Where were you when John Lennon was shot dead?

Cú Giobach · 08-12-2010 10:50AM

Listening to The Clash singing "......now don't look to us, phoney beatlemania has bitten the dust".
Ahh happy days (not JL's death),I've just put on London Calling after thinking about that, good music never dies. :cool:

Was pretty shocked to hear the news though. Not my style but he was a great singer/songwriter.

mike65 · 08-12-2010 12:14PM

In the kitchen about to eat Weetabix

pickarooney · 08-12-2010 12:21PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Pumping a saffron sheet of soft shíte into my cloth nappy.(Probably)

I always assumed you were older for some reason. Although maybe you are...

marwelie · 08-12-2010 02:03PM

I was 7 and, like Mike 65, was eating my breakfast, listening to Radio 2 on a little brown box radio. I knew his name, knew he was famous but didn't know why.

30 years later I'm a huge Beatle fan.

08-12-2010 02:14PM

I was minus 5

sensibleken · 08-12-2010 02:28PM

Has anyone made the "why. What are you accusing me of" joke yet?

Minstrel27 · 08-12-2010 02:30PM

I was 7 months old at the time. No idea what I would have been doing. Sleeping perhaps.

DublinWriter · 08-12-2010 02:32PM

On being told of Elvis' death John Lennon reportedly said "Elvis died when he joined the army".

orourkeda · 08-12-2010 02:54PM

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?

I was probably listening to a police record.

Probably a touch of the aul regatta de blanc. Not bad for a 3 year old.

orourkeda · 08-12-2010 02:55PM

bluewolf wrote: »

I was minus 5

I was minus eight last night

Morlar · 08-12-2010 03:02PM

Can't remember where I was when he was shot but I spent the next month listening to 'imagine' on the radio that's for sure.

Captain Darling · 08-12-2010 03:26PM

It was thirty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught a band to play...

I know its a bit wrong, but its stuck in my head now, with that wording....

ClutchIt · 08-12-2010 03:34PM

meemeep wrote: »

anyone remember a candlelight vigil outside Christchurch in Dublin - just a spur of the moment gathering, some guitars and lots of singing! 30 years - wow

Yup, read ze thread

Latchy wrote: »

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

ClutchIt · 08-12-2010 03:37PM

realies wrote: »

I was out with me friends and went drinking and it was only later when we trying to get into the tv club

What's this?

mike65 · 08-12-2010 03:53PM

TV Club used to be one of Dublins live music venues until it got demolished in 1990

Laois_Man · 08-12-2010 05:16PM

Since Lennon was shot at about 3:50am on Dec 9th Irish time, I was in bed, like I'm sure 95% of people in Ireland were!

I was only 6 at the time. Didn't really have any appreciation for who Lennon or The Beatles were, but it was an event that became one of my earliest memories and ironically, it was the event that turned me into a massive Beatles and Lennon fan. I still remember going to school that Tuesday morning and the teacher talking about it and using it to teach us about how there were such evil people in the World who would murder someone just because they refused to sign an autograph (that was what was believed to have been what happened at the time). And I still remember the Radio and TV being saturated with the story for week afterwards - something I hadn't seen the likes of in the music world since until Michael Jackson's death last year!

FlutterinBantam · 08-12-2010 06:11PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Pumping a saffron sheet of soft shíte into my cloth nappy.(Probably)

pickarooney wrote: »

I always assumed you were older for some reason. Although maybe you are...

Adult nappy there boss, sorry, should have mentioned that.:rolleyes:

Yakuza · 08-12-2010 06:17PM

I was 10, in 5th class at the time. IIRC in school that day (after) we played some of his music on tapes, Imagine being the one repeated over and over.

mp22 · 08-12-2010 06:19PM

A ship called the Fastnet rock.

Manic Moran · 08-12-2010 07:03PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

On being told of Elvis' death John Lennon reportedly said "Elvis died when he joined the army".

Twat.

It can be quite an enlivening experience.

I'll let Serendipity speak:

So you were an artist! Big deal! Elvis was an artist. But that didn't stop him from joining the service in time of war. And that's why he's The King, and you're a schmuck

NTM

rainbow kirby · 08-12-2010 07:07PM

I was -3.5

Nadser · 08-12-2010 07:15PM

I don't remember Lennon dying, although I have a very clear memory of Elvis Presley's death in '77 (I was 4). Didn't know who he was though - heard the king was dead and thought it was the king of Ireland!!

Ironically, I grew up to be a Beatles fan and totally indifferent to Elvis.

Svetti Arss · 08-12-2010 07:17PM

Standing in front of him with a gun in my hand.

punchdrunk · 08-12-2010 07:23PM

I was in Utero myself..

EverEvolving · 08-12-2010 07:26PM

What a way to find out everyone's age :pac:

Kylo Ren · 08-12-2010 07:27PM

Svetti Arss wrote: »

Standing in front of him with a gun in my hand.

*Facepalm*

Degsy · 08-12-2010 07:36PM

Fcuck John Lennon and fcuck the rest of the bastards too.

Over-hyped Liverpool tossers.

Degsy · 08-12-2010 07:38PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

It can be quite an enlivening experience.

It can be quite an endeadening experience too..not everybody wins.

Manic Moran · 08-12-2010 09:20PM

Degsy wrote: »

It can be quite an endeadening experience too..not everybody wins.

Hence the adrenaline rush...

NTM

bonerm · 08-12-2010 09:46PM

Degsy wrote: »

Fcuck John Lennon and fcuck the rest of the bastards too.

Over-hyped Liverpool tossers.

That might work with your U2 bashing but the Beatles were worth every bit of praise thrown at them.

Where were you when John Lennon was shot dead?

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