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08-12-2005, 06:45 PM | #1 | ||
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I just thought I'd like to acknowledge that tonight it is 25 years since John Lennon was murdered.
I still remember waking on December the 9th to hear that he had been shot and killed by a deranged fan outside his home in the Dakota Building, Upper West Side NYC. It was such a significant moment in my life. I woke my children (then aged 6 and 8) and they asked me why I was so upset. When I told them it was because John Lennon was dead, they gave me a big hug, even though they didn't know then who he was. My 8 year old asked what sort of man he was, and I answered them by playing Imagine. They became great fans. I know he was a flawed character, but he represented so much to me and so many others of my generation, by coming out of the dark and claustrophobic 50's and early 60's with such a new sound, and a new vision of our troubled world. Here are a few of his quotes: I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40. If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans RIP John |
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08-12-2005, 07:34 PM | #2 | |||
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R.I.P. John Lennon
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08-12-2005, 08:00 PM | #3 | |||
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Well said ROB.
Lennon is my hero. He and the rest of the Beatles were the reason I taught myself guitar and started to write songs. I just wish he was around today. It would be interesting to see what music he would be making and what he would make of the world. Never forget this man. |
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08-12-2005, 08:14 PM | #4 | ||
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yep just watched on the biography channel how john was murdered what a waste of a hero
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09-12-2005, 03:31 PM | #5 | |||
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yeah on channel 4
it had a programe called "i killed john lennon" the killer was first a really big fan then he went to church and forgot about lennon then he was a book worm and he came across i book about lennon he wanted to be famous so much he now hated lennon and planned to kill him but after that i fell asleep it was good but it was on late |
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09-12-2005, 03:46 PM | #6 | ||
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Such a sad waste of a life! He was a very talented character that should still be alive today
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09-12-2005, 06:55 PM | #7 | ||
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Yes, he was a musical genius. Such a tragedy to die that young, still with so much promise.
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09-12-2005, 10:17 PM | #8 | ||
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so sad
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