JOHN LENNON 🎵 IMAGINE Reaction

[@tonym6854]

When John was killed i was in grammar school. I wrote inside my desk in permanent marker, John Lennon died today with the date and RIP. 30 years later the school was closed but we had a charity event for a friend who died there. I found my old desk and all the remarks that were added to the short obituary. It was like reliving the day.....

[@unholydriver4987]

That's amazing, brother! Were you able to keep the desk for yourself? Maybe make a coffee table out of it?

[@mikecaetano]

I remember when Howard Cosell announced it on MNF. I was in seventh grade. It was shocking.

[@tonym6854]

@@unholydriver4987 Unfortunately no. It was in pretty rough shape. Just a memory now

[@unholydriver4987]

@@tonym6854 That's too bad. Would have been like a living time capsule.

[@Whateva67]

Cool story

[@jockmcque3018]

I read a quote once, John was in school and his teacher asked all the teens "what do you want to be when you grow up". He answered "Happy". She said "I don't think you understand the question". To which he responded "I don't think you understand life".

[@mage1439]

As cool as that sounds, this reeks of being something a 50-year-old mom saw somewhere and plastered all over facebook, but is 100% not true.

[@deanroddey2881]

@@mage1439 Shortly after that he started healing people by touching them, or so I heard on Facebook.

[@kimnoel8125]

100% very true!!!!

[@garydodd2837]

Thats so dope, thanks for that..Dude was a smart Guy, he just seemed to see the world in a different way u know! John Lennon, one artist I wish I was around to see live, well and 2Pac...if I could go back in time..

[@Idol76]

He beat Cynthia Lennon and was a communist.

[@bludge1083]

i dont think wanting the world to live in peace is a hippie thing , i think its what all decent human beings crave tbh

[@arminius504]

Super intellectually shallow and naive and dumb lyrics IMO.

[@jordannorris2406]

@@arminius504 nice

[@WonkoDenFriske]

Living in peace is one thing but having no possessions and sharing everything is kind of a hippie thing imo

[@rw7632]

This song is an Atheist/Communist anthem.

[@jarls5890]

@@arminius504 Pretty sure Lennon also thought it was naïve. Kindo gives it away with the line "...you may say I am a dreamer".

[@nayf7682]

"The songs not bad" 😲.... what an understatement!

[@johnland1528]

I agree with that

[@garydodd2837]

Yeah no offence to Brad but it's like saying Meryl Streep, yeah I mean I have seen worse actresses, she's alright..

[@craigstern6751]

I guess opposites do attract. Didn’t work in my marriage.no disrespect but he better up his game or “he’s gonna lose that girl, yes yes he’s gonna loose that girl…. Peace

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

The song is massively overrated, a child could have written it and his voice is meh

[@craigstern6751]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek you my ignorant friend are clueless. That’s why today almost fifty years later it’s still recognized as a classic. Peace

[@AmIturtleEnough]

My family played this song at my dad's funeral in 2012, I was 16, he was a huge beatles fan and this song brings me so much emotion

[@DanMcManus]

Lennon's point with this song was to ask people to actually go through the exercise of imagining - in their own mind - a better, more functional, more loving world. He rightly believed that nothing exists in the human world that didn't first exist in imagination. Every building, toaster, medicine, book, war... all existed in the mind as imagination before they became real. He thought that if we want a better world we need to imagine it first. He was right.

[@bustacap3791]

He is forgetting that nature exists with or without the human race, in and outside of the human race. Romanticizing the human condition in an altruistic fashion will leave a person used and beat down.

[@DanielFrost21]

Lennon himself said this was "virtually the Communist Manifesto".....the world is not a better place under communism.

[@agnetamalmqvist9075]

You missed a lot!!!!!

[@fadefn6354]

Easier to sing about peace, harmony, utopia than actually deal with the reality of the human condition on the ground. Not trying to knock Lennon, but I wish people would stop placing him and the like on a pedestal.

[@rick5908]

@Ricardo Spatafore that's completely ass-backwards, capitalism requires a division of classes the workers and leaders. Where has Marxism skinnerian and the Christian ideal all rely on the concept of benevolence in the leadership and the love of another as much as oneself in the masses. These are ideals that simply don't jibe with the nature of most human beings. It's the same as people thinking the u.s. is a Democratic Society when in fact the founders called democracy the tyranny of the majority.

[@vendicepartners]

Imagine - John Lennon. "The song's not bad", Brad.

[@rx7dude2006]

lol I know right.

[@emilymartinez6961]

Dare I say, there's something not right about that boy👎😒

[@Sniper33321]

Brad’s lost

[@stevepittelli5911]

I don’t think Brad knows how to spell his name

[@vicprovost2561]

In some ways, he was the ultimate Hippie and someone we looked to back then for profound lyrics and statements. He's still badly missed, all these years later. John Lennon, a legend forever.

[@heavymetal6714]

This boy beat his wife hell nah lmaooooooo

[@noregerts5247]

@@heavymetal6714 except his wife said he didn't. The fact is, you have no idea if he did or didn't. Regardless, we are talking about his music here and not his personal life.

[@mattjohn4731]

He was mean to his first wife Cynthia and son Julian. But he grew and was better to Yoko and Sean

[@williamjordan5554]

Well, when he was a teen he was more of a leather-jacket punch-you-in-the-face kind of guy.

[@heavymetal6714]

@@noregerts5247 my ass. He’s admitted to abusing women. music or not. Stop being a sympathizer

[@extdiso]

I certainly hope “Peace, Love and Being as one” are not only “hippie” thoughts. Try listening to “What’s so Funny About Peace Love And Understanding” by Elvis Costello.

[@matthansen758]

On paper it sounds great but unfortunately as long as the rich 1% keep controlling over us regular folks it will never be that way...

[@nicebluejay]

@@matthansen758 that's the point

[@kevinkastle612]

@@nicebluejay exactly.

[@kevinkastle612]

@@matthansen758 shouldn't just be on paper. and that's what we're working toward. hippies aren't part of the 1%, so not sure what you're talking about.... cause hippies ARE regular folks.

[@nicebluejay]

@@kevinkastle612 well some of those 60's hippies are in the 1% so....lol

[@luiscarlosdeoliveira7638]

I have been noticing through all the videos that Brad has the sensitivity of a rock.

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

I agree. The girl is MUCH better. He just doesn't get it most of the time.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

You mean the grown adult WOMAN in the video? Come on. I bet you'd never refer to grown men as 'boys' because it's infantile. It is to adult women too.

[@GrandpaOCE]

still hurts that we lost this man, this is such an emotional song for me

[@jennhurl]

Brad please seperate yourself from the celebrity video. Try placing yourself in the 60's & all that was going on. Try to think of John writing these words & what he may have been feeling. Then close your eyes & listen to John's amazing voice deliver this iconic song. With love & respect, sometimes Brad, you have to get out of yourself my friend. You'll hear music differently. ✌❤🎵

[@BenT_bbx]

Definitely not trying to argue but I'm with Brad.

[@TheGreatGig73]

I think the 60's and 70's are too deep for Brad but that's ok, he still is a cool dude.

[@brainsareus]

he's too superficial for that

[@brainsareus]

@@BenT_bbx Brad does not even say anything remotely cogent, so what the hell are you agreeing with?!

[@petercofrancesco9812]

I like that they are rediscovering music from previous generations but many of their reactions are so misguided. I'm try not to be to hard on them because they don't know any better. Kids today primary exposure to music is indirect. Like I heard that song in a movie, video game, or at a store. The result is they have no context to understand what the music was originally meant to be. It sad what the commercialization of music has done.

[@burns1210]

Brad has all the human emotion of a cantaloupe

[@michaelmckinney1409]

Imagine a rich man singing about no possessions. I like the idea of no war and everyone getting along.

[@Renkk17]

As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-ins for Peace, one at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, each of which were intended to be nonviolent protests against wars, and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. John Lennon has many Great songs, Check out - ( Just like starting over - Watching the Wheels - Woman )

[@Gekokujo76]

John and Yoko were on Dick Cavett a lot around this time...a lot of those interviews are great and available on KZbin. Along with your suggestions, I would say to check out Working Class Hero and the live version of Mother from Madison Square Garden!

[@fmhenk]

The funny thing is they really aren't anti-war. What will it take to bring about this wonderful utopia he sings about? War is what it will take. It will take the complete eradication of nations, religions and cultures.

[@Renkk17]

@@fmhenk He's not singing about war!? His whole song was about Imaging a world with only peace and love and everyone getting along.....you're way off on what he was all about and talking about!

[@fmhenk]

@@Renkk17 I am not saying he is promoting war. The ideology behind his thinking requires war and the enslavement and oppression of the masses. How do you get rid of countries and religions? You are talking about the death and/or enslavement of billions. It's communist propaganda that's all it is. Even Lennon admits that. I used to love this song and the message it gave. Who wouldn't want to live in a world like that? It's just not reality.

[@clintonsmith5163]

@@fmhenk You are wrong. It is not war that would bring it about. It is a change in people's mindsets that would bring it about. In other words, not eradication but voluntary abandonment. Voluntary is the key word. You can't force people to give up their beliefs.

[@jeffmurray1681]

You can tell she is intrigued with the message and wants to explore something more than the current way of thinking. While he is completely captured by society's shallowness.

[@philwillett9102]

Translation: She's deep, he's....not.

[@HerveBoisde]

Maybe but I wonder what his reaction would have been if he came into with no preconceptions and hadn’t heard the god awful version done by privileged and hypocritical out of touch celebrities because everyone was turned off by that and mocking them

[@Beckaboo3397]

I came back to watch the reaction to this one. Brad I’m half way through and if you haven’t changed your mind and done a 180 by the end of this song then I really don’t know what to tell you. You are listening to one of the greatest songwriters of all time and arguably the best song he ever wrote. Listen to the lyrics not just surface level but what he is really talking about and “imagine” him writing and releasing this when he did at a time when racial tensions were at a peak, you were shunned for being certain religions or even religious at all there was really only upper and lower class and then homeless because of the economy,war ect ect. He brought so so many ppl together and gave them hope so much so that the government got scared and had him taken out. I love great music I’m an Em fan and like great music from any era or genre. From Tina Turner and Whitney to Guns N Roses and Nirvana or Eminem and Pac to Tom Waits and Johnny Cash. I don’t know maybe you weren’t in the right mood for this one (although for me personally this song transcends even moods) but I’ll give you the benefit . Either way thank you very much for the reaction.

[@bryantbrewer3014]

LMAO How old are you? The government wasn't worried about him and didn't have him "taken out" He was killed Dec of 1980, well after his protesting days. He was killed right by his high dollar condo' in NYC by a nutty uber fan named Chapman, I believe.

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

"Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can" - the lyric that got him killed..

[@josephstanton4872]

NOT BAD, this is a MASTERPIECE! The other iconic song he did was Working Class Hero, which also sums everything up! Welcome to proper music Brad! I'm guessing you've only heard Techno and Rap! There are so many legends you now need to listen to! It's called The Golden Era 50s - 70s!

[@garydodd2837]

So many classics..Woman, Gimme Some Truth...its weird I like the Beetles but I was always more a Lennon fan then a Beetles fan, I suppose it would be different if I grew up at that time..My parents were both Rolling Stones fans as little kids..never been a massive Stones fan, they are cool though...

[@richardbarnard9110]

i'm pretty sure Working Class Hero was the B side of Imagine..

[@nadigrimes4689]

@@richardbarnard9110 no,"working class hero" was in plastic ono band,but imagine was in imagine album!

[@damianszczerkowski882]

and 80s.. 😉

[@timothybush9633]

A Great song by John Lennon RIP

[@111oooo]

One of the greatest songs ever written IMO

[@freebee8221]

I would say its the second best song ever written. 1 stairway to heaven, 2 imagine, 3 bohemian rhapsody.

[@gavilanchocolatero]

Brad says "the song's not bad"

[@pub652]

@@gavilanchocolatero Brad is not the brightest thing out there....

[@charleswilliams4247]

@@freebee8221 _Stairway to Heaven_ would be lucky to be in the top 50 best songs. It's pseudo-Medieval nonsense. The guitar is what drives that song not the lyrics.

[@freebee8221]

@@charleswilliams4247 for decades its been voted as nro1 rock song by rock magazines. And not just the song but also the guitar solo has been voted as the best guitar solo ever. Youre too young to remember but stairway to heaven was a legit masterpiece when it came out and has been ever since. Its been compared to mona lisa and other great works of art.

[@casey9020]

This song is nothing more than a beautiful idea and ideal. Songs can take you to a dream state that maybe cant even happen in real life. It’s just a dream and he takes you there, if only for a moment

[@benshafer5198]

There's Chris Cornell acoustic version (on YT) from the Howard Stern show that's just sublime

[@anthonymerchant2597]

Maynard with A Perfect Circle also does a fantastic cover of this song on the Emotive album. It's my personal favorite version of it.

[@MrUtenn27]

Yes. It is amazing

[@marckusel5602]

Brad open your ears open your eyes listen to greatness.

[@mspicer3262]

I'm sorry that was your first experience with this song Brad, I never watched that video, I just had a feeling about it, and didn't want to see how badly they butchered this beautiful song.

[@RandomFandomDragon]

Agreed. This is such a lovely song

[@slevin6544]

Yeah I saw that video and my god it was cringe.

[@mspicer3262]

@My Dixie Wrecked So America is all for war and division? Yeah, that sounds about right.

[@ale16_69]

@My Dixie Wrecked and that's the best thing about it.

[@themightycelestial]

As someone who remembers hearing this song when it first came out, I feel sorry for Brad that his first connection to it was the cringeworthy experience than ruined it for him. Because, while for him, the song is just "not bad", for me, and for alotta people out there, it's one of the greatest songs ever written.

[@jlsc4125]

One of the best songs ever written. Imagine a world where all the reasons for war was removed, no religion, no borders, just man working for mankind.

[@rw7632]

Horse crap. Its an Atheist/Communist anthem. That what John was.

[@jlsc4125]

@@rw7632 You idiots just make me laugh.

[@rw7632]

@@jlsc4125 I don't know what to tell you. John is a self described atheist and communist. Listen to the lyrics. I mean no insult. It is what it is. Facts is facts!

[@rw7632]

@@jlsc4125 Clearly you are also atheist and communist.

[@jlsc4125]

@@rw7632 Absolutely atheist, but I'm 100% progressive. It pays to get an education, you should try it.

[@misterk4580]

"Why, why did they kill him?" Man, that got me, coming from a young (non-Boomer) woman who can tell a special soul when she hears it. Keep being you Lex.

[@JamesJoyce12]

"Song not bad"? One of the few pop songs that ppl will be listening to a hundred years from now.

[@vicprovost2561]

A 1,000 years at least. 🎵

[@spyretto]

Dude only appreciates rap what do you expect.

[@ptofview]

Very disappointing he prejudged the song based on something he saw that he felt was cringe. Every other reaction channel gives high praise to this iconic song.

[@jamesy1979]

Song has a good message, but as a song as a whole, it’s pretty bland and boring, even compared to other slow songs

[@ptofview]

@@jamesy1979 Ha! Exactly what was expected.

[@TT-fq7pl]

Capitalism's greatest success is making ordinary people believe that ordinary human feelings are worth dismissing as "hippie." There's a very good and obvious reason that the refrain is "Imagine." Lennon was extremely aware that there's no possible paradise. The man wasn't a fool, people. But he's just saying, imagine if we didn't have to be so filled with hatred and greed. It's nice to imagine, if nothing else.

[@rayallen3492]

This song is one of the sacred cows from the early 70s. It's so perfect in it's simplicity. It gets you in the feels too.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

This is one of the most iconic songs in history. The message is beautiful. Basically imagine all the things that divide us were not there.

[@heathcornbeef]

I remember 10 year's old being in the kitchen with my mum doing the dishes and the music on the radio stopped and the DJ announced that John Lennon had just been shot and died the next thing i heard was my mum screamed and collapsed on the floor crying uncontrollably I'll never forget that moment in time

[@jeffcathcart9455]

Wow, is she OK? Holy crap. She must have really loved john.

[@heathcornbeef]

@@jeffcathcart9455 41 year's ago i hope she's feeling a bit better 😜

[@heathcornbeef]

@@jeffcathcart9455 41 year's ago i hope she's feeling a bit better 😜

[@heathcornbeef]

Why am i always repeating myself

[@charleswilliams4247]

You'd think he was JFK or MLK with a reaction like that.

[@LJSpit]

If we all imagine.

[@KevinSchmitt77]

When this song came out the Vietnam War was raging, the Cold War was ice cold with no end in sight, a nuclear arms race in full swing... but we had just seen the first pictures from the moon of what the globe looks like from space; no national boarders, no hate, no war. Forty years later we are still able to ask ourselves, "What if?" when hearing this song. What's wrong with a bit "hippie" when peace, compassion, love, and humanity are involved?

[@LJSpit]

Here, here!

[@stanclips8227]

Ironically the thing he is singing about which is communism is the reason for all of those wars.

[@AliasMark69]

John Lennon…. Most Important Person In Modern Music History. “The Beatles…. Greatest Musical Group In History. Nobody else even comes close.

[@charleswilliams4247]

Nonsense.

[@knightngail1]

Imagine💞 I agree with Brad about that video of all the celebrities being cringe. Just proof they can take a song and good attentions and F it up...

[@shaland.mcgrinder3960]

Right rich celebrities acting like we were all in this together when the most affected were living check to check was like a slap in the face

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

That's hollyweird for you. Plebian's the lot of them.

[@bninem1397]

Imagine all the celebrities, giving up their islands, it's kinda hard to dooo

[@Soljarag5]

I'm going to challenge the "good attentions" part

[@stevedotwood]

i agree, very cringe. I saw someone was reacting to it, and i didn't want to go there, because I heard it too many times when it was released. But this is not a song like that.

[@robg8718]

How powerful is this song? A few years ago, after the ball dropped in Times Square on New Years Eve, the entire crowd started singing this song acapella!!! It went on every new years thereafter and is now on the playlist along with auld lang syne pumped from speakers throughout Times Square. Keep the dream alive!!

[@Cadinho93]

You guys should react to… The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down 🎸🤘

[@Infyra]

You cant really react to the Beatles without getting an airstrike and your channel nuked from the face of the earth.

[@J.C.3]

I love your profile picture. SOA!

[@djurgens76]

Oh yeah, such a good song from the Beatles

[@jaymcgraw528]

My favorite song and performance from The Beatles

[@jkzl1008]

The world lost him 42 years ago - Dec. 8th, 1980. So great to still have his music.

[@harryburnett7086]

This song is so moving to me , it tugs at my heartstrings

[@blembezzle5073]

my parents said hippies would ruin the country, it took 50 years but damn it they were so right.

[@nathanrupley]

Imagine there's no millionaire rock stars, living in mansions.

[@Hester-l6k]

"this song is cringe to me" says the guy that's lived his entire life without his country at war.

[@SDLEIKAM]

John Lennon wrote this song as more of an anti war and anti establishment song and not necessarily an anti wealth song. At the time John Lennon was killed, his estimated worth was around $500 million. He was a very complex person and his music showed it. Where Paul McCartney was a more pop and mainstream composer, John dealt with more with social and personal issues. A few of my favorite Lennon sings would be In My Life written and recorded with the Beatles and his solo Mind Games and Watching The Wheels, which was on his last album released at the time of his death.

[@DWQMusic]

Lennon himself described “Imagine” as “virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement…. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted.” Pretty sure it was definitively about wealth as well.

[@facE055]

lmao @ thinking someone being wealthy means they wont make communist propaganda like this song. have you never heard a single celebrity speak? almost all communists are wealthy, their detachment from reality is the reason they're communists lol.

[@billr3724]

But he did describe himself as an “instinctive socialist” growing up among the working-class. His upbringing gave him a strong dislike for the ruling class in England.

[@AliasMark69]

Favorite Male Vocalist-John Lennon. Favorite Song Writer-John Lennon.

[@eximusic]

Great song - will be remembered forever. It is actually post-hippie times. Things moved so fast in the sixties, the hippie era was really just 1967-1969. John had already cut his longer hair and beard by this time and was more influenced by his wife Yoko, who was an avant garde artist. The Vietnam war was still going and John and Yoko made many messages and songs about peace. Religion has been the source of war for thousands of years of human history, so I'm not really sure this was ever a hippie message.

[@raymo6795]

..Removing religion is not really realistic...people are willing to die for what they believe...wasn't Lennon a Budist?

[@eximusic]

@@raymo6795 Yeah, people are idiots. No, Lennon didn't follow any religion. George was the spiritual one, but not Buddhist. Anyways, it's a song, an ideal, not reality. People are hell bent on bad things.

[@Sindraug25]

I'm curious where this idea of religion being the source of war came from. Sure, there have been some over religion, but 99% are for land, resources, wealth, and power.

[@robbielux8353]

@@Sindraug25 nope, religion is the cause of most wars/deaths throughout history

[@raymo6795]

@@Sindraug25 I suppose there is no perfect religion. But I have greater respect for those that believe in something, rather than those who believe in nothing

[@danabean4408]

I searched the channel and was a bit surprised to see that there isn’t a single reaction to a Beatles song by the full band, just a couple of reactions to John and Paul post-Beatles work. Guys, I know the Beatles are very ancient history to you, but you should look at their body of work and dig in. The Beatles have influenced virtually all popular music from 1960 to now, either directly or indirectly, and are revered by iconic players across six decades. You will find incredible music and lyrics across all of this work and I am certain that both of you will appreciate their music for different reasons. Take a look!

[@charleswilliams4247]

Explain how they've influenced all popular music from 1960 to now. This is an incredible statement given they were influenced by popular American music from Chuck Berry and Little Richard, to Elvis and Buddy Holly.

[@Putreffy]

Man... when my daughter was a baby, John Lennon was the only thing that would calm her down. I would rock her in my arms at 2am in the living room when she wasn't feeling good while her mom was asleep... listening to Imagine and Woman :(

[@SmartK8]

John: "You may say I'm the communist, but I'm not the only one" Me: "Exterminate!"

[@ronwalker403]

Lennon was a great songwriter and one of the esteemed voices of the Beatles. RIP.

[@enzodellacorte1909]

yes that bed protest took place in Montreal, thats where that famous song "give peace a chance" was born, brad it shows your a great guy to your lady, but let her lead in the reactions and breakdowns of songs, she is a genious, your not letting her grow with your condensending remarks after she disects a song

[@rx7dude2006]

My parents named me after him, he was amazing and this song is one of the most important ever written.

[@rx7dude2006]

@My Dixie Wrecked You are horrible.

[@rx7dude2006]

@My Dixie Wrecked It isn't, wow you are new to it I guess.

[@rx7dude2006]

@My Dixie Wrecked So you come on my post about how I was named after him and basically insult me in doing so?Don't you have a life?

[@rx7dude2006]

@My Dixie Wrecked You can't even understand my post!And I feel sorry for your parents.

[@charleswilliams4247]

@My Dixie Wrecked🔨 That's Dark Brandon to you, chump.

[@patmurray8265]

I've imagined no heaven and hell since I first heard this song when I was a kid some 40 years ago. I've had an amazing life thinking that way.

[@jhamler1]

I was only seven years old, living in The Bronx, but I vividly remember the night John Lennon was murdered because my father was drunk watching Monday Night Football and he woke me and my little sister up with his caterwauling. It was a big deal for my old man because he was a huge fan of The Beatles and had even managed to sneak in to the Shea Stadium concert back in '64. I know there was a vigil outside of Central Park the next day and the whole family attended, even though my sister and I didn't really grasp the occasion. Anyhoo... I know that Brad and Lex are just kids themselves so I'll give them a pass on their relative irreverence towards this inimitable song.

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

Funny how vivid it is in some of our minds. I was 10 and had just moved to England (military family) when John was killed. My dad is originally from Brooklyn so I had just spent two weeks in Manhattan with my grandparents around Thanksgiving. Being English, the news about Lennon's death was EVERYWHERE for months and this song was #1 for (it seemed) almost a year. I barely knew his music but I still remember all the coverage like it was yesterday. Cheers.

[@RockDocNeal]

The "Bed-In" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that Lex was referring to was a protest against the Vietnam War and to promote world peace. They actually did two separate week long bed-ins in 1969 in Amsterdam and Montreal and they recorded the song Give Peace A Chance with a bunch of celebrities in the Montreal hotel room. In December of that year they put up billboards in 11 major cities that said "WAR IS OVER! If You Want It - Happy Christmas From John and Yoko".

[@pauljansen1137]

Imagine must be one of the best written songs ever....pure genius!!

[@I_dont_understand_25]

No its not this song sucks

[@Soljarag5]

Pure garbage

[@dixienoble8872]

New sub here. I'm 70 years old and the Beatles were the first celebrity obsession. Now I'm excited by Bo Burnham. He has a new album INSIDE. Written during Covid lockdown. If you'd like to try something different, I would love to have you reaction.

[@unholydriver4987]

While this isn't my favorite song ever, I do consider it to be the most important song ever written.

[@mshat18]

It definitely is if you’re a lefty hippy atheist. If not then it’s one of the most cringe songs ever.

[@rayjennings3637]

@@mshat18 I'm not a lefty, nor am I a hippy and please don't join those two words together. Only a certain type of person thinks that way! I'm a right-wing 73 year old but where the words of this song are concerned, I can only live in hope!

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@rayjennings3637 Imagine is literally the communist manifesto in song form.

[@beaubradley2171]

@@RSpracticalshooting Dear lord, some people are unbelievably ignorant.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@beaubradley2171 you mean yourself? Because you bought into the propaganda and can't actually understand the real message behind the song?

[@ericnordstrom4335]

The part about being in bed was when John and Yoko stayed in a hotel room in Montreal Canada. It was in the early 70s. The 2 of them even wrote and sang a song which I would like to hear on your channel. It was called Give Peace A Chance.

[@trinitraveller2592]

Man we more music like this in the world today. John Lennon will always be missed Rip legend 🙏

[@chrisparti]

Disregarded by Brad as a 'hippy song' as if that immediately discredits it in his eyes... some people happily accept all of societies constricts, and never dare think beyond them...

[@Souldoubtrocks]

Imagine if nothing mattered as far as politics and religion and we just loved one another.

[@otda3675]

Calm down there gal gadot 🤣

[@freddymo3339]

Believe me, there will or would be someone showing up to ruin it all by subject-gating us all. We need the BILL OF RIGHTS TO PROTECT US FROM EVIL MEN !

[@seantimmons5900]

What's.. subject-gating? I can only assume subjugation? Impossible to be free without the American constitution and first ten amendments unless you live in Scandinavia and don't have either.

[@Souldoubtrocks]

@@otda3675 lol

[@Souldoubtrocks]

@@freddymo3339 fucking A skippy.

[@kesleycottrell1416]

This is very possibly the most important song ever made. It's a hope we all have. Hope and peace.

[@Stacy55ish]

This is a great message and beautiful song.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

So you're saying it was effective propaganda.

[@beaubradley2171]

@@RSpracticalshooting what the hell is wrong with wanting to imagine a world at peace with a higher regard for humanity than possessions?? You are part of the problem.

[@damonhage7451]

@@beaubradley2171 Possessions are essential to human life. Human life requires the production and acquisition of values. The idea that the world would be at peace without possessions is ridiculous. It would be mass slaughter.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@beaubradley2171 tell me you don't understand the actual message without telling me you don't understand the actual message.

[@bawitback]

Yikes hard pass

[@tornaperinso1484]

Brad seems to be the kind of guy who tends to bash things that are intellectual or complex in nature; while Lex seems to make an effort to only cautiously display her high intelligence in order to not rise to high above a tenable conversation.

[@edinburgh2007]

You guys need to check out the Beatles - all you need it love, ticket to tide, also George Harrison - my sweet lord.

[@tonyhaag4651]

Brad, I think you owe the internet a 1200 word essay on why Lex should be with you.

[@larrymartin8146]

Greatest song ever wrote. Even better than Slayer “raining blood”.

[@marksummers1700]

i'm glad you watched a video that showed the lyrics... this is definitely one of the most beautiful, hopeful songs ever...

[@btnordal]

I liked these two people from the get go. I’ve watched Brad listen to some of the best rock musicians playing some of the best rock songs ever made and not connect with or be moved by them. It’s kinda frustrating. It seems like Lex gets it. I think I do understand it though. Even great hip hop is hard for me to get into and I don’t think I’d have the patience to do KZbin reaction videos, so good on them. The last rap/hip hop album I bought was LL Cool J, Bigger and Deffer back in 1987. Keep going you two.

[@dggydddy59]

I suppose I understand. If had to listen to hip hop rap for an hour in front of people I doubt I'd be able to do it at all, regardless what people say "good" rap hip hop is, I don't like it just like I don't like opera, no matter what people say good opera is. Although I really did enjoy all the opera in Amadeus and I went to an opera once, just for the experience. But to sit around and listen to either genre or play them while driving the car is just something I am never ever going to do.

[@SteveGlusica]

Brad you better not break Lex’s heart. I will show up with super glue in hand to put it back together. You have been served.

[@MrDekasOne]

Lennon himself described “Imagine” as “virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement…. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted.”

[@bynumite76]

True it's communist propaganda! 👎

[@Calmontheoutside]

The irony of the vicious comments at Rob not “getting” THIS SONG is breathtaking.

[@Thehollowleg]

I’m pretty sure this song is an ode to communism.

[@ale16_69]

As it should be.

[@rossmudie9298]

I was 8 when john lennon died and a huge beatles and lennon fan, i remember watching the news during breakfast before i set off for school, a tragic day i'll never forget, quite surreal thinking back.

[@WhistleStix]

And 52 years later people still remember or at least know of the bed protest. Makes it a pretty good idea.

[@danielbenincasa770]

This is the original song.....a legend of a song...like John was a legend as he was alao a legend in the Beatles...John made this song in the 70's. Not a hippy song

[@react2reactions246]

Not being from that generation, I don’t have a connection to this song, and I get where Brad is coming from, bc by now, it’s been done so many times, and it becomes kinda performative. However, when you talk to people of that generation, they were really moved by Lennon, they know where they were when he was killed. It was a defining moment of the times, a Beatle, that became a voice for peace in a chaotic time, shot down. It affected people, and not just hippies. My older brother remembers our dad coming home from work, going into his room and just closing the door. My dad was drafted and served in Nam, he was far from a hippie. So, although I don’t have that connection, I hear this song and think of it’s place in history and how people felt about this man and what he stood for.

[@davidcooley275]

Well said. Brad needs to be careful talking about a song that changed the world. I wonder if anything he listens to today will be remembered 60 years later and revered...I doubt if songs of today will be remembered for 3 years. Being a hippie has nothing to do with this song, you just have to be able to think.

[@charleswilliams4247]

A wonderfully subversive song that goes over many heads because it's so beautifully arranged.

[@jazzminb]

They got a lot of attention from the media for a bed-in and were able to draw attention to political issues. They used the constant interest in their relationship to their advantage.

[@Lymbe06]

You kids are gonna grow old someday and you’ll look upon the time you listened to tons of music together. You’re creating memories right here. Peace and love to you.

[@TubetakerBHV]

Normaly Brad is so focused on the lyrics but here we have one song were the lyrics have a true meaning and all he has to say was "a hippie song". "Imagine" is maybe one of the most important songs in history and thats all you have to say? That was your most dissapointing reaction.

[@RedceLL1978]

All except for the fact that John Lennon was actually a total poser and hypocrite

[@RSpracticalshooting]

This song is the communist manifesto with a melody.

[@TubetakerBHV]

@@RSpracticalshooting bullshit

[@bopep1368]

@@RedceLL1978 than you know little about JL. He acted hypocritically in his life (who hasnt, especially with a child and adulthood like him). He was a man born with MANY admitted faults, and who did much to improve his life as well as that of those around him. Your statement "TOTAL poser and hypocrite" likely is the result of you coming upon the negative parts of his life, that EVERYONE knows about, and you saw faults in a famous man known for good deeds and thought youd busted open a story without regard for the changes he made or the good he accomplished. I dont believe there is ANYONE on this planet that thinks he was a perfect man, or always a good man, but people look at him as a flawed person, so maybe you need to get real. BTW- MLK did wrong things too. Tell the world, you might have a scoop. .

[@leonardshevlin7260]

disappointing *

[@leemp337]

wow i really feel for brad. i'm sorry that was your first experience with this beautiful song.

[@Gravel-Idle]

a beautiful heartfelt song by John Lennon. If you want a similar great song ruined by a celebrity re-make then try Perfect Day by Lou Reed

[@thomaslook2252]

Sit-ins were a famous type of protest to the Vietnam war, so he and Yoko held a bed-in, in protest of the war. It got tons of media coverage, because he was John Lennon of the Beatles. Whatever they did was headline news

[@Bekka_Noyb]

You should check out his song: Instant Karma

[@matthewjohnson4696]

A lot of people think that this is just a happy hippie song, but John Lennon actually came out and admitted that this song is essentially the Communist Manifesto in song form.

[@surlechapeau]

From John's lips to every human ear 🤞 ✌

[@ianbarnhurst4450]

“The songs not bad.” Get your pen out Brad and see if you can top it.

[@zigman63]

Why are they staying in bed? Seriously get some other hobby to do Brad,and just let the lady at least come at it from her soul instead of your butt.

[@deboragill4756]

Who doesn't love John? A life taken unnecessarily. A shame. But look at All the beautiful songs he helped compose wnd play.

[@alexandersysoev1519]

Are you kidding? Do you really not know this song? How is this possible?

[@edwardpate6128]

I remember playing this song the evening of 9/11 and weeping.

[@stevenviji4119]

FINALLY!!!!! Love from India!!!!

[@DianeWood-ji3fh]

ty love this song forever.... love John still ... all about peace

[@seantimmons5900]

According to John Lennon, this was him trying to promote socialism (see: not communism) and realizing people were way more accepting of it in musical form.

[@baruchspinoza4541]

it's beyond politic

[@Rob-eo5ql]

A socialist utopia. Jonestown was a socialist utopia. lol

[@emcsquared8681]

@@Rob-eo5ql no it wasn’t, it was a Christian utopia.

[@sjsuismylife]

Socialism is one exit before communism.

[@sjsuismylife]

@@emcsquared8681 there was nothing biblical or Christ-like about Jonestown.

[@paulhardy4820]

Without a doubt One of the finest songs ever written by one the finest song writers ever

[@ScottT248]

This is one of the most important songs in history. You have to forget the celebrity song version as that was garbage. Just have to listen to this song with an open mind and understand what the lyrics are meaning. Usually Brad is so much into the lyrics, but in this he just says it is a 'hippie song'. I do not understand.

[@ryano4784]

it is a hippy song lol. He should've imagined there's no .38 revolvers

[@child_of_gaia1836]

RIP John you will never be forgotten The peace movement lost it's greatest soldier the day you were taken from us. PEACE,LOVE AND LIGHT.