17-year old me was pretty well plugged into the Hollywood Punk scene by the end of 1980. A year earlier I listened to nothing but the Beatles. I didn’t care for John & Yoko’s recent album so, although I was sad about his death, I didn’t feel we were going to miss out on any great future Lennon music. The biggest impact for me was that because of the attention given to the assassination, I didn’t learn about the almost concurrent suicide of Darby Crash (of the Germs) until several weeks into the new year.