December 8, 1980

[mickle]

I was eighteen. Whatever his faults he was at least trying to use his fame to achieve something.

 

[wafflycat]

Can't remember where I was/what I was doing when Lennon died. Ditto Elvis. Ditto JFK.

[Catherine Tate]
Am I bothered? Does this face look bothered?
[/Catherine Tate]

 

[PaulB]

Can't remember where I was/what I was doing when Lennon died. Ditto Elvis. Ditto JFK.

[Catherine Tate]
Am I bothered? Does this face look bothered?
[/Catherine Tate]

Yes you do. You were telling me only last week that you were in New York, Memphis and in some book depository or other in Dallas on those exact days!

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Oddly the only two significant things (for the nation) that I remember where I was when they happened, are the resignation of Maggie Thatcher (PE cupboard at school) and 9/11(Dixons shop at Glasgow Airport). Suffice to say the second had a more immediate impact on me than the first!!

 

[Crackle]

17, first term at art college and was woken up to the news by my radio alarm. I though I was dreaming it and was quite shocked.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Oddly the only two significant things (for the nation) that I remember where I was when they happened, are the resignation of Maggie Thatcher (PE cupboard at school) and 9/11(Dixons shop at Glasgow Airport). Suffice to say the second had a more immediate impact on me than the first!!

I was sitting in a truck on a loading bay in Coventry on September 11th. Because they'd taken my keys off me while they unloaded the truck, and I didn't have a mobile phone, I didn't actually know anything about it until the next day when I got home.