John Lennon - where were you 37 years ago today?

It was a Monday, I was 14 so I was probably at school in a double chemistry lesson or something equally as dreary.

It was 3.50am on Dec 9th UK time when he was shot.

8 December 1980: Shooting and death
Main article: Murder of John Lennon

Strawberry Fields in Central Park with the Dakota in the background
At around 10:50 p.m. (EST) on 8 December 1980, lone gunman Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the archway of the Dakota as Lennon and Ono returned to their Manhattan apartment from the Record Plant. Lennon was rushed in a police cruiser to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00 p.m. (EST).[137] Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.[138]
Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John", ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him."[139] His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created.[140] Chapman avoided going to trial when he ignored his attorney's advice and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life.[141] In 2016, he was denied parole for a ninth time.[142]

I was asleep....at a guess.

The day he died I went to a Queen concert at Wembley Arena, Freddie Mercury sang Imagine to a silent audience.

school - fast asleep in the lesson no doubt

Emo, Ono and Bono -   did they all meet up  ,or did i dream that scenario ?

Unborn, so where was I? Anyone?

I can't imagine.

Blimey Pumpy, that would have been an incredibly moving experience.

SV, if that was in reply to Baldy, nor would anyone.

Some pretty flimsy alibis in this thread. Paging CCDA.

I was sending hate mail to Paul McCartneys chiropodist. I'm just a jealous guy

Standing by the side of the M6 in the Lake District thumbing  a lift.

Don't know, probably at work if a weekday. Was long past caring about pop entertainers by then.

how do you sleep at night ?  you c>>>

It would be odd to lose sleep over any entertainer let alone a long dead one.

I was upstairs on the No7 having a smoke,somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I was upstairs on the No7 having a smoke,somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I was upstairs on the No7 having a smoke,somebody spoke and I went into a dream

At work. I couldn't believe the news

i was sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come

the leopard

i remember exactly were i was when i heard the news and many things about the days after,but i have to admit today is the first time i have remembered there was no funeral.

I didn't know that foxy ...

Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. ... Lennon was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, two days after his death; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon