John Lennon in Spain 1966: Rare Behind the Scenes Moments

[@barbj9785]

Never saw him so happy and relaxed.

[@carlbaumeister3439]

Those are some of the best pics I’ve ever seen of Lennon. He looks healthy and content. Also a bit surprised to see he was probably composing Strawberry Fields on a classical guitar.

[@oct9AFD]

(with a classical guitar) Yes he did! Just listen the Anthology Vol. 2; starts with the demo recorded in Almería. Como español, tengo el orgullo de saber que una de las mejores composiciones de John la hizo aquí. LENNON SAVES!

[@jamiehovis7722]

He was getting stoned every day at this post. Pot, speed, lsd, alcohol.

[@carlbaumeister3439]

@@jamiehovis7722 How do you know?

[@jamiehovis7722]

@@carlbaumeister3439 in his own words, rolling stone interview 69” or 70” I believe

[@carlbaumeister3439]

@@jamiehovis7722 I’ll have to read it. It’s that famous one with Jann Wenner?

[@aerialtour]

Never saw so many great photos of Lennon during the filming of HIWTW. It’s amazing just when you think you have seen it all of Beatles /solo pics more media or private photos keep showing up. Nobody ever got tired of photographing them. Thanks for this collection!!

[@andylucas1175]

There are some superb images of the young John Lennon shown in this video.

[@richalderson6069]

These are amazing pics, John looks very relaxed and happy.

[@westfield90]

He truly was a genius in our time.

[@ovalhunter488]

Agreed, but I wonder what he could have created if not for his "avant-garde" period.

[@bombaybeach208]

He was very handsome here, with the new circle specs, still clean shaven. He hadnt yet transformed into the almost unrecognizable warlock with Yoko beside him. These may be among his best looking photos ever taken-a moment in time before it all changed.

[@jamiehovis7722]

He was clean shaven during let it be

[@carlbaumeister3439]

@@jamiehovis7722 True, but his hair looked terrible, greasy, and he often looked like he hadn’t showered in days.

[@bettyleeist]

I’ve never seen how I won the war,film.I wonder what it’s like?I couldn’t imagine?And,I like the Strawberry 🍓 fields Forever song!🎵 One could get a Strawberry 🍓 pie 🥧 to go with it?As far as John ‘getting together’with Yoko Ono…..why are we going to worry about this,now?I wouldn’t remember this!Because,I was a little kid in Kindergarten back then!And,the late 1960”s didn’t give me “bad vibes’,here!I’ve survived the late ⏰ 1960”s!But,I had fun,too!My sister and I will get to see that film 🎥 that they did of the recording session.😊

[@murrtownchillen]

man stfu about yoko. u fools always have to throw that in

[@bobtaylor170]

​@@bettyleeistpass up "How I Won the War." It's unbearable, except for Lennon's scenes. I don't think he's in the movie for more than twelve minutes, at most.

[@steveconn]

Wow, neat lost pics. He looks alot like Julian here.

[@StephenBiesiada]

This video is fantastic, the movie was good, John did great, and Strawberry Fields a Masterpiece Forever , Thank You, Steve, John my favorite forever ! !

[@frankfarago2825]

"The movie was good?" If you don't mind me asking -- are you the film's director? Producer? Screenwriter?

[@nathanmiller2982]

John was a good actor, great pictures.

[@ヘンリー少尉]

John is cool this time of year too!

[@Gruntilda-Winkybunion]

young John Lennon was so cool

[@roywatson8133]

till he met that yoko ono then he became uncool

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

@@roywatson8133he was cool until the end.

[@roywatson8133]

@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv yeh and still on drugs

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

@@roywatson8133 sure

[@Charles-ÉtienneMonat]

Comme il est bon et émouvant de voir ainsi réunies toutes ces photos rares de John au moment de ce tournage. Un merci immense à vous! 🙏

[@leninpartida2470]

This looks like a whole new different person, a different Lennon. Like an alternate universe Lennon

[@andrewg9457]

It’s eerie

[@Kaatohh]

they used a body double for much of this film

[@SilentAttackTV]

When played slowly like this, I can almost hear a Spanish classical guitar influence on Strawberry Fields Forever. I feel like you hear that dark mysterious sound a lot in Spanish guitar music.

[@MichaelWarchol]

It’s a pity that John didn’t pursue more of this type of work. Some of the best seems in A Hard Days Night are those with John. And it’s nice to see him looking so relaxed on set, after the controversy and madness that accompanied the Beatles on their 1966 tour. For this brief period, John literally looks like a young man again.

[@Wheresthelove7]

God. John was quite handsome without the beard and long hair

[@francescanegri4148]

Dio lascialo in pace. Non nominarlo invano!

[@chromebaby]

Great find on these images. Thanks for publishing. In the photo sequence starting at 3:50, John looks like his early seventies version!

[@jorgschneider2780]

Tolle Fotos von einer Legende

[@小林章子-v1v]

これらの写真は始めて見るものばかりです。 ジョンは髪の毛を切ってせいせいした顔をしていますね☺️ 横顔がジュリアンやショーンに似ている写真がありますね🤗

[@RogerPeet]

John's glasses were copied around the World. Where I grew up, guys were wearing them with clear glass (non-prescription) or NO lenses at all. This was in the late 1960s. John4Ever

[@Neil-Aspinall]

If you haven't seen How I won the War you should if only for John's superb role. He could have become a fine actor if he wanted.

[@Wheresthelove7]

Are you the real Neil Aspinwall?

[@Wheresthelove7]

I agree about Johns acting. He was a natural in Hard Days Night and Help.

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

​@@Wheresthelove7 he died

[@Neil-Aspinall]

@@Wheresthelove7 My name is Aspinall not Aspinwall?

[@Wheresthelove7]

@@Neil-Aspinall Yes it was a typo

[@manushlind9974]

What an anazinga ans nostálgico pinturas of Jhib, th9se phot9s are as jewelry of the cinema.

[@billmay7364]

Great pictures. Actually if you look at photo of John Recieving his Green Card In the U.S.A. in 1976 he looks like he did in How I won the War in 1966. John had many different looks throughout his Life. John looked Content and very Healthy durning this period. I love the Shots with his Acoustic in Bedroom. A Masterpiece in the Making. Strawberry Fields Forever whoring his iconic Round Frames. ❤ How Cool.

[@gooseygander6986]

T'wood b a perfect serial killer...which is how the American South viewed him after his Jesus comment

[@andrewashdown3541]

The karmic chameleon

[@dwayneard5997]

Great story... Super cool Pics 👍❤️

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

Great pictures and narration .Though no need to mention his killers name.

[@dirtylemon3379]

Agree. It’s like giving him a little more attention and publicity like he wants.

[@aliciaclark234]

I agree.

[@bettyleeist]

No,we won’t mention the killer’s name!This wouldn’t be nice,anyway!Here’s what I say….let’s remember him for;peace,his songs,his mansion in England.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yeah,I would’ve loved to have a mansion!(if I had the money,of course!].And,I read the best book 📕 ever about the Beatles called;Shout!The Beatles in their Generation by;Phillip Norman.I’m sure,there’s half a dozen book’s about the Beatles in bookstores and Libraries.😊😊😊

[@shkokyone6748]

Don’t know why it got forgotten ? Not to mention the name of the "IDIOT " that took Lennons life !! Fame the idiot wanted but we should not grant him !!!!!! It should be clear to all the self proclaimed "Influencers" not to seek Fame and Klicks by mentioning the Ass Holes Name !!!

[@imemine6494]

.. You lot need to catch David whelan??.. this guy has come up with some remarkable information on the murder of John

[@ferkara8223]

Great vídeo and photos. The movie is so bad but he wrote one of his best songs. I’m Spanish and time ago I visit in Almeria the place where it was recorded. Nice time.

[@jv-ep2tc]

yes great pics. has lost some of his Beatle weight and was not the emaciated man he would be at 40. He looks great. The photo at 3:08 is particularly handsome.

[@gostrum1]

Thanks 👏

[@jixuscrixus1967]

And Roy Kinnear was one of his fellow actors, sadly passed (in Spain) after falling from a horse.

[@markopetersallinen4783]

Only 14 years to go! It was too short

[@wilderbeast96]

Nice presentation. I like your pacing.

[@Jjbcool1234]

John looked his best in this film

[@seanmcnulty4272]

Great content, the old pics in their coloured format , nice . Its also uncanny how Julian and Sean look so much like their dad .

[@gettinhungrig8806]

I thought the first photo was Sean!

[@gooseygander6986]

I best recognized John in these pictures taken when shooting "How I Won the War" or when he is cradling a guitar, propping up a ciggy or looking the goon!

[@kamera-snyato]

Счастливый как дитя Леннон - вот что дало Джону немного свободы от продолжительной непрекращающейся кабалы гастролей и записей! Мне он очень нравится таким. Благодаря этому родилась его великая, и пожалуй, самая главная песня.

[@RJS1974]

Love him with the shorter hair.

[@henryfitch8710]

The iconic spectacles were NHS standard issue and here in the UK are colloquially known as Lennon specs.

[@sherriziegel]

Nice. There's something authentic about Lennon that suggests that he never really sold his soul to the 'devil'.

[@marguskiis7711]

Strange. He looks totally different, not like some months later. Late 1966 there was totally the other man around.

[@Kaatohh]

Surely you cannot be serious in 2024? It is no secret that The Beatles have doubles

[@jeune5898]

smiling finally

[@ysgol3]

He'd gone back to looking just like he does here after his haircut on the morning of his last day. (Just to clarify, he never wore round glasses before having to wear them for the film, and he liked them so much he wore such glasses for the rest of his life.)

[@DoomTownGrafx]

That's Private Gripweed of the 4th Musketeer Regiment. He died in the war.

[@goodluck2613]

Love the video, what version of strawberry fields did you use for this vid? Sounds so good.

[@aliciaclark234]

Actually, you can hear him playing the opening bars of Strawberry Fields on a melodica in the Maysles' documentary, "The Beatles First US Visit."

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

Oh he plays that in 1964. But he didn't have the song. Just the little melodica riff, which later became the intro to SF.

[@aliciaclark234]

@@Dekoherence-ii8pw I said the opening bars. You said the intro. I think we agree.

[@JollyGraham]

I’m glad that you mentioned that John was disappointed not to get a cheese sandwich. That must be the silliest story ever reported.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

John wS considering being in War Games film in 81..

[@joaquinds2948]

Dos semanas más en Almería y no hubiera conocido a Yoko,Paul y Mall no llegaron a tiempo de Madrid

[@dirtylemon3379]

0:45. Adidas in 1966 was way ahead of it’s time.

[@nxs0152]

This video is completely wrong timeline wise. The interview was given in MARCH of 1966. He was filming in Spain for how I won the war, 6 months later in September 1966.

[@mr.g1758]

It was on the set that he learned of the fate of his best friend.

[@user-sr6li6kq2b]

I don’t like the film because he gets shot dead in the ending! Very disturbing and upsetting! This was a strange foretelling of what was to come. 😮

[@garyjones8556]

And shot 4 times and same in new york

[@johnorgan3]

O NO. Now off to the Indica Art Gallery. Nothing to get hung about

[@MrEnoBeano]

I would like to think they still are.

[@janebraun4482]

NO Beatle haircut, he looks so regular, so young too.

[@SigiVillalobos]

I think I know that actor, isn't he Harold Lloyd?

[@johnp515]

Boom tish

[@SigiVillalobos]

Or you've expected me to say Harry Potter instead!! Ba-dum tishhh.

[@Rich-ng3yy]

He didn't make the comment as a statement he was having a discussion about the decline of numbers going to church with a journalist who was also a friend. It only caused controversy in the states where the comment was taken out of context and made to look like something it was not.

[@donrobbins4970]

That was the beginning of fake news.

[@Respiracionista24horas]

He looks like Buster Keaton

[@Respiracionista24horas]

Yes, here in Spain while recording this film he composed Strawberry fields forever. Now Almería is invaded by africans, l guess that it' s similar to England.

[@marileelockwood5408]

I love the pictures of John. The narrator or narration is ridiculous though. I think it would be better to only have a song playing…just a thought…

[@james---b]

At 0:43, you are right when you say paul went to africa, but he didn't go with his girlfriend jane asher. he went with his friend mal evans.

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

Mal the anvil player? ;-)

[@james---b]

@@Dekoherence-ii8pw yup that’s right. Mal Evans.

[@estabanb55]

I like his hair style, he didn't look like a Beatle

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

This is when beatles john transitioned into psychadelic John

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

Well, he'd already gone psychedelic on Revolver.

[@trusso11783]

Great pics. I seriously doubt John had any hesitation about the scene where he is shot in fear of a prophecy. That sounds like a lot of revisionist history. Otherwise, nice jobs.

[@kiethblack3870]

Britain made some excellent movies during the 1950s & 60s. I saw it long ago, but it starts in colour with funny / dark humour not like the 'Carry On' films but still interesting. The card collectors scene "I want school bombing! does anyone have school bombing?" Later it turns into B&W & deadly serious. Like two different films. That's only my opinion. If John had not been in it, we wouldn't even be talking about it now.

[@josega6338]

The Pogues 'Fiesta'

[@tonymarshall4164]

It was during filming that his life was shattered with the passing of Paul McCartney

[@DanielHernandez-tn2ie]

😂😂😂😂

[@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753]

when he stopped looking like himself

[@roywatson8133]

few months later back in england he met that yoko ono then he didnot behave or look like himself ever again even lost is good looks

[@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753]

@@roywatson8133 exactly, and he used to have a beautiful throaty warmy deep wide heartful voice, then all of a sudden sounds like a mindful frozen constipated lazy cat

[@theyrekrnations8990]

Funny how cutting the hair can change the nose and voice and weight

[@roywatson8133]

@@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753heroin

[@api9714]

Did he write any songs while in Spain?

[@williamknell864]

The movie was called "How I Won the War," not How I Want the War.

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

I'm pretty sure he said that.

[@jeffkaufman9875]

About that withheld cheese sandwich…

[@lawsonj39]

The novel How I Won the War by Patrick Ryan was better than the film.

[@itkapatanka]

I hope that every KZbin posting will use the word iconic at least seven time.

[@frankfarago2825]

Sadly, the Richard Lester directed movie turned out to be so very bad, it is almost unwatchable to this day. What has happened, I wonder?

[@Slinger43]

It's almost eerie, how much Julian looks like his Father! Most male offspring tend to favor their Father's general physical appearance, but Julian is like a carbon copy of John, not only his appearance, but his singing voice is nearly identical as well, it's kinda spooky really 👻 Really enjoyed your video, very education 👍

[@PhatLvis]

A musical composition cannot be "iconic," nor can any sound at all, for that matter. Only Imagery is iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose Image is famous, usu. with the implication that it has become emblematic. (The word Icon, in orginal Greek, MEANS Image.) In addition to being the most overused word on KZbin (the A.I. narrator here uses it Twice in the span of 17 seconds), Iconic is also, by far, the most MISused - misusers seeming to believe it means simply "widely known," "instantly recognizable," "memorable," etc., without specific and sole reference to imagery. Increasingly, too, it is being employed, mistakenly, as a simple synonym of "very famous." This case of misuse has spiraled due to the KZbin Feedback Loop - wherein video-makers parrot and propagate each other's speech errors. A troubling consequence of such wide misuse is that dictionaries - as a matter of long-held policy (now in need of revision in this age of the viral Internet, for obvious reasons) - will update definitions to reflect vernacular usage, setting up a slippery slope towards our language's ultimate debasement.

[@PaulGreen11]

14yrs and everytime you mention "the jerk's" name along with John's, it's exactly what he wants.

[@gianca60]

Daniel Radcliffe?

[@LucyLennon909]

1966 - the year LSD was no longer legal

[@stevemineer2857]

Why would you want to take some government concocted poison to control your mind?

[@kylofoster5560]

You are misleading people with this video. John has a very insignificant role; you rarely see him in this movie.

[@monoyamono]

Not at all. He specifically says in the movie that John accepted the role despite its size (which one can easily infer means it was small despite his fame). Either way, it doesn't matter. It's a video about John during the filming of this movie. No bad intentions.

[@leechapman-ri9rb]

Lennon made himself busy with this film while the New Paul McCartney (William Campbell/Shears) was being prepared for the role. John, George & Ringo never got on with the replacement Paul after 1967.

[@markv.5962]

private gripweed, not corporal

[@hifijohn]

Sorry but its a terrible movie and Lennon is barely even in it,its a shame because the very few scenes he is in , he's very good.

[@petesharpe4120]

PRIVATE Gripweed! If you're going to tell the story... PLEASE make it a correct version!

[@chadpittman3025]

At 3:23 look ,that is not a real image of John Lennon.

[@pacz8114]

I must say, that was one of the strangest narrations -- on both content and delivery -- I've yet heard on KZbin. [Offered advice: 1) Select a script writer who both understands content and exhibits the technical ability to competently write; 2) select an experienced voiceover artist (i.e. a narrator) rather than an amateur.]

[@johndoe2883]

Actually the interview was in 1964

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

No it wasn't. It was march 1966. It took a few months after it was printed before the controversy got going. But the interview itself was in march 1966.

[@blackisblack22]

It was a Lennon's double, an almost bald one.

[@darrenjray]

Unnecessary to mention the assassin's name.

[@VIISeb]

🌬️🫀🌀🪜🕳️🪜🍷

[@goodbababadbaba6370]

Nice pics just one small thing he was not shot by mark Chapman he was shot from the front by a CIA marksman other than that very average film

[@GoatHoovesInSpats]

What's the source of the information that a CIA marksman shot Lennon?

[@tonydalton459]

@@GoatHoovesInSpatsPulled from his ass 😂

[@CatETru]

Can anybody explain why John looks so much like his son Sean? Yep, upside down thinking I know. John's wasn't Japanese like his son is, but looks just the same. Anybody?

[@davidbeja]

Great video, great photos, BUT WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MENTION HIS KILLER´S STUPID NAME?????

[@Kaatohh]

much of this is a body double

[@annakermode6646]

Shocking misinformation from every side. At least TRY to get information right!

[@chadpittman3025]

This is ai? I thought I had seen everything Lennon

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Wow have a priest face.😂

[@69realstar2]

Well looks could be deceiving.. u can loikhappy but a mess inside

[@brannon5311]

Some amazing photos. Terrible and inaccurate narration.

[@vincentm4717]

Im sorry but I only listened to the first 5 seconds and already there was just the most careless misinformation from what sounds like an AI voice over. Lennon DID not make that statement a month before he made that film. He made it closer to perhaps March or April of that year before they did their final tour. This is clearly nonsense clickbait.. Do some serious researching and get your facts straight before you post! This is simply careless!