Jeez, really! I remember coming home from school and my mum was in floods of tears - and I joined in when I heard the news! The Beatles were on constantly in my house growing up. That evening, as we waited for my dad to get in from working at Scrubs, the BBC showed loads of Beatles films on the TV! Funny what you remember
I'd stopped off at a general store for a cuppa with manager I knew and he said "John Lennon's been shot dead". I was just speechless. My daughter who was 6 at the time took it really badly, we had a video of Yellow Submarine we used to sing along to together, she just couldn't fathom someone would shoot him and upset her mum. Kids really have perspective...