Originally Posted By ecdc Would Lennon have faded away? Or would he have kept bringing us great music over the years? There's very few celebrities I feel a loss for, and he's one of them. RIP.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 I wasn't even a thought 29 years ago. Lennon would be like Bowie. Never truly gone. I don't think he would tour as much as Paul does. He would probably do a lot of social work.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Would Lennon have faded away?<< Musically he was already in the process of doing so. "Double Fantasy" wasn't selling all that well, and he was working on the mediocre and now pretty much forgotten "Milk and Honey." Perhaps he would've had a big comeback. Or recorded a Christmas album like Dylan. Who knows?
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I was nesting...scrubbing and cleaning...day after tomorrow my baby will be 29...I am getting SO old...
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I was 14 and didn't know who the heck that guy that was just killed in New York even was. I was familiar with a couple of their tunes but knew nothing of The Beatles.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost John was really the only one that wrote some really good stuff after the breakup. It went unrecognized at the time because being a Beatle fan at that point was pretty much passe'. He, however, like the rest of the highly prolific song writers from the 60's would, in all likelihood, have faded into famous oblivion with time. The song writing team of Lennon/McCartney was the force in music of it's time. Even though they didn't always write together, they provided support and backup for each other. One needed the other, in my opinion, to garner the best that could be. I remember when one of my employee's rather sheepishly came into my office and told me that John had been killed. I think she thought that I was going to go mad because of the degree of fan that I was of the Beatles. I was saddened, of course, but I kept thinking of all the evil people in the world that somehow managed to go on and on and on, but a peace loving individual, like John, would be made a successful target. It just kind of makes your head shake.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney I was 6 years old, had no clue who John Lennon was lol. I grew up in Compton, so it wasnt a lot of huge fans of his there at the time regardless. That said, being older now and my musical taste have greatly expanded, I like his music a lot more now. I didnt even consider myself a Beatles fan until maybe 2-3 years ago.
Originally Posted By beamerdog At home wondering why things like this happen. I still am a huge Beatles fan, but to tell the truth, I feel like mawnck. I was much more upset when Jim Henson died.
Originally Posted By SFH The murder of Lennon was a milestone in celebrity security. Before his murder, most celebrities were a lot less careful and carefree about their protection. Protection was mainly for the kinds of celebs who attracted screaming teenagers who wanted to mob them just to touch them.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I remember exactly where I was. I was in a car, driving home from college one night. I went to a college close to home, so I lived at home, but I'd had a late night. I was driving home, listening to the news. Of course, I heard it instantly, as it was the only story ON the news. I was (still am) a huge Beatles fan, huge Lennon fan, and a musician and songwriter myself. This hit me hard. When I got home, my parents and sister were already asleep, so I just put on a pair of headphones and laid down, staying up all night listening to Beatles/Lennon songs... which of course were the only thing the rock stations were playing. (And the only thing they'd play for many days after. I remember when my favorite station played something else for the first time... I knew they had to eventually, but it still seemed like a mini betrayal somehow.) I laid there all night listening. I was alive but too young for JFK. Appreciated the magnitude of MLK and RFK more, but I was still a kid in the single digits. Didn't really relate to Princess Diana. And 9/11 was TOO close to home, and if you lived in NY it was more like a months-long process than a single event. Lennon's killing is the one that's the "where were you when it happened" for me. I think he absolutely could have hit his stride again. He was only 40 after all. The albums he worked on in 1980 were very much "okay, everybody, this is my life now with Yoko and Sean" and limited in that sense (and showed some rust), though some of the material was good. He could have scratched that itch and gone on to more interesting material, I think, easily. Of course, we'll never know.
Originally Posted By DAR I was about six so at the time was more interested in Star Wars. Over the years of course I've learned to love and appreciate the Beatles. When I was younger I thought John and Paul were the best. Of course as I get older I realize just how great George Harrison was. And this may ruffle some feathers, I tend to find some of John's later stuff to be a little pretentious
Originally Posted By mawnck >>but to tell the truth, I feel like mawnck.<< Don't get me wrong ... I was speaking more in terms of how his comeback was going at the time. Double Fantasy may not have been selling well overall, but they did sell a copy to me at my first opportunity, and I definitely was, and still am, a Beatles fan. I was saddened by his passing, although I didn't take it nearly as hard as my parents were apparently bracing for.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>some of John's later stuff to be a little pretentious<< A little? ;-) Of course relative to Pink Floyd, Styx, and some of them other pretent-o-rock bands, he was Allan Sherman.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I was 22, living in my first place on my own, watching Monday Night Football, when Howard Cosell announced Lennon had been shot. Cosell took it hard that night because he had previously interviewed Lennon as a guest on MNF and they more or less got along. All things considered, I think his comeback was going as well as could be expected, being away for five years and allowing Ono on the album. Milk and Honey didn't turn out as well because it was unfinished, a lot of it rough demos, not unlike Free As A Bird and Real Love, the two Lennon songs the remaining Beatles "completed" for the anthology. It's all conjecture now, but given that Lennon and McCartney were friends at his death, and age has a way of mellowing people, I think we got gypped out of another collaboration eventually.
Originally Posted By Labuda I'll never forget where I was when I heard that John Lennon had been shot. Daddy and I had been at Sears while he shopped for some tool or other, and as we were pulling into our driveway, we heard it announced on the radio. Though I was 7, I knew who he was, and it made me sad. My Mom raised me on their music.
