John was not the nicest guy. People want to remember him for peace and love, but he was very mean spirited, especially when he was drunk. John tended to pick on handicapped people a lot. Beatles concerts always had handicapped people in the front row, and John said that always bothered him. He said it depressed him to look out over a sea of wheelchairs. In the case of this particular clip, he was mocking those handicapped people. Not very nice, but that was John.
I think he was mocking Paul cause he asked the crowd to clap their hands and stomp their foots.
I guess John thought it was obvious and that they didn´t need to be told to clap their hands - Like a retard. I´m not saying that to be mean. I´m just throwing out theories here.
I'm not sure who he was trying to imitate or mock, and it didn't cause me to laugh, but nevertheless I always liked John's sarcasm, it made him more appealing than the bland, clean-shaven, buttoned-down pop stars typical of that era. In "A Hard Day's Night" a haughty woman at a cocktail party asks John, "How did you find America?" and his answer is "Turn left at Greenland." May have been a scripted line but was typical of John's answers.
It was 1963, The Beatles had played hundreds and hundreds of shows. They were about to play Twist and Shout, and before they would play Twist and Shout, Paul would ask the audience to clap their hands and stamp their feet
@changeofaddress1 The actual title should be "The Sexiest, Most Talented, Most Incredible Human Being To Ever Live And His Sort Of Offensive Yet Still Lovable Sense Of Humor"
sexiest? yeah, right. if there were no beatles and you saw this guy at the store, you'd run in the other direction. check out the video where he says he's been in trouble all his life because people don't like his face. his face is horrifyingly ugly.
John did this at the very first concert in the US! (check out the Washington Coliseum concert on the Anthology) He was tired of all the handicapped being brought to him every day, as if he could cure them by meeting them...he said this in his 1980 interview...still inappropriate, but that's JL...
@jacojaco258 Not only that, they would bring handicapped people to their hotel rooms so they could touch them thinking it would cure them...it's very sad that people think those things. John Lennon is just a messing about, I would be peed off too, not because of handicapped people, but their carers stupidity.
@jacojaco258 wow=thats a great piece of info--i agree there was nothing in this-JL would never denegrate anyone--wasnt his style...he was always looked up to as some sort of messiah leader--and he said he wasnt--thanks for your great comment jaco258
We've all been politically incorrect and young and stupid and brilliant and defensive and human and judged and misinterpreted. Clowny-clown John. Maybe just his love-hate thingie going on with Paulie. Turf and testosterone: lethal combo.
If someone did this today they'd be thrown in to some therapy spa because of their offensive acts toward the handicapped. I, however, find this hilarious. Hahahah.
Paul was always the annoying one, i don't blame John for leaving. I think Paul should've joined Kiss, it would suit him well with that kind of mentality.
It came from the fact that whist they were in their respective dressing rooms, having to kiss up to every local mayor who had a daughter who had a crush on John, they also deal with this bizarre queue of disabled people who thought they,that is The Beatles,were Messianic somehow. John got sick of it.
The comments about Lennon's fear/fascination with the handicapped are generally accurate, but I think the main reason he acted this way was discomfort with certain aspects of his role as showman. I think he found Paul's "clap your hands and stamp your feet" embarrassing, old-fashioned, or pointless (after all, did anyone in the audience need to be TOLD to join in?), as do I, and was just reaching for a way to subvert it. Many live clips show him doing this, and it's always when Paul says that.
I have two sisters in their 50s. They were both born in the 1950s. Their entire view of the world was formed in the late 1950s and early 19606. Want to find out what it is like to go back in time and see how society was, just talk to them.
In the year that this happened, it most likely a very common occurance that a lot of people made fun of the disabled with little or no PC. Not making any excuses for Lennon, but the awareness of how to treat disabled people was different then. In fact, it is still very very far from perfect today.
Well Lennon making fun of those who are disabled (and PULLLEEASSE...that's what he's doing) is a little tough to watch. Nobody's perfect, but he was young.
What, he was about 23 at the time of this performance. At that age I used to go int the bar and walk on my knees like I was a midget, Ah to be young dumb and full of .... you finish that one off.
John was hilarious and this was a time when they would put severely handicapped people in front of the audience and it was getting monotonous. This was Johns way of dealing with it. Plus they had just started to experiment with marijuana at this time so John was trying to relieve some of the tension with his humor.
@smilinstevie88 You have to be a real old queen to know gay slang so well !!! Now don't be so silly queenie, I was only commenting.Happy New Year and always wear, and insist on, a condom !!! We wouldn't want something terrible to happen to you now would we ?
...john lennon was really just an insecure little boy who did not care who he offended or who's feelings he hurt with his stupid and thoughtless words and actions...there are many examples of his true nature.
Just some Jerry Lewis moves from a very young, deceptively insecure rocker who wanted to be the "toppermost of the poppermost" and became a cultural icon way before he turned thirty. I will always love John, even though he could be as much of an asshole as anyone else sometimes. In fact, I think that makes me love him more. He was certainly never a bore. And gnoss, he didn't mean it. Really.
@FrlghtWolf Again, John could be as much of an asshole as anyone else. I even wrote that his faults and frailties made me love him more. We all get turns to be assholes; few make it a lifelong vocation (intentionally).
Still, it's truly great that you accept John warts and all, and love him anyway. That is what he wanted.
Btw, John said he most wanted to collaborate with George post-Beatles.
@FrlghtWolf I understand. The cult of celebrity is absurd. You're so right about the difference between John at 20 and then at 40--but that goes for most of us, right? As for his RS quote, who knows? He'd contradict himself, saying what was true for him at that moment. John went through all the changes of this life. I knew John. He was human. I still love him. Always will. And I'm fed up with those making a living off him. He deserves much better. You seem to be a man who agrees...?
@MsKath1eena P.S. And those making a meal of him for sport. History is being written now, and it is filled with lies and exploitation. But the story isn't finished. Not nearly.
@FrlghtWolf Absolutely correct. She has done all that and more. Julian must have other people bid or buy his own heritage back so that the price does not soar from his interest. Somehow, in this toxic environment, Sean and Julian became close. May I suggest you subscribe to NeilFraudstrong on YouTube? His name is Chris, is a new true friend, and is dedicated to get truth in "Lennonology". Yoko got some instant karma when many of John's demos went missing. She denied they existed. Tune in, enjoy!
@MsKath1eena - I've recently looked at some of Neil Fraudstrong's videos. Last night I listened to all 38 parts of Cynthia Lennon reading her book about John verbatim. I believe her perspective to be as honest as any I have heard about John. Neil really wants to clear Fred Seaman's good name. I suspect he is someone with unusually close proximity to the whole situation. His firsthand sources are beginning to shed some light on the truth about John & Yoko's strange relationship.
@smilinstevie88 You are right on all counts. I'm looking forward to speaking with Chris when I get back to the States. I am going to tell him everything I know. All those years ago, I was terrified of John's fame, so stayed in the shadows. No more.
@MsKath1eena - would I be correct to assume that you knew John Lennon personally on at least some level? You mentioned John's fame. What about your own? Are you someone that the average Beatles/Badfinger fan would recognize if we knew your real name? If so, I don't need to know who you are. Celebrities are just like the average anonymous person out there. I've known a few celebrities over the years. I don't get all goofy about them - they have strengths & frailties just like everyone else.
@FrlghtWolf - That's right. If Julian wanted any of his father's belongings, even small, sentimental stuff, he had to purchase it via auctions. Yoko in effect forced him to buy back some of his own stuff. John may have loved Yoko, but I personally can barely stand her. I do try though, but I know that you can scarcely believe a word that comes out of her mouth. Fortunately, she is almost 79 years old and, with any luck, will keel over dead before long.
@smilinstevie88 HA! That last part of what I told 24-year-old Chris Thomas, John's historian in the making. Chris is bound to outlive Yoko. Still, he is not on a vendetta; he wants the truth of John's life to be recorded. That is noble enough a cause for me.
@FrlghtWolf when i went to university my documentary lecturer told us he knew people who were going to do a documentary about John, as they had spoken to Yoko who said they can have access to this room filled with never before seen personal possessions. that basically green lighting the documentary, they then had to save the money to go ahead with it. when they had the funds, Yoko backed out. she did it just to string them along. :@
@andy86i - Ugh! Yoko Ono! John's most enduring mistake. Had he lived he would have surely seen through her ugliness, both inside and out. You know, there's a lot of reasons to hate Yoko Ono. You need not be racist or hate her "singing" or believe she "broke up" the Beatles. She is utterly unlikeable in so many ways that it's hard to summarize here. Let it be said that she was NEVER John's "woman". She was, in fact...his mother. Replacing what he thought he lost years before.
@FrlghtWolf controlling woman. I heard that in 1979 when Bob Dylan became a Christian and wrote "gotta serve somebody" John became interested and started watching Christian tv. for a week he reportedly said " thank you Jesus".. until yoko stepped in and "talked him out of it" bitter, he then wrote "serve yourself"
@FrlghtWolf i also hate how she pretended not to have heard of the beatles before she met John, when she used to hang around on the steps of abbey road studios. Everyone on the planet had heard of the Beatles especially at that moment. playing too cool for school (and lying)
well.. at least that was what he saw/had to look at all the way through the show since his eyesight wasn't great and probably didnt get anywhere further back I guess.. unless he wore lens which he kept loosing all the time anyway, so there you go, it's pretty creepy when you think of it that way and it wasn't the reason why they thought it's great to be famous..
he's imitating/'speaking' to the front row of the audience which usually contained people with a physical disability which truly haunted John so he made jokes about it to shake it off
John was only making an observation when he said "We're more popular than Jesus", and as for this, who cares? He did this, ok, now get over it. Blowing this up only makes a fool out of you.
I love how when John mocks a handicap its, he didnt mean it that way. But if another person say....a republican politician were to do it......... the hipocrites jump on it.
The truth is... John lennon was a great musician. But the compliments stop there. He was an uptight, angry, self absorbed, imature pompous. He was selfish and created problems for all the people around him.
@EUROEMOGUY1998 So because John did this he isn't a liberal... right... I think John was making an impression of you in this video because he sure as fuck wasn't a conservative.
Funny thing is if he made the "Bigger than Jesus " quote nowadays nobody would bat an eyelid . If he did this in front of an audience , he'd be hung out to dry
@NotADood John Lennon wasn't personally attacking anyone, he was just trying to be funny and back then they weren't politically correct and it wasn't offensive to do that. Now-a-days if you do anything some fucking idiot like you searches every channel, every radio station, every YouTube profile and video just to see if you can find something that offends you so you can cry about it like a little baby. Grow up you pussy.
@TwoUselessLegs yep many people think still the beatles hadnt seen a drug until '65. but they were poppin speed like shit in hamburg red light district clubs in 1960-61 coz bands played bout 8-12 hours straight to keep clients at the bar. party on john.
@TwoUselessLegs Again, I don't think John meant it the way you are taking it. Secondly, you are going out of your way to be offended and to look for ways to be slighted. I know all about the Beatles, from top to bottom.
@diamonddust22 People who whine about "political correctness" are simple-minded douchebags. And disabled advocacy groups did complain about it, so I guess the sixties wasn't the "politically incorrect" golden-age utopia of your dreams.
@No Stfu you cocksucker. Lets get one fucking thing straight right now you loud mouth cunt. Firstly, I don't give a fuck what you think. Secondly, people who walk around looking for reasons to be offended and insulted are just pussies who are too fucking weak to get the fuck over it and are witch hunting for things to whine about. Political Correctness is behaviour modification created by the left wing socialistic commie cults who can't shut the fuck up. Utopia? Yeah, it what you want to create
He was just fooling around and acting dumb, give him a break. Now we know about people with "conditions" but people were not so informed back then. Instead, it seems to me this is John, once again, tired of being but on the front stage like a a monkey, and he was just being sarcastic, as usual.
In this video he tries to say that order the people to "Clap your hands" is a stupid thing... He is not picking on handicapped people!
elpetetito 57 minutes ago
@ YourTaciturnFriend: yes: thankfully there WAS a time of less PC...before the cultural Nazis took over.
HouseofBurgessesLR 14 hours ago
And yet Derpy got censored.
omglolwtfmudkips 15 hours ago
Are you kidding me?!
ezalburez 1 day ago
take a joke. yall are getting worked up over something that happened 50 years ago. John was John, not much else to say.
hhellocourtney 1 day ago
Totally irresponsible.
He could have damaged that wood flooring stomping on it like that.
TROUSERFLAP 1 day ago 3
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TROUSERFLAP 1 day ago
drugs detected xD
aliceMcglee 2 days ago
Not my sense of humour but I like how he always dared to say and do whatever he felt like.
lollopisemis 3 days ago
That's true that John is so mean from all of them
starcandypriness 3 days ago
John was not the nicest guy. People want to remember him for peace and love, but he was very mean spirited, especially when he was drunk. John tended to pick on handicapped people a lot. Beatles concerts always had handicapped people in the front row, and John said that always bothered him. He said it depressed him to look out over a sea of wheelchairs. In the case of this particular clip, he was mocking those handicapped people. Not very nice, but that was John.
MikesCreativeWorks 3 days ago
I think he was mocking Paul cause he asked the crowd to clap their hands and stomp their foots.
I guess John thought it was obvious and that they didn´t need to be told to clap their hands - Like a retard. I´m not saying that to be mean. I´m just throwing out theories here.
I don´t think he wanted to be mean either. :P
AyAyAyNaru 4 days ago
Lennon was not the nicest guy. Yet his musical genius will be rememberd for generations.
nartrock 4 days ago
Was he high? Probably...
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mrcoacoa123 5 days ago
Someone posted in an earlier comment that Michael Jackson was born in 1960. He was born on August 29, 1958 and died on June 25, 2009.
BW92116 6 days ago
I'm not sure who he was trying to imitate or mock, and it didn't cause me to laugh, but nevertheless I always liked John's sarcasm, it made him more appealing than the bland, clean-shaven, buttoned-down pop stars typical of that era. In "A Hard Day's Night" a haughty woman at a cocktail party asks John, "How did you find America?" and his answer is "Turn left at Greenland." May have been a scripted line but was typical of John's answers.
BW92116 6 days ago
John always did have a sick sense of humor. That's why he was my favorite. God, I miss him. RIP John.
christi10001 1 week ago
it was 1963... black people were still drinking at separate water fountains in the US. People were almost always more stupid in the past :)
flutterandwow 1 week ago
Hahahahahaha he had the best sense of humor
Drummerozzi 1 week ago
No need to imitate Donald Trump...
PepperDr94 1 week ago 4
It was 1963, The Beatles had played hundreds and hundreds of shows. They were about to play Twist and Shout, and before they would play Twist and Shout, Paul would ask the audience to clap their hands and stamp their feet
7SIII 1 week ago
I thought he was a dinosaur at first...
MinuteDove 1 week ago
the title should be "john lennon and his strange and ugly sense of humor"
changeofaddress1 1 week ago
@changeofaddress1 The actual title should be "The Sexiest, Most Talented, Most Incredible Human Being To Ever Live And His Sort Of Offensive Yet Still Lovable Sense Of Humor"
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sexiest? yeah, right. if there were no beatles and you saw this guy at the store, you'd run in the other direction. check out the video where he says he's been in trouble all his life because people don't like his face. his face is horrifyingly ugly.
changeofaddress1 1 week ago
he is sooo fun...........ny... hehehe love him
mirachelita37 1 week ago
Imagine all the people.... Downsyndrome.
Ah, the world is perfect.
josiahmorris 1 week ago
I'm having a coughing fit from laughing at this....I can't stop laughing!! omg, this is funny. Thanks for posting. John was tooo much. gad love em!
mimmimooter 1 week ago
More innocent times :)
FilmFan1982 1 week ago
i wish the beginning of the video wasnt cut off, john said, im marrying a woman named yoko ono, she looks like this
coltoncraig01 1 week ago 21
@coltoncraig01 hahahahaha
01sugarplumfairy 1 week ago
what song do they play?
daartofwar818 2 weeks ago
Different times
relyt85 2 weeks ago
he learned that from Hamburg
americansongbooker1 2 weeks ago
This made me LOL!!
shawndixon13 2 weeks ago
Lennon was retarded.
JimColyer 3 weeks ago
@JimColyer Well, no, but he was doing an impression of someone who was.
Blaze1289 2 weeks ago
John was cute...Ringo is funny!
bermudaguy1 3 weeks ago
...Only John.
TheWalkingNerd 3 weeks ago
Totally inappropriate... but it's John Lennon what do you expect xd <3
Yellow4494 3 weeks ago 20
John did this at the very first concert in the US! (check out the Washington Coliseum concert on the Anthology) He was tired of all the handicapped being brought to him every day, as if he could cure them by meeting them...he said this in his 1980 interview...still inappropriate, but that's JL...
jacojaco258 3 weeks ago 2
@jacojaco258 Not only that, they would bring handicapped people to their hotel rooms so they could touch them thinking it would cure them...it's very sad that people think those things. John Lennon is just a messing about, I would be peed off too, not because of handicapped people, but their carers stupidity.
BunWackettBuzzard 3 weeks ago
@jacojaco258 wow=thats a great piece of info--i agree there was nothing in this-JL would never denegrate anyone--wasnt his style...he was always looked up to as some sort of messiah leader--and he said he wasnt--thanks for your great comment jaco258
simonmoves 3 weeks ago
I love how Jhon could have fun in any situation , but could get more serious than anyone .
Th3Emo121 4 weeks ago
John goes Larry David in this take.
ertzuiop123 1 month ago
dont over analyze a simple retard joke
diegoadelgado 1 month ago 3
lol the girls even scream at that...
MrBabolat92 1 month ago 3
I do this all the time when someone does something stupid. i put my tongue in my lip, do the hands and stomp my foot.
scarface12347 1 month ago
We've all been politically incorrect and young and stupid and brilliant and defensive and human and judged and misinterpreted. Clowny-clown John. Maybe just his love-hate thingie going on with Paulie. Turf and testosterone: lethal combo.
arrabellazapparition 1 month ago 3
Nnnnneryap yer handtth
cockshield 1 month ago
Take a chill pill, guys, it's just John being... well... John.
brianababe100 1 month ago
If someone did this today they'd be thrown in to some therapy spa because of their offensive acts toward the handicapped. I, however, find this hilarious. Hahahah.
joeland87 1 month ago
John Lennon was a tosser. Now he's a dead tosser. Boohoohoo.
MadAbdul 1 month ago
@MadAbdul
Don't be angry just because you've got a retarded cousin. Lighten up.
tarantulatook 1 month ago
@tarantulatook John Lennon was a bully who kicked Stuart Sutcliffe in the head which is probably what killed him. Get over it.
MadAbdul 3 weeks ago
its funny because he's acting like your little retard brother
L0LP0MG 1 month ago
When John saw handicapped people he frightened, and also felt a little bit guilty so he did this to "hide" his real feelings.
Magnificent881 1 month ago 2
@Magnificent881 spot on
websdaleandrew 6 days ago
@thefatherofFire MJ was alive then. He was born in 1960
rahsun29 1 month ago
@rahsun29 58 actaully
num1Jaysta 4 weeks ago
Yoko
Was ugly as dog shit. What did he see in that ugly bitch¿
rahsun29 1 month ago
@rahsun29
Inner beauty.
tarantulatook 1 month ago
Paul was always the annoying one, i don't blame John for leaving. I think Paul should've joined Kiss, it would suit him well with that kind of mentality.
0live0wire0 1 month ago
I'm surprised he didn't break his ankle, slamming his foot into the stage like that.
wyssmaster 1 month ago
TIMMY!!
mitchdrpepper2 1 month ago
See guys? John Lennon had the monster claw WAY before lady Gaga.
Airking4321 1 month ago
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@Airking4321 Monster what ? Lady Who ?
FUCK OFF !
BLAGASPANTS 1 month ago
Who's laughing last.
Parag0n 1 month ago
I'm goin to hell for laughin at this.....
TheTwoRandoms 2 months ago 81
@TheTwoRandoms can i come with you ?
441Bandit 1 month ago 2
@TheTwoRandoms yes, you sure fucking are.
TheJohnfru 1 week ago
It came from the fact that whist they were in their respective dressing rooms, having to kiss up to every local mayor who had a daughter who had a crush on John, they also deal with this bizarre queue of disabled people who thought they,that is The Beatles,were Messianic somehow. John got sick of it.
2ndQuarto1 2 months ago
The comments about Lennon's fear/fascination with the handicapped are generally accurate, but I think the main reason he acted this way was discomfort with certain aspects of his role as showman. I think he found Paul's "clap your hands and stamp your feet" embarrassing, old-fashioned, or pointless (after all, did anyone in the audience need to be TOLD to join in?), as do I, and was just reaching for a way to subvert it. Many live clips show him doing this, and it's always when Paul says that.
sagnyc 2 months ago
I have two sisters in their 50s. They were both born in the 1950s. Their entire view of the world was formed in the late 1950s and early 19606. Want to find out what it is like to go back in time and see how society was, just talk to them.
autisticblog 2 months ago
In the year that this happened, it most likely a very common occurance that a lot of people made fun of the disabled with little or no PC. Not making any excuses for Lennon, but the awareness of how to treat disabled people was different then. In fact, it is still very very far from perfect today.
autisticblog 2 months ago
Do you forgive genius?~E
fullblowngenius 2 months ago
Well Lennon making fun of those who are disabled (and PULLLEEASSE...that's what he's doing) is a little tough to watch. Nobody's perfect, but he was young.
quad1000 2 months ago
happy christmas john! happy christmas george! happy christmas paul! happy christmas ringo!
BEATLES FOREVER!
MrMattnethan 2 months ago 3
he actually admitted once that disabled people scared him, and he covered this fear with ridicule. lame excuse I know but, there ya' go
gusmif 2 months ago
If only he'd survived being riddled...he'd have been like that ALL THE TIME then and we could all have laughed at HIM !!! Dead twat.
ysgol3 2 months ago
@ysgol3 Your a ducking dumbass. He is sexy. stop being a douche.
TheMonkeesRock 2 months ago
I'm retarded, so I think I have the right to enjoy this sort of thing...but nooooooooo, all of you PC nazis want to control what I see
itsallrigid 2 months ago
Now I've seen everything:O
stratocaster1231 2 months ago
What, he was about 23 at the time of this performance. At that age I used to go int the bar and walk on my knees like I was a midget, Ah to be young dumb and full of .... you finish that one off.
kevindlinc 2 months ago
John was hilarious and this was a time when they would put severely handicapped people in front of the audience and it was getting monotonous. This was Johns way of dealing with it. Plus they had just started to experiment with marijuana at this time so John was trying to relieve some of the tension with his humor.
DailyDale3 2 months ago 36
@DailyDale3 And also, he was obsessed with handicapped people, would draw that often times.
ilkovsky 1 month ago
@DailyDale3 <<Hey Look Guys, Apparently It's John Lennon's Biographer.
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theonlyantony 4 weeks ago
@DailyDale3 How the fuck do u know that?
hhhaaazzziii 2 weeks ago
@hhhaaazzziii It was explained in Beatles anthology by Ringo
DailyDale3 1 week ago
...lennon chose this excuse for a human being to be his earthly and cosmos partner...i think he chose at his own level.
geneno164 2 months ago
This is why John is the most interesting Beatle - he always find a way to be stupid :p
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smilinstevie88 2 months ago
@smilinstevie88 Certainly was after being riddled !
ysgol3 2 months ago
@ysgol3 - John Lennon had his issues, but, unlike you, being a deranged & malevolent butt pirate wasn't among them. Cheers Goober! ( :
smilinstevie88 2 months ago
@smilinstevie88 You have to be a real old queen to know gay slang so well !!! Now don't be so silly queenie, I was only commenting.Happy New Year and always wear, and insist on, a condom !!! We wouldn't want something terrible to happen to you now would we ?
ysgol3 2 months ago
Whatever happened to this ignorant prick ?? I wish somebody'd shot him to shut him up.
ysgol3 2 months ago
@ysgol3 You are a fucking faggot. you know what happened , therefore you are offending him. I wish you got shot
TheMonkeesRock 2 months ago
@TheMonkeesRock Happy Christmas !!!! No I don't know. Do tell !!!!!
ysgol3 2 months ago
@ysgol3 You are a retard! HE IS SEXY AND HE WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME. NOW GO LISTEN TO JUSTIN BIEBER FAGGOT
TheMonkeesRock 2 months ago
This is why Paul is miles above you, Lennon.
ThaRolk 2 months ago
...john lennon was really just an insecure little boy who did not care who he offended or who's feelings he hurt with his stupid and thoughtless words and actions...there are many examples of his true nature.
geneno164 2 months ago 2
Paul is my favorite Beatle, but I have to say, I am like Lennon, an arrogant arsehole, and I LOVE IT!
DrakrSlyr 2 months ago
When he does the stomping and the hand thing together he looks a bit like hes trying to copy Michael Jackson!!!!
TheSaddleClub3798 2 months ago
@TheSaddleClub3798 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!yoko should process him for copying john lennon!
Coquinhaification 2 months ago
@TheSaddleClub3798 Retard. Michael Jackson wasn't born yet! So how could John try to copy him???
TheFatherOfFire 2 months ago
@TheFatherOfFire I think she meant that he copied John
McCartneyBeatlesFan 2 months ago
Just some Jerry Lewis moves from a very young, deceptively insecure rocker who wanted to be the "toppermost of the poppermost" and became a cultural icon way before he turned thirty. I will always love John, even though he could be as much of an asshole as anyone else sometimes. In fact, I think that makes me love him more. He was certainly never a bore. And gnoss, he didn't mean it. Really.
MsKath1eena 2 months ago 4
@MsKath1eena - He meant it. In his younger days, even
without the benefit of an audience John would do this in
FRONT of a handicapped person. There never would have
been a John Lennon without the ANGRY John Lennon.
It was part of his greatness. George Harrison was angry
too...but he never had the wit or the creativity. So he hid
behind his silly religious nonsense. I love John for his
honesty.
FrlghtWolf 2 months ago
@FrlghtWolf Again, John could be as much of an asshole as anyone else. I even wrote that his faults and frailties made me love him more. We all get turns to be assholes; few make it a lifelong vocation (intentionally).
Still, it's truly great that you accept John warts and all, and love him anyway. That is what he wanted.
Btw, John said he most wanted to collaborate with George post-Beatles.
MsKath1eena 2 months ago
@MsKath1eena -I have never put stock in celebrities. However,
I keep a quiet vigil for John. I miss John as if he were family. His
absence is profoundly felt, like some lost older brother. I remind
you that the YOUNG John was quite different than the older, wiser
John. He spoke of this. As for John wanting to work with George,
this is strange. During the Rolling Stone interviews, when asked
about George's music, John politely said "Well...it's not my kind
of music". Verbatim
FrlghtWolf 2 months ago
@FrlghtWolf I understand. The cult of celebrity is absurd. You're so right about the difference between John at 20 and then at 40--but that goes for most of us, right? As for his RS quote, who knows? He'd contradict himself, saying what was true for him at that moment. John went through all the changes of this life. I knew John. He was human. I still love him. Always will. And I'm fed up with those making a living off him. He deserves much better. You seem to be a man who agrees...?
MsKath1eena 2 months ago
@MsKath1eena P.S. And those making a meal of him for sport. History is being written now, and it is filled with lies and exploitation. But the story isn't finished. Not nearly.
MsKath1eena 2 months ago
@MsKath1eena - Yoko gets hated for a lot of reasons but you
only really need one: she feeds of John's flesh like some vampire.
To this day this already wealthy women auctions off John's most
personal possessions. Items any loving wife or children would love
to have someday for themselves. Most disturbing, John had written
a letter to Julian right before he died. It was never sent. When Julian
asked Yoko for it she said "no". Later, she forced Julian to BID for it
at AUCTION.
FrlghtWolf 2 months ago
@FrlghtWolf Absolutely correct. She has done all that and more. Julian must have other people bid or buy his own heritage back so that the price does not soar from his interest. Somehow, in this toxic environment, Sean and Julian became close. May I suggest you subscribe to NeilFraudstrong on YouTube? His name is Chris, is a new true friend, and is dedicated to get truth in "Lennonology". Yoko got some instant karma when many of John's demos went missing. She denied they existed. Tune in, enjoy!
MsKath1eena 2 months ago 5
@MsKath1eena - I've recently looked at some of Neil Fraudstrong's videos. Last night I listened to all 38 parts of Cynthia Lennon reading her book about John verbatim. I believe her perspective to be as honest as any I have heard about John. Neil really wants to clear Fred Seaman's good name. I suspect he is someone with unusually close proximity to the whole situation. His firsthand sources are beginning to shed some light on the truth about John & Yoko's strange relationship.
smilinstevie88 2 months ago
@smilinstevie88 You are right on all counts. I'm looking forward to speaking with Chris when I get back to the States. I am going to tell him everything I know. All those years ago, I was terrified of John's fame, so stayed in the shadows. No more.
MsKath1eena 2 months ago
@MsKath1eena - would I be correct to assume that you knew John Lennon personally on at least some level? You mentioned John's fame. What about your own? Are you someone that the average Beatles/Badfinger fan would recognize if we knew your real name? If so, I don't need to know who you are. Celebrities are just like the average anonymous person out there. I've known a few celebrities over the years. I don't get all goofy about them - they have strengths & frailties just like everyone else.
smilinstevie88 2 months ago
@FrlghtWolf - That's right. If Julian wanted any of his father's belongings, even small, sentimental stuff, he had to purchase it via auctions. Yoko in effect forced him to buy back some of his own stuff. John may have loved Yoko, but I personally can barely stand her. I do try though, but I know that you can scarcely believe a word that comes out of her mouth. Fortunately, she is almost 79 years old and, with any luck, will keel over dead before long.
smilinstevie88 2 months ago
@smilinstevie88 HA! That last part of what I told 24-year-old Chris Thomas, John's historian in the making. Chris is bound to outlive Yoko. Still, he is not on a vendetta; he wants the truth of John's life to be recorded. That is noble enough a cause for me.
MsKath1eena 2 months ago
@FrlghtWolf when i went to university my documentary lecturer told us he knew people who were going to do a documentary about John, as they had spoken to Yoko who said they can have access to this room filled with never before seen personal possessions. that basically green lighting the documentary, they then had to save the money to go ahead with it. when they had the funds, Yoko backed out. she did it just to string them along. :@
andy86i 1 month ago
FrlghtWolf 1 month ago
@FrlghtWolf controlling woman. I heard that in 1979 when Bob Dylan became a Christian and wrote "gotta serve somebody" John became interested and started watching Christian tv. for a week he reportedly said " thank you Jesus".. until yoko stepped in and "talked him out of it" bitter, he then wrote "serve yourself"
andy86i 1 month ago
@andy86i - 40 years old is astonishingly young.
His keen mind and curious nature insured his
constant evolution. There are few celebrities in the
world more promising as a human being. Had he
lived I believe he would have completed himself
without the help of Yoko. I believe Yoko kept him off
balance and perhaps even crippled (emotionally).
Mind you, even taking into account Yoko's self-serving
personality I think John is ultimately responsible for
choosing this cunt.
FrlghtWolf 1 month ago
@FrlghtWolf i also hate how she pretended not to have heard of the beatles before she met John, when she used to hang around on the steps of abbey road studios. Everyone on the planet had heard of the Beatles especially at that moment. playing too cool for school (and lying)
andy86i 1 month ago
Why is lenon making fun of people like that? I don't like that. He might be Lennon but that doesn't mena that I have to agree with everything he did.
gnossticc 2 months ago
See Monty Python's Flying Circus.
rklopotowski 2 months ago
Hahahahahahaha
snakedmg10 2 months ago
reminds me of a tropic thunder line
EpicFailSoundsGay 2 months ago
it was funny at the time - judge it in context.
tiredoldbag 2 months ago 3
well.. at least that was what he saw/had to look at all the way through the show since his eyesight wasn't great and probably didnt get anywhere further back I guess.. unless he wore lens which he kept loosing all the time anyway, so there you go, it's pretty creepy when you think of it that way and it wasn't the reason why they thought it's great to be famous..
beatlesnstuff 2 months ago
he's imitating/'speaking' to the front row of the audience which usually contained people with a physical disability which truly haunted John so he made jokes about it to shake it off
beatlesnstuff 2 months ago
Wow what an ass
Galindo66 2 months ago
I think he was just joking about how if you need to be told to stamp your hands and clap your feet to their songs your probably thick.
EnglishGavz 2 months ago
haha!! people have a bit of sense of humor!!!! btw u cut off the best part!!!
tintipy 3 months ago
John was only making an observation when he said "We're more popular than Jesus", and as for this, who cares? He did this, ok, now get over it. Blowing this up only makes a fool out of you.
*Let there be Peace!*
AloofAri6 3 months ago
haha this is halarius
skateandsnowsketchy 3 months ago
Nice dance towards the end Johnny!
Beatlelove100 3 months ago
I love how when John mocks a handicap its, he didnt mean it that way. But if another person say....a republican politician were to do it......... the hipocrites jump on it.
The truth is... John lennon was a great musician. But the compliments stop there. He was an uptight, angry, self absorbed, imature pompous. He was selfish and created problems for all the people around him.
marcusdolby1 3 months ago
Haha I love John Lennon :3
BubbleBuddiess 3 months ago
SCOUSE GIT TAKIN' THE PISS OUT OF AMERICAN BRATS
nikossyren88 3 months ago
Take that liberal nazis, john lennon wasnt one of you- proof
EUROEMOGUY1998 3 months ago
@EUROEMOGUY1998 So because John did this he isn't a liberal... right... I think John was making an impression of you in this video because he sure as fuck wasn't a conservative.
spaceorbison 3 months ago
0:00-0:22 HAHAHAHAHAHA
daftpunk4908 3 months ago
for some reason its just ok if the beatles do it lol
Freethinker12341 3 months ago
Funny thing is if he made the "Bigger than Jesus " quote nowadays nobody would bat an eyelid . If he did this in front of an audience , he'd be hung out to dry
johnmcglinchey 3 months ago 64
@johnmcglinchey wery few understood what he meant by that comment: look at yopurself, we`re only humans
64fairlane305 3 months ago
"Hey, @johnmcglinchey!!! I'mma let you finish!..."
charpentierjp1 3 months ago
That's just John being John, and I'm okay with it.
AnotherPaul1 3 months ago
premium trolling over here!
valerock667 3 months ago
oh how sexy.... sarcasms a bitch
lovingmarshmellows 3 months ago 2
He's clearly making fun of retarded people. I don't see why it's interesting.
FaceInTheRain 3 months ago
@FaceInTheRain Well back in the day people weren't politically constipated by the left winged cult.
diamonddust22 3 months ago
@diamonddust22 I wonder how funny it would be if you developed a neuromuscular disorder or injury and watched this again.
NotADood 3 months ago
@NotADood John Lennon wasn't personally attacking anyone, he was just trying to be funny and back then they weren't politically correct and it wasn't offensive to do that. Now-a-days if you do anything some fucking idiot like you searches every channel, every radio station, every YouTube profile and video just to see if you can find something that offends you so you can cry about it like a little baby. Grow up you pussy.
diamonddust22 3 months ago 3
@diamonddust22 - Actually, the Beatles didn't exactly
get away with this. John often did his "retard" routine
at these performances. Brian Epstein heard about it
from various handicapped groups and newspaper
reporters at the time. Remember: what we think of the
Beatles is Brian Epstein's polished, neatly dressed
gentlemanly version of the Beatles. Until they made
it big, these guys were performing in bars and nightclubs.
The retard here is MILD compared what Lennon used to
do on stage!
TwoUselessLegs 3 months ago 32
@TwoUselessLegs yep many people think still the beatles hadnt seen a drug until '65. but they were poppin speed like shit in hamburg red light district clubs in 1960-61 coz bands played bout 8-12 hours straight to keep clients at the bar. party on john.
theSPECIALbrew74 3 months ago 4
@TwoUselessLegs Again, I don't think John meant it the way you are taking it. Secondly, you are going out of your way to be offended and to look for ways to be slighted. I know all about the Beatles, from top to bottom.
diamonddust22 3 months ago
@diamonddust22 - I think you misunderstood. I LOVE Lennon's
"retard" routine! I would have loved to see more of his playful wit
and humor but Epstein would have none of it. To be fair to Brian,
the industry itself would shut you down if you got "carried away".
They did it once before in the late 1950's when Rock seemed to
be too much of a threat. Keep in mind that "Rock 'n Roll" was an
old negro term for "fucking" and some folks found Elvis's pelvis in
keeping with that idea.
TwoUselessLegs 3 months ago
@diamonddust22 People who whine about "political correctness" are simple-minded douchebags. And disabled advocacy groups did complain about it, so I guess the sixties wasn't the "politically incorrect" golden-age utopia of your dreams.
NotADood 3 months ago
@No Stfu you cocksucker. Lets get one fucking thing straight right now you loud mouth cunt. Firstly, I don't give a fuck what you think. Secondly, people who walk around looking for reasons to be offended and insulted are just pussies who are too fucking weak to get the fuck over it and are witch hunting for things to whine about. Political Correctness is behaviour modification created by the left wing socialistic commie cults who can't shut the fuck up. Utopia? Yeah, it what you want to create
diamonddust22 3 months ago
@diamonddust22 Look at you, all in a tizzy. You obviously care a great deal what I think.
NotADood 3 months ago
@FaceInTheRain retard people like you that dont see what the meaning... cant you see the context??
dominous300 3 months ago
I love the little dance he does at the end lol
fuglyydouglyy 3 months ago
I don't think John Lennon was a very nice person, but he was a damn good musician!
TheBEATLEnumber5 3 months ago 5
That's Paul telling them to clap their hands and stomp their feet.
14ocie 3 months ago
He was just fooling around and acting dumb, give him a break. Now we know about people with "conditions" but people were not so informed back then. Instead, it seems to me this is John, once again, tired of being but on the front stage like a a monkey, and he was just being sarcastic, as usual.
carmaj156 3 months ago 3