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Post by OldFred on Dec 8, 2015 11:51:14 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 8, 2015 16:08:27 GMT -5
Projecting John's image, in space and in time! Long live John Lennon!
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Post by lowbasso on Dec 8, 2015 18:01:15 GMT -5
35 years ago tonite.
I had just come back to Indiana University after my first professional season sing with The San Francisco Opera to have some pick-up voice lessons with my voice teacher there, and I was lying in bed in a Motel 6 on the Rt. 37 By-Pass outside Bloomington, Indiana with my girlfriend (now wife) watching Monday Night Football when the news broke. I was 25 years old, the same age as the scum who shot him.
I looked at my girlfriend and said "Now the dream is over, The Beatles are history."
That night seems like a lifetime ago now. But it sometimes feels like John has never left us thanks to the music.
Tonite I will think about what could have been. I always do on this anniversary. It angers me still what we all lost that night. What could have been........
RIP John.
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Post by sallyg on Dec 8, 2015 18:27:12 GMT -5
John lives on through his music. Prayers for Yoko, Julian, Sean, and Paul and Ringo and all his friends.
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Post by debjorgo on Dec 8, 2015 18:43:35 GMT -5
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Post by coachbk on Dec 8, 2015 23:48:59 GMT -5
Just got done listening to "Grow Old With Me". Wish John was still growing old with Yoko!
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Post by kc on Dec 9, 2015 6:43:34 GMT -5
35 years ago tonite. I had just come back to Indiana University after my first professional season sing with The San Francisco Opera to have some pick-up voice lessons with my voice teacher there, and I was lying in bed in a Motel 6 on the Rt. 37 By-Pass outside Bloomington, Indiana with my girlfriend (now wife) watching Monday Night Football when the news broke. I was 25 years old, the same age as the scum who shot him. I looked at my girlfriend and said "Now the dream is over, The Beatles are history." That night seems like a lifetime ago now. But it sometimes feels like John has never left us thanks to the music. Tonite I will think about what could have been. I always do on this anniversary. It angers me still what we all lost that night. What could have been........ RIP John. My feelings, exactly. All of those studio albums that we might have had, the tours... I was 21 and at work when I learned of the news. I think it was the afternoon when a colleague came up to me to tell me what he had heard on the radio. I can't believe that it has been 35 years.
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Post by sallyg on Dec 9, 2015 10:22:05 GMT -5
35 years ago tonite. I had just come back to Indiana University after my first professional season sing with The San Francisco Opera to have some pick-up voice lessons with my voice teacher there, and I was lying in bed in a Motel 6 on the Rt. 37 By-Pass outside Bloomington, Indiana with my girlfriend (now wife) watching Monday Night Football when the news broke. I was 25 years old, the same age as the scum who shot him. I looked at my girlfriend and said "Now the dream is over, The Beatles are history." That night seems like a lifetime ago now. But it sometimes feels like John has never left us thanks to the music. Tonite I will think about what could have been. I always do on this anniversary. It angers me still what we all lost that night. What could have been........ RIP John. My feelings, exactly. All of those studio albums that we might have had, the tours... I was 21 and at work when I learned of the news. I think it was the afternoon when a colleague came up to me to tell me what he had heard on the radio. I can't believe that it has been 35 years. KC and lowbasso, I too at times wonder what could have been. For me not so much the music and possible tours, but for John and his life. The times he could have spent with Yoko, Julian and Sean. Things like seeing Julian have a hit record with Too Late For Goodbyes and Valotte. The times he could have spent with Paul, George, Ringo and other friends. The things he could have continued learning and his observation of the advancement of technology and his reaction to world events.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 9, 2015 11:43:06 GMT -5
There is no doubt but that John's family and friends suffered an irreparable loss! We fans lost out on a brilliant, complicated man who was no saint but a damn great Rock and Roll singer/songwriter/musician and I just ache at the music me missed out on. These thirty-five years seem an eternity yet as we all can recount, those of us who were alive back then, that horrific night of December 8, 1980, is frozen in time. It is the only night from back then I can remember exactly what I did, where I was at, who I was with, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 17:52:56 GMT -5
Here is a great April 1975 long interview with John Lennon when he had found out that day that Yoko was pregnant with Sean although he doesn't say this here. It's one of the main reasons that he is in such a happy mood! This interview was done the same month that his Tomorrow Show interview with Tom Snyder was done,but this interview is even better! www.eyeneer.com/video/rock/john-lennon/interview-0
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 17:58:11 GMT -5
John S.Damm,
I wanted to like your above great comments but for some reason there is no option for your comments above like there is for all of the other comments on here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 18:01:17 GMT -5
Here is the detailed description of what a crazy,horrible piece of sh*t the guy who killed John was,who was unbelievably a former big Beatles fan,and John had been his favorite since he was like 12 years old.He tried twice to kill himself very unfortunately unsuccessfully,once when he was 22 he tried to gas himself to death in his car but very unfortunately a guy found him and saved him! If only he hadn't found him or found him too late! He even said years after he so cruelly and irrationally shot and killed John that he even met John's then 5 year old son Sean not long before he killed his father,and he shook Sean's little hand and said that he was the cutest little boy he ever saw and that it never occurred to him that he would never see his father again! My father is a retired lawyer and in 1988 he saw the PBS Frontline special called,The Man Who Shot John Lennon which is on youtube,,and said what a crazy horrible guy! murderpedia.org/male.C/c/chapman-mark.htm
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 14, 2015 18:30:01 GMT -5
John S.Damm, I wanted to like your above great comments but for some reason there is no option for your comments above like there is for all of the other comments on here. Thank you for your kind words, Lucy. It appears that you found the feature you were looking for. Sometimes things don't work like they are supposed to but it is a free host for Steve and thus us! This is a tough time of the year for Beatles/John fans. As great of music as Paul has made since 1980, I'd like to think that he would have done even better if his friend and brotherly rival John was still here. Like Paul once sang, it was a tug of war. I'd like to think that it was mostly(not always) a friendly rival, just like two brothers or two sisters.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 18:35:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 18:54:09 GMT -5
I have to share this unreal personal story.The night John was killed,hours before I did something I never had done before,for some unknown reasons I put some flowers I think they were dried flowers,into a Beatles book that I had since I got it for my 11th birthday years before,I also put a small piece of paper that I wrote December 8,1980 at about 9:40 or closer to 10pm, in the book on the same page with the flowers. It wasn't unusual for me to be listening to Beatles albums at night,but again for some unknown reasons I had to keep playing John's song I Am The Walrus on my then turn table,over and over again,this was before and during 11pm when John was being shot and killed! The next day when I learned about John's death I looked in the Beatles book and I saw that the flowers were right near John's face in the group picture of The Beatles in India!
I have never ever had any type of experience like this before or since!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 19:47:07 GMT -5
John S.Damm, I wanted to like your above great comments but for some reason there is no option for your comments above like there is for all of the other comments on here. Thank you for your kind words, Lucy. It appears that you found the feature you were looking for. Sometimes things don't work like they are supposed to but it is a free host for Steve and thus us! This is a tough time of the year for Beatles/John fans. As great of music as Paul has made since 1980, I'd like to think that he would have done even better if his friend and brotherly rival John was still here. Like Paul once sang, it was a tug of war. I'd like to think that it was mostly(not always) a friendly rival, just like two brothers or two sisters. Thank you John,and you're welcome too!
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Post by coachbk on Dec 14, 2015 21:18:10 GMT -5
I have to share this unreal personal story.The night John was killed,hours before I did something I never had done before,for some unknown reasons I put some flowers I think they were dried flowers,into a Beatles book that I had since I got it for my 11th birthday years before,I also put a small piece of paper that I wrote December 8,1980 at about 9:40 or closer to 10pm, in the book on the same page with the flowers. It wasn't unusual for me to be listening to Beatles albums at night,but again for some unknown reasons I had to keep playing John's song I Am The Walrus on my then turn table,over and over again,this was before and during 11pm when John was being shot and killed! The next day when I learned about John's death I looked in the Beatles book and I saw that the flowers were right near John's face in the group picture of The Beatles in India! I have never ever had any type of experience like this before or since! My girlfriend (now my wife) called me the morning after to tell me John had been shot. I didn't know. It was my first year of teaching and I was living in a tiny apartment by myself. I had DOUBLE FANTASY on my turntable from the night before. I didn't take it off for over a week as I spent all my listening time tuned in to the radio and the countless Lennon/Beatles tributes. I was so depressed about it, but one night when I was home over the X-Mas holidays I had a dream that John Lennon was sitting on the end of my bed. He looked at me and said something like, "It's going to be alright you know"". It seemed SO real.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 0:37:36 GMT -5
In this April/May 1982 New Music Express interview with Paul McCartney he's asked about how he feels about John's murder and the it's a drag comment that he didn't mean and how horribly up set he really was and is and how he and John really loved each other.Paul also says that soon after John died he spoke with Yoko on the phone,( in a 1986 Entertainment This Week interview he says Yoko called him the day after John died and told him that John would tell Yoko that he really loved Paul) and that Yoko said to Paul,John was really fond of you,you know. www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1982.0400.beatles.html
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 5:45:16 GMT -5
In this April/May 1982 New Music Express interview with Paul McCartney he's asked about how he feels about John's murder and the it's a drag comment that he didn't mean and how horribly up set he really was and is and how he and John really loved each other.Paul also says that soon after John died he spoke with Yoko on the phone,( in a 1986 Entertainment This Week interview he says Yoko called him the day after John died and told him that John would tell Yoko that he really loved Paul) and that Yoko said to Paul,John was really fond of you,you know. www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1982.0400.beatles.html It's possible Paul said it's a drag because all the publicity was about John and Paul would have struggled to deal with that, regardless of the circumstance. Probably more than possible
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