John, Yoko & Me' by Elliot Mintz, we see Lennon's take on mortality and what a palm reader told the famous couple about death

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's extremely close friend, Elliot Mintz, is gearing up to release a new memoir, We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me, that reveals intimate details about one of the couple's most surprising obsessions.

Mintz, a media consultant, was close with the couple in the decade leading to Lennon's shocking murder at the age of 40 on December 8, 1980 in New York City.

Their closet was organized according to waist size, says Elliot Mintz, whose new book 'We All Shine On' shares intimate stories from their close friendship

A former broadcaster who was close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the decade before Lennon’s 1980 murder said the lithe couple were “obsessed with staying skinny.” Elliot Mintz, who hosted several radio and television programs in Los Angeles and first met Ono when he interviewed her for her 1971 album Fly,