John Lennon killed on this day('Dead On This Day, Still Dead' list)

Ananova ^ | 12/8/03 | History

[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.

[eddie willers]

So instead of Paul playing with sheep and John being deep and heavy you got a great song with good lyrics.

One of my favorite examples would be "We Can Work It Out".

A good song made great with John's addition of:

Life is very short, and there's no ti..i..i..i..ime, for fussing and fighting my friend.

[CyberCowboy777]

Over 30,000,000 copies sold

[Diddle E. Squat]

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!

[bulldogs]

Why is John Kerry standing next to Lennon?

[SerpentDove]

>>Why is John Kerry standing next to Lennon?<<

He looks like the dork everyone avoided in high school.

[newheart]

"luap si daed"

"I've been listening to his music. I think he really is dead.'
Larry Norman

[Diddle E. Squat]

Well they sure sang it.

I know. I saw Ferris Bueller...

[bulldogs]

He looks like the dork everyone avoided in high school.



That explains it.

[Delta 21]

25 Million as of 1990.
...I stopped keeping track after that....

[Revolting cat!]

Thank you very much for illustrating my point so well in #77. Really, I do appreciate it! As I said, small and pedestrian!

[Delta 21]

ok...you win

[Jeff Chandler]

I don't understand why so many love the beatles music.

Objectively speaking, Lennon and McCartney were perhaps the greatest pop music songwriting team ever (in spite of the few duds they created). As performers, they were adequate.

All the hysteria and idolatry surrounding them is just silly. Last year I rented "A Hard Days Night" for my daughters to watch. They were singularly unimpressed, and thought they had bad teeth.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cleveland down to the Rams 2 yard line, about to make it a 6 point game...

[SerpentDove]

>>Objectively speaking, Lennon and McCartney were perhaps the greatest pop music songwriting team ever (in spite of the few duds they created).<<

Shhh. You'll get RC riled up again.

[eddie willers]

No that was the Isley Brithers.

But the Beatles flat owned that tune after their go at it.

First time I heard white boys (British at that!) that could do an R&B cover and blow the original away.

[I'll be your Huckleberry]

It was the best of times and the worst of times. It was raining.

I was driving in from the Bronx to our apartment in Hell's Kitchen when I heard the news on the radio.

By the time I got to the Dakota the police had the blue barriers up around the entrance and there were about 50 people standing in the rain.

There was one single candle lit in the window above the entrance (someone else's home), and a few candles burning under umbrellas in the street.

I can still feel the grayness, cold and heartbreak of that day.

"Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now."

[CyberCowboy777]

#1

#3

[bulldogs]

"Shhh. You'll get RC riled up again"


LOL!!

[T Lady]

Yep...back in the days when that neighborhood was fairly safe anyway. Oh sure we'd get our fair share of Friday and Saturday night drunks, but they were relatively harmless...one even gave me a $2.00 tip, when the Manager wasn't looking, of course. Actually I was part of the clean-up crew, which often gave me the unpleasant task of cleaning the scuzzy bathrooms. Oh, well. Had to start somewhere.

-Regards, T.

[oyez]

absolutely!