Imagine … a world without John Lennon.
It’s something we’ve done every day for the past 29 years.
It was in the middle of a Monday Night Football game on Dec. 8, 1980, that Howard Cosell first broke the news to America that Lennon had been shot and killed.
A deranged loner named Mark David Chapman had been hanging around the former Beatle’s home in The Dakota building off Central Park in New York City for much of the day. He actually got Lennon to sign a copy of his new album, “Double Fantasy.”
As Lennon returned to the building just before 11 p.m. Chapman walked up behind him as he walked toward the door with his wife, Yoko Ono.
He called out, “Mr. Lennon,” then dropped into a combat stance and emptied his gun into Lennon’s back. The former Beatle was struck five times. Lennon was pronounced dead just at a local hospital just after 11 p.m.
In some ways, it certainly doesn’t seem like 29 years. In others it seems like even longer.
I’m really left with just one word all these years later:
Imagine.
It’s something we’ve done every day for the past 29 years.
It was in the middle of a Monday Night Football game on Dec. 8, 1980, that Howard Cosell first broke the news to America that Lennon had been shot and killed.
A deranged loner named Mark David Chapman had been hanging around the former Beatle’s home in The Dakota building off Central Park in New York City for much of the day. He actually got Lennon to sign a copy of his new album, “Double Fantasy.”
As Lennon returned to the building just before 11 p.m. Chapman walked up behind him as he walked toward the door with his wife, Yoko Ono.
He called out, “Mr. Lennon,” then dropped into a combat stance and emptied his gun into Lennon’s back. The former Beatle was struck five times. Lennon was pronounced dead just at a local hospital just after 11 p.m.
In some ways, it certainly doesn’t seem like 29 years. In others it seems like even longer.
I’m really left with just one word all these years later:
Imagine.
Comments