John Lennon

[Medilloni 6]

Well, it's 30 years since he's been gone, and maybe some of the younger peeps here won't give a toss .... but for any that had a soft spot for him, there's an interesting Beeb article about the day he was shot:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11926898

There's a couple of news stories here about; "What were you doing the day he was shot", not melancholy, I think more a case of a fascination for how we remember those we had a strong attraction to.... I was building an engine in my freezing cold workshop, radio on, listening to the flood of Lennon songs they played. Strangely quiet day, so it was.

I'd love to snuff it having achieved so much - stroppy git that he could sometimes be, there was something special about the guy.

[monza gorilla 1]

Heard it on the radio. Unfortunately it got me thinking how his talents were waning.

[Medilloni 6]

Heard it on the radio. Unfortunately it got me thinking how his talents were waning.

True Russ, the passing of time hands out rose tinted's

Which reminds me, must wash the mold of 'me afghan

[maure 1]

John Lennon, really,...

[Persevere 0]

I was asleep that Monday evening before it was announced on radio and TV. Waking early the next morning and drinking my first cup of coffee I turned the radio on and that was really the only news. It was a cold grey day and work was abysmal, all but intolerable. For weeks after I was withdrawn, sad, angry and given to solitary moments of sobbing.

All my heroes were deeply flawed and Lennon was no different. Over time it has only made them a bit more human, a bit more accessible perhaps.

Thanks for the thread, sir.

[cavallino 2]

Heard it on the radio. Unfortunately it got me thinking how his talents were waning.

I saw a documentary which made me wonder just how incredibly strange a woman Yoko Ono is and in fact what Lennon was becoming post Beatles.

[BradSpeedMan 6]

Before Elvis, there was nothing

[BradSpeedMan 6]

Elvis died when he started serving in the army

[Medilloni 6]

I saw a documentary which made me wonder just how incredibly strange a woman Yoko Ono is and in fact what Lennon was becoming post Beatles.

There were many that commented about her affect on him, and I agreee Cav, he did change considerably, but as David says..........

........All my heroes were deeply flawed and Lennon was no different. Over time it has only made them a bit more human, a bit more accessible perhaps....

.....I do wonder about those people that become incredibly popular, and so apparently flawed. I dunno, maybe we identify with people that have similar flaws to ourselves? For the next psychology class mebe

[monza gorilla 1]

Apparently he looked like Christopher Ecclestone.

[BradSpeedMan 6]

There were many that commented about her affect on him, and I agreee Cav, he did change considerably, but as David says..........

.....I do wonder about those people that become incredibly popular, and so apparently flawed. I dunno, maybe we identify with people that have similar flaws to ourselves? For the next psychology class mebe

same here, could'nt believe the control she had over him. I read that today following on the article you posted... I mean he wanted to serve God and she desuaded him of it...

[AleHop 0]

I was 8 when Lennon was killed, I just remember the news on TV and little more. Music. It was shocking, a bit like Senna's death.

I still listen Lennon's and The Beatles' songs very often. Dylan, Denver, Sinatra, Stones... I live in the past?

[Medilloni 6]

I was 8 when Lennon was killed, I just remember the news on TV and little more. Music. It was shocking, a bit like Senna's death.

I still listen Lennon's and The Beatles' songs very often. Dylan, Denver, Sinatra, Stones... I live in the past?

Yes, I think it was like when Senna died (and for me, J Clark, Jochen Rindt .. etc).

Don't think so AleH, live in the past I mean. "The Beatles, Dylan, Denver, Sinatra, Stones", the list is endless.... I've just come back from my son's Christmas bash at school, and the music class played Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl', bloody well in fact (must have been good, parents had a tear in their eye. Or maybe not... ) .... the depth of music our kids have to draw from now is unbelievable, just fantastic. Lucky people indeed.

[dribbler 6]

My Dad's friend drove up from London. They sat and played Beatles tunes all weekend on my Dad's Wharfdale, over a bottle of Southern Comfort. I remember the noises of men being sick more than the actual news itself.

I think it's weird that Lennon and McCartney have been suggested by many as the most significant song writers of the last hundred years and yet McCartney is now seen as a bit cheesy. Had Lennon lived, would he have been seen in the same way? Or was he too different for that? What path would he have chosen? Recluse, producer, occassional gem writer?

Anyway, a great loss and a tragedy. But artistically and to preserve his legend, he was snuffed out a the right time.

[AleHop 0]

Don't think so AleH, live in the past I mean. "The Beatles, Dylan, Denver, Sinatra, Stones", the list is endless.... I've just come back from my son's Christmas bash at school, and the music class played Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl', bloody well in fact (must have been good, parents had a tear in their eye. Or maybe not... ) .... the depth of music our kids have to draw from now is unbelievable, just fantastic. Lucky people indeed.

Oh, you live in the past too and you don't even realise it.

Anyway, a great loss and a tragedy. But artistically and to preserve his legend, he was snuffed out a the right time.

Very true, he was seen as the bad boy in The Beatles and he wrote very valuable songs, more than McCartney I think, when they had broken up but his legend is no doubt linked to his death, in the right way and at the right moment to preserve his legend as you said.

[mikathegreat2 2]

When Lennon died, I wasn't even close to being conceived so who is he?? Ah no, I've listened to a few of his songs & they were good, a true hero to Liverpool & indeed, the world!

[Kopite Girl 0]

I woke up, being 4 years old, looking out my bedroom window of the pub my Dad used to own, watching the lad across the road paint on a brick wall 'LENNON 1940-80' and then went downstairs and asked my Dad what had happened and why the lad painted on the brick wall . The answer I got from him was 'a man has just become a legend, and another has just become notorious.' of course i didn't know what he meant, but now I will never forget what he said.