I was around 8 at the time, so my education as far as music and current events was like:
- Guy named John Lennon is on the radio. Has cool songs, watches wheels, etc. I like him.
- Someone shoots him dead. I guess that’s a thing that happens.
- Come to find out he was in the Beatles too! Crazy coincidence, small world.
- Reagan gets shot. I guess that’s a normal thing that happens to famous people. I wonder if Reagan was in any bands.
It’s weird that I knew a lot more solo Lennon & McCartney songs than I did Beatles songs (at least back then) and didn’t put it all together until the mid-80’s. Kind of wild to look back and realize I was alive when all the Beatles were still alive, at least the tail end of it.