Remembering The Day John Lennon Died

[MerryBlooms]

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I should have cared more, but I didn't. I should have cried, but I didn't.

He meant so much to me.

But the day John Lennon died, my life and his music were never more distant.

On the night of December 8, 1980, I was soldering circuit boards in my apartment above a bar in downtown Washington, D.C., when I heard the news. I was building a synthesizer; I was in a psychedelic new wave dance band called Tiny Desk Unit.

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/12/08/458471074/remembering-the-day-john-lennon-died

[dhill926]

1. can remember like it was yesterday....

a very, very sad day....

[bvf]

2. I clearly recall waking up to the news.

It was like a punch in the gut.

[randys1]

3. Sucked to lose the person I thought he was. Was better when I found out he

was human like me, had some really big faults as well.

I know every Beatle song by heart, played many when I rock and rolled.

Was a fan to the point of obsession it seemed at times

I think I was obsessed with being a professional musician, more than anything else.

Which never quite worked out

[Journeyman]

4. I worked for a newspaper at the time, doing production that evening. I stepped into the darkroom...

to prep some photos, turned on the radio, and was greeted by "A Day in the Life."

It was the last Beatles tune, last song by John, I ever enjoyed with unadulterated youth. I was 26.

After the crescendo came the collapse, the heavy sense of loss from which I'll never find release. A gun. Again.

I closed the newsroom and went home.

[LiberalElite]

5. One of the worst days of my life -

I was in night school when it happened, so I didn't find out till the next morning - on the radio station 1010 WINS in NYC they mentioned the guy "who killed John Lennon" My first thought was "which John Lennon?" I only went to work that day because I was afraid of my boss. I should have gone over to the Dakota. I'll always regret that I didn't.

[colsohlibgal]

6. One Awful Day

Most of us will never forget hearing the news. What a loss for many of us.

To use the title of his song, imagine the music he may have still created.