I was a college undergrad doing laundry in my apartment building when my brother called me with the news. I wasn't listening to the radio, but I heard many years later that a public radio DJ here in Iowa actually cried on the air (for the only time in his life) when he broke the news on his evening music show that night.

So, every year around the time of this event, I sing Empty Garden as well as one Lennon song at karaoke. "What happened here, as the New York sunset disappeared....".

I remember that night well. Tragic. Killed by a religious fanatic.

Another example of...’only the good die young!’

Reagan had been elected, then this ...I cried ~

Were we really this innocent?

My heart breaks by this senseless loss maybe more than nearly other.

A peaceful man to die so painfully and violently.

"Imagine" all the music we missed with Lennon dying so young.