John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Vinyl LP record (catalogue number GHS 2001), the inner sleeve signed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in blue felt pen, additionally inscribed by Ono ("To KCPX, Love") and annotated by Lennon with self-portrait caricatures of his and Yoko’s smiling faces and dated "1980"; [with:] a note from Burt Keane to Gary Waldron, a DJ with KCPX radio station, on Warner Bros. Records stationery enclosing the signed album, 16 December 1980, and a Certificate of Authenticity from Burt Keane describing how he had the record signed on 8 December 1980, 22 July 2010, also a newspaper cutting from The Salt Lake Tribune, 2009, the article by Ben Fulton illustrated with a photograph of Waldron with the signed album (4)

At the time of the release of Double Fantasy, Burt Keane was Promotion Director for Warner Bros. Records (which was responsible for manufacturing, distribution and promotion of Geffen Records). On the afternoon of 8 December 1980, Keane and San Francisco DJ Dave Sholin went to meet John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their apartment at the Dakota Building in New York. 

Sholin interviewed the couple for a future broadcast on RKO Radio Network, in what was to be Lennon's final media interview. Keane recalls that: "After the interview, I had John autograph the album for Gary Waldron of KCPX radio station...We took some pictures and proceeded outside...John’s limousine was not available so he and Yoko asked if I could give them a ride in mine.  Before we got into the car, we were approached by Mark Chapman and I asked John to give him an autograph.  John autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman and then we took off to the recording studio".

Later that evening John and Yoko returned from The Record Plant recording studio to the Dakota building where Lennon was shot and killed by Mark Chapman in the archway of the building’s entrance.