Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The last photos of John



Photos by Paul Goresh 

 

December 8, 1980


So much sadness is in these photos.   I keep thinking about how these shouldn't be sad photos.  They should just be some typical run of the mill snapshots of John Lennon on his way to the studio.   

I really don't have much more to say.   Like all of you, I love and miss John Lennon.   What more is there to say today? 

9 comments:

  1. I'm crying right now as I was 40 years ago. I was 13 then.

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    1. I was only 4 years old, but I am crying with you.

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    2. thanks my dear Sara

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  2. Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful boy... thank you Sara, you help ease the pain with your site.

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  3. I was twenty and I'll never forget that night. I gathered with close friends and we spent the night huddled around the radio in shock. The next morning I had a friend leaving to join the Navy and he wanted to spend one last day with me. He found a deserted road where the county tested the road-striping machine and we drove up and down with hundreds of stripes going this way and that. I was punch-drunk from being up all night and found it all surreal. I also remember being shocked that the trees were still here, as was the rest of the world. My hero was gone and my friend was leaving, yet here it all was as before.

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  4. My dumb luck: I became a Beatlemaniac in 1976 just after John went into seclusion. For the next 4 years I would often say to myself "I wonder what John is doing at this very moment". Then the 1980 Newsweek interview -- for the first time, I was reading a PRESENT DAY interview with John...and he's recording again?! I still remember the exhiliration of reading that interview....but then to suddenly lose him all over again, and how we died. I heard Cosell that night on TV, it was like a concrete block slammed into my gut. Hugh McCracken said it so very well: I'm never, ever going to get over it.

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  5. no fan who heard Howard Cosell that night will ever forget

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  6. I was still in college at a friend's house watching the football with a room full of people, all of whom knew what a massive Beatles fan I was. When the news was announced it felt like the earth had opened up and was swallowing me up. It was made worse by the fact that everyone was looking at me for my reaction. I waited a short time after the news and made my excuses to leave. I went home and cried in disbelief. 40 years later and I still can't stand to see anything related to that day. Even the Goresh photo (which we all know has the "Jerk of all jerks" cropped out of it) is something I had to quickly scroll by.

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