Wow, he was born on my birthday (October 9) and died the year I was born (1980). Just looked up some info on him...Didn't know that. RIP Mr. John Lennon... +
Anybody ever see the SNL skit were Eddie Murphy's claims to be the 5th Beatle Clarence? They others Beatles kick him out and stole all his "good ideas"? Very Funny RIP Walrus!
I just passed by Strawberry Fields, next to the Dakota Building, where he was murdered. hundreds of people gathered and were singing along to an impromtu band, singing "getting better all the time" they were out there on the night of Georges death, too. it always sends shivers down my spine
I was about 30 years old, and working late. We had a radio on, listening to music, and they announced what had happened. I felt like I'd been kicked in the gut. After not being able to get anything done for awhile, I went home. Some people are just special. John was one of those people.
Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe RIP JWOL 1940-1980 thank you thank you thank you
I know this is it not about Lennon, but strange it happenned on the same day. Ealier tonight a gunman ran onstage just after the band started playing and got former Pantera guitar player Dimebag Darrell in a headlock and shot him several times in the head, before turning the gun on other band members and then the audience at a Damaged Plan show.
story about Dimebag Dimebag Darrell, Three Others Killed In Bizarre Ohio Concert Shooting 12.09.2004 2:10 AM EST Unidentified man jumps onstage and shoots bandmembers, others. Dimebag Darrell (file) Photo: MTV News Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan, was one of at least four people fatally wounded during a bizarre shooting at a concert in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday night. According to Columbus NBC affiliate NBC4, Dimebag — real name Darrell Abbott — was among the fatalities resulting from the incident, which occurred during a Damageplan performance at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus. Authorities did not release the names of any of the other fatalities to NBC4. Columbus police told MTV News that the gunman killed four people and wounded two before being shot and killed by a police officer. One witness told the NBC affiliate that a man jumped onto the stage during the first song of the band's set and began firing a gun. According to the witness, the man fired several shots at the band before being tackled by club security. One of the survivors is in critical condition at a local hospital, while another is in fair condition. "A Columbus police officer, when he arrived, engaged the shooter, and the shooter is also dead, and if the officer hadn't acted when he did and how he did, we'd probably be looking at more dead, because this guy was actively shooting," Sergeant Brent Mull, a public information officer, told MTV News. "We have 200-plus patrons that we have sequestered inside three city buses," Sergeant Mull explained. "We are interviewing them one by one. The ones that were inside and witnessed this ran for their lives and were in fear for their lives. They are victims too, and we want to take care of them." As news of Dimebag's bizarre and tragic demise rippled through the metal community, the news was met with shock and sadness. "I'm speechless," former Rob Zombie/ Ozzy Osbourne bassist Rob "Blasko" Nicholson said. "This is totally unreal. Dimebag is a f---ing legend and this is total bullsh--." "This is insane and this is beyond travesty," Killswitch Engage frontman and former Damageplan tour partner Howard Jones said. "This is beyond anything I've ever heard. This shouldn't happen in or outside of the rock and metal community. He will be missed and mourned as a person, as a musician, and as a friend." — Robert Mancini and Ryan J. Downey RIP
I can't remember where I read it, but I'll never forget it. It was in some 'zine floating around at the time and the headline was "Stupid A##hole Shoots John Lennon". And the first 2 lines of the story were: "Some stupid a##hole shot John Lennon yesterday just to get his name in the paper. Well, not THIS paper!"
a weird coincidence indeed, or the gunman had it planned, kind of like the Columbine Killers attacking on the anniversary of Ok City bombing and Hitlers birthday, "4 /20"
whenever i was listening to that song in the early '70s (on 8-track!) and it got to the "Nothing's gonna change my world" refrain, my mom would shout at the speaker, "Hah! that's what you think buddy!" she's a little nuts...
