John Lennon Remembered

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John Lennon's murder 25 years ago Thursday was one of those "where were you" moments.

A true rock icon, the former Beatle remains one of the most influential artists of his generation.

As they did the day Lennon was shot, his fans were gathering Thursday in Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park to remember the working-class hero.

The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith looked back at Lennon's life and death.

"My mind was reeling, trying to change it, trying to fix it," Lennon friend and photographer Bob Gruen tells Smith. " 'What can we do about it?' and, you know, just the horror of the way it happened, the pointlessness of how it happened."

Though Lennon was regarded as a musical genius, he saw himself as an ordinary working man, Smith says.

In an appearance captured on "The Dick Cavett Show: John & Yoko" DVD, Lennon says, "I'm not an intellectual, I'm not articulate, I'm working-class, and I use few words. I use the words that people around me used when I was a child. I talk like that."

Gruen lived around the corner from Lennon and Yoko Ono's first apartment in New York's Greenwich Village.

"Actually, I met them in their bedroom," he tells Smith. "They spent a lot of time in bed.

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[NeoSparky]

truly a genious

[Rishwin]

hehe i liked his hair ^^

[nathan123]

R.I.P John Lennon, and Dimebag Darrel Abbot who was shot on stage by a deranged fan on the same day last year. The music world will never be the same again

[InTrO]

world lost real music legend