Elton John & John Lennon (Live at Madison Square Gardens in 1974)

This is not the actual footage, but very rare and hard to fine!

[@glenlopez1788]

I was 16 years old and I was there that night with my sister Diane and friend Paul......will never forget how lucky we were to see John's last live performance. R.I.P. John and thank you.

[@budihartono6354]

May I know what does the uploader mean by "not the actual footage"? I thought this really happened?

[@plnester]

It is the real audio, I believe. But no one was actually filming the event. So the video is fake

[@kathymcgarrity1305]

Wow. --You really were very, very lucky to have that experience...

[@larryaldama1673]

👍🇺🇸🎸

[@fougee1]

Sorry but this was not John's last live performance. He performed Imagine April 18,1975 he performed Slipping and Sliding and Imagine. Very unique!!..... You were very Lucky to see Mr.Lennon!

[@vincentdagostino6431]

15 years old,asked my mother to let me take Long Island train into the city.He did 3 songs,this was their song

[@mattdad8429]

Dude, I can't fathom how awesome this must have been to be in attendance and you're having a ball at an early Elton John concert and then he's just like "oh yeah, my friend JOHN LENNON IS HERE" I'd be like BAHHHHHHH

[@juliosanchez95]

this is not John Lennon, its from a made for TV movie

[@wastedproductions45]

@@juliosanchez95 Based on an actual event that happened

[@teap2236]

I was VERY young...but I was there. Much love and thanks....xxo

[@vincentdagostino6431]

I was there that night and waited another 45 years to see Elton John again in New Jersey for his final shows,He is still a great performer!

[@fullmetta2764]

Such an upbeat song...it's great when music can be so celebratory. The fact it's these two performing it makes even more special.

[@johngore7744]

Elton played on it on John’s Album. I think they co wrote it.

[@robertdoyno4394]

I was there. I can still remember when Elton introduced “..a special friend..”. The Garden went berserk .

[@vincentdagostino6431]

This was a great time

[@rusher34]

The "lost weekend" ended that night, love for yoko was stronger than everything else , a year later Sean would be born, the return to the stage was that night, his last concert was also that night....from that night only good things had to happen to him.

[@wilburkowitz7344]

Can't imagine how anyone there doesn't have this moment burned into their hearts even today. What a loss.

[@chrisdanish1970]

It has been burned into my brain for the past 50 years, best concert moment ever for me.

[@Navigatorbythestars]

NOT REAL FOOTAGE! This is from a movie that was made about Lennons life.

[@roberttagao9398]

I knew that was not Yoko!

[@rodog9465]

Real audio tho

[@Slinkygal]

Yeah, I knew it wasn"t Yoko too because this lady looks a lot nicer than her & with no screeching like Yoko used to do.

[@LIE11Bldg7]

Exactly... I find it hard to believe that Elton John's Band has got this particular song down to a science, as Lennon is performing it

[@stevesanchez3131]

Yes, right. Just to see how is doing the chords and take the guitar with the left hand. It isn't the Lennon's style.

[@PinkLaffs]

Great job syncing original audio with footage from 1985 TV movie JOHN & YOKO: A LOVE STORY. Mark McGann looks just like Lennon. It is eerie

[@albertoracaj2718]

He's just like Uncle John.

[@capitangorila4899]

The audio is from that live performance 🎸👍 But the film is a fragment from 1984 movie "John & Yoko A Love Story" the man who can see it , is not John Lennon really is an English actor called Mark McGann 📺👍

[@Di.Bo69]

footage is from the Movie John&Yoko Love Story 1985

[@kevsta67]

the band is incredible

[@agneskonzen]

It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@BlackAndWhiteBand]

NO capes were worn by John Lennon on Thanksgiving 1974 at MSG. This footage is from the NBC TV movie "John & Yoko: A Love Story" aired in 1985.

[@glenlopez1788]

I WAS THERE HE WAS WEARING A CAPE THAT NIGHT....DO YOU DID A PIC OF MY TIC STUB? YOKO WAS ADDED TO THE VIDEO LATER

[@arhuxtable]

That's what I thought.

[@barbarjinx3802]

@@glenlopez1788 if he was wearing a cape then why isn’t he in a cape in the pics from the concert at the end of the video?

[@thajiklanto5913]

@@glenlopez1788 That is not true. These are actors for a 1985 movie!!

[@MusicManxxxxx]

@@thajiklanto5913 True !

[@fougee1]

Johns final live performance was April 18,1975. He sang Slipping and Sliding and Imagine.Miss him still.

[@vincentdagostino6431]

Disagree, Thanksgiving in 74 was his last live performance. I was there at MSG

[@fougee1]

@@vincentdagostino6431 No you are wrong his last performance was a televised tribute to Sir Lew Grade. He did "Imagine"plus "Slipping +Sliding" April 18,1975. Mr.Grade had a law suite against Lennon and McCartney to over a 100 songs he bought rights to. Look it up the band had mask on the backs of their shaved heads.Very weird and funny.

[@vincentdagostino6431]

OK thanks for the information, I'll still tell people that I saw John Lennon last live performance though. Funny thing at the time we didn't think he would stop performing.

[@fougee1]

@@vincentdagostino6431 He was planning to tour again. After he released "Starting Over" until the madman shot him dead. He was talking about The Beatles reuniting as well. I still miss him.

[@rhysthomas5811]

@@fougee1 He was trying to say he thought Lew Grade was two faced in his business affairs.

[@wonder6789]

Incredibly beautiful shots of Yoko. ❤

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

i was at this concert and I remember when John ran onstage wearing a cape, we thought it was the coolest!

[@haranbanjo8024]

He ran as in this video?

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

@@haranbanjo8024 Yes, this is a video of the concert I was at. I saw this live while it was being recorded

[@lucasoheyze4597]

This footage is from a TV movie, that's Paul McGann playing John...and John didn't wear a cape that night. You mug.

[@bethneubauer7018]

This footage is from the John and Yoko movie made about their life.

[@simonwilson812]

I knew it was fake

[@agneskonzen]

@@simonwilson812 It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@booboo-ov3tj]

Oh, hey hey, Johnny！ Won't you come out to play?!

[@raymondsteptore5062]

It touches my ❤ like couldn't imagine. She loved him so much.I can see it in her 👀. Thank you, Ono-san. Please carry on Mr. Lennon 's legacy. Bless you, Ma'am. I was 4 years old when the 🎵 was released and it took me this long to find it and add it to mt Playlist. I tear up when I watch it on KZbin.

[@thajiklanto5913]

Fake footage

[@loredanaf1]

Intro little bit of I FEEL FINE

[@spyrosandrianos2931]

This is from the 1984 tv film "John&Yoko a love story" with Mark McGunn(Lennon) and Kim Miyori(Ono)..This is nt real footage,it's the movie...These are the actors and not the real John&Yoko...

[@jorgealvaradohernandez5329]

Thats why Yoko IS pretty

[@azzadee321]

love that guitar riff when he walks on ...quality

[@da_great_mogul]

Think it was "I Feel Fine"!

[@mullet53]

Well done. This is what it would have looked like

[@TheNotLetterH]

I like how the intro i feel fine randomly starts playing in the beginning

[@lettots]

And as I was looking at Yoko. I thought of this meme I came across on Facebook that said "The Photoshop is strong on this one.

[@tadeodewiesent1482]

¡Qué poder de ese bajo! ¡Qué tremendo! 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@mirthaalvarado469]

Hoy se cumplen 48 años de ese momento maravilloso!!! Geniales, fabulosos John y Elton. ✨💖

[@centinela24542]

Corrijanme si me equivoco, pero esa no es Yoko Ono, ella lo dejó que se fuera, es más ella le pidió que se fuera, porque sospechaba que lo iban a venir a asesinar. Entonces esa oriental no es ella, ella estaba en New York.

[@claudiogabrielsalgado7719]

John Lennon was a very good rithm guitarist. Only look at his hands: always at the right place. (from Jujuy,Argentina)

[@thajiklanto5913]

Fake footage

[@garychambers5850]

He also played some good lead guitar tracks.. He was good. ❤❤🎸🎸

[@garychambers5850]

@@thajiklanto5913 I was going to say, Ive seen photos from that night and John didnt look like that.

[@rufinoparraaguilar4827]

Dos años después de este concierto , pude encontrar esta joya en LP, y por supuesto que lo compré!!...

[@briancrowley6413]

sweet recreation of John getting used to see the public again. The actress whom played Yoko had expressive eyes and showed happiness, sadness and future joy.

[@bonzo7268]

That wasn't Yoko or an actress. That was his Asian girlfriend at the time. I forget her name but he got back with Yoko shortly after this performance and had baby Sean. The rest is history.

[@shivasirons6159]

May pang but that aint her. May wrote loving john, it tells the story of the lost weekend.

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

This is from "John and Yoko: A Love Story". A 1985 made for television film. Elton John was played by Matthew Marsh. John Lennon was played by Mark McGann.

[@susanduva1088]

Anybody could see that's not yoko and I am sure that Elton and John had a blast and I have seen the real film clip of them rip John we love and miss you🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 and up the Irons!!!!maiden manic🇬🇧🎶🎶⭐⭐✨✨🤘🤘🤘🎵🎵🎵🎼🎼

[@MrLelo1101]

I consider it really cool and pretty much similar to what has happened...except for the cape, I believe...Thanks to the one who post it..!

[@mariohuerta8816]

Mis grandes Respetos😇😇🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😀😎😎😭😭😭❤🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@danielramirezmiranda9908]

Waau que gran canción no espere encontrarme este gran consierto me encanta cuando tocaron está súper canción y cuenta la historia que elthon Jhon le ganó la apuesta a Jhon Lennon y por eso fue a cantar al concierto de elthon Jhon.

[@ReBecca-pq4wh]

It is from the movie "John and Yoko - A love Story" (1985), directed by Sandor Stern and stars Mark McGann as Lennon and Kim Miyori as Yoko Ono.

[@fadhilarief1537]

So sweet, great job 💥👍🌷

[@sfeigh]

Amazing. It looks as if it could have been shot at the actual event. Good good finding the right actors to portray John and Elton, etc.

[@leonardodalongisland]

Are you sure it's not John?

[@johnthoreson8775]

You must be a Trump supporter, or flat - earther. What the fuck is wrong with your heart?

[@delainepep22]

Your insane that is John Lennon and Elton. You high?

[@vincentdagostino6431]

That's real footage

[@mickjaggy]

@@vincentdagostino6431 This is from John and Yoko a love story lmao

[@bobbievasco6915]

O never saw this I saw elton john in Chicago with my ex husband he was so great outside with the rain 🌧 coming down

[@musicman70707]

It's about the only time I've ever seen a hint of an adoring smile on Yoko's face.

[@Theslavedrivers]

Thank goodness no one gave her a microphone ...

[@Gallerygod]

She was only 41,here. All sultry and Asisan mystery !

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Muselo to být úžasné!! John to uměl pořádně rozjet ❤️👍 🎸 škoda, že jsem na koncertě nemohla být (ještě jsem nebyla na světě 🙁)

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Tím Johnem jsem myslela Johna Lennona ❤️

[@davewhite5450]

Better than any docu-drama or unauthorized biography. Really well done! And I’m not being sarcastic

[@greysonthecat]

That's not Yoko Ono. That's an actress playing her.

[@Elbajo59]

this movie is called "John And Yoko a love story"

[@maggiemag3981]

Cierto!! Pero la hicieron mal porq la original se intrometia en los escenarios tambn no sólo en los ensayos a aúllar jajaj 😂😂😂

[@MrHaircut1]

Real audio from this event. But video is a reenactment.

[@groopa2vshui089]

Elton and John, a magic garden, an empty garden, and the severed garden...

[@byslah]

"Whatever gets you thru the night", está en el disco "Walls and bridges" o en cualquier compilado de Lennon (esta misma versión aparece como bonus en la ed. 2005 de "W & B" y también en la reed. doble del disco de Elton "Here and there"). Lennon y Elton John la grabaron originalmente en estudio, Elton apostó que si llegaba a # 1, John Lennon tendría que tocarla en concierto con él. Obviamente, Elton ganó

[@johnnastrom9400]

Can you imagine how the world of music would have been so much different if it had not been for Yoko.

[@phillipbonner9944]

+John Nastrom So what is wrong with Yoko Ono John loved her very much they both loved each other very much

[@johnnastrom9400]

phillip bonner It is pretty much common knowledge that she had Lennon practically hypnotized and is responsible the break of The Beatles and why Lennon never performed again after the concert depicted here.

[@emitwine]

Yoko was not the entire reason of the break up, when Brian died they started to fall apart and tried to keep it together, but failed. Yes, Yoko might have been a part of it but not the entire reason.

[@phillipbonner9944]

True

[@sagiriizumi8079]

I kind of think Rap music may not have happened had Lennon lived and Yoko was sent packing. She's a biatch by Japanese standards.

[@kamuelalee]

No hay nadie más grande que Lennon

[@eduardogallozo7399]

Jhon Lennon y Elton jhon grandes cantautores del rock

[@thaaudilemansquatt]

This video is from a TV serie called "John & Yoko love story"

[@gwynnielsen5081]

This is the historical concert that was responsible for reuniting John and Yoko. Wish I could've been there.

[@jakibros]

She doesn't look very happy.

[@gwynnielsen5081]

@@jakibros Yoko rarely looked happy back then. I like her tweets now, though.

[@MusicManxxxxx]

Ha! This is taken from the film "John and Yoko, A Love Story". That's me on bass.. miming on a right handed bass (I'm a lefty). Graham (fatty) Ward on drums (looking nothing like Nigel Olsen), Andy Jacobs on guitar and Mark Mcgann as John Lennon. Filmed at Wembly Conferance Centre. The song was re-recorded at Olympic Studios and, I believe, the sax part was played by Ray Warleigh. When I entered the stage I did a double take when I walked past Mark Mcgann.. he looked so much like Lennon in the dim light !

[@MusicManxxxxx]

I think that this is not the audio version that was in the film.. the real givaway for me is that, in the film, my mate Tony, the musical director, did the count in and the producers left it in (much to the amusement of Tony himself)... and in this clip it's most certainly not him.. !!

[@nivaldowefer358]

Ai simm NOTA millllllll

[@ranatlas]

For some reason this reminds me of the movie "The Jazz Singer" with Neil Diamond...

[@amyreddick8802]

Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (Live From Madison Square Garden, USA/1974)

[@ricketson001]

Love how he runs and kisses Elton on the mouth😂😂

[@edgarchavezruiz9490]

Esto fue de una pelicula sobre john lennon ,.de esta presentacion de john fue por una apuesta de Enthon john ,repito es de una pelicula creo no hay video real de ese dia mas fotos ,siempre recordamos a johnn lennon 🎉❤

[@arcfontis]

First of all - it's not the backing band Elton used in 1974 (Nigel Olsen, Dee Murray on drums & bass). Second, Lennon wore his dark shades not the clear ones in this video. Third he didn't wear a black cape, and he had a giant flower hanging around his neck - as did Elton. Not sure where this film came from...

[@_TheScreecher_]

Need a 4K restoration of this baby!

[@h0lly_blue]

No, this is not his last time on a stage, his last time was in 1975 on a TV show tribute to Sir Lew Grade who had the Lennon-McCartney catalog.

[@JoyChuDesigns]

Wonderful performance! {and I'm sure that isn't Yoko, but an impersonator}

[@n91605]

didn't pick it up before watching this John's old Beatles style banjo like double strumming on the this track..

[@lisas3545]

Yoko looks quite beautiful beaming at John.

[@claresherman2278]

It’s not her- it’s a recreation.

[@cpo122455]

you can tell. This Yoko is way better looking. Too bad its not the real appearance. I was there that night. Been looking for it for years.

[@agneskonzen]

It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@DKoolbj7dl]

Whoever that actress was p!aying Yoko 😍😍😍 LHM- Lord have mercy😍😍😍

[@antonioalvescardoso9530]

Only Magic Moment! Very Good, Fantastic...

[@piggygeoff]

This is off the film John and Yoko great film great actors

[@bellatheband]

Thank you for sharing!!

[@jimmyjameson8705]

Lennon literally had scared shitless stage fright ..hard to believe.. puking and everything

[@alexissantos7080]

YA PUEDO MORIR EN PAZ :`)

[@eduardogallozo7399]

Todo un espectáculo del rock

[@poparoddy]

who the hell is tearing up the bass on this?

[@GuitarNerd79]

The bass player. 😜

[@danielboyd4079]

probably Dee Murray

[@MeneerHerculePoirot]

@@danielboyd4079 No, that's not Dee Murray. He and Nigel Olsen had been released from the band as EJ wanted a different sound and feel. I've looked all over the net and can't find out who that guy is. He's really cooking hard, right?

[@danielboyd4079]

@@MeneerHerculePoirot somebody needs to find out who it is! Watch it be Paul McCartney in disguise

[@zyrrhos]

@@MeneerHerculePoirot In 1975, after recording Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Murray and Olsson were released from the band because John wanted to achieve a different sound. This was recorded in November 1974. The musicians who performed on the live recording here were: John Lennon - guitar, vocals Elton John - harmony vocal, piano Davey Johnstone - guitar Dee Murray - bass Nigel Olsson - drums Ray Cooper - percussion The Muscle Shoals Horns

[@DougUnfunny]

I believe that saxophone is Lenny Pickett who is on SNL. Wiki says played with Elton, it has to be him and I know that Sax sound from SNL has to be him.

[@ejshelby5460]

when will they release the full concerts of Here and There?

[@grangrampa832]

Love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Yeahturismo]

Y ahora en día de acción de gracias 2022

[@Mr157Riverside]

This is from a movie..not actually Yoko Ohno

[@droedua]

NOCHE EPICA, LEGENDARIA, UNICA, SIN IGUAL, PODEROSA....Q INJUSTO POR Q ELLOS SI VIERON A JONN Y ELTON Y YO NOOOOOOO

[@eliortegajr9710]

Hey mack,don't cry,I didn't mean to hurt you. If your perfect,well, then try walking on water.

[@eduardoaugusto2895]

Surreal fenomenal incrível 🌹💞💖💗💘💌

[@lizzypiffany]

john is wearing a dracula cape yoko is a great artist elton is a pinball wizard john appeared on stage cos he lost a bet with elton ! it was his last live gig !

[@agneskonzen]

It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@thajiklanto5913]

He didn’t lose a bet

[@marcelyanez9045]

Oh pleeease, for heaven's sake!!! People should know this footage is from a film ABOUT the life of our beloved man. No thanks, E2k...

[@jofired]

I love you so much denise

[@billybob1723]

Baddest song in rock.

[@nevermore1963]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@beatleneil]

cool, very nicely done

[@agneskonzen]

It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@briancrowley6413]

I know this was a recreation of a moment... but it almost seemed like Yoko was watching every moment for a flaw in John Lennon. She was not perfect either

[@agneskonzen]

It's fake - it's not Yoko!

[@gretchennelson9965]

The biggest fuck you to the”jerk of all jerks” we know what you really wanted to say Paul💔❤️ Johnny, I will never stop missing you.

[@BirdsnBlooms1]

This vid is from the movie, John & yoko: A Love Story. ono was probably thinking, I'd best go back w/him, since she knew he was in love & living with May Pang. Ono feared she'd lose all John's money. The girl playing ono is pretty, something ono is/was not

[@BBQFanNo1]

The audio is from the actual concert but the footage is from a film on John Lennon's life. I have to admit the actress portraying Yoko Ono looks much more beautiful than her.

[@manny4552]

Cool I remember this

[@Shedirrr]

@kliousoff This is not a fake video , it's from the movie of John and Yoko's story.

[@Fredrockroll]

You know this is a scene from a movie, and that there is no actual footage of this performace, right? If Yoko was present, she probably was in the backstage. Dancing, having fun or not, we'll never know.

[@charwest9449]

I thought I'd read somewhere that May was the one John had seated up front, and Yoko was sat way in the back and was angry about it raging at John, but John didn't care. He was buying a house with May by this point. He'd moved on.

[@rodog9465]

There is some footage that’s really it, yoko meet John after the show to get back together because they had split, the audio is real tho

[@kbcoop3249]

Please more shots of Yoko

[@godwhyisthistaken]

is this real? or a mixture of real footage and fake? i thought was real when i first saw it!! and it looks so real, though idk davey and nigel look a little different. and the close of shots of yoko constantly. was this featued on the movie that was broadcast on tv of john and yoko? im perplexed lol still very fun to seee!

[@ecran.magique]

It's from a TV movie called "John And Yoko a love story". But maybe they used the sound from the actual recording ? The image is all actors recreating the moment, though...

[@paulinasarfson1270]

Esto es parte de una película JOHN Y YOKO UNA HISTORIA DE AMOR. Son los actores. No es el recital genuino.