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"John Lennon Was Killed"
Posted On Tuesday April 24, 2007 By Molly
In some respects, I feel sort of silly putting the death of a celebrity here. But, I suspect for a lot of people John Lennon’s death was a really significant moment in their lives.
I was born in the early 60’s, so while I was too young to remember the Beatles arrival, I do feel like they were incredibly present my whole life. My sister was seven years older than me. I remember she had a birthday party and was given Yellow Submarine, and all the girls danced to it. She used to listen to Revolver over and over again. I remember staring at the album covers. I was amazed by John. He was my favorite. He seemed unlike anyone I knew.
I found out John Lennon had died, the morning after his death. My mother woke me up for school and the first thing she said was “John Lennon was killed” and I could tell she was so sad.
I was shocked. I remembered earlier in the fall we were out in the football field practicing our baton twirling, and a plane circled overhead skywriting “Happy Birthday John and Sean” and we were all amazed.
To this day, I still get sad when I think about it. Whenever I watch one of those dumb VH1 “100 most shocking moments in rock and roll” shows where they end with the murder of John Lennon, I find myself crying. It’s shocking so many years later. I wonder how many other people cry as well.
Not that long ago I was in the supermarket with my boyfriend and “Imagine” started playing. He turned at a certain point and said “this song is making me sad” and I said “me too” and we talked about why. It makes me sad that the things John Lennon did and said so long ago are still relevant today. It makes me sad that there aren’t more people like him. There are no John Lennons of today.
Tags: 60's, imagine, john, lennon, murder, peace, sixties
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I was too young to really remember his death but my mother took me to see the film “Imagine” when it came out a few years later. She was a huge Beatles fan and was crying the entire way through it. It’s hard to imagine so many people caring about the life and death of an individual in today’s world. Even Princess Diana’s and the Pope’s deaths seemed like non-events by comparison. I guess John was right when he said, “We’re more popular than Jesus.”
— Matt Saturday April 28, 2007 #
wow its kinda weird that the only people to comment this are named matt. but i am only 15 and john lennon has inspired me to do so much even though i am so young. i get sad everytime i think about his death and i ocationally cry. almost everytime i hear dear prudence i cry for some reason. i cant imagine how someone could kill such a man. especially since nixion and reagen were alive… but he was most likely the most insperational man to ever live. i cant even think how sad it must have been to be alive during that time inwich he died.
— Matt Woodman Thursday October 18, 2007 #
John lennon is awesome im just tewewle so its weird when evry one askes whos my fav band and I say the beatles they are awes me Id like to say thx for your web
Chris
— Chris Monday July 14, 2008 #