Comments on: Watching The Wheels

By: C.R.U

C.R.U — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:59:52 +0000

I wish so many things, but there is nothing I want more, than for John Lennon to be alive. I am only 12 years old, and I love him like he’s my own father. He was a man who loved life, and respected it. My dad told me that when it happened. He felt the whole world go quiet. As there was one less person in it. One less person that cared for everyone. Let John Lennon rest in Peace. And let his music live forever.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:41:03 +0000

every coincidences made a legend, though some of them are about sadness…

even if john’s no longer stay with us, we still are drunk in the sea of his music.

sincerely wish john would be happy in the other side of the world…

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By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:19:55 +0000

And I think Annie Leibovitz’s photo of Yoko and John, above, is one the most beautiful images of heterosexual love ever created.

(I’m sorry she’s moved in such a commercially misogynistic direction in more recent years, but that image is as feminist woman-loving as it gets, if portraying heterosexuality.)

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:14:29 +0000

I just listened to a Beatles radio program recently which focused not on John, but on you know who. I decided not to post on John, in part knowing you would and I could come here and find someone who feels so similarly.

I have such mixed feelings about noting the date that someone was brutally killed, as an anniversary.

And regardless, I do clearly remember the very moment I heard the news. I remember staying up most of the night listening to two radio stations at once, trying to get all the latest information–maybe this wasn’t true?? I kept hoping it was all a mistake, or that John would life through it–and listening to all the Beatles and Plastic Ono Band work John had done.

I agree with the sentiments you express here, Cara.

And not because I share the name, but it really is quite tragic, especially, that as Julian and John were repairing a very rended relationship, John was taken out so violently, and permanently.

It was all so devastating and horrifying. It comes back to me as if it were last week, not almost thirty years ago.

I’m glad Yoko and Sean had one another, and that Julian had Cynthia.

And it is all still so sad.

By: Sarah TX

Sarah TX — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:21:20 +0000

I am sort of crazy about pictures of Lennon and Ono during that period of time. There is something so essentially human in their faces – it always gives me hope that everything will turn out alright in the end. The fact that, well, it doesn’t turn out all right at all just makes them all the more bittersweet.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:13 +0000

Thank you for this post. It makes me want to learn more about John Lennon.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:16:26 +0000

I will never forget that day either…
I was a senior in HS, & our normally calm, cool, & collected English Literature teacher sat at her desk all day, weeping & playing Beatles & JL’s music. It was a day of mourning.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:35:55 +0000

Rest in Peace, John

I understand why you dont want MDC’s name used here – it’s the same reason the people of Dunblane don’t want their killer named in books etc – so he doesn’t overshadow his victim(s)

twenty-nine years on… doesnt seem that long and yet twenty-nine years before that was World War II and the Blitz

There are so many “what-if”s that run through my mind on this date

Thankfully the parole board will never release MDC