Lennon himself, ever eagre to jump onto new ideas, may just haven taken Mr. Maezawa up on the offer.

The Beatle was fascinated with space, more specifically UFOs, even claiming to have seen one on August 23, 1974.

“I was lying naked on my bed when I had this urge,” Lennon informed Interview magazine not long after. “So I went to the window, just dreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind. … There, as I turned my head, hovering over the next building, no more than 100 feet away was this thing with ordinary electric light bulbs flashing on and off round the bottom, one non-blinking red light on top.”

He would later sing of the experience on 1980 single ‘Nobody Told Me’.

Lennon also wrote about the cosmos on ‘Across The Universe’, first released on a charity compilation album in 1969 then later collected on 1970’s Let It Be.

Unfortunately, John Lennon was unable to further pursue his celestial fascination further, as he was tragically shot dead on December 8, 1980, aged 40.