Many of Lennon's songs spoke of love and romance, others of harsh feelings of despair and sorrow, while others were of peace, and so on. Troubled genius, gifted musician, and a hurt man may John Lennon rest in peace.
@@rhett-BA-Lit. All the Beatles were, like americanized, always expecting what new music came from the USA. John tried to break away from his former band that much; it was like a head-on collision waiting to happen...
Very special and unique Lennon, talking about his life, his intimacy, in his songs. Honest and pure love letters. There will never be another like him. Eternal genius, John Lennon.
Yeah, by society's standards, he wasn't. What is a great man, really? I mean, he's the most honest person in pop history, which is already super inspiring to me especially today, against the current pop's fake, money-making attitude. With his songs and campaigns, he's probably done more for peace than any other music artist, which is huge (not for the act, but for the effect). He advocated for the truest, most important things in his art, imo. He wasn't perfect, but he was certainly one of the few who admitted it, and talked about it (took me a long time of criticising him till i realized i'd been hiding under my faults without ever admitting them, most do) People want to feel good with themselves so they do the easiest math: "he advocates for peace but hasn't been peaceful throughout his whole life, he's just a hypocrite." So many people stop exploring past this point. So many people get disappointed after realizing he's not the saint he painted himself to be with his art, while actually they should appreciate the fact that his art actually made him look like that. That is the power, and can be the point of art. His art is not about him, it's about the art - the music and the lyrics. I am definitely a lennon fanatic, and i was convinced he was an angel at the start. I only learned his true genius and art when I accepted that he's a human being. He's definitely brought so much more good than bad into this world, and the good surely surpasses almost anyone else's. To conclude, people, i believe if you get out of your ego, you'll understand this is one of the greatest people to walk on earth, but again i guess we need to define "greatness" to say that.
His difficult youth left him frustrated, paranoid and schizophrenic. By his own admission, he was not a very nice guy. He, also, just happened to be ingenious and a natural leader. My favorite John Lennon story has to do with his father, who left the family when John was seven, but contacted John after he was a successful Beatle, requesting financial aid. John agreed to meet him on a park bench where the father reiterated his need for financial assistance. John told his father he would indeed help him---but only for seven years. That was how long his father had stayed with the family.
Weird.. I've read tons of books on John and I don't recall that story. Firstly his dad didn't really stick around at all. John only saw him a few times as a child and the last time (prior to his father coming around when he found out his son was famous) was when John was five. I believe John gave a job to his dad's very young wife years later but never heard of him directly giving him money nor saying it was 7 years worth (especially since that wasn't even true). I definitely think John had some emotional issues to work out due to his messed up childhood but he does not seem like he's either paranoid or schizophrenic. From what I've read he was angry a lot in his youth and depressed later on. From songs you can see the depressive elements...he also had bad insomnia which he also sang about. He had a lot of loss in his life and a lot of pent up pain which was why drugs were appealing to him...especially opiates when he was with Yoko during the last year of the Beatles. Troubled is definitely the right word. People say he's a horrible human being and he did fight a lot as a teen, but I think the woman beating is probably overblown. According to Cythnia he only ever hit her once (written in her own book). I think he might've done more emotional abuse than anything (he could say cruel things) but I think that was changing near the end of his life after going through therapy.
I have to disagree. John is never a good leader. He is a tom cat but not a good leader. He created the beatles. Paul is/was a good leader but first he didnt know that or not interested about being a leader but when epstein died he step up to be the de facto leader.
thewho186 you have got to be kidding me about Lennon not been a good leader . He started the Beatles he negotiated with Epstein very much . He recruited Paul And the rest . So good a leader Lennon was that a government-wanted him out of the USA 🇺🇸. Tell me what real life movements Paul directed ? Paul music is silly and lovely too but but does not lead you to think much. Lennon on the other hand makes you be thinking deeply . It makes you want to change or to despise the system . Paul was a good manager but not a superb leader .
FYI: “Lennon composed "Imagine" one morning in early 1971, on a Steinway piano, in a bedroom at his Tittenhurst Park estate in Ascot, Berkshire, England. Ono watched as he composed the melody, chord structure and almost all the lyrics, nearly completing the song in one brief writing session.”
The Monday morning after the Beatles' debut on Ed Sullivan,everybody came to school with their hair combed down in front and over their ears as much as possible. I was in 10th grade. The teachers were frantic,they roamed the hallways with their little violation books,and wrote up dozens of guys for dress code violations. The Principal's office was packed,we didn't care,and life was never the same. My parents hated rock,they hated hair,and they were absolutely dumbfounded by free-thinking. The Greatest Generation was stuck in a rut,and they didn't have the creativity or breadth of thought to get out of it. Regimented America took hit after hit as the barriers were broken. When I left home a couple years later,my mother told me I'd never amount to anything because of "too many dates and too many Beatle records."
Lisa: I don't understand where you're going with this. Did you make some bad choices? Need to blame them on somebody else? Grow up and accept personal responsibility for your fucked up life. You are in charge of your own fate. You did it to yourself.
Never heard that Lennon hated jazz. I've read a lot about him, this is the first mention of that I have ever heard. He didn't make jazz music ... but he "hated" jazz???
If you were a working class kid growing up in Northern Britain during the '60s, '70s & even the '80s, John Lennon was about as close to Divinity as most of us got. For me the music of the Beatles & particularly the songs he wrote hold a special significance. I'm a music freak, I've got an enormous record collection & I've seen many hundreds of bands live but to me Lennon's music is more than just popular music, for me it's like going to church might be for a religious person. I think I can safely say there'll never be another Beatles or anyone like John again. He truly was unique.
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The song "Imagine" was written and recorded in England. When John and Yoko first moved to the US, they lived on Bank Street (in Greenwich Village), not at the Dakota.
@@numberjackfiutro7412 Yes, the second NYC one for an extended duration, and first was told there were no floor openings, and then they were informed of availability.
There is a very revealing line in the song "Nowhere man" which is about him totally being disillusioned with the life of a rock star, the grueling tours which went on forever and his domestic life with Cynthia and Julian falling apart. Long time friend Klaus Voorman spoke with Lennon on the shoot for "Strawberry fields forever" and he said that Lennon broke down in tears ranting about how unhappy he was. That revealing line from "Nowhere man" is "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" with which Lennon basically says "I'm human, you guys are human, don't you recognize this, we all got through a phase in our lives like this don't we?"
I will never forget the night that he was killed. Though too young to remember President Kennedy's death, Lennon's death was like my "Kennedy moment". I am so glad that his music, more than forty years after his death, still lives on and is very popular today.
A very complete biography. I’m glad that they paint a realistic picture of him. He was a talented, interesting guy but not the nicest. I think it’s important that people know that.
It was actually Ringo who left the band first, unoffically. He told the bandmates he simply didn't have fun anymore and went on a vacation to the Bahamas if i remember correctly. He says this is in the documentary about George Harrison Living in the Material World
I still grieve... we were deprived of Lennon's genius because of an insane boy who wanted to link his name to John Lennons throughout history. I will continue to grieve for him until the day I die.
I really enjoy this channel. Something I was somehow waiting for. Not the sometimes boring 45 minute documentarys but something quicker and more interesting. I don't say that I don't want you to do a 45 minutes bio, but only if the biography has enough content to rectify 45 minutes.
@@wanettarenay8215 There is a difference between the person and the artist many people don't quite get. And I think we are talking about the Artist John Lennon. And he is someone you can know. As for the person, we will never have any close personal relations with him, so I think we shouldn't even care.
wanetta renay Ringo Star himself said: “John had the biggest heart of any man I ever met. He was beautiful, generous and would give you his all.” Paul echoed that sentiment saying “John was beautiful.” That’s who he was, a flawed human being like all Of us who was courageous and generous enough to give his life for peace on earth.
@@wanettarenay8215 who was he? Easy. An extremely flawed human being, the result of a chaotic, traumatic upbringing. It says a lot about his character that he was kindhearted in nature enough to be as openly self-critical as he always was, and strive hard to achieve the peaceful ideal he believed in so strongly. Its a testament to his strength that he came as far as he did. With his violent tendencies, he could've easily become a serial killer or something. Instead, he recognized that it was wrong, and worked hard on improving himself, which he did succeed in. The man that was killed in 1980 was a far better person than the teenager who started the Beatles.
Julian also said that he understands that the beetles became so huge, that he doesn't think John could have stopped even if he wanted to. And he respects that to a degree. John was in a very weird possition. People look at it as a simple father son situation. But it wasn't. And Julian knows that. John was troubled, but no more than most humans. I hate it when people convey him as the bad guy. He made mistakes man, but he gave the world something amazing.
Ringo Star himself said: “John had the biggest heart of any man I ever met. He was beautiful, generous and would give you his all.” Paul echoed that sentiment saying “John was beautiful.” That’s who he was, a flawed human being like all Of us who was courageous and generous enough to give his life for peace on earth through his music and activism where no other musician went all out for peace as John did. Ironically, or absurdly, he was killed for this.
@@tonilungu_tv2080 who was? Lennon wrote the anthem that defined the anti-Vietnam movement and helped put an end to that war. That’s more than what Dylan or any other musician did
@@hw343434 He spoke of true love yet he cheated on yoko, spoke abt peace yet many reports say he was a violent man and its true..he wasn't the man he portrayed, Period.
When i first heard the Imagine Album I was in London, tripping on LSD, stopped into a friends apartment in Earls Court where a group of people were lying and sitting around smoking hash and listening to the Album non stop, side one, side two, side one, side two and on and on, so, I lay down on the floor, coming down from a very intense LSD high, still flying though, anyway, after it was over I mentioned to everybody that John Lennon really is a bloody genius as he managed to make every single song a different colour, how did he do that, to which everybody started laughing so hard tears were coming out of their eyes, I didnt know what I had said that was so funny.. it was just like that...Those were the days, I was 22.
WTF I understand getting punished and detention for fighting or destruction in class, but for not being interested in the particular subject? That's bonkers!
@@gigglyme2001 No you're entirely wrong. How he measures greatness is different from yours. So that's your first mistake. It's like using inches when you're in a metric using country. So you're wrong
@@gigglyme2001 you and everyone like you always comes back with that shitty response acting like this was all for a laugh. Buddy your just disabled and you know it. I dont even listen to John Lennon. The only song I have is imagine lmfao
gigglyme2001 I don’t care if you did this for laughs or whatever, I’m not mad if anything I am disappointed in the fact that Lennon’s wishes of peace, happiness, and respect were all torn. Love is a message that radiates from The Beatles whether you like them or not, artistically they pushed the idea of love. Even though, Lennon was a greatly troubled in his personal life he used that passion and translated it into his music. Although, I only like one song of his, Imagine, and much prefer Paul’s music over him doesn’t mean that I don’t push the same ideals as Lennon. I may not be as confident as he seems to be with all of this peace and stuff, but we all want peace, we all want to be happy. So, I find it, for lack of better word infuriating, no, humiliating for you to be rude and disrespectful to somebody you’ve never met, when this video outlines his whole life down to his death. I have never hated anyone, but I feel pain, what you could classify as sympathy for those who are bullied/hurt from people who don’t know them. However, I realize that this may make me sound like a hypocrite, but I don’t like for example Yoko Ono, who is just a manipulator who brainwashed the spineless John Lennon who finds one thing mind blowing and falls to your feet. Don’t get me wrong here I adore The Beatles I have a lot of respect and nothing but love for them, but I’m not a liar, I realize that what Lennon has done in the past don’t reflect well on him and we all make mistakes, which doesn’t excuse anything he’s done. Anyways, I got off track there, but I found it necessary to state that I am not being biased and I just find it soul crushing that you have the audacity to comment a rude opinion about Lennon (which you have a right to have) on a video that’s describes his life and ends with his MURDER. If you don’t like Lennon, I understand that, I personally don’t know how to feel about him, but don’t on top of all that anger John Lennon fans and afterwards pretend or act or put on a facade that this was all a joke and insulting someone is how you get your daily dose of laughter. It is repulsing, disgusting, and just overall concerning to see how you present yourself to strangers and the internet. All I’m saying is you should reflect.
Did the other Beatles BASH all their Girlfriend's? And constantly start fights.. and admit they were extremely Violent like John?He beat up that British DJ so badly, John even said, if he had punched him one more time "he may have Killed him". Did other Beatles ignore their kids and let them go on public housing? Did the other Beatles marry a control freak like Yoko...and call her Mother. And let Yoko screw over Julian in his will? No, John was not a just a "slightly troubled Guy". None of the other Beatles ever acted like he did. Of all the women in the world he picked YOKO? Pathetic is the only word you can say. May Pang was the best thing that ever happened to him. Incredibly talented, yes, for sure. Charismatic, smart, but a real mean spirited, nasty person.
@@kevinreily2529 is much as I want to disagree with you... I can't, cause I know it's true. A real shame. Cause John was a really talented and creative individual. Darn
Kevin Reily ridiculous... us ignorant fans can speculate whatever we want but Ringo himself said John “had the biggest heart of any man i ever met. He was beautiful, generous and would give you his all.” Paul said something similar. I’ll trust Ringo and Paul over any clueless RU-vidr, fan or hater
Personally I think you should make one of both Paul McCartney and David Bowie, their my two favorite musicians and I can't find a lot of documentaries as detailed as you make em
Are you sure they were living in New York when he wrote Imagine? Imagine was certainly recorded at their house in Ascot England in May 71. I thought New York came slightly later and they originally lived in Greenwich Village.
He's not here to defend himself. I think he was by & large a decent soul who had some issues & was a work in progress, in a positive way. A flawed, talented interesting guy.
R. I. P. John Thank you again for the in-depth research and very paltable presentation 👍 Your pacing is always easy to listen to and watch. I do hope that some if your various channels and programs are used by educators as supplemental material 🙏
I think he wrote Imagine when he was still in England. I've seen footage they shot of him playing the white piano at Tittenhurst. It's on the Imagine documentary I believe. He was a human being with faults. Complicated, he would respond to hurt, grief, etc. with anger. He spent too much time in his head and was an Idealist. Nothing is ever perfect, and what happens to an Idealist? They become cynics. He regretted many things, but to the end he tried to be positive. I believe he actually did believe in love and peace, but he wasn't always perfect, no one is.
"An event that was famously chronicled in the song The ballad of John and Yoko.. it goes like this... Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh" *Simon's famous Yoko impression*
I read and heard in interviews that during those "home husband" years he was really just doing heroin and watching tv for most of it and sometimes seeing his kids. Not really what was described here. But yeah, one of the greatest musicians of all time. "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out" "Julia" "Help" and "A day in the life" i mean those songs alone make him an unparalleled master.
everybody loves you when you are 6ft in the ground, but really, what you read or were you read it from is suspect, his assistant literally stole his diary, and forged writing to seem as if JL desired this Sickening Seaman to write his bio. we al know opiods are hard to quit, but do not forget where this illuminating info in his private life came from, saboteurs. inside his own camp.. the worst kind.
there's a lot of versions of Nobody loves you thru time, by many composers, but his sure is special, he was absolutely raw and bare in the lyrics of his.
The true power of a speaker's words can certainly inspire, enlighten, and change lives. However, there rests an even greater power within the listener ourselves; to relate, to disagree, or to learn.
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Gary Daniel haha yea man. I, allegedly lol, felt very weird as well from mushrooms. I never liked them. My body felt this pins and needles feeling all over in a bad way. I think it’s cuz mushrooms are basically a psychedelic and a slight poison. So they just don’t feel good. All I know is, after the acid, even tho the trip turned bad, I still had a better and deeper understanding of life. I just can’t really describe it. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad trip, but just too intense because it was allegedly in liquid form. I hear that’s the best usually.
Gary Daniel oh man cut with bug spray?? That’s just down right not cool. Super nasty. Yea ur probably right about the potency. At some point it was pure liquid. I imagine if it were cut with pcp and the user didn’t know, that could turn into something they didn’t anticipate and that could turn out to be bad. I’ve never tried pcp and I probably won’t ever. I’ve never even seen it in person. But I have heard that pcp by itself isn’t as crazy as you hear stories about. But that’s just what I’ve heard. I think maybe all those videos on RU-vid of people freaking out on pcp, they were probably using it along with crack or speed and alcohol. Because the videos I’ve seen are always in the ghetto and there’s lots of the “dirty” drugs in places like that. If I ever were to allegedly ingest lsd again, at least now I know what to expect and as long as it’s pure, I think I could get something good out of it. I wish I knew a chemist.
Gary Daniel self medicated for my rapid cycling bipolarity with alcohol and cocaine for a long time before proper diagnosis. Mushrooms have and will always be just fucking great times tbough. escitalopram and lexipro with my lithium has me function. Was prescribed Abilify firstly, and some probably self destructive instinct said 'you are not taking those ever', was of course blown hearing about lawsuit around Abilify at the moment.
I dunno - with so many glaring inaccuracies of well-established and easily verifiable facts, I'm beginning to question the validity of anything with this guy. I couldn't even finish watching this.
I have been a fan since May 63 @ he is still one of my major inspirations. Although gone in body, his message and music will last forever! They killed him because he liked to shake up the Status Quo and dared to want to make this world a better place. All he was saying was Give Peace A Chance!
Lennon was a genius, no doubt about it. He wrote both of my all-time favorite songs, Imagine and Woman, from the Double Fantasy album. He may have been a jerk in many ways (who isn't?) but he truly loved Yoko. Anyone who reads the lyrics of Woman can only hope to be loved so deeply as he loved her.
calichef1962 I disagree. I think that song is about how troubled thier relationship was. In double fantasy there are refrences to her having a new man and how he'd wronged her but it was ages ago and she shouldn't still hold a grudge. 'Woman' is alot more begging for forgiveness. But there are alot of simular songs going all the way back to the imagine album. It gets wearing if you listen to them all. I wouldn't personally call it a great love. I don't like some of the actions Yoko took in the 60/70s but I think she would have been happier leaving him and I felt sorry for her.
yeah, but yoko no no was a star fucker who used him, everyone could see it but him, it he had not loved her and moved to the big apple from the big tea bag like she compelled him to do, he might be alive today
John Lennon has been my musical idol not the Beatles john himself even so he died six months after I was born but listening to his music in my teenage years I fell in love with his music still do to this days and I think he would of been good for this world no doubt about it
Everybody goes around criticizing a man who’s not here to defend himself. Yes, he did horrible awful things and he acknowledged they were horrible. It was also a different time, he was dealing with his own pain so he projected it to others. Nonetheless I love him dearly and miss him.
Sadly John had to cope with the fact that neither parent actually wanted him. His father disappeared when he was like 2 or 3 and never wrote or had contact until well after John had become famous. He showed up at the door with his new wife, (who was much younger than him), and John smartly shut the door in his face. For years he thought his mother was a friend of his aunt until much later. By then she was living with another man and was caring for the children she'd had with the 2nd man. That's enough to make anyone angry.
It was Ringo's words that did more for peace & love, than anyone else's words, Ringo always said, "Peace & Love" . Thats what has always stuck in my mind, since i was a young teenager...not what John did or said or sang. And my children say peace & love, coz they heard me say it 😃💟💛💚💜💖 & now my grandchildren & one day my great grandchildren ❤❤❤❤🌟🌟🌟🌟
My young daughters know who Beatles are, due to me. Who got it from my mother. I had an great moment with my young girls while watching Avengers Infinity wars. When Bruce Banner mentioned the Beatles breaking up my girls were like " The Beatles Broke Up!!??" Hahaha . It never crossed my mind that they saw the Beatles as a band of their generation. So true ! The Beatles transcend generations. And that is a good thing..
@@rebeccamaracle2878 Exatafuckingmundo He admitted to a song about heroin for Gods sakes so why deny one about trips? John was a truthful man if it was LSD he would say, he didn't , so it wasnt. End of
Its astonishing how much music has shifted focus overly the years. The beatles music inspired americans throuout the Vietnam war and civil rights movements. If you want to make it work drink lots of alcohol and listen to the beatles. RIP Jon. We miss you and your music.
Yeah, I get those moments... Sorry to take it to a dark place but I'm too young for john Lennon's death and the beetle break up but for me it was 9/11. Im in my mid 20's and Australian but maybe my most vivid memory I remember moment by moment was turning the TV in the morning for cartoons in primary school on almost every channel you were just watching the news replay the planes over and over again.
The happy Jazz music intro while talking about Mr. Lennon's death is not emotionally honoring Mr. Lennon's tragic and untimely murder, but other then that, excellent video.
Really enjoyed the video. I thought you got the balance just right. We saw the factors which led to him being a difficult person but this wasn’t a video of someone trying to do a hatchet job on him: I think you captured him in his multi-dimensional complexity
Why is it so difficult in these videos to show pictures that relate to the story? Talks about Harrison joining the band in 1958, shows a picture of Harrison in 1974. WTF? And there are many more examples of this. If the pictures don’t tell the same story, why make videos at all? The discrepancies are grating to fans in the know, and deceptive to those yet learning.
Lennon wrote Imagine in Tittenhurst Park and with the primal scream therapy he began to deal with his heroine addiction, othereise a real great video! Well done
