Post: #4 Title: Re: ุฌูู ููููู ูููุน ููุงุชูู Author: Osman Musa Date: 01-23-2009, 10:50 PM Parent: #3
John Lennon shot dead Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment. The 40-year-old was shot several times as he entered the Dakota, his luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, opposite Central Park, at 2300 local time.
He was rushed in a police car to St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he died.
His wife, Yoko Ono, who is understood to have witnessed the attack, was with him.
Shots heard
A police spokesman said a suspect was in custody, but he had no other details of the shooting.
"This was no robbery," the spokesman said, adding that Mr Lennon was probably shot by a "deranged" person.
Witness reports say at least three shots were fired and others have claimed they heard six.
There are also reports Mr Lennon staggered up six steps into the vestibule after he was shot, before collapsing.
Jack Douglas, Lennon's producer, said he and the Lennons had been at a studio called the Record Plant in mid-town earlier in the evening and Lennon left at 2230.
Mr Lennon said he planned to have some dinner and then return home, Mr Douglas said.
Fans at scene
The Lennons are said to have left their limousine on the street and walked up the driveway when the gunman opened fire.
It is unclear whether the man had been lying in wait in the entrance to the building for Mr Lennon, or whether he came up behind him.
Witnesses describe the gunman as a "pudgy kind of man", 35 to 40 years old with brown hair.
Other former band members, Paul McCartney, guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr are thought to have been informed of Lennon's murder.
Fans have already begun arriving at the scene, many still unaware Lennon has died.
Mr Lennon is survived by his wife, their son Sean, and his son from a previous marriage, Julian.
Post: #5 Title: Re: ุฌูู ููููู ูููุน ููุงุชูู Author: Adil Isaac Date: 01-23-2009, 10:56 PM Parent: #4
Post: #6 Title: Re: ุฌูู ููููู ูููุน ููุงุชูู Author: Osman Musa Date: 01-24-2009, 00:47 AM Parent: #5
Post: #9 Title: Re: ุฌูู ููููู ูููุน ููุงุชูู Author: Osman Musa Date: 01-24-2009, 04:51 AM Parent: #8
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October 9, 1940 - As sirens wailed during a German Luftwaffe attack, John Lennon is born at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England to Julia Stanley and Alfred Lennon.
1956 - Johnโs mother buys him a guitar. He forms his first group, the Quarrymen, with pals Pete Shotton, Nigel Whalley, and Ivan Vaughan.
July 6, 1957 - John meets Paul McCartney at the Woolton Parish Church in Liverpool during a performance by the Quarrymen.
1958 - John writes his first song, โHello Little Girl,โ which is later recorded by the Beatles at their 1962 audition for Decca Records.
July 15, 1958 - Johnโs mother is killed while crossing the road by an off-duty policeman.
1960 - In his final year of art school in Liverpool, John forms a group with Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe.
August 1960 - Pete Best joins The Silver Beetles as drummer for their six week residency at a strip bar in Hamburg. Stu eventually leaves the group, and Paul takes over on bass.
January 1961 - The Beatles debut at the Cavern Club, Liverpool.
January 24, 1962 - The Beatles agree verbally to be managed by Brian Epstein
June 4, 1962 - George Martin signs The Beatles to Parlophone EMI.
August 23, 1962 - John marries Cynthia Powell as news hits the press that Brian Epstein has fired Pete Best.
February 1963 - The Beatles begin their first U.K. tour. They take one night off to record the album Please Please Me in one session.
April 8, 1963 - John Charles Julian Lennon is born to Cynthia and John at Sefton General Hospital, in Liverpool.
August 3, 1963 - After almost three hundred performances at the venue, The Beatles play their farewell show at the Cavern Club.
February 7, 1964 - The Beatles embark on their first US tour.
February 9 and 16, 1964 - The Beatles headline twice on the โEd Sullivan Show.โ
March 1964 - With โCanโt Buy Me Loveโ topping the charts both in Britain and America, shooting begins on the Beatlesโ first feature film, A Hard Dayโs Night.
April 1964 - Johnโs first book of stories and poems, In His Own Write, is published.
August 1964 - After touring Austrailia, The Beatles visit the U.S. for a 32-day tour. Bob Dylan introduces them to marijuana.
January 1965 - John composes โHelp!โ
Spring 1965 - A friend of George Harrisonโs secretly spikes coffee with LSD, sending John, his wife Cynthia, George, and Patti Boyd on their first LSD trip.
June 1965 - Johnโs second book, A Spaniard In The Works, is published.
July 29, 1965 - Help! premieres in Londonโs West End.
August 1965 - The Beatles visit Elvis Presley at his home. Elvis refers to each of them as โBeatle,โ not knowing their individual names.
December 3, 1965 - Rubber Soul is released.
June 20, 1966 - The American album Yesterday and Today is released with the infamous โbutcher cover.โ It was later recalled after complaints.
August 5, 1966 - Revolver is released.
August 29, 1966 - After major difficulties on the road, including death threats, The Beatles perform their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. They are now solely a studio group.
November 1966 - Yoko Ono and John Lennon meet at Indica Gallery in London.
February 1967 - John and Paul receive the Song of the Year Grammyรฏ¿ยฝ Award for โMichelle.โ
June 1, 1967 - Sgt. Pepperโs Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
September 1967 - John writes โI Am the Walrus.โ
November 27, 1967 - Magical Mystery Tour is released in America.
February 1968 - George convinces The Beatles to visit the Maharashi in India.
August 22, 1968 - Cynthia files for divorce. Paul soon writes โHey Judeโ to comfort Julian.
November 11, 1968 - John and Yokoโs first of three experimental albums is released. The cover of Two Virgins is a photograph of the couple standing naked.
November 22, 1968 - The Beatles [The White Album] is released.
January 13, 1969 - Yellow Submarine is released.
January 30, 1969 - The Beatles perform together as a group for the final time on the roof of the Apple building, during the filming of Let It Be.
March 20, 1969 - John and Yoko marry in Gibraltar.
May 26, 1969 - Life with the Lions, the second experimental collaboration between John and Yoko, is released.
September 1969 - Lennon releases the single โCold Turkey,โ about his heroin withdrawl.
September 26, 1969 - Abbey Road is released.
October 20, 1969 - Wedding Album is released.
December 12, 1969 - Lennonโs impromptu concert in Toronto with Eric Clapton assisting on guitar is released as Live Peace in Toronto, 1969.
December 11, 1970 - Plastic Ono Band is released.
May 8, 1970 - Let It Be is released.
September 3, 1971 - John leaves the U.K. for New York, never to return.
September 9, 1971 - The album Imagine is released.
June 12, 1972 - John and Yoko release the more mainstream Sometime in New York City/Live Jam.
October 1973 - John travels to Los Angeles, later calling his eighteen-month separation from Yoko his โlost weekend.โ
November 2, 1973 - John releases the album Mind Games.
September 26, 1974 - Sessions from the โlost weekendโ are released as Walls and Bridges.
February 17, 1975 - Rock โNโ Roll is released.
October 5, 1975 - U.S. Court of Appeal overturns Johnโs deportation order, granting him residency.
October 9, 1975 - Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born at New York Hospital on Johnโs thirty-fifth birthday.
November 17, 1980 - The Double Fantasy album is released.
December 8, 1980 - Returning home from the studio with Ono, John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman in New York City while walking toward the entryway of his building.