It Was 25 Years Ago Today

Guess what? John Lennon is still dead. I'm sorry to his family, friends and fans. But ok, I'm done now. I won't be beating my chest, crying or buying Imagine jewelry off QVC or HSN or whichever one is selling it. Or any of the endless supply of John Lennon peace, love, and Imagine related crap. I bought two t shirts the week that Joey Ramone died. I occasionally buy albums of dead musicians and the occasional rare piece of memorabilia, but the sheer amount of Lennon merchandise put out by his WIFE repulses me. "Imagine all the dollars living life with YokOOOO." She's not the only one, the Presley stuff, Jerry Garcia stuff and Morrison stuff is pretty bad too. But Yoko is..... just cheapening whatever positive message there was.
As seen in my previous posts I have a lot of baggage when it comes to dead musicians, but there's a limit. John Lennon was a musician. Like other musicians, some of his stuff was good, some of it bad. Like every other person in the world, he had opinions, some were good, and some were bad. That's it.
It was 21 years ago today that Vince Neil killed Razzle from Hanoi Rocks. I love Motley Crue and consider Nikki Sixx to be the single greatest person ever and my personal hero and idol. But Mark David Chapman is sitting in jail for shooting John Lennon and Vince Neil is performing on a stage near you. It would be a lie to say I boycotted everything Motley Crue related, but I would also ask where is Razzle's press? Where is Razzle's Strawberry Fields? In his own way, in the field of music that he was in, Razzle was very influential, as is the band he was in. The next time you put on Appetite For Destruction, remember that if it wasn't for Hanoi Rocks, there would have been no Guns N Roses. Or very oddly, Motley Crue.
Life is funny that way, people put so much importance on one person and none on another. So the list of things today is OTHER things that happened on this day in history. Yes there are two other Beatle related things that happened on that day, one is on the list, the second is that Ringo Starr appeared on Saturday Night Live. Let me know if John Lennon's death is more important than ANYTHING else that ever happened. Yeah it's probably more important than Ringo on SNL, but that's why it wasn't on the list.

1. In 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
2. The worst car crash ever in Great Britain. Three people were killed and 120 were injured in a 100 car pile up in Wigan England.
3. In 1941 the United States declared war on Japan.
4. In 1952 Lucy Ricardo's pregnancy was announced on I Love Lucy, the first time a pregnancy was acknowledged on TV.
5. In 1978 Golda Meir died.
6. In 1967 The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour was released.
7. In 1943 Jim Morrison was born
8. In 1947 Gregg Allman was born
9. In 1987 Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
10. In 1966 Sinead O'Connor was born
11. In 1925 Sammy Davis Jr. was born.

That's it
bye