John Lennon

[gambitnut]

Anybody remember 12/8/80? What were you doing when you heard? How much music did we miss out on? Any other thought?

 

[tim]

One of the brightest minds music will ever have

RIP to a musical genius.

 

[huevonkiller]

Just wanted to say RIP as well.

 

[crandc]

I was at a political meeting. I got home and my brother called me, long distance. He told me John had been killed.

I remember I put Lennon quotes on all my holiday cards that year.

Life is indeed what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Take a sad song and make it better.

 

[ucatchtrout]

I was driving my Buick Skylark north on highway 141 and just entering the town of Trout Lake, Washington. When I heard the news on the radio at first I couldn't believe it. Then I pulled over and cried.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

I watched the US vs. John Lennon...seemed like kinda of an asshole but I liked his music....probably not the meaning of most of it though.

 

[STOMP]

that was a somber night in my room playing records thinking about how empty/pointless his death seemed... a blind end to a creative force. I was in high school and had been a big music/Beatles fan growing up, especially liking John. Imagine what we might have been treated to if...

STOMP

 

[Minstrel]

The most talented of the Beatles. He made by far the best music of the four, as a solo artist. I didn't even realize the anniversary of his assassination was approaching, yet I listened to my compilation of his music last week. Strange.

It would definitely have been interesting to see what he could have produced over the past 28 years.

 

[MARIS61]

I watched the US vs. John Lennon...seemed like kinda of an asshole but I liked his music....probably not the meaning of most of it though.

Yeah, Peace, Love, Brotherhood, all pretty horrid stuff. Kinda like religion, but without all the finger-pointing and worship of mythical beings.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

Yeah, Peace, Love, Brotherhood, all pretty horrid stuff. Kinda like religion, but without all the finger-pointing and worship of mythical beings.

no finger pointing? yeah.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I was had a virus on my computer that played a Lennon song on the date of his death every year. Since it wasn't harmful, I left it there. It was many years ago and kinda cool.

 

[RayDavies]

I watched the US vs. John Lennon...seemed like kinda of an asshole but I liked his music....probably not the meaning of most of it though.

lol... that's a shocker.

 

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