John Lennon: Oct 9, 1940--Dec 8, 1980

Dec 8, 80. I'll never forget that day. We were military enroute to Panama in Ft Benning Georgia. We were is the quest quaters and got robbed when we went out to dinner. We had to all get shots and new medical records, passports etc. Was horrible on top of everything else.
RIP John

Oh, you say it's his birthday!

I loved him (yeah, yeah, yeah)

Wow, Janet--that's a crummy. I was raising child'rens in 1980 in GA as well.

Cheryl--he was one of a kind...the kind the warmongerers love to hate.

Hey Jude...Wonderful post, very interesting look at Lennon's star/planetary influences too. I was ten the year he died and already a fan. I often wonder how things today might have been influenced by Lennon if his life had not ended so abruptly.

How right you are, Quinn! A great loss, imho, for the world.

I am an astrolger (www.moonlaidie.com) and was cruising through the posts here, and came across this tribute to John Lennon and had something to share, Jude, that you might enjoy.

In the 70's, I had a bookstore on Cannery Row on Monterey, California "The Polygon" from which my astrological adventure began, and where I published many local poets. My 2 yr old daughter, Kate, was with me in my store most of the time. Her play area was in the lounge at the front of the store where we held readings and special events.

When John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in Pebble Beach, they purchased their marijuana from a guy at the record store next door, and then usually gravitated to my store, where John immediately went in to find Kate, and Yoko wandered through the old and new stacks of books.

Kate always had her eye on the door and would dash to the lounge the minute she saw him. This went on for months. She often sat next to me at the front desk and seemed to be mumbling a tune..humming or something, but I didn't pay much attention until I started catching a word or two in the "off color" category It seems that Mr Lennon was teaching my 2 1/2 old bawdy pub songs!

When I confronted him, he just gave me that smile. There was no negative intent - just sharing a catchy tune. You didn't stay angry with this man. But I did ask him to find a new genre to share. Now Kate is an adult and so sorry that she can't remember any of those tunes.

Years later, the cannery my store had been in burned to the ground. The day John Lennon died.