Should The Bar Of The Belly Ring Stick Out

TO 30 YEARS OF HIS MURDER

By: Felipe Argote

was a cold December night in New York. At 10:50 pm John Lennon and Yoko Ono got out of the limousine that brought the Record Plant Studio studio where they had spent almost five hours mixing the sound of an Ono song "Walking in the ice" where John played guitar.

In the shadow under the arch of a door, waiting for the psychopath stealth Mark David Chapman, who had traveled from his native Honolulu, Hawaii with the sole intention of killing the greatest musical genius in history. The murderer had been in November but this time he lacked determination. His goal was not difficult, Lennon used outside the building and get off to walk the short distance instead of getting the car into the courtyard. This was done to take the opportunity to greet and sign autographs for fans who waited for hours under the building.

Earlier Lennon had gone along with Yoko Ono at five in the afternoon of the apartment in the Dakota building at No. 1 on the street 72. There Chapman approached him with a copy of the album "Double Fantasy" by John and Yoko had just hit the market last month, which asked autograph. Lennon signed an autograph on the disk. This same album with Lennon's last autograph was auctioned in 2003 for the sum of $ 525.000, the most expensive album in history.

The murderer awaits his return at 10:50 pm and shot him five shots back four of which penetrated the body of Lennon, one of them destroyed the aorta causing the 80% loss of blood. At 11:07 am he was pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital, just 17 minutes after the attack. Chapman tried to flee after their vile and cowardly murder, sat quietly on the sidewalk to wait for the police. He was sentenced to between twenty years to life imprisonment. A Chapman was denied parole for the sixth time in August this year. He was 25 at the time of murder Today is 55.

John Lennon is without a doubt the most influential musician in history. His childhood was not normal. Was adopted by his aunt, Mary Smith, sister of his mother. His father was a merchant seaman who abandoned him at age five, while his mother did not have the emotional stability to keep her. But he regularly visited the home of his sister, who with her husband George Smith was raised as his son as they had no children of their own. George died when John was fourteen years old so it was living alone with his aunt Mary. In August 1958, when John was 17 his mother was killed by a drunken cop killed on impact. A year earlier he had given John his first guitar, an acoustic gallotone. Also that year, on July 16, he met Paul McCartney who started writing songs and who along with George Harison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe who died in 1962 during a tour of cerebral hemorrhage, formed the most famous History: The Beatles. That same year, 1962 Ringo Star enters the group as drummer replacing Pete Best who was fired.

John Lennon, the author of "Stand By Me", "Hey Judy," "Yesterday", "Imagine", "Give Peace a Chance "and" Sargent Pepper `s Lonely Hearts Club Band" and many others managed to put 27 songs on Billboard number one, most with Paul McCartney.

Besides Ringo Star, George Harrison and Paul McCartney formed the most influential group in the history and beginning an era. But John did not just music, it was a huge activist against the Vietnam War.

The April 22, 1969 John Winston Lennon dropped his middle name in honor of Winston because Winston Churchill was born in 1940 and during World War II and changed it to be renamed John Ono Ono Lennon.