The Truth About John Lennon's Last Year Alive
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, and the assassination came just a few months after Lennon’s musical comeback, following five years away from the music business.
Lennon’s final album, Double Fantasy, remains one of his most beloved works from fans and critics alike, but what caused the former Beatle to get back into the studio and record music again?
Many believe the man was on the brink of a second wind, as he had recently stopped using drugs and was friendly with Paul McCartney again, so let’s take a look at the truth about John Lennon’s last year alive.
#JohnLennon #TheBeatles #Music
Breaking away from music | 0:00
A comeback cut short | 1:18
Sailing to Bermuda | 1:59
Inspired by The B-52s | 2:54
First time writing sober | 3:41
Recording in New York City | 4:12
The comeback | 4:45
Double Fantasy | 5:40
On good terms with Paul | 6:37
Final interview | 7:50
Lennon is murdered | 8:45
Double Fantasy's big win | 9:36
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RIP, John Lennon.
Exactly!
a self-proclaimed atheist the last poster picture of him made before he died he had a silver Bible and cross around his neck
Dennis Acklin He wasn’t atheist. He grew up a Christian but later admitted in his life that he think of God as an entity in the sky but rather a spiritual being instead. He also says “God bless our love” in “Grow Old With Me”.
Lennon was assassinated. Look into the police logistics report of the shooting. Eight to 10 bullets found at the crime scene from TWO distinctive trajectories. The pasty, Chapman, had a charter arm revolver, a five-shooter. If you truly give a sh!t about Lennon, you’ll look into the disturbing facts surrounding his assassination. It’s hardly a secret the FBI wanted him gone. Just another one of these “lone nut” conspiracy theories propagated by a fascist, criminal state.
@@init4fun The security guard outside was Jose Perdomo.
Jose was CIA trained assassin. Another gunman in the side doorway opposite.
Jose shouted 'get out of here' to second gunman.
I was 10 years old. That summer in 1980 I had immersed myself in The Beatles. In November Lennon releases Double Fantasy and I was so EXCITED and ecstatic that this musical genius was once again active musically…a month later Howard Cosell announces on Monday Night Football that John Lennon was shot. I was in the other room and heard it clearly. My heart sank and I cried. I’ll never get over that moment.
I was 9 I didn’t know who he was
In 1980 I was 16 and a guest student from Germany living in Colorado for a year. Felt exactly like you did. The joy of the release of Double Fantasy... and then those devastating news. Still hurts to this day.
Say me a third year ingenious school in the men loved him Mr Davis absolutely cried his heart all day it was early December it all the teachers in the whole school coming inside cuddling as if his mother died
Poor man had just gotten his life together, and then he was ripped away.
Some give their life for Success!!!
Life really can be cruel sometimes
Happens to a lot of the brilliant stars. Stevie Ray Vaughn, got himself clean and was back on top, left at 35...
That psychopath Mark Chapman, who is now serving life in prison, took him away.
OH PLEASE!
Remember him well, one of the best song writers ever. RIP John
One of?
He was a terrible human
@Bijan Mehrpour No Im not.
But I not a wife beater. I don't hit woman.
@Bijan Mehrpour Bullshit.
He was still a wife beater
@Bijan Mehrpour in an interview He admits to hitting women-"any woman"-and explains, "That is why I am always on about peace, you see.
He was also a lousy father.
Yeah I remember riding my bike I was 10 years old people were crying at the shopping center it was awful ,I remember that day well, even at 10 i was sad, cause in a way i group up with the Beatles through my mom and the radio
I can't imagine that feeling for a musician. "Imagine" playing in stores always relieves me. A beautiful person with faults like us all. He was just coming together. :(
I was 14 and my best friend, who was 15, told me crying he had died. We couldn´t believe it. I live in Uruguay, by the way. You can see his death was a shock for everybody in the world.
Double Fantasy dominated FM radio. Christmas 1980 was quite sombre.
" There are faces I remember all my life..." The meteoric success of the Beatles left Lennon dazed and confused by 1965. That's why he wrote Help. He kept searching for inner peace throughout the next fifteen years. Therapy, drugs and retiring from the media glare assisted his growing maturity. Sadly, he was lost to a generation.
There are PLACES not FACES.
He was lost because of YOKO
I’ve been a Beatles fan since I was 8 years old watching Ed Sullivan,and
they seemed to write songs that covered every feeling I’ve ever had. John”s death still hurts (the 41st anniversary just passed) but the music is still moving and beautiful! God bless you,John and George!
John Lennon’s 1973 Mind Games album is my favorite
Plastic Ono Band and Mind Games are my favorites 🔥🔥🤘🏾🤘🏾
It’s so underrated
Totally agree. From a time when music conveyed a message, unlike rap or hip hop.
Oh no rap and hip hop conveys a message just not a very clean or creative one
The Urban Spaceman true I do respect almost every rapper. Like Tupac,lil peep,X,Juice World, and Eminem ofc.
Most of the rappers today I don’t respect at all
The Beatles were, are and always will be the best. Changed so much of the 60s, and an inspiration to many people who became musicians, and successful ones at that, who may not of been at all. John had a wonderful voice, could play, and could write some of the greatest tracks ever....the rest of his life was a mixed bag like the majority of us . The music will live on for ever.
I remember the day and the exact circumstances of the first broadcast that Lennon had just been killed on Dec 8, 1980. I was 30. Such a tragedy, especially in the light of your excellent video.
@Jason Bouphasavanh 65. Tks.
I wish I could have seen him in concert 😭!!!
I remember reading his Rolling Stone interview and was happy that he seemed centered, happy and was making an artistic comeback.
Yes, he was flawed. But the tragedy of John Lennon is that he finally got it together and was gunned down soon after.
bloody typical.......
Yes he was a very talented musician, but how he could be so unfair in the treatment of his two sons is beyond me. For god sake he didn’t even mention Julian in his will!
Yoko convinced John to give her complete Power of Attorney over him, just as someone would have for an aged parent with dementia, which she obtained in the years right before he died, so she must have been the one who wrote his will.
@@charwest9449 Stop lying. That is not true.
@@ladylyrichere9373 Of course it is. Everyone knows that he gave Yoko complete Power of Attorney just about a year and a half maybe two, before he was murdered.
@@charwest9449 why would a relatively young man do that ?
@@petecernan2568 because he loved her and trusted her.
The video cite’s Oct 9th, 1980 - Lennon’s 40th. My date of birth. I am about to turn 40. looking at what he achieved in his time on this earth - wow. What more did he have to give? Double Fantasy his last album was, in my view, his finest work.
John's Beatles' life was "too planned out" to pay attention to Julian? And yet somehow Paul found the time to pay attention to him.
Agree.
As an enormous fan of the Beatles, I still say the aggrandizement of John Lennon is a bit stomach-turning. He was clever, but no genius. He was the world’s luckiest man to have inherited his father’s gruff-sounding voice and that he met and partnered with the consummate musician that is Paul McCartney.
That he wrote a song called Beautiful Boy and referenced Sean in it was a particularly low blow to Julian. What a shit. Ironically, he had no time for his father who treated him like he treated Julian.
“I’m just sittin’ here watching the world go round and round...”
> Are you John? That’s because of all the money you earned on Paul McCartney songs to which you made no contribution. Imagine the money Lennon made off ‘Yesterday’, as one example of many.
@@penfro I agree John had a lot of chances including in his Will to make Julian feel loved but John wrote much better songs than sappy Paul with the Beatles. And Paul wrote Hey Jude to rub John's nose in it so Paul is no saint. Paul wrote so many bad songs , embarrassing songs. I do not like Sean .. bad music whereas Julian had a few good songs. Too bad Double Fantasy was just a boring lousy album. I will never understand why people like Abby Road or the White Album. All the other records they did were better than those.
Oppothumbs
I really enjoy Abbey Road which I understand was recorded AFTER Let It Be and thus their last album. Double-Fantasy was a pile of self-obsessed victimhood -peddling drivel.
‘Watching the wheels go round and round’ is excruciating self-important tedium.
@@penfro Wow! I have thought the same for so long.
@@penfro John just wasn't around enough to understand Julian, its not his fault, John was busy making money for his wife and son back home and wasn't able to get any bonding time with Julian, the only reason john got to spend time with sean was because he was already wealthy and didn't need to work as much, John loved Julian for being his son
the outpouring of grief is not the THE reason the album sold so well and is still played , it was fantastic musically and lyrically , It had rare wisdom not often found in pop music . he was a man of true talent and unusual sincerity
Totally glosses over Ono’s total control over Lennon’s life...
She was a witch and spelled him.
She was horrible to her step-son Julian.
@@melissacooper4282 Liar
@@kathleensarachinsky1460 oh stop the stupidity
She was his mother
Damn I was able to go through my entire life without feeling too sad about John, not because I didn't care but because that was litteraly 17 years before I was born...And now I'm here, as a grown ass 24yo man, watching this and feeling so freaking depressed about all this
I hate that he was getting his life together and didn't want to make the same mistakes again and do better overall...Just for this to be ruined, forever. He was absent from his first son's life, wanted to be there for his second son, which ended up not even getting that chance. I can't believe someone who was around my age back then, decided to not only ruin his idol's entire life by taking it but also the lives of everyone around him and pretty much the undescribably huge community of fans he has (in a litteral sense in some cases since I read that some of them commited suicide). And in the process, still ruins the experience for future fans like me, who were born too late. He did it, he got his fame ! He's so famous he can't even be out of jail, 'cause there are people out there who hated, hate and will still hate him as long as there are Beatles fans on earth. He says 40 years later that he regrets, which at this point as sincere as it could be just sounds ridiculous. After planning such a horrible crime, I don't know what else he expected. He didn't kill a famous serial killer, he killed an musical icon.
As a kid I didn't realize all of this, I just knew John got killed, didn't wanna ask about it and didn't have an internet access so I just took it as a fact and that's it. I didn't think much about musicians past their songs back then. Now, 2 decades later I get hit by nostalgia and wanna dig through stuff about my childhood band, and well...the deeper I dig into the story the worse I feel.
Wow, man. I feel the same. exact. way. I remember seeing a picture of them (the famous abbey road photo) in a restaurant when I was 7 or 10 and my Dad gave me an elevator history lesson on them. Never thought about it since. But now I’m 31 and am just now getting hit with The Beatles. They’re music is really impacting me, but I am so sad at the same time. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. I feel your pain. I wonder what John would say to all the people that are mourning his loss…
better believe it
"ill prolly be picked off by some loon"-lennon
It’s said he sold his soul true or not it’s very interesting you should check it out
A lot of the legend is just that. Probably best not to take it too seriously. The whole "almost happy ending" theme is a bit of a sham imho. It was fed to us after the murder by media that slagged him off prior to it so didn't even ring true then. I wouldn't assume there was going to be a happy ending with this guy, while his wife's treatment of his first son in making him buy back his own letters to JL, post mortem, suggests she was a nastier piece of work than is commonly acknowledged these days. Putting his blood stained glasses on an album cover wasn't pretty either. It's a fascinating story but a dark one too. The media dressed it up as if it were a Disney movie rather than a bunch of real and, in some respects, quite unsavoury, people stumbling through chaotic lives as best they could, just like a lot of us do but with less publicity.
I consider John Lennon one of my idols
Your idol drops hard n bombs ~
Poor you.
I'm so sorry for you.
So Does Liam Gallagher x
damn bro you must have really low standards for an idol
Great video, nice pace and so well researched. Grateful and impressed!
4:30 Some songs that Yoko did John would put on the album "Double Fantasy?" That sounds generous of him, but actually he and Yoko worked on the album together. It was called *Double* Fantasy, remember? John valued her work & as fate would have it, the night of his murder, he and Yoko had been at the studio putting some finishing touches on her song "Walking on Thin Ice."
I have seen friends that I was close to,go down the rabbit hole and come out the other side with the dragon on there back. John Lennon was not my friend, nor was Ono. But I know what I saw and heard from them. Ultimately he was responsible for his actions, but when he needed someone to watch his 9 there was nobody. It's very obvious Yoko Ono kept him on dope and I my understanding he had enough. I can't understand why the true storys about her haven't come out. What a shame
John told the true story. He loved yoko and still loved her til the day he died. Racist pos are still ugly to Yoko when she did nothing except fall in love with a married man. If you think someone could control John, you know NOTHING about him.
@@ladylyrichere9373
What the hell fu YOU know??????
He was not a "working class hero" any more when he came back in 1980s. He's having fun and enjoying again doing what he loves. That is making music.
@Pablo L. All his money is a source of income which are taxable. When he was in the Beatles he felt pressured. Gotta work hard and create songs that sells just to make money and contribute to the system. You see what I'm getting at here? To be a part of the system that what Lennon sees as monotonous life. shackled to the system. Why don't you listen to the song first feel the the mood of the song.
Pablo L. He never had a working class job cuz he was making music at 17 already, getting the ball rolling early.
Interestingly, John was still in communication with May Pang shortly before his death, according to May.
alukuhito She never said they were intimate anymore, just that he called
@@alukuhito Haha you are damaged
@@marknoahsotelo316 Yeah and who cares .. Maybe Yoko didn't even mind by them.
@Yer Blues He did use to beat up and roll bums and almost kill them i think? But people change i only wish John had done more for Julian and it wouldn't have had to be much but maybe the past was a hurt to John. But leave him a little more in the Will. How much does Sean and Yoko need .. but i don't know what he left to charities.
Oppothumbs M I wasn’t accusing anyone of anything, just pointing out that that was true according to May and writers who saw his diary.
RIP John. The world remembers you as a very talented person.
Why did I even watch this?😭😭😭
I should have known it would just make me super depressed. 😔
I can perfectly understand his feelings about raising Sean. I just hope he gave this same energy to his first son, Julian. No matter the age of your child, they still want and need you. You can't undo mistakes and put the child behind you, to concentrate on your new life.
Cynthia was too bitter about Yoko to allow John a relationship with Julian
@@ladylyrichere9373 That's not true. After the divorce, it was agreed that John should visit his son whenever he wanted, and John did so once, in which he spent the day with Julian and even had a pleasant conversation with Cynthia, where the two had tea together. However, in the middle of the visit, the housekeeper at John and Yoko's house called to John to tell that Yoko was trying to kill herself because she thought John was spending too much time "near Cynthia". After that episode, John never visited his son again when he lived in England and when Cynthia called to talk about Julian, Yoko said to Cynthia that she should talk to her about that. Cynthia replied that "If John wants to know about his son, tell him to look me up because I won't deal with you." After that, Lennon spent 03 years without calling his son. Fred Seaman, John's private secretary for the past two years, said Yoko did constantly emotional blackmail to John, saying that if he loved her he would give her "proofs of love", like not seeing Julian so much, not spending money on him and saying in interviews that Julian was "an unplanned child" and so on.
@@brunomacedo7836
God I despise Oh Nooooo!
Please don't make a saint of John Lennon, because he wasn't.
He had mistakes as a human being, just like me, just like you.
He was a great artist and sadly was killed in 1980.
And that hurts, even now 40 years later it still hurts.
I am a big Beatlesfan, an obsessed one for more than 45 years, but for me he is no saint, no martyr. Just a brilliant musician, maybe even a genius.
I will always look at John Lennon as one of the four most popular musicians of all time (the other three being Paul, George, and Ringo, of course).
The narrator did not say that he is a saint though..
Really? Is this Paul? Does that need to be explained? Grow up. When John explained we are bigger than Jesus. Was sarcasm. The Beatles never seen such craziness by the so called Christian Puritans of faith in the US. It was rightly pointed out by John. Good day. Kill Joy.
@James Y Who is Barry Gibbs?
@@2011littleguy Barry Gibb (not Gibbs) was the sole surviving member of The Bee Gees. They sounded like the Beatles early on prior to Mr Natural. Listen to the final 30 seconds of "Lonely Days" and it almost sounds like John Lennon singing. In reality, it was Barry Gibb crying while he was singing the tail end of Lonely Days.
It’s strange how Lennon & McCartney, both genii were influenced by their wives, who they included in their music. I’m so glad that Paul & John, who loved each other reunited before John’s death. John said that the major influences in his life were Paul McCartney & Yoko Ono. Paul continued to visit Cynthia & Julian & on his way driving to them the song ‘Hey Jules’, came to him. He changed it to Hey Jude so, as he said it wouldn’t sound corney. Paul remains a great man.
And Linda never got the vitriol because she was white
@@ladylyrichere9373 Not a trained singer or musician.
they both sucked after the beatles
Lennon was not a songwriter: he was a miracle!
John's Best solo song:
Beautiful Boy (though i dislike Sean ha)
Instant Karma
Cold Turkey
Working Class Hero
Love
I Found Out
Mother (maybe.. i don't know)
I am a non-believer but i don't like Imagine or the way John sings it.
I guess i am not into John's solo stuff.
Best Beatles song IMO
Sorry fans but I don’t think much of most of the white album and abbey road.
All I Got To Do - John (seems odd but my favorite beatle song)
Happy just to dance with you John sung great by George
A day in the life john
(well i don't like Paul's contribution though i realize everyone else does)
I need you Harrison
If I needed Someone Harrison
That boy John
I’ll Follow the Sun Paul
Eleanor Rigby Paul
I'm only sleeping John (a favorite)
not a second time John
(love this)
she said he said John
I feel fine John
I am the walrus John
ticket to ride John
Yesterday - Paul
Penny lane Paul
She’s Leaving Home Paul
Eleanor Rigby Paul
no reply John
please please me John
and your bird can sing John
you've got to hide your love away John
in my life John
all my loving Paul
all you need is love John
two of us Paul
you're gonna lose that girl John
you can't do that John
hard days night John
bad to me John
anytime at all John
Daytripper John
glass onion John
He said she said John
You can see i like John much better.
Worst song by Beatles that i know - Helter Skelter. Did they want to sound amateurish or cool?
You got that right 🎼🎙🎙🎸
hes a self admitted child and women hitter too...
Fred Seaman's book is fascinating & believable. He was John's PA & buddy for John's last 18 months.
Adam Collins, what is in Fred Seaman's book is true but what really happened to John Lennon was far, far worse than anything Fred Seaman knew. His account is the tip of the iceberg .. John Lennon went through unbearable inner pain when with Yoko Ono, far more than Fred or others have any idea. Yoko Ono is literally a satanist on a most extreme level. She firstly destroyed The Beatles, and then John Lennon. She did all she did for the dark side. This was her purpose from the beginning.
Wasnt this the same Fred Seaman that stole personal items of Lennons after his murder including a watch that Lennon had bought as a Christmas present for Sean?
@@field_stream_woodland3378 It was. That is covered in the book.
@Yer Blues There is an overlay of fiction in most accounts of John Lennon's later years .. hopefully the truth will one day be well known.
@@johnwhite9825 The truth is known. Right from Lennon himself. He loved Yoko, was happy.
Wanna know what Yoko is really like away from the cameras? Read the book by Fred Seaman. Seaman was John's personal assistant for the final 12 months of John's life. Yoko deserves every bit of the vitriol that Beatle fans pour out on her. Elliot Mintz is also an excellent source of info as he was very close to the Lennon's from 1971-1980.
Fred Seaman is an excellent source of info as his parents also worked for the Lennons for years (that's how he got his job working for them), he was very close to John, and also had John's diary to give to Julian, so be certainly knew what was in it. (Which Ono was of course desperate to suppress, since it blew her carefully crafted versions of things out of the water. ) But Elliott Mintz was employed by Ono, at first to spy on John with May Pang, and then as a publicist for her and John. It's said that since Ono and Sam Havadtoy split, Elliot Mintz has taken Sam's place, living with Ono as her husband. So he's probably still peddling his publicity PR version of events to benefit Ono.
@James Brenner Yes, and spin whatever happened, or is happening, to Ono's benefit. Always.
Hey can you send me the book❤️
@@cricketman676 and to me!!!
Seaman was a con and a thief. He stole many of Lennon’s personal journals and items right after his death. Believe him? Not a chance.
The “truth?” Were there lies going around about it?
Wow, very good!!👏👏🤙🤟
His songs are still doing good
I would like to hear more of his songs played on the radio than all that Guns and Roses crap that's overplayed and hogging up radio space preventing other voices to be heard.
meyerj75 I mean I do like their song patience, but not any of the hard rock shredding stuff.
@@zekeisunique1128 I do like hard rock "shredding stuff", but I would LOVE to hear John and/or The Beatles on the radio.
@@meyerj75 Macdonald's , Welcome to Macdonald's , can I that your order ppppp - please ? Please ? I want a big mac with cheese !
@Peter Smith I mean 8 ain’t so bad though
He and Paul wrote most of the Beatles songs together 🎼 He was brilliant ❤🎶🎸
The story about not writing for “5 years” is a bit of an exaggeration.... he wrote plenty of stuff between 75 and 80 (Real Love dates back to about 76ish... free as a bird is from 78ish... plus there is “now and then”, “happy rishy kreshy”, “India” etc... plus there is rumours he worked on a musical around 76ish). A fair few interesting bits missed out.... his “grave digging” incident in Egypt in 77 and his trip to South Africa in 1980.
his trip with Bowie to Hong Kong in '77
Very true
John should've stuck around with the Beatles. Look at Paul, he wrote unreally great songs after that. And McCartney III has become an instant classic!
frog chorus, dude?
I respect Lennon's solo work and I'd have even more respect for him if he'd had the balls to torpedo Yoko's trash off Double Fantasy.
I listen to kiss kiss kiss to laugh at it she's awful
@@h4rri3tt "Kiss Kiss Kiss" is no "Rock Lobster" by the B52s.
dan cussin tbf tho a hallmark of lennon’s genius is that his albums / songs were concepts rather than just good sounds, it had to have a reason make a statement - so it’s just his last album should be double fantasy, that amidst this infinitely subjective universe two people can declare love with eachother was his main reason for expression & mine too
God, so many big things happened in Lennon's life, you can watch five bios in a row and learn as much with each one as if you were watching five different people's bios. I guess there's silver lining there, that in his shirt life John did more living in 40 years than most of us would in 90. It's still really angering to me that his sons never got to have their issues with him resolved, and that John didn't get the chance to turn his life around and save his own legacy like Ringo did.
@Mary Helis Well for one thing, John permanently damaged one of Sean's ears after screaming in it.
@@lizzychrome7630 Where did you hear that? I always thought that John was very nice to his son Sean during his first 5 years and 2 months.
@@meyerj75 I can't recall where I read that, but I just double-checked it and it seems sadly true. John was a fantastic artist, and at times could be a fantastic human being from the sound of it; but he had issues. :(
no mention of Yoko Ono feeding Lennon unlimited Persian heroin?
This video does not begin to touch on the truth.
@julie wood Yoko's purpose was to destroy John Lennon, so you most probably are on the right track.
That was in the late 60s tho and this video only really touched on his last 5 years
@@johnwhite9825 yeah it's very sanitized
@@johnwhite9825 yeah it's very sanitized
The Best Liverpol Guy
Forever Sir. John Lennon..
He wasn't knighted and it's liverpool
You ever wonder how different music would've been if certain creators didnt die when they did? I do all this all the time. Imagine....
Good video. Thanks. RIP JWL
Thanks for the music John and the cool Rubber Soul hair cut.
Thank you John for Julian, a beautiful, kind, loving and gifted talented soul who has rose to be a shining star!
Julian is a bitter pos. When he bitched about not getting stuff from Lennon (which he did) fans bought things at auction and gave them to Julian who promptly sold them.
He's still my favourite person ever ❤
John Lennon a Legend an Artist ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Exclusive Exquisite most of his songs had deep meanings based on the values of life Thanks for the update
I can't condemn anyone for the partner that they choose in life. For some reason there was an attraction here and who are we to say whether that was right or wrong. I'm grateful 4 being allowed to hear and see his talents. The Beatles will always be one of my favorite groups and go to places when I want to reconnect to memories in my life
All you need is love.
One thing that stands out to me , think about it ( fame ) how much simpler life is without it .. just a thought
And still they keep trying to make me famous. I keep telling them that life is simpler without their fame but they insist.I must have it they say . Should I take it? That 's the thing. Can I take it ,that's the thing? I come out very well in photographs when I have my dentures in. My wife says,once I have my toupee on the right way , that I'm saturated in star quality . 'You're saturated darling ' ,she'll often say . ' Saturated'. Yes, I'm a legend in this house. Right now they are ready to put me on the world stage and the only small problem I have which really is hardly worth mentioning at all ------I have no talent!!!!!
Hate consumes oneself so I don't deal in it. However, i have never found any redeeming nature to Ono. I wish Lennon had never met her.
Agreed. Even Ringo struggled to get along with her. Her constant presence during the White Album is why he walked out on the band in October 1968. Think about that for a moment. Ringo.... struggling to get along with anyone?
He became a totally different person after their relationship begun
Poor cynthia
@Daniel Fronc
Of course you don't deal in hatred. You just deal in passing judgement on people without ever having met them.
@@paranormal33 and yeah, you're so saint like, you're so inarguably perfect, you've never passed judgement once in your entire life, have you?
I grew up in kirkdale liverpool district 9, i seen there return from hamburg to manic screeming on liverpool town halls balcony and remember girls fainting left/ right/ in front & behind i have just turned 70 this month and it still gives me a rush.
Tell the people of LIVERPOOL what really happened in December 1980.
The security guard was Jose Perdomo on the gate entrance.
Jose was a CIA agent and trained assassin.
He was one of those people who looked better and better as he aged. I had never noticed before how handsome he was! Especially right before he was assassinated :/
@Henryshuman And you just dried me right back up making BROAD assumptions 🤣
Awesome video
I still remember where I was and who I was with when I heard the radio news.
Thank you for not mentioning the name of John Lennon's killer.
Is it just me or are we acting like John's killer is like Voldermort aka You-Know-Who in Harry Potter?
I agree. I never give that lunatic the time to say or type his name. I call him “It” when discussing Johns life. I will forever love Lennon’s music, lyrics and I adore Julian. To see that Sean and Julian are close must make John smile from up above☮️💟
@@CuriousRose What a nice way to put it - thank you!
@@Eastendsunset Hugs to you. Peace and Love my friend☮️💟
As a person john left a lot to be desired but as a musician and bff of McCartney he was stellar. I remember when he got shot. Horrific days followed.
Much love to the Lennon family! I have two nephews named Trevor Julian and Riley Jude. I also have a son named Maxwell so we did give Paul some love too. Not to mention a sister named Julia and my older sister named Michelle. I guess you can say I come from a family of Beatles fans......
Right when he acknowledged his faults and was working to become a better person
@@alukuhito religion or lack of religion don't automatically make one a good or bad person. And I never said he was perfect. He was working to become a better person and he had an affair with may pang during his lost weekend which Yoko knew about and was fine with.
@@alukuhito he was wrong for his affair and I do agree he could be pretentious at times, like most of us are.
Putting down religion does make you a better person
@@alexyerkey3141 how so
R.I.P lennon you will be truly missed
I remember reading an article, early to mid 90's, by a British journalist who was due to interview Lennon in December 1980. He went on to say that the interview was due to take place on December 9th. He was getting his tings together, packing a case, ready to take his flight to New York on the December 8th. Early on December 7th he received a phonecall from Yoko, he noted an urgency in her voice. She stated that the interview date would have to change, to which he told her everything, from his flight, to his hotel had already been booked in preparation for the interview to take place on December 9th. She told him in no uncertain terms, that if he wanted to interview John, it would HAVE to be early on December 8th, or he simply would not be able to interview him at all, as he would be leaving on a 'journey' later that day.
On the night of Dec 08 1980, I was playing basketball w friends in a gym. We then got some beers and after a while, I headed home. On the freeway, I noticed that an AM radio station played 2 Beatle songs in a row. Switching to other stations, I thought 'Why are they all playing Beatles songs?' Then it happened. After a song, the DJ came on and said, 'We are paying tribute to the late John Lennon who was killed tonight when a crazed wacko emptied a gun into the former Beatle.' I hit my breaks, going from 60 mph to 0. I went into shock. I sat on the side of the road for I don't know how long. I didn't want to believe what I had just heard. Emptied a gun. Emptied a gun. I saw The Beatles live on my 9th birthday. John's death still makes me angry.
RIP John. Not a fan of Yoko . . . .
Oh who could be a fan of that nutcase!
@@leesadexter7187 You know who Anthony Fantano is? You'd be surprised that she might have a fanbase somewhere.
@@_PuppetMaster86 What?
@@leesadexter7187 I am
@@micnik3573 That’s your problem.
What's the footage at 0.39 mins from?Never seen it before!
Always be a good Dad.
Great video now you gotta do one for George Harrison
John is and always my number one
What a tragedy. But he did find Peace and Love before he died it seems and thats a great thing.
Love and miss you John !!!
Terrible loss for us all. Very sad.
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I will always remember that day....rather night. Poor John and Yoko...
“HELP I need somebody (help) not just anybody”
I think Lennon looked ill just before his death, his face was gaunt, he looked a lot older than fourty.
Yoko told in an interview they were doing coke and heroin
Drugs plus he was allegedly bulimic
He was on drugs
@@MarkGelderland That is such a lie
@@SiannanIsTheBest That is such a lie
Cried watching this 😢
Maybe the top of all the tops in all kind of arts
"Toppermost of the Poppermost"...John Lennon.
If he wasn't murdered, I imagine he would have been a pretty chill dude!
It was great to hear the news around mid-1980 that John was back in the studio recording a new album. The last new song I heard from him was in 1975 with "Stand by me" which was a good cover version of Ben E Kings. Yet I had a sense of disappointment when I heard "Starting over" released in late October thinking that's not very good. That's irrelevant now especially what happened on the 8th of dec.
What a beautiful man.
You guys put a "tragic" in almost all your video titles, except where it actually needs the word "tragic"
SMH!
That was so painful. I can still feel to this day the shock and sadness. The world was a poorer place the next day.
John died when he met Yoko.... simple.
Lennon was leaving Yoko in 1980
The way I see it is that Mr Lennon betrayed Paul, George and Ringo because of a japanese woman who delivered heroin to him 24/7. Because that is whats happened. Yoko brought John into Heroin, and THAT is what destroyed The Beatles. John was never in love with Yoko, he was in love with Heroin, and Yoko was a very good supplier. Until his death.
Shame he ever met yoko ono her name was a warning ignored
@Yer Blues I KNOW A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN YOU DO I WAS AROUND BEFORE THEY GOT FAMOUS , I SAW LENNONS DECLINE AS IT HAPPENED AFTER MEETING THAT HAG , NOTHING YOU CAN TYPE ON HERE MAKES YOU ANY MORE EXPERT THAN ANYONE ELSE WITH LIFE EXPERIENCE . IF HE HADNT MET HER HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE THATS ANOTHER FOR YOUR SANCTIMONIOUS PEABRAIN TO GO OVER .
@@GasFinger1 you good bro ? 😂😂😂
@@richierichrich5654 never been better thanks - no yokos controlling me
@@GasFinger1 Alright but it's been years sense the Beatles broke up give yoko a brake, shes 80 something for crying out load plus half of the Beatles fan base is over it already.
@@GasFinger1 Beatles were near the end anyway, all good things must come to an end.
legend
RIP
If he were alive today BLM would be at his front door demanding reparations (all his stuff) and Antifa setting fire to his apartment building while singing the lyrics to "Imagine"
The best to ever do it
So sorry. mr, Lennon. But its the only real peace you will have. Thanks RIP .JOHN
I’m not sure if he was really so concerned with establishing new relevance in pop music. His loyal fan base was large enough to make anything he did popular. The insecurities were because he couldn’t trust us not to sycophantically make a shit song great. To give us something good to promote as good had become a priority of importance. He was back and revitalized and reconnecting wonderfully with us with some really good songs. That was cut short and incredibly bittersweet. Double fantasy is a great lp, but it was not meant to be the last and so it’s perpetually sentimental.
"Kill John Lennon...Kill John Lennon..."
"John Lennon is dead, Butters."
Strange how Lennon would have been like in the 80s, it was such a materialistic, style over substance, money driven decade that would have been at odds with him. Dylan, similar to him lived though and he didn’t produce any great music of note in the 80s and and I’m not sure Lennon would have given any great songs either.
I hve to agree with u on that, Lennon would hve been one of those "dinosaurs" from the past who would hve got lost in the shuffle of the 80s. Dylan, I believe, did make great music, just not by himself, but with the traveling wilburys
Jason Cordray I’m not saying what Dylan did in the 80s was bad but it pales compared to his creative peak years from 1963-75 and I think Lennon would have too.
@@vashna3799 good point
you are right,he rode the 60's but I dont think would have made it after
Can't imagine what he was using when he wrote and even recorded the song Imagine
We can - Heroin.
He admitted Yoko wrote most of it. If you read Grapefruit you can tell
It was such an awful sad tradgety what happened being killed like that. He found some peace and happiness and fulfillment in his family life and making a great come back and then the murder takes place so unfair life is sometimes.
If all the rumours are to be believed he was the complete opposite of his peace loving persona
But maybe he really did come around and change and was happy
Sad he got killed when that happened
John & Yoko’s tarot card reader was John Green who wrote ‘The Dakota Days.’ He was hired by Yoko and worked with them for 13 years.
Too. Be honest, I don’t think any of the Beatles were perfect at all. John is just more well known for his screw-ups because he was very open about it. The other members have some sad pasts and some presents too.
But they didn’t abuse their kids. They did cheat on their wives though.
Not one photo of John in 1980!
Theres plenty of video footage there of 1980 in Bermuda & also John & Sean celebrating their birthday together in October 1980
love ! The Beatles .