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  • Such an awesome track! The lyrics and intent of the song are what held it back from being a big hit sadly.. The melody and chorus are super groovy

  • Lennon pilfered the string sections from Marty Wilde's "Tomorrow's Clown".

  • 3:45 "A pretty face may last a year or two, but pretty soon they'll see what you can do." I dont think this song is about Paul, its obviously about Justin Bieber.

  • very well thank you :)

  • John said this song was about HIMSELF and that he regrets the association with Paul.

  • @spudmuffin99 I find that hard to believe given the yesterday reference-maybe he was just trying to quell the tension it (the song) may have created. I could be wrong, but that's the impression that I get.

  • @wbneilsen1 in another video of this same song john gets interviewed and says that its about himslef but then again he could only be saying that to save face but still amazing songs from both john and paul during a dark time between the beetles...

  • great song

  • Paul in the Beatles Anthology book , basically claims he had worked out a deal with EPIC records for the Beatles in 1970. But John was like..I want a divorce . Whats interesting is ..during the recording of Let It Be , Harrison walked out. Lennon himself looked at Paul and goes "I wonder if we can get Clapton if George doesn't come back ?" So the men involved were like any other at times. They argued at times.

  • como podria ver a los ojos de su madre, si no era el, OOOOOH HOW DO YOU SLEEP, para mi que en esas tres canciones estan las respuestas

  • Find another way to make a living, a-holes. 

  • This song is the only stupid John Lennon song.

  • This represents the saddest phase of the post-Beatle breakup. "Too Many People" may have come first, but whatever jabs that may have been there were subtle. The dark side to John was that when he saw himself in the mode of the "truth teller" it gave him license to be absolutely brutal. This was a public character assassination of McCartney.

  • Classic...

  • original album got my interest, but this is a cd, a little play on words i take.

  • Don't mess with John. He will end you poetically.

  • no, yesterday may be the worst *thing* ever! haha.

  • yesterday: worst *song* ever ha,

  • @Paul OWNED =/

  • This song is just sad. Brilliant but sad. Its popularity shows how tragically impressed the average person is by put downs. John should have had a good friend to tell him this was shit.

  • @garethb1961 i agree with you, but it is hard to know what was really going on between them two, at least i dont know enough. maybe John felt double crossed and insulted and had to get it out because there was no other way to express it.

  • @garethb1961 I heard that Ringo basically told him that after hearing the track.

  • @pajmf And walked out, and didn't play on the track! Didn't help though, did it.

  • @garethb1961 I guess nobody told him that because it has a great gritty rock n roll melody, no?

  • @chingchangchongfly It is magnificent musically, but it is still an immature guy making a public ass of himself!

  • @garethb1961 It was Paul who got a court order to end The Beatles. Noone will ever know the real truth but I believe that if John was still alive today there would have been a reconciliation.

  • @millertas George H. may have been a bigger problem. I think John and Paul would have got back together despite their differences - just for purely musical reasons. John was getting back into making music, and was growing up - an it was obvious they both needed each other musically!

  • @garethb1961 No I don't agree. George was quite upset at the split and he did help on the anthology album. Don't quite know what you mean "and was growing up", implies he acted immaturely. Hope you don't mean "becoming more conservative".

  • @millertas George quite upset at the split? Please show me a quote from George saying as much. He and John wanted it most. I'm not knockin' George, just saying.

  • @Tuberstar08 actually, paul wanted it the most, after all, he quit first

  • @oppport He quit publicly first because John had already told him he was quitting the Beatles. It's a bit like when your boss fires you and you say "No, I quit". I can assure you Paul was absolutely devastated by the Beatles break up and George was liberated by it. And the Beatles may very well have got back together to perform in the 70s were it not for George. You can see John saying as much in an interview in 1975.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=WKAeI_ebik­k ROCANROL

  • @Pategayo Ma stai bene ? D:

  • @96FAndrea Sono pieno pazzo youtube.com/watch?v=7DpLiTsov9­Y

  • a venal bitter masterpiece..

    only a genius could take anger and rage and turn it into something with such beautiful structure.

  • aerosmith right next to the beatles? it must just be a coincidence that you happen to like the beatles. its pretty offensive to put crap right next to the greatest band in history. Ha arosmith, CRAP

  • @brittneynichole09 How is aerosmith crap yah whore

  • you are all a bunch of idiots.

  • real subtle John :D

  • i sleep very well, thank you for asking, Mr. Lennon. :) lol

  • So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise

    You better through that mother's eyes

    Those freaks was right when they said you was dead

    The one mistake you made was in your head Paul is Dead

  • I don't care who this song is about, I just love the song :) Anyway people get so wrapped up in the bullshit sometimes....

  • 4:57

  • @Losuna1964 Ringo played with beatles....not in this Lennon song....The drummer was Alan White....  :)

  • 34 people can't sleep at night.

  • pf, me fascina esta canción, la guitarra de Harrison, la voz de Lennon, pero sobre todo la letra hahaha a fuerza que es sobre McCartney, esa la hace aún mejor!

  • I love the gorge's guitar !! 

  • he will live on forever

  • I sleep listening to this.

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  • I love Beatles so much! And i adore Paul! But damn this song is gooood!!

  • The fact that this is toward Paul make's me feel sick to my stomach. I can't remember if Paul made a diss track does anyone else know?

  • @aerosmithbeatles

    There were hidden messages to John throughout the Ram album, specifically on "Too Many People," to which Paul admitted some lines were jabs at Lennon. If you ask me, this was John's way of saying, "I'm above hidden messages, a streetside brawl is more to my liking," lol.

  • @mussman717word very nicely put lol, that was basically both of their attitudes upon that matter. Pauls the kind who mutters words when you've left his presence. John just knocks you out after bsing with some peace lol

  • @aerosmithbeatles I've read that "Silly Love Songs" was his diss track. John is the clear winner here, haha.

  • it reminds me of my divorce

  • @campi1806 Hahahahaha your coment is fantastic !!!

  • I love them both. That's it.

    

  • george plays the slide-solo which is fucking genious

  • saying something so cruel with such beauty is genious

  • 34 people like Paul McCartney

  • @VOTCM so the people who liked the vid can't like Paul McCartney?

  • @VOTCM Haters gonna hate

  • @VOTCM hahaha good one... paul was a cunt. Lennon forever.

  • but he was your brother..

  • So much Muzak around me.

  • I dont get it. So elvis is alive and paul is dead? Riiiiiggggghhhhtttt Ok!

  • "A pretty face may last a year or two

    But pretty soon they'll see what you can do

    How do you sleep at night"

    = Nick Clegg all the way

  • of course paul is dead........

  • @morph420 He's alive. John was referring to something fans freaked out about when you played the song "Revolution 9" backwards. People said you could hear the words "Paul is Dead" and "We killed him" or something like that. Just search Revolution 9 backwards and you'll see what I mean.

  • lennon got yoko ,paul got this song ,george got out his slide, & ringo just dont give a fuck.......

  • @BBQFanNo1 Fuck off!

  • Paul is alive and well and Elvis is dead. UFO's are not aliens but actually demons.

  • People wanna say Paul's dead because that would turn the Beatles into fairy tale characters. Truth was that they were real human beings with real feelings- it's a little more complicated then "Oh Paulie and Johnny were Best Friends Forever!! <3"

  • @m1kewithaone Yeah, if you say so.

  • Next time I'm mad at somewhere I'm going to say: "HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?!"

  • This would be the best if it was done in metal style.

  • The real Paul is dead. I did a lot of research about Paul, The Beatles and Faul. The reason that The Beatles split up not because Paul wanted to take control or a major rift with John. George, Ringo and John couldn't carry on without the real Paul. That's why they split up.

  • @19GirlBad so was that the "fake" paul that just re-married, what was it, four months ago?

  • @19GirlBad You need to lay off of bad drugs or the water you are drinking where you live.

  • Wow, George really had his own style on guitar. I have a question. If Ringo and George are also on this track, how could Paul not really be dead. It makes complete sense. I mean come on'... I'm sure they weren't all that mad at Paul for the 3 Beatles to make this song. Oh... and if you look a t pictures of Paul from 66 and 67, there are A LOT of differences.

  • Arrogance et claque en plein visage. Mélodie ordinaire. En trois mots: un cheap shot

  • This is how you make a diss track.

  • @Megatrousers also, marrying yoko ono.

  • 'the only thing you've done was yesterday' . I'm gonna have to use that somewhere in my life

  • @Chrley yeah next time you have an argument with paul mccartney

  • @MetrazolElectricity LOL Totally loved your response to Chrley's commment. Never quite understood the "Yesterday" diss completely because Paul McCartney was responsible for a hell of a lot when it comes to the Beatles. Maybe because it's one of their biggest hits?

  • @dormanbenton Yeah cause it was the one song most easily associated with Paul, in my judgement.

  • @MetrazolElectricity Something to be interpreted the way ones sees it I guess. Makes more sense the more I think about it "and so for Paul McCartney of Liverpool, opportunity knocks" (when it was first performed). Sounds like George Harrison being sarcastic that he's taking the stage himself. 'Hey Jude' had everybody on stage though it was a Paul song. 

  • @dormanbenton Yeah, there's a kind of irony that the one person who loved being a Beatle the most first sewed the break up by performing a solo song as a Beatle. He gave the others ideas.

  • @Chrley Especially useful if you meet Paul McCartney, and then have a falling out wihth him.

  • @Chrley The original line that followed that was 'I bet you stole the bitch anyway' but Klein chipped in with 'And since you've gone you're just another day'.

  • Great Song!! Just Listen!!

  • I know this is cruel. But I still like this song. I love all 4 of those guys for the rest of my life.

  • I thought this was powerful at the time of its release. Now it just seems bitter and dumb. However, the lyrics to GOD still hold up.

  • they were like family...brothers get mad sometimes but it doesnt' define them

  • Yall are kinda dumb if you think that this song isnt as much about him as it is McCartney. Hear me out. Any situation has 2 sides and by telling one he is effectively telling the other as well. Dont hate because he could still come with brilliant strings progressions and hard ass riffs without Martin or mccartney. LOL

  • without Paul McCartney The Beatles are 0. McCartney song are the best: Let it be, Hey Jude, Lady madonna, Penny Lane, Helter Skelter, I'm down, and i love her, back in the urss, Yesterday,Michelle,Golden slumber/carry that weight/the end, and other. John write "It's only Love" This is a Good Beatles song?

  • @paolo38021 John wrote Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Come Together, Dear Prudence, I Want You, Revolution, Tomorrow Never Knows, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Strawberry Fields Forever, Norweigian Wood, and most of A Day In The Life. Just saying he wrote It's Only Love and not mentioning any of the great songs is as stupid as just saying Paul wrote Wild Honey Pie and not any of the "good Beatles songs" of his you so kindly mentioned.

  • @paolo38021 Actually Paul's kind of a wimp. George and John are where it's at.

  • This song inspired me to tell somebody off and burn a bridge that's been keeping me down for a while. I did last night and today I went through crap a lot of people don't like me anymore and I;m not around to defend myself, but now I don't have to deal with her anymore. Worth it <3 Thanks Johnny.

  • i just want to state?? when will all you assholes stop talking squat about john against paul and paul against john, jesus help us!! they were the best of friends and the worst of enemies! john is gone to another dimension and is laughing at all you fucking haters that have nothing better to do than slam the best 2 some writing men of all time. let them be, or should i say "let it be" they loved music and made the very best i have ever heard, so peace out and stop with the slammin shit will ya

  • YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

  • McCartney made 33 accounts.

  • According to wikipedia George did indeed play slide guitar on this track.

  • This song was written literally. Faul did not grow 6" in his mid 20's. Study the photos. Voice prints. This song is one big CLUE.

  • I hope 33 people can't sleep.

  • I've never liked Lennon as a person he's a self satisfied douche, I LOVE him as a musician but he's just so immature in this and then claiming this was written about him? AHAHAH This is just ridiculous

  • @mikemillzy92 totally hes a hipocryte.

  • @mikemillzy92 Anybody who thinks he's perfect is a moron. So he's a flawed human being? I suppose you're not?

  • @Sukie410 Woah man, you took what I said out of context. I never said anyone thought he was perfect. All I was saying was this song was immature (and the explanation on why he wrote it was horseshit) and he was an asshole. Thats it.

  • @mikemillzy92 You don't get what I mean. You were hating on him for not being perfect, meaning you think he should be? Even if this song is 'immature', doesn't that just make him human?

  • @Sukie410 No I'm hating on him cause he's an asshole. I know we all have flaws. But in an interview he said "People think this is about Paul, its actually about myself" COMPLETE BULLSHIT.

  • @mikemillzy92 Even if it is bullshit, I'm saying that everyone bullshits. Is that how you define people as assholes? If they bullshit? Then everyone's an asshole.

  • @Sukie410 ....- _ - Just please don't talk anymore

  • @mikemillzy92 aha! you have excepted defeat

  • Thanks for keeping the music here and forever

  • The fact John got George to play on this track had to be a major blow to Paul in itself.

  • @PiratedFilmsPro George was happy to play on it because he concurred with John but Ringo was reportedly quite upset when they were making this track and he may have persuaded John to ditch some of the bitchier lyrics. The ones that made it on to the cut weren't the most cutting.

  • @Tuberstar08 he also was asked to play drums but refused saying "I dont want to choose sides here"

  • i love why dont we do it in the road!

    peacE anD lovE

  • @MaggotInfestedGoat what does the fact you love that song have to do with this song?

  • 33 DISLIKES WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • john and georges were always the best....

  • I still like this song.

  • Great tune, you are hearing Lennon's side of the breakup. Great Lyrics and yes that is George playing slide.

  • Okay, Paul's not dead. Yes this is John's response to "Too Many People" and no Paul did not play this at his wedding lol

  • R.I.P.P.M.

  • @MaggotInfestedGoat No, Paul is alive. And this song is for him.

  • @Edgarthebug2012 right and i hope paul always remenber this....

  • ill bass

  • This is fucking brutal....

  • @itsbridgetlogann brutal.. but beautiful. i wonder what really happened between those two friends...

  • @xkidd092 I agree, it's a mystery.

  • You think this was Paul's wedding song?

  • happy birthday!

  • this song write for MaCcartney

  • @cripplemind661 you do have a crippled mind. Paul McCartney's not freaking dead. People look for bollocks in all sorts of places, they looked for it in the Beatles and hey presto: BOLLOCKS. It's written TO Paul McCartney...dead people don't sleep at night. "The only thing you done was yesterday"....am I getting through. At all. Rant over. Beatles rule. This song rules. Paul McCartney's dead...wait no

  • @jimihowell haha your just afraid to accept the truth man no left handed player can ever go back to right handed playing like nothing ever its proven and psycholigist have taken many test i k o many left handed guitar and bass players almost impposible to go right handed when he was in wings he went right handed that dont happen he looks nothing like the old paul surgery got him threw it

  • @cripplemind661 When Paul played right handed? If you' re referring to some India pics consider that the images are shown in the wrong direction

  • @MarcoZucchi81 im reffering to look at some of the wings covers and old videos he would play right handed

  • great song, great guitar solo

  • dude how can no one see this is about pauls covered up death

  • We miss u John but you're inmortal... You're in thousands, or millions of minds...RIP... I'll see you someday wherever you are...

  • it's incredible how most of the people like crappy music... Justin Bieber...please..What a shame...Against John Lennon... it's unbelievable...

  • On October 9th we will all watch "Imagine" in honor of the greatest singer ever's birthday. Let's give him the best birthday present ever: the highest viewed video on YouTube!! Let's give him what he deserves and what Justin Bieber does not deserve to have!

    Copy and paste to all John lennon/beatles videos and all music videos let's get this noticed quickly!

    THUMBS THIS UP

    LET'S GET THIS NOTICED

    Lets help John!

  • long live john

  • John et Paul ont fait des chefs d oeuvres. (John+Paul hauve made masterpieces). 

  • i wake to gun fire in pheonix az paul or john is not dead i wrote jesus be life is to live in hearts be not forgotten and forgivin love past away

  • paul is dead

  • @sunchild90 God dammit!! Sir James Paul McCartney is NOT dead!! You've gotta be retarded to think that!

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  • @sunchild90 Are you mental? This song is for Paul. Ringo said: "Paul and me are the alive Beatles".

  • How Do You Sleep? Some day's i just wish i had not woken up

  • I like this song because it's funny. Imagine two grownups fighting through songs. That's funny. If John were still alive, he'd probably realize how crazily immature this is.

  • Fuck Jesse McCartney. That dumbass should not be able to copy amazing songs. Stupid Teenager..

  • @125guitargeek Have you listened to Jesse McCartney's 'How do you Sleep?' .. it has the same name, but it 's not a cover of this song. Completely different. And Jesse is in his twenties, not a teenager.

  • 31 people can't sleep

    

  • @classifiedsx thats what i call giving peace of chance no instant karma for us!

  • this song is clearly not even about Paul McCartney. It's about Faul McCartney.

  • @CallOfGideon billy shears, we're going to get internet yelled at. caps lock at the ready!

  • @CallOfGideon

    Oh no please don't talk about that "Paul is dead" bullshit and just listen to the fucking song

  • @CallOfGideon

    Oh no please don't talk about that "Paul is dead" bullshit and just listen to the fucking song

  • I could totaly smoke a joint to this song

  • OH FORGOT POB AND JOHNS FRIEND KLAUS VOORMAN IS STILL ALIVE.

  • Never realized on this album almost everyone now dead:( RIP JOHN, GEORGE, NICKY HOPKINS, KING CURTIS WHO WAS KNIFED 3MO AFTER PLAYING ON THIS ALBUM. ONLY ONES LEFT ARE ALAN WHITE FROM YES WHO PLAYED DRUMS ON ALL TRACKS AND PHIL SPECTOR WHO IS PRETTY MUCH DEAD TO WORLD LOCKED UP.

  • What a smokin tune. George really layin down some sick slide guitar and the always great Nicky Hopkins with great paino. Sure it was chep shot at Paulie but they did the fighting thru music not violence. I guess the studio noise at intro supposed to be like Sgt. Pepper intro?

  • hahaha oh john. making fun of his best friend in his songs,

    and of course paul did it right back at him with his songs.

    did i say best friend? this just proves their brothers. trying to be better then the other, but would never actually do any harm. the cuties. so genious :D

  • Damn. POWNED.

  • So I heard Sgt Pepper caught you by surprise?