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Ringo Starr’s heartbreaking words when he learned about John Lennon’s death. The Beatles drummer opened up about the devastating phone call he received in December 1980 while in Barbados and how he reacted to the news of John Lennon having been shot. It’s been 45 years since a fan fatally shot John Lennon outside his New York home, and fans are just now looking back on the moment Ringo Starr opened up about finding out about the shooting for the first time. John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980, in the entrance of his Manhattan residence, with the Beatles legend declared dead upon arrival at hospital after being rushed there in a police vehicle. The musician was leaving his home alongside wife Yoko Ono when gunman Mark David Chapman seized his chance to attack the star, later citing Lennon’s controversial remark about the Beatles being ‘more popular than Jesus’ as his primary motive. Chapman received a life sentence and continues to serve his time behind bars to this day.

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Source: Ringo Starr’s heartbreaking words when he learned about John Lennon’s death – Liverpool Echo