John Lennon was given an eerie prediction about his death before he was fatally shot in New York City. The Beatles icon and his wife, Yoko Ono, received the warning from “one of the best palm readers in Greece,” according to their close friend Elliot Mintz.

John Lennon was gunned down outside his New York City apartment building, The Dakota, on Dec. 8, 1980, at age 40. Elliot Mintz wrote a memoir about their friendship.

It wasn’t a complete accident that John Lennon had an affair with May Pang. From September 1973 to 1975, the Beatles icon went on his so-called “Lost Weekend,” which involved an 18 month-long binge of sex,

He has written a memoir about their time together, We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, which hit shelves on. Speaking to People, Mintz recalled that the Beatles co-founder, who was murdered in 1980, and Ono were both “obsessed with staying skinny.