CRIKEY, two WordPress blog posts in a matter of two days. Mind you, this post is simply a hyperlink to the Facebook message I’ve just written this morning about John Lennon’s tragic death in New York in December 1980 when I was a still a teenager.
I’m not going to expand on my memory here of where I was and who I was with when we heard the shocking news that the former Beatle had been assassinated by Mark Chapman in America on the radio at a halls of residence at Lancaster University in Lancashire.
Instead, I’d invite you to read my Facebook message below:
I’m also sharing the Lennon/Ono YouTube video of Instant Karma! by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band with you. As John sang: “We all shine on, like the moon, and the stars and the Sun…”
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