THE DREAM IS OVER (Room 512)
THE DREAM IS OVER (Room 512)
It was December 8th in New York City and the early hours of December 9th in London. Suddenly, inexplicably, violently, John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota Buildings, his New York home. Shockwaves reverberated around the globe. People of all generations, creed, and color united in grief. Seldom, if ever, had the loss of one individual united so many people from so many different backgrounds and in the twentieth century, one can only think of the assassination of President Kennedy and the death of Princess Diana that united the masses, in a similar vein. The world simply stood still and reflected. How could this possibly have happened? A man who had brought so much widespread enjoyment and whose body of work had a recurring theme of love and peace, was slaughtered in the most horrific of circumstances in front of his wife Yoko. The couple had returned from the Record Plant where they had been adding the finishing touches to a new Yoko number ‘Walking on Thin Ice’. A deranged fan calmly walked up to John and shot him five times. After five years of becoming a househusband and baking bread, John had come out of his self imposed exile and had recently issued a new LP with Yoko entitled ‘Double Fantasy’. There was a talk of a world tour and a return to Liverpool. The lyrics on his last recorded work were in retrospect, eerily prophetic: “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” and “I’m losing you” being the most obvious of many example. The baby boomers were faced with a future without one of their most treasured heroes. The feelings were that so much more had died that day other than John. The Beatles, as an entity, had seemingly also been finally laid to rest and an age of innocence, when wrongs could be righted with the power of music, had been cruelly exposed by a harsher world, which threatened a more realistic future. A global day of mourning was declared on December 14th 1980. Yoko issued a statement, which read “Bless you for your tears and prayers. I saw John smiling in the sky. I saw sorrow changing into clarity. I saw all of us becoming one mind. Thank you. Love Yoko”
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
THE DREAM IS OVER (Room 512)
It was December 8th in New York City and the early hours of December 9th in London. Suddenly, inexplicably, violently, John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota Buildings, his New York home. Shockwaves reverberated around the globe. People of all generations, creed, and color united in grief. Seldom, if ever, had the loss of one individual united so many people from so many different backgrounds and in the twentieth century, one can only think of the assassination of President Kennedy and the death of Princess Diana that united the masses, in a similar vein. The world simply stood still and reflected. How could this possibly have happened? A man who had brought so much widespread enjoyment and whose body of work had a recurring theme of love and peace, was slaughtered in the most horrific of circumstances in front of his wife Yoko. The couple had returned from the Record Plant where they had been adding the finishing touches to a new Yoko number ‘Walking on Thin Ice’. A deranged fan calmly walked up to John and shot him five times. After five years of becoming a househusband and baking bread, John had come out of his self imposed exile and had recently issued a new LP with Yoko entitled ‘Double Fantasy’. There was a talk of a world tour and a return to Liverpool. The lyrics on his last recorded work were in retrospect, eerily prophetic: “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” and “I’m losing you” being the most obvious of many example. The baby boomers were faced with a future without one of their most treasured heroes. The feelings were that so much more had died that day other than John. The Beatles, as an entity, had seemingly also been finally laid to rest and an age of innocence, when wrongs could be righted with the power of music, had been cruelly exposed by a harsher world, which threatened a more realistic future. A global day of mourning was declared on December 14th 1980. Yoko issued a statement, which read “Bless you for your tears and prayers. I saw John smiling in the sky. I saw sorrow changing into clarity. I saw all of us becoming one mind. Thank you. Love Yoko”
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
THE DREAM IS OVER (Room 512)
It was December 8th in New York City and the early hours of December 9th in London. Suddenly, inexplicably, violently, John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota Buildings, his New York home. Shockwaves reverberated around the globe. People of all generations, creed, and color united in grief. Seldom, if ever, had the loss of one individual united so many people from so many different backgrounds and in the twentieth century, one can only think of the assassination of President Kennedy and the death of Princess Diana that united the masses, in a similar vein. The world simply stood still and reflected. How could this possibly have happened? A man who had brought so much widespread enjoyment and whose body of work had a recurring theme of love and peace, was slaughtered in the most horrific of circumstances in front of his wife Yoko. The couple had returned from the Record Plant where they had been adding the finishing touches to a new Yoko number ‘Walking on Thin Ice’. A deranged fan calmly walked up to John and shot him five times. After five years of becoming a househusband and baking bread, John had come out of his self imposed exile and had recently issued a new LP with Yoko entitled ‘Double Fantasy’. There was a talk of a world tour and a return to Liverpool. The lyrics on his last recorded work were in retrospect, eerily prophetic: “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” and “I’m losing you” being the most obvious of many example. The baby boomers were faced with a future without one of their most treasured heroes. The feelings were that so much more had died that day other than John. The Beatles, as an entity, had seemingly also been finally laid to rest and an age of innocence, when wrongs could be righted with the power of music, had been cruelly exposed by a harsher world, which threatened a more realistic future. A global day of mourning was declared on December 14th 1980. Yoko issued a statement, which read “Bless you for your tears and prayers. I saw John smiling in the sky. I saw sorrow changing into clarity. I saw all of us becoming one mind. Thank you. Love Yoko”
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON