28 Years Ago Today

John Lennon died on December 8, 1980.

December-one helluva month.

RIP

Wow, hard to believe it's been that long ago.

And i still don't care.

I actually remember this one because I was watching Monday Night Football in the dorm lounge and Howard Cosell broke into the flow of the game to announce Lennon's death. I'll never forget it.

John Lennon murdered 28 years ago today by a sh1thead who's name I refuse to say, also Jim Morrison if he had lived he would be 65 years old today, and Darby Crash of the Germs also died today, 28 years ago.

December is a bad month to be a rock star eh?

I read something on Yahoo months ago that suggested that Morrison was murdered by a drug overdose Would be cool to see the kind of music he would have done had he lived, Same with John Lennon

Geez, now I feel really old. I was ten years old when Lennon was shot. At the time I didn't know much about him, just that he'd been a Beatle (my Mom was a huge fan) but years later when I was in college I happened to be in NYC on the anniversary date and stopped at the all-day memorial that was going on in Central Park's "Strawberry Fields" (I'm sure all the hippies waving candles and playing Beatle songs on guitar wondered what the heck this six-foot-plus long hair in a leather jacket, boots and Metallica t-shirt was doing there, though...haha) and it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of, just for a little while.

sad, listened to imagine all day yesterday.

I remember I was in 5th grade. My dad was a Beatles fan, and I was familiar with their music because we had a bunch of the original singles. As a matter of fact, two of the events I remember from my 5th grade year was John Lennon being killed and Reagan beign shot. Violent year, I guess.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Geez, now I feel really old. I was ten years old when Lennon was shot. At the time I didn't know much about him, just that he'd been a Beatle (my Mom was a huge fan) but years later when I was in college I happened to be in NYC on the anniversary date and stopped at the all-day memorial that was going on in Central Park's "Strawberry Fields" (I'm sure all the hippies waving candles and playing Beatle songs on guitar wondered what the heck this six-foot-plus long hair in a leather jacket, boots and Metallica t-shirt was doing there, though...haha) and it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of, just for a little while.

I was in New York on Dec. 8th, 2005 (25th anniversary) with my wife and we went to Central Park to visit Strawberry Fields. There was a bunch of people sitting around, lighting candles, playing guitars, singing, etc. I took a really cool black & white pic that I framed, sitting on the bar in my basement.

I remember being awaken by my parents reacting to the news and watching the late night coverage. Being so young it was kind of confusing/scary (why would this guy do this?) but I just knew from everyone's reaction it was this terrible tradegy.

It wasn't till much later when I became a fan of Lennon that I realized just how big the loss was.

I was ten years old when that moron shoot and killed John Lennon. I didnot hear about til the next day when I saw my father's newspaper, I didn't who the Beatles were let alone John Lennon at the time. But I figured he was important since my parents were horrified that someone would shoot a musician, years later when I started listening to music and getting into John Lennon did I realizw what a loss this was.