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Part 5 A tribute from Granada presented by Tony Wilson, followed by another tribute from the late BBC news. In the early hours of Tuesday 9th December 1980, I woke from a nightmare. I had dreamed that John Lennon had been murdered. I soon realised, for reasons I was never able to explain, that my bedside radio had turned on several hours earlier than it was set to come on, and I had obviously heard the first news report in my sleep. A mate of mine was staying in the house at the time, and we both decided there was nothing for it, but to take the day off work, get a crate of beer in, hold a wake, and watch the reports and tributes. The TV companies threw their schedules out of the window and did a remarkable job of assembling tributes & reports. Virtually the whole day’s TV output was changed. This was long before all day news channels, and breakfast TV, so the first televised news was at 12.45 the “Mid-day News” presented by Kenneth Kendal. Thanks to Paul Hillam tardis-traveller on ebay for such a good job converting my old Betamax tapes