It was sad for awhile after because Lennon had just released his new album and it was kind of haunting listening to his songs on the radio afterwards. There were some really nice tunes on his last album and he seemed to have had a musical reawakening. That chump creep loser Chapman should have shot himself instead!
Yes, I meant to include that fact in the original post, thank you for reminding us. Lennon had just released a single called "Starting Over" that was rapidly climbing the charts at the time he was shot. It was a damn fine song too and there were at least three other quality songs on that "Double Fantasy" album (Woman, Watching The Wheels, Losing You). It appeared that Lennon was getting his act back together and so I think that added to the tragedy of his premature death. We can only imagine if that spurt of creativity would have been maintained through the 1980s.
Of course, Yoko had to have her unlistenable tracks included on the album as well but as we were on the eve of the compact disc revolution, it would have been so much easier to play his albums with her tracks filtered out.