Please Tell This Asshat to Shut Up!

I remember the day John Lennon was shot day as if it were yesterday.

I was driving to work (I worked in East Orange at the time) and had the radio on. They were playing all John Lennon songs, non-stop, no commercials. My first thought was, "Is he coming out with a new album or something?" And then the announcer broke in, talking about how John Lennon had been shot. My reaction was, "Who would want to shoot John Lennon?" I know he had his detractors and all, but kill him? I could not imagine who would do something like that, it was surreal.

My co-workers were in shock, too. It was all anyone could talk about that day and the next.

And then we learned about this asshat named Mark David Chapman. A nobody. A mentally deranged man. "A confused person," as Yoko referred to him. A man who, to this day, makes no apologies, just offers a kinda "the devil made me do it" alibi.

About a year later, I was in Mill's Tavern in Greenwich Village and I was listening to David Peel perform. As many of you know, David Peel and the Lower East Side Band (what ever happened to him?) was discovered in Washington Square Park by John Lennon. Later, Lennon produced a number of his songs and albums and even performed with him on "Give Peace a Chance."

That night at Mill's Tavern, Peel played one song called, "I Hate You, Mark David Chapman." At the end of the number, he shouted out, "Rest in Pieces."

My sentiments exactly. And, please stop giving this fucktard publicity!

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Chapman: Nothing could have stopped Lennon's murder
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The man who murdered John Lennon 25 years ago says "nothing could have stopped" his twisted quest to track down and assassinate the ex-Beatle.
"I was under total compulsion," killer Mark David Chapman says in a segment to be aired Friday on "Dateline NBC."

"It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it."

Chapman fatally shot Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, as the musician and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned home from a night in a Manhattan recording studio. Chapman's comments came from audiotapes made in 1991-92 and first used as part of a British documentary.

Chapman recalled waiting for Lennon that night, then reacting as he saw a limousine pull up outside the ex-Beatle's home.

"I heard a voice in my head saying, `Do it, do it,'" Chapman recounted. "And as he passed me I pulled out the gun, aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times in succession."
Chapman recalled that his desire to kill Lennon began one day in his apartment in Hawaii, where he was sitting on the floor and looking at the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. His animosity soon began to consume Chapman.

"There was a successful man who kind of had the world on a chain, so to speak, and there I was, not even a link of that chain, just a person who had no personality," Chapman said. "And something in me just broke."