Fans pay tribute to John Lennon

Last Updated: Thursday, 8 December 2005, 14:32 GMT

Fans pay tribute to John Lennon

Hundreds of white balloons have been released in John Lennon's home city of Liverpool as music fans around the world mark 25 years since his death.

The former Beatle was shot outside a Manhattan apartment on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman, who is serving 20 years to life in a New York prison.

In a newly released interview, Chapman will describe his "compulsion" to kill Lennon as "like a runaway train".

Other tributes include a concert in London with music stars such as Lulu.

Lennon had just turned 40 years old when he was shot and killed in New York.

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"And I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died"

I remember though - I cried!


RIP - John Lennon - December 8, 1980

Celebrate the man's life.

Celebrate his words, his music, his works.

Celebrate his birthday.

But, stop giving that horrible day all the attention. It wasn't anything to commemorate - it's a day for vowing to do it all better.

Fucking balloons in the air.

Can you imagine what John Lennon would have had to say about that nonsense?

saying today about this horrible state of affairs in Iraq?

FYI

crying my eyes out.:cry:

This is a question for fellow baby boomers.

I was working as a diesel equipment mechanic back then and heard it on the radio. I remember stopping right in the middle of what I was doing. I was working on a backhoe. It was one of those moments where your mind just goes blank for a few moments until the information sinks in -- something so horrible, at first you can't believe it. I put down my tools and went out into the loading yard to tell a friend. Some of the other guys heard me and gathered around. We had a sad couple of minutes together, standing there in a circle, not really saying much other than, "That sucks." Then we all went back to work.