he lived with his wife, yoko ohno, in the dakota apartments near central park there december 8, 1980,ic, leading beatles historian martin lewis, teamed one harvey weinstein on the biopic "nowhere boy" and michael leff steen, "american masters, lennon nyc, john lennon's time in new york" and contributing editor for rolling stone magazine, alan light,ed us for the special edition on the beatles' 100 greatest songs. >> michael, let me start with you, i wanted to do this a couple weeks ago because i knew that who are riverviewic date was coming up. >> right. right. >> and i don't want actually it to come up, 30 years it sun imaginable. >> nice the focus has shifted. >> so we wanted to focus on the birthday. lennon would have turned 70 today. and for all of us all of us obsessed on the beatles, as i have since i was young, a great gift for john lennon and his fans this weekend. >> yeah it is wonderful. i'm director for the pbs series american masters, a film called "lennon nyc" the last decade of john's life, this sort of period that he left the beatles and sort of found himself as individ