I was just 3 when John died, and I didn't even know 'bout Beatles, since I was born in 1977...but later on when i started loving Beatles ( i was like 11) I found out that there was one Beatle missing, I said to myself: "who the hell...??" then I was told by my brother that it was John Lennon. I was really disappointed coz actually he had just started to be my favourite Beatle. Pfff now I'm 27 and i've already cried for Lennon's death, yeah coz I cry a bit every time I listen to "Because".....

Love is ald love is new
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I was cleaning my room and watching Monday Night Football on t.v when a special report came on saying there had been an unidentified man shot in New York and that the man who was shot was reportedly one of the ex-Beatles.  Then about ten minutes later Howard Cosell anounced to the world the death of John Lennon.  Cosell said many great things about John.  I was so stunned and numb for weeks.  I missed the Kennedy assassination so I don't know about that but for one week John's death brought the world together in a way I hadn't seen before in my life.  I think it was the end of my innocence I finally gathered that the world wasn't such a great place after all!  I remember it like yesterday.  Unfortunately I'll never forget it.

I'm sure there must've been a similar thread like this before but I thought I'd start a fresh one since we're nearing the 25th anniversary of that fateful day. What are yor memories?

Me, I was 23 at the time sitting in a barracks at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Wisconsin. Also known as bootcamp. Our Company Commander came in on the morning of Dec 9th and ordered us to attention and announced that John Lennon had been shot and killed. Naturally most of us freaked out, but only so much. When you're in bootcamp, you don't think about things like this too much.

It wasn't 'til after I got out of bootcamp in Jan that it really started to sink in. I was transferred to Orlando and was sitting in a bar one night and Imagine was playing and then it just hit me like a freight train and started blubbering like a little kid. The barmaid looked at me and came up and said "You're not the first when we play that song".

your right mate. This was done not so long ago.

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your right mate. This was done not so long ago.

Where was it? I didn't see it here.

I have merged the two threads

I don't know how to do links, but its under John called "where were you."

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I have merged the two threads

Ok, cool.

I'm watching Elton John on the Actor's Studio and Elton was talking about the song Empty Garden. He said it's a very emotional song for him and rarely plays it live because it's hard to get through. He said he plays it sometimes in NY as a tribute to John because he felt like he was such a NY person. He also said that John's death was one of the most horrible things that's ever happened because he loved him so much. He made me cry! Anyway, then Lipton asks him if he could do the song and Elton told him he didn't think he could. He did the Border Song instead. Still made me sad. Didn't know where to post this, just wanted to share. I mean, even after he talked about Princess Diana and Gianni Versace you could tell that John's death was the most shocking to him. For some reason. Anyone remember that song? They never play it anymore. I loved it, but it made me cry everytime I saw it on MTV or heard it on the radio.

I was a child (not interested in music yet) so I can't remember ... but the day in which the whole world kept in silence for 10 minutes my little sister was busy being born so I remember being at hospital but not the world even ...  

sadly, i was 8 years from being born. weird as it is, my sister was actually born in the morning and he died that night. makes it easy to remember how old she is. but i do wish i was around then. or cared when george died.

It was 10 years before I was born.

I was 11 years old and met my friends outside the school. One of them asked me if I heard that JL was shot. I didn't. I seriously thought she was kidding. Till I got home. My mum said it was true.

I was doing my residency at a New York City Hospital.  I just returned to my on-call room and turned on the radio and heard the news.  All of us went to the physicians' lounge and stayed up all night watching the TV coverage.

We used to take lunch in Central Park.  It was not uncommon to see John and Yoko walking through the park.  John would always acknowledge our waves with a friendly "Hi doctors!"

hm i wasnt even born but when dad told me later on like at he age of 8 >_o about his death i tear up but then i just listen to his song as a sololist and not just with the beatles and it helped a bit ^ ^