Where were you Dec 8 1980?

December 8, 1980 seems to have been Monday. So I was propably at kindergarden. I was 4 years old and I didn't even know who John Lennon or The Beatles were. Having no clue of the wicked world.

I learned maybe year later that there once was a band called the Beatles and one of the members had been shot. I used to think that some other member of the band had shot him.

I don't remember.  I remember where I was when I heard that Thurman Munson died, but not John Lennon or Elvis. 

WTF , I do not have an alibi for that night but whatever it is I am innocent!!

 

 

Probably in university studying electronics  if it was a weekday,  and smoking doobies and chasing women at night time

and Smoking doobie , drinking beeers and getting laid (the one I was chasing during the weekdays) if it was a weekend day!

Whatever the day of the week it was, I had prog music playing as the soundtrack of my life

 

 

 

 

Not even gloating about this , actually I am fairly ashamed of my paganistic lifestyle!

Edited by Sean Trane

I was a student - had been out on the beer the night before and woke up early enough to catch the first news bulletins. The news hit me pretty hard - I'd been raised on the Fabs and taught myself guitar via the Beatles songbook, but up until that moment it had never occurred to me how strong an influence all that stuff had on me.

I was also playing in a kind of avant rock new wave band (me and a friend tried to replicate the Beefheart sound on our guitars while the other guys tried to hold a beat) and we were bottom of the bill on a gig that night (our debut if memory serves). The others wanted us to play a Beatles song, but I refused - after all, Lennon hadn't felt the need to do a lame tribute when Elvis died. I felt that the best tribute would be to go ahead and do the set we'd rehearsed, which would be true to the man's somewhat contrary spirit. My argument won the day, I was the only one who could play any Beatles songs anyway, so they couldn't really go ahead without me. Come the night and we played our set to a slightly disbelieving audience, including a long haired guy in a Genesis t shirt - in between songs I'd play a bit of the intro to Dance on a Volcano, Stairway to Heaven, Paranoid, Like a Hurricane and similar stuff, which seemed to please him in some odd way - he danced enthusiastically to our songs, which I didn't think was possible. The other bands all played some kind of tribute, usually with an embarassing speech beforehand, and in all cases very badly. People who were there said later that we were crap (which was putting it mildly, to be honest), but at least we hadn't done a rotten Lennon tribute which was something in our favour.

Doesn't seem like 25 years since all that happened.

Nonexistent. Whoot!

I was listening to music in one room. My Mom let out
a loud "Oh!". I was wondering what was wrong, I
turned down the music as she came to the doorway
and told me. "John Lennon was shot." She must
have seen one of the first news bulletins. I tuned in
our other tv to see if he would be alright (she didn't
say). I was shocked to hear he died. At that time in
my life, I was listening to as many records as I could
get my hands on. Beatle music was pretty much my
starting point in loving music. I had never
experienced anything like that in my life. It was as if a
favourite uncle had died. I can only say I was numb
and for the first time experienced that "feels like a
dream but it's to painful to believe it" feeling. I was in
high school. The next day there was an odd silence
in the hallways. I was facinated by how so many
could grieve so much for someone they never really
knew but through his music. This lead to my interest
in grief and an interest in a career in the funeral
business. I didn't stay with it as a career but I know
my work did provide comfort for some.

To say time flies is an understatement.

I wasn't even conceived until about 9 years and 9 months later!

I was 15 years old, heavily into Genesis, Yes, ELP, Camel and Zappa. Was not so much shocked by his death as by the fact that he was murdered.

But then again, I heard a documentary just before or after this event that Paul McCartney had been dead for years.

 

I was (and still I am) a Beatles-fan but wasn't too much interested in the individual works of band members (sometimes only George Harrison).

When I received the  information about Lennon's death I became surprised and sad but not shocked or whatever.

As a Brazilian the day Ayrton Senna died (01/05/1994) was really shocking!