Originally Posted by covenant (Post 10534214)

I was 14 at the time and barely remember it. I wasn't a Beatles fan and neither were my parents. I don't remember anyone reacting to it at school.

Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet (Post 10533171)

But in terms of awesome culture, probably the best day ever. I was born that day; my parents nearly named me John.

RIP, John. :(

Originally Posted by Numanoid (Post 10534685)

Same here. I found it amazing that some people were saying that people were openly crying in grade school.

I was 13, and barely remember it. Was just another news story to me and my friends. By contrast, I vividly remember when Elvis died three years earlier. I remember Reagan being shot only a few months later. But Lennon's death didn't make much of a splash.

Originally Posted by Numanoid (Post 10534685)

Same here. I found it amazing that some people were saying that people were openly crying in grade school.

I was 13, and barely remember it. Was just another news story to me and my friends. By contrast, I vividly remember when Elvis died three years earlier. I remember Reagan being shot only a few months later. But Lennon's death didn't make much of a splash.

Originally Posted by Numanoid (Post 10534685)

Same here. I found it amazing that some people were saying that people were openly crying in grade school.

I was 13, and barely remember it. Was just another news story to me and my friends. By contrast, I vividly remember when Elvis died three years earlier. I remember Reagan being shot only a few months later. But Lennon's death didn't make much of a splash.

Originally Posted by JoeR63 (Post 10533093)

I remember that I was watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell broke in with the news.

Originally Posted by arminius (Post 10536123)

I remember alot of "It should have been Paul" stuff going around.

Originally Posted by wm lopez (Post 10541629)

Seems like Lenno had no plans whats so ever on The Beatles getting back together.
I think they would have in the mid 80's or early 90's had he lived.

Originally Posted by astrochimp (Post 10542063)

John hasn't missed anything by being dead for the last 30 years.

Originally Posted by Suprmallet (Post 10541835)

According to reports, during the Double Fantasy sessions, Lennon would reminisce about The Beatles in a way he hadn't throughout the 70's, and took a lot of pride in his accomplishments with the band. At the same time, Lennon never said he was interested in getting The Beatles back together, and in fact often told people that if the band were to get back together, it wouldn't be the same and could never live up to the hype.

The closest things got was when SNL made the offer for The Beatles to reunite for some tiny amount of money. Apparently McCartney was visiting Lennon at the time, and they considered taking a cab over to the studio, but ultimately decided to just stay in.

Originally Posted by wm lopez (Post 10543271)

As for their 80's music Lennon's MILK & HONEY is better than DOUBLE FANTASY and Paul put out o.k. music up to 1984. George did o.k. too. So altogether who knows. I believe that 1985's LIVE AID would have brought them together for some music and then they would have done a greatest hits tour around 1986 and a LP in late 87.

Originally Posted by cungar (Post 10542111)

Yeah just seeing his son grow up, walks in the park, having breakfast with his wife, taking trips to Europe, seeing the sun come up on a Sunday morning etc.

All that boring stuff you don't appreciate when you've been alive all those years.

Originally Posted by Lemmy (Post 10543532)

I don't.

The reason the three "couldn't get it together for charity" is because they are a foursome.

The biggest thing Mark David Chapman took from us all was all of the possibilities.

Originally Posted by Numanoid (Post 10534685)

Same here. I found it amazing that some people were saying that people were openly crying in grade school.

I was 13, and barely remember it. Was just another news story to me and my friends. By contrast, I vividly remember when Elvis died three years earlier. I remember Reagan being shot only a few months later. But Lennon's death didn't make much of a splash.

Originally Posted by GrouchoFan (Post 10534653)

Even after 30 years, I still can't believe I live in a world in which John Lennon has been murdered. It's not like he was one of those booze and drug fueled rock stars who choked on his own vomit, or died in a plane crash; some fucking asshole just walked up to him and fucking shot him. WHAT THE FUCK?!?! How the hell is the world supposed to make any fucking sense after that happens?

Grief is supposed to ease with the passage of time; mine only seems to get worse. I really can't think it about it too much; I put it away in a compartment in my mind, and I get on with my life. College, work, marriage, raising my daughter, introducing her to the Beatles and hearing them fresh again through her ears. But every so often it comes out and the pain is as fresh as ever.

I hate December 8 every year. And now I really have to stop thinking about it.