The Story of WAR IS OVER! by John Lennon & Yoko Ono - XMAS SPECIAL - If Guitars Could Speak... #31

[@carolferguson19]

I was there for all of this. My generation. The best ever, the babyboomers❗ Nobody did better than the Beatles. 🤙

[@bradreinhart3183]

Me too! But let’s be happy we still keep it alive!!

[@carolferguson19]

@@bradreinhart3183 Yes, I notice there is a generation now that wishes they grew up when we did. It's so cool❗ 50 years later. GO ROCK AND ROLL FOREVER 🤙

[@cazamilfs8945]

Well ain't from your generation but Guess you're right we all wish to have been able to live this wonderful era and more from this awful tasteless and bitter music that everyone now seems to make

[@carolferguson19]

@@cazamilfs8945 Thanks.

[@k.b.elliott7137]

Beatles and the Stones. My favorite Lennon and Keith Keef Richards

[@bryanmeekins835]

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure, love is a flower, you gotta let it, gotta let it grow." ☺

[@continentalgin]

Beautiful message, thank you Guitar Historian!

[@bradreinhart3183]

PLEASE keep up this invaluable flow of info. As “one of those people” at the time, your stories are mind-blowing!!! I love them all!!!

[@Blues-man.]

Your channel is great i am 70 years young, and all of this brings back so many great memories! Thanks so much.

[@carolferguson19]

Me too 73 and still mentally feel like I'm back in the day. My favorite concert is Jimi Hendrix. Baby-boomer generation. 🆒☮️💗

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci et bonnes fêtes.

[@stevegrivas1460]

Impressive, and for this category, rare.

[@lohmei3913]

Wow thanks

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Great segment. I was born in November 1969. Between Woodstock & Altamonte … Missed the party. Merry Christmas

[@bradreinhart3183]

I was 16 then and it changed not only my life, but I could feel the world shifting and we shook it to its roots. You got the feeling and that’s what really counts!!!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

@@bradreinhart3183 My parents were 17 & 18 … so I was raised on the music and educated on the culture. Dad was a good musician too, so I’ve been around the music literally since I came-home from the hospital. ☮️

[@carolferguson19]

🆒🤙

[@carolferguson19]

@@hailmaryrecordings8255 Totally 🆒☮️💗🤙

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Nice video, I enjoyed it.

[@urbeke]

Great video. I found your Chanel yesterday and I love it. Thanks and Merry Christmas from Sweden.🇸🇪❤️🍀🇸🇪❤️🍀🇸🇪❤️🍀🇸🇪❤️

[@paulmcadams2012]

Well done!

[@casiopeaman]

I'm glad I came across this channel. Really well presented and researched, keep up the great content!

[@janecarbone1504]

You know I have grown up with so much different music somebody said to me the other day that Christmas isn't Christmas until you hear Bing Crosby's White Christmas and then I said well Christmas isn't Christmas until you hear Elvis Presley's Blue Christmas and then I thought about John Lennon whose music I grew up with and I said Christmas isn't Christmas until you hear John legend's War is Over, or as most people know it, And So This is Christmas. This is definitely the best Christmas song. 12/8/80 may have been 41 years ago but that date had stayed indelibly etched in my mind. I don't even mention you know whose name who shot him and blamed it on The catcher in the Rye this guy just wanted to become famous and he ruined so many people's lives.Then I thought about how we were all crying, wearing black arm bands going to visit Strawberry Fields. Then when John and Yoko came out with Imagine all I could think is how could such a pacifist be gunned down right in front of his home. Then I thought about Freddie Mercury auditioning for the Imagine song and I remembered he did a Christmas song but I couldn't remember what it was so I googled and found it and I said WOW these four songs are definitely going down as the best Christmas songs ever written. Thanks guitar man this was a great video. I really love music

[@BigSky1]

‘Make love, not war. You’ve heard it before’.

[@luishalo360]

Awesome audio quality !

[@TheGuitarHistorian]

Told you! 😂

[@silvermanewj4366]

According to the bible true peace on earth is not possible as a final end to war.. but it IS possible in Jesus between us.

[@cedcornell1896]

Imagine there's no Yoko .... It's easy if you try ....

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

The story starts at 4:00 You're welcome.

[@flamencoprof]

As a Naturalist, I wonder what all the fuss is about.

[@Notalloldpeople]

Forgotten for decades…Really? Always popular here in uk

[@TheGuitarHistorian]

It kind of dropped off here for a while whereas Beatle and Lennon fans knew of it as it showed up on his greatest hits compilation, but being in the rotation of “Christmas Classics,” it did take a few years off here and there for some reason. I think it’s entrenched now though.

[@coggsy3036]

Why didn’t you mention John stole the tune from the hollies song stewball,where’s the plagiarism police on this🤔

[@DetroitStars]

Actually, Stewball goes back to the late 1700s and is in the public domain. Besides the Hollies, many other artists recorded versions of the song. Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and The Weavers are just a few.

[@coggsy3036]

@@DetroitStars I know all that too A very good version is by the Nashvillers 👍

[@SamFugarino]

John Lennon should have kept his mouth shut. Sorry, love his music, not his politics. Nothing wise about his wise ass mouth.

[@jasoncdebussy]

Totally agree. I think he was actually a little obnoxious.

[@TheGuitarHistorian]

In my opinion, anyone preaching peace, love and friendship is OK in my book. What’s the alternative? Hate and intolerance? Way too much energy expended for that 👎🏻

[@jasoncdebussy]

@@TheGuitarHistorian I would imagine that the overwhelming majority of the population would want peace - in all my long years on this planet I have never met anyone who promoted wars. Advocating peace doesn't prevent you from being stupid, obnoxious, argumentative, selfish, unfriendly or any number of other human traits. I'm suggesting that Lennon was all of those, by the way 😁

[@TheGuitarHistorian]

@@jasoncdebussy he was a complicated man. He beat people up, he cheated on both of his wives and he changed his story around depending on who the listener was. Not a perfect man by any stretch. I agree with that. But I also think in the last years that he understood that and actively tried to change. With… mixed success LOL

[@jasoncdebussy]

@@TheGuitarHistorian I would say that was fair 👍 To be honest, I try as much as I can not to delve too deeply into the lives of my musical heroes because like the rest of us "mortals" they tend to have feet of clay and are imperfect. Musically I'm a huge fan of The Beatles, as a band and individually and I hate anything tarnishing my adulation of them ☹️