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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

— Nathaniel Rateliff

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

— John Abercrombie

When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.

— JoJo

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

— Jackie DeShannon

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

— Yoko Ono

For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

— Michael Learned

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.

— Ringo Starr

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

— Jillian Hervey

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

— Billy Corgan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

— Rebecca Ferguson