Healey’s will be rockin’ Sunday
By JASON MACNEIL
This weekend marks the 27th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. And like most musicians around the world, Toronto performers are marking the former Beatles passing with a special event.
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Kathleen OHaraLondon, EnglandThe movie poster is disconcerting for anyone who remembers the man. It promotes in bold letters: The Killing of John Lennon. There is also a quote from Lennon’s murderer: “I was nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on Earth.” In light of the latest inquiry into Princess Diana’s death, I couldn’t help observing how difficult it is for the famous to die. (more…)

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In March 1967, “Happy Together,” an irresistibly sunny pop concoction performed by a group of California kids who called themselves The Turtles, bumped The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” off the top of the charts.
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It was 27 years ago today that former Beatle John Lennon was shot dead by a gunman who opened fire outside the musician’s New York apartment.

The 40-year-old was shot several times as he entered the Dakota, his luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, opposite Central Park, at 2300 local time.
He was rushed in a police car to St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he died.
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Posted by Alexander Wolfe

How did you get your news 27 years ago, on Dec. 8, 1980, the date John Lennon was gunned down in New York City?
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