John Lennon because I had seen him in a store in NY almost exactly a year before (my ex literally ran into him) and I could see the building where he lived across the park from my in-laws. He decided he was going to live his life in the city and it cost him.
The Beatles were the first group that I ever noticed and he was the (frank) you guy from the start. I was going to school I’m Washington and got up to NY for Christmas about a week after. It was almost physical.
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Well, that's certainly a hot take.
Chapman had been planning to murder Lennon for months and wasn't even a resident of NY. Hell, he took a trip there to commit the murder and then decided against killing Lennon and returned home, instead flying back home to Hawaii and telling his goddamn wife what he was planning and she didn't do a (frank)ing thing about it. Then, he reneged an appointment with a clinical psychologist and the rest is history.
The point here is that Chapman would likely have killed Lennon regardless of whether it was in the big city or not.