Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover stories: in TIME, Newsweek, PEOPLE, New York, Us, the Village Voice, Soho News, Boston Phoenix, Cash Box, Record World, Rolling Stone, Paris Match and innumerable others. But the magazines were not there for long-readers scooped them up in record numbers. New York magazine's tribute to Lennon was, at 60,000 newsstand copies, its all time bestselling issue. Both Newsweek and TIME printed 100,000 more copies than usual for newsstand distribution. TIME sold more than 500,000, making it the third biggest selling issue in decades. Only the Nixon resignation (1974) and the Jonestown cult suicides...
...Lennon is mourned in print and on the air, tastefully...
...death of a man who sang and played the guitar overshadows the news from Poland, Iran and Washington tonight." Thus did Walter Cronkite begin his CBS Evening News broadcast Dec. 9 with the story of how Musician and former Beatle John Lennon had been shot to death in New York City. At ABC and NBC, Anchormen Ted Koppel and John Chancellor started their newscasts the same way, placing Lennon ahead of the latest developments in negotiations for the release of the American hostages and the threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland...
...photographs-to produce a 64-page special edition on the musician. It was only the second such issue in the magazine's 18-year history; the first marked Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The Chicago Sun Times sold out 740,000 copies of a Lennon supplement. In San Francisco the first five pages of the Dec. 9 Examiner were devoted to Lennon. The paper sold 185,000 copies that day, 30,000 more than usual...
...broadcast television specials on Lennon's life. BBC-Radio One, like dozens of radio stations in the U.S., played Beatle records almost exclusively for days after the murder. Boston's classical music station WBGH-FM aired a symphonic medley of Lennon's music. ABC-TV closed its news broadcast on Christmas Eve with Lennon's recording Happy Xmas (War Is Over), showing a montage of Lennon's life and Pope John Paul II bestowing a blessing as Lennon sang "And so this is Christmas. I hope you have...