Remembering John Lennon 29 years later...............
it was 29 years ago that my mother woke me to tell one one of the Beatles had died. I turned on 95.5 WPLJ radio and heard Instant Karma playing. I knew it was true, I knew it was John. It was so sad that he was killed in a city that he loved, right outside his home just as he was making music again after a five year break. Besides a personal family loss, it had been one of the saddest and most touching events in my life.
The next day I posted Johns 8x10 from the White album on my binder and went to school. It was a somber day, some cared others didn't in my high school. You could tell there was an important loss and a historic event had occurred as you walked the streets. That afternoon I bought a Lennon button that I would wear for months and met my friends at the video arcade behind the Ice Cream Palace where we hung out. We talked about John as I carried my radio around.
Nothing but Beatles & solo Lennon music was played on many radio stations for days in New York City, something that could never happen for anyone else, especially in these times. As I sunk deeper into the music, John became that much more important in my life. I was 15 at the time.
Through the years I went to the Dakota & then to Strawberry Fields in Central Park to celebrate John's music. I went on both his birthday & December 8th, for a good 20 years.
To myself and many others we grew up with Lennon & Beatle music, regardless of what generation we are from. They are like some of our best friends, the music will never die. The memories will never fade & new ones continue to grow through it.
"we all shine on, like the moon & the stars & the sun"
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