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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