Popular music fans and the world were shocked to hear the news 30 years ago today...the day John Lennon died.
He was shot outside his apartment complex, The Dakota, in New York City, by a deranged Mark David Chapman. Within hours, he was dead.
The shock of the act, especially given the prominence of John Lennon in popular culture, has had a lasting effect. If he was still alive today...John Lennon would have been 70 years old at this time.
The clip below is from ABC's Monday Night Football telecast from the late evening of December 8, 1980, which was happening live as the news of John Lennon's death started to become public knowledge. Legendary announcer, Howard Cosell is the one who make this announcement on air...
In a strange coincidence, Cosell had briefly interview Lennon on another telecast of Monday Night Football 6 years earlier (in 1974)...
As a tribute to John Lennon, here is one more clip with him singing a version of one of his best known solo songs, "Beautiful Boy":
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