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where were you when you heard the news of Lennon being shot...

I was in my dorm room watching Monday night football....not wanting to believe it... Double Fantasy just came out... and was AWESOME LP...

thoughts...

Yup. HUGE Beatle fan here. I always remember this day.
I was Christmas shopping and they were playing all this Beatles music and John Lennon stuff over the store system. I'm thinking "Cool! Finally, no Andy Williams, Perry Como Christmas junk..." about 10 minutes in, they announced that he'd be killed. I was holding "Double Fantasy" in my hand, I was buying it for a friend. It sucked. Went home and was glued to my TV for hours.

Since it's Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqM-VcwMLDw
Happy Times.

Saint John, what was it you labeled Lennon as?

I will admit, Twist And Shout MAY be the single greatest, best lead vocal of all time.

Oh yeah, seems like yesterday!! I thought I heard it mentioned
on the car radio, pulled over and called my mom~devastation confirmation!!

Red13JoePa wrote:Saint John, what was it you labeled Lennon as?

I will admit, Twist And Shout MAY be the single greatest, best lead vocal of all time.

Absolutely!!!!

Just saw some documentary this week-end. Paul said that they saved "Twist and Shout" for last in the recording sesstion because they knew it would trash John's voice.

He is missed.

Cat

I was only 4 and I remember that really well. I remember watching the news and being sad about it.

I was only 12 so I don't have a huge memory of the moment I heard it or what I felt. But my biggest memory was the next day we had reading, the teacher was practically in tears and played his music the whole period telling us things about him. I don't think most of us got it. She seemed so old to us and she was probably 30. I just remember thinking it was sad anyone could get gunned down that way for no good reason:(

Michigan Girl wrote:Oh yeah, seems like yesterday!! I thought I heard it mentioned
on the car radio, pulled over and called my mom~devastation confirmation!!

car? i assumed you were younger than me!

i was 16, sitting in my room, listening to the radio. i didn't quite know how to handle the emotions i was feeling. i had never felt this sadness over someone i had never met.

I was 7 and I don't remember it at all.....I was too busy being a good girl because Santa was watching..

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

Rude? No, it sounded pretty complimentary actually.

But I think I'm rude too. I thought you were younger also... like closer to my age.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

Rude? No, it sounded pretty complimentary actually.

But I think I'm rude too. I thought you were younger also... like closer to my age.

I was joking, Cyndy looks like a kid!!!
Nope, I'm old~I remember when Elvis died too!!!

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

I know how old she is.. but I wont tell... i know I am older though!!!


Howard Cosell actually interupted the NFL match up that night... he was choked up...
DOUBLE FANTASY might not have been a rocker LP, but the songs were amazing...what could have been for him
as a man if he was not cut down by a **so called fan**

here is a taste of lennon on Double fantasy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLfDnShEn0

lights1961 wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

I know how old she is.. but I wont tell... i know I am older though!!!


Howard Cosell actually interupted the NFL match up that night... he was choked up...
DOUBLE FANTASY might not have been a rocker LP, but the songs were amazing...what could have been for him
as a man if he was not cut down by a **so called fan**

here is a taste of lennon on Double fantasy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLfDnShEn0

Double Fantasy would've been a great record.... except that it was split with Yoko. That should've never happened.

brywool wrote:

lights1961 wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

I know how old she is.. but I wont tell... i know I am older though!!!


Howard Cosell actually interupted the NFL match up that night... he was choked up...
DOUBLE FANTASY might not have been a rocker LP, but the songs were amazing...what could have been for him
as a man if he was not cut down by a **so called fan**

here is a taste of lennon on Double fantasy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLfDnShEn0

Double Fantasy would've been a great record.... except that it was split with Yoko. That should've never happened.

yea but that was a man who was purely in love and under HER SPELL for life... he was the romantic for sure.



R

I woke up to hear the news on the radio...always slept with the radio on back then. I called in sick 'cause I couldn't face the world after hearing the news. John and George were my favorite Beatles...both gone now.

Red13JoePa wrote:Saint John, what was it you labeled Lennon as?

A solitary weirdo. I didn't have much of a reaction then and I'm still indifferent to this day. I don't condone his murder one bit, but he was really nothing more than a drug addict who had been manipulated by a skanky pig. A shame, too.

cyndy! wrote:.i had never felt this sadness over someone i had never met.

off hand i can remember feeling that way when:

Elvis
John Candy
Bob Denver
Chris Farley
and
Christian Slater's career..

all passed away..

i find it great that NO ONE mentioned the killers name.. he wanted to be known..

I was at work.... 6 months out of high school..... when one of my co-workers (a HUGE Lennon fan) came walking up with tears in his eyes.... that was a sad, sad day.

and YES... Twist and Shout is the best vocal of all time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59n86U3Dvs

larryfromnextdoor wrote:

cyndy! wrote:.i had never felt this sadness over someone i had never met.

off hand i can remember feeling that way when:

Elvis
John Candy
Bob Denver
Chris Farley
and ...

Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/D ... asy/460938

CatEyes wrote:

Red13JoePa wrote:Saint John, what was it you labeled Lennon as?

I will admit, Twist And Shout MAY be the single greatest, best lead vocal of all time.

Absolutely!!!!

Just saw some documentary this week-end. Paul said that they saved "Twist and Shout" for last in the recording sesstion because they knew it would trash John's voice.

He is missed.

Cat

Good documentary - learned some things I'd never heard before.

One of my favorite Lennon songs - No. 9 Dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4enJM5_n ... re=related

StoneCold wrote:

larryfromnextdoor wrote:

cyndy! wrote:.i had never felt this sadness over someone i had never met.

off hand i can remember feeling that way when:

Elvis
John Candy
Bob Denver
Chris Farley
and ...

i had completly blocked this .. ..wow

lights1961 wrote:
yea but that was a man who was purely in love and under HER SPELL for life... he was the romantic for sure.
R

You make it sound so awwww!!! But SPELL...yeah that must have been it, something we will never know!!

i was around six years old at the time.i remember my brother who was thirteen and a huge beatles fan being very upset that night and my parents telling me to leave him alone.never understood until years later why he wanted to be alone.i'm pretty sure he was very devastated.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

cyndy! wrote:car? i assumed you were younger than me!

LMAO!!!
Did this sound rude to anyone besides me?!?!?

Rude? No, it sounded pretty complimentary actually.

But I think I'm rude too. I thought you were younger also... like closer to my age.

it was definitely meant as a compliment!

another musician that was taken from us on this date was dimebag darrell. i had spent some time around him while on the road with pantera & white zombie in 1996. he was one of the most generous & joyful people that i had ever met.

I was in 3rd grade and was getting ready for school when the news came on the radio.

larryfromnextdoor wrote:

cyndy! wrote:.i had never felt this sadness over someone i had never met.

off hand i can remember feeling that way when:

Elvis
John Candy
Bob Denver
Chris Farley
and
Christian Slater's career..

all passed away..

i find it great that NO ONE mentioned the killers name.. he wanted to be known..

Good one Larry! Also props to StoneCold for remembering the late great SRV!

Funny thing about Twist and Shout- That album, "Please Please Me", was recorded in ONE 12-hour session. ONE DAY to make an album. Holy Crap. It takes bands freakin' years now.

"Twist and Shout" is a great vocal. Paul's "Oh! Darling" is also an amazing one that is super hard to pull off.



And definitely- Thanks to all of you that didn't mention the bastard's name.

I think Rick Springfield actually put the whole thing great. This song rules (lame video though):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bji-C8aK ... re=related