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Hard to believe that 30 years ago, John Lennon was murdered.

I was never a Beatles fan, but I can and do appreciate their music.

What makes this event significant for me is that it was one of the first major news story's that I can remember where I was when it happened.

I wasn't born when JFK was assassinated, or even a gleam in my mother's eye when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, nor was I around when Neil Armstrong took is first steps on the moon, but I was around when John Lennon got gunned down on the front steps of his apartment in New York city.

I was 10 years old and I was driving in the car with my mom when the news came on the radio, and I remember thinking this must be something big because they were making such a big fuss about it. This was in the days before CNN, so it wasn't until the next day when I saw it splashed all over the newspapers and on TV did I only begin to realize the significance of the moment I had experienced in the car with my mom.

Of course there would be many more significant moments in history to come, but for me, this one moment will remain one of the first that I can sit back and say I know where I was on the day that this happened.

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It was twenty-seven years ago last night that John Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark Chapman. He died shortly after.

I was never really a Beatles fan or a John Lennon fan, but it was one of those moments in history that you will always remember.

I was 10 years old, and I remember riding with my mom in our car when we heard the news on the radio. I remember exactly where we were and how dark and rainy it was that night. I was quite young at the time, and I knew the Beatles were famous and that this was a significant event, but only years later would I realize just how significant it was.

27 years ago yesterday the world lost John Lennon to the bullet of an assassin's gun, and the world of music has been poorer for it ever since...