John Lennon albums & Mark David Chapman

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Beatles' albums, John Lennon songs, The Catcher in the Rye, Todd Rundgren, Salvador Dali artwork...the strange coincidences & synchronicities that brought together John Lennon and Mark David Chapman.

A Wizard/A True Star - Todd Rundgren

Mark Chapman was a lifelong fan of Todd Rundgren, and he would listen to Todd's albums non-stop and learn all the lyrics off by heart. He would also study the album covers for clues.

He was intrigued by the mirror imagery of Todd's "A Wizard/A True Star" and was aware that Todd Rundgren had used televisual concepts throughout his recording career.

These were what Chapman picked up as special signals beamed especially to him, like a programme being broadcast for him to receive.

Todd's album, "Voyage To Utopia" album even had a kind of "test card" as its inner sleeve, as if Chapman was being told to fine tune his reception and wait for the signal to get clearer.

So he waited....for the final sequence of signals.

And when John Lennon released "Double Fantasy" in November 1980, the lyrics and album design convinced Chapman that everything was coming together, that the time was now, that the signals could not be denied and he must kill the rock superstar.

For Lennon too, the album signalled an ending - it closed a ten-year cycle that had begun with the chiming bell on "Mother" on the 1970 "Plastic Ono Band" album....now the bell was to be heard on the introduction of "Double Fantasy"...this time though, its chimes mean death.

Also, in "Watching the Wheels", Lennon sings about a carousel spinning - further proof for Chapman. Because the carousel in Central Park is featured in the final section of Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye"....when Holden Caulfield is almost home.

The wheels were turning...history and synchronicity were bringing everything together.

Deface The Music - Todd Rundgren

All through 1980, Chapman had been waiting for a bell to ring - that was one of the messages he had picked up from Todd Rundgren - and here it was, ringing loud and clear on Lennon's new album! It confirmed Lennon as his target.

Finally, in November of 1980, just a few days before the murder, Todd released "Deface The Music". It was both a send-up of the "With The Beatles" album cover from 1963, and a crude parody of the Beatles' songs.

The two albums were mirror images of each other, and to Chapman, this new signal was crystal clear - he must de-face the music of the Beatles, or de-face (destroy) one of the Beatles.

Lennon sending out signals....Chapman receiving signals

Television....newspapers...radio...magazines....the books he read...the art works he loved....the music he listened to...all these were giving Mark David Chapman the signals he craved.

And faced with this overwhelming array of signs and signals, some of which he had been waiting for, some of which were new and sensational, Chapman made up his mind to board the plane to New York, seek out John Lennon, and kill him.

Remember....this is only a small sample of my findings.

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