Sean Lennon and girlfriend recreate John and Yoko Rolling Stone nude cover photo

For Purple fashion magazine, Sean Lennon and his girlfriend, model Charlotte Kemp Muhl recreated the legendary Rolling Stone cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken by Annie Liebowitz. 

The photo shows a nude Lennon clutching a fully-clothed Ono in a subtle gender role reversal with the sensitive Lennon appearing vulnerable and submissive to a serious and strong Ono.

In the recreated photo published in 2009, Sean Lennon takes on the role of his mother being fully clothed and clutched by his nude girlfriend.

The original photo was taken the day John Lennon died on December 8, 1980 in a photo shoot for Rolling Stone. The photo was published on the cover of Rolling Stone as a memorial to Lennon in January 1981.

This is believed to be the magazine’s best-known cover. An original copy of this Rolling Stone issue was auctioned off in 2022 to raise funds to prevent gun violence.

The photo was taken in John and Yoko’s Dakota apartment just 5 hours before Lennon was killed. The famous photo is now part of the National Portrait Gallery UK’s primary collection.

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