Lennon's death didn't impact me in quite the same way as someone who was mourning Lennon the man or the music he created. I mourned something else.
Mark David Chapman, murderer of John Lennon, was again denied parole, this time on what would have been Lennon's 62nd birthday. (See Eric Olsen's article on the subject.)…
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26 - HW Saxton
John Lennon was murdered 40 years ago???
That's very interesting...
27 - JR
No, that was Paul McCartney.
Except, I thought it was a car accident.
28 - LennonLover2005
Ya doof...John was assassinated 25 YEARS ago...in 1980...Paul was dead when he made crap albums but now he is alive since his new cd came out.It is brilliant and I think his producer should get a Grammy for best producer!
29 - America's Subcouncious voice
Come On Guys, Don't Hate Chapman, he was just the trigger who was brainwashed, do you want to find the real assasin minds behind Lennon's murder? How about these: * richard nixon, ronald reagan, j. edgar hoover et. al. tha cia was in charge of convincing chapman to pull the trigger.
THE CIA KILLED JOHN WINSTOPN LENNON.
research the web men, that's why it was made for.
oh, and one more thing, just cuz we all live in america, it doesn't mean that we must fear the goverment or its institutions.
30 - anon
mark Chapmam should die like John did.
31 - sf
die Chapman die u bugger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
32 - Ian
It all goes back to the Maharishi. The yogi was riding high on the fame of being attached to the Beatles, probably the most influential cultural icons of the 20th Century! They had a fallout over there in India and whatever happened led to Lennons press statement announcing that the Yogi was "human". Basically one word from Lennon and the Maharshi's ride was over! Apparently on Lennon's departure from the gathering in India the Yogi through him the old "I'll kill you" look! An ironic connection... Mark David Chapman was also a student of the Yogi and spent a short time studying in India in the mid 70's. A connection, or coincidence?
Ian
33 - Sinbad
Oh puleeeeez! Lennon was a pot head, millionare rock star. Nothing more.
The sad reality is that Yoko was behind it all the time. Desparate to start her own singing career and annoyed at Lennon's hesitation in promoting her, she arranged for the murder. If they were so much in love how come she hurridly walked several steps ahead of him that day? How come she pointed ignored Chapman depsite him greeting her moments before?
Of course everyone would incoproate their murdered loved one's bloody eye glasses into their art work, like Yoko did. Wouldn't you?
Within months, people could could not get enough Yoko and her crappy music propelled to the forefront.
Let's not be so naive, people.
"If dis is love, in Paradise..."
34 - Marz
mark david chapman the most hated man ever
i will always hate him!
i hope he dies a slow and painful death
35 - big hunlo
He should of grabbed john & yoko tied up yoko and made love to john singing imagine what the fuck is lennon a god?no! you freak fucking hippy weirdos so what get over it
36 - Mike T.
I agree that Yoko was totally behind it. Despite their alleged support for "free love" she was pissed at his constant screwing around. They had actually argued that night because he told her she simply had no musical talent. That's they walked separately from the limo before Chapman shot him. Yoko marched ahead, pissed. Lennon was walking slowly behind, and all he could think of was getting into the Dakota Building, lighting a joint, taking a few hits and spending the rest of the night stoned. But Yoko signalled Chapman by walking ahead first and the rest is history.
37 - beadtot
Had all concerned agreed that 'The Beatles' is an album theme, then probably no one would have had a hair harmed on any of their heads.
38 - John K.
I first met John Lennon when we worked together at an anti war rally helping to end the Vietnam war. Obviously he would not have supported the current war, occupation in Iraq or George Bush's failed policies. At that time Lennon privately told me "John, someday this country will see the light and will elect a man like you as president."
Sadly he was murdered before he could see that day arrive. As president I promise that I will never, ever pardon Mark David Chapman for his terrorist act.
Keep the John Lennon's dream alive and visit my site to see how we can make it happen. Together, we can honor his memory in a way he would have wanted.
39 - John Kerry
STOP ALITO! As a man who pesonally met John Lennon, I can personally and confidently say he would not have supported Samuel Alito being on the Supreme Court. I do not need to repeat the stories about racism, misogyny, illegal strip searches of innocent children, the murder of innocent black youths by police, the list goes on and on. Last week, I left an important economic conference, trying to turn around the republican economic disaster, and I proposed and am leading a filibuster of this nomination. Join me and my colleagues in the senate in stopping this latest Bush insult to America. John Lennon would have wanted it that way. Sincerely, John Kerry.
40 - krassimira
die mark i want you to die soon
41 - Christopher Rose
Your story is very sad, Michele; I hope you will recover some of that hope and optimism that Chapman killed in you.
42 - Cee Gee Dee
Lennon was a decent songwriter. No more. No less.
Surely nothing even close to Jesus. Think what you want about Christ. No one in their right mind confuses Lennon with the Son of God :^). He was mortal as they get, warts and all. Jesus had no cameras.
Lennon had too many.
I never understood Beatles Worship. Never have. Never will.
I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me.
And Chapman is one sick moe foe. However, I hope he finds some peace in prison and dies there.
He'll never be released.
He makes Manson seem normal.
43 - Maree
im a yr 12 student conducting a research project into Chapman. This topic involves whether he should have plead sanity and if he deserves parole. if there are any comments, or advice please let me know.
44 - jess
im absoulty discussed by the way that john lennon died mark chapman just thought do it do it in his head well i hope he gets killed the day he gets out of prison better yet in prison.. john lennon is my role model his beliefs are so strong it makes me sick that he is no longer here .. its times like these that we need him..
peace, love and understanding
and why is mark only getting 20 years he killed the most famous fucking beatle / person in the world electric chair ? that would be my choice
r.i.p john lennon dec. 8,1980
45 - Dani
Bollocks. Chapman's innocent. Brainwashed I tell ye!
46 - Linda
WHY would Mark David Chapman even be considered for parole? I totally do NOT understand.
47 - Linda
Dani, what could possibly make you say , " Chapman's innocent." ? Surely you jest.
48 - Mike L.
It becomes more and more obvious as time goes on that Ronald Reagan ordered the CIA and FBI to assassinate John Lennon. It is truly sad that these two organizations could not work together, or deliberately decided not to, to prevent 9/11. But they worked so well to murder an unarmed man of peace in front of his wife.
49 - Helen klerinfeld
you bastard chapman you need to die please let me pull the switch .............you bastard chapman may all your family die a very painful death you bastard
50 - H
Is David Chapman still alive? Also, did they let him out of jail for murder that was intentional and planned?
Where is he now?
Jai
51 - gaudiefreak
Has anyone read the biography "The lives of John Lennon"? Hypnosis features prominently in the story. There is one section where May Pang is certain that after Yoko Ono asked John Lennon to come over to her place for a cure to stop smoking, he returned to May Pang in an extremely confused and disoriented mental state. At the time May Pang suspected that John Lennon had been fed drugs and brainwashed in order that he leave her and return to Yoko. Later Lennon was to report to May Pang "They'd wake me up and then they'd do it to me all over again..!"
Yoko Ono was very much into the occult at that time. There was one Japanese fellow (I forget his name, but he's mentioned many times in the book) who believed that if a person circumnavigated the world in a westerly direction, it would assist that person in accomplishing any future projects.
Yoko Ono's family had many contacts, particularly in Hawaii. Her father was once a lawyer there and had helped many Japanese living in Hawaii.
In 1978, Mark David Chapman suddenly left his job to travel around the world (in a westerly direction). He later spent a period in Japan. Chapman's wife was Japanese and, interestingly, also heavily into the occult (as was Yoko Ono).As I'm sure you're ware, Chapman lived in Hawaii.
When Chapman was arrested he was in possession of a large amount of money that was beyond what he could have possibly earnt as a low paid security guard. There was also some suggestion that he had contacts in New York at the time of the murder, a city he later claimed to have known no-one. He also was under the influence of cocaine, the drug both John and Yoko were using at the time of Lennon's death.
Just before Lennon died, it was common knowledge that the relationship between John and Yoko was on the rocks, and a divorce was imminent. Shortly before his death, a friend and colleague had heard Yoko rage against John Lennon, saying angrily "she would fix him".
Yoko Ono was also heavily into superstitions regarding numbers, times, and dates. John Lennon was shot on the same day as the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour. It is conceivable that someone harbouring such superstitions would consider that date would might be one signifying a "Japanese victory".
Incidentally, this notion of Lennon being the symbol of world peace is nonsense. John Lennon was an extremely violent man and very, very unstable and psychologically imbalanced (and whose violence was often directed at women).
Therefore, there is a very strong connection between Yoko Ono and: Hawaii (particularly Japanese living in Hawaii); hynosis; the occult; "blatant greed" (Yoko Ono could be described as a 'New age Imelda Marcos). In fact, this is a woman who had a very strong motive in eliminating John Lennon. She was also known to employ hynosis to manipulate others.
Just days after John Lennon was assassinated, Yoko was in the recording studio laying down tracks of lennon's voice on the B-side of her own record, significantly entitled "Walking on Thin Ice". Out of everyone in the studio at that time, apparently Yoko Ono appeared the only person unaffected by Lennon's recent death.
Shortly before Lennon was mudered, Yoko Ono was having a protracted affair with a colleague, Sam Greene. The two of them at one stage had a lawyer formally investigate just how much money she would receive if John Lennon and she underwent a divorce.
Perhaps it wasn't enough?
52 - Jason
He should stay in jail forever, even after death. Killing lennon was like killing god. No punishment would ever fit this crime.
53 - intrinity
i do not wish death upon anyone but i do believe that the punishment should fit the crime!!!!!!
How about Chapman stays in jail indefinitely but surrounded by images of John Lennon and having John Lennon songs like Instant Karma and Beautiful boy and every other Lennon tune played at a loud enough to be irritating to him but not to others rate 24 hrs/day 7 days/ week for the duration of his waste of a life??
54 - K-Dawg
I want Chapman out.
That way, he ain't protected anymore...
55 - TERRY
I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT IM A FORGIVING PERSON BUT HOW DO YOU FORGIVE A PERSON THAT HAS TAKEN SOMETHING AWAY FROM SO MANY. IM A CANADIAN AND GOD FORGIVES WE DONT.CHAPMAN KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO HOW THEY GET SECOND DEGREE OUT OF THIS GOD WILL ONLY KNOW.HE SHOULD HAVE GOT DEATH NOT LIFE.NOW YOUR COUNTRY HAS TO FEED AND CLOTH HIM FOR HOW LONG.A ROPE IS SOW MUCH CHEAPER.A SAD BROTHER TO THE NORTH.....
56 - alan
Brother,
Chapman was a tool used by dark forces within the U.S. government to end what they saw as a potential threat to their plans to murder hundreds of thousands of Central Americans. The evidence is compelling. Chapman himself was a victim of the CIA's "MKULTRA" program to produce programmed assassins. He didn't - and still doesn't - have a clue about any of this because the programming was successful. We should all be turning our righteous anger at Uncle Sam's forces of darkness. Feel free to visit my blog.
57 - vikki
john lennon did not deserve to die. he wasnt able to finish the projects he started. that mdc isnt even half the person john was and never will be. the fact that people support mdc is just sickening. thats supporting a killer. its doesnt even matter if u dont like johns music, what matters is that he was a PERSON like you or your mom or anyone else in the world, and he died. he died horribly. and its great to know that mdc will forever burn in hell for what he did.
58 - Marcia Neil
John Lennon was one of the people who performed theme 'The Beatles'. To some populations, he was busy practicing the album-theme material to perform it on stage -- not trampling indigenous people. True enough, he should not have been killed, but it was a first shot about entertainment industry 'truth-in-advertising' ('tia'). Stage performers routinely DO NOT yet give 'tia', decades after the 'tia' laws were articulated -- compliance would mean that various accurate key words would appear in all album/stage show ads/notices, such as 'rendition', 'lip-synch/pantomime' or original artist(s). All performers should be accorded the advantage of polygraph tests that give sound spectrograph evidence that any performed music is theirs or not.
59 - K.V.L.R
look you guys say how it was yoko or the cia. But chapman was the one pulled the trigger. I was born many years after johns death and i was still affected by it... Until i was 8 90% of the music i listened to was the beatles in the past years i have developed my own taste in music but know whenever i listen to the beatles late at night I cry knowing how 2 of then are gone... you may not like john but at least give him some respect, please. Remember peace not love
60 - K.V.L.R
p.s. when you say " peace" NEVER say it as a joke, it's not right.
61 - Raven Slaughter
Yes, FUCK YOU MARK DAVID CHAPMAN! YOU BASTARD! DIE MUTHAFUCKER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
62 - Jet
Well.......I'll bet you're glad you got that off your chest; aren't you?
63 - Malcolm Mac Kinnon
Good Day
As an outsider from South Africa and growing up during the beatles era I loved some of John's music. No-one has the right to take someone else's life no matter what the circumstances are. Mark Chapman knew what he was doing as he had stalked John's apartment for many weeks before the killing took place. Too many people nowdays come up with the excuse that they have a mental problem and therefore cannot be responsible for their actions. Was a lie detector test ever performed on this man?
I feel that he should remain where he is for life because if he is released I don't think he will last long on American streets.John may have had drugs problems etc but no-one on this earth is perfect hence the reason we are here to try and learn to live in peace and happiness. Mark chapman is not famous but John Lennon will be remembered for many years to come.
64 - Raven Slaughter
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya all say it loud and clear how I've felt for years!
John Lennon was a hero!
Damn you Mark David Chapman forever!!!!!!
65 - Marcia Neil
Well, check out McCartney's 'vitae' -- and he said to be a British knight and a lawyer to boot. NYC is a convoluted place -- people are killed there without having their names on record albums. Also, the 'Mc' surnames are routinely on-guard since the McKinley assassination, and "yeppers" a gunman surfaced.
66 - solerso68
I HOPE CHAPMAN GETS HIS PAROLE BECAUSE HE WONT LIVE A YEAR OUT HERE. WE'RE WAITNG MARK. C YA ON THE OUTSIDE.
67 - ali
lennon just wanted peace r.i.p
68 - Tim
If he is ever let out, I can assure you he will be killed and quickly...believe me - the plans are in place - he deserves Tony Soprano - and it is arranged....
69 - Tim
Howdy America,
To all you folks who think it is an EASY excuse to say Lennon was still a druggy and so what and all that Sh*t. How mnany of you still deal with your demons? This genious was on a roll - sure slow..but so what the F**K? we all have issues and people over time deal with them - so, ya say "Woman" & "Starting Over" were farts? Give humanity and a genious a break..we all have warts...
I sincerely think - the mastery of this man - is not calculated.
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70 - Cindy
I loved John Lennon. I am not so sure he'd admire Tony Soprano.