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Post by anarkissed on Dec 8, 2020 12:28:30 GMT -5
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death of John Lennon. I remember I was watching that ABC "Monday Night Football" game on broadcast television when Howard Cosell broke the news. I was just out of high school. I felt like all hope for humanity had been lost. Most of the time, I still feel that way...
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Post by raccoon on Dec 8, 2020 18:45:05 GMT -5
I remember that day, too. Still sad and absurd. The beautiful thing about art like his is that it shines on. Like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
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Post by firespirit on Dec 9, 2020 6:45:27 GMT -5
I had just turned 11. I was watching some horrible sitcom on CBS called Ladies Man and they broke in to announce Lennon had been killed....
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Post by raccoon on Dec 9, 2020 18:12:54 GMT -5
I came across this today. Had never heard this story before. James Taylor on his run in with Lennon's murderer:
Speaking to The Telegraph, Taylor explained how he encountered Chapman a day before the murder took place:
Chapman, who was 25 at the time, was said to be “glistening with sweat” and “his eyes were dating all over the place… dilated like crazy”.
Recalling their encounter, Taylor said that Chapman “seemed either drugged or in a manic break of some sort”.
Chillingly, he also remembered that Chapman mentioned Lennon in conversation and said he was “going to show him” something.
“He was just talking a mile a minute about something he was going to show John Lennon,” Taylor said.
“He was just someone who knew me who I didn’t know; someone who had an agenda that I knew I couldn’t deal with. I just knew that I needed to get away from him.”
The ‘Fire & Rain’ singer added that the encounter happened approximately a 25-minute walk away from where Chapman would shoot Lennon.
Chapman, who is now 65, was denied parole for the eleventh time in August.
He is currently serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York, having pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Chapman will now remain behind bars for at least another two years, with his next hearing scheduled for August 2022. He was first eligible for parole in 2000.
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