Monday, December 8, 1980....8pm (pacific standard time zone).....my mom walks into my room as I'm listening to the 7" inch single "Just Like Starting Over" on my turntable....."son, who is that you're listening to?....mom, it's John Lennon". I turn on the television and my life was FOREVER changed...........namaste Maslov, peace be with you

Great stories Mazzy! Thanks for sharing such personal stuff.

Wonderful, Mazzy. Greetings from Hamburg.

We have a lot in common. My first job out of high school was the local record shop (77-81). Started a band (song writer, lousy guitar player lol), and to make money sold cameras and did darkroom work. Still not records we have very similar taste, love your doing it! Great memories.

Great stuff, really enjoyable. It brings back lots of memories, I had a bar around then and most of that stuff you showed was played all the time. A really great time for me.

yay. finally some bands i relate to. i am few years behind you, but grew up with x. thanx for shout out for great l.a. punk band!

Glad to hear about "Dirty Mind". Emotional Rescue, too!

I'm with you on Young Marble Giants! Trying to get a re-issue at the moment. Great stories about stuff I'm into, thank you.

Wonderful - brought back memories for me as well (I was 16). The artists and the albums - I eventually ended up getting many of the albums you showed if not that year, then a year or two later, but I remember the songs from those albums that year. In Los Angeles, we had two stations that played new wave - KROQ (with DJ Rodney on the Rock) and KNAC (a Long Beach station that jumped on board a year before). Los Angeles also had an exciting new wave music scene as well (e.g. X, Dickies, Go-Go's, 20/20, Oingo Boingo, Blasters, Motels, Plimsouls). Seeing the B52s and Specials on Saturday Night Live blew me away. Seeing Graham Parker on the show "Fridays" doing "Stupefaction" and being in a hilarious skit playing a drug dealer with the Fridays' "Three Stooges" trio. But I remember Rock Lobster not getting massive airplay on the radio until 4-5 months after their SNL appearance. Seeing Split Enz doing "I Got You" on the more mainstream Solid Gold TV show, with Dionne Warwick as the host. And of course, the first big shock I received in my young life on the evening of Dec. 8th - I remember where I was and how I received the news that day (I started out a Beatles fan at the age of 10). I also remember when I first heard "Starting Over" on the radio with that 50's feel - it was good to hear JL making new music.

Just started this, cool. 1980 saw me at Cal Poly Pomona as a Marketing major. I was 22. Also trying to be a rock star, see my KZfaq channel for a couple of bands including the one I am in now for the past 30 years. I was also running the drum dept in a musical instrument store in Pomona, CA. 1980 was a blast for me. Love these, Mazzy!

Great series. I'm about 15 years behind you, so you give me a different persepctive on the music I remember. I was in middle school when this shift happened, graduating from ELO, Pink Floyd and Kiss to The Cars, Blondie and The Pretenders. It's interesting to listen to channels by younger collectors, and how they assess albums that predate them. They have their own perspective and memories with the music, but the context of albums when they are actually made and released is so much a part of what they become and the degree to which they impact people.

Excellent, Mazzy, simply Excellent video.

Another wonderful video Mazzy. I started my freshman year in high school in Sept. of 80. When I graduated in 84 I was ruined. Worst years of my life. I remember that December. Radio did not stop playing Lennon's music especially that Christmas song. Not being into specific music at the time I was just learning how important JL was to the world. 82-84 molded my life in ways I hope no one has to experience. You can't get those years back, and yet they influence the rest of your life. Your pictures are great Mazzy. Your a great story teller. Thanks, Charles

Wow and just wow. Awesome stories and awesome music. You sure have lived interesting life. Was just 7 year old kid when Lennon died but Cobain was my Lennon and spoke to me. Directly I felt. Was a sad day when I heard about Kurt. Hope you're doing great. All the best from Finland. Cheers!

THE best track in Making Movies is "Skate Away: ...I swear she let a big truck grease her hip". I was on the flip side from where you were in 1980-I never fell for Disco. So I was following the groove of guitarists and rock bands, as I sensed that New Wave had brought the music industry back from the Brink. Bruce Was Big. That August was my first trip to NYC. I picked up a 12" disco single of the Stones with Miss You/Far Away Eyes (B-side is one for the 'Country Stones Playlist'); Tusk; The River; and the Susie and the Red Stripes 45 'Seaside Woman/B Side to Seaside'. That last one in a record shop in the Village. The Stones 12" single I got on 34th Street, near Macy's, in a black record store full of Disco records, but with a DJ, and two turntables, 'scratching records' and rapping. The single itself is not a Bob Ludwig, but it sound LOUD and bright. A real kick-ass pressing. On Members Day, I was standing in line at the front door of MoMA at 7:30 AM, waiting to buy a ticket to the sold out Picasso Retrospective (cue Band on the Run S2T3). They would sell a ticket to anyone holding a foreign passport, so my Canadian passport got me in. Amazing show! While waiting in line outside, though, I thought I saw John & Yoko drive by in an orange VW Beetle. Decades later, on a Google map, I got the directions to go from the Dakota to the Record Plant-and the 'blue line' went right past MoMAs front door. They went by in a flash, so I can't be sure... But it is one of the lasting memories of my first trip to the Big Apple. As it turned out, that summer all of the Beatles Flag Series Japanese pressings were deleted in NY state. So, I was in Buffalo at the Record Theatre, and in Rochester at Midtown Plaza, and in NYC, loading up on Japanese Beatle Vinyl. Which is still the heart of my collection. I was buying up the entire UK series, from Please Please Me to Let it Be. It was one of my best record hauls ever (1982 in Europe was just a as good). So, you can imagine how I spent the rest of August when I got back home. Then, September, October, and November, until the release of Double Fantasy on the 17th. Then, the three weeks leading up to 8 Dec.

In a 57 yr old Vinyl junkie from LIVERPOOL UK ,grew up in the Punk/post punk scene going to see Joy Division,Magazine,,Bunnymen,Teardrop Explodes etc ,love the Psychedelic bands ,Dead Kennedy's etc .....nothing to do on my own in lockdown but ITHEN j found your Channel SUBBED!!! Gonna spend the day watching your awesome looking content!!!

Keep it up mazzy one of your best so far!! That's great that you mentioned Graham Parker along with Elvis Costello I think he took his limelight away a little bit but I still love Parker's parkarella live album to this day.

The day Lennon went , I sat on the floor looking at the carpet devastated. Listening to the radio. Had been into the blue double lp . Great video mate , watched it all . 1980 was cool .

The Beatles book is black with colour photos , Columbus books published the book and I have it here . Page 42 features the HMV shop on Oxford street. I couldn’t get enough of that place . Bought Weather Report Sporting life in there as a brand new release. That book actually helped me through some dodgy times when I was suffering with panic attacks coming off drugs ect . That book would give me a bit of light and good vibes at three in the morning

wow what a great episode mazzy!! Thank you for sharing your grief story about John!!. i remember my mum woke up i was in high school at the time. At first she told me it was George who was my fave beatle. i jumped outta bed ran to the tv and john hadn't died yet then sadly as the news went on he passed. i two was distraught my mum let me take the next day off school. All i did was stay in my room and play Beatle records for 14 hours lol..Most of my school mates thought i was crazy for being that upset.. happy to know i wasn't the only one as the song says lol cheers you know what i mean lolol

great listening to these memories which sparked a few of my own. From Liverpool but a tad younger than yourself, I've walked along Penny Lane on mushies, riffled through vinyl in Probe when it was round the corner from the Cavern and Eric's spots, and having moved down to London some time ago can confirm West Malling is south east of the city. I've cycled through it , not on mushrooms, without knowing the Beatles link .

I was 14 years old and a new aunt in 1980. I loved the music back then .

a saturday afternoon well spent.astonishing video.thanks mazzy!

Very interesting. Very good. I can relate......great true story...from the soul.....🍁

Thank you Mazzy.

We were buying the same albums this year. It was a pivotal year for me as I entered my senior year in college. In the Midwest skinny ties did not really hit until 82 and 83 but I jumped in big. I had to wear a tie to work and they were skinny ties with pointy shoes- look Sharp. And then came the Miami Vice look! I took me a few years to get into the Police. Loved all the pictures you added in. My first trip to England was in 81 and I’m pretty sure people were still talking about you. Young Marble Giants, I will check them out. Loved the story of doing the book. I was a great typist, I typed all my girlfriend now wife’s papers lol. Mushroom are legal in Oregon now. I missed your last one of these so I need to catch up. Sorry, super long comment again. Steve

X was probably the band that I most identified with most in the punk movement even though it is hard to compare them with the more hardcore bands. I would say that I was more interested in The Clash because they were more melodic. Which led me to Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Nick Lowe. I'm a huge fan of The English Beat and Dave Wakeling's voice. Thanks for the great stories about your overseas adventures and the slide show. Wonderful series. ---Randy

Mazzy, we are both the same age. Like you I had a job I hated that year. But at night I was at the Whisky, Madame Wong's, and many LA clubs whose names I don't even remember. The music scene was so exciting. Punk and New Wave made it seem to me like it was 1964 all over again.

Post Punk Australia. Hi Norman. Love your channel. I warm to you as I feel we love the same things. From George Harrison to Chet Baker. I am a proud Australian and think you would love some of the great records produced by the bands that came out of the inner city pub rock scene in the 1980s. Here are 20 albums I think you would love! King Curly The Rise and Fall of King Curly Saints Monkey Puzzle Ed Keupper Rooms of the Magnificent Triffids Born Sandy Devotional Blackeyed Susans This one eats souls Go-betweens 16 Lovers Lane Grant McLennan Fire Boy Robert Forster The Evangelist Whitlams Eternal Nightcap The Gadflys Dimitris Bungalow Kasey Chambers The Captain Bernard Fanning Tea and Sympathy The Stems At First Sight Do Re Mi Domestic Harmony Warumpi Band Go Bush Died Pretty Doughboy Hollow Falling Joys Wish List Flowers Icehouse Hunters and Collectors Human Frailty Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls Gossip

BTW I was 5 in 1980. And many 80s bands I got too know early on because of a music show Pop Elektron in Belgium mid- 80s and MTV Europe. Love Devo, ... Elvis Costello. The Costello record you showed... Have that one too. Good one! Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nena Hagen, Section 25, Strawberry Switchblade!!

Hey Mazzy - I really loved The Clash's version of "I Fought the Law". I used to have it on my cellphone for a ringtone :)

Aaah, Black Sea. I saw XTC on that tour, at a small club behind Fenway Park. We got right up close and had a frackin ball. Andy certainly looked like he was enjoying himself. I love the expanded Black Sea cd set from a few years ago. Also saw Rockpile at the Commodore Club in Lowell, MA. Dave Edmunds wasnt there, but Chris Spedding played in his absence, and it was very good. Biden/Harris!

i used cycle past West Malling in 1980. Had no idea That Magical Mystery Tour was filmed there.

I will say this, I love the cover for the Plasmatics album. I'll also say that retail soul searching experience. I worked in an art store for 7 years. Bleech! I've also worked in restaurants since I was 16. Love the garbage story. You see those steep escalators in the Tube Station in Paul's video for the song "PRESS". Did you make a trip to the Indra Club or Kaiserkeller when in Hamburg?? What's the story of the painting you were holding in the alley?? Great photos. Wonderful, and sad Lennon story. So vivid.

1980. Girlfriend (future wife) and I went to a lot of shows in SF and I'm positive they were 100% jazz. Keystone mostly and we had favorite restaurants nearby. Records, also lots of jazz but also some of everything else. Captain Beefheart "Doc At The Radar Station", Pylon EP, reggae, world, folk, and who knows what. I still have a newspaper with Lennon's murder on the front page. Chronicle or Examiner. As for work etc... became a Psychiatric Technician and was working at Sonoma Developmental Center with multi handicapped young children and babies. I'd be there until '92 and become an RN during that time. 1980, another major year in our lives!

Oh man, funny!My only time falling asleep at a show as well.. Gary Numan at the Tower in Philly 1980. It might have been the dark stage lighting, hypnotic music, stiff stage performance combined and maybe the fact that I had a late gig the night before and had worked all day. I felt bad.. now I know it wasn’t just me.Nash the Slash opened I believe.

Great pictures ! Nice story ! I was visiting Liverpool coupe of years later. My frend was not inrested on Beatles, so I only see Penny Lane and Cavern. And short visit on Dingle, which was a little a bit scary place. I Have a similar concert experience with Nina Hagen than you have with Dylan. After that i have Been very suspicious to attend any concert If i have heard that artist have foud religion ect. recently...

Small Wonder had a record label that released The Cure and Bauhaus. I also studied photography in 1983 and then started working in processing C41 and chemical mixing. The job helped buy a lot of records, by this time 1984 it was Stuff and Eric Gale. I have a look called the Beatles England, my mum bought it for me

Joe Jackson - Look Sharp. One of my top albums. Graham Maby's bass playing stole the show. I bought a Specter bass because Graham played them.

I am 58 ...someone wrote “ it’s incredible that there was just 17 years between The Beatles and Human League first albums . It’s amazing how the 30 yr period from Rock and Roll in ‘57 to Acid House in ‘87 had a major scene every 5 years . Hearing stuff between 98 and 18 I can’t guess when it was released 🙄👍

I got to Liverpool in 2018 saw the magical mystery tour and the cavern errr oh yes I did stay overnight in Liverpool in 1992 . Slept at a mates place , hari Krishna sax player who is now a bus driver down Oxford street in London . We had a beer in Mathew street . Kiss kiss is new wave , yoko did great stuff . Milk and Honey has some great yoko tracks . When we get out of this thing with lockdown , I’m going get a gig at the cavern. I’m going to Liverpool every year. My hari mate is still around . I had a beer he didn’t

You Weberman'd McCartney - hilarious

Gaucho is a great record , Babylon sisters ! Saved by Dylan loved it . Grateful dead as the bee gees

That '79 Dylan album artwork -- the hand up above reminds me of what Jim Morrison's doing with his fingers on that very famous classic Doors pose.

Hey Mazzy we just went from “ The end of the world as we know it” to “Good day sunshine”

i saw the plasmatics in a little club in new york...loudest show i ever show...until now...joe biden just won the presidency....god bless america....peace my friend...rocky

Plasmatics¡¡¡ Hell yeah🤠

American punk errr yeah but we wasn’t really going after that stuff in 1979 . I was 12 in 1979 but that didn’t stop me from going all over London looking for punk records . A big one we chased was Transmission by Joy Division. We went to west London portobello road looking for this but no luck , then went to China town by Leicester Square to a hippy market where we met a friend of the cockney rejects working on the rock on record stall ? No they didn’t have the 45 either . Maybe a week later we found our way to Small Wonder records in Walthamstow. That guy in that shop , Pete ! He had everything we wanted including Joy Division and the Skids . Through that shop we got into CRASS a very weird punk group. When I say we I was with a 16 year old punk guy who could literally beat the crap out of anyone but was a very nice bloke . And a six feet four 16 year old mod guy who was overweight. So my mum said yeah go anywhere son with those two . No chance of getting beaten up... but there was other older hippy nutters out there who did not like punks one bit

Hey Mazzy, took me a while to watch this as I did so between other things but I just knew you'd bring up Double Fantasy, one of my all time favorites. I even wrote about it in my blog in Dec 2014, once I realized it was past the anniversary of his death. Anyway, it still resonates with me to this day and when I think on it (and it did so when you brought it up) I get melancholy and a tad sad over what happened that night. I was sitting at my desk doing homework listening to the radio on my first stereo, an all in one Hitachi unit when the announcement came over the speakers and thinking oh no, no more Beatles. It literally stuck with me and I can still picture my bedroom then when it happened. At that time I was, in 10th grade at the time. Anyway, here is my write up on it from 2014. johnhpalmer.com/?p=494. It's raining outside in Tacoma so I think I'll play that LP while making dinner.

I was laughing my ass off about your garbage steal from MPL :) I went there back in 89 while I was working of the 4th edition of my book, "Applelog". I would end up leaving MPL with bags full of freebies but that's another story. BTW... love your Beatles ENGLAND book. Anyway... Starting Over... the 12" was only a promo (Longer version as well). On John and Dec 8th... My Tampa based band pretty well stopped our search for that big label deal and decided it just wasn't worth giving so much to those who could take it all out in a second. I spoke with my old NYC bandmate, David Peel on the phone for hours that night. Sometimes we sat in silence for 20 minutes at a time. The shock of it all. I still have a hard time dragging that album out, but love it once I drop the needle. Like you... hearing that song for the first time. I caught it midway on AM radio in my Merc Bobcat and pulled off the highway to listen. I knew who it was in a split second of course. It was the beginning of a whole new world. So I thought, until.. ya know. Just thought I would post and ramble a bit Norman. I usually don't but this video just really hit me. Love all your stuff BTW. Waiting to stumble upon your thoughts on the debut lp by "Aorta" and the obscure bubble gum band from Long Island, "Tuneful Trolley" Okay... rant over. :)

Springsteen's The River. I think some country artists now have taken up with Springsteen themes. Morgan Wallen More than My Hometown is a good song. Eric Church particularly. The Grateful Dead in Heaven. Hahaha.

Nice '..Walrus' location pic at the end of your vid. And strange to think that John died on the 13th anniversary of the LP's release (12/08/67).

Hey Maz! i was 18 in 1980 in Liverpool it was a good year for me

Wow, this video was overwhelming. I watched it all, but I really can't find any specific moment I want to comment. However, you talk about that book you put together. Why no link to order the book? And yes, Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits is a wonderful song.

Loved this one! Lots of good picks including McCartney ll (plus the story of stealing Macca's garbage from MPL) and The Pretenders (Great album)....Bush and Gabriel...Echo and The Bunnymen...Psych Furs... Thanks for the stories.

Tottenham Ham Court road is near soho square, the nearest tube station. I wondered where all that trash came from on floor of platform one . This video is out standing mate well done

Echo and the bunny men ? Teardrop? Errr nah hated them . Page 53 in the Beatles England McCartney house . That Beatles England book is something I have kept for nearly 40 years ha ha . It really helped me through anxious nights. I don’t feel much better now days. As an American going to Liverpool in 1980 it was fine , as a teenage cockney kid going to Liverpool during the days of football hooliganism nah nah Liverpool was off limits

I enjoy your channel slot I just want to ask you if you like elvis the sun boys or harry james my favorite are of course the beatles I been collecting since 1973 my first album band on the run. Looking forward to more of your videos

The day the music died RIP John ✌️

Kate bush was great, a total pin up as well as cool songwriter singer . Check out my single on iTunes , mood for Miles by the Mike Edmonds quintet. I wanted it to be a sort of punk single jazz so I got it pressed as a cd green vinyl looking. Scary monsters was outstanding. Once again the Beatles book was and is cool as f ....

Good show...........and a better looking Seinfeld........sorry it’s what I thought looking at the young shots.

I was in San Francisco with 3 Republican friends from Orange County. They wanted to go dancing. We went to the Trocadero but it was no longer there. It was now a heterosexual S&M bar. The guy at the door said "are you sure you want to come here?". We said yes. We entered and it was a dance floor with multiple square blocks. Men and women were up on the blocks totally in leather and doing S&M shit like whipping each other. My friends really enjoyed themselves.

The Buggles aaaasrrrhhhhhgggg video the radio . I hated that record so much, I watched top of the pops every week hoping for great punk but got the buggles and bright eyes by art Garfunkel. I hated bright eyes so much . Sounds of the suburbs was a great record by the members

"" Butcher baby they want to take you away!! 1234!!..Lol

I turned 18 in 1980. Alas, Ohio wasn't the place to be at that time.

The inspiration for me to spin X this afternoon😉

You know Mazzy, both Dec. 7th and Dec. 8th are dates that live in infamy. Peace.

Other than X I never really got into those hardcore Cali punk bands

You put the "sheesh" in "hashish".

Oops! On my phone screen I mistakenly hit a thing that popped up and it said I rated your video "terrible"! I hope that didn't register as anything important. These blasted things that KZfaq does combined with my clumsiness with this little device adds up to plenty of goofs. So sorry!

Please give me some minutes I need to rewire the flux capacitor in my time-traveling DeLorean automobile. Done fixed. By the way the DeLorean can fly now. Lets go to 1980 and don't worry about roads where were going we don't need roads. In 1980 I was 5 years old just starting school. I had bad hair because my mum was cutting my hair silver glasses and no idea where life would take me. *"McCartney II"* - not a good album. Paul (William Shears Campbell, The real Paul was killed in a car crashed, and was sadly decapitated!) thought synthesizers where the new way to go with his music. For me this album did not work. *“Temporary Secretary”* is *CRAP!* Lets listen to Temporary Secretary and have an absolutely DREADFUL time. My poor ears!! Mazzy please never talk about that song ever again!! *“The Pretenders”* I have a best of CD. There a bit hit and miss for me. Sadly most of the group on the first album died form drugs overdoses . *“The Teardrop Explodes”* for me only ever had one good song - *“Reward”.* As your showing picture's of Beatles London I will repost links to some videos. *The Beatles London Tour* - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMChrJqiva3cpXU.html (Joolz Guides) Posted this before still worth seeing again. *WHY DON’T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD?* (Documentary) - vimeo.com/112412487 And the beat goes on. The Pictures really take you back in time. *“Buggles”* Trevor Horn and Future film composer Hans Zimmer on keyboards. Video really did kill the radio star! There where two films made about John Lennon's death around about the same time. One was the dreadful *“Chapter 27”* - With Lindsay Lohan playing a fictional Beatles fan. The other film was called *“The Killing of John Lennon”* - Not highly rated but I really like this film a lot. It has a much more reallistic portrayal of Mark Chapman .- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7B7a9xiscy6o4k.html We all wish *John Lennon* was still alive. *Mark Chapman* did not really kill John, Marks mental illness Kill John Lennon. Thank you for giving us your 1980 Mazzy and for telling us your Lennon death story, not a good time to remember. Take care & Love from England. Sometimes you really speak from the heart. Thank you for being here for us music fans.

I still haven't gotten over 1980. J.O.L. R.I.P. They're finally starting to call it for Biden.

" fun records " damn I hate that description !!!

Electrical tape on her nipples... ROTFLMAO!!!

Sandinista! Really?

PS...President Elect Joe Biden.