel like 30 years since her husband’s death but instead ”feels like only yesterday he was here with me”.

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