“I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboration

John and Yoko in 1980.

At 10:30pm on 8 December 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono left the Record Plant studio, a 10th floor facility at 321 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The studio was renowned for having an unfinished room with high ceilings, which many bands used for rehearsals. But it was best known as the studio where Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concluded the recording and mixing of the 1975 album Born To Run.