John Lennon Imagine Album Sessions (1971 RARE FOOTAGE)

Haven’t done a Beatles video in a while 🫠

[@Waldenpunk]

Love seeing John and George working together.

[@brettwalker5446]

Absolutely. I had no idea George and John still kept in touch. This was amazing footage. Where the hell has it been and why are we seeing it now? Why hasn’t this been released as the most awesome documentary ever filmed? I’m really blown away at John’s incredible talent.

[@jettsteari3062]

And trashing Paul..yeah real great

[@MrLrossana]

​@@brettwalker5446george and john were good friends

[@emerald_archer]

@@brettwalker5446 by "we" you mean "you" this footage has been around for quite awhile.

[@emerald_archer]

@@jettsteari3062 people blame Yoko, but the only one that didnt actively record or do things with the other three was Paul...

[@jtramel7827]

John is only 30 years old in this and George only 27.... they look so much older. They did so much at so young of an age

[@Calaitafan]

it was 1971 George was 28

[@inmundo6927]

cause lennon looks like he hasnt changed clother in 3 days, and george has a huge beard. Give 'em a shower, a haircut and a good shave, and you'll see they looked just their age

[@rage707]

Also back then people expected they could be dead by 55 looking 80

[@ReyAgua]

they smoked a lot, also stress

[@danielstoddart]

@@ReyAgua It's really because they were the types of musicians who did sessions the old fashioned way: they would keep working until a song was done. They just look rumpled, unshaven, and unkempt, probably because they had been up for a few days working on this one song.

[@moishe43]

'Oh my love' is the best song Lennon ever wrote. I adore it. Pure, simple and absolutely beautiful.

[@bobtaylor170]

And it has never got the attention it deserves. It is a gorgeous song.

[@makaveli_tha_don3338]

it is, right behind (Just Like) Starting Over of course

[@mumbles215]

It’s absolutely sublime with Harrison guitar and Lennon piano.

[@markroffe3967]

I must agree.

[@joebeamish]

I love that song. Yoko shares a writing credit with him on that.

[@davidpearlactorteacherbizman]

Wow had no idea George and John were friends or played together post Beatles...Mind blowing to see George on the Imagine sessions

[@RHP9898]

John also played with Ringo a lot during the same period.

[@danielstoddart]

George was the closest thing to a little brother John ever had. During the Beatles, he could be critical of George but if anyone else did it or picked on George, who was a minor when they started, Lennon would instantly and instinctively crack down on them. John picked George to be the Beatles' guitarist even though he thought he was too young to be in a band-obviously he was impressed with George's musicianship and knew he was a better guitar player.

[@delprado1562]

AMAZING

[@briansalisbury4764]

George played on several of Lennons albums

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

People seem to forget Paul was the reason they both wanted out. George probably wanted out more than john.

[@jimmynicollikesapickle1124]

The absolute magic of 2 Beatles working together

[@shelleywantiez7964]

John and George had a love/ hate relationship . But John also knew all too well that George was the cream of the crop. He knew George could make anything shine.

[@katrose5953]

brotherly bond truly

[@AlanSmitheeman]

Nicky Hopkins elevated every song he every played on.

[@michalstrpka4800]

yep

[@juliep4319]

💯 👍

[@ff-qc7qy]

Which one is he

[@juliep4319]

@@ff-qc7qy 1:08 (with cigarette in his mouth)

[@skipmatsey8352]

@@ff-qc7qypiano player….legend

[@Mark28644]

Lovely seeing this old footage of John & George working together on the "Imagine" album back in 1971. May John & George rest in eternal peace. I still find it hard to believe they are no longer with us.

[@karenreardon5398]

George Harrison was a class act.❤😊

[@netromrep6325]

His guitar intro makes the song. It's so beautiful.

[@marioguerra1390]

​@netromrep6325 ❤

[@watashiiru]

He is a Goodman too😊

[@marylouchris457]

Absolutely

[@JackChiefton]

Yeah, not so much…

[@Fuff63]

Oh How young they still were…and so creative. This is wonderful footage. Cheers.

[@otisroseboro5613]

R.I.P To John Lennon & George Harrison, Still Miss You Both Always 😢

[@martian9999]

Klaus Voormann at 2:33 on upright bass: now that's something I've never seen before.

[@pedrogalindo9979]

You can see in George’s eyes that he was genuinely a good person. We lack artists like him now a days

[@lzvideo]

It's amazing to watch. Many of them aren't with us anymore, and watching Alan White pre- Yes is priceless!

[@mumbles215]

The man is a stud on drums.

[@chadpittman3025]

John looks so happy as he plays how to george.

[@dianesaari3034]

That beautiful guitar ribbon George is weaving through the song❤

[@countdown2xstacy]

“John, I’ll play whatever you want me to play, or I won’t play anything at all” ~George Harrison

[@birsay123]

Said to Paul not John.

[@user-ey5hj6gs5f]

Fantastic to get an insight into the work of such great musicians.

[@gonzaloveloso2891]

Chapman denied us of one of the greatest Artist who ever lived. Imagine all of the great songs left unsung because of his tragic death.

[@sicksquid3258]

Is he still in prison? Did he get a full life term? Some murderers do less than twenty years then get released.

[@prathameshbhambure]

We don't take his name. He committed that heinous crime for seeking the whole world's attention, and if we take his name anywhere on the internet, then we're feeding his ambition.

[@markpr73]

Makes me ashamed to have been named Mark.

[@prathameshbhambure]

@@markpr73 Mark Knopfler, Mark Cuban, Mark Wahlberg, Mark Twain, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Madsen... Look at the bright side.

[@sandersson2813]

Lennon's solo career produced some laughably bad song like Imagine and So this is Christmas

[@mikegray1706]

The late great Alan White (YES) on drums. Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) played on early arrangements of Imagine.

[@sicksquid3258]

I believe Ted Turner from Wishbone Ash was there also.

[@alaincelos476]

Hé did played on " don t wanna be a soldier" ,hé ought to play a mellotron 400 ,but it was out of order !! So hé did grabbed Alan White's tambourin and hit it ...

[@BolsaChicaRadio]

I love it; I JUST LOVE IT!!! ...at 2:04 on the video timeline, enters into the film frame: "THE RE-PRODUCER", as it stated he was, on the back of the 1970 Beatles "LET IT BE" soundtrack album. I know ALOT of people in general, either hate or at least TOTALLY DESPISE him, but for me, he was the "soundtrack" to my learning on how to produce & PRIMARILY mix & blend music tracks down; to think "out-of-the-box". I had ALOT of other influences much later in my own career, but Spector, as flawed & tormented as a person he was, BOTH Lennon & Harrison trusted him with their early projects. That shows AT LEAST some appreciation for the man...who's now, like John & George...is very long gone. BolsaChicaRadio

[@DavidCKendall]

Phil Spector needed and didn't get an intervention. He needed to be declared mental, from the first time he pulled out a gun and fired it in the studio, which I think was a number of times. But yes, up until he killed that lady, poor soul, he brought good things to rock history, which included All Things Must Pass, Let it Be, and Imagine.

[@chabookproductions6997]

Nicky Hopkins only plays with the Best!

[@tranquilitybase6417]

George was my favorite

[@OroborusFMA]

You have to consider George's generosity here. He has just released the massively successful All Things Must Pass and could have easily blown John off. John really needed the input of the other Beatles. Plastic Ono Band (with Ringo) and Imagine (with George) are great in their own ways but then he came to the US and started hanging out with much lesser talents and his muse just withered. Walls and Bridges has some fading embers of what was rock's greatest talent in 1965 but it's like a curtain falling. Double Fantasy was half a John album and the best that can be said of it is that John had rediscovered the humor he had lost during the 1970s.

[@chrisnolan5607]

John had been penning songs since the early 60's.. Perhaps every well runs dry eventually or repeats itself. It happened to all 4.

[@leesanna7835]

Excellent job, Mate

[@hungfao]

Very little here that isn't just opinion.

[@joshgoldstein3991]

Another biased narrative pushing take, a dime a dozen, but people love them. It's actually pretty obvious that George and Ringo worked with John because they respected him and still considered him a friend. Ironically enough, John had his biggest commercial successes when he came to America, scoring a US number one single with 'Whatever Gets You thru the Night'-- in collaboration with, what I guess you wrongly consider a lesser talent, Elton John. A year later John would help David Bowie (another artist you consider for some reason a lesser talent) write his first US number one single. When he launched his comeback, 'Just Like Starting Over' was already on its way to number one in the charts before he was murdered. Most importantly though, John's albums were on average better reviewed than either Paul's or George's efforts. Go ahead though, I know people like you often have a way of completely downplaying and twisting facts. And regarding the other laughable comment of Paul being "the shining light", and the absurd fanboyist claim that he never had a dip or dry well: Paul was not only astonishingly inconsistent, he always aimed for the lowest common denominator with his empty commercial music. In fact, up until John's retirement in 1975, Lennon had actually been more consistent with his output than Paul. McCartney's debut album is a clearly a half-assed work that piggybacked on the breakup of The Beatles. 'Ram' was a slightly better effort but remains slight. Then he went on to produce two half-baked tedious and terribly reviewed albums with 'Wild Life' and 'Red Rose Speedway', but not before at least penning a vapid commercial hit to go along with the latter. Paul finally managed to achieve his big critical and commercial success with 'Band on the Run', before immediately squandering any critical favor and regressing to a mediocre middle of the road arena rock act. Don't even get me started on his 80's material, or the even later material that only the fanboys seem to obsess over. Most importantly though, Paul was only commercially successful in relation to the other solo Beatles because neither John nor George were as desperate or concerned with status and attention, that's bared out in the fact that John never toured, and George seldom did -- which is the act that naturally pushed sales -- and in John's case, he never aimed at being overly commercial in the first place which is evident in some of his choices for singles and the personal quality of his work.

[@Oceantreasures24]

I’m sure it didn’t take much for George to want to help John on his album

[@badriss2055]

Extraordinaire cette capacité de faire surgir une chanson admirable ds un tel mélange de sons de voix et d'expressions musicales. Il faut être un beatle. John était sans doute un génie de la musique. J'admire et still fan

[@user-rx7dj3cn9w]

C'est ce que je me disais... A partir de rien, du neant, faire naitre cette incroyable melodie et sans aucune hesitation poser sa voix et ses arabesques. John etait en prise directe avec un Dieu de la musique céleste.

[@tracyjacoby2382]

This warms my heart to see George and John creating music together!! Especially: "Oh My Love"🤗💕💕 & "How Do You Sleep": 😂 Thank you!!🥰 RIP lovely lads!🤗💕💕

[@emanuelevacca91]

Dissing Paul together ❤

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Úžasné video ❤ Také mě hřeje u srdce vidět Johna s Georgem společně,je to nádherný,miluju je 💓💓😀✌️

[@Swat-ed5bt]

Love John. We really need him more than ever. Rip legend ❤

[@bigjoy7794]

I know I love him too and miss him.

[@jojokneckie]

i think what gets me the most about john lennon is how much he didn't doubted himself, he could SING- that man could sing but would say he hated his voice.

[@jojokneckie]

1:45 kills me

[@paulallenMacca]

Thanks for sharing this video of love to see video of a close up of the Keyboard on the song Oh My Love and How Do You Sleep just love Nicky’s Electric Piano.

[@h2oBlue]

Amazing how much footage there is of them. Love it!

[@JoelSimbrow]

first 30 seconds brought tears to me eyes

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Such a beautiful, meaningful, tuneful album. So lovely to see the magicians at work!

[@scrambaba]

George was briefly in John‘s camp, but Lennon‘s hate never sat too well with George and when George realized that John‘s pick for business manager was robbing them blind he parted ways w Lennon more or less for good after the Concert for Bangladesh. Btw. George insisted that Yoko not perform at the concert.

[@pablovocalsguerrero]

😮 At 0:50 sounded like now and then ❤

[@tutosCasuales]

Exactly. It’s John’s style

[@ericstir8720]

The A minor root goes back centuries. He knew it and used it. Now and then starts in A minor

[@redadamearth]

It's not "Now and Then", which was written in '79. It's just a chord progression Lennon used a lot.

[@pablovocalsguerrero]

Yes indeed ❤❤❤

[@notapplicable328]

That little part when it started out kind of reminded me of you never give me your money also

[@stevenlight5006]

Old an true friendship, money an people are second.long live friendship

[@Jodeanson.23]

Lest we not forget what a great singer John was.

[@Lancecats]

I was only a few weeks old when this was filmed.

[@littlestevey4172]

Happy Birthday George!!! This world needs you George!!

[@Phillyfan1967]

GOAT of SONGWRITING!!!!................PERIOD!!!

[@DavidCKendall]

What a tease! Could we please have at least a half hour of this?..

[@usernameisrequired]

This is amazing thank you who ever this is is amazingg

[@GregCombs100]

Great stuff, highly recommend watching the complete Imagine movie for more of this, released in 1989 I think.

[@thefonzkiss]

88

[@crimony3054]

Guitar George knows all the chords.

[@johnblack9298]

We are the sultans

[@blonieamw2998]

Awesome to see interactions without obligations

[@ChrisBCartagena]

I met John and May Pang 3 yrs after this in 74.. still have his Photos..theyre for sale!

[@jimmyberry4451]

Wow thats insane were you friends or something?

[@ChrisBCartagena]

@@jimmyberry4451 nope..i Met them by chance

[@nightslayerndaccount]

Great video👍 keep up the great work broskiskiski🫶

[@kevanbrown7620]

My 2 favourite Beatles. John and George. John was an incredible songwriter and a really great vocalist. George was a generous soul. He became a truly great songwriter. While My Guitar Gently Weeps is 1 of my favourite Beatles tracks. His work on Abbey Road is just amazing. What a debut solo album with All Things Must Pass (not counting Wonderwall Music which i have and is really good. Electronic Sounds is a different matter) I now regard his beautiful Living In The Material World album as good as ATMP. John and George Shine On Forever ✌️☮️ Oh My Love For The First Time In My Life My Eyes Are Wide Open

[@diegolessan]

E a primeira vez que vejo um video do John nos anos 70s sem a Yoko por perto

[@lucassales9485]

Mas a Yoko tá Presente no Vídeo 🇯🇵

[@diegolessan]

@@lucassales9485 mas a bicha é tipo um parasita, fica sempre do lado do piano kkkkk , dessa vez pelo menos ela manteve uma distancia de 3 metros. kkkkkk

[@humbertoluismendes7123]

ela tá lá... sempre!

[@denneraugusto651]

Ela podia aparecer mais...

[@stefanopellegrino2342]

Great John, great George, great FAB, great Jesus, for this gift you gave us in the past, today and in the future. 4ever and ever. Peace and love. ❤😔😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chacal1178]

É sempre um prazer ver o John e o George.

[@joenania]

My father FRANK NANIA worked locally in a barber shop in NEW YORK CITY in the 1970s - - around near the DAKOTA - - And when John and Yoko would walk by - - as they so many times did back then - - My father Frank would shout out to JOHN - - " Hey a hair cut today John ? " - - AND John Lennon would always answer " Not today Frank " - - TRUE STORY -

[@beersFilm]

I don't know how RARE this footage is, I think I've seen most and maybe all of it years ago, but it's still fascinating to see Lennon and Harrison work together after the Beatles. Certainly because it's often said that Harrison's talent was overlooked by Lennon and McCartney, but this shows that Lennon really valued Harrison's opinion and input.

[@briansalisbury4764]

I love the electric piano on "How Do You Sleep"

[@MattHamann89]

Wish this was 2 hours longer

[@FuturoDeRedpillEhAlcoolismo]

John lindo maravilhoso ❤

[@alexplaytop]

The History has been made!

[@11vec]

John Lennon quoted with How Do You Sleep?, hitting back at Paul, All you did was Yesterday and came back another day, in reference to Paul's song Too Many People, a scathing attack on John. (Lyrics) That was your first mistake, you took your lucky break, and broke it in two!

[@kensellar]

So great to see them together. The Beatles' split wasn't all acrimonious and bitter. Lovely footage.

[@EugenioHdo]

Lennon y Harrison inigualables. Imagenes unicas.

[@Jay-xy7yi]

Hes playin now and then on the piano

[@crazypumpkin13]

beautiful...

[@gayeblinman5055]

Dear John ..we hope you know your music still turns the world 🫶 and it’s people on 🎶 🧑🏻👩🏽👴🏼👩🏾‍🦱👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦳🧑🏽‍🦲 🌎

[@danielcerso]

That song "How do you sleep?" is a peace of art. It's a pity the lyrics are so unfair against Paul.

[@GreggSagge-lt6le]

Too many people was a pity joke against yoko. How ru going to go against a freind who is in love?

[@sassyt1545]

@@GreggSagge-lt6lewhat?

[@GreggSagge-lt6le]

@@sassyt1545 their are songs that paul created that took jabs at yoko.. a song called too may people is one of them. So this song was johns response to paul

[@evertvdb000]

it's are unfair ... BUT John used one of his best songs to do it. It's a compliment. He could have used a lousy song too, but he didn't.

[@intune11001]

If you listen again, John said he had dinner with Paul and that the lyrics were not about Paul but about him.

[@Ralphieboy]

I still have that music book that I bought around 1973

[@robmarchese]

Both thrilling and slightly disheartening to see John and George working on a tune that skewered their mate!

[@DKT1970]

2:33 klaus voormann ❤

[@Marceloony]

Apenas 9 anos de vida pela frente.👋✌✌

[@chadpittman3025]

I would have loved to have been able to play a couple songs with John and George

[@jeffreywickens3379]

I LOOOVE seeing any of The Beatles together. I wish that they could have all been together again, even just as friends.

[@donnadiggs8430]

Beautiful song

[@user-pt5wk9hz2d]

Леннон.практичный. Композитор❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@brucetowell3432]

Hopkins was at his best on "Crippled Inside" that solo still moves me to this day, it;'s just awesome!!!!

[@Prof.ArnonPalty]

"The long and Winding Road" sus chord... With PS as a producer..

[@markstevens1729]

Spector didn’t do John any favours in his solo career.

[@paulramon3353]

he did very well on the prior album

[@markstevens1729]

@@paulramon3353 define “well.” Lennon sounded like crap, as he wished to, for his entire solo career. He liked to do things fast, Spector liked to cover his flaws with double and triple instruments, not a good mix.

[@Caifo]

Agree.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@markstevens1729nah

[@el34glo59]

​​@@markstevens1729Sounded like crap? Wtf are you talking about? Lennons solo career was by far the best of the Beatles imo. Absolutely brilliant

[@renzomarzella9062]

Beautiful 😘

[@TitanicMusicEntertaiment]

RIP Geogre and John

[@gustavofaveronpatriau1816]

That first John piano intro is directly taken from Paul’s The Long and Winding Road.

[@oxsener]

Nah, not really. It’s just that Phil Spector put that damn orchestra underneath both songs. Thát is exactly the same.

[@gustavofaveronpatriau1816]

@@oxsener how do you mean? The orchestra is not there in this clip and that piano is the same you hear in the “naked” version of The long and winding road.

[@kewkabe]

I wonder how he slept at night knowing he ripped off Paul?

[@prodigalsorcerer1415]

They are reeling from the break up. It's all about the elephant in the room - Paul.

[@NoName-ge6wc]

John was always the genius of the beatles. No disrespect to Paul.

[@robertfurner1729]

just reinforces how brilliant a band and as individuals they are, if paul was there it would be seen as the beatles, not tgat he was helping john like the other two

[@MrBallynally2]

Indeed. But i always imagined how good one more Beatles record wouldve been knowing at least half of the Imagine sings were mostly written during the latter stages of the Beatles and most of Harrison's top songs fr 'all things'. I think both John and George were already in solo mode during 'Abbey rd'.

[@jeremywanner4526]

The world’s first dis track

[@Yanto2013]

So very Sad to know they are gone.

[@samsmith4216]

Phil Specter in and around and looming in the background of the studio.

[@graceNowhere711]

imagine, this great song. Jim keltner on drums, but no George on guitar.

[@joonya66]

Gotta love those boys

[@christinopessoa2145]

Demais!!!!

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

George Harrison (Liverpool, 25 de febrero ​de 1943-Los Ángeles, 29 de noviembre de 2001) fue un músico multiinstrumentista, compositor, cantautor, productor musical, productor cinematográfico, actor, filántropo, activista pacifista, ecologista, guitarrista y cantante británico de la banda de rock The Beatles. Aunque John Lennon y Paul McCartney fueron los principales compositores dentro del grupo, Harrison también incluyó composiciones propias en los discos de The Beatles, tales como Not Guilty, «Don't Bother Me», «You Like Me Too Much», «Think For Yourself», «If I Needed Someone», «Love You To», «I Want to Tell You», «Blue Jay Way», «Piggies», «Long Long Long», «Savoy Truffle», «Only a Northern Song», «For You Blue», «I Need You», «Taxman», «I Me Mine», «Within You Without You», «Old Brown Shoe», «It's All Too Much», «While My Guitar Gently Weeps», «Something» y «Here Comes the Sun» y una en un sencillo de la banda anterior a The Beatles, llamada The Quarry Men, compuso «In Spite of All the Danger» junto a Paul McCartney.

[@samnous2002]

[How Do You Sleep?} "It's not about Paul. It's about me." John the great bullshitter.

[@joecrowaz]

My favorite is when John yells at "Philip" 😜

[@DrHogfan]

Yesterday , Another Day … “ it’s about me, not Paul” Give Peace a Chance on display.

[@dale5898]

Ten thousand thumbs up!!!!!

[@rogeriofernandes9296]

Very good

[@marlenekuntzfanclubsimone]

❤

[@robertb2245]

Loving brothers RIP fellas

[@sketchartist1964]

Both of these guys were cremated and scattered. There's nothing left of them at all. No graves to honor, and no graves to place flowers. That's really sad.

[@symptomoftheuniverse3862]

John has a park that honors him

[@eduardoferreira1963]

Alan White ( yes ) on drums

[@20pfredo]

This was actually a ‘diss track’ aimed at Paul McCartney. “The only thing you done was…yesterday, and now your gone your just another day” .. I watched an interview with the BBC where Paul McCartney said this enraged him and he made a diss track of his own! I think it’s really just their humour though. They’re like brothers , they don’t take it too seriously.

[@Johnny6666]

It wasn't a 'diss' track at all - and Lennon says as much in this very video at 1:44.

[@user-bn9rw5xj5z]

The late Alan white on drums rip alan

[@B.R.0101]

How this could be alienating and cause of intimate pain for George Harrison watching and listening his friend John Lennon to tru his song about go through that moment of suffering and struggling in life... At least it was a very good song, but deeply touching...