Imagine ...

[CARTer]

December 8, 1980.

[IndyJim]

I can't believe it has been that long. I think John would have written some really good stuff over that 25 year period. Watching the Wheel's was a great song in my opinion.

[Media Boy]

I was only 11 years old when it happened. I remember waking up that morning and sitting in my bed while I heard the news on the radio that my older brother was listening to. I didn't go to school that day. Either we were already on Christmas break (back when they used to give us LOTS of time off) or it was a weekend--I cannot remember. Anyway, I remember watching the TODAY show that morning and the next morning where they talked about it all day. I was pretty sad and just barely knew who he was.

I don't remember too many things from that long ago. I've always found it interesting that that moment sticks in my mind.

[MD-IRLFAN]

25 years. Amazing. I was 10. As silly as it may sound for someone at that tender age, it changed my life. I had been a music fan for a couple of years thanks to having two older brothers. The Beatles were already a staple of my listening preference. Oddly enough, it was my first real feeling of loss in my life in a way that I was mature enough to understand what 'loss' meant. To this day I don't understand what that maniac was trying to accomplish by pulling the gun. The emergency room doctors have been quoted as saying that had he been shot right in the emergency room with all of modern medicine available immediately, they wouldn't have been able to save him. This day makes me feel old. Yet thankfully, the music still makes me feel young. 25 years ago I knew I wanted to be a musician. I've been one ever since and I'll play til I can't hold an instrument any longer. Thanks John. We miss you.

[WestMcLarenF1]

I heard from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football.

[Jamski]

We could've used his take on the world today. Instead we have John Mellencamp and Bono. Nothing wrong with either, but they couldn't carry Lennon's pen if they used Skyhooks.

[skypigeon]

Heard about it on WIRE, of all stations, the morning after. They were still Country at the time. After the initial shock of hearing Lennon was dead, it shocked me even more that WIRE was giving it coverage. (I was 16.)

Went to school and saw kids with black arm bands that said "LENNON".

A stupid, stupid loss.

[Kurt Cobain]

I heard from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football.

So did I. I think the Redskins were playing and ironically that was one of John's favorite teams. I read that he loved American football.

I was 18 and a freshman in college at the University of Iowa. I was alone in my dorm when I heard the news and then went down the hall to tell a guy I knew who was heavy into the Beatles.

[badart]

I too was watching Monday Night Football. I was really into both the Beatles and Stones at the time. It made my Beatles albums that much more important.

[comfortably numb]

Working in a small store in the middle of nowhere..

...heard it on the radio, and the Lennon songs filled the airwaves.

Felt like a punch to the solar plexus.

[athos1172]

fwiw- MNF was Patriots vs Dolphins

[nascarnation]

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
from a guy who lived in Manhattan and drove around in a Bentley

[MD-IRLFAN]

wow. 12 whole posts before the bashing began.

[PHJIndy]

wow. 12 whole posts before the bashing began.

[CARTer]

nascarnation,

Not today, please.