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It was 32 years ago today...
Dec. 8th, 2012 04:22 pmThere have been a number of solemn anniversaries in the past few days, all of them involving some sort of violence. December 6 was the anniversary of what has come to be known as the Montreal Massacre, in which 14 women were killed at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, supposedly because they were "feminists". December 7 was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. And today, December 8 (although for some reason my blogging program insists on dating everything one day ahead, so that I have to re-date it if I want the correct date to appear) is the 32nd anniversary of when John Lennon was shot outside his New York City apartment building and died en route to hospital.
About a month later, I was pregnant and wondering if my child-to-be would be born on what should have been John Lennon's 41st birthday: October 9, 1981. She wasn't, even by Liverpool time - but that was fine. Still, I've been surprised by the lack of coverage of today's anniversary in the media - though of course, the day is not over yet. Today's Saturday Citizen had, as usual, a fairly extended Arts section, with reviews of anniversary boxed CD sets by two Canadian bands, Great Big Sea and Blue Rodeo. And there was some coverage of another great Canadian artist, Leonard Cohen, who was in town for a concert at Scotiabank Place. But nary a whisper about John Lennon, his murder or his impressive legacy.
To some extent, he was edged out by Christmasy stuff. All of which tends to give the lie to his comment all those years ago about being more popular than Christ...
About a month later, I was pregnant and wondering if my child-to-be would be born on what should have been John Lennon's 41st birthday: October 9, 1981. She wasn't, even by Liverpool time - but that was fine. Still, I've been surprised by the lack of coverage of today's anniversary in the media - though of course, the day is not over yet. Today's Saturday Citizen had, as usual, a fairly extended Arts section, with reviews of anniversary boxed CD sets by two Canadian bands, Great Big Sea and Blue Rodeo. And there was some coverage of another great Canadian artist, Leonard Cohen, who was in town for a concert at Scotiabank Place. But nary a whisper about John Lennon, his murder or his impressive legacy.
To some extent, he was edged out by Christmasy stuff. All of which tends to give the lie to his comment all those years ago about being more popular than Christ...
