Boston photographer captured John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980. His new book shares ...

Boston photographer Roger Farrington was flown to New York to document Lennon and Ono’s return to the recording studio in 1980. Now, he’s sharing the images in a new book.  An unusual call sent a Boston photographer to New York to photograph John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Forty-six years later, he’s sharing the photos.

In August 1980, after a five-year hiatus from recording and releasing music, Lennon and Ono returned to the recording studio in New York to begin work on what would become Double Fantasy, Lennon’s final album.

On the day of their return, Boston photographer Roger Farrington received a call asking him to photograph the couple’s first recording session in five years. He was soon on a flight to New York.

Farrington spent the day photographing Lennon and Ono. The resulting images capture a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the couple months before Lennon’s death in December 1980.

Now, 46 years later, Farrington has published never-before-seen images from that day in a new book together with Beatles historian Kenneth Womack, giving fans a closer look at Lennon and Ono’s return to the studio.

Farrington will share his stories behind the photos with Womack and radio host Cha-Chi Loprete at the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, housed in the Boch Center Wang Theatre, on Oct. 28.

Source: boston.com/Fiona Bright Holton