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It was thirty years ago today...

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 12:04
by markfiend
... that John Lennon was shot dead.
As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero well just follow me,
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 12:55
by Silver_Owl
It was a humbling experience standing outside the Dakota I can tell you. :(

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 13:42
by Izzy HaveMercy
Yes I bloody figured THAT out already :evil:

Every friggin radio station is playing his songs...

I do hope Cliff Richard turns out to be immortal...

IZ.

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 13:43
by Silver_Owl
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Yes I bloody figured THAT out already :evil:

Every friggin radio station is playing his songs...

I do hope Cliff Richard turns out to be immortal...

IZ.
Or Mick Jagger, your other favourite. ;D

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 14:02
by Izzy HaveMercy
Hom_Corleone wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Yes I bloody figured THAT out already :evil:

Every friggin radio station is playing his songs...

I do hope Cliff Richard turns out to be immortal...

IZ.
Or Mick Jagger, your other favourite. ;D
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IZ.

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 15:32
by EvilBastard
A tragic loss, to be sure. Especially since Chapman has always maintained that he wasn't aiming at Lennon - he was trying to hit the other one.

Posted: 08 Dec 2010, 18:46
by Garbageman
I remember it well.
Just about to leave the house for work and it came on the radio.
When I arrived at work I asked one of my associates if she had heard the news and she replied "WHO?"

Posted: 09 Dec 2010, 00:36
by Francis
The working class
Can kiss my arse
I've got a grand piano at last

Posted: 09 Dec 2010, 02:33
by Johnny Rev 7.0
Interesting piece from a BBC guy who was there:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11926898

James Taylor's input just makes it feel how scary it must to be famous.