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The Day Thousands Honored John Lennon With a Silent Vigil

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John Lennon’s murder led thousands to share a moment of worldwide silence on Dec. 14, 1980.

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Yoko Ono on John Lennon's assasination, their son Sean and influencing The Beatles breakup.

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The Tragic Story of John Lennon's Untimely Death                  Christian P

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John Lennon's death is still considered one of the appalling events in rock music's long history. He was born on 9 th October 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, while a German air raid was going on.

John Lennon's death was untimely and evoked shock and deep sadness around the world. Lennon continues to be respected and cherished, even today, by new generations of admirers and fans.

John Lennon was a singer and songwriter as well as the founder of The Beatles, a band that transformed the popular music scene as, arguably, no other group has ever been able to.

In , Lennon met Paul McCartney and invited him to join the Quarrymen, a skiffle music group that he had formed as inspiration from Elvis Presley's explosive entry onto the rock music scene.

Lennon and McCartney went on to form music history's most successful songwriting partnership and founded The Beatles. In 1969, Lennon left the band and started producing singles as well as albums with his wife, Yoko Ono.

Lennon's contract with EMI ended in 1975 with Shaved Fish, a Greatest Hits compilation, and Apple, the Beatles' company, also dissolved in 1976. This brought about a five-year hiatus to Lennon's music business.

He made a comeback in 1980 with his album Double Fantasy, which proved to be the very last he would ever release. Just a few weeks later, Lennon was shot multiple times by a deranged fan on 8 th December 1980.

John Lennon's death came just as he was about to embark on a new journey in his music career.

Lennon was fatally wounded as he and Ono were returning to the Dakota after a radio interview. The fan who shot Lennon had met him that evening and asked for an autograph that Lennon duly gave him.

As Ono and Lennon approached the entrance of the Dakota, Lennon was shot in the back four times with a special revolver. A police car rushed Lennon to Roosevelt Hospital, where, on arrival, he was pronounced dead.

The Dakota or the Dakota Apartments is a residential building situated on Central Park West and the Northwest corner of 72 nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

John Lennon's cause of death was four shots to the back from a close range fired by Mark David Chapman. When police arrived at the scene, Chapman was found sitting there reading The Catcher in the Rye, a novel by J. D. Salinger.

Chapman had developed a wish to Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in the novel who resented hypocrisy. Chapman had been a fan of Lennon but grew resentment towards him looking at his lavish lifestyle and lyrics of the songs "Imagine" and "God."

Chapman was especially incensed by a public remark that Lennon made about the Beatles, saying that the band was "more popular than Jesus." He did not have any previous criminal convictions but admitted to having contemplated killing other famous figures, including Elizabeth Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Paul McCartney, and Johnny Carson.

Chapman took retirement from his job as a security guard in Hawaii and planned John Lennon's assassination for three months before carrying it out. In Chapman's own , "He told us to imagine no possessions and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music."

John Lennon's death came just two months after his 40 th birthday.

John Lennon never got buried. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the area of New York City's Central Park, now called the Strawberry Fields.

John Lennon's cremation was private, and there was no funeral for the legend. However, a vigil was held for him by Yoko and Sean (John and Yoko's son) on December 1980 with a minute of silence.

A distraught and mournful Paul McCartney was approached by the press when he was on his way out of a studio for remarks over John Lennon's death. He could not articulate his sadness and blurted out words: "Drag, isn't it?"

Though he later paid a proper tribute to his ex Beatle fellow with the song "Here Today."

John Lennon's last , according to his wife, constituted his reply to her question, "Shall we go and have dinner before we go home?" To which Lennon said, "No, let's go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep."

The conversation took place shortly before Lennon's death while they were driving home from the Record Plant. Although, according to some accounts, Lennon shouted the words, "I'm Shot!" before falling to the ground.

Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Powell, was his fellow student at the Liverpool College of Arts. Cynthia got impregnated with Lennon's kid, and the couple got married on 23 rd August 1962.

Cynthia gave birth to Julian on 8 th April 1963. However, in November 1968, the couple got divorced with an out-of-court settlement.

Lennon started Yoko Ono even before his marriage with Powell had ended, and the two got married in March 1969. on 9 th October 1975, Ono gave birth to John Lennon's second son (first with her), Sean Lennon.

Lennon, as a performer and writer/co-writer, had 25 no.1 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He was ranked as the thirty-eighth greatest artist and the fifth-greatest singer of all time by .

However, his legacy with the Beatles, being the best-selling band of all time, is what he is known for the best. The band influenced pop culture in music, film, fashion, and global representation.

It all started in 1957 when Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time. The Quarrymen were getting ready for a performance at a church fete in Woolton when the bass player of the band introduced the sixteen-year-old rhythm guitarist, John Lennon, to his classmate, 15-year-old Paul McCartney.

McCartney joined the band for a couple of numbers that night and was offered a position in the Quarrymen.

Lennon and McCartney were the two songwriters in the band and they agreed to credit all the group's songs to Lennon-McCartney. Even on occasions where one of them would happen to write a song entirely on their own.

After a couple of band name changes, as well as member changes, what was once The Quarrymen became who we know them as, 'The Beatles.' The name came from combining the words "beat" and "beetles."

From 1960 to 1962, the band performed on and off in Hamburg with interspersed engagements in Liverpool. Brian Epstein saw the Beatles perform at the Cavern Club and approached the group about managing them on 10 th December 1961.

The Beatles signed their first contract with Epstein in January 1962. They recorded four songs, "PS I Love You," "Ask Me Why," "Besame Mucho," and "Love Me Do," at EMI Studios in London with producer George Martin on 6 th June that year.

The Beatles released their first single, "Please Please Me," in January 1963, which topped the UK charts. The song was just the first of a streak through 1970 that saw 11 of their 12 albums topping the UK Charts.

The Beatles have an estimated worldwide sales of over 600 million units and certified US sales of more than 183 million units. In 1988, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Band also appeared in five motion pictures between the years 1964 and 1970 and holds the records for most singles sold in the UK, most no.1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most no.1 albums on the UK Albums Chart.

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The Tragic Story of John Lennon's Untimely Death

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John Lennon's death is still considered one of the appalling events in rock music's long history. He was born on 9 th October 1940 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, while a German air raid was going on. John Lennon's death was untimely and evoked shock and deep sadness around the world.

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John Lennon left behind an indelible legacy of music that evoked a range of emotions. Songs like "Real Love" (with the Beatles), "Jealous Guy" and "Imagine," to name a few, were a testament to his musical genius.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon was fatally shot in front of his New York City home by crazed fan Mark David Chapman. Only two months earlier, on October 9, 1980, Lennon had celebrated his 40th birthday with his wife, Yoko Ono, and five-year-old son, Sean (who coincidentally shares the same birthday). The occasion was uniquely momentous for Lennon, as Ono had surprised both her husband and son with a sky-written message above their Manhattan apartment building: "Happy Birthday John & Sean - Love Yoko." That November, Lennon and Ono had released the collaborative project Double Fantasy, and only weeks before his tragic death, Lennon had been overjoyed by the news that the record had gone gold.

In an interview with Rolling Stone on December 5 - just three days before he was killed - Lennon had shared some eerily prophetic words of wisdom: "Give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it."

Lennon was in good spirits on the morning of December 8, 1980, but sadly, his life would be tragically cut short before the day's end. Below, we present a timeline of the legendary musician's final hours in detail.

11 a.m. - Rolling Stone magazine photographer Annie Leibovitz arrives at Lennon's apartment for a photo shoot. Around the same time, Lennon returns home after getting a haircut - reportedly in a 1950s Teddy Boy style - at an Upper West Side barbershop near the Dakota, the building where he and Ono live. During the shoot, Leibovitz wants to take a photograph of Lennon and Ono together, both nude, but digresses after Ono says she's uncomfortable with being completely nude. She takes a single Polaroid of a completely clothed Ono lying on her back and a naked Lennon, who's kissing and embracing his wife in a fetal-like position. Upon looking at the shot, the three know that they've created something profound. Incredibly impressed with the image, the couple tells Leibovitz, "You've captured our relationship exactly."

(The now-iconic photo would go on to be printed on Rolling Stone's cover on January 22, 1981. In 2005, it's named the "top cover of the previous 40 years" by the American Society of Magazine Editors.)

12 p.m. - Paul Goresh, a friend of Lennon's, makes small talk outside of the Dakota with a stranger he'd encountered there minutes earlier: 25-year-old Chapman. Chapman, who's holding a copy of Double Fantasy, tells Goresh that he's from Hawaii and is awaiting Lennon's exit from the building in hopes that he'll autograph his album.

Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS

12:40 p.m. - Employees from San Francisco's RKO Radio, including famed radio personality Dave Sholin, arrive at the Dakota for an interview with Lennon to promote Double Fantasy. A smiling Lennon "does a little jump in the air" and in a welcoming fashion announces, "Well, here I am, folks, the show's ready to begin!" He speaks candidly about the lost revolutionary focus of the 1960s and his advocacy for world peace and feminism. "Maybe in the '60s we were naïve and like children and later everyone went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of flowers and peace... The world is a nasty horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for,'" he said. "Right? Crying for it wasn't enough." When the interview comes to a close, Lennon remarks, "I consider that my work won't be finished until I'm dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time."

During the interview, his son Sean, accompanied by nanny Helen Seaman, returns home after spending time on Long Island.

4:30 p.m. - Lennon and Ono have exited the Dakota with the RKO Radio crew and are awaiting a ride to take them to the Record Plant studio in Midtown where they plan to work on a new single, "Walking On Thin Ice." During this time Chapman, his Double Fantasy copy still in hand, approaches Lennon and extends the album. When the former Beatle asks the stranger if he wants him to sign it, Chapman nods timidly. Standing nearby and camera in hand, Goresh takes a couple of photos of the two men. RKO's limo arrives shortly thereafter, and Sholin offers to give Lennon and Ono a lift to the studio.

5 p.m. - Lennon and Ono arrive at Record Plant, where they begin working with producer Jack Douglas on their new song, the lyrics of which would later prove strangely prescient: Walking on thin ice/ I'm paying the price/ For throwing the dice in the air/ Why must we learn it the hard way/ And play the game of life with your heart? ... I may cry some day/ But the tears will dry whichever way/ And when our hearts return to ashes/ It'll be just a story/ It'll be just a story. Lennon plays a guitar piece for the track-his last musical recording-before the jovial couple exits the studio.

10:50 p.m. - Husband and wife leave the studio and head home to the Dakota. After exiting their limo, Lennon makes eye contact with the awkward young man he'd met hours earlier: Chapman. With his now-signed album in hand, he's after more than an autograph this time. Seconds later, Chapman pulls out a .38 handgun and fires five shots at the musician, hitting Lennon four times in the back and chest. Lennon somehow manages to continue walking, eventually collapsing in the front vestibule of the Dakota. Strewn around him are a number of cassettes that he'd been holding.

A terrified Ono enters the building screaming, "John's been shot!" Seconds later, building worker Jay Hastings alerts the police. Officer Steve Spiro arrives at the scene within minutes and Lennon is taken to Roosevelt Hospital, near Central Park on 59th Street.

11:15 p.m. - After doctors in Roosevelt's emergency room spend several frantic minutes trying to save Lennon, Ono is approached by the head ER doctor. He informs her that the medical staff was unable to resuscitate her husband. Lennon is officially pronounced dead. Ono is hysterical for several minutes afterward. "She refused to accept or believe that," Lynn recalled in a 2005 interview with the Washington Post. "For five minutes, she kept repeating, 'It's not true. I don't believe you. You're lying.'" After regaining her composure, Ono asks Lynn to wait to publicly announce the news so that she can tell Sean.

ABC's Howard Cosell is first to break the news that Lennon has died, interrupting a Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. Cosell also announces that a special edition of Nightline will air 30 minutes after the game, providing additional information on the musician's death.

Photo: NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Following the report - and continuing for several days thereafter - thousands of Lennon fans unite near the Dakota to mourn the late musician. The public response to Lennon's murder is noted as the first of its magnitude since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Vigils are held in numerous locations worldwide.

Events are held around the world each December to commemorate the rock icon's death and everlasting impact.

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John Lennon left behind an indelible legacy of music that evoked a range of emotions. Songs like "Real Love" (with the Beatles), "Jealous Guy" and "Imagine," to name a few, were a testament to his musical genius. On December 8, 1980, Lennon was fatally shot in front of his New York City home by crazed fan Mark David Chapman.

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