The horrific moment in 1980 when Sting realised John Lennon was dead

The horrific moment in 1980 when Sting realised John Lennon was dead

Nobody in the world of rock and pop was unaffected by the devastating murder of John Lennon, a tragic shockwave felt no less by Sting than every other peer across the disparate corners of pop. There’s plenty about Lennon’s assassination that struck the world for the grim new era it ushered in. Celebrity obsession was nothing new, a fact any member of the Fab Four knew all too well during their Beatlemania peak, but it was the first time the publ…