John Lennon talks about his own personal favourite Beatles songs - I am the Walrus, Girl and more
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- John Lennon talks about HIS favourite Beatle songs! Help, Walrus, Girl, & I wanna hold your hand!
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my personal favorites from John:
1. Across the universe
2. Strawberry fields forever
3. I'm only sleeping
4. Lucy in the sky with diamonds
5. In my life
6. Happiness is a warm gun
7. Norwegian wood
8. Girl
9. Julia
10. Come together
That's a pretty damn good list.
Hey bulldog, glass onion, cry baby cry, the continuing story of bungalow bill, baby you’re a rich man, dear prudence, revolution, and rain are also some really good John Lennon songs from his time with The Beatles. But overall you got a great list
Hey Bulldog is the best - quirky AF
There is something totally genius about the lyric "bulldog… Bullfrog… Standing in the rain… Happiness… What makes you think that you're so special when you smile?"
It always makes me think of the juxtaposition between humans engaging so well with people who have a face that tends to smile easily, but not those whose doesn't, despite the fact that they might be just as happy.Then it makes me think of a dog with rain dripping on it in the middle of coldweather but still panting with its tongue lolling out (Always happy)🤣, even though humans would be frustrated
I also like Dig a Pony. People don't often mention that one.
really good taste
"That was me. No acid, no nothing." Strikes me as a great John quote for some reason.
And yet, acid can make you more "yourself" than when you're stone cold sober.
Yeah I think John actually meant he was surprised that he had managed to get that aware of himself at the time before he had even taken acid. Considering that acid is meant to help with that. Not that he was more genuine without acid.
@@elmoblatch9787 bullshit
He wrote so many songs, some he doesn't even remember. Wow, what a gift and a genius to the world, gone too soon.
And did You believed him ...please he was as always sarcastic no matter the situation
I've always viewed Paul as the song writer... Lennon as the song refiner. John had a way of using the "correct" word/phrase, at the "correct" time.
@@cazamilfs8945 Always? No. Obviously not.
@@jaymciver9591 Are you familiar with John's work, both with the group and solo?...
@@auramac Of course!
Paul has "a way" of blending melody and time changes, and bringing songs full circle into timeless classics (in terms of tune, melody, and story). John had a way of taking those songs, and his own, and creating works of art that go beyond the song and end up imprinting them on the mind.
My favorite is Across the Universe. The lyrics are so beautiful.
Everything about that song is beautiful. I love it
One of my least favorite Beatles songs. I didn't like it until I heard Bowie's version. 😅
@@humandroid53 You didn't "hear" it, then.
Yes
Yes, a magnificent song. So poetic.
Imagine John Lennon just walking out of the shower singing I Want to Hold Your Hand to himself.
My favourite is I Am The Walrus because of how truly unique it was. Never in my life have I ever actually heard a song as unique and amazing and just overall trippy as Walrus. And I doubt I will ever hear a song as unique as it again.
Can you imagine if John had got around to re-visiting his beatle favourites. A 40 year old John singing a bluesy Help, I'd have bought that. He talks about Elton singing conversationally in Your Song too. Nice this.
He may have rehearsed them in 1980......he was planning to sing beatles songs live in 1981..he wrote new rhythm for strawberry fields....
I Am The Walrus is such a work of art. Definitely my favourite Beatles song by John. But that doesn't exclude the countless other brilliant songs he wrote. I'll never tire is any of them.
John Lennon interviews, especially post Beatles ones are so fascinating. I could just listen to him for hours. No PR BS and he's very genuine in his explanations of things even if his opinions or memories of things changed from time to time and he had such a great speaking voice.
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I love Johns voice turn off your mind relax and float down stream fab lyrics my favourite song Tomorrow never knows
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My pleasure, Deborah. Much more to come very very soon
I am happy to have lived at a time where I could listen and re-listen to John Lennon's songs.
My top five Lennon compositions in no particular order: In My Life, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Strawberry Fields Forever, Nowhere Man, and If I Fell. If I fell may be more of a Lennon/McCartney tune but it's such a lovely ballad that I had to put it in there. Anyway, that's my top five with whole bunch tied for #6.
Solid choices :p
Pretty damn good but I'd replace Strawberry Fields with Across the Universe
I really love Sexy Sadie too
Very good choices. A friend of mine recently told that his favorite Lennon song is Norwegian Wood. I had never paid a lot of particular attention to that song before, but it is indeed a wonderful song. One of the magic of The Beatles is that one never stops to discover new things in them.
@@alexmartin-schael7556 “I’m an artist and if you give me a tuba I’ll bring you something out of it.” ― John Lennon
I was 23 in December 1980 when they stole his life and I remember hearing it from Howard Cosell during a Monday Night Football broadcast. A musician and Beatle follower I thought to myself "and then there were three". I really enjoy these little clips and snips from the past. There were the Beatles and everything after was a tribute band.
Same here. 23 and the unbelievable news from Cosell (and Frank Gifford). I don't think I ever really got over it as a cultural shock. Everything was different after that. I guess it was the JFK moment of my generation.
I remember it well. I was 22 at the time.
I remember so clearly that will never forget i was 23 also loved john lennon
I too was watching MNF when Howard Cosell interrupted the game with that shocking announcement. I remember thinking, the dream of The Beatles getting back together was over.
I cant believe a human could write songs like john lennon. Such a vast array of different styles and all are so different.
True, he was an alien
I was sitting in a dark theatre waiting for a movie to start. All of a sudden they played the opening of “Walrus” with the theatre still dark and then the curtain opened and the MMT album cover just appeared on screen. It was so cool.
I would love to hear John singing I want to hold your hand or help to himself as he’s making tea
There is an old article in Playboy where Lenon goes through every single Beatles song and he evaluates and comments on every song. Great article.
Can you give me a link to this article?
@@GaiusSempriniousGracchus I think the interview where he talks about songs came from 1980
He does not talk about every song.
@@BigSky1
He certainly seemed to come close to it. I’ve seen that Playboy interview referred to in regards to pretty much nearly every Beatles song I’ve ever done research about. His comments for most of them are pretty succinct and not terribly in-depth, though.
@@BareBandSubscription I have that edition so i will check.
This interview provided so many insightful snippets of information from John, which became so much more valuable with him being taken from the world at such a young age.
Walrus is a masterpiece
My favorite Lennon songs in no particular order: Strawberry Fields Forever, Free as a Bird, A Day in the Life, Real Love (piano demo), In My Life, Happiness is a Warm Gun, I Want You (She´s so Heavy), Now and Then (piano demo).
Great playlist!
Wow he names some of my absolute favourites here. Good to here him put some context to them.
Had to pick just one but one I really like is not written by John, I can imagine the studio setting dark one dim light on John acoustic guitar and then his voice " Nobody loves you when your down..." It sounds straight from the heart and emotionally hits you because we've all been there. Thank You John.
John did write that if you are referring to “nobody loves you when you’re down and out”
@@oginaz I didn't know that, Thank you, that makes it even better. I just heard It recently It sounds so much like an old blues song from back in the 30's just pure blues. Fantastic song, takes us all where we've been one time or another. Have to say that song pops up in my mind when thing go off the road but I know it's only temporary. Sorry for rambling on but old men sometimes do. Since i'm rambling how about Julian and Sean doing a song called "vice versa" . Enough rambling.
@@marcjohnson4385 to be fair to you it is loosely based around the old blues standard “nobody knows you when you’re down and out” from the 1920’s. Different but some influences. Scrapper Blackwell did a great version of that if you care to look it up :-)
@@oginaz Huh? No, it wasn't written by him. It was written by Jimmie Cox.
@@dorkle9085 nah it's another song! John wrote this song!
Posta, me emociono escucharlo hablar de las canciones que él en algún momento escribió. Y cuando el periodista le pregunta por “Girl” (que se da a entender que era una canción que al mismo periodista le gusta) me genera nostalgia. Como si nosotros hubiéramos estado ahí y le podamos haber preguntado sobre una canción que nos gusta, o que se haya olvidado. En mi caso, preguntaría por todas
I’ve always liked Help and Girl for the reasons John cites. A Day in the Life must surely be up there too, even if it didn’t register with John here.
I don’t think he was as hot on “A Day in the Life” as most people. Truthfully, I don’t think any of the Beatles besides Paul ever cared much for the bulk of Sgt Pepper’s material.
I think Lennon made the Beatles not a band (the best in the world), but a miracle.
It was really Paul that did that. He pushed them to work harder and produce more. Several people have said that, if it wasn't for Paul, the band wouldn't have gotten much done.
@@harold3165 Ok: McCartney pushed them to work: but without Lennon's genius...Great, very great band, the greatest in the world but never "the miracle".
@@altar964 John Lennon was an asshole, good thing he had talent. If it hadn't been because of Paul the band would've disbanded even before they did, this has been said an interview by Harrison.
@@V1ncetheprince Everyone thinks what they want, but the only one who composed masterpieces after the Beatles was Lennon.
@@altar964 Not really, All Things Must Pass is handily the best of the Beatles solo output. I enjoy Ram quite a lot too but that's a bit more polarizing. Not that John wasn't a fantastic artist but the only one to compose masterpieces? Absolutely not. My Sweet Lord, Isn't it a Pity, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, Band on the Run...
The "miracle" is that John, Paul and George (and Ringo!) were all in the same band at the same time - not any one of them more than another.
Help! is probably my favourite Beatles song. And I like it sped up!
Some great photos I've never seen before.
1:18 the Elton John song he's probably referring to is "Your Song" there's a line in it that goes "If I was a sculptor, ha
But then again, no."
Thanks! I love Elton and was wondering which it might be. I am now sure I've heard this interview before. Taupin utilizes that trope again, but you're almost certainly right.
Especially if it's the 1970 RS interview. Could only be Your Song@
For damn sure John would have re-record some of the Beatles songs with their pals.
John always talked about the production and the quality of some of the new mixes they kept releasing upon the years after they stepped down: like the red album and blue album of sorts.
They could not for sure sing She Loves You at 40, but for real he would try to get a knack to reinterprete their work and became introspective about what just happened while he was busy making other plans.
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) is one of their top tunes (and a fave of Paul and John's, as both have mentioned).
I love one of the more obscure rockers by John, "Everybody's Got Something To Hide 'Cept For Me and My Monkey".
Me too! Nobody ever talks about that one or my other favorite White Album fave "Savoy Truffle" written by George
@@secularZoo agreed! both great tracks.
Savoy Truffle has to be one of their best produced tracks. The detail in that is incredible every note laying in there perfectly. George really went to town on that one. Totally underrated
Dr. Robert
My favourite Lennon Beatles-songs (if we consider A Day in the Life as a Lennon/McCartney song) are:
Strawberry Fields Forever, Across the Universe (Naked-ver.), Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Norwegian Wood and Happiness Is A Warm Gun.
My Top 10 by Lennon In The Beatles: My Top 10 by Lennon Out The Beatles:
01 - Dear Prudence 01 - Dear Yoko
02 - Julia 02 - Watching The Wheels
03 - If I Fell 03 - Love
04 - I Feel Fine 04 - God
05 - Nowhere Man 05 - Grow Old With Me
06 - Norwegian Wood (Take 2) 06 - Gimme Some Truth
07 - She Said She Said 07 - Mind Games
08 - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 08 - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
09 - Strawberry Fields Forever 09 - Isolation
10 - Revolution 1 (Take 20) 10 - Nobody Told Me
No Walrus? Surely not
I’ll Cry Instead is one of my favorites.
I like them all
**My Personal Top 10 Favorite Lennon Written Beatles Songs**
1 Nowhere Man
2 Across The Universe
3 I'm Only Sleeping
4 Help
5 A Day In A Life(Paul collab)
6 Should've Known Better
7 In My Life
8 Strawberry Fields Forever
9 Ticket To Ride
10 Hide Your Love Away
She said she said!! Across the universe!!
I like this interview where he actually likes his own music, some of the early talks right after the breakup of the Beatles, his live or magazine interviews he seemed so bitter about Beatles music
My top 10 Lennon songs:
1. Working Class Hero
2. Jealous Guy
3. A day in the life (Its 70% John I believe)
4. I am the Walrus
5. Strawberry field forever
6. Imagine
7. In my life (again I believe its 70% John)
8. Help
9. Come together
10. Norwegian Wood
Funnily enough these are my favourite John songs
Something is easily a top 5 Beatles track
Not related at all but some really flattering pics of Yoko in this video lol! She looks great
Help is such an underrated song and album. Besides the title track "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" has always been 1 of my favorite John songs.
Get real dude. It's not underrated, It's one of their most famous songs.
@@simesoa whats with people throwing the word underrated around?
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@@simesoa Yeah I was thinking the same thing, nothing the Beatles did was overrated, it's pretty well rated lol
Underrated? Are you kidding me? 😂
“Walrus” is my favorite Lennon tune. So ahead of its time - sampling anyone? - and yet oddly melodic.
"Strawberry Fields...nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about..."
John Lennon "I like it cos it's real!"
People walking around in little paper masks and letting corporations inject them with unknown goop is real...or is it?
Real in the senses that the song repetitively tells you it’s a dream, all fiction and a place you can go anytime you feel heavy without any burden or ego to hang on to.
You really seem to be a thoughtful fellow (ahem!),taking songs and quotes on it’s face value. Educate yourself and then listen to good stuff.
O,O, depends on what the meaning of is...is .
My favourite part of this interview.
John is always sincere and thoughtful, for better or worse. He never shied from giving his unvarnished opinion on anything. It’s why he always connected with people in his music and as a personality. It would have been something if he’d lived and become an old man.
Best Lennon Beatles songs for me: I'm A Loser, Across The Universe, Don't Let Me Down, Real Love, Free As A Bird, Ticket To Ride, She Said She Said, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, I Should Have Known Better
Solo? Cold Turkey, Instant Karma, Look At Me, Gimme Some Truth, Mind Games, Out The Blue, Steel And Glass, Woman, Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me.
I really like, I'm Only Sleeping. I can't believe you didn't list Imagine.
@@mikemcdonald9337 Imagine for me isn't even a top 20 John solo song. If I were to rank every song by each Beatle's solo careers, I doubt Imagine would even be in my top 40.
@@worlds1ep3enthusiast92 Each to there own. I do like "This Boy". Sounds like a kick back to the 50's style of doowop songs.
Some of my favourite Beatles songs are Here, There, and Everywhere; Lucy; Hey Bulldog; Strawberry Fields; Here Comes the Sun; Blackbird; and Dear Prudence.
My favorite are A Day in the life, Ticket to ride, I'm looser, I am the Walrus, Hey Bulldog, Strawberry fields forever, I want to hold your hand 🎈
He’s so real
My favorite Lennon vocals are on She's Leaving Home
Is'nt it Pauls Vocals? ;-)
@@MrJoshmeyer john too
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You can’t do that, I should’ve known better, rain, I am the walrus, Strawberry Fields, dear prudence, happiness is a warm gun, she said she said. And of course a Day in the life.
He’s got a ton of great songs but those stand out for me right now and if I did the same list tomorrow it would have some of the same songs with some new ones. I like Dr. Robert a lot actually. A bulldog I like a lot too.
His solo stuff is amazing also. Just a real artist right down to the bone.
In My Life, Two of Us, Don't Let Me Down 👍
interesting omissions... A day in the life, Dear Prudence (or anything from White Album), Tomorrow Never knows, Norwegian Wood... Come Together. But the ones he chose I'm on board with.
Lennon- musical and lyrical genius, emotional child.
What's his emotional got to do with anything?
I mean, most people whose mom dies tragically when they’re young and whose dad walks out of them when they’re even younger wind up being emotionally immature, yes.
John was a crazy good song writer, my favorite!!!!!!! Greg the Egg.
We missed out on him (and George) playing all those songs in a post-Beatle context, the dust hadn't settled enough for either, such a shame given the tech available now, he could've gotten the chance to do Help in its original intimate form, rework so many he felt lost their id in the machine
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Absolutely. Admittedly, it's not a Beatles song but I have too many John penned favourites.
Tomorrow Never Knows
I am the Walrus
All you need is Love
Don't Let Me Down
Come Together
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Glass Onion
In My Life
Strawberry Fields Forever and Across the Universe always makes me cry ....💞✌️
Some absolutely baseless comments on here by some people. Look at yourselves before you judge Are you so perfect. "Those in glass houses. The man did loads for others and gave the world so much He gave masses of money to struggling artists and to charities.
Yes he had his flaws but unlike most people he was the first to point them out. He never blamed anyone else for his own flaws, but if you look at the tragedies of his childhood and teenage years, it must have affected him enormously.
RIP John and thankyou for being with us for the short time you had on this earth
Lennon's flaws make him human. We're all flawed jagoffs.
Abandoned his kid and financially screwed over his first wife while preaching Love.
He was not
all that great.
The other 3 did make him great though.
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My Top 10 of Harrisongs
1 - The Inner Light
2 - You Like Me Too Much
3 - Here Comes The Sun
4 - Isn't A Pity
5 - All Things Must Pass
6 - Run Of The Mill
7 - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
8 - The Light That Has Lighted The World
9 - Blow Away
10 - You
Shit list.
My favorites from him with the Beatles would have to be Julia, across the universe, hey bulldog, revolution, rain, happiness is a warm gun, Bungalow Bill, Glass Onion, I am the walrus, baby you’re a rich man, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, tomorrow never knows. I know that’s a ton of songs but there is simply too many to choose from that could be considered my favorite Lennon sung Beatles song
Does everyone do the same as me... when reading the song titles I sing them. Can't help it.
0:32 I think that’s the “John” from the Fab Four? ☺️
If I Fell, Norwegian Wood, Lucy, Prudence, Julia, Come Together, Pony . . . a few of his Beatle songs I like that he didn’t mention.
My FAvE Lennon Song
Is Strawberry Fields🍓🍓
Too many to choose from but in my life as a Beatle and Gimme some truth as a solo artist stand out :)
I agree. They stand the test of time. Across the Universe is beautiful as just a poem. My fav Beatles song is "Yer Blues" then "Revolution." But "In My Life" will be played at my Celebration of Life Ceremony & I know it's been used for many others. Just beautiful lyrics.
The best beatles’ s songs are In my life, Yesterday and Sonething
Lennon was trawler rushing some old flight scripts in his new notes. His same colors were stepping night visions onto the stellar.
@0:36 That is not John Lennon. It is Adam Hastings from the U.K., who portrays John Lennon in the Fab Four. He's so convincing, he even fooled you. ;-)
0:34 is not John. That is Adam Hastings, formerly of Bootleg Beatles.
Help is the perfect record
I loved hearing Paul talk about it, he said john would get very angry, paul knew it stemmed from problems at home because john would tell him the issues with his mom so when he heard john sing Help for the first time he instantly knew what it was about and that he meant the words he was singing. it really was a cry for help.
This Boy ....
I have always wondered if the walrus was from Lewis Carrol . "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes-and ships-and sealing-wax- Of cabbages-and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot- And whether pigs have wings." Seems like more than a coincidence, although it may be just that.
I was 18 when he was killed, and though I never liked him, I sure do miss him. Imagine if he had been allowed to grow up.
I miss him too, Jeffrey 😔
Paul was always generous in his praise for John's songs. I am surprised that John doesn't mention any of Paul's songs as his favourites but I guess he had his insecurities...
To be fair, I Want to Hold Your Hand was 50% John, 50% Paul. And John did like lots of Paul songs and said as much. It's his Wings stuff that John was merciless about. And the "granny" songs I guess.
@@Jantonov1 Paul started the song, so i'd give it 65% Paul, 35% John
The question was asked about the songs that he wrote. Not Paul's.
John always said "Here, There, and Everywhere" was his favorite Beatles song.
People shit on Yoko so much, but John loved her so much.
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The Elton John song he refers to is probably Talking Old Soldier from Tumbleweed Connection.
I don't have favorites, there are The Beatles, then everyone else.
I'm actually more of a fan of what Lennon did while in the Beatles, but it's interesting that Johns own favourite Beatles songs were ones he specifically wrote lol. Not a Mcartney/Harrison or Starr composition mentioned (ouch!) It's said John really admired "Yesterday" though, and like us all, I'm sure he loved a bit of Ringo's "Octopuses garden" 😏
Hearing it from the man himself. No replacement
Greatest melody writer in history doesn’t care about melody.
You prefer Lennon's melodies over Mccartney's? Interesting. It's subjective but I thought everyone agreed that Mccartney was the king of melodies.
Paul was a melodic genius but specialized in tunefulness. John could be just as creatively tuneful but also expanded the range of pop melody, in my opinion. His rhythms and singing creativity on songs broke into new territory. “Walrus” is an easy example. But it’s everywhere - “Girl” happens to be another one. “A Day in the Life” has to be mentioned. “Mr. Kite,” “Lucy in the Sky” are iconic experimental melody styles. The White Album’s cutting-edge feel is defined by John’s melody experiments. Just my opinion.
@@jon-quijano this is reality. Lennon took melody, chord progressions, vocal phrasing, lyrics and time changes where rock/pop had never been before him
Paul was the greatest melody writer
@@timothyorie7021 *your personal favorite melody writer was Paul. Paul’s melodies are more classical and very beautiful indeed. John’s melodies are more original/haunting to our ears, and definitely more inventive in many cases. He had a flow about his melodies/voice/phrasing Paul didn’t have. “Penny Lane” vs “Strawberry Fields Forever” is a perfect example
John's favorites:
I AM THE WALRUS
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
HELP
IN MY LIFE
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
GIRL
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
I wonder which ones Paul, George, and Ringo would mention as their favorites.
I like I'm only sleeping & Dear Prudence
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
One of the pictures of John on here wasn’t John it was Adam Hastings who is part of a beatles tribute band
I wish the beatles had done a reunion once...
I just couldn’t make a list. Well, I could but it would be extremely long.
John became truly himself again during the time of this interview, and this interview was at the time he left yoko for a while.
I’d switch Girl with Dear Prudence. And add Julia. And Norwegian Wood perhaps. And of course Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. And Across the Universe which John, mentions at the end so needn’t be added.
Les chansons de John Lennon dans les Beatles
What he basically said… “I like most of my own songs”
Dear Prudence was a great one of his..
Lol that's not Lennon at 00:33 - it's a tribute act guy called Javier Parisi
The Elton John song he is referring to is 'Your Song', where he sings 'If I were a sculptor, but then again no' and 'anyway, the thing is, what I really mean'. Just a guy thinking out loud. I like that John likes that, because I like it too. In Strawberry Fields he's probably referring to 'I think a no and mean a yes, but it's all wrong; that is I think I disagree'. Thinking out loud. Kinda like Molly Bloom's soliloquy in 'Ulysses'
And that's not Elton, that's Bernie.
@@AC-gw4qu yep, it's all Bernie. But it's still 'an Elton John song' which is what JL was referring to. But I agree, Bernie rarely gets the credit he deserves and you would hope that a songwriter like Lennon might show him some love :)
The picture at 0:34 is not him. It’s a guy named Adam from a Beatles cover band
I think Norwegian Wood contains his best lyrics
He didn't mention Yesterday
00:47…holy shit…that action on that guitar is ridiculously high…his the hell did he play like that…I’m guessing it was one just for a shoot or whatever
My fav John song is Yesterday…
(Deep cut joke ;-) )