JOHN LENNON ... share your favorite videos & pics! (and memories where you were Dec 8 1980)

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41. Thank you for this thread

I grew up listening to the Beatles, as a kid I had a crush on Ringo-- don't judge. My mum was in love with Paul so his music with Wings alongside the Beatles in the late 70s dominated the house. So I have loved the Fab Four since before I can remember. I was 11 when John was shot and my memories are mostly of how my mum took it. It wasn't until I was older did I realize what a treasure had been stolen from me, all the music that now I would never get a chance to hear. Even though I too love Paul, it took Lennon and their collaboration, to bring his genius to fruition. I think it was both together that drove them to such heights of brilliance. After the Beatles, John's music was still so brave. Paul was all "silly little love songs" (nothing against that, the world needs those too) but John's music spoke to deeper truths. The world needed his voice, he was dangerous, thus he had to be silenced and we are the poorer for it.

As some of the above posters pointed out, crassly and unnecessarily IMHO if you want to bash John start your own thread, John was not without his demons. He did change and evolve over the years as we all do. He went through abandonment, incredible fame at a young age, drug addiction, and struggle to understand his place in the world. These are things that make him human. As you see him near the end, he had become a shy soft-spoken man, a gentle man who thought that our world could have peace if we really wanted it. John Lennon was a credit to the human race and his legacy is that he will never be forgotten. Excuse me now, I think I want to go listen to "Imagine".