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
Remember (John Lennon song) Fawkes explosion. Rogan's interprets the explosion as being Lennon dramatizing an alternate history in which the radical Fawkes succeeds. Authors Ken Bielen and Ben Urish consider the explosion "a stark ending to a surprisingly poignant song. the rupture of childhood trauma echoing in the adult in the form of half-recalled nursery rhymes." The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows: Remember (John Lennon song) "Remember" is a 1970 song appearing on John Lennon's first official solo album release, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band". The song was influenced by Lennon's primal therapy sessions with Dr Arthur Janov, and the