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  • Genius

  • Oh please, he could barely play any instrument.

  • @TheDevilsBusiness but he wrote dozens of songs that have been shown time and time again as being the most influential songs of the 20th century. the majority of people in the music industry dont see the beatles and john lennon as just music or just being something people did with intruments. they see it as art, john lennon for the majority of people on earth is the most influential figure in music, period. no matter what you say people will carry on thinking that, and so they should. free will

  • @kahuna3901 So you insist that people are following your beliefs and not using their free will, such as I am, instead of a guy who wrote lame lyrics and couldn't play worth beans? All the hundreds of millions of Chinese, Arabs, Spanish speakers all believe your beliefs, and don't have their own opinions, culture, ideas but go with some guy you idealize? That is what you are saying?

  • Imagine there's no John Lennon I wonder if you can

    He's no longer with us, his shit hit by a fan.

  • @TheDevilsBusiness Is that supposed to be funny? That's just disrepectful to one of the finest musicians to have ever lived.

  • Is that Nicky Hopkins during the Imagine scene?

  • @PatricknAdam Yes, it is. I was also previously unaware that Nicky played on the Imagine album, before I saw some of this footage and then went back and listened to the album and read the liner notes, and he's on all but 3 tracks I think.

  • I'm sure Phil had a revolver tucked down inside his Beatle boot. Notice how he got it his way in the final recording. I had heard that Phil complained to the warden that his cell was cold. The warden told him he would send down an extra bar!

  • c'mon i'll teach you one of the best songs ever written...

    yeah thats a nice one

  • I don't think he would have had so much to say if he didn't believe in what he was saying. But at the same time several John Lennon haters have some decent points. Although, I appreciate the music and idealism behind the songs. So I'm still a fan: a capitalist fan who is left leaning. So, what? Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?

  • 4:11 John Lennon who was Murdered is chatting with a Murderer...interesting

  • yoko GTFO!

  • I want to see one documentary on a major album that says "I knew it was going to be this big."

  • no girlfriends in the studio.

  • *no*

  • imagine know posessions, he sings, as he sits at his white grnad piano in an opulent mansion in ascot.

  • If you run threw these comments-- ALOT of what you hear about is why did john love yoko his sexuality in hamburg his mood swings and so on---  Shut Up.!! and LISTEN to the Song---- it's people like you that are allways searching for the negative in a situation like brainless idoits.! that is why the world is fuked up in the first place.. and people like john need to write songs like imagine.. stop worrying about what john didn't do-- and worry about what----YOU CAN DO...!!!!!!!

  • @refusetolose103 Your use of, "---" makes --- MY BRAIN HURT...!!!

  • @CooperHaydenn ----You have a brain---- I guess some things are less obvious..

  • @refusetolose103 i cant tell if your using them now just to bug me, or if you really are an idiot. or, if english is not your first language, in which case you should keep on making mistakes, because fuck english and its speakers.

  • John was such a card. ♥

  • wow Yoko really tried to make her presence felt..

  • Always makes me seethe that that talentless shrew Yoko had the nerve to even comment on production and music when the room was full of talented musicians, producers and engineers!! I love the look of sheer contempt they have on their faces whenever she opens her mouth! Yoko Ono = Talentless Leech!

  • "Yoko, why don't you go in there and listen." lol!

  • For hidden messages in Beatles songs search Truth Contest, click on The Present, click on the Beatles section. Thumbs up on this comment, help spread it around.

  • i dont like yoko ono, as artist, but i dont understand why people hate her... she wasnt a intruder in his music and life, if she was always there its because he really wanted,,,

  • imagine all the great music we'd be living with right now...if he was still alive :(

    R.I.P. forever, John

  • 1:24 gives me butterflies... I'm such a little girl. I love him so much.. we need him now more than ever..

  • I always found the part at 7:10 hilarious.

  • Lennon became famous and started to teach people about humanity. Actually, Michael Jackson (later.. Heal the World) did the same.

    Read this: Our schools and media tell us we are consumers. But we don't have to be that. If we look beyond our surface, our looks, our money, we are very much the same. We live, love, have children, have some mistakes.. No Reason For War unless you believe the lies about weapons of mass destruction. Please listen to ALL sides of the stories and think again.

    No lies!

  • hey those glasses phil spector is wearing...aren't they the same one john wears on the lennon legend cover?

  • i like the apple on his shirt lolz so freaking awesome R.I.P man we love you

  • hehehe phil spector has a funny voice! :P

  • Forse è la Yesterday di John se ci pensate.Ispirazione "illuminante" come nel 65 per Paul. Ma se Paul anni dopo resta prigioniero del baccanale liquoroso delle soluzioni meno innovative dei Beatles almeno John resta legato al rock and roll e a volte "ispirato" crea melodie immortlai.Vi pare?

  • Did I hear her correctly? To take 'Imagine' song one octave higher? Not sure if I heard that correctly. uhh, NO!

  • @dormanbenton Maybe I'm wrong. Jumped the gun too quick. This is FANTASTIC! Really enjoying this. Can't believe I haven't seen this before even though I've always known about it.

  • Phil Spector at 4:10... at age 70 he shot a young blonde woman in the hot, for not doing as he wanted... he is in jail now until he dies.

  • I think Imagine is a beautiful song!

  • IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING LIFE IN PEACE

    WE CAN MAKE IT WE ALL KNOW IT.

    BUT NOBODY WANTS TO FACE IT.

  • John didn't "need" Yoko for inspiration. He did just fine on his own. I don't trust Yoko. She's evil and manipulative.

  • @TheMelamia  Let her be!

  • Was that Mal Evans at 0:26?

  • @lalbruiz Looks like it.

  • Yoko was right the "real" piano was better.

  • lol at the outfit.

  • "That's the one I like best" - me too

  • Imagine how much better the world would be if they would have shot Yoko instead

  • ((°J°)) 

  • I love john, so i love yoko

  • ok ima gonna watch this to remember John for his birthday.

  • Happy birthday John!! May he rest in peace :)

  • hey mark, what you doing...... rotting?! praying? being? lamenting?  gay? reading? creating by now after that destruction?

  • Excellent video.

  • Sooooooo this Idiot Yoko taps Phil Spector and JOHN LENNON on the shoulder while they listen to playback of IMAGINE telling them what they should do??!!! WTF! unacceptable in every way you look at it!

  • everyone seems to dislike Yoko, thinking she manipulated John, but that wasn't true. John was the one who wanted her and was happy with her. He was too strong & smart to be 'manipulated' by anyone. watch the dvd documentary "the US Vs. John Lennon" it shows John and Yoko's life and both talk about eachother- it really changed my mind about her- she was a creative inspiration for him. Yoko herself said "I'd rather have John alive and the world hate me than the world's sympathy and John dead"

  • John's personality is testiment to the words of Jesus about how the meek shall inherit the earth. I believe the way he said to live, and the way he actually lived his life is how people in general should be to be able to live in the dream that he sang about. When I look at his face, I can't believe anyone would ever want to hurt him. There's such peace and love, and yet seems to be a lot of sadness in his eyes, too. I wish he was still around...

  • You know, I recall watching this, but I was unaware of what I was watching, I guess. XD

    Yes, I do fail. I know that.

  • Great! this is the first time I get to see the entire footage of the recording, rather than the stuff that was on the Imagine movie. Thanks!

  • so obviously this was editied down for the movie gimmie some truth. I would love to see the other footage

  • Just seeing Glenn Beck and Fox Network all the time makkes you wonder...How any Mark Chapman's in the USA?

  • @omarinbox

    There are Chapmans all over the world, the world is not a safe place no matter where you go, especially for a celebrity. An actress named Teresa Saldana was stabbed by a man from Scotland and singer Selena was shot by a woman from Mexico & also sad too was actress Rebecca Schaeffer , who was shot by obsessed fan Robert Bardo.

  • it is like a reality show. besides music videos they hence also invented reality tv. gotta love john!

  • @ruemlang Yeah this is totally a prelude to Making the Band or any othe MTV gimmick where they follow celebreties around at home and in the studio.

  • haha what is John singing at last?

  • Amazes me that ppl questioned why he married her? What is soo hard to figure out? He's so great but what? he has no sense of love ? of marriage? you ppl try to tear her done? Jealousy .. He rocks and I hope he was happy ... touche

  • Imagine if he had been killed before he made Imagine...

    Now Imagine the other masterpieces he would have made had he not been shot.

  • Imagine all the people...finally accepting that John Lennon was in love with Yoko Ono & letting it go.

  • @asktunes

    No one doubts that he was in love with Yoko. They just doubt that she is a good person.

  • @badtown88

    she's spent the majority of her life advocating peace and love. why do you think people think she's a bad person?

  • @badtown88 Yoko was always an artist for causes like Peace- she helped John think of ideas such as The Bed In,the bag event,,the 'War is Over" billboards around the world/ Yoko taught John about being charitable, and inspired some of his best music. If ou want to hear it from Lennon himself watch the documentary "The Us Vs. John Lennon"- they talk about eachother and John tells alot about everything Yoko was and did for him. even today Yoko works to do some good in the world.

  • @QueenBeatlesWings you are an A1 cluster fuck. "Go in there, instead if being here!"

  • @asktunes  Good one!

  • Why not Yoko, Phil?!?!?!?

  • Dear fopstra,

    Thank you. :)

  • király

  • She caught him somehow. We can't understand and it hurts. He was the top Beatle. Less than talentless, hear her "scat" sing on Stones R+R Circus, for maybe 2 seconds, she gets the beat right, surprise in her eyes, then she goes back to babbling off-beat/flat as usual. A Greedy Evil Succubus, with huge cow-farms, whose farts damage the Earth. Was it her or John who left sfa to Julian?

  • grass-fed cows emit about 1/20th the methane corn-fed cows do. I'd assume hers are the good kind, not the industrial meat factory kind.

  • why 'gimme some truth' movie is so similar to 'imagine' movie? should i buy them both? i haven't seen the whole 'gimme...' yet, so could you help me?

  • i 've read that lennon was bisexuall...is it true ?

  • @voghera1964 Does it matter, normally I would hope not, but as he married an evil half Martian pig-half nasty Nip, who cares?

  • @voghera1964 no, John was always brutally honest and if he was bi he' d say so. John if anything was alot more masculine than many men past or present- he had alot more courage than average and was always fighting people politically and verbally. John always wanted women in his life to be with him and serve him- for example he lived with a girlfriend/her family instead of on his own like the other Beatles, and Yoko is kinda a motherly,firm, type lady like he wanted. John was fairly "normal"

  • @QueenBeatlesWings i agree with you totally, these false claims about John are product of insecurity that John is one of a kind artist, poet, singer songwriter.... and a great Lover.... ask YOKO... lol

  • @QueenBeatlesWings

    I ve also read and even seen on dvds about john in hamburg,about his sexuallity,there have been rumours about this for years,people would never come forward while he was alive,as they would have been sued,

    Also whats the deal with john singing "imagine no posessions,its easy if you can"

    John was a millionaire

  • @surferjay1 "imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can"

  • @surferjay1 I'm always amazed how many times people listen to Imagine and still don't get what the song is about. He's not singing get rid of your posessions, he's singing imagine what the world would be like if we didn't have the things that divide us

  • 1:24 ha... this footage is epic!

    i like his outfits lol

  • Nickky Hopkins!!!

  • Phil Spector was wearing a full wig, even back then : )

  • everytime i hear the song "imagine" i get chocked up, always ! we miss u john

  • Yoko co-wrote this song with John. She has every right to give input.

  • @ramblnrose Huh? Yoko couldn't play a skin flute, let alone an instrument. Her "writing" of songs amounted to adding a lyric here and there and perhaps a period or two at the end of sentence in the liner notes. She was musically illiterate and John gave her far more credit during their 'collaborations" than she actually deserved. I like Yoko as person and avante garde artist but calling her musician is an enormous stretch of the imagination. Just ask Paul.

  • @ritter89 Actually you're wrong. Yoko can play the piano very well, she's has been classically schooled.

  • @paul195614 No she hasn't. Her father was the classically trained pianist but for some reason Yoko gets that credit. She's always been dabbled in the most extreme forms of abstract/pop art where skills and innate talents aren't an issue. With music, it was that wacky yodeling/screaming and with visual art, it was those concept pieces like "Baggism". IMO, she's a hack.. She could be a genius for all I know. I do know however that she's never excelled in any traditional form of art

  • @ritter89 Well she can play classical pieces though. I remember Lennon saying Yoko was playing Moonlight Sonata, and that he created Because that way. And Yoko has also made 'normal' music without the screaming/yodeling.

  • @paul195614 I don't know about that. Have you seen/heard this yourself? I'd like to see something she did before she met John. I know that John constantly talked about her 'art' and would say that she was more talented than him, but he was also deeply entwined with her almost to to the point of a mother/son relationship. I've never trusted his opinion of her talents because it was skewed. I'd have to see or hear her stuff myself

  • @ritter89 Yoho is Tojo's Grandaughter, she was sent as revenge for Nagasaki.

  • @paul195614 ffs half the world can play moonlight sonata, that's not good enough for her abyssimal mouth, which never shuts up and NEVER makes a useful comment, Phil Spector was a bit manic, but he had talent coming out of his pores, everyone was so afraid of hurting John they couldn't tell her to "get lost you useless annoying witch".

  • yoko speak too much...

  • at 5.20 i seriously thought spector thought about blowing that bitch away

  • o shut up about yoko, wud you rathe r he stayed with boring cynthia and wrote tedious songs like Good Morning Good Morning.. JL was very creative and always needed inspiration guys! The fruit of which is the music you love..no Yoko, no Double Fantasy album etc

  • @MoonAharshMistress if thats directed at me bjtch ? firstly dont tell me to shut up , il have my say ok my point of view is no less valid than yours or anyones so stop haunting me like your sex life haunts you

  • the GUYS(ARE) were good ! not the solo carriers ...

    btw -> this is a nice song . respect lennon . but i better like them, TOGETHER :'( :(

  • i dislike yoko, she was like trying to give input, its like, shut up, there the beatles, they know what there doin,

  • @guitarguru333 hahaha you made my day

  • @guitarguru333 Actually this was John's solo record, not a Beatles recording.

  • @guitarguru333 u didn'trealize that yoko ono made a big part of johns music... she was his inspiration. and who cares if she was givin inputs. she was trying to help... so if u dont like yoko ono that's your choice.

  • @edwin4759 actually i feel those who hate/dislike yoko have no respect for John. he loved and respected her.

  • @desikitteh very true my friend.. those of who didn't go for Yoko Ono were selfish fools

  • @edwin4759 Yoko may have inspired some of his music, but that's basically it. She may have done some good things for him, but she did a ton more shit for not only him, but the ones around him. It's not like we're just hating on her for no reason.

  • @edwin4759 i've felt that way for years now. i respect john enough to think that he knew what he was doing.

  • why even bother ........get the fi...ng  message

  • kill phil

  • yoko's sweet - why did they have to hate her

  • john was only 30/31? he looked so aged.

  • hes was 31

  • @nano952 30...didnt turn 31 until oct.

  • when was this recorded oh now i rember cus Imagine came out in oct

  • Phil S[ector is thinking... "Does this mean I got to give up my gun permit".

  • Is that "Cousin It" I keep hearing and seeing in the back?? - That thing with all the long black hair that smokes. WTF?

  • John Lenon said he hated 'Let It Be' becasue he hated the cameras being early in the morning fiming while they were rehearsing. Isnt that what they're doing here at his request? It wasonly two years later

  • Lol yah

  • phil spector is thinking i wish yoko would shut the fuck up . lol

  • No, hes thinking of murdering cute blonde women.

  • no offence to jhn but that black shirt wit a apple on it is kinda gay on him i think he stole a girls shirt but he does look sexy

  • wow john after beatles he looks soo SKINNY :O

  • He was always thin and lanky. Its just his body type. He probably would have live pass 80 if he stayed healthy. I miss him so much and this video reminds me how sorely missed he is.

  • well if u look at pics and the movie help! u can tell john gained some weight compared to the others but he is still sexy ^-^ i miss him

  • It's nice to see John in the sudio Happy birthday

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  • @RobFischPA Well I think she - Yoko had an impossible task how to be married to John Lennon and be his equal. John 's comment is deceptive what he means is listen in a different place and still give her view. It was always unexpected which is what he liked about her - she always was able to refresh his ideas and stimulate completely new ones. That couild only be done from left field.

  • @RobFischPA He wasn't messing around on this album, thats for sure! :)

  • @RobFischPA She had a degree in composition (Sarah Lawrence college). You might not have liked her but he did. He loved her mind, body and soul. If you dig him, except she was as integral to his life as Macca was!

  • @paulmc2602 Yeah, I said that comment a while ago. I have since (a while back, actually) learned that if you like John, you've gotta like Yoko. I mean, what if you met John and Yoko and was like "I HATE YOKO SHES LIKE YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAA". I dont think John would appreciate you that much...

  • @RobFischPA you don't really have to like her (i do thought), but at least respect her...

  • @RobFischPA ha, haaa, LOL, this funny comment made my day.

  • FUCKIN jOKO

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  • his wig? wtf does that fuckin matter in the slightest?

  • :)

    ...... his smile is the strongest ray of sunshine in my life... :)

    i love it when he goes up to the camera- big grin just spreads across my face unmeaningfully.... I love him so much.......

  • esto si que es mostrar el trabajo desde dentro...

  • tarek ali......the activist, author, debated Henry kissinger I think on the vietnam war back in the days.

    Johnny kept some pretty deep ppl. around him.

  • I wonder if Lennon knew that Phil Spector at that time had evolved to wearing a full headed wig. It`s a good wig though isn`t it? It looks real. You can see pics of him 10 years earlier though where it`s obvious he has no hair and this cheap little toupee is on top. That`s when he ruled the airwaves. He use to walk around wearing this cheap toupee and a cape, yes a cape like Batman or Superman.

  • I wrote the same thing, just a minute ago. Spector was almost completely bald be the time he was 25, so here he must have been a cue-ball and yet he's got that huge mop on his head. It does look real, though. Wonder what John would have thought of Phil today with the murder wrap and those insane afro wigs he sported for his trial.

  • @ritter89 What was Phil thinking? How could the judge look at him a after day and rule him competent for trail?????

  • This is incredible, a true bonafide genius at work no different from watching a video with Mozart. And by the way; This IS a Beatle album. This is how they did it. The only difference is this time they kicked the dickhead McCartney out of the group. John, George and Ringo always kept playing together but without McCartney and his BS songs that Lennon always ahd to correct .

  • OMG someone who finally agrees with me that paul is an asshole! paul makes me sick ... john was the true artist and spoke his mind ... he used to sign pauls name on music he wrote because he was like that ... he gave him TOO much credit ... i MISS john so much ... if we all had a little john in us this world would be a hell of a lot better.

  • yeah. john sure was a great person when he verbally abused his own son. ^^

    (no offence dude, but don't talk about paul or john if you don't even know them for real. probably none of us here does.)

  • i know enough to make a comment ... at least i was BORN when they came to America

  • Yoko is alright. That's the love of his life, his love. Please, don't tell me that you wouldn't have your soul with you? You're a fucking liar. The real human creep is the bloke who shot him cold dead. That poor, stupid sicko.

  • another piano playing an octave higher!what the hell yoko is talking about?

    it would be much better if she kept quiet.

  • october 9

  • you may say i'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one. i hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one

    gives me chills everytime..

  • an octave higher?

    no yoko

    let the men work

  • hahahahahaha

  • this footage is priceless, watching a creative genius at work...unreal

  • john lennon, ya know!

  • Imagine is one of my favorite John looks.

  • long hair not fit him,short is ok but the imagine style is perfect .With the semi-long hair is an icon

  • I love it when John talks to the camera!

  • Spector is a genius. Period.

  • too bad he is a psycho killer too

  • Oh, well.

  • Phil Spector is nutz

  • in the middle of a bar i call you name i love johnny!!!

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  • John was into cameras rolling all the time in the 70's. He loved to document everything.