The original cover caused a controversy because the cover featured a caricature of Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered group member John Lennon, less than two years earlier.
Mark David Chapman (born 1955), murdered John Lennon December 8, 1980
Newfoundland Punk band Mopey Mumble-Mouse wrote the song "Holden Caulfield", inspired by the character and Mark David Chapman, quoting Chapman in the song's intro.
The final part of the book, The Coda, focuses on the mental disintegration of Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, and includes Chapter 27, the so-called missing chapter of J.D. Salinger's classic novel of disaffected youth, The Catcher in the Rye, that "inspired" Chapman to murder Lennon.
It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman.
The photograph on the cover was taken by Paul Goresh, a fan of Lennon who also took the infamous photo of Lennon signing a copy of Double Fantasy for his killer, Mark David Chapman.
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