My father's testicles, a quarter of a century ago.

John the sperm stumbles into the left testicle and announces: "John Lennon's been shot."

Neither I nor the other (aha, soon-to-be-failed) sperm know what he's talking about. Because, well, we're sperm.

"Woman" starts playing. Captive audience. Gah.



So you see, Lennon's death scarred me even before my conception.
Knecht | Homepage | 12.09.05 - 12:49 pm | #

Quite surprised they didn't re-release something for it.
US | Homepage | 12.09.05 - 4:01 pm | #

I wish you hadn't said a quarter of a century ago - how old does that make me feel?
J | 12.10.05 - 2:58 am | #

Sorry to come here and just talk about music...but either I had a nightmare, or Blink 182 have covered Another Girl, Another Planet. Ugh I feel unclean just typing those words.
joe | Homepage | 12.10.05 - 12:19 pm | #

Does anyone else have an utter inability to remember what they were doing at moments of great historical import?
looby | Homepage | 12.11.05 - 8:15 pm | #

I don't remember what I was doing when John Lennon died. I remember Elvis (riding my bike round the garages in Germany) and Princess Diana (sleeping) though.
Silver Lining | Homepage | 12.12.05 - 9:53 pm | #

John Lennon - was stood outside my Physics classroom

Elvis - was successfully chatting up a girl who later turned out to be a boy on a campsite in Brittany

Princess Diana - was sitting by the pool in Tenerife

Ian Curtis - was in the school canteen laughing at someone who'd written Love Will Tear Us Apart across the back of his blazer in chalk... until he broke the news

Kurt Cobain - has no memory

John Peel - has no precise memory but remembers A Free Man In Preston phoning up


... by the way, wasn't it Starting Over that went straight to Number One, it already being in the charts etc?
backroads | Homepage | 12.16.05 - 1:03 pm | #

backroads - it was, but I didn't hate that quite as much.
Beth | Homepage | 12.19.05 - 11:30 am | #

Diana - asleep in County Durham, 1 week before a trip to Paris

Twin Towers - in an office at the university, the staff email announcements page soon filled with people talking about non-specific groups/nations beginning all-out war against the USA

All the others - can't remember
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Southport: good skate park and an increasingly serious non-league football club - this was my understanding of Southport. But now, I discover that it's where John Lennon was shot, at a hairdresser's! Incredible.
Shane | Homepage | 12.20.05 - 7:32 pm | #