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27th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, how'd you hear it?

Posted on 12/08/2007 8:58:11 PM PST by Figment

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KEYWORDS: anniversary; history; instantkarma; instantkarmagotjohn; music; sociology
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To: Figment

From my mom thru the bathroom door as I got out of the shower.


21 posted on 12/08/2007 10:33:24 PM PST by Brainhose (My name is Manuel. I am from Barcelona.)
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To: Figment
We were preparing for my mother's birthday, my dad came home from work and told everyone that John Lennon had been shot.

So many times I have passed by the Dakota, right where Mark David Chapman shot that "phony" who had "mislead the children."

JL and PM provided a check and balance on eachother. When they went solo, it was all downhill.

22 posted on 12/08/2007 10:36:10 PM PST by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Elyse

Me, too.


23 posted on 12/08/2007 11:42:19 PM PST by donna (Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me)
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To: Old Sarge

In a perfect world Yoko would have stepped in front of John. And Mama Cass would have shared her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter.


24 posted on 12/09/2007 12:49:43 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Figment

A couple of years ago, I was sitting on a toilet and read that some communist with stupid glasses was shot 25 years before.


25 posted on 12/09/2007 12:51:44 AM PST by Porterville (Don't bug me about my grammar, you are not that great.)
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To: Figment; blam

on the radio....my girlfriend and I actually did the memorial silence thing while on the Fort Morgan ferry on Mobile Bay

*I was working a pipeline job near there and she was visiting


26 posted on 12/09/2007 12:52:26 AM PST by wardaddy (subservient well trained former shrew tamer for Thompson)
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To: Elyse

Elvis: I was in Canada and had been hiking in the Rockies west of Calgary in Yockanoony and had just rested at the Crowfoot Inn in Calgary and we were getting in the car to go to the Alcan Hwy and turned on the radio that late morning


27 posted on 12/09/2007 12:55:08 AM PST by wardaddy (subservient well trained former shrew tamer for Thompson)
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To: Clemenza

I never looked at the Dakota the same again either


28 posted on 12/09/2007 12:56:12 AM PST by wardaddy (subservient well trained former shrew tamer for Thompson)
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To: Figment

Who is John Lennon?


29 posted on 12/09/2007 3:28:55 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Figment
I was 18 years old at the time and just a couple months from reporting to Marine boot camp in Parris Island. So I was doing situps while watching the football game (New England was playing Miami Dolphins) when Howard Cosell made the announcement. I knew it was big news so I immediately put the TV on mute and clicked on the radio. Sure enough, all the rock stations in town were playing non-stop Beatles and this continued over the next few days. A lot of sobbing disc jockeys reliving their "salad days" and within days, the newstands were full of magazine tributes.

Much different in those days before internet, all-news/entertainment channels on cable TV. You had to wait until the 6:00 network news to hear anything or listen to a local rock station to get hard news about it.

What I remember most about that era was getting ready for boot camp, looking forward to Ronald Reagan becoming president (he has just won the election the month before) and having a lot of spare time on my hands for the last time of my life. All I had going at the time was a night-job as dishwasher at a restaurant (most fun job I ever had). Once I got to boot camp that next February, I've been burning the candles at both ends ever since.

I also remember going to a local club around the same time (in Boston) and one of those up-and-coming "punk" bands from overseas took the stage. (You only had to be 18 to get into clubs in those days.) There were maybe a hundred people in the room. That band was U2! Even back then, you had the sense that these guys had their act together and were going to be around for a while.

30 posted on 12/09/2007 4:30:22 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 7 days away from outliving Walter Payton)
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To: wardaddy
Imagine
31 posted on 12/09/2007 5:51:12 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: decal
John Lennon’s DEAD?

I didn't know he was sick!

32 posted on 12/09/2007 7:51:51 AM PST by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: Figment

I was watching The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder and he announced that John Lennon was killed in NYC.


33 posted on 12/09/2007 8:27:11 AM PST by upsdriver (Duncan Hunter: For those who demand the very best!!)
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To: Figment

On the album-oriented (LOL, blast from the past, that expression) rock radio station in L.A. at the time, someone broke in and announced John’s death, and then immediately after, the scheduled commercial for John and Yoko’s new album “Double Fantasy”* played. A ghoulish juxtaposition.

* Most people with eardrums took the album and taped only the John songs from it and renamed their new cassette tape “Single Fantasy.”


34 posted on 12/09/2007 8:34:06 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: wardaddy

In L.A. it was “Lights On For Lennon” for weeks it seems (headlights on during the day on the freeways).


35 posted on 12/09/2007 8:40:26 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Jeff Chandler

Very clever, my man...I guess you had your second cuppa joe this morning!


36 posted on 12/09/2007 8:52:31 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they have to)
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To: Figment
I heard about it 67,976,000,037,000,367,738,009.5 times.

I still have problems understanding why. But then, I never did like the Beatles after I got out of puberty.

37 posted on 12/09/2007 8:56:23 AM PST by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: blam

“Was it a millionaire who said ‘Imagine no possessions’?” -Elvis Costello in the song “The Other Side of Summer”


38 posted on 12/09/2007 11:36:00 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
"“Was it a millionaire who said ‘Imagine no possessions’?” -Elvis Costello in the song “The Other Side of Summer”

The Other Side Of Summer

39 posted on 12/09/2007 1:28:36 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Figment

I was at college - heard it on the morning news


40 posted on 12/09/2007 2:27:37 PM PST by Revelation 911
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