Posted on 09/22/2020 11:24:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The man who killed Beatles musician John Lennon in 1980 says that he deserved to be put to death for the despicable act, according to multiple reports.
Mark David Chapman said he deserved the death penalty while responding to questions from a parole board last month. The board later denied his parole for the 11th time.
I assassinated him .. because he was very, very, very famous and thats the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish, Chapman said, according to a transcript obtained by multiple outlets on Monday.
I deserve zero, nothing. At the time I deserved the death penalty. When you knowingly plot someones murder and know its wrong and you do it for yourself, thats a death penalty right there, in my opinion, he said.
Chapman called his actions creepy and despicable. He also apologized to Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow.
"I just want her to know that she knows her husband like no one else and knows the kind of man he was. I didn't. I just judged him from a book and I murdered him. He was in a book. He was extremely famous. I didn't kill him because of his character or the kind of man he was. He was a family man. He was an icon. He was someone that spoke of things that now we can speak of and it's great," he said.
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Seriously?
You actually gave that some thought before you posted it?
Good grief.
Yeah, neither him or George Harrison, Paul McCartny or Ringo Starr.I mean, they only sold a few "records"...right?
LOL
FMCDH(BITS)
Agreed. To the best of my knowledge they were 99.9+% analog. The only digital in their repertoire is the synth sound in the beginning of Here Comes the Sun.
Coffee through the nose. That’s the best thing I’e read all day.
Oh, I am.
Yeah. I considered making it three bullets, including one for Yoko. But then I figured no one really paid any attention to her anymore anyway, so why waste good ammo?
Yes. According to his diary, he also accepted Christ, although he began to drift away.
Why do we pay to keep these animals alive
As a fifteen-year old I was intrigued by the back cover of that album. For the life of me, I can't figure out why. :-)
What about Sgt Pepper's inner groove on the UK pressing on side two.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer was one of the first songs to feature a synthesizer.
This POS will say anything NOW to get out. If he were sincere, he wouldve killed himself long time ago
And though the holes were rather small...they had to count them all.
I think they put that runoff groove (I hear "never any OTHER way" myself) so stoned listeners without an automatic return on their turntable had something to listen too until they could get up the gumption to lift the arm.
Or maybe because they were so exhausted after that final "coffin crash" ending of A Day In The Life when Geoff Emerick was slowly turning up the volume on the three grand pianos dying for the longest time possible. Whew!
I've also heard that they put in a frequency only dogs can hear as a lark too.
The history of the Beatles and their music will be studied for centuries.
And, yes, the only GOOD thing that came out of Lennon's murder was that the band would never be tempted to rejoin for reunion tours and wheeze along like the Stones (last album I bought was "Some Girls").
There is a poem by AE Housman called: "To an Athlete Dying Young" that expresses that sentiment of never seeing yourself falling behind the other runners. The Beatles died on top. And stayed that way.
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