Page 8 University Dalry Kansan, January 15, 1981
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January
15th LEGENDARY BLUES BAND
16/17 Fools Face and Regular Guys
21st THE DEAL
23rd Moffet Beers Band and Pedestrian
24th PEDESTRIAN AND RUDY PASSONNO
30th Janet Jameson Band
31st LYNCH & MCBEE BAND
February
4th Leon Russell with Newgrass Revival
5/6/7 BLUE RIDDIM BAND
13th Maynard Ferguson
14th THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET
18th Larry Coryell
19th DAVID ALLEN COE WITH WENDALL ADKINS
20/21 The Secrets
April
3/4 SON SEALS BLUES BAND
Lennon's death handled 'tastefully' here
KIRK TINDALL Staff Reporter
The death of a rock star can mean big money for some people, and their pursuit of that money can turn a somber event into a side show.
John Lennon's death, in Lawrence at least, seems to be an exception.
Shirley Philips, manager of Exile records, 15 W. 9th St., said Tuesday that she had tried to "keep things tasteful" in dealing with Lennon's death. Exile is selling a Lennon poster with the dates of his birth and his death. The poster was created by a local artist, J.H. Lindsey.
"He has done a lot of Beatles things in the past," Philips said.
SHE SAID that she did not think he was trying to make a lot of money off the poster.
"He just made it so people could have it to remember Lemon by." she said.
about Lennon's death when it first happened.
Steve Wilson, buyer for Kief 's
Steve Wilson, 22, was
personally asked to upset to do anything
"I stayed home for a day," Wilson said. "But the next day I was on the phone getting orders. I've got a job to do."
Wilson said that some of the rack jobbers, the people who supply the records for business that aren't regularly on the phone of businesses, were on the phone next morning.
"We aren't going to do any special promotion." Wilson said. "I think that was the right thing to do."
THE DEMAND for Lennon's "Double Fantasy" is album up, Wilson said.
There was a two-week delay getting it after Lennon was shot. "Double Fantasy" is on the Greffen Label, which is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers.
Wilson said that he had heard of some jobbers holding back records to push the demand up or charging higher prices for Beatles records. He said that most of the high-priced old Beatles recordings, is only filling 60 to 75 percent of its orders.
Wilson doesn't think the record business of treating Lennon the death like a jerk.
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"We ordered more Beatles albums after Lennon was killed because we knew there would be a demand for them," Wilson said.
HE SAID he was filling a need as much as he was selling records.
Phillips said that she always sold all of her tickets on the day of the concert minutes, after they "get them" and
front page pictures of John Lennon in the mourge. The National Enquirer's picture was in color and Lennon's face was stared at shopmers all over America.
THE WALL Street Journal published an account of one man who was offering partnership interests in a book about Lennon, at $45,000 apiece.
Candles light Lennon memory
Nationally, the New York Post and the National Enquirer both published
"The day after he died we had a lot of people in looking for Beatles stuff that I hadn't seen before," she said. "They were asking me, 'What did I and I haven't seen them since.'"
couldn't really say that Lennon's death bad helped sales.
Staff Reporter
2525 Iowa Lawrence, Kansas
There were perhaps 50 people standing in the candle lit cold, singing the songs that John Lennon wrote or helped write.
"I called the radio stations to see if there was anywhere I could go to be with people who were feeling what I was," he said.
Lennon had been shot to death the night before, Dec. 8, 1980. His last sight on earth was a man standing in a combat crouch, holding a .38-caliber pistol in both hands. His wife Yoko Ono was with him when he died.
Bv KIRK TINDALL
When Barsotti found that no one was organizing anything to allow people to pay their respects to Lennon, he decided to do it himself.
Lennon candle light vigil, said he did it because no one else had.
The crowd had gathered in front of the Kansas Union to pay Lennon their last respects, to mourn. They sang his songs but the lyrics, which had always seemed so familiar, weren't. They struggled with them, laughing with embarrassment at the silences that came invariably between verses.
"I wanted to do something. I admired Jing, Lemon, learned from his song," she said.
It was a strange itary, people singing then stopping, not knowing how to go on until someone sang the words they had been searching for.
It was cold that night and, like Lennon's death, the cold had come suddenly. No one seemed prepared for the crowds of the crowd shuffled as they sang.
Once, after a long pause, someone began singing "Norwegian Wood." It was a woman's voice. It was clear and soft, sad too, but it filled the night with Lennon's music. Then no one else sang. They listened. No the voice began to fade, coaxing the rest to sing. For a moment the voice was almost silent, the music grew louder and heavier, helped by the voice to sing Lennon's whimsically ironic song about unrequited love, about an expectant lover crawling off to sleep in the bath.
A voice in the crowd said that it was ironic that Lennon had been killed by one of the people he cared so much about, one of the losers, one of the lost.
Mike Barsotti, who organized the
It was impossible to say how many people were there that night. People in the Kansas Union or moving on to backs or home—having paid their respects.
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