Mark Chapman was there ready for him, with a duplicate of JD Salinger’s novel Catcher within the Rye and the LP Lennon had signed for him hours earlier. Because the musician walked previous him, Chapman pulled out a gun and shot him a number of occasions within the again.
The senselessness of the homicide despatched shockwaves of disbelief around the globe. It’s troublesome to overestimate the profound affect of The Beatles as a cultural phenomenon, and what they meant to folks. It wasn’t simply pop stars. They modified the panorama of widespread music. Their experiments with music, movie, trend, medication and faith have been on the forefront of the Sixties, when the world appeared to be present process seismic modifications. Their music had soundtracked the lives of a whole era of individuals, permitting them to attach with what was occurring round them and with one another.
After the taking pictures, grief-stricken followers flocked to the Dakota Constructing to go away flowers and playing cards. For days, radio stations performed nothing however songs by The Beatles and John Lennon. In his residence metropolis of Liverpool, 30,000 folks gathered for a ten-minute silence, as did greater than 225,000 in Central Park, close to the place he was shot useless.
A deeper that means
His music, which had meant a lot to folks throughout his lifetime, took on a good deeper that means after his dying. In Britain, the track (Simply Like) Beginning Over from the Double Fantasy album reached primary within the charts, solely to be shortly knocked off the highest spot by 1971’s Think about, which in flip was adopted by Girl. His final album grew to become a worldwide hit and subsequently gained a Grammy for album of the 12 months.
Within the a long time since, the one query that has haunted followers is that this: If Lennon had not been murdered that day, would the Beatles have finally reunited to make extra music?
