It was twenty-four years ago today

i love the beatles
there songs always bring me up

Hi, ask chester. Any favourites you'd like to mention?

Sigh.....

It just doesn't seem possible that it was that long ago.

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

24 years? Are you sure? It couldn't have been that long ago! It doesn't seem like it has been Any Time At All!

I was in college when I heard the news and that seems like Yesterday. Back then, all my troubles seemed so far away. I Should Have Known Better!

Do You Want To Know a Secret? I don't think it's possible to choose a favorite Beatles tune. Doing so may cause a Revolution!

Some days my yellow submarine leaks a little.

I've turned a new generation on to the Beatles. My neice loves LOVE loves "I wanna hold your hand".

Goddammit! I forgot about this! There's a place in central park called Strawberry fields where people go every year on this day and play music, talk, etc...****, I missed it now!

i was in my final year of high school, and some freinds and i had gone to windsor to the local art house cinema thing to see a double bill of "a hard days night" and "let it be"

on the way home i remember thinking that "let it be" was the saddest movie i'd ever seen, its sad to see this band with such talent and potential disintegrating before your very eyes

and then to get home and hear the news, it was doubly upsetting, at least while they were all laive the idea remained that maybe they could mend fences, and get together for one last time maybe work the magic again

Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
John Lennon

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster's gone
He's on the run and your daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Out on the ocean sailing away
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But I guess we'll both just have to be patient
'Cause it's a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
Yes it's a long way to go
But in the meantime

Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Darling, darling, darling
Darling Sean

this is not my favourite song, but the lines, "life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans", seems appropriate for the occasion

squinney, I wish I wasn't sure.

4 years ago, on the 20th anniversary, I started a thread at Abuzz -"I feel 110 today".

The feeling I had that night, 24 years ago, is still in my skin.

my favorite song by the beatles- across the universe

I was thirteen, just leaving church when I heard. I barely knew who he was, really. But that weekend, a local radio station played everything he'd ever been a part of.......from a to zed. That's when I began my love affair with the music, the lyrics.
RIP John.

I was newly 39, the age my mother always told me she was, to hide the difference from my father's age - in my first year of night school in landscape architecture. Was married almost two years. My husband then worked for ups and wrote in the late night.

It was another What? to what was then a series of How Can This Be(s)?

one of the greatest lyricists, and a voice that rattles your soul.

Aaargh - what a horrible time it was hearing THAT news.

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhh.

What dlowan said.

Damn. I was at the end of my first year of uni. I couldn't believe. I put Shaved Fish on the turntable and turned it up load - almost felt a psychic connection to the man he was under the fame.... then my mother came in and told me to turn it down. What a cr*p year that was.

To me, the murder/ assassination of John Lennon was the beginning of the end. It became obvious to me and those around me that some of the most wonderful dreams we had for peace and love Across the Universe were not going to happen in our lifetimes.

Still, I can always be cheered up with the first few guitar picked notes of Here Comes the Sun (little darlin').

Think I'll go find and play it. Love all the other songs mentioned, Imagine and Beautiful Boy are just amazing. (Squinney... very clever)

Thanks everyone. Got a little chill coming back and reading the posts, and thinking about bein' just down the road and all hearing the same news. Thanks, friends.