I was sick for a week. Describe your feelings when you heard JOHN Lennon was Shot and KILLED. I was Crying .....He was SO PEACEFUL and SO NON VIOLENT and He WAS SUCH a WONDERFUL MUSICAL INSPIRATION.....WHAT a SICKO. How come he is STILL ALIVE? I HATE CHAPMAN.....HE took OUR JOHN AWAY....

I never fully understand your sentences but they're very passionate despite.
I think you make this place a forum I will always visit.

Zelaira said:

[moving to Music: Non-Prince]

I was almost 10 years old when it happened, but I was already a big fan. I was hoping they'd give Chapman the chair. He's been up for parole but denied. You just KNOW someone is going to murder him if he ever gets out or prison.

AsianBomb777 said:

Bugger.

I remember I was 9, we were driving down wallace street it was on the radio and mum stopped the car to listen properly she was really sad, so I might've cried a little bit. I used to love watching the beatles records go round on the turntable because of the pretty spectrum in the middles.

LENNON, MY DARLING and YOKO were MY IDOLS. ALWAYS, I LOVED LENNON.... This Chapman was a TWISTED RELIGIOUS DRUGGIE FREAK. I CANNOT BELIEVE this guy isn't SIZZLELEAN.... HE DESTROYED THE MUSIC and THE TRUST ARTISTS HAVE FOR FANS AND HE WAS JUST a PSYCHO. POOR SEAN and YOKO. LENNON was a PEACEFUL INSPIRATIONAL FORCE. SUCH a HORROR STORY. How can this have HAPPENED? He WASN"T A FAN EITHER. He HATEd HIM. HE Thought he was a PHONEY. CHAPMAN HATED LENNON. FANS DO NOT KILL THEIR HEROS. That woman who killed SELINA was a NUT who WORKED for her and STOLE MONEY and SELINA was FIRING HER FOR STEALING. SOMEONE who LOVES/WORSHIPs IDOLIZES....DOES NOT HURT OR KILL THEIR IDOL. REMEMBER that PEOPLE so If You are HATING on a PERFORMER there is SOMETHING REALLY WRONG. We MUST LOOK UP to our CELEBRITIES for THEIR WONDERFUL GIFTS/ MUSICAL JOY they BRING INTO OUR HEARTS. LOVE EACH OTHER.... ALWAYS BE GODLIKE....

Zelaira said:

You forgot Julian.

Zelaira said:

Is your keyboard working alright Zelaira?

althom said:

TMPletz said:

Ahhh..that explains it.

Dateline has the whole story on right now. This guy heard voices. He was Mentally Ill looking to become Famous by Killing John Lennon. Couldn't he do Charity work Instead and Do GOOD WORK HELPING PEOPLE? WHY HURTING? SO SICK a CREATURE ...SO SAd and Yes, I forgot about JULIEN. A real GARBAGE HEAD. Can't someone off this dude in PRISON ALREADY? Damn , ya woulda thought so. They killed Jeffrey DAHMEr why NOT CHAPMAN? I Wonder.....He took a GREAT PERSON From this EARTH...

TMPletz said:

Poor Julian ,he always was forgotten !

my Mum is a big fan of his ,she made me watch Imagine and i read a biography about him..it was so sad how he died.

Yoko was a bitch though

He is getting the fame that he wanted. What a sick man...

They CAN"T EVER LET HIM OUT. HE has NEVER shown REMORSE. Surely, he'll NEVER be let out Right? I HOPE NOT!

i was 12 when John was killed and was not really aware of him as being JOHN LENNON. i remember hearing about it on TV though.

now, years later, i have become a huge fan of both the Beatles and John as a person, and have read a number of books about John's life and i admit that i always tear up and cry for him when i reread about how savagely and senselessly his life was stolen from him. such a horrible, horrible thing and waste of a life.

mark david chapman is a nothing better than a turd. the media should be giving that scum NO ATTENTION WHATSOEVER. he deserves to be left in his cell and ignored for the rest of his days. it makes me sick that he gives interviews and that people even bother listening to what he has to say. i know i don't.

Nikki23 said:

he really was/is.

i recently read Cynthia Lennon's book about John. poor Julian. he seems like a very sweet and nice person. my heart went out to both he and Cynthia.

Yeah John really left Julian out in the cold. A Shame.

Zelaira said:

Dateline said he's up for parole in 2006.
They also said he feels that allowing these tapes to heard on national TV will hurt his chances for parole in 06. GOOD!!!!

From last year:

Lennon killer denied parole
From CNN Assignment Editor Jonathan Wald in New York
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Posted: 10:44 AM EDT (1444 GMT)

(CNN) -- John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole for the third time.

In explaining their decision to Chapman on Tuesday, the New York State Division of Parole wrote that it "was based on the extreme malicious intent you exhibited during the instant offense where you fired a handgun multiple times striking your target -- John Lennon."

During a 29-minute interview with a panel of three parole commissioners, Chapman said he killed Lennon because he thought it would generate attention, according to the Division of Parole's statement.

"Although proven true, such rationale is bizarre and morally corrupt," the statement said.

Chapman, 49, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life in prison for shooting and killing Lennon, one of the four Beatles, outside Lennon's New York City apartment on December 8, 1980.

He has served 24 years of his sentence at the maximum-security Attica Correctional facility in Buffalo, New York, and was previously turned down for parole in 2000 and 2002. He will next be eligible for parole in October 2006.

Chapman is held in a building with 105 other prisoners "who are not considered to pose a threat to him," said Linda Foglia of the New York State Department of Correctional Services.

Chapman has his own prison cell but, according to Foglia, "spends most of his day outside his cell working on housekeeping and in the library."

Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, submitted a letter requesting that parole be denied. According to Ono's legal representative, it was the same letter Ono submitted for the previous parole hearings.

Ono said that if Chapman were released, "myself and John's two sons would not feel safe for the rest of our lives -- people who are in positions of high visibility and outspokenness such as John would also feel unsafe."

Lennon's murder "managed to change my whole life, devastate his sons, and bring deep sorrow and fear to the world," the letter says.

Over 6,000 people have signed an online petition opposing the release of Chapman.

"Chapman committed a heinous crime, unprovoked and without remorse," the petition says. "He should not be free to harm anyone else. ... Please do not let this man back on the streets."

Some of those who signed the petition included threats of violence against Chapman if he were released.

In her letter to the parole board, Ono said Chapman would not be safe outside of prison. "He will cease to have the security that the state provides him now."

Lennon would have turned 64 this Saturday. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are the only remaining living members of the popular group.

I accidently met this weirdo at a bar years ago who had a van completely pasted with "Stephen King killed John Lennon". I mean the whole van was covered with it. You can actually look it up on google probably if you put that quote in the search. I had a discussion with him about how wrong he was, and he ended up getting REALLY mad at me. I think he was schizophrenic.

It seems like one of the networks does a special on Lennon and Chapman every year (there was one just this Friday). It's fucking crazy. Lennon was before my time (my mother said she was up with me as a baby when she heard about it) but yes, he is sorely missed.

Lennon - The greatest songwriter to ever grace the earth

Chapman - Fucked up sicko

you choose....

I watched it on t.v yesterday.....it's really sad...don't know what to say.

Nikki23 said:

Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude for Julian Lennon, I love that song.

Nikki23 said:

I read he used to hit her and he kicked his son once and he would yell and go into a rage sometimes...i hope not.

I was really young when John Lennon was killed, so I don't really recall much of it. But my first time in NY, just as we were walking past the spot where he was killed, someone with us mentioned it and I froze in my tracks. Freaked me the hell out.

NEXT MONTH THEY are going to Have GATHERINGS DEC 9th at STRAWBERRY FIELDS and In LIVERPOOL.....
[Edited 11/19/05 19:24pm]

nevermind
[Edited 11/19/05 23:18pm]

unlucky7 said:

He was pretty violent as a young man. When he toured with The Beatles in Germany before they got famous he was often involved in fights and once left one guy for dead. The Beatles claimed that they never knew if the guy recovered or not. So I guess it's possible that he lashed out at Yoko on occasion.