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John Lennon killed on this day('Dead On This Day, Still Dead' list)
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Posted on 12/08/2003 7:55:05 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
Murdered at 10:55pm eastern on 12/8/80. At 11:15pm Howard Cosell interrupted the Monday Night Football game between Miami and New England, as it was going into overtime, to announce:
"One of the great figures of the entire world, one of the great artists, was shot to death horribly at the Dakota Apartments, 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City. John Lennon is dead. He was the most important member of the Beatles, and the Beatles, lead by John Lennon, created music that touched the whole of civilization. Not just people in Liverpool, where the group was born, but the people of the world."
Not that I agreed with his politics, but anyone watching that night will remember that weird moment.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: badradio; howardcosell; jimmorrison; johnlennon; mondaynightfootball
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To: jocon307
I actually like Elton John - not something I admit readily.
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me might be my fav.
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:42:23 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?)
To: Delta 21
I'll have to add Dire Straits to the mix.
Some crap - "Twisting by the Pool"
Some great tunes - "Romeo and Juliet" and "Telegraph Road"
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:45:59 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?)
To: old-ager
To: old-ager
To: jwh_Denver
Well she was just 99, with a face like Frankenstein, and the way she looked was way beyond a scare.
Now how could I dance with her mother, oooh!
When I saw her standing there?
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:52:42 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Chilling Effect-1, Global Warming-0)
To: Chad Fairbanks
I gues I should have pinged you to this one.
A little Don?
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:55:48 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?)
To: bethelgrad
John may have been the "real" rocker during the touring days, but once they got in the studio, it was Paul whose talents far outshone the other 3
Agreed totally. Paul was last century's Mozart.
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:57:03 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
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To: old-ager
To: Jeff Chandler
Now how could I dance with her mother, oooh!
LMAO! Nice nice change of words!
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posted on
12/08/2003 10:59:18 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
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To: Jeff Chandler
... and the way she looked
was way beyond repair ...
To: old-ager
... and the way she looked was way beyond repair ... Better yet.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:03:38 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Chilling Effect-1, Global Warming-0)
To: jwh_Denver; Revolting cat!
Paul was last century's Mozart.I'm afraid you just pushed me into Rc's camp.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:05:39 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Chilling Effect-1, Global Warming-0)
To: jwh_Denver; Chad Fairbanks
Paul was last century's Mozart. Whoa...that is a strong statement.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:09:30 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?)
To: dead
Without Lennon's weird edge, Paul was nothing but bubblegum pop.
Without Paul's pop sense, Lennon was nothing but edgy and weird.
I think the tendency for what you are saying is true but I don't agree with it totally. Back when Sgt. Peppers was released the "old folks" looked at "When I'm Sixty Four" as a "heavy" song. No doubt with John's help because the song really is satirical.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:11:33 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
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To: CyberCowboy777
Algore invented Mozart.
To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
Could not have been Handel - Church and State you know.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:17:08 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?)
To: somemoreequalthanothers
I'm on the John side.
As you respectfully disagreed so do I. But I'm not going to argue with a Beatles fan. So be it. None of the Beatles were expendable.
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:17:48 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
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To: Jeff Chandler
Rc's camp.
?
178
posted on
12/08/2003 11:23:00 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
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To: jwh_Denver
Revolting cat!
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:24:24 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Chilling Effect-1, Global Warming-0)
To: CyberCowboy777
Whoa...that is a strong statement.
Yes it is. But I can't prove that to you. You have to prove or dis-prove that on your own and it's your opinion as what I've stated is my opinion.
Mozart wrote simple beautiful melodies that have tested time and have come up bountiful. I believe that when time tests Paul's music it will come nearly as good. What composers/songwriters in the last century have nearly as many beautiful melodies of Paul?
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posted on
12/08/2003 11:33:03 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
(1+1+1+1= more than 4)
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