Monday Night Dec. 8th 1980. A night like most any other except.................Monday was my Friday in those days and I usually worked until 10:00pm. However I had a date that night and got off early. So after dinner, desert, and few cocktails we turned the Monday Night Football game on. I think it was the Dolphins vs the Patriots funny how you remember weird stuff when Howard Cosell the rock of sports broadcasting told the world the most tragic news since John and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated and the assassination of Martin Luther King. John Lennon was dead. Gunned down in front of his apartment in the Dakotas in NYC a building I had been by many times growing up in the area. The next day in the record store that I was the Asst. Mgr in (Loco Records) was the most incredible tribute I may have seen. People solemnly walking around buying every John Lennon and Beatles record in the store sobbing as they paid for their purchases. By lunchtime we were cleaned out. Calling the suppliers and Capitol records to place orders was also a very sad experience. I cried every day until Christmas that year not underestimating the impact John had on my life as a person and a musician now he was gone. Happy Christmas to this day is anything but it always makes me shed a tear even when I hear it by other artists (Sara McGlaughlins might be the best cover by another artist). However that year I realized on Christmas day (thank you Billy Sed.) that I would always have Johns music and crazy Mark David Chapman might have murdered John but couldnt kill his music. God Bless John RIP.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:54:33 +0000
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