Lennon Wall

This guide to the Lennon Wall in Prague begins on December 8, 1980, when news of John Lennon's murder reached a Communist government that had banned Western pop music, and an unknown hand painted his face on this stone wall. You'll hear how police repeatedly scrubbed the face clean through the years that followed, and how by 1988 the wall had filled with poems and grievances against Gustav Husak's government. Look closely at the layers of hearts, lyrics and half-finished portraits stacked in front of you now.