Where were you when John Lennon was shot dead?

Ghandee · 07-12-2010 07:03PM

Not proud of it like, but i was Lying on my back, caked in my own faeces, my own vomit running down my shirt and an empty bottle lying beside me.

Then my mam picked me up, changed my nappy and baby grow (God bless her!)

I was only 2

Stained Class · 07-12-2010 07:03PM

I was in my first year in secondry school at the time.

I was on my way to Geography class when I noticed some of the older lads crowded round a newspaper.

Some of them looked genuinely shocked.

I knew something pretty heavy happend there & then.

At the time, I didn't know that much about John Lennon or the Beatles.

I found out pretty quickly though, what with all his music getting round the clock airplay in the aftermath...

Been a big fan ever since.:)

30 years ago, eh? Time flies....

Princess Peach · 07-12-2010 07:12PM

Totally read the thread as Jack Lemon, and I've only now discovered that he died 9 years. Nobody told me!

Anyway, I wasn't born yet when John Lennon was dead. I was an angel baby in heaven.

PrincessLola · 07-12-2010 07:16PM

A Nice Cup Of Tea wrote: »

30 years tomorrow.

I was only a kid in school at the time but I remember my father being very upset that day as he was a Beatles maniac. They says its the "JFK moment" of the music world so where you on the 8-12-80?

The internet is for young people op. Who let you use it?:mad:

Irish Guitarist · 07-12-2010 07:28PM

I was more than likely at home in bed. I didn't have much of a social life at the time. I was four years old.

bonerm · 07-12-2010 07:34PM

I was in Penn Station cursing all the phonies.

dusty207 · 07-12-2010 07:40PM

Telling my grandson that he'd remember this day for ever, hah!

ejmaztec · 07-12-2010 07:43PM

Gucky wrote: »

Not proud of it like, but i was Lying on my back, caked in my own faeces, my own vomit running down my shirt and an empty bottle lying beside me.

But what were you doing 30 years ago?

JONJO THE MISER · 07-12-2010 07:49PM

Down the pub watching the W factor, that was the precusor to the X factor for ye youngins.

Monsieur Folie · 07-12-2010 07:59PM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

You win!

Son Of A Vidic · 07-12-2010 08:04PM

Breathless, in the Big Apple, trying to flag down a passing cab.

DazMarz · 07-12-2010 08:31PM

I was 8 years away from being born...

Mr Benevolent · 07-12-2010 09:11PM

A Nice Cup Of Tea wrote: »

30 years tomorrow.

I was only a kid in school at the time but I remember my father being very upset that day as he was a Beatles maniac. They says its the "JFK moment" of the music world so where you on the 8-12-80?

Celebrating.

AckwelFoley · 07-12-2010 09:14PM

I was inventing the internet

danwhite88 · 07-12-2010 09:21PM

Who is john lemon?

DublinWriter · 07-12-2010 09:23PM

snyper wrote: »

I was inventing the internet

...twenty years too late.

Stained Class · 07-12-2010 09:25PM

danwhite88 wrote: »

Who is john lemon?

Jack Lemon's alter ego.;)

danwhite88 · 07-12-2010 09:26PM

Stained Class wrote: »

Jack Lemon's alter ego.;)

Oooh i thought he was a relation of keith lemon.

Stained Class · 07-12-2010 09:28PM

danwhite88 wrote: »

Oooh i thought he was a relation of keith lemon.

They could be sons of the Elder Lemon....:P

ForceOfNature · 07-12-2010 09:41PM

snyper wrote: »

I was inventing the internet

what the hell is that?
does it taste something like splenda?

Run_to_da_hills · 07-12-2010 09:49PM

What did they find in John Lennons coffin?

..........A dead Beetle.

bonerm · 07-12-2010 09:51PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What did they find in John Lennons coffin?

..........A dead Beetle.

What's yellow and lives off dead beetles? Yoko Ono.

FoxT · 07-12-2010 09:51PM

I was queuing outside a Bank of Ireland ATM..... still there...

Latchy · 07-12-2010 10:03PM

I was in Amsterdam staying with my sister getting ready to head home to Dublin via Hook of Hollond-Dover-London -Holyhead ( No Ryanair back then ) when at about 8 am the local Dutch radio kept playing Beatle /Lennon music which we though a bit strange but not understanding much dutch we switched over to BBC world service to hear what had taken place in NYC the previous hrs. I remember the long trip back with everybody glued to the red tops in disbelief ( I still have orriginal front page of daily mirror ) .

Even 48 hrs later it was still hard to take in and I remember a candle lit vigil was held at christ church cathedral by about 1000 people ,some with guitars singing beatle tunes , which I went along to . The Irony for me was that about 12 months earlier on a quiet street in Amsterdam , I had met with and got the autograph of Ringo Starr . I wasn't around to remember JFKS assassination but Lennons death was one of those were were you moements

cml387 · 07-12-2010 10:09PM

There was a rather sad mention in Phillip Norman's biography of the Beatles.

Aunt Mimi got an early morning call from New York.She was imagining another journalist asking for a quote about John's latest adventure "I wonder what he's done this time" she thought as she took the call.

Scarydoll · 07-12-2010 10:09PM

I was not even two years old. So I'd say I was asleep when it happened.

strokemyclover · 07-12-2010 10:12PM

I was 8 days old so I was probably out the back of the The Coombe Hospital having a smoke

agrostar · 07-12-2010 10:29PM

I wasnt even a bad thought around the early 80's:D:D. If anyone was around and knows who shot Lennon any chance they could get him to make a come back and shot afew f**kers in the Dail:mad::mad:

alwaysadub · 07-12-2010 10:38PM

I was one and a bit.
So i was either asleep or eating.

Hmm,not much has changed in 30years for me so!

George83 · 07-12-2010 10:48PM

I wasn't born then.

Where were you when John Lennon was shot dead?

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