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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...
...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...
...Lennon's death brought an unexpected windfall to some. Photographer Paul Goresh's picture of Lennon autographing his new album Double Fantasy for Mark David Chapman, the alleged killer, a few hours before his death brought more than $100,000 in worldwide syndication fees. In some cases, commercialism got out of hand and taste was trampled. The New York Post published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from...
Despite the unprecedented journalistic response, there were limits. On the Sunday after Lennon's death, when many mourners observed ten minutes of silence in his memory, New York's WCBS-TV cut away from the Philadelphia Eagles-St. Louis Cardinals football game to cover the mute tribute, its cameras panning over saddened faces in Central Park. Hundreds of angry callers jammed the station's switchboard to complain...