From Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football.
Why do I have a feeling that Yoko hired the person to have John killed????
Were you watching Monday Night Football or heard it from other sources?
I remember I was shocked at the time that he was gunned down the way he was, but it didn’t leave any lasting impression because I don’t have a clue where I was or how I heard about it.
Now, if you want to know where I was when I found out Elvis died I can give you a detailed account. :)
Damn, John Lennon has been murdered?
BTW, here's a link to what I guess you could call a 12/08 Truther site (Yes, it was a conspiracy by Nixon, Reagan, and Stephen King, but you knew that all along, didn't you?): http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com .
When the Beatles first were famous, John was my favorite. But by the time he fell for Yoko, he’d become a pompous jerk. And his solo music sucked. Now we’re condemned to hear “Imagine” and his loathsome Christmas song forever.
I also heard about it from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football.
Up doing homework, listening to an AM NYC radio station, oddly enough.
I lived down south, but it was one of those stations that you could pick up late at night when the other stations went off the air.
It was a sad night.
An old friend, who has since passed, called me and told me. I believe I was watching a football game on TV. I thought she had to have heard it wrong.
From my mom thru the bathroom door as I got out of the shower.
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.
A couple of years ago, I was sitting on a toilet and read that some communist with stupid glasses was shot 25 years before.
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
Who is John Lennon?
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.
I was watching The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder and he announced that John Lennon was killed in NYC.
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.”
I still have problems understanding why. But then, I never did like the Beatles after I got out of puberty.