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[@danathompson4210]

Having seen them live on September 3, 1964, my life was never the same. I can still listen endlessly to their albums and dream of that wonderful time in my life. On my way to my high school commencement in June 1970, I heard “The Long and Winding Road” come on the road. Somehow, that song was perfectly fitting to an important ending in my life. I was lucky to have gone through high school with “My Beatles!”❤❤❤

[@JamesMcGuy]

John was the best Beatle. Anyone who was alive during the 60's knows this to be true. A man of his times. The 60's & 70's. I don't think his sharp wittedness and salty personality would be accepted today. Who cares? Lennon was rough edged but so were we all then. We weren't living in the overly sensitive times of today. That is overly protective and boring. Like John we cared about world peace but we also had thicker skins. Lennon was the most iconic rock star of his time. My big three of all time are John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan. No one else comes close. What would the sixties have been without these three? Would rock n roll even exits today without them? I think Paul needed John in the world to be great. John didn't need him. That's why Lennon is number one.

[@peterliston1697]

There will never be another John Lennon

[@lennon1252]

8:28 Twist and Shout was tuned down to Db for the first Ed Sullivan performance shown in this video because George was just getting over strep throat. So they tuned their guitars down for February 9 afternoon taped segment as well as the live show at 8pm. That's why She Loves You 11:54 shown in this video is in Gb instead of G. 14:23 All My Loving is in Eb instead of E. 15:45 I Want To Hold Your Hand is in Gb instead of G. 19:53 Please Please Me is in Eb instead of E. They also tuned down a half step 2 days later for the Washington DC performance on February 11, 1964. You see, now you all learned something that you probably never knew for 60 years!

[@syncout]

thanks for great info

[@TheDreamingJune]

John still has my favorite voice of the Beatles. So distinctive and vulnerable.

[@Mike-hh3cx]

And comforting

[@Mike-hh3cx]

I'm enamored with John Lennon. The older I get the more I love his solo material better than the Beatles... and I love the Beatles

[@piotrq7150]

Lennon was a real leader

[@stealthbastard8837]

John is the goat.

[@Johnnylund1]

Everyone has an opinion. Breathtaking Songwriting is why we love them. Also, they were cool buddys!

[@denniswinters3096]

Someone says at one point, "The Beatles didn't invent psychedelia." Really ? Well, if they didn't I'd like to know who did, because it certainly wasn't Pink Floyd, who at the time The Beatles were recording Tomorrow Never Knows, were just a run-of-the-mill R&B band in Cambridge. Even if you listen to what the most clued-up bands in the States were doing, it doesn't come close. Singing Folk-Rock songs that had vague drug references was NOT psychedelia. Psychedelia was an aural sound-scape that attempted to replicate the actual LSD experience, and The Beatles did it first ! So there.

[@fjhaydn6532]

My favorite of the Fab Four. He gave the band a bit of a rough edge, but what stands out is his innovative, out of this world rhythm guitar playing on his Rickenbacker. He simply played the best rhythm guitar ever, there is no one that comes even remotely close. Listen to Paul's 'all my loving' on a good hi fi set (important) and you discover how he completely dominates and defines this song. Most people dont know that many of the signature licks George plays, were Lennon's, like 'day tripper', 'I feel fine' just to name two. Lennon also played great lead guitar on some tracks. In classical music we had the great Giacomo Puccini, who was known as the '3 minute Genius', because his catchy arias were 3 minutes short. That describes Paul in the Beatles. Ringo stated he preferred Lennon's songs over Paul's because of their sophisticated rock rhythm. I agree. He was a super creative music man. Both John and Bob Dylan tried to elevate the importance of lyrics in songs, but neither came even close to Jim Morrison, no one for that matter, but that's another chapter.

[@therazband3007]

You are correct sir. I’ve said it for years that John Lennon was the greatest rhythm guitarist ever, and that was what I tried to do, become a great rhythm guitarist, because I’ve always felt that’s what carries the band or is the backbone of the band. Just my opinion

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

well said sir

[@frankroth8349]

You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one

[@EugenioHdo]

JOHN POR SIEMPRE Y PARA SIEMPRE.

[@JohnDoe-tw8es]

I agree

[@MatthewFelgate-r4u]

Astounding musical and social legacy.

[@TimRobinson-hc7mt]

John will always be my working class hero I had people tell me he was not so great they hate Yoko I had a few who said they were glad Chapman killed him(those people are as sick as Chapman and can go sleep in his cell) Loved his music his humor and I still miss him

[@ThomasPicone]

Those people voted for trump But seriously Yeah John could be a hypocrite A

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

Those people are people who will be in the eternal prison of the Green Eyed Devil

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

@@ThomasPiconeLennon would have nothing to do with today's pro censorship pro war US Democratic Party thats in bed with the war profiteering billionaires, the CIA and FBI . Not a chance

[@Mike-hh3cx]

Wow you talk to some real nuts! John was admittedly a flawed human but he was also a musical genius and truly believed in peace. ✌️

[@TimRobinson-hc7mt]

@@Mike-hh3cx Very true I do run into some nut cases but I will always love John Lennon's music

[@ochaiky]

When playing Paul's songs on the piano, it is relatively easy to catch the atmosphere of his songs, but not of John's songs. This is because his songs must be accompanied by his voice, rhythm and character, I think. So I'll keep struggling his songs on the piano.

[@yellyman5483]

Paul songs like "Eleanor Rigby" "The fool on the hill" and "Let it be" are just as hard to sing as Johns, and that is because they were recorded perfectly. There`s nothing you can add to improve them, because John and Paul knew how to make them perfect. John and Paul are the greatest songwriters in history of pop/rock music!

[@justiceforall6412]

As to A Hard Day's Night being dated...well I played it for my niece, who didn't like The Beatles, when she was 15 or 16. She loved it. She's a fan now.

[@syncout]

great stuff

[@lennon1252]

There never was a Strawberry FieldS. There was a place in Woolton called Strawberry Field. Which was a home for orphans that was taken over by the Salvation Army. After Lennon was killed, an area in Central Park across from where John was murdered was named Strawberry Fields.

[@joaquinds2948]

He was great

[@tpatrick44]

Imagine NO Royalties, I wonder if you can. I can’t imagine No Heaven though…I love him. He influenced my own Songwriting for sure. I still tear up when I hear Nowhere Man, In My Life, and Help. I hope he finds Peace ✌️

[@TadKingsbury]

Yes ....imagine no royalties....I wonder if you can , John .... too funny !!!

[@mattskustomkreations]

Thanks for posting this - Something new. I was wondering why they were rushing the songs before I realized I had speed at 1.25. 🤪

[@stevestroh2267]

This is definitely a reminder to us all that John was likely the most important Beatle. They all complimented each other, they all fed off each other, but John started the band and let Paul join. Paul was further along music wise when they met, but together they learned and eventually wrote songs. The music evolved, and I think that can be attributed to John's personality of always moving onto the next thing. To be fair, Paul was like that as well, not sure if it came natural, or if it was because of John. Once they did She Loves You and those early songs, they didn't repeat themselves for the most part. They just kept moving forward to more serious lyrics and more complicated arrangements. Do I think the Beatles would have been as great without Paul, George and Ringo, No, but John was the spirit. Don't think I've heard or seen the video of him singing Imagine included here. It's lovely.

[@scottishlady1474]

John would have been nothing without Paul. He didn't have the energy and ambition. Paul was destined to be a famous musician. The two met and made history.

[@stevestroh2267]

@ yea, it’s like a chicken and egg thing. I think they motivated each other. John was more lazy, in general, but extremely capable once he got going. A Hard Days Night is a good example of that, he wrote most of the album. Then Paul would come up with something like And I Love her and that would spur John on to something and so on and so on. Not sure which came first, but you have Yesterday and In My Life at roughly the same time. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. It just kept going until John got bored, met Yoko and moved on to her more. Then Paul became more of the driving force. We all benefited from it.

[@makokanno5075]

Thak you for the nice video. from Osaka Japan.

[@月下美人03R]

ジョンレノンこそ ビートルズの核であり、その熱量の凄さは彼等の作品の全てにジョンの魂が宿っているのを見れば 解る。

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

Brian Epstein said once that if there had been no Beatles that the world still would have known John Lennon one way or another

[@TRICK-OR-TREAT236]

WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN ................ 🎼 🎶 🎼 🎹 🎼 🎵 🎼

[@joeoconnor5400]

Chris Welch is exaggerating the chart performance of Love Me Do. Brian Epstein bought 10,000 copies of the single to get it to No 17 by the end of 1962. Love Me Do struggled in the UK chart due to the lack of promotion by Ardmore & Beechwood, who were the original music publishers for Love Me Do. That was why, for better or worse, Epstein got Dick James on board to promote the next single Please Please Me and to set up Northern Songs.

[@andrewashdown3541]

This brilliant video has (for me and maybe all of us) rebalanced the picture, reminding us that Lennon was in fact the driving force of the group, dominating the early albums (10 songs on AHDS) then, with growing dissatisfaction, moving them away from anodyne (or even asinine) pop toward subtlety, depth & introspection and then, through complete detachment into surrealism, and so to outright rebellion, before letting go (of the group, of being a pop star &c) completely. After they broke up (he broke them up) he found a completely different voice but he now had reached his goal, artistically, and soon fell into accidie and depression, only making a brief enfeebled comeback after the lost weekend then finally, it seems, growing up and becoming almost conventional and ‘normal’. A journey which none of the others seems to have been on and certainly did not express in their music.

[@danathompson4210]

There’s no doubt that The Beatles “rescued” us from the mourning of the death of President Kennedy. When they arrived in America, the sun came out!

[@carmenmusiclover.0532]

Lennon was special but my favourite Beatle will always be Paul ,more melodic and so many more kinds of performing rock ,ballads,...

[@frankroth8349]

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man

[@TadKingsbury]

Their harmonies are unsurpassed .....in a class soley to themselves......Ed Sullivan in stark contrast was so funny .....truly a very special time I doubt will be duplicated .

[@frankroth8349]

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too

[@johnrogers9481]

Just look at the deep division in people!! People say, “I am a this, I am a that religion”, when IT IS NOT TRUE!! We are ALL humans!! We have enough worldly differences already to deal with! All the bs, all the gods humans have made up and the people who make-belief of it!!

[@zachhiggins1668]

What's so funny about John's quote is that while yes Christianity's influence had been waning for centuries at that point, there could very well be something said for the idea that the generation that made up the Beatles fans were indeed the first generation to truly have considered Christianity totally superfluous. Because even in the 50s Christian influence could still dictate how far Elvis for example could go with his subversiveness. The Beatles went on to prove there essentially were no limits. John and Co were essentially the new Jesus. His quote was tame and humble.

[@JayAr709]

What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?

[@antoniosantorini9355]

Completely false

[@Toobzilla]

well, we certainly live in different times. his quote may very well have been shocking to those not paying attention, but one has to understand that he never claimed HE thought the Beatles were more this or that. he merely was in support of the church and state in trying to raise awareness of its decline, at that time anyway. The man was extremely astute. he gave sensational imterviews & most likely a reporters dream job. he was always interesting, spoke very coherently & never once stumbled over his words.. the beatles being more popular & having more influence over the youth of then than jesus/christianity?. sorry folks but he was & is 1000% correct..

[@dynjarren8355]

@@ToobzillaI agree but he paid a high price for his outspokenness. Saying controversial things in public. He thought he was going to get shot for that In America. Which is exactly what happened later sadly enough. He paid a bitter price for his Fame. A brutal ending he didn’t deserve but that was his horrid fate! RIP

[@Toobzilla]

@@dynjarren8355 he tried to raise awareness so as not to upset the guy in the sky. nobody wanted tp listen. if they had maybe Mr lennon gets a divine intervention?

[@johndrowe5281]

“Was he a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’? A poor little schoolboy says he don’t need no lessons.” Elvis Costello in “The Other Side of Summer”.

[@ponzo1967]

Also sang Money ( that's what I want.)

[@johnrogers9481]

One can certainly scratch out a living for years in a band living-in and playing hard in dives around Europe, then have money and stuff and know the wisdom of “no possessions”!! Eh.

[@Mike-hh3cx]

And when he preformed it live he said " I wonder if WE can"

[@stevebouras641]

Ringo was the first to try LSD then Lennon Harrison got dosed by John Paul last to experiment but the White album was the result of their voyages in the mind body n soul ❤

[@scottmoenster]

You have no idea what you’re talking about you must be 15 2:43

[@parabenstv]

Without John Lennon, the Beatles would have been just another Boy Band.

[@RobertoPoncebk]

...and then along came Yoko 🎉

[@justiceforall6412]

While I enjoy these for entertainment purposes I'm ALWAYS amused at how many people who never even knew the artists talk like they had a real 'inside' look into the person they're speaking of. I remember years ago a similar program on the radio and one of the people speaking as an 'expert' was a Middle Eastern historian who during the course of his talk even admitted he never met John.

[@lildesderman8341]

the backlash following "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" is the overreaction of overreactions, Christians are fricking creepy sometimes

[@michaelbonanno7476]

This is more about how some people interpret what the Beatles went through…not so much about hearing John perform. I think the title needs to be changed. Otherwise there are a lot of good moments showing how ridiculous the audience and critics could be during that time - especially the reactions by religious people toward the creativity that happens when your mind is free from dogma and tradition.

[@MrAschiff]

I'm 14 minutes in and I still can't understand Tony Bramwell

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

glad to know someone else had that issue

[@stevestroh2267]

He is a bit all over the place in all of his interviews over the years. In one interview he can sound like he regards John as the greatest guy ever, then in a different interview he basically calls him a bastard. Maybe that's the way John was, but I generally take everything Bramwell says with a grain of salt, when I can understand him. RIP.

[@scottishlady1474]

@@stevestroh2267 John was great and was also a bastard.

[@MrAschiff]

I can't understand anything Tony Bramwell

[@antoniosantorini9355]

These are the few songs that made them famous, if their first songs were I'm a walrus, let it be or something , they would have been booed off the stage

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

If their first song in 1962 was I am the Walrus they would have been arrested by the government on the spot on subversion charges relating to attempting to create mass anarchy by undermining western values and norms... or something along those lines... and then they would have been given life sentences in a psych hospital in northern Scotland or one built for them on the Channel Islands.

[@antoniosantorini9355]

If you're going to have somebody narrating the film at least make the film lower than the guy speaking

[@jeffhorn1992]

I have a war documentary that can't watch because the music is louder than the narrator, made me mad

[@mikaelwester]

The part of Let It Be is a bit to dark.

[@tpatrick44]

The Song by Paul or the Documentary?

[@johnrogers9481]

Do you mean “too dark”?

[@mikaelwester]

I appreciate the none click bate tittle. But if you change it for more views…

[@patrickbooten9149]

The Beatles didnt make a album , George Martin and team did

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

idk about that.... Lennon once said " How many number ones does George Martin have?"

[@johnrogers9481]

@patrickboot. Yeah, everyone only knows about and credits the performing players in a successful band! I was a five years playing drummer at age twenty and I had no idea what a “producer” was!! For all these decades there are all these thousands of instrument players and bands. But when they finally get together and play music and want to make money at it, do they meet the many mostly men, music record makers, and who are there ready and waiting to bring them into the music business!!

[@scottishlady1474]

Without their music, GM and the Team would be out of a job.

[@jolexmusic6988]

😭😭🥱

[@philipmaguire7638]

Ye should've 'eaed us in 'ambergris..

[@patrickbooten9149]

Nothing is real......... Imagine

[@DannyHood-j]

Tony Bramwell is NOT good speaker! No interviews. Stick to writing books

[@notrash22]

This not worth watching

[@transformationgeneration]

The power of a malicious media to ruin a band, a man or even the peace of a country is evil. Thank God for Donald Trump, even if you are not a fan, if anything, he brought this fact out like no one before. I said it 6 years ago and I'll say it again, if John Lennon would be alive today, he'd buck the system and state his amusement of Trump's statements and possibly even be a fan.

[@mikaelwester]

This I probably the most bizarre view I ever read about Lennon. Eaten any mushrooms lately? 😊

[@ELMonstero2]

You’re high.

[@alanlafromboise3793]

I agree

[@AngelZaragosa]

John Lennon, from 1972, would like to have a word with you. Lennon backed Yoko's opening statement. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqS2mZRvj9VrkM0si=ukf9GNUV5O6dziNd

[@ThomasPicone]

Never Happen.." Time wounds All Heals" Lennon/ ON Republicans, Who tried to Deport him