I Just Shot John Lennon I Just Shot John Lennon "I Just Shot John Lennon" is a song from The Cranberries' album "To the Faithful Departed". It is a narrative of the events of the night of December 8, 1980, the night that musician John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City. It is one of many tributes to Lennon, and also one of many other songs to recall the events of the night. After the narrative, there is commentary: "What a sad, and sorry and sickening sight". The title of the song comes from the
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band repressed childhood traumas rather than analytical discussion. In July 1970, Lennon started to record demos of songs he wrote that would show up on "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", and on one particular day, the 26th, Lennon recorded numerous demos of his song "God", which includes the line "I don't believe in Beatles". Lennon's therapy was never completed due to the expiry of his US visa. With the experience he received from the therapy, he was able to channel his emotions into an album's worth of self-revelatory material. Having exhausted the extensions of their American visas, Lennon and Ono returned from