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22 Sayings To Remember The Beatles Frontman 34 Years After His Assassination    Natalie Roterman  |  Dec 08 2014, 01:26PM EST A manuscript written by John Lennon entitled 'Henry and Harry' is seen at Sotheby's, London March 21, 2014. Reuters/Paul Hackett It was 34 years ago that one of the biggest musical sensations lost one of theirs. While The Beatles had split a little over 10 years prior, on December 8 they lost a member as John Lennon was shot outside his New York apartment. Fellow Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney remembers the state if shock he was left in when he heard the news: "I was at home and I got a phone call. It was early in the morning... It was just so horrific, you couldn't take it in and I couldn't take it in. No less, the world became a sadder, less love-filled place when Lennon was gone, but luckily we were left with enormous amounts of wisdom and eye opening quotes from the genius. This is how we remember him: “Life is what happens while...

The Illustrated Biography: John Lennon 200 classic, rare & unseen photographs by Daily Mail Even 40 years after the break up of The Beatles and 30 after his assassination, John Lennon still manages to draw a crowd every single time something is written or said about him. There is nothing new in this book that we did not already know about this sometimes eccentric music maestro. That he started of with a gig in Hamburg, about how Dacca records rejected them saying that guitar music was on the way out, about his famous line "...those in the cheap seats clap your hands, the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry" in Prince of Wales Theatre in London, about the Beatles being more famous than Jesus and the subsequent decadence into drugs, spiritualism, Yoko (Oh, no!) and the dissolution of Beatles to retirement from music to starting over and death at the hands of a deranged fan (or mastermind power play of the CIA, if you believe the conspiracy theorists). It is a sort...