The famous (and morbid) photo atop this post is the grim document that contains the first meeting between victim and executioner. To the left of the image the celebrity , John Lennon, English musician charismatic member at the time of the Beatles , signs a copy of his latest album Double Fantasy fan to blur in the background Mark David Chapman, which includes rocker with the calligraphy of pig smile. Are approximately five pm on September 8, 1980 . John just got out of his luxury apartment in the Dakota building in New York way to the studio. The scene is not new. Pure routine for a rock star. Nothing special to point to this photo, taken by a fan who was passing by, is to be, the next day's front page of newspapers and publications around the world. One of the images in the history of rock, music ... or contemporary history, period.
About six hours later, the pig-faced disturbed that Lennon has signed a record still hiding in the shadows. The limousine stops musician a few meters from the door of the Dakota. Yoko Ono first passes through the front door of the building, guarded by the inevitable keeper with a mustache, glasses and hat. The musician, a few feet back, hear his name in military tone, "Mr. Lennon." The fan, full of patience and composure, blank download the magazine of .38 caliber revolver. Before the crash, the birds, shy away from the comfortable arms of the nearby Central Park . John Lennon has been shot four times, including one death of need in the aorta.
before falling to the ground, Lennon can take a few steps and spitted "I've been shot" glasses goalkeeper, hat and mustache. Chapman, conscious of his act but perfectly calm, stay near the Dakota, which will soon be arrested. After the police pulled the gun appointment as personal effects a copy of The Catcher in the Rye , who apparently was re-reading before and after the fateful hour, and 10 tapes of the Beatles. The doorman asked Chapman "You know what you just did?" Chapman replied without hesitation "I just killed John Lennon."
police officers in New York Bill Gamble and Jim Moran put Lennon's body, still conscious, in the back of your vehicle. On the way to Roosevelt Hospital , Moran asked Lennon "You know who you are?" John can only respond with gurgles. Minutes later, forever lost consciousness. Approximately at 23:35 will be pronounced dead at the hospital entrance. John had lost 80 percent of its mass blood. The doctor on duty said that nothing could be done to prevent death.
The album that Lennon signed when he took the first picture, of course, is the world's most expensive vinyl. At an auction in New York in 2003 he paid more than half a million dollars for it. The story is also part of capitalism.
John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
smaller and larger deaths in the history of music here and here
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