Clothes Lennon died in to go on display

LONDON, May 12 (UPI) -- The clothes music icon John Lennon was wearing the day he was gunned down in 1980 are to go on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York.

The BBC said Lennon's widow helped create the exhibit called "John Lennon: The New York Years," which also feature's the late British musician's guitars, trademark wire-rimmed spectacles, a New York City T-shirt he wore in a widely circulated portrait and a piano from the Manhattan apartment he shared with Yoko Ono.

Ono admitted it was "hard to include" Lennon's clothes, which were returned to her by the medical examiner after Lennon's death at the age of 40.

"I know it's a kind of a sad and very poignant kind of paradox, I think, that he loved this place so much and this (is) where he was killed," the BBC quoted Ono as saying about Lennon's adopted home of New York.