The John Lennon quotes that are still painfully relevant in this troubled world
On 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot four times in the back outside of his apartment building in New York City.
He was 40 years old.
7 days after his death, millions of people paused their daily routines to honour Yoko Ono's request for ten minutes of silence in commemoration of his contributions.
30,000 gathered in Liverpool, 225,000 in New York City's Central Park. The radios went silent, too.
That strength of love for this man, this musician in a band, has quelled little over the years. His outspoken political activism has made him a herald for those who have so longed for global peace and "Imagine" has become their perennial anthem; it re-entered the UK charts at number 18 in 2012 after Emeli Sandé recorded a cover for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
His legacy is eternal, though his presence is so greatly missed. And though he would have wished it weren't so, Lennon's words still ring just a true today as they did in his own lifetime. Here are a select few:
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
By: Clarisse Loughrey
Source: The Independent
