Thread: Looking back at Lennon

IT HAS been 30 years, today, since Dr Stephan Lynn was called back to work at Roosevelt Hospital in New York to help with a gunshot victim. ''It wasn't until a nurse looked inside his wallet for identification that we realised who it was,'' he told the New York Daily News. It was John Lennon although in grey-faced death he looked nothing like he had in life, the doctor recalled. The former Beatle had been shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman, to whom Lennon had given an autograph at the same spot outside his Central Park West apartment earlier that evening. Chapman eventually pleaded guilty to the murder and is locked up in Attica Correctional Facility after his sixth attempt at parole failed this year. His actions left the heart of one of the greatest musical icons of the century in Lynn's hands, who, the Daily News said, found it ''empty and still''. ''I … massaged it to see if we could restore some cardiac function, to see if we could get it beating again, to see if perhaps with giving him some blood we could get something started,'' he said. ''Nothing worked.'' Lennon would have been 70 this year, but Yoko Ono, with him when he was shot, told The Times he had not liked to mark the passing of time.

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono gave a heartfelt plea for the former Beatle to be remembered "with deep love and respect" on the eve of the 30th anniversary of his murder.
As she spoke of her continued love for the star, she said the world was still learning from his messages of peace.
She said: "On this tragic anniversary, please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect.
"In his short-lived life of 40 years, he has given so much to the world.
"The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn so much from him today.
"John, I love you!"
Ono, who was beside Lennon when he was gunned down in New York 30 years ago tomorrow, will lead the tributes as millions of people pay their respects to the Imagine singer.
She will perform at a charity concert she has organised in Japan called Dream Power John Lennon Super Live.
Now in its 10th year, some of the country's top artists will gather to participate in the gig at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, which raises money for schools for deprived children all over the world.
An eclectic mix of 15 acts will perform alongside Yoko, with one artist, Kyoka Suzuki, performing a reading of Lennon's hit Imagine.

I don't usually get too upset by celebrity deaths, but his was different. It was so pointless and silly and happened to a man who never hurt anyone. Very sad.

As far as music goes he is my hero and I am in awe of the man and his talent.

He lives forever by way of his music.

I'm going to see the Bootleg Beatles, as the Bootleg Mark Chapman.

Imagine..............

I am glad they have not let Chapman out as he what he took for the world is uncountable.

Not just Lennon's life but whatever music or words he would have written.

Oh well. Dying young always cements any rock 'n roll legend and at least doesn't give your idols the chance to sell out or to come back and piss all over their legends like most aging stars do.
I wouldn't want to look at a naked 70 Lennon and Yoko now, anyway.

I was supposed to be in NYC that weekend for a trade show but I cancelled because my wife was going to give birth any day. Very sad day to remember.

"Life is what happens whilst you are busy making other plans"

Mourners gather in Central Park for 10 minutes of silence after John Lennon was killed outside his New York apartment. Today marks the 30th anniversary of his death.

The infamous Rolling Stone cover (left) of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was taken by photographer Annie Leibowitz at 11am on the day he was killed by Mark Chapman (right). When Lennon returned home at around 10:45pm, Chapman was waiting outside his apartment building. It is rumoured that Chapman called out "Mr Lennon" before shooting him five times in the back with a handgun.

John and Yoko had spent the day giving an interview before heading to the Record Plant recording studio to work on Yoko Ono's single Walking On Thin Ice. On the way home, Ono suggested they stop for something to eat at the Stage Deli (above) but Lennon was eager to return home to see his son, Sean, before he went to sleep.
Photo: Diana Shumate

A picture of Sean Lennon taken two years after his father’s death. On the day of the shooting, Sean had returned home to the family apartment after spending the weekend in Long Island with his nanny, Helen Seaman. John Lennon had taken five years off from recording in order to raise Sean at home and the two were very close.

Fans of John Lennon gathered outside his apartment in the Dakota Building on New York's Upper West Side after the news of his murder broke during a Monday night football game on the US channel ABC.

Ono sent word to the crowds outside the apartment she had shared with John Lennon (above) that their chanting was preventing her from sleep. She asked that they reconvene for a silent vigil in Central Park on the following Sunday, which drew over 225,000 people.

The day after John Lennon’s death, Yoko Ono issued a statement: "There is no funeral for John. John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him." Six months later she released a solo album called Seasons of Glass, which featured the single Walking on Thin Ice that they had recorded together on the day that he was shot by Mark Chapman.

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Nice tribute, thanks.

told people on the day he died that he wanted to live a long life.