John Lennon said he didn’t want to be a “dead hero” in his last interview – recorded just three days before he was shot dead 30 years ago today.
John Lennon
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The Beatles were the reason why I wanted to get going. I wanted to be a Beatle. I often daydream about whether they would ever have reformed. I never saw The Beatles, I saw Paul McCartney play but never saw The Beatles . I would have loved to have seen them play.
The world stopped for me when Sharon told me John Lennon had been shot in New York. I can’t even describe how I felt. If he was a politician, a soldier, anything else, it would be, ‘Oh yeah, well he is in that kind of business,’ but the amount of joy and hope that he gave people was just remarkable.