Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Shocking Facts About John Lennon's Death" video.

@mosesluckett7568 Total coward. That nonentity murdered John Lennon for one reason only - to steal a tiny fraction of his fame. It was utterly pointless because he could never steal any aspect of John's fame that actually mattered - his talent, his humanity, his wisdom, or the love he inspired in millions of people, most who had never met him. John was and still is greatly loved. People feel nothing but contempt for his killer. He stole something priceless from this world.
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Michael H. Agreed, John Lennon and his wife can never spend another second together - why the hell should his killer get that privilege? Besides, if he cared a damn about the woman he married he wouldn't have committed a crime guaranteed to put him in a prison cell for life.
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I'm appalled the scumbag is even given the opportunity of parole. Every time it comes up, Yoko Ono has to write another letter to the damn parole board, telling them why she does not want him released. Ironically, chief among her reasons is that HE would not be safe! He should have got a whole life sentence - why should John's loved ones regularly have this worry? And I see no reason on God's earth why he gets to enjoy conjugal visits from his dumb wife, when his victim John Lennon can never spend another minute with his!
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I wish he had been executed, but I feel sure John Lennon would not have wanted that. I'm absolutely livid that scumbag is allowed conjugal visits from his wife when John Lennon can't spend another second with the woman he loved! Why has he been given that privilege? He murdered John Lennon for Chrissake!!!
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Jason Bouphasavanh It just baffles me, you know? I'm British, and we've always perceived the American justice system to be very, very tough - killers generally get sentences of literally hundreds of years, or are put on death row and possibly executed. Why is the asshole who murdered John Lennon even eligible for parole? I have never heard of any convicted murderer getting the privilege of conjugal visits from a woman! It truly beggars belief. It certainly wouldn't happen here in the UK.
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@emileelovsyapping Totally agree, it's a despicable thing to wish Yoko dead. Whatever people think of Yoko the fact is John loved her very much, and she made him happy. I believe that love was mutual and would have endured. You only had to see photos taken of Yoko by a paparazzi as she left the rear exit of the hospital after being told he had died, to know she was devastated. They were a compatible and loving couple, a contented family with their 5 year old son Sean. If people are genuine fans of John, they should be thankful to Yoko that she gave him joy in his private life, and he was undoubtedly happy, settled and optimistic when his life was stolen from him. 'It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive', as the saying goes. John Lennon's last day on Earth was a happy one, spend with the woman he loved. They had breakfast together in a favourite cafe, then went to work together at the recording studio. John was excited about the 1980s and had every reason to believe he'd be here to enjoy that decade and beyond with his loving wife by his side. John's murder was a tragedy, but one that thankfully he knew about for only moments before he lost consciousness. Prior to the gunshots he was living a happy and fulfilled life, with the love and support of his beloved wife, and I for one will always be grateful to Yoko for that.
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@kyoshitheavatar2414 The supreme irony of John Lennon's violent death is that he fought for peace and non-violent solutions to conflicts his whole life. Yes John became super rich through his immense and unique talent. But he remained real to the end, and genuinely cared about his fellow man and woman. John was not perfect - he never claimed to be and in fact he was remarkable in putting his hand up to his faults, even writing song lyrics that exposed his weaknesses and sins ('It's Getting Better' and 'Jealous Guy' among them). He was no hypocrite! That he was killed by an inadequate male who for those few moments felt - and was - all powerful , just because he held a gun, is sickening, and proved every statement John ever made advocating for peace 100% correct. John Lennon lives on though his music and his incredible wit and wisdom. Nothing and no one could ever kill his legacy - his body died that day, but his incredible body of work lives on. John will continue to entertain, inspire and educate people forevermore. His pitiful killer won't even be a footnote in history.
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Jason Bouphasavanh That was my point. John Lennon had a wife he loved very much, and she him. Thanks to this evil scumbag, they can never spend any more intimate moments together. Why should he get that privilege? I do not understand how this is any kind of justice - he murdered John Lennon FFS, he should be in solitary confinement!
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@salpellegrini4047 I agree she should have been prosecuted - she could have stopped the murder. And why the hell is that bastard allowed conjugal visits, when his victim can never spend another minute with his wife? That enrages me!
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The queue of people who'd like to kill that evil bastard goes twice around the world - I'd certainly join it!
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chief wiggums 'REGAIN his fame'??? He never lost his fame, so he didn't have to regain it - He was John Lennon FFS! Your comment is so ludicrous I don't know where to begin. So I won't. Except to say if promoting peace and love, writing and performing some of the best music of the 20th century and being wittier than Oscar Wilde, Anita Loos and Noel Coward combined is the work of Satan - sign me up as a devil worshipper! #JohnLennonForever #LennonLegend
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@kenchristie9214 I'm English and I totally understand why John didn't want to live here. In his country of birth he was public property, and people regarded him first and foremost as a Beatle - a part of his life he was desperate to move on from. I just don't think his fellow countrymen would let him be who he wanted to be, and live as he wanted to live. In America he had a freedom to develop personally and artistically that I just don't think would have been possible for him in the UK. If only the Americans weren't so damn fixated on 'the right to bear arms'. It was America's damn gun laws that killed him!
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Yes, the wickedness and waste of this particular murder is painfully obvious. A nonentity robbed John Lennon of his life, his loved ones of a beloved husband, father and friend, and the world of his colossal talent.
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@gettinhungrig2 Really? Thing is, looking at this logically EVERY famous person knows their fame makes them vulnerable to murder by a member of the public. When you are an internationally known figure, it's always an unlikely, but a possible event. John Lennon was a highly intelligent, empathetic and insightful man with his feet firmly on the ground, so I feel he'd have been more aware of his immortality than most superstars. Plus he was on the cusp of fame in his early 20s when President Kennedy was shot and killed - I bet that put the possibility of his own murder firmly into his psyche forevermore. If it can happen to the most powerful man in the world, no celebrity is safe! We cannot go back, rewind the tape and give it a different outcome, sadly. The comfort I feel is that John Lennon lived his life as he wanted to, with freedom, enjoying the normal, human things that are everybody's right like walks in the park with his youngest son. In terms of quality, his life was wonderful - he just didn't get the quantity of years he and the world deserved and that's the tragedy. At least it happened at night, so there weren't too many witnesses - I am glad John's dignity wasn't hugely compromised during his violent death. And it is a great mercy it didn't happen when he was with his 5 year old child. As John's life ebbed from his body and he knew he was dying, he also knew his little boy lay safe in bed. I'm sure some of his last thoughts were of Sean, his 'beautiful boy'.
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@lonwof2105 John Lennon's immense talent inevitably made him world famous. He had to accept that huge fame affected his everyday life and privacy in negative ways - it was the price he had to pay for all the advantages of being a star. But he did not sign up to being murdered in the street.
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Why the hell is that scumbag allowed conjugal visits with his wife in jail? If he loved her he wouldn't have committed a crime that would get him a life sentence! Since John Lennon and his wife can never be together again, I see no possible justification for his killer getting this privilege! Jeeze I thought American justice was supposed to be tough?
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@Claro1993 God, that's weird! I've always felt the Beatles song 'A Day in the Life' is spookily prophetic.
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I think that's an excuse, he hasn't got the balls to admit the pitiful truth - he killed John Lennon because he had no talent to become world famous any other way. He wanted his mediocre name forever linked with a superstar's - but it won't be, he was a nobody before, and he still is.
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Agreed, it's a freaking outrage he is allowed to enjoy married life in prison, when he broke up John Lennon's marriage permanently!
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I. GOLDMANN Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Your evil, (judge) mental comments here reveal you to be a sinner, so by your own convictions you are headed straight to hell. Though it's obvious from your crazy hatred - you're already there. You are to be devoutly pitied. John Lennon's good work and beloved memory will live on forever, long after you have been forgotten.
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@Multijoe84 I totally agree. John wrote some fantastic songs for 'Double Fantasy' ('Woman' and 'Watching the Wheels' stand out for me), which gave us a tantalising taste of what was to come had he lived through the 1980s and beyond. It's a bittersweet album for sure and inevitably forever overshadowed by his murder for those who remember it so vividly. I also miss the general energy, and everyday contributions to public life John would have made. He was wittier than Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward combined. Imagine what he would have done with Twitter and the like! He would have loved the internet and grabbed it by the throat to inspire, educate and entertain millions of people! John's YouTube channel would have been fantastic.
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Jakob Hammer Yoko's critics generally argue the opposite - that had John lived, they'd have split and she'd have lost her fame and power by association. But with his premature death, Yoko is forever linked with him as his life partner, widow, heir and keeper of the flame. I guess you believe their love was the real deal and would have endured. So do I!
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@Driessens_Peter I've listened to this dreadful, inferior, sub-Lennon dirge and it is NOTHING like the great John Lennon's music! It only reminds us what a unique and towering talent we lost that day in New York. John Lennon was totally irreplaceable. We must be thankful for the fantastic music John Lennon left us - feeble attempts like this to cash in on his name and legacy frankly sicken me. A few people in the comments actually want to believe it's the reincarnation of Lennon or his second coming or something, it's ridiculous. He would have written much better music than this!
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@YehoshuaMenachem Yes, Lennon's collaborations with his wife were always criticised. But 'Double Fantasy' had some classic Lennon songs, chief among them the brilliant 'Woman'. It was a tantalising taste of all the hits he would have produced as his genius developed through the 'eighties and beyond. Tragically after Lennon's murder we had to make do with his former collaborator McCartney's cliched muzakal efforts like 'No More Lonely Nights', 'Ebony and Ivory' and 'The Frog Chorus'. Nuff said!
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@edwardlagrossa1246 Very true! X
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Jakob Hammer I guess your mother couldn't spell 'JACOB' and you've been angry about it ever since.
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@Juan Perez With respect, you are trying to rationalise and bring some sort of explanation to what was in reality a wholly inexplicable, unjustifiable and unprovoked 'stranger murder'. Chapman and Lennon were strangers to each other, they had met only fleetingly in the context of a fan asking for an autograph. Therefore the killer and victim had no emotional connection, in fact barely any connection at all. The reasons Chapman provided to seek to explain and even to justify his violence were clearly rehearsed, and don't stand up to logical scrutiny on any level. You say Chapman was 'angry' with Lennon in 1980, over the infamous 'Jesus' comments he made when he was a Beatle way back in 1966? 14 years is a long time to bear a grudge against a total stranger! That's patent nonsense. Chapman wasn't angry with Lennon - he actually said how kind he was to him earlier that day, in signing his album and asking if he wanted anything else. The motive for this murder was as mundane, shallow and self-serving as the killer himself - he admired John Lennon, and thought killing him was the best way to win himself a share of his reflected fame and glory, and have his name forever linked with his. Mark Chapman had drawn up a long list of celebrities he was considering shooting dead that year, among them Elizabeth Taylor and Johnny Carson. He almost went through with an assassination attempt on the actor George C Scott who was starring on Broadway. He bought a ticket for his show and sat in the audience nursing his loaded gun, weighing up whether to stand up and shoot Scott, throughout his onstage performance. Obviously he decided not to - if he had killed Scott, Lennon would not have been his victim. So Chapman's selection of John Lennon was actually pretty random and not motivated by any personal grudge, as he at first pretended, but rather by a narcissistic hunger for the reflected fame of killing ANY celebrity. The murder of John Lennon was many things, but it was not personal!
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@gustavoo2996 Yeah fair enough, you may have a point there!
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