"Borrowed Time" (Studio Rehearsal) - John Lennon

- Recorded during "Double Fantasy" sessions; 1980

[@colbykambeitz5120]

I could hear John talk for hours

[@leemagrish3432]

Me too.

[@mindsigh4]

love his vocals, this song is good vocal range but he is high playing around...

[@firstnamelastname6717]

Not my wife😶

[@terryhorne2582]

Come here to Liverpool my friend, there's thousands who sound just like him, same sarcastic humour also.

[@taddallman-morton6796]

A true Liverpudlian then?

[@maureenmcbride3845]

Jack douglas. best producer in the world

[@colbykambeitz5120]

No! Jeff Lynne is

[@jimorfanelli7671]

John looked good at 40 he cleaned up

[@wormsnake1]

John was seriously under weight. How can you say that? He weighed just over nine stone if that. He was 5’11. His natural weight was 11 and a half stone. The myth is that he was cleaned up. The reality is that he was on drugs, an anorexic and in a marriage he felt trapped. This outtake still shows a sharp kind, alert and creating. Nothing could kill his “creative spirit/energy” which is ironic because in his personal life he was struggling here. God bless his soul. John you gave the world you’re wonderful talent and we are all richer for having known it. R.I.P 🙏❤️🎼.x

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

@@wormsnake1 you are so wrong John was not on drugs He quit doing drugs way before Sean was born, and he never returned to them again You are also wrong about him being trapped in his marriage John and Yoko were a very happy couple Of course, they had their ups and downs like everyone, but they were not unhappy. Last, but not least I want to ask you to please stop calling John anorexic because that is also false John was a very healthy man who took care of himself In other words, the person that you are replying to is correct, John was cleaned up, so please have some respect and stop making things up

[@wormsnake1]

@@angiethebeatlesgirl228 So did you know him John Lennon?😂. Read Fred Seaman’s book? He lived with John the last two years of his life. Read May Pangs book? She was his lover for a few years. Each validate these opinions. What are your sources to back up what you say? But you must but right because you think you are!!😂.x

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

@@wormsnake1 Fred Semen’s book is not a reliable source That book is full of lies, and the only reason why he wrote it is because he was upset due to the fact that Yoko found out that he had stolen John’s diaries Now regarding May Pang, I think that she is a good woman However, she is jealous to the fact that John chose Yoko over her, and her jealousy causes her to go along with Semen’s lies Instead of listening to crazy people, I advise you to listen to John himself Listen to his 1980 interviews If you pay close attention, you will hear how happy he was You must also know that if he would have felt trapped, he would have never wrote songs such as Woman or Dear Yoko John was a very honest man, and if what you are saying would have been true he would’ve said it himself

[@wormsnake1]

@@angiethebeatlesgirl228 So they are all lying? There are others who say the contrary to you too. John does not look physically well in those last pictures. He’s manifestly underweight.x

[@prikov1]

I listen to this and hear a man who's living his best life, unfortunately a sicko took it away from him only a few weeks later...

[@MikeGervasi]

He sounds revitalized and back in the game. Sad it all ended as it did.

[@robsmith6087]

Milk & Honey . . . . ya kiddin'

[@twj2002]

This is amazing, for all those who thought that John was just a potted plant in the studio with Paul McCartney created everything.

[@thefool2007]

Inside the mind of a genius. Someone who can visualize-hear what is inside his head. He was in control of his artistic expression and advanced in songwriting. I was only 10 when he was killed and I remember what the impact was across the world. One of the chief songwriters of the 20th century whose legacy lives on. RIP.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Cant wait for Now and then..

[@wormsnake1]

One of two chief songwriters. It’s splitting hairs with John and Paul. Lots of other great ones but those two were the greatest.x

[@hw343434]

@@wormsnake1 very different though. Lennon had more to say through his music. Paul was incredibly melodic as well

[@Hammerman48]

I was 21 and was devastated……I couldn’t believe it to be honest.

[@redadamearth]

It's incredible to think that he was only barely 40 years old, here. He had so much more music to write.

[@094340]

Hell, the dude sitting with John at the mixing board looks like a Lennon clone.

[@zaptoronto]

I love Johns music too but wtf was up with ono?

[@ruppertale3319]

If John had recorded the vocals for Yoko's album "Approximate Infinite Universe," it would have been regarded as a classic. She could write interesting lyrics and arrangements, and she hired the best studio musicians of the 70s, but her voice is a deal breaker for most people. John loved her vocal gymnastics, and he and Jack Douglas did their best for her on "Double Fantasy," but she did not have a voice that appealed to most people.

[@gspublishingdirect1749]

John should have stayed w May Pang. 😢

[@drexlerjohn3822]

I wish Lennon didn't die. We'd have heard more recordings , and I feel that these sessions would be studied and promoted more.

[@094340]

Well, he was murdered, but yeah, I get you.

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

It is very wonderful to have found this studio sessions from John😂😂😂 I hope that they are officially released on a box set

[@timmckeown1313]

Unfortunately for John and all of us he was living on borrowed time.

[@tyronewhitehead3123]

Those four should have bought that island together and lived happy Beatle after magical group 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@kevrockism]

Imagine what his next album would have been, and the one after that and the one after that... Imagine been able to say " I'm going to see John Lennon tonight " He's my absolute hero and I wasnt even alive in his lifetime

[@redadamearth]

He was peaking again, creatively and was only barely 40 at this point. He basically had another two decades of music in him that the world could have had if that monster hadn't killed him.

[@taddallman-morton6796]

A true Liverpudlian then?!

[@taddallman-morton6796]

Wrong place, sorry!

[@terryhorne2582]

Ha ha, look at that soft cow having a kip on the floor 😅, she was not all there dont you know, like a bloody leech.

[@larryrussellstories2440]

Great to hear John, the artist. And sad too. 😢

[@ШолпанКеримтаева]

Приветствую . Какая красивая песня . Джон Леннон уникальный ! Спасибо , за фотографию . Всем здоровья и удачи .

[@ШолпанКеримтаева]

Приветствую . Какая красивая песня . Джон Леннон уникальный ! Спасибо , за фотографию . Всем здоровья и удачи .

[@MrKeychange]

This is amazing to hear

[@jacquesdulude6967]

The final version of the album is something to hear!

[@amymjennings]

I didn't notice Yoko until you guys brought it up and then saw her on the side I was only looking at Lennon😅❤

[@gp2736]

Thanks John for so much, God Bess you, we will always remember you and I’ll personally make sure your music keeps on and on every where I go

[@montydaniels1054]

Mark, thanks for uploading studio clip. It's always nice to be able to listen to the studio sessions. Sometimes I don't know what I like more, the actual music or all the cross talk that goes on between the control room & the studio..

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Je to fantastické poslouchat Johna ❤️🎸😁 moc děkuji za sdílení 🙂

[@guitarstrunged]

When I first heard this, it was so high, I thought he was using a mandolin but I soon realized he's got a capo on the 7th fret and he's playing D G and A shapes except the A is 0-0-3-3-5-5 (again. considering the capo is the 0 fret)

[@ruppertale3319]

John could sing falsetto well, and he could hit the high notes. I think he could sing lower, but didn't.

[@mattrodriguezforsheriff1565]

Tragedy all the way around. Taken too soon!!!!!

[@094340]

Goddamn I miss this guy.

[@ClemusicandoBrasil]

I love all Jhon's songs ...thanks so much !!

[@marvinhancock6433]

Listen how the whole song changed after john told them to listen to the Bob Marley tune it took on the reggae beat right away Lennon was a genius he new what he wanted the song to sound like in his head

[@mindsigh4]

cool to hear them listening to Marley & Tosh,..anybody ever hear Marleys" time will tell" ?

[@ruppertale3319]

I wonder what John thought of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Steel Pulse, and the Specials.

[@danwall6662]

Paul and John needed each other.

[@princeali1786]

George and Ringo also needed them and they needed John And Paul. They would not be who they were and are if they weren’t the 4 who started together .

[@michelottaviani3296]

For me, John needed less Paul than contrary when you hear their solo songs.

[@claudioperotti9439]

​@@michelottaviani3296for me It's the exact contrary

[@taddallman-morton6796]

@@michelottaviani3296 I think that’s interesting. Paul, by virtue of fate, has had four times the output of John, but it’s still John for you? I love them both but McCartney produced so much, not all great, but some absolutely so. And so much more! Well, to each their own…

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@taddallman-morton6796 nothing compares to John at 40 and Paul more than 80...

[@ShaKimono]

Priceless moment now cyrstlized in our hearts and souls forevermore RIP JL

[@beatlefjvu3]

Oye, esta canción podría tener una versión en Mariachi como comenta Lennon

[@steveconn]

God: "Uh, sorry, John? That time I lent you? I want it back."

[@094340]

WTF?

[@basilclarke5481]

allmost but not quire as good as 10cc dreadlock holiday

[@stefaniagiustini269]

L'" adoro questa canzone bizzarra John, si l' ho trovata bizzarra e nello stesso tempo bella

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Would love to hear Street of dreams,,,, John wrote songs compleat,, he was brilliant in 1980...

[@jamesdavies5266]

What’s that?!

[@knockedoutloaded279]

@@jamesdavies5266 its a song he demoed with Jack Douglas his producer, here on the st of dreams life is not what it seems" Jack wrote to me on FB,,,,,just hope it still exists, Jack supposedly has it,,,,recorded in the studio Nov 1980....a bouncy song...

[@ruppertale3319]

I'm not sure that song exists outside of Jack Douglas' imagination.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

@@ruppertale3319 it was played to DF musicians, they said it was beautiful, jack described it to me on FB..

[@rumsbymusic]

Yoko could maybe have stayed in their apartment and rested up in her own bed 🤔

[@charwest9449]

Yoko such an old lady she couldn't stay awake an entire day.

[@mindsigh4]

cool to hear them listening to Marley & Tosh,..anybody ever hear Marleys" time will tell" ?

[@arricammarques1955]

Lennon was indeed living own borrowed time, sadly.

[@jamesdavies5266]

God that’s go0d!

[@jacquismith3277]

Yoko looks as if she's been laid out!

[@jamesdavies5266]

Give him a chance!

[@jeffkaufman9875]

…Apparently nobody told Mother that the studio bed-in had been cancelled; in any case, John and Jack managed to catch a few happy moments of peace amidst the din of her caterwaul-snoring!..

[@johnmc3862]

Profile pic with Yoko. 😂😂😂

[@jamesdavies5266]

Tight n sweet

[@Colsoloact-po9wv]

So strangle he sings that and yet not too long after he gets assassinated! Prophetic or what?

[@jeffkaufman9875]

@Colso Strangle, indeed!

[@ollieperry9657]

WOW

[@tsuzuki1014]

I was shocked to see Yoko sleeping on a bed in the same mixing room.

[@montydaniels1054]

Takao, YoYo kept John on a short leash. After his lost weekend, she never let him out of her sight. What a shame that John couldn't see that she was acted more like a handler than a wife.. I mean I know that she helped John recover a lot of royalties owed but she made sure that she stayed deep into all of his business....

[@patrickthomas8890]

She did the same during the White Album sessions after her and John were in a car accident. She got up from the bed in the studio and walked over to George’s amp which had a dish of biscuits (or cookies in America) and helped herself to one. George went berserk and called her either a cunt or a bitch (don’t remember which) for taking one without asking and for the fact that she was otherwise acting like she was pretty injured but was able to get out of the bed with no trouble. Many people think Paul was the most angry over the Yoko situation when in reality it was more so George. He briefly quit the band in Jan 1969 in part bc he was angry over her constant presence in the band’s affairs and her enabling John’s heroin addiction. George himself was pretty moody and could be a very curmudgeonly dude despite his quiet/shy/spiritual reputation

[@luislaborda4347]

It is said that she used to sleep several short periods a day, instead one of 8 hours or so, as most of the people. She did so for many years... Didn't know she did the same during Double Fantasy...

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

That was Abbey Road Patrick.

[@tjcint]

@@montydaniels1054 The short leash was power and control. She smothered him always .. he couldn't breathe. She lived in his space, using powerful occult energy to increasingly enslave him. This is literally what occurred.

[@enricomenconi7015]

Yoko🤮

[@sandmonjones8004]

Ahh so that's how he does it 🎉

[@fozz64]

It's a pity he could never finish this song, because it's one of my favourites. If I would record it I would skip the talking at the end and replace it for a solo gitar-part

[@uapnewdiscoveryimages]

I have always thought that this song was weak by Lennons own standards. I think the chorus is weak melodically but who the fuck am I!

[@jovesheerwater]

You said the quiet part out loud. Back in the box!

[@salvadormarley]

@@jovesheerwater He's entitled to an opinion, don't you think?

[@-______-______-]

He was shot dead this same year unfortunately. 1980. This was in Bermuda after he had sailed there and had an epiphany about living on borrowed time.

[@yuriytarasov]

Now i`am older... Aaa-aha...

[@czg2012]

amusing thumbnail 🛌

[@jeffkaufman9875]

Is this picture from when Yoko insisted on staging her mock-funeral in the studio during the recording of DOUBLE FANTASY?…

[@jamesdavies5266]

No!

[@jeffkaufman9875]

@James I believe it was…

[@traceya9615]

I don't know, but it is a hilarious photo. She's doing a first-rate impersonation of an ironing board, kudos for that 👍😄

[@46singledad46]

When will they release this as a John Lennon anthology all of his final studio work like this.

[@GetStrumming]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon_Anthology

[@lucasadams6013]

thats no John lennon in the picture

[@michelottaviani3296]

Who is the guy near John on the photo?

[@ep1956]

Looks like John and Yoko's producer Jack Douglas.

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@ep1956 Many thanks for your reply

[@mindsigh4]

cool to hear them listening to Marley & Tosh,..anybody ever hear Marleys" time will tell" ?

[@ivanconnolly7332]

Lennon after "Plastic Ono band"is a bit disappointing , the absence of innovation and humour.

[@mindsigh4]

cool to hear them listening to Marley & Tosh,..anybody ever hear Marleys" time will tell" ?

[@RafaelAlivtres]

I love John but he really needed the Beatles. The quality difference is huge.

[@gp2736]

No needed for the Beatles that cicle was over this was just a rehearsal the quality was always there in Lenno’s songs

[@selwynnarayanasamy]

Lennon sings better than all the other Beatles

[@gp2736]

@@selwynnarayanasamy I agree, more from the heart

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@selwynnarayanasamy yes without any doubt.

[@angiethebeatlesgirl228]

John was amazing with or without The Beatles In my opinion, the one who really needs The Beatles is Paul McCartney