[Valente]

Very nice story. Couldn't agree more.

[opiated]

i remember hearing the news on the radio when i woke up..i was five..i screamed at my mum, as i knew she was a huge fan...i told her one of the beatles had died...she didn't believe me and scolded me for making something so horrible up..about five minutes later, she came running back crying and saying sorry...i'll never forget that moment, and i can tell you one thing..i will have tears in my eye at some moment today as i reflect on a brilliant man, and what a terrible tragedy to music, and the world that happened on that day.

[laliber]

Being a father of two boys …the lyric from Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) always makes me sad/reflective knowing that John Lennon never got to see his little boy Sean come of age.... the last line is the ironic part....

Out on the ocean sailing away,
I can hardly wait,
To see you to come of age,
But I guess we'll both,
Just have to be patient,
Yes it's a long way to go,
But in the meantime,

Before you cross the street,
Take my hand,
Life is just what happens to you,
While your busy making other plans,

[tigerthelion]

http://download.yousendit.com/9BC8BF723B0F7DA2

For anyone who hasn't picked up the GD version of "Oh Yoko"

Cheers,

Pat

Pat, you are the man! :thumb:

[NegPhil]

It amazes me how his music has effected me throughout my life. As a kid the first album I really dug on my own was Abby Road. As I grew his music continued to inform me about the world round me. When Yoko put out a collection of his acoustic work in 2004 she included all the guitar chords and chord diagrams. "I dedicated this album to the future guitarists. John always played from the heart. I hope you will learn to do the same. love Yoko" I picked up my first guitar and have learned to play with that CD cover as my guide. I guess Johns work ain't over yet.

[opiated]

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very interesting file of all the radio stations in new york being scanned right after the death....haunting really

[screw_ball]

If I'd have known I'd have worn my Working Class Hero shirt an extra few days. I made it on Monday night, using:

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working-class hero is something to be

and wore it on Tuesday. Man, I feel bad for wearing a shirt from a shitty band I used to be in instead of the one I made.

[tommygunn]

as thursday marks the 25th anniversary of his murder

Today (Friday) is actually the 26th anniversary of his death.

[tommygunn]

I'll never forget that date as long as I live. I was four years old, and my dad was working nights at the old York Farms plant in Brantford, ON. The next morning mom bundled up my sis (who was 2) and I and drove out to pick up dad from work.

Dad was 30 at the time, and had grown up living and breathing everything Beatles. They were the reason he learned to play guitar and started playing in a band, and when I look at old photos of him he had the same Beatle-mania inspired mop cut that thousands of other kids did in the 60's. Some of my earliest memories are of dad, playing his 33's on the stereo, putting his big headphones on my ears so I could hear what he was listening to. What I heard was the Beatles, and to this day hearing a note or two from a song will take me back to those days - days spent in youthful innocence, priceless time shared between father and son.

When dad got in the car that morning, mom told him that Lennon had been killed last night. Dad cried.

There is nothing as memorable as the first time you see your parents as humans... see them without the mask of "mom" or "dad, but as real people, vulnerable, subject to things beyond their control. I think kids think parents are somehow invincible, as though their position of authority extends beyond the family into the world order around them. Maybe that's why it left such a mark on me, seeing my dad cry for the first time in my life. As a four year old I knew I cried all the time, but I somehow thought parents, especially dads, were beyond that.

With my whole view of the world order now in chaos, I remember sitting very still and quiet in the back seat, asking very hesitantly "Who is John Lennon?" I will never forget dad's answer: "He was a very nice man, and he made music."

It wasn't until some time later that I made the connection between John Lennon and the sounds that came from those headphones, but when I did I could begin to understand some of dad's grief. Looking back, he did make music... and the world was robbed of an incredible gift that night.

J.

Thanks for sharing that.

[tommygunn]

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0512/New_Yo...n_Died.mp3

very interesting file of all the radio stations in new york being scanned right after the death....haunting really

That is interesting.. thanks.

[opiated]

as thursday marks the 25th anniversary of his murder

Today (Friday) is actually the 26th anniversary of his death.

i started this thread last year!!!

[tommygunn]

as thursday marks the 25th anniversary of his murder

Today (Friday) is actually the 26th anniversary of his death.

i started this thread last year!!!

Holy thread bump! cratch:

[chris]

I used the search engine to find it... rather than start a new thread....

[laliber]

I used the search engine to find it... rather than start a new thread....

a seamless bump via the SE...well done! :thumb: