Why did John Lennon look unhealthy towards the end of his life?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2023
- Beyond his tough guy persona, John Lennon was a troubled man who struggled much like we all do and we were able to relate to him more since his songs reflected this.
From 1975 to 1980, John Lennon largely withdrew himself from the public eye and the music business.
Was John Lennon in good health at the time of his death?
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Didn't know he got fat-shamed. Ironically he looked best from 63 - 65.
Agreed!
I think he continued to look good until 1969
Yeah he looked healthy when he was “fat” I don’t think he even looked overweight he looked like an average built guy
@@grungeisdead8998
That’s why Lennon wasn’t fat. That was just his perception or perhaps somebody fat shamed him so his perceptions became what they were. His build is larger boned so he wasn’t meant to be skinny & looked out of proportion as a thin Man
What's crazy is that John still looked healthy in 1976/77, but then you look at pictures of him from mid 78-early 79 and he's thin as a rail.
he’s always been precious. at least in my eyes, that makes me so sad that he thought these things of himself. poor thing.
Excessive smoking, drug use, sleepless nights with a young son, legal battles with immigration, working tirelessly on a new album, working on rebuilding relationships with his older son and former bandmates, a demanding wife. If you can handle all that without looking drained and flushed out at 40 then you must be superhuman. And FYI the Beatles breakup wasn't still affecting him because he'd moved on with his life. True a reunion wasn't ruled out but i doubt it played on his mind constantly and he seemed to be in a pretty good place with Paul, George and Ringo according to interviews they've all given where they talk about the last time they each spoke to him.
Also sharing his life with thevwrong woman.
@@godsworldorder5565 that's what I was referring to by a demanding wife 😆
He was not fat he was normal
Not to mention the death of his coworker.
When I look at John in August of 64, he was handsome and attractive to look at. Five years later on August of 69 as he strolled across the Zebra stripe at Abbey Road for the album cover...he looked like an old man. Shocking.
There were more than one, just like Paul, they were characters with doubles, they didn't even play the instruments on their albums or write the songs, they did the singing only and it was heavily processed and edited. That's why The Monkeys and the Rutles were created, it was an inside joke to mock the Beatles which were the same things.
@@hendo337
The beatles played in live untill 1966 what do you said ?
I always thought he looked awful. I mean when he resurfaced. He had disappeared for around 5 years - then he shows up looking like he aged at least 15 years. Not to mention disturbingly gaunt. He didn't look the least bit healthy to me.
Heroin!
Bullshit
He was actually quite healthy despite being slim
The Lennon of 1975-80 is not the original. The real Lennon was out of the picture way before then. His contract was up! The Beatles was a tavistock psy op.
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Frederic Seaman’s book writes about John’s lifestyle in detail in his last year, “mother” mostly certainly wasn’t giving him the attention he craved and Frederic was a family friend employed to help him with each days living from running errands to organising food pickups and accompanying him to Bermuda while “mother” stayed back at the Dakota
John Lennon was one of the very "few" musical geniuses of the 20th Century, and his life
was taken by some loser, who did nothing in life -- it's a shame. I miss his music greatly.
I think I’d personally change the word “few” to “best”
Still believe that story that Lennon was "assassinated"?! He wasnt. It was staged. The Real Lennon was out of the picture way before 1980.
more than just a few musical geniuses in every genre of music..!!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901
So when & how did Lennon get out of the picture?
One of the many tragic aspects to Johns murder was that we don't know what we or he missed. If he had been minded, he would have had years to write new stuff. I miss his music. He just got my interest from his music and his 'ways' when I was still quite young, because he was creative. He was a genius. Not like Einstein, but for being a multi-talented artist. Funny, and a trend setter.
I agree.
I wondered the same.
John looked very underweight from photos just before his death. Something leads to believe John wasn't eating properly and he looked definitely undernourished.
malnourished
@@rawlvee Well, the photos taken speak volumes.
Not just being too thin in my opinion as he didn’t have the body type to be that thin, but I don’t think he looked healthy in his face
I think he never quit using heroin and opiate use contributed to his sickly appearance
Lennon look the best when he was overweight
I wouldn’t say that but you do you man
He did look pretty good then. With lovely thick hair.
I wouldn't say he was overweight but a bit fat, yes
Yes, he looked healthy unlike in the time before his murder. His body type was not made to be pencil thin so he didn’t look right at all
@@IDKwhy156
More like a bit overweight but not FAT
He was not fat
He looked good in 1965 , his " fat" period.
So called fat period. He looked good. Not fat. Just solid. He looked his best between 64-67.
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Not a fat period at all-Lennon just thought that as he had lack of self esteem because of his issues. The self image of himself was not normal as it should have been & if he did have an eating disorder, that contributed to his perceptions of being fat
He might have looked this way or that way....who knows..but the guy was one of the greatest songwriters to ever walk planet earth....his life taken not by disease but by an obese psychotic nobody..that's the absolute shame...not what Lennon did or didn't do to himself...I'm grateful for the fact that he lived and left the world his amazing music.😊
He was one of the very "few" musical geniuses of the 20th Century, and his life
was taken by some loser, who did nothing in life -- it's a shame.
I've always thought that Lennon looked gaunt when he resurfaced in 1980. Compare John at 40, and Paul at 40, and Paul pretty much still looked like Paul1964; John a walking cadaver.
And his face & features were no longer handsome besides being too thin. He looked really different/not healthy looking
There is a book by Albert goldman about John lennons life. The last few years he was clean and almost manic about cleanliness. He was probably in the best health of his adult life.
Probably one of the few truths by Goldman
Probably one of the few lies by Goldman.
The photographs speak for themselves: he's thin as a skeleton, sickly pale skin and his nose is collapsed on itself. No one knows for sure what was wrong because Ono had him cremated the next day.
He never stopped smoking, actually he smoked awful strong gitanes cigarettes, you can see the package next to him in several of his December pictures, for example, during his last radio interview
Smokinh affects weight heavily
@@jimmyberry4451
Smoking curbs the appetite along w/caffeine
He said himself that he had abused drugs all his life since he was a teenager. Maybe he was clean the last couple of years, but before that it was like 20 years of abuse, you can´t erase that.
Abuse doesn't cause that and he obviously never abused that much otherwise he would not of been able to do all he did. You obviously don't know about real abuse. It's simply stress, stress is the biggest aging thing out there
People lived long lives on much worse.
@@dondamon4669
Excessive drug/alcohol use whether an addict or not will age a person, especially a female, & will take a toll on your body. Then if you don’t have lucky genes when it comes to your appearance in aging, you’re even worse off. And of course the stressors of life & being addicted to the heroin also produces even more stress than the person would have had in the first place
A lot of photos from 1980, he looks like he’s in his 60s.
I would strongly dispute that he quit smoking before his death. John as known to smoke Gitane's. And in the first round of Annie Lebovitz photos the week before his death where his hair is still long, there is a picture of him on his bed playing a cherry red Strat with a pack of Gitane's sitting on the night stand.
Yes I saw that.
He supposedly offered autograph seekers a cigarette earlier the evening when he was shot and the pic of him and Chapman was taken.
No one's perfect! Flaws and all, Beatle John was loved! 😊
P.s he told us, quite bluntly, how he felt. 'I'm a Loser', anyone?
John was so cute
Almost a baby face, under the wings of times, a portrait of all of us, right or wrong, the era/big changes/no U turn.🌬🌈❤(from Jujuy,Argentina)
Lennon was a vegetarian. Even in the early Beatles days. A health food enthusiast. With Yoko Ono he was on a macrobiotic diet. Something I know a little about. Back in the day, I sometimes ate at a health food restaurant in Shibuya Tokyo that he frequented. From what I've heard he had given up the drugs, though that is hard to verify. The anorexia talk is from the Goldman book. The guy who discovered that there was a market for dirt on Lennon. No sense of proportion or fairness, and likely bogus.
I hated the Goldman Book. He was LOOKING for and THINKING UP dirt on John.
Yeah Goldman was a jerk.. I'll never read that trash
@@manny4552 I am not sure how much time Lennon spent in Japan, but he wouldn't have had access to drugs. Japan is very strict when it comes to that, as McCartney discovered on a trip there. An addict would be cold turkey in a matter of days. Not a prime destination for addicts.
@@Kermit_T_Frog I hear ya... As soon as Lennon died the wolves came out to trash him..
@@manny4552 In recent years, the trash Lennon movement has gathered even more steam. Reporters fish for dirt on him anytime anybody connected with the Beatles grants interviews. And the sad thing is how those closest to him fall into this trap. In trying to please the interviewers, they unconsciously feed a narrative that is totally unfair to the man. Far worse is social media. Especially from the Macca cultists who tear him down in trying to elevate McCartney.
I think yoko was microbioticing him to bump him off
Many have always suspected she had something to do with this as she never played the widow game well or should it be said not at all, having Havedtoy move in to the Dakota rather quickly after Lennon’s murder
Looked better than he did in 1974-1975
Lennon ended up with a haircut getting his bangs back in the midst of The Lost Weekend improving his looks dramatically from that long parted down the middle do. Thought all those pictures looked better than the photo shoot of his pictures before he was murdered. Some of his pictures were nice but he didn’t look right in the face.
I read in a book that when they did the autopsy he was not in good shape. Too much fasting, Dieting and drugs. Sadly not in good shape. I think that he ran dry on songs partly because he changed his mind with all the LSD, etc. The two...Paul and John turned down take music lessons as they felt it could damage the natural magic. Then John takes too much acid, etc. So he broke the code in a sense. He told Yoko once that he lost the muse to write great songs. Well if you didn't want to crush that with music theory then why did you think it was OK to abuse your body and mind so much? Emotion over logic. Still love him so. He gave enough.
Heroin damages the body way more than LSD.
Sitting in a room learning arpeggios isn’t as fun as tripping sack and writing Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds
He was at his thinnest near the end of his life, but that was mainly due to the macrobiotic diet he'd been following. It was probably his most peaceful, low stress period ever. All he has to do was be a "househusband" and help out with Sean. I don't think his health was particularly bad.
Not only the diet. He was in an unhappy relationship with Yoko.towards his end. This sheds light on a person's health.
@@godsworldorder5565 I think he had cancer. I think though, I'm not sure. Either that or his Handler Yoko was starving him out.
@@godsworldorder5565 he loved yoko lmfao he literally left his first wife Cynthia to be with her and stayed loyal to yoko for the whole time he was with her… he was definitely not “unhappy”
People, especially newspaper editors who tell reporters what to write, are really mean to each other and then people are nice in Emergencies like 9/11.
He was healthy towards the end; he just needed to put on a stone,,,,,he should have stopped smoking,,,but he was eating healthier...and had a positive outlook,,,,,,
I used to eat at the same same health food restaurant that he frequented in Shibuya Tokyo. Never met him, though.
He never looked as healthy as Kieth Richards
Most pro musicians tend to age slightly faster than average due to living too long in the night
He was very thin
Watcg Get Back by Peter Jackson. John was thin and looked fragile. Observe how strong was Paul. He climbed the toppest part of the roof all by himself. Same with Ringo.
Lennon looked his Best during India/white album👍🏻💯 then shortly the heroin look took over. But his weight fluctuated through his life. I wouldn't go far and say John was fat, he looked bloated in his face, maybe a little plumped but not fat like a dad b0d? I've read that he was still using drugs, maybe some heroin, coke, the last year of his life, not as much as he use to. And he was still smoking. But I don't know if that's all true. It's sad he's gone though 🙏🏻 I love the Beatles my favourite band.
I never felt he would have made it to 80.
I never pondered as to how long any of The Beatles would actually live but was quite surprised John & George died prematurely. We always thought of all The Beatles lasting forever
mmm ... this video is a bit all over the place! It needs to be considered that John and Ringo were the married one and they body weight was the result of having someone who cooks for you. John was fond of bacon butties with chips and sleeping, a very good combination of fats and laziness. Definitely they didn't get fat while on tour! You need to consider that stress causes weight loss; only in the case of eating disorder it causes obesity and that's not the case of John Lennon.
Also, George Martin didn't "find John on the roof"; he took him up there. We all know that! How can you make such a mistake?
Amazing how things can be spun
Maybe it was one of his two other Johns
There were pictures of him in 1974 in a tank top and he looked muscular and fit..but in 1980 hevlooked thjn and gaunt.. something was wrong
He was in an unhappy relationship with Yoko. He would have broken up with Yoko had he lived.
@@godsworldorder5565quite possible
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I believe you are right about that despite the songs written for her on Double Fantasy. But I don’t know at which point he really wrote the songs. It may have been long before the album was released but either way, I’m not buying that their relationship was the love story of the Century
Here is what I know. The first few years, 1962-64 ,the Beatles did not not use drugs at all, although they smoked like most people in Europe at the time, and drank some. In late 64 or early 65, they were introduced to Marijuana by Bob Dylan during a tour in the US. By the time of Rubber Soul, they were smoking it pretty heavily. In 1966, they were introduced to LSD during another tour, at Peter Fonda's house, though Paul did not take it until much later. Mid 1967 was when John and George begin to use a variety of drugs pretty heavily. By the beginning of 1968, there was less LSD for John, but somewhere in mid or late 1968, James Taylor, whom was discovered by the Beatles, in particular, George Harrison, introduced John to heroin. James Taylor himself spent two years recovering in a sanitarium. John might have never injected heroin, but he certainly ate it with Yoko Ono and probably sniffed it.
Then the Beatles broke up and began their solo careers. John and Yoko went into rehab for heoin in 1974, John had a relapse but kicked it for good in 1976. John was separated from Yoko during this time and was on the West Coast drinking heavily and making mediocre records. He looked terrible during this period. But somewhere around 1976-1977, he sort of found himself, got off drugs, and Paul McCartney helped John and Yoko get back together. Search for a video on UA-cam titled, 'John Finds Himself in Bermuda.' After being a house husband for a while, he got back in the studio and made his final completed album, 'Double Fantasy.' It was a smash hit with beautiful tunes, and John seemed like he was becoming his old, pre-drug self again. He looked much better although he was thin, I believe in part because Yoko put him on a strict diet.
What I don't know is the last 7 months of his life after 'Double Fantasy was released. He might have started doing some drinking with buddies in New York, but he was working on a new album, which was released in a semi-finished state after his death and had a couple of hits off it.
The Beatles took plenty of uppers & downers during their grueling early days in Hamburg stints in order to be able to perform on stage for long periods of time & then to be able to sleep. I’ve never heard Jame’s Taylor introduced Lennon to heroin as it’s thought per other sources Ono was the one who introduced it to him. How was McCartney instrumental in getting Lennon back w/Ono? I thought I do remember reading Ono made a plea to McCartney in helping to get him to come back home but it was said she told John on the phone something to the effect of, come back home to try this method I’ve found in order to quit smoking. I believe Lennon & Ono still had problems in their marriage until the end despite the songs Lennon wrote on Double Fantasy & what a title I must say-Double Fantasy. I did enjoy the music on that album. Don’t think Lennon’s music was mediocre during The Lost Weekend. I agree with the consensus that it was his most productive period. All the other albums were collaborations with Ono although what appeared to be independently his songs as many were unaware the albums were collaborations, were really good especially Imagine
There were reports just before and after his assassination that he had cancer. One of the reasons he had quit smoking. Only Yoko and his physicians probably know.
Like you really need to make a video asking that! this dude went through the 60s 70s and made it into the 80s with all the recreational delights on offer and he took full advantage.....
He was trying to be healthy. He did Yoga, and had a diet. He did had problems that most did not know. It was revealed recently that near the end of his life (before working on his last album) that a terrorist group tried to get money off him and threatening him and his family. FBI was involved. Also imagine getting back into making music again, the stress on thinking that nobody would like his new material.
He looked better in his fat Beatle phase
So what if he was probably on methadone and a diet?
I didn't think he looked unwell in 1980. I thought he looked well. He was slim, but not thin. I think he looked healthy & happy. I would say it was the early 1970's where he was not looking so good. I am sure he would have been fine. He was a very intelligent man. I think he would have looked after himself. He was just literally just 'Starting Over', when some loser came long and stole his life. I regret what he and all the rest of us missed out on. A genius.
I think your standard of "well "is closer to my standard of anorexia.
@@ivanconnolly7332 Look at the pictures taken by Japanese photographer, Kishin Shinoyama, who took one of the last pictures of John Lennon, and a whole book full of pictures of John in 1980 including the cover photo's for Double Fantasy. John was slim, but that is all. I don't even know why I watched this click-bait video, let alone comment, but the least of his problems was his weight. If you think that is anorexia, I do not. He ate a low calorie diet on purpose as did George, and Paul and Ringo still do .....because if you have lots of money the last thing you want to die of is obesity... then he got shot. What he ate was carefully planned and part of his macrobiotic diet ... and planning intake is more than most people do.
@@MrGman2804Binging and starving was his default, cocaine as a slimming aid is not very macrobiotic.
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That diet has long been criticized for lacking the proper nutrition
@@revrotunda3206 Oh really. In what way? The whole point of it is to be balanced and made up of natural unprocessed food.
Imagine Kieth Richards life.
John was still smoking when he died. But was no longer a heavy drug user.
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
Probably boozing it up every night.
LSD and Heroin were more his thing
I thought he looked alright at the end. After the Beatles though he did a lot of heroin, and other stuff. With that, he didn't have good eating habits. I think he got cleaned up the last several years
I don't think it is reasonable to say John looked unhealthy. When he was shot, I was 17 and he was 40. As a 17 year old I did not see anything unhealthy. As a 60 year old, I still don't. He was slim, and still 'on trend ' or setting trends fashion-wise. I copied some of his idea's including wearing an oversized suit jacket with a loose tie and jeans. So what? He was slim. The unhealthy thing was being shot. That was the mindless tragedy.
It doesn't look like the John from early in in the Beatles because it wasn't, there were a few different people playing the character John Lennon, just like how there was more than one Paul, according to the mainstream narrative earlier the evening he was shot, John offered one of the autograph seekers a cigarette, so obviously he didn't quit, if anyone was shot it was a double, one if the John Lennons became Steve Jobs. That's why Apple Corps didn't sue Apple Computers, there's an interview where they said that Apple is branching out into electronics and telecom. That's why they used the name Steve Jobs for the cpu company that the logo is a bitten apple biblical reference, the Book of Job in the bible, that's why Steve wore a unifor of the same outfit everywhere he went for years, he was a character, they killed him off when his job was finished and the Iphone debuted, that was their tool to push the Babylonian one world order and mark of the beast to usher in the end times. The Beatles were created by Tavistock to destabilize and demoralize society.
Where are the substantiations to all of this where the stories about all this can be verified? Or let’s just say believable via how much one believes & trusts the given sources
He looked great when he died! Drink Grapefruit Juice and don't drink alcohol or smoke; eat yogurt, drink Kefúr, you'll be fine. Drunk Lots of Water 💧
Acording to his diary he had a heroin relapse 1 month before his death.
@@ivanconnolly7332 it's a monkey on the back that never let's go 😔
He got chubby when the Beatles took off and I think he had an image problem with himself..rarely ate
I wouldn't call that fat....maybe baby fat??
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John lost 20lbs in his last years. He was down to 10 stone. This was through choice. He was on a macro biotic diet.
Well, the further weight loss before his death that the narrator talked about was not an indication he was leading a healthier life style. That macrobiotic diet was a fad & is criticized for not providing all the proper nutrition & who knows if he was taking vitamin/mineral supplements. The perception he had of himself as fat is exaggerated-he may have been a bit overweight at some point but he would have been bigger as the camera puts on at least 10 pounds. His lack of self esteem prompted him to think he was fat. I though he looked healthy prior to 1969 & sickly afterwards. There were some photos of him that looked good before his murder but over all, I did not think he looked good.
Underweight. Smoking. Strung-out? Stressed. Isolated in an apartment.
BS. He looked very healthy the last year of his life.
Most of America is a bunch of fat cows yet John being thin is considered unhealthy ! Ok 👍
John was British.
His face didn’t look the same nor did he look healthy in the features of his face
What a load of B.S. Sponsored click bait with no substance or accuracy.
Why do people have to be so mean about other people's weight? There are better things to talk about. Mind your own business and get a life!
please listen to the intonation of this material voice: no soul? a generation of new robots? in my life i loved you more John than the pigs in ICT..... i just believe... in me... and U? cheers!!! Didier
In the Era of Obesity, a thin person is seen as "unhealthy". Funny.
I am an athlete. I am thin but not dried as Lennon. It's a big difference between thin and fit.
His face was gaunt, bags under his eyes-Lennon’s facial features no longer looked handsome. When he had his shades on it still looked like Lennon but a remarkable difference without the shades. So that’s not looking fit despite not being overweight but in my opinion, he was underweight. His body type was not made to be that thin-looked disproportionate. He didn’t look right all the way around
Lennon was devastated by the passing of his best friend and song collaborator. That's why he went into a shell.
In the Playboy Jan 1981 article, when asked if the band might ever reunite, he stated "you don't understand, it is physically impossible for the Beatles to ever go on stage together again." That should tell you all you need to know about what happened to his best friend.
He was a "fat Elvis" before Elvis even became fat. So that's tellin' you something...
John was neurotic. When you look at fat people these days John was not fat... a little plump maybe. The drinking + smoking + drugs were getting to him near the end... but when you talk about rock stars, look at David Crosby... now that's fat. John was nothing compared to Crosby.
I don't know where you get your information from. John Lennon did not look sickly before his death. Is drug use in 1969 has nothing to do with 1980. Get it right or don't get it at all.
That’s your opinion that Lennon didn’t look sickly prior to his death. Others don’t agree & others will agree with you. The only time he looked like himself in the photo shoots before his murder was when he had his shades on. Otherwise, he didn’t look right in the face-old, tired & weathered & that’s separate from being too thin-not right in the face. Drugs/alcohol do affect a person’s appearance-especially a female so where are you getting your information from that drugs/alcohol don’t affect that? The better you take care of yourself in the younger years, the better you will look in your older years. 40 is not old but he looked 55-60
He was thin doesn’t mean he was not healthy.
He didn’t look healthy in the face at all
Can't stand robotic voiceover.
Completely spoils interesting content.
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