Forty years ago, John Lennon got killed

Forty years ago, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon’s death shocked the world. “I Just Shot John Lennon”, ‘I just shot John Lennon’ were the few words spoken in a cold and cynical tone that day by Mark David Chapman,  the killer of the former Beatles. 

An entire generation, growing up on the ideals of non-violence that inspired her most successful album, ‘Imagine’ (1971), whose self-titled single became an international anthem of pacifism, found herself an orphan.

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