John Lennon

[Binney on acid]

Would have been 75 today. What a tragic loss.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I vividly remember the day he was shot. At work with a whole group of colleagues almost in shock. A real "I remember what I was doing when JFK died" moment.

 

[Lenny Rider]

I vividly remember the day he was shot. At work with a whole group of colleagues almost in shock. A real "I remember what I was doing when JFK died" moment.

He was shot overnight and I still remember my Mum coming into my bedroom in the morning and telling me. You're right David it is the JFK moment for a certain generation, sadly since then we've had a few more, Di, 9/11 and most recently the Shoreham air crash.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Indeed it is/was a tragic waste. I do wonder though if he'd have just become another sad has-been pop artist like his mate Paul if he had lived.

 

[papajaff]

A real hero of mine. A Beatles day for me today along with his solo stuff.

NONE involving that wailing Japanese Div though.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Indeed it is/was a tragic waste. I do wonder though if he'd have just become another sad has-been pop artist like his mate Paul if he had lived.

I've always wondered if Buddy Holly or Marc Bolan would have ended up playing at Butlins on the nostalgia weekends had they lived.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

I remember the news breaking on the radio as we drove back from seeing Queen at Wembley and being absolutely stunned by it. He'd just started to write some decent stuff again. Very sad.

 

[Biscuit]

A massive loss. Such an awful end to a man that gave so much joy and happiness.

 

[Spicy]

Imagine what he would have achieved if he were still here.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

I bought him and paul a pint in hamburg as they were broke in early 1960,six months later,they were on the radio as the beatles...if i only knew how famous they were to become i would have got their autographs as well.

 

[Seagull58]

Imagine what he would have achieved if he were still here.

Would he have managed to outsell Mull of Kintyre?

 

[PoG]

I bought him and paul a pint in hamburg as they were broke in early 1960,six months later,they were on the radio as the beatles...if i only knew how famous they were to become i would have got their autographs as well.

As a Bealtes fan that's a cool anecdote.

 

[PoG]

Would he have managed to outsell Mull of Kintyre?

Hmm maybe not. Although not many would have expected George to have the highest grossing album; All Things Must Pass.

 

[StonehamPark]

Yes. Nice guy.

 

[SAC]

Would he have managed to outsell Mull of Kintyre?

Wings: the band the Beatles could have been.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Yes. Nice guy.

Not sure his first wife and son would agree. (Was Imagine a masterpiece or cliched and derivative drivel? The former presumably, given all the famous people who say how brilliant it was, thus making me realise that I know nothing about pop music.)

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Indeed it is/was a tragic waste. I do wonder though if he'd have just become another sad has-been pop artist like his mate Paul if he had lived.

I don't think he would have done. he always seemed to have more "attitude". I think he might have been more experimental or hard-edged rather than always having the danger of lapsing in to inane drivel.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Not sure his first wife and son would agree. (Was Imagine a masterpiece or cliched and derivative drivel? The former presumably, given all the famous people who say how brilliant it was, thus making me realise that I know nothing about pop music.)

I'm with you, as I think it is sentimental claptrap. Famous people say what they think others want to hear.

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

I don't think he would have done. he always seemed to have more "attitude". I think he might have been more experimental or hard-edged rather than always having the danger of lapsing in to inane drivel.

This... I imagine some kind of morph of Bob Dylan

 

[StonehamPark]

Not sure his first wife and son would agree. (Was Imagine a masterpiece or cliched and derivative drivel? The former presumably, given all the famous people who say how brilliant it was, thus making me realise that I know nothing about pop music.)

I'm with you, as I think it is sentimental claptrap. Famous people say what they think others want to hear.

I'm not a fan.

I think he was a bit of a douche to be honest.