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[quote=Anonymous]I find this thread touching. It's comforting to know that other people have had personal reactions to the deaths of performers and others whom they didn't know personally.

I wasn't particularly a fan of John Lennon (didn't dislike him! He just didn't light me up) but at the time he was murdered, my two closest friends were both VERY intense Lennon fans, fans of both his Beatles days and all his solo work after that. So heard about Lennon all the time and saw Lennon posters etc. all over their rooms and so on. I appreciated how much they appreciated him.

I heard the news on the radio as I drove to high school that morning and had to pull over, I was so shaken. I rushed to school to try to find one friend, but didn't see him until our one class together about an hour later -- he walked in and put his head on his desk and didn't raise it the entire period. Amazingly the teacher, who was kind of an oblivious, jokey type, actually must have heard the news and known about my friend's obsession with Lennon, because (God bless that teacher) she completely let him be. I spent the whole class period staring at his head and waiting to hug him.

The other friend was in college locally and my first fear was that she would try to rush to New York to be where Lennon died, and wouldn't be driving safely because she'd be so upset. It took all day to reach her (pre-cell-phone, folks!). She said she had started out on 95 heading to NYC and realized that there was nothing she could actually do by being there and that she felt that "John would have told me to go to class instead" -- she was an art student and one thing she had loved about Lennon was his visual sense and his drawings.

It was a horrible time and it didn't end that day or that week. Both of them cried a lot and the one artist friend truly was affected for years afterward. I think the nature of Lennon's death, murdered by a fan when Lennon was still so young, so fully creative, and had so recently issued a new album which both friends were delving deeply into it all the time -- I think that really made it harder on them than if he'd been ill or died suddenly but of natural causes.

Wow, this is bringing it al back with such clarity. What a time. [/quote]

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