In the January 2021 issue of AARP there is an article on "A Remembrance: The Night John Lennon Died" is a collection of celebrities giving some stories of Lennon from Alice Cooper, James Taylor, Roberta Flack to May Pang and more.
Alice Cooper gives us the time he first heard The Beatles to hanging out w/ John to the dreaded news that shocked us all.
from Pg 48