John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group that transformed popular music in the 1960s, is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City.
The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of the shooting until he was arrested by police. For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the Dakota–Lennon’s apartment building–and demonstrations of mourning were held around the world.
John Lennon was one half of the singing-songwriting team that made the Beatles the most popular musical group of the 20th century. The other band leader was Paul McCartney, but the rest of the quartet–George Harrison and Ringo Starr–sometimes penned and sang their own songs as well. Hailing from Liverpool, England, and influenced by early American rock and roll, the Beatles took Britain by storm in 1963 with the single “Please Please Me.” “Beatlemania” spread to the United States in 1964 with the release of “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” followed by a sensational U.S. tour. With youth poised to break away from the culturally rigid landscape of the 1950s, the “Fab Four,” with their exuberant music and good-natured rebellion, were the perfect catalyst for the shift.
The Beatles sold millions of records and starred in hit movies such as A Hard Day’s Night (1964). Their live performances were near riots, with teenage girls screaming and fainting as their boyfriends nodded along to the catchy pop songs. In 1966, the Beatles gave up touring to concentrate on their innovative studio recordings, such as 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, a psychedelic concept album that is regarded as a masterpiece of popular music. The Beatles’ music remained relevant to youth throughout the great cultural shifts of the 1960s, and critics of all ages acknowledged the songwriting genius of the Lennon-McCartney team.
Lennon was considered the intellectual Beatle and certainly was the most outspoken of the four. He caused a major controversy in 1966 when he declared that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” prompting mass burnings of Beatles’ records in the American Bible Belt. He later became an anti-war activist and flirted with communism in the lyrics of solo hits like “Imagine,” recorded after the Beatles disbanded in 1970. In 1975, Lennon dropped out of the music business to spend more time with his Japanese-born wife, Yoko Ono, and their son, Sean. In 1980, he made a comeback with Double-Fantasy, a critically acclaimed album that celebrated his love for Yoko and featured songs written by her.
On December 8, 1980, their peaceful domestic life on New York’s Upper West Side was shattered by 25-year-old Mark David Chapman. Psychiatrists deemed Chapman a borderline psychotic. He was instructed to plead insanity, but instead he pleaded guilty to murder. He was sentenced to 20 years to life. In 2000, New York State prison officials denied Chapman a parole hearing, telling him that his “vicious and violent act was apparently fueled by your need to be acknowledged.” He remains behind bars.
John Lennon is memorialized in “Strawberry Fields,” a section of Central Park across the street from the Dakota that Yoko Ono landscaped in honor of her husband.
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Imagine there’s no Lennon. It’s easy if you try!
No Pinkos or Commies. Above us only chem trails.
We’re all gonna die!
>>>We’re all gonna die!
Last Saturday one of my neighbors shot and killed another neighbor, for about as good a reason as Chapman had for shooting Lennon.
Life goes on, much as it ever has, until it doesn’t.
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” ― John Lennon
Let us recall that John was a rough and tumble street fighting “Teddy boy” at first.
Why Lemmy Preferred the Beatles to the Rolling Stones
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/emmy-beatles-rolling-stones/#:~:text=They%20went%20to%20starve%20in,for%20songs%2C%20not%20for%20presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TIVlwt3lI
Lemmy was awesome
The night before he died, i had this dream, satan was sitting with lemmy and said “thanks for doing my song”
I woke that morning to hear lemmy was dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhky6QcXorU
Great story. Someone called John a queer. He came off the stage and kicked there ass. Nowadays, they would be canceled and probably thrown in jail.
I gained some respect for Lennon after this clip came out where he took Jagger to task. “I think Mick’s a joke with all that fag dancing.”
Sour grapes. The Stones became a new genre of music that took a lot of Beatles fans in a new direction. The fabs couldn’t keep their shit together and work like a group of musicians first. The Stones make one type of Rock and Roll and the Beatles another and yes, Micks a fag.
Paul McCartney’s music after the breakup was superior in every way, not sure how one can say that Lennon was half the talent.
Paul is dead.
Billy Shears is alive. Goo goo gajoob.
Paul died in the fall of 1966. His replacement was already being groomed to be a double and his name is William Shepard who was a fine musician that turned out to be better than Paul by far. BTW, the Beatles were just singers, like the Monkees who came later. Someone else wrote most if not all the songs, and studio musicians played for the albums.
Next thing you’re going to say is that ‘Murcans never went to the Moon.
John is not
http://mileswmathis.com/lennon.pdf
Amazing how George Harrison still gets marginalized after all these years.
All Things Must Pass was the best of all the post-Beatles solo albums by far. He had other solo albums just as good as the others. He was every bit as competent as John and Paul, just not his style to be flashy (tell me that “Something” and “Here Comes the Sun” were not the best songs on Abbey Road).
John and Paul were the brains, but George and Ringo were the heart and soul.
Good riddance
Fuck you.
Me, myself and Irene
The day he was shot a girl I knew Rachael Romano was crying ,I asked her what was wrong she said John Lennon was shot. I said “who the hell is John Lennon ?”lol .
Fuck you.
You’re a little hostile what did I say I really didn’t know who he was.
Music was okay, musician communist as fuck. The pioneers of the fag world we live in today.
I wasn’t a fan…but, I’m sure the IC sent one of their MKUltra windup toys to do the hit. The Intelligence agencies, are really a small, evil and fearful group…with extraordinary power.
Me in school the next day “One down, three to go!!!”
He gave us Yoko Onoooooo! Enough said.
Of all the women in the world and he chooses Yoko? What the hell?