JOHN LENNON, 30 YEARS AFTER

December 8, 1980, thirty-two years ago, I was returning to my home after a trip with my parents. When I came to house, I could see television images that were about a famous musician called John Lennon, who was killed by Mark Chapman in front of his house in "Dakota Building" New York. In this time, I didn’t understand who was Lennon, but several years after this event, I fully knew who this musician was. John Lennon died in The Roosevelt Hospital. The doctors officially certified his death at 11:15 pm the same day. The news of the death of John Lennon traveled the world in a few hours. The tears of all those fans that had grown up listening the songs of John Lennon were mixed with thousands of people gathered outside the artist's house. Lennon's body was cremated days later and the ashes were given to his widow Yoko Ono, who invited his followers to pray for him and share ten minutes of silence in Central Park on December 14. Over two hundred thousand people attended the event in New York. His ashes were scattered in the park although hundreds of tribute acts took place in other cities worldwide. Shortly before his death, after a voluntary retirement, and after several years without having released anything, Lennon returned to the music with the album "Double Fantasy", which was enthusiastically received by the public who had not forgotten him. A copy of this album was autographed by Lennon and was given to Chapman, at 5 pm on the December 8, 1980. 32 years may seem a short time or a lot, but all this time has not only increased the fame and legend of Lennon as one of the greatest musicians in history, leader of the most famous group of the twentieth century, "The Beatles" and composer of memorable songs. The people usually catalog John Lennon in many ways: icon, genius, myth, etc., but above all things he was a musician.