this has to be some of the oldest air recording we have of howard yeah? this was only a few weeks before he became “hopalong howie.” it’s wild listening to this after seeing private parts a ton, he really did a great impersonation of his amateur self in the film.

America.....you bastards

I was 20. One of the worst days of my life. We still miss him and George.

What a sad sad time this was in history, still is and always will be.

Over 40 years and still crying.. . Listening to this

This really was the day the music died.😢

7:12: Fantastic quote.

Why any private person can own a gun in the US just does my head in. I was 12 years old and there was a life before and a life after John Lennon. I hope nobody ever mentions this sickos name ever again, because he did it for fame. May he rot in prison for the rest of his senseless life.

the man could'nt take a observation on his journalist work, but he think is a good time to remember to Yoko that there are people don't like her music work

I was eating dinner at a restaurant I worked in when someone came to the table and told us. My first words were “who would shoot a Beatle?” Then I got drunk and spent days crying off and on. I think I almost bought the ranch that night. I also took a tranquilizer and remember sleeping and sleeping. It was a horrible time.

I was sleeping and my brother woke me up to tell me what he had heard on Monday Night Football. One of the few times in my life that I've been brought to tears by the wicked world.

Howard is only 26 years old here.

10:07 how did Howard know? That’s wild.

I was 5 and lived in South America, it was Summer and I had a bad sunburn, everyone was watching the news and I asked who John Lennon was.

I was at home preparing to go to work when my Dad came in from his night shift and told my Mother and myself what had happened to John, we were all in shock. Says it all when more than 40 years on from this act of senseless violence we are still talking about John, still listening to his music, and next week the box set of his Mind Games album comes out. Was a hero of mine as a kid. The Beatles music means so much to me, those guys always brought and still do bring joy to this world.....

Horrible gun crime. An insane person with a gun.

I was 20 at that time. Never have got over it. No coincidence that Reagan had just been elected. Lennon would have had things to say and millions of young people would have listened.

this is when Rock n Roll took a Big Nose Dive 🥹😟🥲and would never be the same again 🎼🎵🎶R.I.P. John Lennon ✌️👍

The day the music died. Im glad you recorded this. I was 15. We idolized John.

My grandma was 21 when john died, she couldn't believe it. Now here i am at 19, i've been a huge beatles fan for 4 years and i can't even imagine what it was like. R.i.p John Lennon

I was 8 years old at the time and I still remember feeling this still....my Mom was a huge Beatles fan

Howard sounds fake and phony here.

Stern is a wanker. Always has been

eerie thing about this picture. Lennon is already wearing the clothes he would die in. He would go out, do some work in the studio...come back and that was it.

Sucks my birthday is December 7th

Meanwhile today most kids in their 20s don’t know who John Lennon or The Beatles are. Music has been dumbed down so much there is no real music anymore. December 8 1980 was the day the music died

Unfortunately John Lennon's death was what it was, a man taking another man's life, and it was wrong. No excuse makes you innocent of such an appalling crime.

Mark Chapman “I was Mr Nobody, till I killed the biggest somebody on the planet “ And he did.

He sounds like he’s on WKRP.

Grade 9 on the bus going to school, the strange thing was is, we had David Chapman sitting at the front of the bus, he peaked his head up?

Stalled car? I'm about to go out

.....remember this broadcast like it was yesterday....Howard was great at W4......need to find the day they switched to country....man was he pissed....and split shortly thereafter.....

Fantastic upload, thank you from Ireland.

I'll never EVER name the nameless scum.

Also Badfinger (with Joey Molland & the lates Peter Ham, Tom Evans & Mike Gibbins) (also on Apple Records) & The Raspberries (with the late lead singer Eric Carmen) had also had a Beatles influence!!!

wow

Fxxk me! How old is Howard?!

Howard was just about to write John a note.

Cheap trick!

The world never recovered from this senseless act. The music industry was forever altered. And 🇺🇸 remains a violent place to reside. A sick gun culture.

John Lennon abandoned his kids and beat his girlfriends and wives... he was a fucking piece of shit and all of his music is garbage; you have to be an absolute tack-head to think the Beatles are good -- horrible music.

The morning after, the skies over NYC were overcast and gray.

I was 18 when John Lennon was shot. Mark Chapman is up for parole again next month. I urge everyone reading this to reach out to the New York State Parole Board and ask them to keep Chapman locked up. If he gets released, Chapman will be a danger to Yoko, Julian and Sean, not to mention Ringo and Sir Paul McArtney. doccs.ny.gov/form/letters-in-support-or-opposition

Howard shows he was a pussy going back to the beginning his great years with Billy Jackie and Artie private parts was all him playing a character like Mr.Imus hoo hoo hoo.

I was at home watching Monday Night Football when Howard Cosell announced that John Lennon had been shot. R.I.P. John Lennon !! 🙏🙏

This proves Howard could do a great show without the sycophants and talentless hangers-on.

I was in high school and this was definitely like our JFK moment.

Howard was only 26 here

I was 5 when he died and I remember my older brother telling me

John had balls. He said what was on his mind. God bless.