The myth of John Lennon, 40 years after his murder
John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980 in New York. What is left of an icon that has forever marked the history of music?
Sensitivity, rebellion, loneliness, pacifism and a sense of civil justice embodied in one man:Â this is what we have lost when, on December 8 of forty years ago,
John Lennon was murdered in cold blood by
Mark Chapman with a gunshot.
With that gesture, he took away from the history of music of the second half of the Twentieth century, the founder of the most famous rock band ever and a soloist whose musical genius still had a lot to give.