Homage for John Lennon

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robert blu

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Forty years ago John Lennon was killed in NYC. But his words, dreams and hopes are still alive.

Please feel free to post any images not to forget him and his message.

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I starrt with a photo of a musician I took in Central Park during my last visit ti NYC in 2014.
 
No images here, sadly.

Just reaffirmation of the genius and beauty of Lennon as a recording artist. A few years ago, I began to appreciate his work more than ever.

I believe that the world would be a better place if John were still with us.:)
 
Totally coincidentally, I cracked open Rock Seen by Bob Gruen, which had arrived last week, and after looking through his photographs of John Lennon, I played Plastic Ono Band for the first time in over 40 years. Raw and powerful album.
 
I have one of his limited edition serigraphs (Suddenly 38) 290/300 released by Yoko Ono after his death. I bought it thinking this will be cool to have when I turn 38. That point in time has passed, ummm..., a while ago.

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The best way to honor his memory is to play his music, which I'll be doing today. I still remember hearing the news.

Jim B.
 
markjwyatt said:
I have one of his limited edition serigraphs (Suddenly 38) 290/300 released by Yoko Ono after his death. I bought it thinking this will be cool to have when I turn 38. That point in time has passed, ummm..., a while ago.

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Ummm.... I know...time flies... :)
 
I remember being at a friend's house getting ready to watch Monday Night Football when the news came on about John Lennon being shot...sad...
 
I'm enjoying these images...

...I remember getting a call in the morning from the lead singer of a cover band I was playing in. All of us were Beatle fans and covered several of their songs. So sad and such a waste of precious life.

40 years has flown by...
 
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Not my image, obviously, but by the late photographer, Lilo Raymond, who captured something ordinary about the extraordinary. I was in high school when John Lennon was shot and I remember the news ripping through the corridors. By 1980 the Beatles' music wasn't culturally front-and-center, In fact, it was the comfortable music of many of our childhoods, played on records that became nicked and scratched until the skips in the albums became -- in our heads -- parts of the songs. But he was the first public figure I "lost" and in a manner that seemed so randomly stupid, particularly considering what he had given the world.
 
I remember the day he died well. I was studying for a mathematics exam at UC Santa Cruz when the news came over the radio. I immediately put the "Imagine" album on my cassette deck...

The emotions of that moment still resonate.

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—
In this fateful hour,
All Heaven with its power,
The sun with its brightness,
The snow with its whiteness,
The fire with all the strength it hath,
The lightning with its rapid wrath,
The winds with their swiftness,
The sea with its deepness,
The rocks with their steepness,
The Earth with its starkness,
All these I place
Between myself and the powers of darkness.
 
Godfrey said:
I remember the day he died well. I was studying for a mathematics exam at UC Santa Cruz when the news came over the radio. I immediately put the "Imagine" album on my cassette deck...

The emotions of that moment still resonate.

G
—
In this fateful hour,
All Heaven with its power,
The sun with its brightness,
The snow with its whiteness,
The fire with all the strength it hath,
The lightning with its rapid wrath,
The winds with their swiftness,
The sea with its deepness,
The rocks with their steepness,
The Earth with its starkness,
All these I place
Between myself and the powers of darkness.
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Too bad he imagined there was no God.
 
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