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Jeff Allen Myers
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12/8/2008 4:21:08 PM
It was 28 Years ago today
A good friend was Murdered....by an idiot who was lucky enough to speak to him and get an autograph just a few hours earlier.
You will Live forever John!
Peace!
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Kevin White
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12/8/2008 5:56:13 PM
You knew John Lennon?
:^D
When something like that happens, it becomes a frozen memory moment ... like where I was as I watched man walk on the moon (swimming at a public pool) or when JFK died (pooping my diapers ... wait, I was seven ... scratch that).
I know exactly where I was when I heard that news that day, oh boy.
I was in my car, listening to the radio while waiting to cross the intersection of Route 31 and Route 275.
I listened and spontaneously started to cry. I had no control over it.
For months following, I couldn't listen to his music.
Kev-
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Jeff Allen Myers
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12/8/2008 10:05:54 PM
---- Updated 12/8/2008 10:07:53 PM
"You knew John Lennon?"
Yea I know John well... :) As much as has been written about him I guess...I know more about him then most of the people in my life :)
I remember the moment I found out, I was playing an electronic hand held football game, the one with a little red "Blip" :) anyone else remember those??
Monday Night Football was on, and Howard told me.... :)
Thanks for sharing Laree and Kev....
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JOHN FRY
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12/8/2008 10:08:37 PM
The week before Lennon was shot I was in New York for a couple of days visiting my brother. I bought the Double Fantasy cassette that same week. And at some point on that trip I read the Lennon Playboy interview that had come out around that time. So Lennon had been on my mind. My trip ended and I went home to California and was at a buddy’s house watching Monday Night Football, with Howard Cossell announcing. My friend was somewhat of a Beatles fan so I was telling him about the Lennon Interview, and his new Music, and he asked me, so how was New York?, and for some reason I said, It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to die there ha ha. No sooner did I say that throwaway line, Howard Cossell, in a very dire voice says, I have some very sad news to report, John Lennon tonight in New York City has been shot, OH My God! I said. Then after about a minute or so it's announced that he is dead. My hands went to the top of my head pressing down, I was sitting on my friends floor at the time, and with my feet I scooted myself about two feet until I was in the corner of the room staring with my mouth open and not blinking for about ten minutes, while my friend was saying something about, you were just talking about the guy! Or something like that, I couldn’t really hear him I felt I had fallen into a vacuum ,where all sound and air had been sucked out. The next day at work people acted as if the earth did not just split the fuck open and everything get sucked down into it. I was young and hadn’t experienced life’s tragedies yet so I couldn’t believe people weren’t devastated by this.
28 years later I think I would still act the same.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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12/8/2008 10:55:18 PM
---- Updated 12/8/2008 10:56:52 PM
Thanks John, very cool recount.... Thanks for sharing. I do think many remember what they were doing, it is etched in our minds.
"I was young and hadn’t experienced life’s tragedies yet so I couldn’t believe people weren’t devastated by this."
I can relate, I went to school the next day, and some were actually asking what the big deal was! I was fifteen...a shitty age for anyone. I was dealing with the normal insecurities of life trying to find myself. The Beatles, particularly John were a huge part of my life at the time. I was already writing my own songs, playing in bands...the usual. It was not cool to be a Beatles fan in 1980...at least in my High School at the time., The Beatles are so much bigger now....they really are. It was only ten years removed from their break up, ten years is nothing now. At that time it was 67% of my life on earth! :) Literally a lifetime removed.
I am now 43, I have lived three years longer then John, it really hits home how young he was taken from us. It is such a tragedy...both for music, and the influence I know he would still have on the world. I take time to remember on this day, and on His Birthday. To me he is a friend...and always will be to the day I die.
Peace!
Jeff
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never never band
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12/8/2008 11:21:49 PM
I was at a bus stop in Denver on the corner of University and Evens.
there were...maybe 8 of us in the little booth and this kid walks in and says "John Lennon has been killed"
and everyone went silent, and then this older lady started to cry and it just spread though us and we were all teared up and no one could say anything..
it was like the words and been sucked away,,,,,,,
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Wayne Givens
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12/9/2008 6:07:02 AM
Better late than never...I was listening to the radio because K-SHE 95 in St. Louis was going to play our group on the radio that night. I was pretty excited, and then the news came that John had been shot. I just sat down on the bed, picked up an acoustic guitar and the song "Who's gonna Save the Day" just came pouring out. Stunned, I guess is about the best way to describe the feeling. Not unlike the Kennedys' and Martin Luther King killings, just surreal.
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February
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12/9/2008 7:07:59 AM
John Lennon was a genius.I love his music.His songs both solo and with The Beatles are so beautiful!
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Jeff Allen Myers
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12/9/2008 10:24:55 AM
Hello February, Welcome to IAC! Its good to see a new nice face around. :)
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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12/9/2008 2:12:49 PM
---it was huge here in New Zealand---but---
we were in disbelief for the first day----- rumours swirled around---
being a long way way from the US it seemed like it might be a hoax---???
no one really accepted it was true for some days---
then life became hollow!!!
memory----I sat opposite the young Beatles on the balcony of their hotel (the Clarendon) in Christchurch NZ ----We were on the roof of the Gas Co. building!
there was pretty much a riot on the street below, girls screaming their heads off and crying-----then---!
Some stupid jealous young guys threw fruit at them ---and they dissappeared!
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JOHN FRY
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12/9/2008 4:42:42 PM
six years later Howard Cosell would be the one to announce that John Lennon was dead. R.I.P.
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JOHN FRY
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12/9/2008 4:45:02 PM
Try this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt_4CtuXobA&feature=related
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