25 years ago, today...

[efevece]

A jerk shot John Lennon.

An artist. A pacifist. A special human beeing.

THIS I don´t want to forget.

 

[rwattsIII]

Life magazine.....

A jerk shot John Lennon.

An artist. A pacifist. A special human beeing.

THIS I don´t want to forget.

.... put out a pictorial memorial. I bought it for a friend.

 

[Boota]

A very strange coincidence is that one year ago a crazed fan with a gun also murdered Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Twenty-four years to the day from when Lennon was murdered by a crazed fan with a gun. Weird.

Some people won't equate Dimebag with Lennon, but they were both huge musical influences for me. I don't make the distinctions between their levels of popularity. My band is getting ready to record a song that I wrote in honor of both of them.

 

[Belegon]

John was pretty cool. Miss you dude, the world was a better place with you in it...

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't go to demonstrations. Crowds bother me. But after he was shot, I just couldn't stay away from the vigil they had in Lincoln Park in Chicago. I was drawn there. I had to go. The hills up at the noth side of the park were just covered with people standing in the cold, weak sun in absolute silence. I've never seen so many people being so quiet and spontaneously sad. Nothing phony or planned about it, just thousands of people in silent grief and mourning.

There were no Beatles anymore, and Lennon's later work was awfully weak if you ask me (McCartney's too. Paul needed Lennon's bitterness and John needed Paul's sweetness), but everyone knew John. He was just like us: terribly cynical while being idealistic and at times almost embarrassingly naive. Time was just starting to pass him by.

His death marked the real end of our youth, I think, and I think that's what made all those people so sad. I know that's what it felt like to me, and I guess that's why I had to go.