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John Lennon's tragic murder; 40 years on.

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40 years ago today I remember going in to school and hearing the news John Lennon had been shot dead. This was another JFK moment that shook the world. It seemed inconceivable that a Beatle who had touched the hearts of millions could be taken so cruelly from us.

At that time I just knew some of the Beatles and Lennon's songs. That night on TV it was wall to wall continuous coverage and I learned even more about him and the band he put together all these years ago. I have since read so many books and watched so many TV shows about both him and the Beatles. I became a huge Beatles fan and have had the great experience of visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool and doing the Beatles tours. I was hoping to do another visit this summer with my 18 year old nephew who is also a huge fan, but Covid scuppered that...hopefully late next year or 2022. Basically whenever live music returns. In 1991 on my one and only visit so far to New York I went to the Dakota Building where he was shot and also visited Strawberry Fields, the garden of remembrance in Central Park. It was a very moving experience.

To be honest, I don't think I would have liked John Lennon much as a person. I get the impression he wasn't a particularly pleasant bloke. But I do admire very much great songwriters and artists who can create legacies which live on for decades, and Lennon certainly comes into that category. He left the world a wonderful catalogue of music and great songs.

Tonight I should have been going to see The Bootleg Beatles at the Usher Hall as I do every year. It would have been a poignant night. His legacy lives on.

RIP John.
 
40 years ago today I remember going in to school and hearing the news John Lennon had been shot dead. This was another JFK moment that shook the world. It seemed inconceivable that a Beatle who had touched the hearts of millions could be taken so cruelly from us.

At that time I just knew some of the Beatles and Lennon's songs. That night on TV it was wall to wall continuous coverage and I learned even more about him and the band he put together all these years ago. I have since read so many books and watched so many TV shows about both him and the Beatles. I became a huge Beatles fan and have had the great experience of visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool and doing the Beatles tours. I was hoping to do another visit this summer with my 18 year old nephew who is also a huge fan, but Covid scuppered that...hopefully late next year or 2022. Basically whenever live music returns. In 1991 on my one and only visit so far to New York I went to the Dakota Building where he was shot and also visited Strawberry Fields, the garden of remembrance in Central Park. It was a very moving experience.

To be honest, I don't think I would have liked John Lennon much as a person. I get the impression he wasn't a particularly pleasant bloke. But I do admire very much great songwriters and artists who can create legacies which live on for decades, and Lennon certainly comes into that category. He left the world a wonderful catalogue of music and great songs.

Tonight I should have been going to see The Bootleg Beatles at the Usher Hall as I do every year. It would have been a poignant night. His legacy lives on.

RIP John.
The Beatles have such an extensive array of music. Music which JL wrote , co wrote or collaborated on.
From the covers, to the pop stuff through to the White album and beyond.
Lennon may , or may not have been a decent person. When it comes to his music.....
I love him.
RIP.
 
40 years ago today I remember going in to school and hearing the news John Lennon had been shot dead. This was another JFK moment that shook the world. It seemed inconceivable that a Beatle who had touched the hearts of millions could be taken so cruelly from us.

At that time I just knew some of the Beatles and Lennon's songs. That night on TV it was wall to wall continuous coverage and I learned even more about him and the band he put together all these years ago. I have since read so many books and watched so many TV shows about both him and the Beatles. I became a huge Beatles fan and have had the great experience of visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool and doing the Beatles tours. I was hoping to do another visit this summer with my 18 year old nephew who is also a huge fan, but Covid scuppered that...hopefully late next year or 2022. Basically whenever live music returns. In 1991 on my one and only visit so far to New York I went to the Dakota Building where he was shot and also visited Strawberry Fields, the garden of remembrance in Central Park. It was a very moving experience.

To be honest, I don't think I would have liked John Lennon much as a person. I get the impression he wasn't a particularly pleasant bloke. But I do admire very much great songwriters and artists who can create legacies which live on for decades, and Lennon certainly comes into that category. He left the world a wonderful catalogue of music and great songs.

Tonight I should have been going to see The Bootleg Beatles at the Usher Hall as I do every year. It would have been a poignant night. His legacy lives on.

RIP John.
Not a Beatles fan but I did visit the Cavern club a couple of years ago. It was heaving with overpriced beer but the tribute band was very good.
Is the current club a replica of the original which is the opposite side of the lane?
 
Very overused word but John was a genius. He meant a lot to many. My oldest son got married at Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York. The wee rascal that is their son is called Finn Lennon McKinley.


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Not a Beatles fan but I did visit the Cavern club a couple of years ago. It was heaving with overpriced beer but the tribute band was very good.
Is the current club a replica of the original which is the opposite side of the lane?
The original Cavern Club was closed in 1973. The entrance to the original club is still there just beside the statue of Cilla Black a bit further down Matthew Street. They used many of the bricks from the old Cavern when they built the new one which is there now. They tried to make it as near to what the old one was like as possible.
 
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If only the shooter had taken out Paul McCartney instead.
 
Or Neil Lennon.
 
If only the shooter had taken out Paul McCartney instead.
Ah. Not in agreement there B, but is the PMcC we now see, the REAL Paul?
Or did he die in an accident all those years ago?
 
The very day I came to Holland 40 year ago. Woke up to wall-to-wall Beatles music and could see the writing on one of those walls.
 
Lennon had a mean streak?Stuart Sutcliffe certainly found that out.
 
40 years ago today I remember going in to school and hearing the news John Lennon had been shot dead. This was another JFK moment that shook the world. It seemed inconceivable that a Beatle who had touched the hearts of millions could be taken so cruelly from us.

At that time I just knew some of the Beatles and Lennon's songs. That night on TV it was wall to wall continuous coverage and I learned even more about him and the band he put together all these years ago. I have since read so many books and watched so many TV shows about both him and the Beatles. I became a huge Beatles fan and have had the great experience of visiting the Cavern Club in Liverpool and doing the Beatles tours. I was hoping to do another visit this summer with my 18 year old nephew who is also a huge fan, but Covid scuppered that...hopefully late next year or 2022. Basically whenever live music returns. In 1991 on my one and only visit so far to New York I went to the Dakota Building where he was shot and also visited Strawberry Fields, the garden of remembrance in Central Park. It was a very moving experience.

To be honest, I don't think I would have liked John Lennon much as a person. I get the impression he wasn't a particularly pleasant bloke. But I do admire very much great songwriters and artists who can create legacies which live on for decades, and Lennon certainly comes into that category. He left the world a wonderful catalogue of music and great songs.

Tonight I should have been going to see The Bootleg Beatles at the Usher Hall as I do every year. It would have been a poignant night. His legacy lives on.

RIP John.
I have a grandson named Lennon, I will say no more.
 
If only the shooter had taken out Paul McCartney instead.
What an epically weird thing to say.

Interestingly if Chapman hadn’t managed to murder Lennon he intended to kill Bowie the night after at this gig. Chapman had a front row seat for this gig, so did Lennon and Ono, so Bowie did the gig with 3 empty seats knowing why. Mental.

 
I was going tae sell my John Lennon music collection on Ebay. Imagine all the PayPal?
 
He wrote some great music,muddied with some absolute dross! I think the acid trips were a bit much for him.

He was an icon before he was shot. He has an Edinburgh connection I think? Or is that an imagine :giggley:
 
He wrote some great music,muddied with some absolute dross! I think the acid trips were a bit much for him.

He was an icon before he was shot. He has an Edinburgh connection I think? Or is that an imagine :giggley:
Your right about the Edinburgh connection. I went tae NYC in 2016 and our hotel was in the next street tae where he got shot. ?
 
Bizarrely I got engaged
He wrote some great music,muddied with some absolute dross! I think the acid trips were a bit much for him.

He was an icon before he was shot. He has an Edinburgh connection I think? Or is that an imagine :giggley:
You're right, he had an aunt up here or something and he visited sometimes?

 
What an epically weird thing to say.

Interestingly if Chapman hadn’t managed to murder Lennon he intended to kill Bowie the night after at this gig. Chapman had a front row seat for this gig, so did Lennon and Ono, so Bowie did the gig with 3 empty seats knowing why. Mental.


Wow, I never knew that.
 
He wrote some great music,muddied with some absolute dross! I think the acid trips were a bit much for him.

He was an icon before he was shot. He has an Edinburgh connection I think? Or is that an imagine :giggley:
I love double fantasy, but I wonder if it is the finality of his work, rather than its quality.

Watching the Wheels and Just Like Starting Over are on my favourites playlist so I listen to them regularly.
 
If only the shooter had taken out Paul McCartney instead.

McCartney II is an underrated classic.
 
McCartney II is an underrated classic.
on the back of a twitter thread by Jo Caulfield I was racking my brains for anything decent that Paul McCartney had been involved in.

best I could come up with was his Michael Jackson collaboration, and maybe live and let die.

Whereas I think the body of work of Lennon & Harrison is enduring and beautiful
 
on the back of a twitter thread by Jo Caulfield I was racking my brains for anything decent that Paul McCartney had been involved in.

best I could come up with was his Michael Jackson collaboration, and maybe live and let die.

Whereas I think the body of work of Lennon & Harrison is enduring and beautiful
Music is all subjective and down to taste, but I can't agree with you there.
McCartney for me is one of the all time great songwriters. The most successful in the history of popular music.
 
on the back of a twitter thread by Jo Caulfield I was racking my brains for anything decent that Paul McCartney had been involved in.

best I could come up with was his Michael Jackson collaboration, and maybe live and let die.

Whereas I think the body of work of Lennon & Harrison is enduring and beautiful
Possibly the only problem with McCartney post Beatles ( please tell you like his Beatles stuff!?) is the volume of work. He has produced some stuff I don't especially like, but as Lennon and Harrison admitted to, McCartney drove the band to produce pretty much all their albums from Rubber Soul because they were pretty lazy. McCartney is a workaholic.

I like McCartney the album, Maybe I'm amazed is tremendous. Band on The Run is a brilliant album, right up there with my all time favourites. Live and Let Die, the best Bond theme ever? I'm less keen on the frog chorus.

With Beatles albums I'm usually drawn to Harrison's songs, but that's not to say he's in the same talent class of Lennon or McCartney, but he can produce an absolute banger when required.
 
on the back of a twitter thread by Jo Caulfield I was racking my brains for anything decent that Paul McCartney had been involved in.

best I could come up with was his Michael Jackson collaboration, and maybe live and let die.

Whereas I think the body of work of Lennon & Harrison is enduring and beautiful
Listen to What the Man Said
Silly Love Songs
No More Lonely Nights
The People's Postcode Lottery one

Some of my favourite Macca solo efforts!
 

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What an epically weird thing to say.

Interestingly if Chapman hadn’t managed to murder Lennon he intended to kill Bowie the night after at this gig. Chapman had a front row seat for this gig, so did Lennon and Ono, so Bowie did the gig with 3 empty seats knowing why. Mental.

Ah. Not in agreement there B, but is the PMcC we now see, the REAL Paul?
Or did he die in an accident all those years ago?

Wind on 13 months.

As my punishment for that comment, my son who is 7, is guitar daft. Nicely learning with the help of a really good guitar teacher. He loves music, all kinds, but he REALLY, REALLY loves the Beatles. Listens to them all the time. Plays Beatles songs that I've never even heard of when we are in the car and he's in charge of the music. It's pretty cool truth to be told. Certainly weaned him off that oasis shite his mum had him listening too.

We went down to Liverpool October last year (it was that or Manchester and city and didnt have game on when we could go), and ended up at the Music Museum and also the Beatles exhibition. Needless to say P&G Junior loved it, and became even more Beatles daft than he was already.

I have to fess up to a grudging admiration of Paul, and what the Beatles achieved. Maybe because it all happened before I was born I didn't really grasp the significance.

Most impressed his skill with a guitar got Jane Asher into bed too.
 
Wind on 13 months.

As my punishment for that comment, my son who is 7, is guitar daft. Nicely learning with the help of a really good guitar teacher. He loves music, all kinds, but he REALLY, REALLY loves the Beatles. Listens to them all the time. Plays Beatles songs that I've never even heard of when we are in the car and he's in charge of the music. It's pretty cool truth to be told. Certainly weaned him off that oasis shite his mum had him listening too.

We went down to Liverpool October last year (it was that or Manchester and city and didnt have game on when we could go), and ended up at the Music Museum and also the Beatles exhibition. Needless to say P&G Junior loved it, and became even more Beatles daft than he was already.

I have to fess up to a grudging admiration of Paul, and what the Beatles achieved. Maybe because it all happened before I was born I didn't really grasp the significance.

Most impressed his skill with a guitar got Jane Asher into bed too.
Has your lad seen the *disney documentary? It’s long, but I thought it was great. Shows Lennon as a genius but more so McCartney. Next level talent
 
As McCartney songs go, this is decent IMO:

 
Has your lad seen the *disney documentary? It’s long, but I thought it was great. Shows Lennon as a genius but more so McCartney. Next level talent
Started watching it today - he's loving it.
 
Got a week-end booked to Liverpool in July with my Beatles daft 20 year old nephew.
Twice postponed...very much looking forward to going back. Hoping to see some good tribute bands and do all the Beatles stuff again....this time with him.
Paul will be 80 this year. Would be good if he made an appearance in Liverpool on his birthday when I was there !
 
Macartney brought out a pro IRA single-get your head round that!No! Not Lennon,McCartney.Am I the only one who actually likes the Frog Chorus?C-moon are we-I reckon he was actually saying to Linda 'I bet we could say Semen and get away with it'.
 
 
Listen to What the Man Said
Silly Love Songs
No More Lonely Nights
The People's Postcode Lottery one

Some of my favourite Macca solo efforts!
The late, great Joe Strummer said ‘ it’s 1977 - no Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones but John Lennon roolz ok. ‘
 
Royal Bank now a Greggs I believe.
The photo was taken by a staff member of Lizars the opticians after she saw them looking in their shop window.
 
on the back of a twitter thread by Jo Caulfield I was racking my brains for anything decent that Paul McCartney had been involved in.

best I could come up with was his Michael Jackson collaboration, and maybe live and let die.

Whereas I think the body of work of Lennon & Harrison is enduring and beautiful

Band on the run?
 

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