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Not pro shot, too small & dark to watch

this concert [and this footage] STILL looks amazing. wish i could have seen them then. @TVRproductions: thanks for uploading and sharing.

When I hear the first few reports at the start, I cant help but think come on John pull through

I was there Memphis show 8/12/1979

I just turned 17 years old getting ready for bed listening to the radio Monday Night Football then I heard the news I started to cry went downstairs to see my dad and we were in shock so sad I’ll never forget RIP J L now I’m 60

WE WAS RED ZONE !! YES

Lennon’s death along with Elvis, Freddie Mercury, and Michael Jackson were without a doubt the saddest and most devastating musician deaths in history.

I was listening to WPLJ when the announcement was made... im having flashbacks of doing my homework listening to music (WPLJ was my favorite)then mark says" omg john lennon has been shot". Hearing this im a kid again totally disillusioned to johns murder

Her gorgeous curly hair is EVERYTHING!

Remember it well,sitting in a run down apartment watching a 12 inch B/W TV when Howard Cosell made the announcement.

Thank you for this important piece of music history.

I heard about this from the car radio, on the freeway. The DJ said, "Some wacko emptied a gun into John Lennon tonight" 'emptied a gun' I violently pulled over and went into shock. I saw The Beatles, live, on my 9th B-day ! Aug 1965 Portland OR I imagined John as my older brother, being in the same 'room' and all, we made a connection.

I eas 16 and had posters of him and the Beatles all over my bedroom wall when this happened. I was devastated I still miss him but i am glad I got to be alive when he was alive. He was so funny,positive and brilliant. ☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟

So sad. I will never forget that terrible day.

4:06 awww

I was FIVE when John was murdered. But it affected me BIG-TIME. I had been listening to Beatles records since before I can literally remember. On December 24, 1979 (we celebrate on Xmas Eve since my family is Swedish), my parents got me the REVOLVER album. It fascinated me. It is (to this day) my favorite Beatles album. JUST UNDER ONE YEAR LATER, I woke up (December 9, 1980) to a pre-winter's day. My parents had decided NOT to tell me that John was dead. (They thought that telling me that John was murdered would upset & scare me too much...I WAS only five.) But I clearly remember a few of my teachers around my Kindergarten class being teary and upset that next morning. Finally, that night, my parents could not avoid it. We would watch the Network news every single night...and they had to let me see it. I CRIED. I did not understand. As such a young child, seeing that my hero had died, I could only ask my parents, "The news said that the guy who killed him was a Beatles fan. Why would a Beatles fan kill a Beatle?" And my dad could only answer: "He was crazy." It confused me. I simply COULD NOT understand why this had happened or why this man would do such a horrible thing. JOHN HAD A SON EXACTLY MY AGE!!! I still don't understand.

God bless John Lennon's family.

I was visiting friends in Los Angeles when the news came over the radio. I had recently recorded at Warner Brothers, backing a musician friend named John Dunn. He was the very embodiment of John Lennon - including his music style. At first I thought the radio reported that John Dunn was killed. Then I realized it was John Lennon. A week later, John Dunn was coming home from the Lennon vigil in LA. The car he was riding in rounded a blind mountain curve and slammed into a car wreck. The passenger door flung open, and John flew off a cliff - where he died immediately. It was spooky.

A caller requested "The Tide is High" by Blondie.... ironically Sean Lennon said that his father loved that song and would sing it to him. 😔

▫️◽ AWESOME

We were in the 18th row ground floor seats and almost half the time I was small enough and light enough people were letting me up on their shoulders I don't think you could get any closer than four or five rows the aisle was closed off and people were letting me sit up on their shoulders and take pictures and then these m************ over at the photo mat you remember those little huts My dad bought like blew his f****** gaskets because I dropped off three rolls of film as something like 50 pictures taken at that concert and the m************ at the photo hut stole them they developed two pictures out of 50 pictures and the rest were blanks like they just stole my f****** film and that was the great last real tour to me when Chris still had their makeup the costumes the whole big circus top show like that was one of the last tours they really did the big production and it was just f****** incredible I mean I was 11 years old and I just like tried pod a few times and there was so much pot smoke in that place that I was high the entire time

I have been looking forever My aunt is dead now and she took me for my 11th birthday to the dynasty tour live in Chicago amphitheater and I have looked and looked over the years to try to find that very concert that was the very first concert I ever went to and they had Judas priest for opening act

I like to delude myself listening to the early stuff here and think it’ll be ok and we’re just waiting for the news saying he’s ok.

I was 9 years old and had become a CNN junkie for a while. I got up early before school the morning after, turned on the TV and heard the news. I didn't really know much about John Lennon, but I remember being shocked and saddened. At 9 years old, I couldn't imagine how someone could kill anyone in such a manner, let alone a celebrity. I still feel the same way at 52 years old. Continue to RIP Mr Lennon.

That's the Mark Goodman that later went on to become a MTV VJ?

Wow I was watching Monday Night Football with my dad, I was 14. I had just bought Double Fantasy a week prior. Felt like a sucker punch to the gut. I didn't go to school the next day, stayed up all night listening to BBC on short wave. Like Gifford said, it really did shake up the world 😪

Wow!!!! Amazing

Este dia mudou a minha vida. Os Beatles me acompanham desde então. Eu tinha 14 anos e nunca mais os abandonei.

She sounds amazing👏👍

I came here hoping to find out what song was playing when the announcement of the shooting was made, right in the middle of the song. I was a high school sophomore doing homework in my room, listening to 'PLJ, which was a fantastic rock station at the time (pre-internet and cell phone, radio was everything). Once I heard Lennon was dead, I went downstairs and asked my parents if they knew who John Lennon was (of course they did). The next day at school, most of my young teachers who grew up on Beatles music -- who worshipped the Beatles -- were clearly devastated.

I was born 13 years later so I obviously don’t remember it but I’m doing research on what happened that night and I even visited the Dakota building in July.

What a treasure, i mean i bet it was quite hard to sit thru this when it occurred yet i bet most desired to hear WHY this craziness did occur and WHO could do such a dirty act as they say shooting him in the back but today we know Lennon was assassinated from the front this ever so valuable home recording is rife with references to the shots to the chest. An incredible presentation which had a great story of how you saved and converted this audio file over the years. Can I ask are there any stops in this record or is it just all one piece and they did forgo the commercial breaks? I get it now the music is cut out so i presume you took out commercials as well

I miss Sam Goody..

December 8 is my mother’s birthday as well as singer Jim Morrison’s birthday. On December 8, 1980, I was a 20 year old college student in NYC listening to FM radio at night in my dorm room. I thought it was Carole Miller on WPLJ but I’m a little fuzzy on that memory. Probably WPLJ. Or was it WNEW or WLIR? They were playing a Doors rock block to honor Jim Morrison. I hit the head down the hall and maybe took a shower. When I came back to my room they were playing Beatles music. I wondered what happened to The Doors songs and then they announced that John Lennon was dead. I was shocked like so many other students up and down the hall in my dorm at SUNY Maritime. Every room was playing a radio with John Lennon’s music.

Paul did not have not anything to say other then, it’s a Drag.

Bad night. Good night John. We have missed you since Dec 8, 1980. Chapman must remain in jail. No mercy. Bad dude.

screw ball lol thats a stupid remark why dont they say mentally ill

Moron DJ gets news of the shooting of John Lennon and promptly plays a Rolling Stones record.

I decided long ago never to say the killer's name nor watch anything online about him. He got the fame he wanted and the association to John. Let's make him go away.

Thank you for sharing.

this is what rob zombie wanted to be.

Hi Tony!

It's crazy how so much has changed in the last 30 years. But not Mariah though. She's accomplished so much.

What a piece of history you give us here. Thanks my friend.

I was watching Monday nite football when Howard cosell announced John Lennon was shot & killed there's. Been only a few times I cried in 1968 when my grandfather died in March Martin Luther King in April & Bobby Kennedy later that year then when Elvis died in Aug of 77 & that night Lennon was killed all those times I'd like to forget 💔 it hurt so much I was an Elvis fan & a Beatles fan & John was my favorite Beatle & I had bought the double fantasy lp 😢😢😢

Priceless!!!, Genuine & historical material.

Love this band!!! Thanks buddy.

One of the best top class act of that era.

❤❤❤

Why u never walk in front and get your CD signed?