Lennon shot dead 31 yrs ago. Where were you.

chumlie
chumlie Posts: 8,658
edited December 2011 in The Clubhouse
I still remember hearing the news while watching Monday Night Football. The game didn't seem so important after that. What a loss. I just turned the game off and turned the radio on. I actually felt i lost a good friend. I still remember first seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Been hooked since. Now that would have been a reunion worth seeing. No more. Rest in peace Mr. Lennon for you are truely missed.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited December 2011
    Heard it in a shoe store that I was remodeling on St Thomas, USVI. A foot over and the guy coulda been a World Hero ! (Yoko)
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited December 2011
    I wasn't born yet!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited December 2011
    I was living about 40 blocks directly North of the Dakota (Upper West Side). The news was jolting, I routinely walked past the building (had a part-time job not far from there when I was a student). A sad day, indeed! It took us many days to actually "accept" that this actually happened!


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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2011
    Not even sure, probably not caring since I didn't know who he was at that time.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited December 2011
    I don't remember.

    I've never really thought of it as a life altering moment that was worth remembering what I was doing the moment I heard he was killed.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited December 2011
    18 and working in St. Louis at the time.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited December 2011
    1980 was the year I joined the military so it was a full busy year of training for me so this was almost casual news (too busy to make a big deal out of it) despite being a faithfull fan of the Beatles and their solo career.
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited December 2011
    I was a senior in High School and (strange but true) I was in the library reading a book about The Beatles when I heard the news. I actually added the information to the last page of the book. My mom turned me onto The Beatles when I was in high school. She bought a different Beatles album every month and we listened and talked. The Beatles are my favorite band ever and this was truly a sad day. My Mom was extremely upset.
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  • mufsoman
    mufsoman Posts: 631
    edited December 2011
    In my college dorm room when someone stuck their head in the door and said he had been shot. I gave up studying anymore that night and just sat in a dark room listening to all the radio coverage. My favorite band always has been the Beatles. I felt like a family member had been killed. I was stunned....
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited December 2011
    rromeo923 wrote: »
    I was a senior in High School.

    +1. Myself and a friend were kinda bummed out over this that day so we cut several classes and went over his house to watch the news. Kind of a bittersweet date (December 8th) because it is my second son's birthday. :cool:
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited December 2011
    I was 14 and my mom told me when she woke me up for school. She had seen the Beatles in Baltimore when she was just 17. Through her I had become a big fan, too. We bought Double Fantasy soon after and I wore it out... Well, at least John's songs.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited December 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    Heard it in a shoe store that I was remodeling on St Thomas, USVI. A foot over and the guy coulda been a World Hero ! (Yoko)

    Utterly tasteless.
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited December 2011
    I was driving from State College, PA to Harrisburg. I was on the road about 5:00am and turned on the radio and noticed that every station was playing the Beatles or John Lennon songs. I didn't know why until about 30 minutes later when the news finally came on. Was driving with tears in my eyes. I wanted to drive straight to NY City to the Dakota but I had obligations that I couldn't get out of. Or else I would have been part of the masses there for the next few days. I "came of age" listening to the Beatles music in the 60s. It was one of those moments like when JFK was assassinated. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited December 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    Heard it in a shoe store that I was remodeling on St Thomas, USVI. A foot over and the guy coulda been a World Hero ! (Yoko)

    Hero? No way. He still would have been a chicken s**t mother f**king murderer.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited December 2011
    I remember watching monday night foodball with my dad and brother and Howard Cosell announced that John Lennon had been shot. My dad then turned on the radio at that point and we listened to news reports about the shooting and the announcement that John Lennon was dead. I was 8 years old. Very sad.:cry::sad:

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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited December 2011
    I was 18 yrs old and watching TV, not sure what show I was watching.. and one of the networks broke in with the news.. then I
    watched the news later that night and for many days following that. i could not believe it either. very sad day....
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2011
    Callin' all my buds collecting on those........ "Will the Beatles ever get together again bets?"
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited December 2011
    Probably slurping on a Labbatt's Blue while Britsh Steel was spinning on the TT.Was'nt a big JL fan but certainly remember being shocked at the news of such senseless crime.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited December 2011
    decal wrote: »
    Utterly tasteless.

    Lighten up a little.........
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited December 2011
    mark090852 wrote: »
    Hero? No way. He still would have been a chicken s**t mother f**king murderer.

    ......it was a m'fu@kin joke.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited December 2011
    Keiko wrote: »
    gdb can't help it, Mark, he's a giant dbag.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esa-qaPo7GQ

    Go ahead and keep up with your juvenile crap, I ain't playin your game anymore. Happy Holidays. PS: No Banzai !! for the Pearl Harbor post? Why not?:rolleyes:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited December 2011
    Child
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited December 2011
    Imagine there's no internet forums....
    I got static in my head
    The reflected sound of everything
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited December 2011
    I didn't start this thread to hear a bitchfest. Just wondering what anyone else thought of John Lennon's passing.
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited December 2011
    Watching MNF. Still remember it. You could just feel that the announcement took all the energy out of the game & certainly out of the announcers. I was stunned & trying to figure out or get a handle on what that kind of loss would mean. Big time bummer.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited December 2011
    Not a clue. Most likely working a night shift at work. Not a big deal to me. Celebrities don't
    have much impact on me. I don't care what they do, how they live, or when they die.
    I don't like the fact this crazy got a gun and killed someone, famous or not.
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