2.15am
21 November 2015
Can it really be 35 years since John Lennon was shot in NYC?
2.22am
11 November 2010
To me, it’s really weird that (assuming some horrific, unlikely accident doesn’t occur in the next two weeks) Sean Lennon will have outlived John this year.
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2.25am
8 January 2015
Still a hole in the heart, isn’t it.
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4.03am
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18 February 2013
Yes, it’s sad.
I often wonder, however, if John would have been alive now (or even a decade or more ago) in any case, given the concentrated excesses of his earlier years and his self-destructive tendencies. His face looked decidedly pinched and ravaged in his last year or so – certainly older than his forty years. It’s hard to imagine that he wouldn’t have had some significant medical issues in his later life.
Still, it’s a terrible waste of a probably-still-great talent.
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11.06am
5 November 2011
Necko said
To me, it’s really weird that (assuming some horrific, unlikely accident doesn’t occur in the next two weeks) Sean Lennon will have outlived John this year.
Sean has outlived John since the day John died.
I didn’t know December 8th was something Beatles fans even celebrated, though I guess on George’s tenth anniversary of his death I celebrated by taking a day of silence. That’s not something I’ll ever do again, though. It’s too hard and not really worth it.
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11.23am
18 April 2013
11.39am
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1 May 2011
Expert Textpert said
I celebrate the day of a person’s death because I’m Catholic. Dead people aren’t here to eat cake on their birthdays. They’ve gone on to better things.
Might eat cake where they are.
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12.47pm
18 April 2013
1.34pm
5 November 2011
Expert Textpert said
I celebrate the day of a person’s death because I’m Catholic. Dead people aren’t here to eat cake on their birthdays. They’ve gone on to better things.
Many people believe that the day of death is much more important than the day of birth.
I have mixed feelings about it, though. Being born is a very big accomplishment. The only reason people don’t think about it that way is because they don’t remember it. Not everybody makes it out alive, and I would assume it’s a pretty hard and stressful happening.
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1.45pm
8 January 2015
Everyone deserves cake, whatever their mortal status.
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1.58pm
27 March 2015
I received an email from the Beatles Museum Alkmaar (the Netherlands) today. Apparently, they’re the biggest Beatles museum in the world. Anyway, they’re opening a new (and permanent) John Lennon exposition on 8 December. It’s all the way across the country, but I might go. I’ve never been there, so it might be a nice day to go and celebrate John’s life, as well as the lives of the other Fabs, of course.
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2.45pm
28 July 2015
Expert Textpert said
I celebrate the day of a person’s death because I’m Catholic. Dead people aren’t here to eat cake on their birthdays. They’ve gone on to better things.
For me, when it comes to musicians that I like death days come ’round, I prefer to just remember their legacy and listen to the music, and maybe do some research on whatever person it is.
4.06pm
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15 February 2015
I celebrate birthdays and remember death days. Gives you twice as many days to remember the person’s life and legacy (read: gives me an excuse to have two going-potty-on-George Harrison -days).
Anyways, yep, I will be remembering John on his anniversary-of-dying as well as his anniversary-of-birthing… I will probably listen to an album or two and draw him all day long or something like that.
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9.38am
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14 April 2010
I don’t see any wrong way to remember someone. Whether it’s their birthday, the day they died or on the Winter solstice. As long as they are remembered. As I’ve said before, on any day of a Beatle’s remembrance, I get out my compass to make sure I’m facing Liverpool and hoist a pint to him. It’s my little ritual and my wife, God bless her, totally gets it.
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10.08am
1 November 2013
Sparky77 said
Can it really be 35 years since John Lennon was shot in NYC?
Yep.
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8.43pm
18 April 2013
I just saw a TV interview with Jack Douglas on The Tomorrow Show from the day after John was shot. For the first time I think I really felt the loss and devastation. You can just see how lost Douglas was. He had been out wandering the streets all night.
I was 10 when John died and my parents weren’t fans, so I never really felt the loss. I hardly knew who he was at that time even though we owned Let It Be .
If you want to be really depressed and feel what it’s like to suddenly lose your biggest hero, just watch that interview. It’s written all over his face. So sad.
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10.04pm
17 October 2013
Remember the moment………
6.am. freezing my arse off in an MG Roadster………About to pull out onto the Missenden by-pass and head for London………..Lennon already being played, which I’d thought was lucky until during the break the DJ explained why………
I remember fear when JFK died…….Extra hugs from all the mums at the school gates in case the bomb fell………
Diana came later with the abruptness of a closed and unfinished serialisation…….And the thought that if it can happen to her! Mortality…….Sad for her kids but not a personal sadness……..
‘Meanwhile back’…….the A40 to London was a blur of emotion and loss……… and a need to talk with someone else who’d grown up with, loved and lost The Beatle’s and now John……
A few days later it struck me how Julian had been shut out during John’s life and had now been excluded from whatever end his remains were given.
Poor little sod.
7.18pm
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15 February 2015
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