30 Years Ago today. Dec 8th, 1980
Doesn't matter if you were a Beatle fan or not. I grew up with them. Watched them on Ed Sullivan on Feb 9/64.
I will never forget that night. Rot in hell Chapman! You wanted fame? You got it!
Me too Habs, for some reason his death did not really hit me, or that of Elvis.
When Jim Morrison died I cried, he I had seen in concert in 1970.
I was very upset when Agatha Christi passed on. The one person that died that shook me up big time was Isaac Asamove
I requested the day off from work to go to Boston for his remembrance and was denied.
Then there was Rex Stout, darn but that hurt as did Louis L' Amore.
When the Legions pass on, we who have received so much from them and did not fully appreciate their great works at the time find in the years following that they were a part of our lives that we can never physically go back to.
Especially in music that that brings us back to days gone by. I hear Elvis today singing Gospel music and I marvel over it. I hear the Beetles today and realise that I can go back in my mind to my youth for 3-4 minutes or so to old departed friends.
There will never be another Frank Sinatra or Ether Kitt, or Bing Crosby, however they left us the most precious gift, memory's.
John Lennon left music that is played world wide by full orchestras ----his music is for the ages.
