December 8th, The Day Music Died

[Donk70]

Seeing as how I work 3rd shift, I had a bacon cheeseburger and fries

Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been murdered? I bet there were quite a few who was watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell broke the story, but for me it was the next morning while eating breakfast. I was only 10 years old and I remember the morning DJ playing Lennon and Beatle songs and was barely able to keep back the tears when he announced it. I remember asking my mother who he was and she said he was a member of the Beatles. At 10, I've heard of The Beatles but didn't know the members names.

As a tribute to John, I'm currently listening to all the Lennon and Beatles tunes stored on my HD.

RIP John, and thank you.

[kev]

It's nowhere near lunch for me yet (leftover pasta, a Coke, and a sugar cookie are waiting in the fridge).

Man, my story is almost exactly like yours Don. I was 10 as well and was the only one watching TV that morning as breakfast was being prepared. Our TV was downstairs in our den, so no one else heard the initial news (remember having only one TV?). I remember running upstairs and breaking the news to my parents through my own tears. My dad yelled at me for saying something like that, until he saw the news for himself. We were all in shock.

RIP John.

Kev

[Aldwyn]

I was watching TV when they broke in.

I was such a huge Beatles fan back then, you wouldnt believe.

I cried. And I didn't go to school for two days. I stayed in bed and listened to all of the radio stations do tributes, news reports, replay of interviews, etc...

Last year, I had a tribute made, which now sits on my McRosie.

http://www.sharkinlay.com/photos/tcovers/lennon.jpg

Peace,
Aldwyn

[jmadill]

From the BBC: Rolling Stones Magazine Interview (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/lennon.shtml)

-jm

[bleujazz3]

I, too, was only a teenager when the story broke. I can only remember my anger at the Chapman fellow who had killed him. Why would anybody have done this? It speaks not only against the mental state of anyone who clearly has issues, but violent ones at that.

At least the voices in my head tell me how to write good songs, not do away with someone.

I would suggest that anyone who has such tendencies to seek help, not only because you may not think you're ill, but because you may do away with a valued life other than your own in the process. If not for yourself, consider others. Then get help from your physician (your primary medical doctor) who can tell you what the next steps are.

We all want a safe and Happy Holiday season, so let's enjoy ourselves by keeping each other safe. It begins with you. :)

[skypup]

I was 16. I was lying in bed listening to the radio when the DJ came on and announced it. I think we all felt pretty much the same thing, which is good 'cause it's hard to really find the words.

donnie

[badfinger]

I was in college, coming home on the team bus from a basketball game. I don't remember who we played, how many points I had, or where we were coming home from, but I remember that we had eaten dinner at some little diner and I had Chicken Fried Steak. Now everytime I smell that, I think of that day. Similar story with the Kennedy assassination. I was very young, at my grandmother's house and she was cooking cabbage. Everytime I smell cabbage now I think of that day.

[David Coverversion]

Couple of beers and a chicken and mushroom pie.

I was 13, got up for school, when Dave Lee Travis announced it on the radio, I was devastated.

[gretsch63]

A genius was taken away that dreadful night...I heard it on monday night football from of all people howard cosell.I was trying out for a new band downstairs and when I came upstairs it was just being announced on the tv...I drove home in a dream-like state and listened to vince scelsa on wnew-fm play his music and talk,he was very close to tears.I stayed up all night and recorded all the news footage,and took the next day off from work....god knows what john had up his sleeve for the 80's.....I will always remember john...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/gretsch63/1aaaajohn2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/gretsch63/1aaaajohn1.jpg

[hackenfort]

25 years went so fast. I was just finishing up my delivery route (UPS) for the night. I was changing in the locker room when the radio announce it.

What a sad moment and such a great loss. IMO he was the driving factor in the Beatles and I never appreciated him during that period.

RIP John,

kevin

[irwcustom]

Wednesday nights Chilli con carne.

Nice thought Don. It did indeed pass away somewhat. Nice pic - the top one Grestch.

I know, I know....you didn't think I was old enough:D .

Well, I was playing electric guitar in the school orchestra and we were rehearsing for the pantomime. Ohhhh yes I was. We were rehearsing 'Open a new window - open a new door'. I discovered that nobody thought the obo's violins, double bass, trumpets etc were cool, but my guitar was and I've never looked back. My music teacher gave me a lift home from school as my dad said he wasn't available to pick me up. The news came over on the radio and we ground to a halt and were just speechless. I just kept thinking it wasn't true. Starting Over had been released over here about two months prior to that day. They played it on the radio after the announcement and I remember hearing the end - to this day, it still takes me back to that terrible moment when I found out. That echo-ey voice at the end:(

I also remember my embarrassment when my teacher pulled up with me at my driveway and there was my dads car a Vauxhall Vx490 parked on the drive.

[irwcustom]

Forgot to mention, they are showing a series of interviews by ..y'know ..HIM :( tonight on terrestrial TV. A tribute would have been much more welcome, but this is what we get.

[JMintzer]

I was in Bally's Casino, in Atlantic City, sitting in a lounge (after losing all of my money) watching Monday Night Football...

Initially, my plan for the evening was to see Springsteen, who was playing @ the Spectrum. My (then) girlfriend and I went to try to scalp some tickets. After having no success ($200 a pair was just a bit too much @ the time, and I had tickets to see him the next month back home in DC), we decided to go to A.C. for the night.

As I sat there, in shock, my girlfriend opined, "What's the big deal? He's just some old rock star..." I dumped her a short time later (if she wasn't such a hot P.O.A., I would have dumped her then and there, but the little brain had a bit to say about that situation ;) ).

I still get sad every December 8th...


Jamie

[jas]

My oldest sister, with whom I share a deep Beatles bond, phoned me that next morning. We commisserated together. She was a teenager when "Meet the Beatles" came out - I was her snot-nosed little brother but the Beatles hit us equally hard and they never faded.

I'll never forget that phone call.

I was with her older daughter, my niece, both of us Deadheads, when we heard about Garcia's death. Now I am a great uncle and I wonder if, when Britney Spears dies, I'll be with my great nephew.

-John

[Big Al]

Forgot to mention, they are showing a series of interviews by ..y'know ..HIM :( tonight on terrestrial TV. A tribute would have been much more welcome, but this is what we get.


****ing **** of a wanker :mad: twat faced ****wit arse bandit cocking **** smoking twat of a ***** :mad:

little ****ing nowhere man

[Big Al]

i was around 5months old when i heard. can't remember what i was doing.

[digisequencer]

I was 5 years old and of course not paying attention to matters like that.

Just want to say that your title for the thread made me sad and mad - the music did not die - John Lennons music will live on forever !

[Big Mike]

I was almost 6 but I knew John Lennon. My favorite cassette besides Elvis was the Beatles Please Please Me.

I was in the car with mom and started crying immediately.

Oh and yesterday it was In n out burger.

[Hollowbody Heaven]

I owned a piano store/recording studio on Main St. in Danbury CT and didn't hear until an employee told me the next morning.

Devistated. Destroyed.
I went into the studio and penned a ballad and recorded it that day.
I've never been the same.

-HH