cowboy117
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He was murdered 30 years ago today.I can remember it like i did the Kennedy assignation and 9/11.Imagine. 
John Lennon
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CigarGuy
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What a writer. Strangely, I don't remember where I was when I heard. Local radio said it was
first announced by Howard Cosell on MNF? Actually had the audio.
first announced by Howard Cosell on MNF? Actually had the audio.
Mule88
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R.I.P. John Lennon....We lost a music legend 30 yrs ago today.
I think that's where I heard it-on Monday night football. Honest to God it didn't effect me as much as when Jerry Garcia died. Always was more of a Rolling Stones fan anyway.
windjammer
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I have never understood all the hype over Lennon. I'm of the same time frame and wish no harm to anyone but to me he was no big deal.
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I guess being a brilliant songwriter and part of the most popular band in the world doesn't count for much around here..
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We've been down this road many times on the forum... especially with actors. I love Woody Allen's films...do I approve of him marrying his stepdaughter....yuck...but I still concede that he is a brilliant filmmaker and his body of work has had a huge impact on my own writing...would I want to double date with him? No. Would I want to sit and talk politics with John Lennon....no. But if he were alive today I would love to talk to him about the Beatles.
NFrameFred
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While I liked the Beatles and appreciated Lennon's talents for the most part, I found little to admire in his character or personal behavior. Like many others, I was always a bit baffled by his almost "deification" in some circles and though I do think he would have gone down in history as a musical giant anyway had he lived, nothing like going out in a hail of bullets at the hand of a raving nut-job before your natural time to cement mythic status.
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Right? Jeesh, tough crowd.
I also was watching MNF with my dad when we heard the news, I knew who he was and did enjoy the Beatles music, but it did'nt hit me how tragic it really was at first. For anyone to die the way John Lennon did, with no real purpose or reason other than by the hands of some mentally deranged attention whore, always gives my stomach a sick feeling. Sad day.
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Pretty much how I feel about it Cold...and I was never a bg Beatles fan. btw...I love your avatar!
To the rest of the naysayer crowd, all I can say is if you knew every secret of the lives of some of the people you admired growing up, you'd probably never stop throwing up.
To the rest of the naysayer crowd, all I can say is if you knew every secret of the lives of some of the people you admired growing up, you'd probably never stop throwing up.
Cooter Brown
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It's always been interesting to me that someone who could write such thoughtful music could be so naive about politics.
Maybe it has something to do with the crazy, surreal life he lived as a member of the Beatles.
At any rate I can separate the music from his politics.
It goes both ways, of course. It baffles me that a lot of people on the left can't separate the politics, say, of John Wayne from the entertainment value of what he did in his work. They just hate him and refuse to watch any of his movies.
This is pretty funny, Sip:
"To the rest of the naysayer crowd, all I can say is if you knew every secret of the lives of some of the people you admired growing up, you'd probably never stop throwing up."
Maybe it has something to do with the crazy, surreal life he lived as a member of the Beatles.
At any rate I can separate the music from his politics.
It goes both ways, of course. It baffles me that a lot of people on the left can't separate the politics, say, of John Wayne from the entertainment value of what he did in his work. They just hate him and refuse to watch any of his movies.
This is pretty funny, Sip:
"To the rest of the naysayer crowd, all I can say is if you knew every secret of the lives of some of the people you admired growing up, you'd probably never stop throwing up."
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thanks Cooter...that is actually a paraphrase from Woody's movie "Hannah and her sisters"....the artist says that if Jesus came back today and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
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Gotcha, Michael Caine, now I remember it--great movie.
The heart is a funny little muscle.
The heart is a funny little muscle.
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That's actually pretty funny...
Gutpile Charlie
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I never took any interest in the Beetles....and to this day wonder why all the interest?
Yes, yes I know what a profound effect they had on society...but I ask why? What did they bring to the table?
The music was "interesting" and in many cases well done and inventive, but I just never saw how "serious" people could get so excited.
I was a college music student 1959-1963. I learned to love "serious" music, that is everything from J.S. Bach to Stan Kenton. Other stuff was just an exercise in frivolity. I guess you might say it was an elitist attitude? Anything that was popular just didn't seem to have any merit.
Just my two cents worth.
Yes, yes I know what a profound effect they had on society...but I ask why? What did they bring to the table?
The music was "interesting" and in many cases well done and inventive, but I just never saw how "serious" people could get so excited.
I was a college music student 1959-1963. I learned to love "serious" music, that is everything from J.S. Bach to Stan Kenton. Other stuff was just an exercise in frivolity. I guess you might say it was an elitist attitude? Anything that was popular just didn't seem to have any merit.
Just my two cents worth.
Actually all music is an exercise in frivolity. Quite frankly, anything not directly related to day to day survival and procreation is an exercise in frivolity.
Really says alot for our society when the lead story on the news is the anniversary of the death of John Lennon. The day before some newscasts never mentioned Pearl Harbor, 69 years ago.
RobertJ.
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30 years ago today, I was in Navy boot camp in San Diego. Almost everyone in my company was saddened by the news. But it didn't even come close to the loss I felt when George Harrison died.
Harrison showed a lot of class on his way out.
cass
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I really likes the Beatles when they first started out. Loved the songs/music. Then they got on the drugs. Their music reflected their wasted brains....Lennon was the worst of them all. If he'd lived, he'd be a sad sight indeed.
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- The day that somebody shot at Yoko and missed.
- Yoko was living in the United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, if I recall. She was included in the only civilian prisoner exchange at the start of the war. If somebody had torpedoed that ship, the Beatles probably would have lasted another twenty years.
- I think I was in the Camp Howze, Korea messhall when I heard. I thought, "The guy finally gets back on track with a decent album and somebody shoots him."
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Rolling Stones here, never liked the Beatles, still don't.
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Imagine there's no heaven
No hell below us
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one
What a fool . . .
T.
No hell below us
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one
What a fool . . .
T.
wheelgun28
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This song makes me think of some hum drum life in someplace like North Korea.
Beatles were ok, dont like their politics nor influence on popular culture. I liked John Lenin (how I think it should have been spelled) the least out of the bunch.
As I was told growing up, the "Beatles ruined America".
Still I dont think he should have been gunned down like that...
I know he was shot with a 38spl but what kinda gun? (edit) a charter arms snubby
Beatles were ok, dont like their politics nor influence on popular culture. I liked John Lenin (how I think it should have been spelled) the least out of the bunch.
As I was told growing up, the "Beatles ruined America".
Still I dont think he should have been gunned down like that...
I know he was shot with a 38spl but what kinda gun? (edit) a charter arms snubby
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jag312
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Two great tragedies that day. John Lennon was killed, and I married my son's mother. The wrong person was shot.
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