"This is Long Island Sound in Cold Spring Harbor, wishing you a bonne nuit, " says John Lennon in a bootleg copy of a home video now on YouTube, wishing good night to one and all from his getaway estate, Cannon Hill. Dressed in a white shirt and a painter's cap, sporting long hair and a full beard, he plays an acoustic version of "Dear Yoko" from his then-upcoming album, "Double Fantasy."

It is May 11, 1980, six months before the album's release and seven months before Lennon's murder outside his and wife Yoko Ono's Manhattan apartment building, The Dakota, at age 40.

Lennon, as he often did, was spending time at his waterfront retreat, purchased not long before for a reported $450,000. Other videos show the former Beatle there with friends and with Ono and the couple's young son, Sean

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