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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 9, 2020 8:23:00 GMT -5
Happy birthday John Lennon! We all miss you and all the new music you would have given us! <3 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Late Show is thrilled to welcome Sean Lennon for this very special performance in honor of his father John Lennon’s 80th birthday celebration. Here’s a message from Sean: ‘Hey guys, here’s my version of ‘ISOLATION’, with me on drums and my nephew Jack on bass. Crazy how much the lyrics fit our current year. Please upload a cover of your favorite John Lennon song, put #GIMMESOMETRUTH and #LENNON80 and tag my dad @johnlennon (on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok) to help celebrate his 80th birthday. We need his music and his message now more than ever!’ #JohnLennon #SeanOnoLennon #LENNON80
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Post by sallyg on Oct 9, 2020 22:04:54 GMT -5
Happy birthday John Lennon! We all miss you and all the new music you would have given us! <3 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Late Show is thrilled to welcome Sean Lennon for this very special performance in honor of his father John Lennon’s 80th birthday celebration. Here’s a message from Sean: ‘Hey guys, here’s my version of ‘ISOLATION’, with me on drums and my nephew Jack on bass. Crazy how much the lyrics fit our current year. Please upload a cover of your favorite John Lennon song, put #GIMMESOMETRUTH and #LENNON80 and tag my dad @johnlennon (on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok) to help celebrate his 80th birthday. We need his music and his message now more than ever!’ #JohnLennon #SeanOnoLennon #LENNON80 I liked Sean's cover.
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Post by sallyg on Oct 9, 2020 22:10:16 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 10, 2020 13:40:25 GMT -5
Lukas and Micah Nelson and their father Willie Nelson paid tribute to John Lennon on his birthday with a cover of "Watching The Wheels" that made me cry, particularly when Willie joined in:
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 10, 2020 14:05:01 GMT -5
Here is a really nice compilation of John Lennon tributes through the years:
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Post by sallyg on Oct 10, 2020 19:17:41 GMT -5
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Post by cosmo on Oct 11, 2020 0:03:45 GMT -5
I wanted to celebrate John's 80th, but I got too depressed at being deprived of seeing him as an 80 year old. What would he look like? Would he still live in NYC? Would he and Yoko have made it? Would Sean be other than what he is if John had raised him to manhood? Would Paul and John have ever recorded together again? All of which we'll never know because of one a**hole. If heavenly birthday parties are a thing, I hope John had a great one.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 11, 2020 13:01:02 GMT -5
I wanted to celebrate John's 80th, but I got too depressed at being deprived of seeing him as an 80 year old. What would he look like? Would he still live in NYC? Would he and Yoko have made it? Would Sean be other than what he is if John had raised him to manhood? Would Paul and John have ever recorded together again? All of which we'll never know because of one a**hole. If heavenly birthday parties are a thing, I hope John had a great one. It is so bittersweet to celebrate John Lennon's birthday knowing the terrible way in which the story of his life ends. But his wonderful music with The Beatles and Solo lives on like the moon and the stars and the Sun!
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 14, 2020 21:40:18 GMT -5
I wanted to celebrate John's 80th, but I got too depressed at being deprived of seeing him as an 80 year old. What would he look like? Would he still live in NYC? Would he and Yoko have made it? Would Sean be other than what he is if John had raised him to manhood? Would Paul and John have ever recorded together again? All of which we'll never know because of one a**hole. If heavenly birthday parties are a thing, I hope John had a great one. No worry about social distancing, I don't suppose.
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Post by cosmo on Oct 16, 2020 22:39:08 GMT -5
The special tonight on 20/20 was well done - the 12/8/80 segment moved me to tears. I was a young 23 when it happened and relatively untested by life - John's murder was the worst thing I had ever had to endure. Now 40 years later... many losses - but 12/8/80 remains as one of the worst nights of my life. I am sure it is the same with many of y'all.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 17, 2020 10:19:42 GMT -5
Well said Cosmo!
John's murder is still one of the worst events in my life and I obviously did not even personally know the man.
My emotion that night went from profound shock, then to a profound rage and finally when I tried to sleep at 3:00 a.m., it had morphed into a profound sadness with me crying like I have rarely since.
As I mentioned in Debjorgo's Beatles On TV Thread, I missed this last night but shall find it on demand with my cable provider.
We transition from the 80th year anniversary of John's birth to the 40th year anniversary of his murder and it is so damn bleak. But John's music, both with The Beatles and Solo, is what keeps us going!
"And we all shine on, like the Moon and the stars and the Sun!"
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 25, 2020 15:25:49 GMT -5
It was 40 years ago today that I first heard John's new single "(Just Like)Starting Over" on Chicago's WLS AM radio station.
October 25, 1980 was a sunny, warm Saturday and I was heading to tiny Hanna, Indiana in northwestern Indiana to visit a friend and the DJ made a big deal about playing the new John Lennon single, John's first in five years!
I was so excited I pulled the car over and put it into park to better listen. I know the exact spot where I pulled over even today. In fact, I was visiting up there last night and in honor of today, I played "Starting Over" on that same stretch of road although I did not stop as it was night.
I see that "Starting Over" was released in the U.K. Friday, October 24, 1980 and not in the U.S. until Monday, October 27th. WLS though may have obtained an imported copy or else had a copy from Geffen Records because it was played with great fanfare that Saturday afternoon.
I loved it! I did think it was a little old-fashioned(not realizing right then that that is what John intended) but I was thrilled, on cloud 9! I started driving again when the song was over on top of the world and I started hearing the song on regular rotation and in the weeks that followed we started hearing other Double Fantasy tracks especially on the FM radio stations! "Watching The Wheels" was exactly the kind of song I wanted and needed from John!
The Fall of 1980 was glorious! It was Lennon-mania. In Chicago at least no one was knocking John's new music although I cannot say the same for Yoko's, I remember DJ Steve Dahl saying he was playing "Kiss Kiss Kiss" just "one time" and then he preceded to run the record arm across the 45 single scratching it which he did back then to all Disco records and he called Yoko's song Disco!
But what an amazing time to be a Beatles'/John Lennon fan!
What are your memories of October/November 1980?
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Post by OldFred on Dec 8, 2020 15:27:13 GMT -5
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Post by OldFred on Dec 8, 2020 16:59:58 GMT -5
By Freddie Garrity of Freddie & The Dreamers.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 8, 2020 18:50:31 GMT -5
After John was murdered, I would stare at this photo from RS for amazingly long amounts of time trying to study every detail. Maybe I thought that if I looked at it long enough I would wake up and the events of late night December 8, 1980 would be just a bad nightmare. Forty years! I cannot fathom that as I sit here and look at this photo once again. John's family lost a beloved husband, father and nephew. Their pain and loss must always come first. We fans though lost untold music that would have continued to inspire and challenge us. We also lost our innocent belief in fairy tales. This beautiful thing we found called The Beatles and then the four Solo Beatles suddenly became a whole lot less fun and positive. Any hope of a beautiful happy ending to that musical group known as The Beatles died instantly this very night, 40 years ago on December 8, 1980.
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Post by OldFred on Dec 8, 2020 22:58:37 GMT -5
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Post by hofner61 on Dec 8, 2020 23:27:30 GMT -5
RIP John Lennon.
Hard to believe that John lived for 40 years and has now been dead for 40 years.
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Post by cosmo on Dec 9, 2020 22:34:15 GMT -5
I miss him.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 23, 2021 19:58:18 GMT -5
A posthumous album from Chris Cornell has been released with a very poignant cover of John's "Watching The Wheels" getting airplay on The Beatles Channel and elsewhere. With John taken from us over forty years ago, it is nice to have little gifts like this which keep his legacy alive. Here is a link to a brief write-up on this album: www.spin.com/2020/12/chris-cornell-john-lennon-watching-the-wheels-video/
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