I’m a big Beatles fan so thanks for this video Dan.I was lucky to visit john’s house a few years ago. His bedroom was the small bedroom on the left. When I walked in to see it, it was very emotional. Looking out of the window as John did looking out for Paul walking up the road to see him. Seeing his mum’s grave was sad and it was a good point about John being there also with his mum, maybe he is! I have to say, it was the most beautiful graveyard I’ve seen...all those flowery well kept graves. Happy New Year Dan...looking forward to your 2024 videos. 👍
Visting johns home was amazing i went few years ago just was in his room on my own felt very surreal I looked out the window can see where his mom died very eerie but in some ways peaceful
@@lisatwigger551 yes I know what you mean. I also went into his room on my own...I was sneaky 😉 just as the tour were about to leave, I shot upstairs (no one noticed) and went into john’s room...I didn’t want to leave. Very emotional. It’s something I thought I would never be privileged to see. Have you visited Paul’s home? It’s worth seeing too. Where they sat making their fabulous music. It’s a nice house. 👍
This was wonderful: seeing Julia's final resting place (and your family back story for the names on the stones was truly appreciated!). Saw The Beatles in concert in 1966--an important event, and memory. Visited Liverpool in '76 and '79--before there was anything remotely resembling a 'Beatles nostalgia' tour. Had to seek out the sites for ourselves, which was part of the fun! Visited the house on Menlove Avenue (as you did here); not far from that site, is Strawberry Field (no 's' in the name), the inspiration for John's song; and further along, Penny Lane with its 'shelter in the middle of the roundabout'... 17:51 As for Eleanor Rigby? Paul claims that he never knew of that headstone--that he was told of it much later, and attributed using the name as a sort of 'buried memory'. What was interesting was the date Eleanor died: 10 October 1939--exactly one year and a day before John Lennon was born (9 October 1940)! Amazing.💓
Went to a Beatles convention in 1978 in Liverpool , wasn’t like it is now . Still had a great time . I think Alan Williams was there , first manager , a place called Pickwicks , probably gone now .
There was a pub they frequented, opposite the High School (Secondary) which both Paul and George attended,, and very close to John's first flat: it was called Ye Craic/Crack--so named, for the good times to be had there😆 and also because the pub was so NARROW! That has GOT to still be there! ❤❤@@anneliamohara2842
Cheers for the shout out Dan! I loved Cilla, especially "You're My World". She had a good set of pipes. Never could get into the Beatles, but I do like a few songs. The 2nd graveyard was more interesting to me, so thanks for doing that one too. Hope you have an awesome time welcoming in the new year. Be safe 💜Deb of Oz.
What a difference in the graveyards. Those graves so beautifully decorated - and the size of some of them! Then to the graveyard where Julia's buried. Could someone not make it a bit better than it is - so sad.
John was cremated rather quickly and remains scattered in Central Park by Yoko because it was a place he was quite fond of. I doubt his British family had enough time to react to get any of his remains. Yoko is quite a controlling person. Legal proceedings would've had to have taken place in order for that to happen
John spoke quite openly about his thoughts on life and death. It is probable that he would have made his feelings known to Yoko as to how he wanted his ashes scattered. It may even have been written in his will. Yoko and Sean did visited Liverpool in 1984, so it is possible that part of his remains were scattered on his mothers grave. The fact that he may have been cremated rather quickly doesn't mean that his ashes could not be kept indefinitely. There is no expiration date on ash. How that makes it a consiracy theory, I am not quite sure.
The place where John Lennon s ashes are scattered is called Strawberry Fields in Central Park it's opposite The Datota Building where John and Yoko lived.
The tall red brick building behind the Simon Peter Centre at 14:39 is the church hall where John Lennon first met Paul McCartney on 6th July 1957. Eleanor Rigby’s grave is almost directly opposite.
Yoko Ono gave her Ex-FBI bodyguard, Doug MacDougall, the task of arranging the cremation of John’s body which duly took place on the afternoon of 10th December, just 36 hours after his death. While McDougall was at the crematorium, he somehow discovered a small metal object in John’s ashes. A police lab report request form regarding this metal object described it as a “Metal Object, Grey in Colour”. The lab came to the unconvincing conclusion that the unidentified metal object was probably a part of the 'metal basket' that collected John’s ashes and it must have 'broken off somehow.' Doug MacDougall then returned John’s ashes to Yoko at the Dakota in a brightly wrapped box. The box was apparently a ruse to fool the fans camped in the street outside the Dakota. The box was placed under Yoko's bed at the Dakota. Everything else regarding John's ashes after that is pure speculation.
Interesting. It could be that some of his ashes were returned there as it’s common practice with the cremated. So some scattered in NY and the rest in buried Liverpool makes sense.
@judis6224 That's what I thought, too. I visited the area on my trip to England years ago. Also, in this part of Liverpool, John and Stu Sutcliffe shared a flat while they were students at the art college. I believe the street name was Gambier Terrace. I recall seeing the same church from that location. Liverpool was a blast. I loved it. Even had a pint at the pub John used to bring his then girlfriend, Cynthia Powell to. It's called Ye Cracke. A wonderful, centuries old establishment. Cheers. 👍
@@naytch2003 sure … I don’t think I said that it was John, did I? … I was noting with an emphasis (in my own way) Dan’s saying “here comes the sun” (approx. 09:59) and, further on his noting that the the sun peaking out “was a sign” ….
I wonder if you would consider doing a walk about in Bibury, it is such a beautiful village with a beautiful river walk and a great old church and cemetery
Elenor Rigby, a local lady who passed away in 1939 and buried in her local cemetry unknowing that her name would later be immortalised forever and her name would be known worldwide for generations to come
@@KebabMusicLtd True but given the free spirit he was, I doubt he’d want to be buried with mom. I feel the cremains were scattered by yolo somewhere accessible to his wishes,
Was up Liverpool Cathedral over the weekend & retraced your walk. Saw the vampire grave & little graces. There’s a few people in this one, I didn’t realise it was so big either
George Smith is buried in St. Peter's Church, Woolton (the 2nd graveyard in this video)....Uncle George was important to John as he lived with him and brought him up (with Mimi) at Menlove ave until John was 14...He was very close to John
I wonder if her head stone is actually the size shown there. Or, if over time it has gotten smaller from people chipping peices off of it. For surviners. Might have had several head stones over years. People taking peices from it. To me, it would be disrespectful.
His house is kind cute . Why didn’t he live with his parents? What happened to them. I never got into the beetles . They where before I was born and Elvis too
I can't remember exactly how the story goes but Cilla Black repeatedly said in numerous interviews she didn't want to live past 75 or 80 I can't remember which and she was ready to die and then she did abruptly die. I know she was in poor health but it always seemed suspicious to me how she went on about death and dying soon and then. passed away shortly after. Police said nothing suspicious though
She said that because her mother had died of Osteoporosis at the age of 75 and that her final years were difficult. Cilla was 72 and suffering from arthritis and in considerable pain in her latter years. However, the autopsy report records her death as the result of a stroke where she fell backwards and hit her head. She went undiscovered for four hours. I was surprised that Bobby wasn't buried with her. In the video, her parents grave is the next grave but one to her own.
Happy New Year Dan 🎉 I'm not a huge fan of the Beatles but I like Eleanor Rigby song as a child that never seems to age. I did see Paul McCartney live in 2003 he was awesome. That be said I did prefer Wings music which he played more of when I'd seen him 👍
Many years ago possibly late 1980's in Lennon's Bar In Matthew Street, a DJ interrupted the record playing and advised the people inside that Charlie Lennon had arrived in the club. Charlie duly acknowledged the crowd. Not sure who Charlie was to be honest, but seemed like a decent bloke.
Heard John was buried under the Imagine sign in new York,think John would want to be buried in liverpool with his family.ono talk over everything,even John's will for Julian.
some people laugh at the story i am about to tell you, but i know it is true. When i was about 19 in 1980, I got a job at a Mecca bingo hall in Lincoln England. My job was to sell bingo tickets and sell hot drinks and snacks at 1/2 time. This one day, I was told to go to the upstairs stock room and get about 3 big sleeves of polystyrene cups. To get to the store room, you had to walk up the steps at the side ofthe stage and this took you into the old dressing room. I walked in and the old makeup mirror was on the wall. it was about 6ft by about 3foot. The Beatles had played there on the night of the 28th Nov 1963. I sat in that chair and Iswear that that was the biggest kick Ihave had in my life. To look into a mirror that my heros had lookinto some 17 years previously. about 3 years later, they knocked it down to make way for a shoping centre, if i had known then what i know now, i would have smashed it and took a bit. Thinks dont have to be worth a lot of money to be of great value to some one else.
What's that got to do with it??? They didn't put a headstone on there so that crazy fans wouldn't go there and sleep by the grave (as happened to Jim Morrison). That doesn't mean that they didn't know where she was buried. Now everybody wants to go and take pictures of it.
John did not want to be cremated so of course his wife had him cremated. After she was handed the ashes she put them underneath her bed. What happened to them after that is a mystery..
Of course he wanted to be cremated. He knew exactly what kind of problems being buried in a graveyard would cause: Graffiti (see Jim Morrisons grave), or headstone hunters (see the problems they have with the Abbey Road street sign) or body parts exporters (see the problems Charlie Chaplin's body underwent.) It is for these very reasons that there is no 'surname' on the grave.
I think Yoko did respect his wishes and flew his body back to Liverpool for burial sounds unbelievable well no I don’t think so I also believe that this could be his Grave your visiting and that she Pretended his real remains were in Central Park to throw press attention off and Fans I don’t think Yoko would have Done her own thing in terms of what John wanted plus I think John stated he wanted to be buried
Paul said he made up the name Eleanor Rigby and was surprised many years later that name was on a grave near where the Beatles grew up. It was really kind of like making up a name then finding it on facebook today. Rigby was a very common name as is Eleanor in England.
I find that story a bit far-fetched considering the cemetery is only a couple of yards away from where John and Paul first met. It's possible that he saw the name many times but only remembered it subconsciously when he was writing the song in 1966. He probably thought it was a made up name until he learned that gravestone existed. It's like if I was writing a story and made up a name... two months later I visit a cemetery I have visited many times in my life and see a stone with that same name on it.
you pretty much proved where Freddy Mercury's ashes are I truly believe that parts of John's ashes are here seeing the possessiveness of his still-in-Britain family I don't doubt this! part of him is here!!!!
@@21m455 can you 100% prove that? the answer is no because it is all hearsay just like with Freddy and he turned out to be here so, don't believe everything you get from replicated old newspaper articles that might be part fabrication by the family to keep people away from a private location where they can morn in peace and I respect that.
@@21m455 Of course she did. Its the most obvious answer isn't it. She knows that lots of people visit the memorial in New York, so why not give them something to go there for? But privately it might not have been down to her. If Johnny Jukebox had written in his will that he wanted his ashes to be placed with his mother, then there would have been nothing Yoko could do. Of course, they never went public with this information so that family members wishing to pay their respects wouldn't be harassed by annoying fans. I truly believe that some of JLs ashes are scattered with his mother and their isn't anything you can do about that fact. *Half Of What I Say Is Meaning Less, but I Say It Just To Reach You, Julia*