Fans remember John Lennon 35 years after shooting

At around 10:50PM EST on December 8th 1980, as John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were returning to their NY apartment in the Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building.

It was the end of an era for many shocked fans.

The song received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in addition to an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Of course it’s all speculation, and we’ll never know. “And for me, the biggest thing was that the guy who took his life, the phrase kept coming in my head ‘jerk of all jerks.’ It was just like, ‘This is just a jerk”. On the red carpet before the show, a few of the participants shared with reporters their recollections of Lennon’s death.

Flowers and a homemade tribute left by fans of the legendary musician adorn a memorial to John Lennon at Strawberry Fields in Central Park, one day before the 35th anniversary of his death, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in NY.

“It was Monday night, Monday Night Football, I was in my freshman year of college”, she explained.

“The late Beatles member is today famous for quotes such as “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”, and “‘I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one vehicle, and into another”. And although we have a lot of great music to remember him by, most notably, we remember “Imagine”. However, the music icon was more “accessible” in his “century-old apartment building by Central Park”.