"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
...
> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon in
> front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I feel old, I was
> in college and my roommate and I went into mourning for a week. Who's up
> for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon. If you were going to one,
> what would you bring......think not only 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as
> well.
> -ginny
>
>

The subject itself is *almost* a Beatles song It was 20 years ago today,
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...

I don't do "dead spreads" but I did like the Beatles. I think the British
Invasion of the States was 1964. The Ed Sullivan show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x93KArccaZg

My mother loved them, too, which I found rather surprising. My father was
more into big band music, the whole 1940's and 50's "swing" thing. Imagine
my surprise when my mother got all upset at John Lennon's death. And George
Harrison. Mom's words to me when we spoke were upon George's death were,
"He was quite a spiritual person." Um, yes, he was. And when Linda
McCartney died Mom said "She and Paul were married a long time." Um, yeah.
They certainly were. I was rather surprised to find my mother was such a
Beatles fan

Jill