John Lennon Memorial in Central Park 1980

[@JawJX]

People back then had a lot of respect. You don't see this anymore.

[@MikeJ2023]

JJ 86 Well John definitely was a legend.

[@A_M_P_]

They had a lot of respect but awful hair. Just saying.

[@ozzymd1]

People still have respect nowadays , theres good and bad in all races at every given point in time , Chapman didn't have respect for Lennon , if he did he wouldn't have murdered him , you say back then what about WW2 and all the hate , there wasn't any respect then !

[@Add_Account485]

I don't know they came out for the queen's death

[@xavierm.6579]

John Lennon isn't died, legend never die, he'll live forever through his music

[@stuartcrigan6105]

make love not war .he is is evey ones harts

[@richardbrian1130]

absolutely well said ! great comment !

[@noche_de_desmadre8222]

He isnt died holy shit😶. Fix ur grammar and he is dead, u saying that isnt gunna make him Less dead

[@jacobwright12]

@@noche_de_desmadre8222 you must an idiot dude he meant hes a legend

[@raider8sox]

Sadly in nearly 4 decades nothing has been done about gun control 😔

[@RandyR]

Kenneth Jara We must not give up the fight. They might have the money but there are more of us than them

[@RandyR]

@ A major reason we badly need Universal Background ck. That scum had previous arrest record, mental health record an even suicide attempt. Because of lowsy gun laws, it an millions get a gun and ruin people's lives. Battle continues. ✊ Watch my video under Poetry reading about the senseless gun violence.

[@gordonm.7387]

Madness. He was a tough guy but a kind guy. His vocal on Twist and Shout are insane He had a great voice and a great sense of humour. Beautiful guy. x

[@Raiimundez]

Gordon M. True, his vocals are the best

[@FrankOtheMountain]

Me and my band mates went there from NJ. It was very sad. Such a giant crowd of people. A sea. I was 16. The tinny music came out from the bandstand & everyone sang along crying. He was our hero. Imagine, All You Need Is Love.....Across The Universe really got me. He was such a character, and so many loved and admired him. It felt like someone very close to us had been taken away for no reason. Terrible shame.

[@emitwine]

I can't believe he's gone....even after all these years.

[@deanmorrow4083]

I remember that month, it was so depressing. I felt like my family member had been killed. I felt like I had been punched in the stomach when I heard that John had been killed. I pray Paul & Ringo only die of natural causes and old age. ✌& ❤.

[@lucydiamond1650]

He will never die.. Him and his music will always be living.

[@dextervillanueva4897]

37 years after, still get teary eyed with this. i was robbed of a chance to listen to lennon's music as he would have grown older. i was just 5 years old when john died

[@beauferret5414]

I wasn't even born when this happened and even I miss John Lennon. Wow, only 40 years old, way too young.

[@h2bizzle]

I was six years old. I remember being home and my mom and I bow in our heads in silence for John. I didn’t quite understand who he was back then, But she sure did. As I grew older I realize what an amazing person he was. I am grateful to have had parents that have the compassion for such a great man

[@jamiboslow5957]

I was 8 years old when John Lennon was pronounced as dead, and I’ll never forget where I was when I heard. I was young, but because of my dad, I knew his importance to the world. I remember crying with my dad upon the news. RIP, John Lennon! You are still loved in 2022!

[@joedanache7970]

The assassination of John Lennon was the most shocking since J.F.K. was assassinated 17 years earlier. Both men were mourned world-wide.

[@mollytsanadis1323]

omg that kid at 2:05 broke my heart

[@thomasponzio8345]

35 years gone and we still feel the hurt from that tragic night....John Lennon in the 80s and 90s can u imagine...forgive me for that....the music he would have made,the videos who knows maybe a reunion we will never know

[@PeaceLoveBeatles100]

John was and will forever be my hero he was talented and all he wanted was peace. I

[@duelee4]

I was there! I remember. When mayor Koch was done speaking about him and the silence was over, we all walked through Strawberry Fields to the Dakota building where Yoko Ono was up in the window blowing kisses at us.

[@josephhassett6505]

That area of central park was not named Strawberry Fields untill 1985.

[@eebnamtna]

I lived in Jersey at that time. Took a little bit of LSD which did not seem to affect me greatly and headed into NYC. Sounds odd to say but it was "nice". It was cold. People had blankets set out on ground and they were rolling and selling joints. Mounted cops just passing by and leaving joint dealers alone. Which left me awestruck. It WAS 1980. Thousands and thousands of people

[@marcohuapalla4723]

I wasn’t ever born at that time. And, God, this really hurts. So much respect to Lennon ❤️ He achieved his dreams, he’s in peace now. ❤️

[@LoveCommunities]

December 8, 1980 by Mark R. Elsis "I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope." John Lennon, December 8, 1980 John Lennon was the greatest singer-songwriter and the most influential political artist of the twentieth century. He was assassinated on Monday, December 8, 1980, walking into the Dakota, his home on the upper West side of Manhattan, New York City. In mid-November of 1980, at our local Irish tavern, the Gaslight Inn, in Elmhurst, I told my closest friends, John Lennon was about to be assassinated. I told them the powers that be were going to blame it on a lone crazy deranged fan, and that this person would never have a trial. I don't know how I knew all of this would come to be, except to say that besides my parents, John Lennon, someone whom I had never met, was the most significant person in my life. Perhaps because of my lifelong adoration, I was tapped into a precognitive form of what Dr. Rupert Sheldrake postulated in his theory, Morphic Resonance. I have had many other episodes of precognition throughout my life. I've like The Beatles since first seeing them and hearing their music. On December 10, 1963, a five-minute news story shot in England about the phenomenon of Beatlemania aired on the CBS Evening News. I watched it and thought wow, in my almost six years of life, I have never seen such excitement. The young girls were going crazy for them. Then on its release day, December 26, 1963, radio stations in New York City started to play, I Want to Hold Your Hand. John Lennon's initial influence on me first took hold a few minutes past 8 pm on Sunday, February 9, 1964, when Ed Sullivan gave his now-famous introduction, "Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles" and after a few seconds of rapturous cheering from the audience, the band kicked into "All My Lovin'." Only 79 days before my Irish Catholic President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, and I had just turned six-years-old 32 days earlier. On that February evening, the ongoing wake for President Kennedy finally ended. Then while watching television on the evening of Sunday, June 25, 1967, I realized that there was someone who believed in peace and love. This night John Lennon and The Beatles sang, All You Need Is Love, on, Our World. The Beatles performed the song as Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link via satellite. An estimated 400 to 700 million people around the globe watched the broadcast. Watching John Lennon and The Beatles sing, All You Need Is Love, was profound, and perhaps the most transformational moment of my life. I was already a huge Beatle fan, but now the music, lyrics, and images of, All You Need Is Love, touched me at the deepest level inside my heart and soul, as nothing ever had before in my life. This admiration for John Lennon only grew from that evening until the evening of December 8, 1980. I was driving my taxi in Manhattan on that beautifully warm Monday evening of December 8, 1980. At around 10 pm, I was traveling without any passengers, going north on Central Park West, when I made a slow left turn on to 72nd Street. As soon I made the slow left turn on to 72nd Street, now looking towards the front of the Dakota, my instinct sensed something was wrong. So, I slowed down to a crawl while passing in front. I first noticed the outside doorman (Jose Perdomo, which somehow took the media six plus years to finally name correctly) who was standing on the left side of the archway. He was just outside of the doorman enclosure. Then, I looked directly at this other man and sensed that he was lurking in the darkness. He was standing just outside the right side of the archway. I felt something was wrong and nearly stopped my taxi. The next day this man was identified as Mark David Chapman. About an hour after I passed by the Dakota, I was still driving my taxi in Manhattan while listening, as always, to Vin Scelsa on WNEW 102.7, when he suddenly announced John Lennon had been shot. A short time later, while trying to hold back tears, he announced the death of John Lennon. When Vin Scelsa broke this horrible news of John Lennon's death, I was with a woman passenger in my taxi. I was on East End Avenue, the same street where I was born, in Doctor's Hospital. As soon as my passenger heard the news, she immediately broke out crying. Soon there were tears in my eyes and rolling down my checks. I slowly composed myself, turned my off duty light on, and finished driving my passenger to her home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn (one block from where my paternal Grandmother lived). I dropped her off, waited until she was inside her home safely, and then headed straight to the Dakota. It was about 11:45 pm when I arrived, and already there was a large group of people gathered. I double-parked my Peugeot 504 taxi just about twenty feet West of the archway, in front of the Dakota. I opened the sunroof of my taxi and placed a portable speaker on the roof so people could hear WNEW FM live. Soon hundreds of people had gathered outside of the Dakota. Throughout that solemn night, thousands of fans arrived, mourned, and left. I know about these thousands of people coming to pay their respects and grieve the tragic loss of John in the middle of the night because I stayed in front of the Dakota for the next nine hours. It was heartbreakingly sad for me to witness. At any one time during the night, there were dozens of grown men and women openly weeping like babies. These nine hours were the catalyst that transformed my life. I swore on John's blood that I would do everything I possibly could to enlighten humanity and make our world better for future generations. And every day for the last forty years, I have been doing just that. Strawberry Fields: Keeping The Spirit Of John Lennon Alive (Film) (1:22:08) Producer | Writer | Director: Mark R. Elsis Featuring: Crying For John Lennon, by Hargo, Produced by Phil Spector and Graham Ward www.bitchute.com/video/4OFVttHeM8PD

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I'm in the crowd somewhere. 1:45 "I'd like to see maybe gun control can be the result of this". Not while ultramagas still have a say.

[@GiganticWeen]

Mental illness.

[@RandyR]

I was at one here in Phoenix. It was one of the worst weeks in my life. His death remains one of the top ten life changing events in my life. Miss you John 😢😢

[@imannonymous7707]

Whatever opinion we have for him He desrves to rest in peace.....we all do Happy xmas yall

[@PeaceLoveBeatles100]

Imagine all the people living life in peace ooohhh..

[@missyv8900]

The violent 80's. Worst decade. I try to forget.

[@johnlong9778]

I was there. Right in front of the Dakota. An amazing moment.

[@Tupelohoney233]

I was there too. Music blasting from an apartment window at the Dakota and then it suddenly began to snow.

[@hcmilan726]

😔😔😔😔

[@steel_1013]

Even today we wish for John Lennon because war still rages on. But even without John we Will find Peace✌🏼☮️ Just give Peace a chance✌🏼 RIP John Lennon Long live his heart and soul🙏🏼✌🏼

[@tizianacuscito]

♥️

[@eebnamtna]

I attended this memorial. Very nice. Cold and foggy but air was still. People selling loose joints for a buck. Rolling them on spread out blanket. mounted police paying no mind. Calm

[@oo131193oo]

Why was I -16 years old back then. Living in a time where i dont wanne be living, so many has changed to negative from that day

[@poussy9252]

STILL ALIVE JOHN LENNON WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU

[@bustycougar7412]

I was 6 in 1980

[@lynjones9339]

VERY SAD DAY LOSING A LEGEND LIVERPOOL CRYED

[@diomuda7903]

John Lennon is gone, but his works will never die.

[@achildofdarkness]

I cry still

[@Professorkenneth]

3 months earlier John Bonham passed🙏🏻🇬🇧 fucked up end of the year for zeppelin and Beatles fans.

[@renebrunoblechadasil]

worst day

[@sw1tchblvdes]

John Lennon maybe dead,but his music will live 😔💜💙

[@beatletoons6645]

Notice the reference to GUN CONTROL

[@acielove.jen5060]

🙏🙏🙏

[@linafigueredo.8]

😢😖😞😭😭

[@dentesverremagnus4602]

1:45 john lennon chillin

[@stuartcrigan6105]

rip mate

[@johnmaddox8310]

In my world chapman is dead, and John will live forever

[@A_M_P_]

Imagine living a blessed life - happy, successful and looking forward to your future, and then some loser comes up behind you and shoots you 4 times. How shocking and painful it must have been for John in those moments.

[@stuartcrigan6105]

all you need love

[@aalmasabe1238]

No iPhone

[@justjohn7049]

I wonder what John would make of Trump.....?

[@danielmchale4383]

Imagine john Lennon' didn't write these great songs. Vietnam War would of kept on going..

[@joenagl6835]

:(:(

[@TheNathanBForrest]

How can John Lennon die?

[@snipezzzz127]

A decade later, but.... MURDER by Mark Chapman.

[@rosariopadovano5556]

rip

[@armandocardenasvela8722]

La noticia corrio como pólvora gracias a un periodista que estaba ahi en el hospital por una caída en moto y vio como me tieron a john a urgencias Después vio entrar inconsolable a yoko ,detras venia jack Douglas el productor de double fantasy Momento muy triste de la historia del rock

[@عمربنعالي-م1ل]

جون لينون أسطورة

[@gasparucciox9706]

today's youth don't even knows who JL was

[@ClassicalTTunesNow]

So true. Unfortunately I am part of this generation however I love Lennon. In school, a teacher asked the class who John Lennon was. I put my hand up and said who he was. Everyone in the class was muttering things like "who?" and "what?". I couldn't believe it.

[@gasparucciox9706]

no worrie man , you're lucky among few :)

[@paulmcnamara4774]

Lots of young people love the Beatles not sure about that i know many that love John Lennon.

[@KungaMatata]

Paul McNamara If you love the Beatles, it means you love John Lennon as he was the creator and lead singer of the band.

[@m.st.6657]

Sadly, that's true, sometimes. I'm 14 abd I'm a Beatles-fan. But if I asked ans of my friends who John Lennon was, they'd probabaly only know his name but nothing else...