They are working on the songs for Milk and Honey, the intended sequel to Double Fantasy, Lennon’s first album in five years. Before hanging up, she asks him to order a limousine for two P.M., the time they plan to go to the recording studio. Ono answers De Palma’s barrage of questions about interview requests (from Barbara Walters, among others) and tells him she will be down to sign the pile of checks he says are waiting. De Palma is office manager of Lenono, John and Yoko’s business, which takes up the entire first-floor apartment known as Studio One. She turns to Ono, announces that Rich De Palma wants to speak with her. The buzzer on the phone is heard and Mioko Onoda, a Japanese maid, rushes to answer it. “We’re on our way,” he laughs, putting the Billboard into a drawer in the wooden kitchen table. With the marker’s bold line, he draws an arrow from the number-25 slot to number one, putting a line through Barbra Streisand’s album Guilty. “Not bad, eh, Mother?” He grabs a red pen and circles the entry: Number 25 with a bullet. He breaks into a big grin and glances up at Yoko. David Geffen, whose record company Ono chose to distribute Double Fantasy, called earlier to tell them the album entered the charts at number 25, but Lennon wants to see it with his own eyes.
Seaman hands Lennon copies of Billboard and Cashbox and Yoko Ono rushes into the kitchen to watch over John’s shoulder as he flips to the Top 100 charts. The Lennons’ album Double Fantasy has just been released. Without looking up from his paper, Lennon holds out his hand and asks for the latest music papers. Fred Seaman, a sandy-haired assistant in his late 20s, wearing an IMAGINE T-shirt, enters the room from the inner-courtyard stair well, piles of mail and magazines stacked in his arms. John Lennon is sitting at the breakfast table, sleepily reading the morning paper, steam rising from his coffee cup. THE MORNING winter light is streaming into the kitchen window of the Lennons’ huge apartment, one of six they own in the Dakota, Manhattan’s West Side landmark building. “When John died, I thought it was the worst thing that would ever happen.
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