John Lennon , 30 years ago today.

[Darryl Webster]

I guess a fair few of us remember where we were when we heard John had been shot. I was just seting off to ride 30 miles to work ( that was my daily commute). Had tears in my eyes most of the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ Rip John

 

[L'arriviste]

I guess a fair few of us remember where we were when we heard John had been shot. I was just seting off to ride 30 miles to work ( that was my daily commute). Had tears in my eyes most of the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ Rip John

Funny that, a colleague just asked me to confirm this anniversary and he was shocked that I didn't know either way. I think he thought that every British citizen should know and cherish it sadly.

I was too young then anyway, but I remember visiting the spot just over a decade ago when I happened to be in New York. I also remember more recently being absolutely amazed to see Chapman on Larry King Live or whatever it was. Bonkers that a convicted murderer could get primetime airtime like that.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

30 years -- man, do I feel OLD!

Susan

 

[stefank]

I was doing a community radio shift that evening. I changed the programming at the last minute. Strawberry Fields Forever.

 

[Anonymous]

this one always gets played in our house on the 8th as opposed to John.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhBvh1cwA0w

 

[auscyclefan94]

I am sure you don't want to know where I was the day John lennon died.

 

[usedtobefast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzrNKN3rZI

i was in rehearsal myself. a bad day. still mourn his loss.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

I was a teenager and remember it like it was yesterday.

Here is how most of us in the States found out. If you were alive then, and from this side of the pond, you'll probably remember this too.

 

[brianf7]

I remember when there was this band that used to practice in the back shed they made an awfull noise . then they made a record and Harrold Willson the British PM baned it because it was too sugestive for the time.

Then everyone wanted a copy and it made the top of the charts and then they realy started.

That is what I remember so now you know how old I am.
The Mersey sound had started .

 

[Oldman]

30 years -- man, do I feel OLD!

Susan

You should feel young to live in an era when you could feel that much.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Actually I do feel quite young. It's just that somehow that nasty number that pretends to be my age seems to have absolutely no relationship to me at all.....

Susan

PS: Currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography. Very interesting!

 

[Spare Tyre]

I was a teenager, so I probably should remember it. I realise now I was way too young to understand the extraordinariness of the 1960s and the 1970s.

This is pretty cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk&feature=related

I am sure you don't want to know where I was the day John lennon died.

You were nothing. We're quite okay about it.

Actually I do feel quite young. It's just that somehow that nasty number that pretends to be my age seems to have absolutely no relationship to me at all......

Yeah, for me that feeling started when I was 34 and has continued to surprise me, increasingly, ever since.

 

[Echoes]

PS: Currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography. Very interesting!

What does he say about Parsons' influence on Wild Horses?


I'm not far from thinking Gram actually wrote the song. It's a masterpiece and I've always thought it was too good for the Stones.

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

...Imagine there's no John Lennon
It's easy if you try....

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

...Imagine there's no John Lennon
It's easy if you try....

What an unpleassant thought -- the world as it would have been without John Lennon and the Beatles......

Susan

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

I guess a fair few of us remember where we were when we heard John had been shot. I was just seting off to ride 30 miles to work ( that was my daily commute). Had tears in my eyes most of the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ Rip John

After work, at home watching news. We didn't have the internet in those days. Plus, many of my coworkers and I rode a bus with no radio to and from work. So any news, significant or otherwise, we did not hear about until after arriving home. I remember thinking, what a waste and what moron did this. Sad.