On this day in 1980, Beatles star John Lennon was brutally shot to death by an obsessed fan outside the Dakota Building in New York City. The world mourned the tragic death of a man who imagined only peace.
John Winston Lennon
(9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)
Imagine with Lyrics
From Music Review: John Lennon - Imagine:
In 1971, John Lennon followed his first post Beatles solo release John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band with perhaps his best known album Imagine. Best known largely because of the strength of the single taken from it that has become something of a John Lennon anthem.
Who can forget that film of him at his grand piano in the white room of his Tittenhurst Park mansion in Berkshire?
Photo Credit: Tittenhurst Park
Who can forget the emotional scenes outside the Dakota Building during which the song was played over and over again when news of his murder became public?
The word Imagine fittingly became the centre of the display at the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park.
Imagine, the John Lennon Memorial
Imagine if John Lennon were alive today. . .
And the music goes on beating to the rhythm of the changing times...