where were you when John Lennon died?

AgentWood wrote: as far as i know yoko still lives in the same apartment she shared with john the night she was killed.

If only. Still, one can dream.

My wasn't born yet but my dad always talks about where he was on that day. I guess he was watching TV and the program got interrupted. He was a big John Lennon fan.

Heather

I was in High School when he died and it was the only thing people talked about. I couldn't have cared less.

Missy Jem wrote:

craig's digitalwaters wrote: I was 10 and living in Leigh... not sure if that's more or less depressing than Lennon dying...

Are you from Leigh? I work with a lad from Leigh (not very interesting i know, but...)

I lived in Goldbourne 0-6, Padgate 6-9, Leigh 10-11 and then went 'upmarket' as a teenager and ended up in Grappenhall, before emigrating Southwards, in search of work, at the age of 16...

I'm puzzled why I remember it, as I've never been much of a fan of Lennon, but for some reason I remember clearly that I was in my parents' living room feeling freezing cold cos the heating had been cut off due to a gas leak.

More annoying is the fact I can remember exactly where I was when I heard Princess Di had died, even though she meant nothing to me at all. I remember thinking 'well at least I won't have to read about her all the time now' - boy was I wrong.

Yet I can't remember anything at all about hearing about Joe Strummer dying even though he was someone who's work I actually liked. Weird.

404 error wrote: I'm puzzled why I remember it, as I've never been much of a fan of Lennon, but for some reason I remember clearly that I was in my parents' living room feeling freezing cold cos the heating had been cut off due to a gas leak.

More annoying is the fact I can remember exactly where I was when I heard Princess Di had died, even though she meant nothing to me at all. I remember thinking 'well at least I won't have to read about her all the time now' - boy was I wrong.

Yet I can't remember anything at all about hearing about Joe Strummer dying even though he was someone who's work I actually liked. Weird.

In reference to Princess Di, I had been playing a marathon session of Tetris on my roommate's computer in Columbia, and was trying to get to sleep when the broadcast came on about Diana's car in Paris. All I remember is feeling like the walls were moving like Tetris bricks while I was focused on the screen.

Probably the most traumatic celeb death for me was Phil Hartman, just because it was so unexpected. I remember flipping it over to Headline News that day and hearing him refered to in the past tense while clips from "Newsradio" were onscreen.

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

AgentWood wrote: as far as i know yoko still lives in the same apartment she shared with john the night she was killed.

If only. Still, one can dream.

oops. freudian slip, i suppose.

At high school, can't quite remember which class now, teacher came in all ashen-faced and announced John Lennon the ex-Beatle had been killed and that all lessons that arvo were cancelled. A lot of them were either the same age as or a few years younger so they would felt like an older or similar aged brother/mentor had been stolen from them. I'd started listening to Beatles stuff a couple of years before through the local commercial AM stations and didn't mind most of thier stuff(I was starting to like a bit of new wave/synth stuff about the same time as well- typical 13 year-old, having a toe in both old and new stuff at the same time).

A bit off-topic; AgentWood- Re.your new avatar- would that perchance be a logo for the Israeli Communist Party or am I sadly mistaken(I'm not that well-versed about Israeli domestic politics so please forgive my ignorance on this matter).

404 error wrote: I'm puzzled why I remember it, as I've never been much of a fan of Lennon, but for some reason I remember clearly that I was in my parents' living room feeling freezing cold cos the heating had been cut off due to a gas leak.

More annoying is the fact I can remember exactly where I was when I heard Princess Di had died, even though she meant nothing to me at all. I remember thinking 'well at least I won't have to read about her all the time now' - boy was I wrong.

Yet I can't remember anything at all about hearing about Joe Strummer dying even though he was someone who's work I actually liked. Weird.

I remember where I was when I heard Strummer died. I was sitting in an internet cafe in Serbia checking my email when I read the news. Fucking fucking hell. Gutted again.