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

[Lux Interior]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Lennon was shot at night - how could you have been teaching a high school class at that moment?

This was 1980.

News did not travel as fast.

"Where were u when u heard?"

[OWC Jamie]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=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.

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

Maybe the next morning ?
Like many other people on the East Coast who had to be up early in the A.M.

[blusubaru]

I was about -1.5 years old.

[Jimmypoo]

I just got through practicing my own stuff for a band job that weekend and went to discuss with my father
his demise which we knew would be happening in the next 8 - 12 weeks. I was 18.

Beatles have been in my blood from my earliest memories... it was a double shock to be dealing with
a death about to happen, and then digest a death that just did.

Like $tevie, realizing all the dominos that would/could no longer fall for reunions, and the other realities
of life that were just a bit too much to juggle at that time, planning for it like a vacation.

The song I had been working on for a weekend gig was Starting Over, and as of that day, I've never
played that album since.

Muzak played its one and only song with lyrics the next day.... that it had ever played. It was, of course, Imagine.

[Buzz]

while I no longer remember where I was when I heard the sad news, I do remember it being the last subject of conversation in the last phone call I had with my step-dad, who died a few days after John Lennon, from the failure of a ventricle repair done in January earlier that year. the two events have been intertwined in my memory ever since.

[MacArtist]

billb wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=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.

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

Maybe the next morning ?
Like many other people on the East Coast who had to be up early in the A.M.
Jeezo, calm down. It was our first class in the morning. I didn't watch the news that morning. Other students in the class didn't know.

I was in the 10th grade. A student.

Does that satisfy your inquiry, N-OS X-tasy?

[testcase]

In Manhattan at my girlfriend's apartment. A mile or two away from the scene of the crime.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
Lennon was shot at night - how could you have been teaching a high school class at that moment?

This was 1980.

News did not travel as fast.

"Where were u when u heard?"
So you're saying you didn't hear until the next day. Fine, but not clear from your post.

1980 or no, news of the shooting got out plenty fast.

[Mike Johnson]

And if I said
I really knew you well
What would your answer be?
If you were here today.
Oooh, here today.

Well, knowing you,
You'd probably laugh and say
That we were worlds apart
If you were here today,
Oooh, here today.

But as for me
I still remember how it was before
And I am holding back the tears no more
I love you.

What about the time we met?
Well I suppose that you could say
That we were playing hard to get,
Didn't understand a thing,
But we could always sing.

What about the night we cried?
Because there wasn't any reason left
To keep it all inside.
Never understood a word
But you were always there
with a smile.

And if I say I really loved you
And was glad you came along,
Then you were here today
For you were in my song
Oooh, here today.

[Silencio]

Turning 10 and watching Monday Night Football. My parents were big Beatles fans and were very shocked by the news.

What a way to ruin a birthday.