John Lennon has been gone 29 years. Where were u when u heard?

[$tevie]

I was alone in our apartment and I don't recall if I heard it from the TV or the radio. I just remember that when I found out I immediately went upstairs to my future-sister-in-law's apartment (she was also a big Beatles fan) and we sat in her living room with the TV on trying to absorb the reality of it. In addition to killing John Lennon, Chapman killed any chance of the Beatles ever coming together again and that was actually painful to me.

[mrbigstuff]

I was on the way down to the front porch to wrap my newspapers for my delivery route when my Dad told me. The headline of all the papers I delivered that morning shouted it out to me each time I threw a paper onto a porch. Odd, because the shooting happened at a time that was a bit too late for the 10:00 news but early enough for the papers to make it their headline (of course, such a thing is no more).

It was a bit surreal, knowing before most and delivering the news to their doorstep.

[vicrock]

AlphaDog wrote:
I remember where I was when I learned JFK was shot, and I remember where I was on 9-11. It would have never occurred to me that anyone would remember where they were when they heard John Lennon had been shot.

Exactly what I was thinking!

[Dennis S]

I was a huge Beatles fan and had been listening to "Starting Over" and thinking how good Lennon sounded and was hoping he was finally making a comeback. I heard the news on Monday Night Football.

[MacArtist]

I was in my 10 grade Literature class.

A student came into class and was very upset. We asked him what happened. He said John Lennon had been shot.

The loss didn't sink in right away back then because to be honest, I was preoccupied with cars, girls and current rock music.

[$tevie]

mrbigstuff wrote:
I was on the way down to the front porch to wrap my newspapers for my delivery route when my Dad told me. The headline of all the papers I delivered that morning shouted it out to me each time I threw a paper onto a porch. Odd, because the shooting happened at a time that was a bit too late for the 10:00 news but early enough for the papers to make it their headline (of course, such a thing is no more).

It was a bit surreal, knowing before most and delivering the news to their doorstep.

This makes me think of the Buddy Holly reference in Don McLean's "American Pie": But february made me shiver/With every paper I'd deliver/Bad news on the doorstep/I couldn't take one more step.

[OWC Jamie]

I would have been working nights, too and mostly I recall it seemed every news outlet was runnning the same pic of the 72nds street Dakota entrance. I wouldn't have caught any news until the next morning and besides that same grey image of the Dakota entrance I mostly remember thinking no more (whole) reunion now, too.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Freshman in high school, sitting in the cab of my dad's catering truck listening to the radio when the story broke. I was stunned - at that time I was not yet a huge Beatles fan or student of popular music, but I instinctively grasped the enormity of what had happened.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

MacArtist wrote:
I was in my 10 grade Literature class.

A student came into class and was very upset. We asked him what happened. He said John Lennon had been shot.

Lennon was shot at night - how could you have been teaching a high school class at that moment?

[3d]

Learned of it in 1988 (in my teens) while listening to the radio and a program called The Lost Lennon tapes came on.