[Romantic Old Bird]

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

[sol]

R.I.P. John Lennon

[cc100]

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.

[Siouxsie]

yep just watched on the biography channel how john was murdered what a waste of a hero

[Corkie]

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

[~Kizwiz~]

Such a sad waste of a life! He was a very talented character that should still be alive today

[Ruth]

Yes, he was a musical genius. Such a tragedy to die that young, still with so much promise.

[Siouxsie]

so sad