John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Rolling Stone , January 1981) – In 2005, the iconic Annie Liebovitz photo was unsurprisingly voted as the best magazine cover of the past 40 years. The famous edition of the magazine was published in tribute to John Lennon a month was murdered by Mark Chapman in New York.
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