Lennon Lives: A John Lennon Survives Timeline

[cortz#9]

Interesting. Subscribed.

 

[Archibald]

Interesting TL. Poor Lennon is pretty unfortunate ITTL: dang, I wouldn't trade M.D. Chapman for Ted Bundy any day of the week. At least Chapmann didn't fucked his victim corpses until they were rotten...

 

[Come Anytime]

Can I join in on this as well?

 

[Come Anytime]

January 19th 1981-Mark David Chapman is stabbed to death by his prison cellmate

 

[Toxic34]

January 27, 1981-During an appearance at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy, Lennon takes notice that Pope John Paul II is in attendance. He quips, "the last time I had someone important in the audience was when the Beatles did the Royal Command Performance for the Queen."

 

[TheGuyWhoHeartsHistory]

(Let's keep Chapman dead. What would happen next?)

 

[Toxic34]

(In what particular sense do you mean?)

 

[Enigmajones]

OOC: Am I the only one weirded out by the Ted Bundy inclusion in this TL

 

[TheGuyWhoHeartsHistory]

OOC: Am I the only one weirded out by the Ted Bundy inclusion in this TL

I did it for a twist. He'll still get punished in the end.

 

[Toxic34]

January 30, 1981-American and French officials reach a deal. France will extradite Bundy to the U.S. if the federal government gives up their pressing claims for the extradition of Roman Polanski.

 

[Loghain]

I did it for a twist. He'll still get punished in the end.

Well you know you might have just did First ASB Butterfly. Also it would be interesting to see the reaction to the Yokoone being right.

 

[RyuDrago]

Interesting TL. Poor Lennon is pretty unfortunate ITTL: dang, I wouldn't trade M.D. Chapman for Ted Bundy any day of the week. At least Chapmann didn't fucked his victim corpses until they were rotten...

(He is still alive TTL. More lucky than this...)

 

[Toxic34]

February 1, 1981-Lennon sets foot in the UK for the first time in a decade to begin a series of dates there. The tour begins in Manchester.

 

[Toxic34]

February 6, 1981-Lennon begins two sold-out nights at the Wembley Arena.

 

[Toxic34]

February 10, 1981-The final date of the European Tour is a concert at the King's Dock in his birthplace of Liverpool. An ecstatic crowd welcomes him and the energy of the show is quite apparent. Towards the end of the show, Paul McCartney appears onstage, and they do five numbers together. Hopes for a full Beatles reunion soar.

 

[ImSadCauseImAlone]

February 14, 1981 - Lennon, at the urging of David Geffen, goes to Peter Gabriel's house near Bath in England to record backing vocals for the track "Shock the Monkey". Gabriel agrees to come to New York to work on Lennon's next album in return.

 

[Toxic34]

February 20, 1981-Lennon moves to do an Australasian leg of the Double Fantasy tour to wrap things up. Starting at the Budokan, Lennon, Ono, and their band kick it into high gear. Lennon also promises that "the tour for the next album's gonna be much longer. This was a shakedown cruise to see if I still had it."

 

[Toxic34]

February 22, 1981-Ted Bundy is officially extradited back to the United States and immediately escorted into maximum security.

 

[Toxic34]

February 24, 1981-Lennon returns to New York to finish work on the followup album, Milk and Honey.

 

[Toxic34]

February 26, 1981-Lennon takes a break from work to play piano and guitar and tracks for Ringo Starr's upcoming album, Can't Fight Lightning.