You can watch the home movie of John's birthday here (I can't get the youtube embedding to work at all!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH84gfI_EsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH84gfI_EsU
You may recall this post I made about the 14 year old kid who got the left over piece of John Lennon's birthday cake in 1971. Well here are some fan - type photos (not sure who took them) of John and Yoko cutting that cake on John's birthday. If John were alive today, he would be celebrating his 69th birthday. In his memory and honor I have made this blog.
also it was the Birthday of John's son, Sean. he was born on Oct.9,1975 in NYH at 2 am thru CS..
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Yeah, but this picture is from 1971.
DeleteNothing to do to save his life; call his wife in.
ReplyDeleteAll he was saying was, "Give peace a chance".
When a celebrated person passes on, we may pause and reflect for a moment on his or her life and career, but then we move on. We may watch with appreciation the brilliant performance of a long dead James Dean in the film Giant and think not a thing about his absence from our lives. That's not the case in this instance.
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I sure do miss John Lennon.
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Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans
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Anyone who was living in Goshen, NY in December 1980 will remember this:
Six days after he died, on Saturday the fourteenth, a worldwide vigil in John's memory was held at 2 PM EST. For ten minutes there was silence - peace - all across the planet earth. I had a couple friends over to observe the event on television. In the village of Goshen, although it had been a clear and sunny day, the moment the vigil began at two o'clock, it began to snow - and not just flurries - for ten solid minutes there was a blinding blizzard. At exactly 2:10, the moment the vigil ended, the snow stopped and the sun came out. His child-like, 1971 anthem, Imagine, drifted through the ether:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
It was only at that moment that I felt happy for John Lennon.
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
That film was shot in the Syracuse, NY Hotel by the way.
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