After 42 years, it's still raw to hear about the events of that day. John Lennon Forever in our thoughts and Forever in our hearts. 🕯 Imagine. ✌& ❤

God, I just, it's so sad to me that such a beautiful genius like John was JUST starting to find true rhythm and joy in his life and for NOTHING a lard tub shoots him and ends all of his hopes and happiness for the future. Unbelievable

It was the most tragic death in western popular culture because at the end of the day, he was a Beatle, and The Beatles represented life, youth, idealism, optimism, happiness. To have one of them dead who was the living personification of the 1960s was just unthinkable.

RIP John Lennon. He inspired generations

I lived close by. A female friend phoned me from a nearby pay phone to let me know what just happened. I could hear the sirens thru her phone. The following week it felt like the entire City of New York had slipped into a deep depression. Store mannequins were posed with their heads bowed holding Beatle albums. NY radios played nothing but Beatle songs. That Christmas the firm I worked for held their annual party at Tavern on the Green - directly across the street from where Lennon had lived, and was shot. The party broke up early, the band that had been hired stopped playing. There was little enthusiasm for celebrating. Only a few of my fellow employees remained, no one knowing where to go or what to do - it was Christmas. There was a piano in the room. I used to play piano professionally in and after college, which helped me eat and pay rent. I sat at the piano and began playing Beatle songs, which I knew by heart. My fellow employees gathered around me and began making requests. Everyone understanding the moment. I could see through the widows, over their shoulders, the Dakota Building, with a lit candle in the window where John Lennon had lived.

Still stinks . ... One of the best poet/musicians the world has ever known. 1750 🎼Thank you John. One day soon. 🎵🎶 11.88.111 December 8th, 1980. 💔❤️‍🩹❤️

Theres a rumour that some of his remains are buried with his mother julia in allerton cemetery, liverpool. As shortly after there was a condened off excavation around julias grave by police.

Watching this video made me feel sad and a bit scared for how the world is. A comment that John made about 20 or so years before he died stained his reputation and was ultimately used as a justification for his murder. I also found it eye opening how there was hospital banter and machine noises used when describing the operating room. It shows that, at some point we are all gonna hear those noises and it’s just a matter of whether we die in peace or, we don’t. I hope that I will have a chance to leave this world when I want to, not when I don’t. I feel for people who have died in horrific ways. It hurts to think that John was probably panicking while doctors frantically tried to save him.

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After all these years I still have a problem processing this. John Lennon was such a part of my upbringing & life thereafter it still feels like loosing a family member.

John was my favorite Beatle. It's been 42 years, but I remember it well. Seems like yesterday. RIP John, Cynthia, and George. God Bless you all.

All you need is love John ❤ ☮✌

This video almost brought me to tears. John didn't deserve to die, and being 15 I never got to be in the world when he was alive, but John Lennon, you were a genius, and we all miss you. ☮️

Even after all these years , hearing this makes me sad. How could she have cremated him against his wishes. He was taken away by A selfish P.O.S. Mad man. Then cremated. John I pray you see what is going on. So Sad. I so hope you got to see family. I was 18 when this happened. I cried.

I was almost 4 when this happened. I remember my Mom beside herself crying and crying and crying. I will never forget that day.

42 years later, and I'm still numb from the shock. I lost part of me when John died.

We were just getting to know the real John Lennon -- beloved husband and loving father. Thanks, John, for making our lives more interesting, romantic and colorful.

The shot that was heard around the world. Any kind of death is horrible and it’s a constant occurrence. John had achieved in that lifetime success some happiness and lots of laughter. He suffered the pain and awareness that he’s leaving and how much he’s going to miss his loved ones and this journey but then a new journey begins.

Great recap; felt the tragedy of the moment! Also, at 7:33 it's pronounced: Howard CoSELL

R.I.P. John I was 9 years old when it happened ✌☮

What a sad day that was and still is although we have John Lennon‘s music as the Beatles and the sound of work and had John Lennon been alive he could’ve done so much more and he would say the same message of love and peace as he did.And what a terrible thing that Mark David Chapman dead.

A lot of mistakes in your video, too numerous to mention here. One correction: Mark David Chapman did not say "Mr. Lennon" before he fired the shots, he didn't say a word. That was erroneously reported by the NYPD.

"Howard Coos?" You mean Howard Cosell.

Rest In Peace John Lennon 1940-1980, I LOVE John Lennon SO MUCH and so his fans and wife yoko ono, John is amazing and great a musican, The music John Lennon made Solo and With The Beatles is so important to me I just really, really wish he was still alive and with was with us today.

There was NOT a car in the archway of the Dakota when they pulled up at night. That is 100% incorrect

He should have had more bodyguards or the Dakota should have had no loitering after 8pm or something.

His killer's reasoning was so warped. Sad.

I was 14 and cried like a baby 😪 we miss you John .

this so sad makes me cry

What happened to the signed album chapman had?

I still remember, as it happened yesterday, the breaking news on the rádio, I was so, so shocked I just was able to cry days after only

One of the most tragic events in the past 50 years was the night this musical genius was murdered in cold blood. Sadly because John wanted to tuck his young son to bed he came home before going back out only to be gunned down and killed. May John's legacy live on forever and his soul finds the peace that this world failed to give him.

the world has never been the same, never will be,😊

Isn't that 'I held his heart in my hand' bit now known to be a lie?

And decades later we still haven't given peace a chance sorry John !

3:39 John said "Is that all?"

I Have these photos of when i met John and May on March 4, '74 at Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas..a great memory..along with Harry Nillson and Mal Evans..never published or released..gotta get on the project! Anyone interested let me know!

Such a horrible waste of a magnificent artist. Unfathomable still.

La Fortuna was not on East 71st Ave, but rather West 71st Street. Just around the block from the Dakota. John & Yoko would often go there and sit at one of the tables in the backyard.

God I remember that nite....talk about a rage of denial....the day after my 🎂. :(

Im chocked up

What a senseless death. Very very sad.

Do Rest in Peace Man of the MUSIC 🎶

He had once wrote?

Can somebody please tell me the first song that played in the beginning of the video? PLEASE!!! 0:01-0:05

he still kept in touch with mae pang even the month before his death.

It's such an awful sad tradgety. At least with Elvis that was very sad too but at least he died at his own hands a little more peacefully.

GOD BLESS YOU JOHN IN HEAVEN!!!!!!

Dude, this video is totally remedial. You need to delete it or redo it. Downright embarrassing. Several of your facts are wrong, including the fact John had breakfast with Yoko. He was alone when he went to breakfast. Your times are off relative to the photoshoot and the radio interview. Additionally, the photo shown at 2:50 was taken during the Saturday, Dec 6th interview with Andy Peebles, not with the Dec. 8th RKO Radio interview on Monday. How do I know? I know because although John wore the same sweater during both interviews, he wore a red shirt beneath the sweater, which can easily be seen on any December 8th photo. When Lennon left for the studio, he didn't get into "his car." His chauffeur did not show up on time, so the Lennons got a ride from the RKO staff. For a site that calls itself "Music Box USA," you don't appear to be well-versed in the subject matter. I've never read anywhere that the reason the car could not pull in to the vestibule area was because there was another car in front blocking access. According to Mark David Chapman in one of his interviews, he never said "Mr. Lennon." According to Chapman, he didn't say anything at all. Lennon didn't stumble "down" the five steps to the office; he walked UP the five steps to the office. The name of the sportscaster who announced Lennon's death was "Howard Cosell," not "Howard Coose." Btw, the correct English is "he had once written", not "he had once wrote." Horrible.

42 Years Ago he died

God bless John Lennon.

Tears in Heaven

Who the hell is Howard Coos?

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I don't think John had his hair cut that day. I think he had a hair cut a couple of days before as he has the same style when photographed with Andy Peebles on December 6th

I don't think cars fit in the archway at the Dakota

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My sister knew a cop that protected Yoko after the assassination. He said she was definitely strange but Nice.

7:32 Howard Cosell.

I remember that awful day like it was yesterday.

In the end Ono uses the term 'they'. What does she mean ?

I love God.

Please just give me the Delorean from Back to the Future and a baseball bat 🤬

Ich habe damals im Krankenhaus gearbeitet. Ich lag noch im Bett. Ich hatte Spätdienst. Mein Bruder kam hoch und nahm die Single "Imagine" aus dem Regal. Er sagte:" Du kannst die nicht mehr hören!" Ich sprang auf"Wieso? Ist die Platte kaputt?" " Nein. John ist erschossen worden!" sagte mein Bruder. Das war der schlimmste Tag in meinem Leben. Ich wollte Geld sparen und John einmal in New York sehen, wenn er im Central Park spazieren geht. Heute weiß ich, ich werde ihn eines Tages treffen. Vllt macht er dann gerade mit meinem Bruder Musik.

Lennon and Elvis dying young, cast a permanent shadow over my life,,they both shud have got to 60 minimum,,,,

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I was 7 years old when John Lennon was shot

"Howard Coose"

You're just reading from Google?

Such a great genius in music is gone from our lives! The saddest part is that it was totally senseless and with no reason at all. If this lunatic Chapman ever gets out of the nut house, I hope he doesn't last long in the free life👎

He didn't wear those granny glasses on the day he died

When John Lennon was killed, I was serving in my last year in the Navy. I heard the news in my base barracks lounge. I couldn’t believe what happened, how someone like Mark David Chapman could murder someone who he didn’t even know personally, and who never did anything wrong to him. 😮😮😢😢

He signed catcher in the rye I thought not double fantasy. It’s also Howard Cousel not couz.

When I think about this and what happened to John Lennon, I always get really angry at America, because this is something that couldn't of happened in England or anywhere else, America and their damn guns.

10$ the cia / us government was involved

Could it be he had cancer and paid Chapman to martyr him?

Howard Gooze. You serious dude. You just trashed a legend name.

Dimebag Darrell of Pantera and Damage Plan was also assassinated on this day in Rock History...

Still some questions regarding the Dakota;s doorman who had CIA links and knew Nixon's Watergate plumbers...first report has the doorman shooting Lennon,,,,

Now he knows he's better than Jesus or not Now he see haven and hell

I hope he found Jesus Christ in his last few moments alive.

Working class heroes Get gunned down

That witch Yoko!

brutal ... slaughtered by an ogre

I can totally see why the guy shot him, John is annoying and overrated af.