"Kenwood" Lennon "Beatle" Home - Nov. 21, 2008
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- This was my once in a lifetime chance to visit the grounds inside and out of John Lennon's "Beatle" home from July 1964 to Dec 1968. I still felt John's spirit throughout the house especially in his attic studio. Located in the upscale St. George's Hill in Weybridge Surrey.
"Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain."
Words written at Kenwood, 1967. Thank you so much for posting this fantastic film. What a treat.
This is my house that I grew up in. The swing in the bottom of the garden was built by my father when I was a little girl. The painted walls in one of the rooms that looks like a circus tent was painted for my little brothers bedroom by our family friend who is an artist. When i was 7 we sold the house to a rich Russian family who knocked down the entire inside and then sold it and never even lived there. They ruined an absolutely amazing house. This video brings back all the memories thank you!
Thanx for that info.
What a shame.
It should be protected by the National Trust.
Cheers.
This is really interesting information. Which years were you living in the house?
what are the chances of this..steeped in history
My brother was close friends with former school boy who lived here. We played in the garden.
Amazing story Cameron. I visited the house when the Russian buyer tore everything up to remodel interior.
Not trespassing if you get permission (which i did). I happened to stop by the house on one of my trips to London and the gate was opened. I asked the owner if he would mind me shooting a video since they were remodeling the whole house and he said okay. It was being at the right place and the right time. It can never happen again.
I'm 10 years behind. Wow. Goo had for me.
This was amazing & spooky to sed.
Thanx for doing it.
Do you know what the status is now?
How did you even get in the security gate in the St. George's? There used to be a makeshift access path through some hedge row we went through when cycling about 20 years ago but when I checked a year or so ago it had been blocked off and sealed.
Similar thing happened to me. I went to visit Tittenhurst Park ( outside only) over 30 year's ago. Luckily the whole perimeter wall was down so you could see right across the Estate including the lake. Unfortunately I had no camera😖
@@da_great_mogul I grew up nearby and live down the road in Byfleet... You're right,until about 15 yrs ago, you could easily walk into St George's Hill...we used to use the side entrance on the road to Cobham and go for lovely walks and focus on Kenwood and Sunny Heights. Would see Cliff Richard in his roller quite often. Now, there is no way anyone will get in without passing security. Last time we slipped through the back (there was a gap now locked and gated!) we got questioned and asked to leave.
BMWproductionCo the circus ceiling wasn't actually in there when John Lennon lived there. It was built by one of my mom's best friends for me. That was my room, with the circus ceiling. And that's the answer to your previous question, the people that lived there before this video was me and my family. It was so sad to watch this but thank you so much Joe Baiardi for uploading this. It was so amazing to see where I grew up again.
Why was you living in England when you're American?
+UltimateFIFAgamerz born in England and raised there until I was 6. Didn't move to America until then. half english half american as well
Hi. If you see this, is the estate abandoned now?
Didn't Ringo buy it from John ?
Looks like some upkeep on the grounds, but not all of it.
Very strange. Is there an owner doing a reno?
May I ask you - who you would be?
Thanx for the info you gave.
As my sisters have said, that was our home when we were little and the PHN at 6:58 is my initials, Palmer Harrison Nix, and that was my room when i was born until i was 5, i am now twelve. Thank you so much for uploading this video and letting me see my home again!!
Aw, so sweet. Glad at least ONE family actually got to enjoy the place!
Palmer your room was where John Lennon had host studio and wrote many Beatles songs. You were so lucky to have lived at this incredible historic house
Very emotioned after seeing this video, now that Cynthia died, 2 days ago... This one should be a museum too. Thanks for sharing!!
metalholst Julian should return his Kenwood House! It belonged to him.
@@nanabokhashvili1047 Yes. But it probably also has sad memories for him.
@@charwest9449 I expressed only my opinion ... He knows better...........
@@nanabokhashvili1047 Return? He got almost nothing from his father, just Oko and Sean got all. It's easy to say give it for a museum.
If you read "John" by Cynthia lennon, she makes a lot of references to this house and the events which took place there. She discusses how the sun room at the back of the house became a sort of den for John to hang out in, how did a lot of writing and recording on the top floor in the attic room and that Yoko used to stand at the gates , hoping to catch a glimpse of John. She returned here after being on holiday , to discover John and Yoko sitting on the floor oblivious to her.
Sad atmosphere.
Yeah think of the songs written in this house!!!!! I never realized how big the place was, great post thanks !
Thank you for posting. I have been fascinated with this property my whole life and always wanted to see it up close.
Me too Michael. I wish it was more assessable as you can feel the history when you are there. Amazing place owned by Russian folks as a vacation home
I am surrey born and bred I was born in St peters hospital in Chertsey surrey I lived in Byfleet most of my childhood Surrey is the most sought after county most celebrities live and buy a property where I live and work I see a lot of celebrities around
I love it; thanks for posting this trek through what I could have otherwise only IMAGINED…
thanks for the magical mystery tour
I cannot believe that the swing was still there from when my dad built it when i was little!! 4:49
What? really?! tell us more.
What year was this when the swing was built?
You were so lucky to have lived there. If I had unlimited funds I would build a house exactly like Kenwood, it’s always been my dream house
Also, the initials on the corner of the window at 6:58 that read PHN are the initials of my little brother that was also painted by the same artist who was a family friend. And someone earlier mentioned about Paul McCartney also living in St. George's Hill, one of my sisters best friends lived down the street in his house.
That was Ringo, not Paul, who used to live in St. George's Hill.
@@duffbaker9554 I wonder how many say crap and think theyre "in" somehow when its all crap. I however did have Pauls autograph, my brother just happened along when he was yapping to girls at his gate on Cavendish. Why he never took pictures I'll never understand. Oh well...
Phenomenal, thank you so much for this!
Isn’t it kind of bizarre that some guy could own that house, remodel it, and do whatever he wanted with it. When in fact, it should be a shrine. There are very few cultural sites where art was created that revolutionized the world as much.
I agree the house should have been preserved as it was in the 1960s. They could even have paid visitors there like "Graceland" you pay to see it. I don't like the word "Shrine" but a "museum" like the John Lennon house in Liverpool people can visit. This is a very historical house.
Sadly this house was remodeled into some bad taste modern style and you see nothing left that John Lennon spent 40k having Kenneth Partridge done the interior in very good 60 style with very great taste. The interior now ruined and looks like any nowadays condo, very bad taste. They should have kept interior as it was and just fix it up. Thanks for posting this though, you are lucky to be there. I can see where George and John stood on the near windows and checked out the ceiling in a few of the old photos 9:00
Paul brainstormed Here there and everywhere out by the pool. a real piece of magic here.
Wow amazing AMAZING house!!!!
Thanks of posting it!!!!
Amazing and sad at the same time... the attic room where many songs where created, the grounds where scenes for Magical Mystery Tour were filmed (Blue Jay Way)... and many photo sessions including the Rubber Soul cover and photos from 1967.... priceless !!
Oh, that attic room where Yoko introduced John to heroin for the first "virgin" time, they screamed all night, took their clothes off, and he decided he was going to kick his wife and young son OUT of his life for this rush. IMMEDIATELY after which, he did a LOT of heroin with her, becoming an addict, and soon broke up the band. The beginning of the end happened in this attic.
@@charwest9449 gtfoh what’s wrong with you psychos 😂 How would you even know this?
SAFE AS MILK is the morning scene of John’s ghost draped over the settee with a good book after another acid night out at the London clubs…
What a beautiful house. He was better protected there then in New York.........sadly. I know that John spent much of the time upstairs due to renovations, whoever had the house afterwards didn't do so well on the upkeep inside.
Looks a superb place. But John was a restless guy, had to be doing new things with new people.
lots of Beatles hits are composed in that house!!!
It should be owned by the city, kept up and used in the Beatle tours. ?? What the heck are they thinking lol
Wow, brilliant vid, thanks or posting!! Your are so lucky for getting to see this!! I read the description of this house in the Hunter Davies biography, but it is far more beautiful in reality, and having visited Johns childhood home in Menlove Avenue last week, I can say its a far cry from there!!
To get a feel for what the house used to look like, take a look at the home movies by John taken at Kenwood.
Wow what a very special place that is, strawberry fields was written in there. The attic room should be preserved,it's all john's art work,if the walls could talk what story's they'd tell.
Strawberry fids was written in spain.alamera Spain
@@stevenlennon12 true
I was always jealous that my brother got to meet Macca at his front gate and that he also dropped by and rang the front door on this house, I believe 1967 era, and Cynthia answered the door but said John was out. Probably said that to every fan brave enough to go in the yard. Ya, why isnt this a heritage home? That top floor, I read in Cyn's book, was where he worked on a lot of music and a mini recording location. Cool stuff.
woa!!!!!!!! just great, lucky you, once in a life time!!!! thanks for share this,,,,
Just “Imagine” all the incredible music John created in that attic. His studio was up there as well as his model race car track. I heard he was very cruel to Julian and when Julian broke one of John’s toy cars he went into a rage.
Like the song playing in the background, I have that on a Rock N Roll 50's Compilation CD
Would've been cool if Julian had been told about the renovations and gotten to walk around a bit.. he might have wanted to see it one more time before they upgraded everything. Unless he had already done that.
at 5.18 you see a swing well it was still there in 2010 when i delivered oak beams to the new owner who was having a swiming pool built at the very bottom of the garden
@niltonser Lennon lived at Menlove Ave in his childhood...
He lived at this House (Kenwood) with Cynthia and Julian from 1964 to 1968 -just the "Beatlemania" Years. I`m Brazillian, sorry by my poor English. Bye
Clauber Casemiro you have great English
St georges hill in weybridge surrey is a lovely place I used to live in a village called Byfleet next door to weybridge surrey the most expensive place to live in the uk
I understand that John felt guilty living in that house because he considered it gauche. It’s in a neighborhood called Stockbrokers Row and he didn’t think he deserved it.
You, my good sir, are one fortunate soul. I love thos house and everything about ot... but it looks so sad and abandoned...
You gonna roll up on Kenwood listening to Freddie & The Dreamers? Balls! lol ;)
6:00 This is where Lennon wrote most of his psychedelic music. It’s so weird to think about how the lyrics for “I Am the Walrus” came into existence within those 4 walls.
Casa linda! Gostaria de conhecer essa casa, meu sonho só de pensar que o John Lennon morou nessa casa❤️
Very cool! Pretty darn sure that the Rubber Soul album cover photo was shot there which makes that place worth a fortune on it's own if you ask me. John lived there from, I wanna say around mid 64 to sometime in 68 if I'm not mistaken, Chances are he penned a number of tunes from Beatles for Sale to Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and a maybe even a bit onward while he was living there.
You are completely correct. I’ve been to the house inside and out about 3 times many years ago. The cover was shot in the driveway on the opposite side of the house
@@TheFab5 Super cool! I'd love to see a then and now video comparison of the exact spot haha, That would something. Allegedly John wrote stuff like In My Life, Day Tripper and Across the Universe in the upstairs of that place. That house should be preserved and turned into a museum lol. I can imagine John penned many of songs and had many of trips in that place.
@@goodskater6789 he wrote many many songs in that house as well as he and Paul (and Paul wrote Good Day Sunshine in the backyard). Listen to any Lennon Weybridge tapes and you can here the demos recorded up there
@@goodskater6789 ua-cam.com/video/jhJcQqprVgw/v-deo.html
Yep. His studio was in the attic.
John was great but if he had stayed here or Tittenhurst Park he might still be alive today.
john called kenwood a bus stop he should have stayed in england like paul and george
If your bloody taxes weren't so high, paying for your queen and palaces and all, maybe he would have stayed in England. He fought like hell to live in NYC.
@@trevorb6 Taxes?? What has taxes got to do with anything. He could afford to live here in the UK. But he ( or rather Yoko) chose NY.
@@roywatson8133 Don't be so naïve to think that Paul McCartney's or George Harrison's tax address was anywhere in the UK after 1968 or so.
@@wanderer1955 Taxes has everything to do with it. Research it, if you want.
Where is the video that compares this with Lennon photos from the time he lived there I've watched several times before but the photo comparisons have been removed would love to see again, all in all though if those walls could speak so many great songs written in that home ✌️
Sensational video. I can feel the spirit to.
I didn't. It's a mess that place
***** "anyone catch a glimpse of the red and white psychedelic circus ceiling? laying right there in his acid drenched mind is where john came up with "for the benefit of Mister Kite" lots of acid adventures were taken within and outside of these walls" I find this funny that you think you know what you're talking about. You made avery ounce of that up, and I know that because that ceiling wasn't painted until 2003, well after John Lennon live there. I know all of that because that was my house and that room with the circus ceiling was the bedroom where I grew up.
John got “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite” lyrics off a poster he bought in an antiques store.
@@njriley55 Word for word, apparently.
Nas fotos da época que o John Lennon, Cynthia e Julian Lennon nós mostrava o quanto o jardim era lindo.
Watching this I can kind of see why John moved to NYC. So opulent but lonely and isolated. I think he preferred the hustle and bustle of the city.
bittersweet
He is house needed a lot of work! I hope they finish it up!
i couldnt careless if you got permission this is good
I notice the original white pool fence has been taken down. you can see it one of the other videos of Kenwood.
The video has a slightly surreal quality to it.
If those walls could speak.............
The backyard garden was used for the cello scene in Magical Mystery Tour.
It was ringos home just down the street from johns that they shot the blue jay ways scene but both homes have equally beautiful rockeries
Would have been cool if you had john demos recorded there playing over the video,,,
Paul would visit John at Kenwood most afternoons for a songwriting session.
That George Martin had already composed
The house is located in the area of St George's Hill in Surrey.
Weybridge is a lovely place and it's high street has the most fantastic shops
Imagine all the potsmoking and LSD and Mushroom tripping that went on at this local...with rockers like Clapton , Ginger Baker , Jack Bruce , The Stones , et al !!!
This is great & v interesting.. Thank you kindly for posting this !! How come you got such easy access - was the house on the market at the time ?? Cheers & bye for now. Peace Rx
Great video,how did you get to do this?
The national Trust should buy this house,like they have done Mendips.
Or at least Yoko could've bought it and donate it to the national Trust, like she did with Mendips. But with all the renovations and changes, it wouldn't be same as Mendips. A shame.
I notice the original white pool fence has been taken down. you can see it one of the other videos of Kenwood.
The video has a slightly surreal quality to it.
This is where Cynthia came home from a trip and found yoko and john sitting on the floor in bathrobes the beginning of the end of john Lennon and the fab 4
That's all I could think of too. This was Cynthia and Johns house, containing all their dreams as a young family with Julian, playing in the garden. And one day Cynthia had to come home to it to find Yoko sitting in Cynthia's own robe, having just spent the last 4 days in Cynthia's marital home with John. And Yoko just glared at her in triumph, get out, it's all mine now. The place is so haunted. It SHOULD be a museum. I can just imagine the tour: And THIS is the attic where Yoko introduced John to heroin and took off her clothes for the world ...
@@charwest9449... What a horrible Yoko.
john and cynthia lived in a flat in Liverpool just of hope street.just before the beatles made it big .Cynthia hated London she was always in Liverpool.
Scousers are not good travellers
What a stately property. So grand. Ironic that John settled here. Seems a bit stodgy for him.
I notice the original white pool fence has been taken down. you can see it one of the other videos of Kenwood.
so THIS was the misery he had to escape, the dreaded Stockbroker Belt?!
That is a future home of mine !!!
If those attic walls could talk.
The Banham lock at 9:15 - do you think that was there in '63-'68 period?
Interesting vid. I can see though how John felt isolated there while Paul was hanging out in swinging London.
For whom is this extensive renovation being carried out? Do they intend to restore any of it to appear as it was when the Lennons lived there more than 40 years ago?
7:20 is it possible that was painted by John or someone close to him? So trippy.
At 6:00 is this the room where John and Paul wrote ?
Yes
@@TheFab5 That is too cool
the song where john and yoko were singin everybody's had a hard year is filmed at the side of this house it was filmed about the late 1960's
f yoko, she was an evil spirit there
So sad
I wish john put house under Julian's name that way come have it
@joeyb1964
no entiendo su casa de lennon no fue la de liverpool ' en menlove st .. y esa casa de kenwood q casa es ? cuando vivio alli ? ...alguien me puede responder ? q casas es y de qaño aq año vivio alli a proposito porq esta tan deteriorada esa casa ?.....please you reply ...
Lennon vivio en la casa del Men love en su ninez y adolescencia. Aqui vivio con su primera esposa Cynthia y su hijo Julian. Creo que la casa esta abandonada.
look at video called surprise surprise where john and yoko are singing its at the side of this house
surprise surprise i'm with my heroin dealer, kicked my wife and little boy out ...
Why would they remodel the house
Why not. Not everybody is a Beatles fan. The Arab guy who bought Tittenhurst Park from Ringo completely gutted out TP and made it unrecognisable from John's time. And TP is a listed building. Council slaughtered him for that. Still when your richer than god who cares.
The house is absndoned??
right by that swimmin pool is where john and yoko were kissing in the film 2 virgins
Sorry but I 'am the Argentina ... and maybe is the wrong of name's ... !!! Bonham is john Bonham the Band of Led Zeppelin ..
I Don't understood .. please sorry .. but Somebody explain me .. is or not that !!!
Thenk youuu ... !!!
Good film and Beaty home !!!!
... John Lennon de los Beatles.
It looks a bit run down now doesn’t it ?
I'm buying this house
... She Said (She Said!) how she hated him & also (get on this!!) swore blind that Ringo (who was a frequent visitor) stank really bad & that people in the village used to cross the road to avoid him ??? Lady of Truth & Wisdom - or Daft Old Bint (Who Should Know Better!!) I'll let you good people decide..RIP John/George.. Peace Rx
looks abandoned?
Compelling grounds with ghosts of occupants past…
ringo had a house on the same private estate called sunny heights and john's son julian used to play with the neighbour's kids they put a video on youtube they do a little tour of the estate and show you photo's of julian and themselves when they were kids type in st georges hill on here
great thanks!
Yes, thanx for that.
Thanks!
He felt free in the USA. People left him alone and he treasured that.
Until one shot him!
You lucky duck.
Hows about some commentary??
john paid 20grand for this back in the 60s it has been sold recently for 15 million
5 mins of garden so boring when wanting to see inside sorry
Most of the Beatles music is written in this house, that`s a fact
It's in a bit of a state.
A Arab did the same with tittenhurst in ascot very aad
who gives a shit if he's trespassing fuckin well in for filming
People !! Sorry but .. ask one questions ....
Why in the door say BONHAM ...???
PLEASE IS THE HOUSE OF JOHN BONHAM THE LED ZEPPELIN ?????
Vilmis Vigorelli is the key company 🙄
Horrible fussy place, no wonder no-one ever stays there
Well clearly the owners after didn't remove the circus theme in the attic where many a trip were spent. Think for the benefit of mister kite. Who lived there when you filmed this?
can you imagine the shit that got smoked there back in the day lol
Renovations me and destroy the place sad.
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