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Post by plasticpenguin on Dec 8, 2015 2:35:27 GMT
One of the saddest musical days I've experienced. I remember everything about the 8th December 1980.
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Post by ace5150 on Dec 8, 2015 5:52:02 GMT
Me too. I'd just been sacked the same day as Lennon got whacked.
I'd been to a great gig on the 5th, had the weekend off as normal, went in on Monday morning and was sacked for taking the 5th off, even though I'd agreed it with my head chef.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2015 7:13:13 GMT
I remember travelling to work that day and the 8.00 am news broadcast came on the radio. I was absolutely gutted. I spent the whole day just moping around and ringing my parents to see if they had heard any more details.
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Post by daz on Dec 8, 2015 8:02:26 GMT
I was 7 and can remember wondering what all the fuss was about. I appreciate it more now though.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Dec 8, 2015 11:37:08 GMT
I was only 21 months old but my mum will remember it and so does my dad.
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Post by vicboy on Dec 8, 2015 22:00:45 GMT
Yes, a sad day indeed. I vividly remember hearing the news.
I was on nights and it was a quiet one. I was only a junior computer operator at the time and was working on the print floor. We had seen off the night's work by around 4 and were sitting about laughing and joking when one of the senior shift staff came down from the control floor. I can still so clearly him saying, in a bit of a smarmy way because he was a knob, 'any of you lot like the Beatles? Well, if you do don't go hoping for a reunion cos' John Lennon has just been murdered'.
It shook me to the core although I was only 20 and I have never forgotten how the idiot who told us thought it rather amusing. It proved he was a knob and he stayed that was for the next 13 years until I left the company!
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Post by jno on Dec 9, 2015 4:36:45 GMT
I was only a junior computer operator at the time and was working on the print floor. I know that job, worked as a computer operator straight out of leaving school on a 3090 mainframe in 1990 - fortunately too young to be given night shifts though - we were swimming in paper back then. I must confess the only thing I remember about Lennon being killed is repeats of 'Imagine' on telly which stills goes on. Too young to remember it. |
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Post by vicboy on Dec 9, 2015 20:17:47 GMT
A 3090 mainframe! Yup, IBM mainframes were the whole of my IT career. Fantastic machines, still forming the backbone of nearly all financial transacting today. The company I learned my trade at was wholly owned by Natwest Bank and its entire history illustrates how the world changed from the 1960's to the 1990's.
The company became the biggest computer bureau in Europe and the fourth biggest in the world, at one time in the mid 1980's processing about 1/5th of the UK's payroll needs. At its height it had 42 operators per shift, plus all the relevant support staff on call.
A terrific job and hard to believe that in the early 1980's there used to be a weekly computer newspaper advertising only operator jobs, pages and pages of them. My mate and I saw one advert in 1981 for operators in Saudia Arabia. We applied, were interviewed a week later and off to Saudi the very next day. Spent two years there and got a Rolex as the first year's profit sharing bonus. Came back and returned to the same company as before to become a COBOL programmer.
Great, great days in a world that had still to turn in on itself and where getting on was all about hard work and not just talking the talk. I would hate to be young today.
(Apologies for the diversion away from John Lennon here..)
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Post by ace5150 on Dec 9, 2015 20:34:12 GMT
Me too. I'd just been sacked the same day as Lennon got whacked. I'd been to a great gig on the 5th, had the weekend off as normal, went in on Monday morning and was sacked for taking the 5th off, even though I'd agreed it with my head chef. Appallingly, the other commis chef they took on with me worked over the Christmas period and was sacked on 2nd January for no other reason than the trade had dropped off, so I dodged a bullet.....something John didn't! Back then, you simply rang another hotel and you were working the next day. The band I saw was NWOBHM finest, Saxon. And I STILL maintain it was worth it! |
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Post by felixdeburgh on Dec 9, 2015 20:39:58 GMT
I remember the day vividly. My Dad woke me up to tell me the news but I didn't believe him and it was only when I heard it on the radio that I realised it was true. It didn't register that he'd been murdered. I went off to school where it was naturally the topic of conversation but it was only when I was on the way home sat on the top deck of the bus and I saw an advertising board for the Liverpool Echo outside a newsagents that said, 'John Lennon Murdered' that it really hit home. It was at that moment that I realised that The Beatles were no more and we'd been robbed of one of the greatest talents this country has ever seen. Even now it shocks me occasionally when I think that he was murdered rather than dying from a drugs overdose or in a car crash which is the usual way for rock stars to go. An absolute tragedy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 9:00:16 GMT
I remember collecting every single John Lennon commemorative magazine that were quickly in all good newsagents. Long since thrown away now.......
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Post by dscarter1975 on Dec 10, 2015 19:09:12 GMT
Lewis Collins had known John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles from his time in Liverpool during the 1960s.
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Post by mybodyguard on Dec 10, 2015 23:34:45 GMT
For some reason, I don't recall anything about the day or even hearing the news. I actually don't think I learned of it until months later. I do vividly remember when President Ronald Reagan was shot and that was only a few months later.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 7:41:25 GMT
For some reason, I don't recall anything about the day or even hearing the news. I actually don't think I learned of it until months later. I do vividly remember when President Ronald Reagan was shot and that was only a few months later. I remember that, it was a Monday night and they interrupted a repeat of 'The Sweeney' to tell us that the silly fool had missed the old duffer!  |
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Post by Portland Road on Dec 14, 2015 8:08:11 GMT
I remember when John Lennon died. As we were getting up on the morning my mam told us she had heard it on the radio.
We got the bus to school in darkness (it was Dec of course) and people were saying "have you heard" etc....
It was all over the TV that evening - the whole of 'Nationwide' seem to be devoted to it, and IIRC Alan Price for some reason was interviewed as a studio guest about his memories of John Lennon.
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Post by thewoodster on Oct 15, 2018 9:31:02 GMT
A day in history
RIP John Lennon.
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