Where were you when Lennon died?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

It is one of the few moments in life where many folks can remember exactly what they were doing. December 8, 1980, at 10:50 p.m., was one of those times. Music legend John Lennon was shot and killed.

The Beatles front man and cultural icon had been murdered on the steps of his New York home. The day of his death has become a day of mourning for a whole generation.

Do you remember where you were when John Lennon was shot? Where were you and what were you doing when you heard the news? We’d like to hear your stories and memories of how that moment affected you. How do you feel now?

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[tinymontgomery]

1. Boot camp

doing service week working in the galley. Some how we found out about it, must of been the talk of the camp.

[Hannah Bell]

2. seattle bus stop in fremont, icy cold morning about 6 am, going to work. there was a newspaper box

there with the front page headline Lennon shot or something similar.

the deaths i remember where i was = jfk, lennon & princess di.

[malaise]

3. Lying in my bed reading a book

with the radio on in the background.
Then suddenly I was weeping.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. I didn't hear about it until the next day...

I was 15 at the time. I woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head (snarf). Turned on the Today Show and heard the news. I'd just bought Double Fantasy the previous week...:(

[TBF]

5. I was 14 - remember hearing later in the day. I also remember Lady Diana

and much more clearly - I remember which room I was in and what I was doing. I couldn't believe they had killed her.

[cordelia]

6. Having a drink

with a couple of friends in the Blue Parrot in Salt Lake City. The waitress told us.

[Dulcinea]

7. I was probably asleep.

I was 15 then, but I remember hearing about it on the radio the next morning. There were a lot of sad faces at school that day.

[BulletproofLandshark]

8. Fast asleep for sure.

I was 4 when he died. My dad saw Howard Cosell announce it on MNF though.

[polmaven]

13. Like your dad,

I heard the news from Howard Cosell as well. I began to cry, and didn't stop for hours. I did not get much sleep that night.

[kedrys]

9. College in Houston

I remember the exact words of my best buddy, who called my dorm room with the news: "John Lennon has been shot in front of the Dakota Hotel in New York. He is no more."

I'd just turned 19. I still miss John - now more than then even. :cry:

[Lint Head]

10. Dallas TX. My band was sleeping on the bus and we

woke up to the TV report of his death. I cried all day and could barely hold my guitar during the show. We wore black arm bands.

[TorchTheWitch]

11. no idea

Never liked him much anyway. I do remember a few girls at school crying about it though and having no idea why.

[HEyHEY]

12. Breast feeding, likely

[LeftinOH]

14. I was in the 10th grade- and I confess that I had no idea who he was.

[H2O Man]

15. Sure do.

I was on my way into work. At that point in life, I was young enough to work two full-yime jobs, and I was going into the factory.

A friend (who also boxed in the same gym as I) told me going in that Lennon had been murdered. It was surreal.

[AngryOldDem]

16. College.

I remember walking through the lobby of the dorm the next morning and seeing the newsbox with the banner headline. I was stunned. I bought the last copy and read it during the class that I was on my way to. Then I came back to my room and played Beatles albums.

I was like, damn...how could this have happened?

[dbt]

17. Where I still am: in the dark.

Surely, thought I, the sun will come out tomorrow.

Wrong.

[hobbit709]

18. Working security in the beer garden at the 'Dillo.

[MadHound]

19. On the air,

Monday night, I was doing the Album of the Week show. Album for that week, yep, Lennon's Double Fantasy. I was truly enjoying the album, and about five minutes before it was time to go from Side A to Side B, the AP ticker started going off. Bell ringing, clattering out the news that Lennon was shot and killed.

I don't remember what I said during that break, other than Lennon had been shot, repeating the AP blurb. I do know that after I picked myself up, I devoted the rest of the evening's shift to Lennon's music.

A sad, sad night.

[cherish44]

20. I was in 8th grade, listening to WLS Chicago

First they said he had been shot in the back and then after the next song was over they announced that he had died. I had just discovered the Beatles and even though I though John was the "weird" one I remember crying for days. A celebrity death has never effected me as deeply as John Lennon's.

[spanone]

21. johannesburg south africa.....a world away from it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. I have no idea.

I don't remember.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

23. In the US

In my bath tub enjoying a good soak and a guy from work called to inform me Lennon had been shot dead. I said something like, "If he stayed in England he'd still be alive". The guy said that somebody could have shot him there...and I said something about we don't have mad fuckers with guns there..

[ThatsMyBarack]

24. I was 9

And probably in bed.

[otohara]

25. I Was Working For Record Chain

our Christmas party was so sad...some of the guys brought guitars and we sang Beatles songs.

the night it happened I was driving home and heard it on the radio. I thought I heard it wrong and hurried home.

[HopeHoops]

26. I'm not sure where I was, but it is a fair bet that I was stoned all to Jesus at the time.

:hippie: :smoke:

I probably didn't find out about it for a few days.

[bigwillq]

27. I was 2

Don't remember.

[Littlecat]

28. It was my 13th birthday

hell of a present huh?

[Erose999]

29. The womb. Never thought of that before you mentioned it n/t.

[RSillsbee]

30. Sitting in my room

Smoking a doob and listening to Rod Stewart's "Passion" on Z-92 in Omaha. The announcer came on and said we have breaking news , you're going to want to sit down , John Lennon has just been shot. The next song they played was "Long and Winding Road" and they announced his death at the end.
I was 15

[social_critic]

31. I checked my old calendar book and I was driving

On Route 3 heading North towards Buenos Aires, driving a red Falcon at 120 km/h. We didn't have radio reception, and I didn't like Lennon because he had dumped his wife and married that crazy Yoko, plus we didn't get too much information about the outside in the Patagonia, so I didn't see much about until I read a Newsweek later, when I got to BA.

[Greybnk48]

32. At my boyfriends house listening to music on the radio.

My boyfriend is now my husband of almost thirty years. We were both devastated. I remember we just stood in his dining room in shock. Just stood there and listened to the report. Horrible.

I was a "Beatlemaniac", and can say I felt just a horrible when George was diagnosed with cancer after surviving a knife attack. Each one took a piece of my (teenage) heart with them.