Tommorow/John Lennon 25 years

[SamRoc]

December 8th will be the 25th anniversary of John Lennons death. I remember that night so well, my dh was working in a catering hall in NYC near the Dakota and he told me right away. I worked near that area, and a few days later I walked over to see a huge group of people crying, holding candles and singing. It was so said. I said a prayer for him and went back to my office.

 

[alabamaalan]

Yep, I watched a special about Mark David Chapman recently. I remember the day well, but did not realize until watching that special that it was 25 years ago!

 

[A Mickeyfan]

I too can remember that very well. I cried that day. He was a part of history. I can't belive that 25 years has past, boy are we getting old.

 

[Deb in IA]

Yep, I watched a special about Mark David Chapman recently.

I saw that too!! Super scary that Chapman actually walked up to Sean Lennon when he came home with his nanny earlier that day and shook his hand. To hear Chapman talk about how, in a few hours, he would kill his daddy was just sickening.

Equally disturbing is that Lennon actually signed an autograph for Chapman just hours before he was killed . . . on his way out to the recording studio.

 

[Val]

I was a junior in college....many of my friends were in the music business. Two showed up at my doorstep, very stoned on acid, crying that John was dead. I had a chemistry final the next day, hadn't heard the news, and was trying to figure out WHICH of our friends they meant- then learned it was John Lennon. Cried as I studied- and left them to sob in my apartment. Two days later (and many, many tears) my dear friends sobered up and left. It was an exceptionally rough finals week for me. I didn't think that a Beatles death would matter THAT much.

In 1995 my DS was born on December 8th- also the Feast of the Immaculate conception. He is a rock and roller through and through and LOVES the Beatles. Wonder if he isn't a little rocker angel sent to me- although he is a drummer and not a guitarist. Tomorrow he turns 10.....unbelievable how time and events fly.....

 

[akhenaten]

Yes, I was in college also and remember coming home from Christmas shopping..getting in bed and hearing the news come over the radio..
I ran to put on the TV hoping to hear it was some mistake....

I got to go to the memorial in Central park and the 10 minutes of silence...it was so moving and quiet and then the silence was broken by the playing of Imagine....

Rest in peace John...


( i also watched the special on MDC and was particulary disturbed to hear that he shot John in the back....)