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Location: Texas | 30 years ago today.... :(
......Thanks John......
You will live forever...... |
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Location: Colorado | I was 13 and watching MNF with my dad when we heard the news...sad day...lots of Beatles music playing in our home when I was growing up |
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| Probably better for him to have been whacked at the top of his game than end up doing three shows a day at Vegas in a world where the peace, love and understanding crap hasn't exactly worked out like he wrote about back in the day. Turns out that writing songs doesn't make the bad guys go away and you still need a big stick to stay free. |
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
Probably better for him to have been whacked at the top of his game than end up doing three shows a day at Vegas in a world where the peace, love and understanding crap hasn't exactly worked out like he wrote about back in the day. Turns out that writing songs doesn't make the bad guys go away and you still need a big stick to stay free. There is so much in that statement I do not get. But hey it's almost Christmas so we'll just let it fly on by. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
Probably better for him to have been whacked at the top of his game than end up doing three shows a day at Vegas in a world where the peace, love and understanding crap hasn't exactly worked out like he wrote about back in the day. Turns out that writing songs doesn't make the bad guys go away and you still need a big stick to stay free. I'm not sure JL would agree with that. I think he'd rather be alive. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | When my dad died a couple of years ago, he left me a large record collection containing The beatles 1st and 2nd albums and LOTS of others also, including All original Beatles, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Jonny Cash, Elvis etc... I now have about 9 large tubs full of records. I really enjoy putting on some of that vinyl and listening once in a while. |
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Location: Ohio | SOrry he is gone in the way he did, but I never got the facination for him OR the Beatles.
Just never go into the Brittish sound. Not a Stones fan either... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Just days before he died Esquire had a front page article about him, and I remember thinking that he was a cool dude, loved his songs from the primal therapy stage and before that with happiness is a warm gun ... mama. I thought he was great. |
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Location: Derry NH | I mostly 'got' the Beatles a bit more than I did Lennon. And Yoko? What a kindergarten poetry contest on acid cat strangling trainwreck she is!
Have to agree, he didn't need to go out that way.
All ya need is love. John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back.
obscure? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | And Yoko? What a kindergarten poetry contest on acid cat strangling trainwreck she is! lol...'nuff said...
John was brilliant with Paul McCartney at writing songs...some of the best...
Never dug the solo stuff all that much...but no way to have to go out...RIP John... |
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Location: NJ | I think the statue of limitations has passed on Yoko bashing |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by alpep:
I think the statue of limitations has passed on Yoko bashing Like what she did to our ears, there is no statute of limitations on murder...... |
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| Ditto on not caring much for the post-Beatles Lennon.
Ditto on wishing Yoko had never made it to my radar screen. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | David Chapman was not a bad person.
Just a poor aim. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Just a poor aim. Ain't that the truth! |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
David Chapman was not a bad person.
Just a poor aim. Ironically he was aiming for OMA, who kept pestering Mr. Lennon for money. |
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John Lennon