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Post by Helmut83 on Apr 22, 2019 20:57:28 GMT
I obviously wasn’t alive yet, but my dad was living in Washington state at the time... he has all sorts of crazy stories about how there was ash covering everything and people were supposed to wear masks to keep from inhaling it. He collected some of the ash and saved it in a jar, which he’s shown to me. Interesting, I would love to hear those stories. I bet the lives of the inhabitants of the area were drastically changed during some time.
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Post by Helmut83 on May 1, 2019 4:51:30 GMT
OK, given that some mentioned it, let's go to which seems to be the event everyone remembers about. What were you doing, where and with whom when John Lennon was killed?
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Post by Grroosss on May 1, 2019 7:23:31 GMT
Not alive yet, thankfully... I've cried over John Lennon's death both yesterday and today now, thanks to this thread and to an excellent but very sad poem that nobodyschild wrote and shared with me yesterday... I probably would've fallen into an incurable depression had I been around when it actually happened...
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Post by nobodyschild on May 1, 2019 7:49:12 GMT
I was not born yet either but it makes me sad just as much I’m sure as anyone who was alive back then. Difficult to put into words the feeling of having lost something that you never really had, since this all happened a good 20 years before I was born. As for the aforementioned poem:
“He defied death the day he was born, 9 October 1940 He escaped the bombs but couldn’t escape the bullets, December 8, 1980 You took everything he stood for and took it for its opposite, The day you shot him down.”
The silver lining here is that he will always live on through his music and in our hearts. He has touched my generation (and those before) and will reach many in the future, because good music never dies.
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Post by Timeblue on May 1, 2019 8:31:19 GMT
I was 16 at the time and just getting serious about music,I remember being really shocked that morning and after arriving at school everyone was talking about it. Even though I was only 16 his new album 'Double Fantasy' meant a lot to me with songs like Watching the Wheels and Woman....
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Post by tremblinwilbury on May 1, 2019 11:35:46 GMT
It was Friday morning, December the 8th, and I was getting ready for school. I thought, how tragic... It was looking like his new songs and album would be a great success. So unfair that he should have that taken from him...
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Post by eloneen on May 1, 2019 11:36:43 GMT
I think I heard about John Lennon's murder the following morning before going to school, although it may have been very late the night before. What I remember best is talking about it early the next morning at school before classes began with a friend who was a huge Beatles fan.
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Post by vlogdance on May 1, 2019 12:16:22 GMT
I woke up on the Friday morning, and as usual, reached for the radio which lived on the floor beside my bed. Couldn't believe it when I heard the news.
We had a mock A-Level exam that day (sort of rehearsal for the end-of-school leaving exams that we'd have to take later that year). At break, I asked my classmates if they'd heard. I still remember how one girl was more concerned about the "poor" Radio One DJ who had sounded so upset about it. Wanted to bang my head (or hers) against the nearest wall.
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Post by tremblinwilbury on May 1, 2019 14:13:08 GMT
Reactions to tragic events...
I was watching an episode of an ITV series call The Christians - an historical documentary - on Tuesday night, the 16th of August 1977. During it, there was a newsflash telling us about what had just happened in Graceland. The Irish station RTE waited 'til its late news, just before midnight, to tell us. The newsreader, Michael Murphy, was visibly affected by the news.
Tragedy affects people in different ways. It can take time for the news to sink in.
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Post by vlogdance on May 1, 2019 14:41:14 GMT
Reactions to tragic events... I was watching an episode of an ITV series call The Christians - an historical documentary - on Tuesday night, the 16th of August 1977. During it, there was a newsflash telling us about what had just happened in Graceland. The Irish station RTE waited 'til its late news, just before midnight, to tell us. The newsreader, Michael Murphy, was visibly affected by the news. Tragedy affects people in different ways. It can take time for the news to sink in. Indeed it can, tremblin, and announcers, newsreaders, can certainly be affected by having to break such news. I just couldn't cope with someone going on and on about "poor DLT" (the DJ) when many more people, closer to John, were going to suffer rather more from his loss. Yoko, who had just seen her husband gunned down. John's sons. Paul, George, Ringo, Aunt Mimi. The music world as a whole.
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Post by Timeblue on May 1, 2019 16:25:59 GMT
I would have had a bit of sympathy for him,he had to broadcast to the nation for about three hours whilst feeling terrible,he couldn't hide his feelings or have called in sick like we would do these days....
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