WASN'T EXPECTING THAT!| FIRST TIME HEARING John Lennon -( Just Like) Starting Over REACTION
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- WASN'T EXPECTING THAT!| FIRST TIME HEARING John Lennon -( Just Like) Starting Over REACTION
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This song came out only a month and a half before John Lennon was killed. It was the very first single to be released from John & Yoko's new album. This song was released about 4 weeks before the full album. It felt so sweet and wonderful to hear John's new sound, and about his new life with Yoko and Sean. But that feeling changed after his murder, and now this song always feels so bittersweet because their life was supposed to be starting over, and instead it ended.😢 But we still love this song, and are so happy you played it!🤗
I was going to write almost the exact same thing. Great song, but it feels so bittersweet.
Such a tragic loss ~ there are still days when I can't believe he's gone ~ it still feels surreal to me.
Right. This song is from the "Double Fantasy" album. Bittersweet, for sure, as is the video. This song always chokes me up.
The hopefulness and love of the lyrics about him and his wife is now heartbreaking. The Double Fantasy album this came off was his hit comeback after 5 years and then he was murdered... it was such a big shock to millions of fans. The song Woman which was a follow-up single is a great love song and even more heart-breaking.
That song was being played EVERYWHERE in my neck of the woods, seemed like constantly...but us Beatles Fans didn't mind it for it was a fitting tribute. ✌🏼
John truly was starting over with this record. Who knows what the 80's would have sounded like if John was still alive.
And the 90's, and the new millennium...
Julian gave us a good sample with his debut album. Both of his kids are even more skilled as vocalists than he was, and Sean has inherited the Ono family talent on the piano from his mother and maternal grandfather.
God Bless you John --RIP!
You're right brother.. who knows.
Amen. Rest in Peace, Man of Peace.
I recommend his song "Watching the Wheels" off this album. It is about him not touring or producing regular albums to "stay in the game". Basically it is about being happy without the hectic life and popularity of being in the Beatles. Unfortunately he was still known well enough for somebody to think that killing him would make them famous.
Sadly, we all know his name.
There are conspiracy theories claiming the autopsy report was a forgery and that he was shot in the chest rather than the back. They claim it was the mob and the CIA working in cahoots. Reagan didn't want to deal with being called a shorthaired, yellow-bellied son of Tricky Dicky. As far as organized crime is concerned, Lennon was a hood rat from the Irish Mafia enclave of Liverpool who moved into Genovese turf after the Beatles broke up. Although he was only 5 years old at the time, Sean has expressed a belief that it's a strong possibility that the government was involved in a conspiracy to kill his dad.
Richie Havens listened to “Watching The Wheels” and stopped the song because it filled him with a foreboding sense of doom. That doom would sadly be Realized a few weeks ago.
John Lennon's album Double Fantasy was climbing up the charts in 1980 when he was tragically murdered. Starting over went to #1 in 1981 posthumously. RIP
Went to strawberry fields December 8th every year with thousands to honor him,for 20 years,or until they stopped us from doing mushrooms in park.😂.yoko used to watch from her winow in the Dakota apartments .which is where he was murdered In 80 .😢
As a single, this tune was released 24 days before the album. On the day he died, it was in the top ten at #6 on the US charts. In the UK, it peaked at #8 and dropped to #21 before it bounced back to the top of the chart in the wake of his death. A month after his death, three songs from Double Fantasy were in the top five on the UK charts, which was a record that stood for 35 years until it was broken by Justin Bieber.
Correction. The song went to #1 on 12/27/1980. Not 1981.
Yoko and John had a rocky patch in their marriage when they weren’t together and later they came back together and rebuilt their relationship. I think that’s what this song is about.
Please also check out John’s song “Watching the Wheels”! It’s great! ❤
Most of the album is about them mending their relationship.
@@pjg58xyeah, you can tell it’s a definite theme!
Second "Watching the Wheels", such an amazing piece of song writing.
John wrote this song while he was sailing from Rhode Island to Bermuda on his yacht in the summer of 1980 when Sean was about four years old. He also wrote Beautiful Boy during his voyage. They were separated when he wrote the song, but not because of any marital conflicts. John needed some time away from home for songwriting inspiration so he took his yacht and went on a trip without Yoko and the baby. Their separation began in the summer of 1973 and ended early in 1975 shortly before Sean was conceived. Leonard Bernstein became a neighbor five floors below John and Yoko's apartment while Yoko was pregnant and lived there until his death in 1990. John and Yoko's neighbor across the hall was Roberta Flack. She sold her apartment in 2018. In 2010 Flack was interviewed about her experiences as John Lennon's next door neighbor for a New York Times article published on the 30th anniversary of the murder.
He hated California and when he was with Mai Pang he was out of control.
He had Mommy issues. Needed supervision. Recovered beautifully. Damn shame ~Red
Kids. You have to listen to this tune in context. It was his first song released after his five-year hiatus from music and public life. He meant for it to be light and uplifting. He was eager to return to music and start a new decade. The little bell at the beginning was to contrast the heavy, solemn bell tolling at the beginning of "Mother." He was so happy. He was shot soon after this single was released.
I will never, ever, ever, ever forget that night.
You might want to check out his son Julian Lennon. Some of his songs starting in the 80s were Valotte, Too Late For Goodbyes and Now You're In Heaven.
Was just thinking that
And his masterpiece Saltwater from 1991
It's a shame that John's relationship with Julian wasn't better.
@@DerekDominoes Yeah, John was an absentee father at best.
And sings just like Dad.
This song came out while i was in high school in 1980 I believe it was. I immediately loved it and still do. Of course, sadly the world lost the biggest single music icon, John Lennon, on December 8, 1980. 😢
I was going to say that date was just about two months before his assassination.
I was in high school too. Loved the song when it came out!
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I actually remember the night of John's murder. I was a senior in high school, and watched Monday Night Football every Monday night. On this particular night, the two teams playing had played to a tie in regulation, which meant going into overtime. At the time, I couldn't stay up and watch the rest of the game, I had to be at school the next day. If I had stayed up, Howard Cosell would have broken into the announcing to mention John Lennon had been shot and taken to the hospital. The next day at school, people who knew I was a Beatles fan asked me if I heard about John Lennon's death. It was a total shock to everyone, given the fact John had released a new album, first one in about five years.
I remember I was in jr.high and the next day the kids in English class were complaining about football on TV being interrupted the night before with the announcement of John Lennon being shot 😿
This song always makes me happy and sad
I just visited The Dakota in New York City (Central Park West) where John and Yoko lived and where he was assassinated on December 8th, 1980 when I was 14 years old. When my son and I visited and then walked across the street to Strawberry Fields in Central Park, I got chills and was overwhelmed with nostalgia. Ps. The Dakota is an absolutely glorious apartment building, stunningly beautiful.
Ooh was in NYC 1st week of August. 1st full day went to Dakota & Strawberry Fields! There may have been tears 😳
I was there just today, and I'm not in that part of town very often. Great to see their reaction to this incredible song.
@@mocknburd23 Wow! My son lives in Hells Kitchen and I visited him in late July for his 25th Birthday. As a 14 year old those old pics of The Dakota didn’t do that beautiful structure justice. I was speechless by its beauty and solemn as we stood in the archway where Lennon was shot. Quite a moving experience. Cheers Mr. Mocknburd23 and Best Wishes!
@@Bekka_Noyb I was there in late July for my son’s 25th Birthday. He works for Barclays Bank and lives in midtown. Same…I had a lump in my throat for an hour.
So a bit of New York got named after the Liverpool place that was part of the inspiration for the song Strawberry Fields over a decade before.
This was being played regularly on radio stations on the day he was killed, which made hearing it after that incredibly painful.
John was dormant, retired from the music industry, and in reclusion from 1975 to 1980, 1976 there were rumors of a Beatle reunion so when Lennon released "Starting Over" and "Watching The Wheels" from the Double Fantasy Album the excitement was back and then we lost him. A side note, during John's reclusion he heard "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen, and it inspired him to come out of retirement.
There was also the night in 1979 at a dance club in Bermuda where he first heard the B-52s' song "Rock Lobster." He said it reminded him of Yoko's performances, and it motivated him to get back into the studio and begin recording again.
@@jdw5678 Yes, I remember that being one of John's motivations too.
I heard it was McCartney's "Coming Up" that got John back in the recording studio. Could be both and some other things.
@jdw5678 That's the interview I heard John giving: he heard "Rock Lobster" when vacationing in Bermuda, and called Yoko, saying, "They're ready for us" (meaning her music as well as his).
And so they scheduled time in a studio and made "Double Fantasy." If you check the cover of the album, it will be no mystery who he's singing to in "Starting Over." 😥
A bluesy, fast-paced John Lennon song with plenty of horns: "Whatever Gets You Through the Night." Elton John played piano on it and also sang backing vocals.
You guys should check out “Too Late For Goodbyes” by Julian Lennon, John’s older son. It was released in 84, nearly four years after John’s death but if you didn’t know better, you’d swear it was John.
"When I'm 64" is a reference to a Beatle song off of St. Pepper.
This is so bittersweet to hear. Our daughter was the same age as Sean Lennon when John was killed. She was asking what had happened that made us so sad. When we mentioned that Sean was her age, and had lost his Dad, she got it. We've always wondered where John would have taken us with his music as he aged...
This song makes you cry when you realize it feels more like a goodbye song from john
And it hit no.1 after his death
You guys should check out his Son Julian Lennon’s song - Too Late For Goodbyes.
If you do Julian Lennon, you need to start with "Valotte", his first single. Released just 3 years after John's death, people were still mourning, and this song really hit in the feels.
I think Julian looks and sounds so much like his Dad.
@@user-or1ye3iz6d You're right about the voice, but only half right about his face. He's got his mother's eyes and his dad's smile.
That last shot is of the area in Central Park, NYC, that is dedicated to John- where people gather and sing Beatle songs. There are videos of this on UA-cam. The building is The Dakota, where John lived with Yoko and Sean, which looms over the tribute area that is aptly named "Strawberry Fields."
Hearing this song is always bittersweet for me.
After his Lost Weekend- which lasted for about three years in the early 1970s and which almost resulted in him and Yoko getting a divorce- John Lennon has recommitted himself to his marriage and to become, essentially, a "househusband", taking over the duties of things like shopping, reading to Sean, cleaning the apartment and such while Yoko ran the business end of things. After about 5 years of this, Lennon was ready to go back to the studio and record. Interviews of this period show a Lennon more at peace with himself, his life and with fame than perhaps he had ever been. He genuinely looked forward to the future.
And then came December 8th, 1980.
I forgot how good that song is!
It's unreal that it's been 43 years. I'm 56 and it was a lifetime ago. So many people that were a part of our crowd are gone. The precious memories I have. I was only 13 and I can still remember the way music touched my soul. The best of times it surely was.
He was talking about him and Yoko. A month or so after this song and Double Fantasy came out, he was gone. This song still makes me happy, thinking how optimistic and excited he was about their future together...
This song, along with the Double Fantasy album, came out in 1980, after John hadn't recorded any new music since 1975. So after that five year break, he had kind of a different attitude and approach. "Starting Over" is often overshadowed by the tragedy that followed only months later, but taken on its own merits, I heard a big debt to the '50s rock & roll that inspired John to do music in the first place. John still has the spark, but there's something different, like he's finally gotten over The Beatles, or maybe he just wasn't carrying the same baggage anymore as he was on his first run of solo albums. Even as he's going back to his own roots (i.e. '50s rock) you can still hear he's grown. All of which makes what happened to him in December '80 all the more heartbreaking, but we'll remember him for all the timeless music he shared with us.
It sounds like John was also influenced by ELO a bit on this song too.
Amber & Jay, here are some other great John Lennon songs to react to: "Mind Games", "Gimme Some Truth", "I'm Losing You", "Watching the Wheels", "How", "Give Peace a Chance", "Mother", and "#9 Dream".
“How” is a great one! First time I heard it was a version that OZZY did (video on UA-cam). It was a tribute of sorts to John Lennon. I loved it, so I immediately had to look up John Lennon singing it.
Those are all great songs but I especially like #9 Dream.
That and I'm Only Sleeping when he was still Beatle-ing. Have y'all done either of those songs? Thanks Rob squad.
Please do Gimme Some Truth from Imagine.
When I'm 64 was a Beatles song, one of Paul's. In fact he wrote it as a teenager.
This sounds like something ELO would have come up with. Great song.
IN FACT....I used to actually confuse this with being an ELO record!!....then I found out, oh s*** it's John Lennon!😃
You have no idea what it was like to go immediately from the joy, elation, and reacquaintance we had with John&Yoko when this album was released, only to this day still grieving what could have been a new era. One consolidation, he never resorted to releasing a tribute to the big band classics.
I have always thought that "Starting Over" was referring to him coming back to the music world after his five years in seclusion, with the release of Double Fantasy. "Watching the Wheels" is almost like a sister song to it, talking about what he had been doing for all that time, and re-discovering who he was when he was not Beatle John. It's gorgeous, as is Beautiful Boy.
He brought the Elvis vibes .. great song
As so many people said this album became so heartbreaking. The songs are so sweet and loving and then it was all cut short. This was a monster album when it came out as Lennon was back
Love John Lennon. Give a listen to Mother, God, Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep or Cold Turkey
From his Double Fantasy album, 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Love John!!My favorite Beatle!!He cared about others and had a social conscience❤FYI-When I'm 64 is a Beatles' song
‘When I’m 64’ is one of those “Paul’s Granny songs” that John says he hated. Funny that you should mention it here.
@@salbuda6957 It was a quote clip at the beginning of the video - a reporter asked him what he thought 64 would look like for him
Oh that’s what she was mumbling. Thanks! 😁
The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and I had been playing it and become quite familiar with it. And I like everything on the album, even including Yoko Ono's stuff. Kiss Kiss Me Do is such a strange cutting edge feeling of new wave and punk or something plus experimental for 1980.
I was literally playing this Double Fantasy album that was brand new on my turntable, and I'm pretty sure it was the song Watching the Wheels Go Round and Round, when my mom knocked on my bedroom door and leaned in and said, I thought you would want to know that John Lennon has been assassinated.
I love the “doo-wop” feel of this song, punctuated by the terrific background singers. Great song reaction choice. Thanks for the memories.
Clearly about him and Yoko….the definition of sentimental.
He took a long time off and this was his comeback in 1980. This album was huge.
This John Lennon song was on his comeback album Double Fantasy. It was in the top 10 in the US and UK at the time Lennon was murdered in NYC in December 1980. Subsequently it went straight to Number 1
I don't think it was. It hovered around the lower end of the UK twenty and then shot up to number 1 after he was killed. 'Nuff said.
Assassinated.
@@richruksenas5992yes, it had a lukewarm reception in the UK, was on its way down the chart having only reached the mid twenties then it immediately went to No.1 after he was assassinated
And equally the reviews for the Double Fantasy album were at best “mixed”, but it obviously became a massive seller posthumously.
This song went to #1 less than 1 month after he was shot and killed 😢 I remember sitting in the back of my aunt’s car as a 6th grader in 1981 and this was playing
The reference to 64 is from the famous Beatles song When I’m Sixty Four 😉
This song takes me back to night he died. I don't shed a tear often when people die that I did not know, but I certainly was overcome when the news came that he passed away. One of the most talented singers and songwriters of all time, and the founder of the greatest band ever. I still can't process it.
Admittedly both of you have a heartfelt appreciation for John's music.....still it is difficult for anyone, not of the generation that was captured by his magic, to comprehend the devastation his murder caused. The recollection of all of the news stations flashing "John Lennon shot!" Followed shortly by the announcement of his death, caused an overflow of immense grief.
When a final statement was released detailing the murder, the first thought that ran through my mind was that it was over. Things were never going to be the same. An age of innocence was gone & indeed it was....
John was not just a rock star, he was the conscience of millions who hoped for a better world....✌️🌍
This is my favorite John Lennon solo song. I think he wrote it after he and Yoko reconciled. They were separate for about a year in the early 70s.
John had a MAJOR awakening and change in the way he related to women after he got with Yoko. Especially after the birth of their son, Sean in 1975. This song was on his very last album, Double Fantasy. They had been in the studio there in New York putting the final touches on the album and came home that fateful night to find a "fan" waiting for them. It was Mark David Chapman, the man who then shot John to death right there in the archway of The Dakota, their beloved home of many years. 💔 His broken round glasses lay shattered on the ground at the scene and have become an iconic symbol of that terrible event. Double Fantasy was John's first album or even his first attempt to record since Sean's birth 5 years earlier. People around the world were shocked and saddened.I cried my eyes out for days! I had loved him from afar since I was a 13 year old Beatlemaniac. John was only 40 when he died. It was obvious from the Double Fantasy album there was a lot more music he had in store for us. Please react to Watching the Wheels Go Around from DF album also. When you hear those lyrics it makes you wonder if John had some sort of feeling he wouldn't be around much longer. And thanks again you two. Love ya! Your friend Rose from Las Vegas. ❤❤❤
I also have no doubt that Yoko opened John to a greater emotional and spiritual consciousness and growth. I just wish she would not "sing" her screeching anywhere near a John Lennon song. Just no.
@@sarahdee374Yes, her banalities were not an asset.
Yoko Ono destroyed the Beatles
@@SandraMoore-d6j I used to be young and dumb enough to blame Yoko too. Then I grew up and realized John and Paul were growing in different directions. And John was an ass towards women by his own admission. He was always my favorite Beatle but he did need to learn what Yoko thankfully taught him. Have a great day! 👋 😊 ✌
This was heartbreaking because he was finally making music again after 5 years to raise his son, sean & this was a huge hit! They were planning a world tour. Then he was shot soon afterward 😢 Do "Beautiful Boy" next! Also, "Instant Karma."
They already reacted to "Beautiful Boy".👦😊💖
They've reacted to both already 😉
@@frauleinmonaand Instant Karma
@@eviekelpie1 That's right! "Instant Karma" too! I forgot about that!😁 Thanks for the reminder!👌
His last single. the irony of it is not lost on me.
When this came out just before john was killed it made it all the more heartbreaking becuse he had been away for so long and he was back with this and so much more to say and it was over in a instant of madness still hard to imagine
I was at John Jay College the day after John's death and Pulitzer prize winner Audrey Lorde, was my poetry professor. We spend 2hrs just reminiscing about The Beatles and Lennon in particular.
It was a sad and joyest day because of the body of music he left behind.
This album was his best work.
John Jay and poetry?
@@salbuda6957 Yeah, she was the resident poet laureate of the college.
To this day, I can't hear this song without getting chills throughout my body and feeling tears form in my eyes. This song was in the charts and played constantly during that horrible time in 1980. I'll forever associate it with John's murder. The irony that he was in the process of starting over with his music and personal life was almost too much to bear.
The last shot that said "Imagine" is the stone in Central Park at Strawberry Fields, and then the camera panned up to the Dakota, which is the apartment where he lived, and sadly the location where he was shot.
I hope you'll do the Ballad of John and Yoko one day. I think you'd enjoy it for the story it tells.
Just a coincidence I guess but Sir Paul mentions the word Dakota in his song, Rocky Raccoon where someone gets shot. Didn't die but did get shot. Paul was "dead" when that record came out.
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 Oh wow, I never knew that. I knew there were some freaky things with their music. I looked to see if they were living there yet, but they didn't move for five years after Rocky Raccoon was released.
Also, Amber and Jay - "When I'm 64" is a song by the Beatles.
@@hellokimmy68 Yes, I understand Paul wrote When I'm 64 when he was 14. So he was way ahead of his time. People would hear that song sung by the Beatles'in the Cavern Club and then be amazed when it appeared on the Sgt Pepper's album. Thank God Sir Paul is still with us. We are very blessed to have lived at the same time as the greatest song writer ever. Not to mention the other three geniuses in the group. Today, October 9th btw, is John Lennon's birthday. He would have been 83. This should be a national holiday in the UK and here as well. Long live the Beatles.
In interviews John said he did this song in "Elvis Orbison" style.
One half of the greatist songwriting duo of all time!
Jay & Amber, you'll Love his "Whatever Gets You thru the Night"!!!!
edit- Todays song is from the 'Double Fantasy' album 1980. Jay, 'Imagine' album was 1971.
Absolutely!
Omg, one of my faves! This, Watching the Wheels, and Woman are among my all-time favorite songs EVER!!! 🥰
The Imagine mosiac is in Central Park, NY, not far from the Dakota Building were he and Yoko lived at 72nd Street and Central Park West - the building you see at the end. It was installed there a few years after he died, since he and Yoko, often with Sean, would take walks in the park.
Lennon's final album. They reissued it on CD 20 years later in 2000 with three extra tracks, including a Yoko Ono lead vocal called Walking on Thin Ice which features a guitar overdub that John recorded less than an hour before he was killed.
I have the 45 of Walking On Thin Ice. I bought it because I heard it was the last thing he worked on. It still gives me the chills.
This was from his and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy album the last he would ever record.
It was released in November 1980 a month before his untimely death.
Thanks for the reaction RS. Watching the wheels was also a favourite of mine. Have a Blessed day
I've heard this song many times, but I've never seen this video! Thank you for sharing it!
It's a fan made video
bittersweet song. it came out and immediately went up the charts. It hit #1 in the US at about the time he was assassinated. it was a big deal, and still is. Very popular song.
i remember when my brother brought this album home along with styx paradise theater early 80s.
64 was written by Paul . this was Lennon's last album. It was said that he and Paul had planed on getting together to write again . The studio was booked so they were to meet in England later. It never happened . Sad! i like the song it shows he wanted a new beginning for his relationships.
Yes, this is about working again with Paul. He references “Wings” “Another Day” “Darling.” Paul and John referenced each other in their songs regularly and the were planning on working together again very soon. Such a tragedy.
This is probably my favorite song from John Lennon, I think it's a beautifully nostalgic farewell to the genius who led to The Beatles, we miss u John
Great song but sad too, hit No.1 when he was tragically shot and killed
This isn't from the Imagine album, which issued in 1971. This song is from his Double Fantasy album, from 1980.
The mention of taking a photograph to see what I'll look like when i'm 64 is most likely an homage to the Beetles song "When I'm 64". You should react to it next.
This song was John Lennon's way of going back to his rock'n'roll roots from his teenage days of the 1950s, and he took the 1950s rock sound in his comeback album and the first single in this great 1980 Starting Over album. It was like seeing and hearing a healthy happy John Lennon after a 5 year hiatus, ready to create new beautiful music and more great things to the world throughout the 1980's, just before he was tragically killed and taken from us by a crazy fan outside his home on a December day in 1980.
Rock lost a shining soul at that time
Some John Solo Bangers:
Cold Turkey
Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
What You Got
Nobody Told Me
I remember when this album came out and it was awesome. Shortly after I was watching MNF and Howard Cossell announced he had been murdered. Can anyone IMAGINE how much more music he would have created. RIP
The day after John Lennon was taken away from us, my high school teacher brought a record player and several Beatles albums for us to listen to. This was strange as we were an urban high school and most of us never heard of the Beatles or John Lennon. After that day I was a Beatles and John Lennon fan. It is so sad that at the time he was starting over, it was to be the end. This song, plus Watching the Wheels and Woman brings back so many memories of my youth. Thanks for reacting to this song.
It has a rockabilly sound, love it.
You should check out Elton John’s song “Empty Garden” written about John after his death.
Yeah it got the tears going back in the day
November 1980. I’m sitting in my room, holding the album cover of Double Fantasy in my hands, flipping it back and forth while Starting Over is playing. I’m so excited and happy and keep pinching myself because John Lennon had a new album out and some songs were soooo awesome. I’m 15 years old and only a month later I’m about to be crying my eyes out.
This song was absolutely flying up the American singles chart before Lennon was senselessly shot. It was already going to be huge. It spent 5 weeks at #1 in late 1980 to early 1981. I still wonder how the charts would've played out had he still been alive in the 80's. He was making an awesome comeback.
Greatest rock star of all time! Miss you , John
John said in an interview the Double Fantasy album was a conversation between him and Yoko. He also said it was reaching out to his generation hello how are you after not recording through the 2nd half of the 70’s. I still. get tears when I hear songs from the Double Fantasy album and wonder what more incredible music from him would have been like😢
Thank you for the sweet dance-y reaction to one of my many favorite, but most bittersweet John Lennon song.
I was so excited when John released this album. I was so excited for all the new music that was to come and then we were all robbed of that in one unbelievable moment. There was no starting over,so senseless.
I was so excited to buy this album when it came out. 2 months later - the week before he died my house burned down. I saved the album since I bought it when he was alive - even though it was melted & smelled like smoke. Such a happy song makes me sad since this was his comeback and he was gone just weeks later. 😢
Both MUST HEAR classics,, John Lennon
"#9 Dream" & "Hold On" ❤
I was 11 years old and just getting into music. I knew "The Beatles" but not the individual members. So I had no idea who John Lennon was at that time. I loved the song from the moment I heard it but after his death and learning who he was it became even more special and poignant.
I was 11 in 1980 as well and his death hit me so hard. I can still remember so clearly sitting in my 6th grade classroom fighting back tears the next day. Everyone was talking about it😞
You need to check out one of his older Solo song - Working Class Hero , Great , Great Song , and You Guys are Awesome!! Keep doing what you Do . Thanks
John would be so INCREDIBLY PROUD,, Sean Lennon "Parachute",, "Dead Meat" & "On Again Off Again" ❤
Classic from my childhood
Ambers reaction once again is Awesome 😊 Open-minded and not expecting every song and movie to be what she's "Used to"😊
Always LOVED this absolute classic,, The Beatles "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"..
TRUST ME on this one!!
“Woman,” and “Grow Old With Me,” are three of my favorite songs of John singing about his love of Yoko “Beautiful Boy,” is another one written for their child, Sean, that’s just as beautiful
If you want to hear a COMPLETELY, different Lennon solo work, listen to “Mother” from his solo album the Plastic Ono Band… it is RAW
That complete album is one in a million. My favorite all time album since I was 13.
Someone other than John made this video. I can't hear this song without fighting back tears. To grow up listening to The Beatles then loving his solo work only to have it all end in the worst of tragedies bring out feeling that can't be explained. GOD, from his PLASTIC ONO BAND album is another song that tears at me. Someday you might give it a listen.
I was going to suggest that one too... heartbreaking and oh, so powerful
Great choice. Great song. Props to the person that suggested it.
The song is about starting a new life with Sean, his son, and Yoko. He was abandoning his Beatle years and friends. This was just a couple months before his death. It was just getting popular and it was all over.
John had just gone 5 years without releasing anything and was a homebody from 1975 on. Some believe J. Edgar Hoover, so upset at the Beatles and Lennon's influence on society had been trying to get Lennon deported for years. The speculation is the his killer was fed LSD and pyshciatric manuevering to make him kill John.
Thank you for doing this! I’m 65 years old and still have a John Lennon room in my house. Such a terrible loss for all of us. I danced the mother/son dance at both of my sons weddings to John Lennon. You’ve got to hear the rest of the Double Fantasy Album. A couple weeks after he passed, there was a TV special on is a tribute to him. They played “Woman” for the first time. It played in the background as John and Yoko walking hand in hand through Central Park. I still cry when I hear Woman 😢
This song was John Lennon's 2nd and last #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after he was murdered. The song itself stayed at the #1 spot for 5 weeks between late December 1980 through mid-January of 1981. John Lennon was one of a kind singer-songwriter of his time. RIP John
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The IMAGINE that is shown is the IMAGINE stonework in Central Park, then it panned the The Dakota, where he lived and died
John would also be ABSOLUTELY PROUD,, Julian Lennon "Saltwater",, "Valotte" & "Too Late For Goodbyes" ❤
As Good as this Song is. It's Bittersweet For Me! I was a Junior in High school. And the Monday Night of December 8. 1980! I was already in bed, I was getting over a Cold. And I always played my Radio. The music 🎶 help lull me to Sleep 😴. But this was the Song they Played after the Announcement that LENNON Had Passed Away from Gun Shot Wounds he Suffered Earlier that evening! I layed there in Bed . Tearing Up 😢 And in Utter SHOCK!! So Unfortunately, this Great Song always Brings that Awful Memory Back on Me! 😭
You're too young for John Lennon, you weren't even alive during The Beatles era
I remember that night it is burned into my brain and heart forever
Watching the Wheels off the same album is a fabulous song.
The record that this song is from is the last record John Lennon released before his death. It's called Double Fantasy.
This song of hope is still heartbreaking 43 years later.