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  • i love the beatles not only in music with the styles

  • I hope McCartney doesn't finish it. This is so John :D

  • Good song. Haunting. I think The Elastic Bubba will have a go and try to FINISH this song as it should have been done.

  • Really a ghostly voice from the "ETHERS"

  • the beauty of the beatles is in finding new songs and i especially like to look into their solo work ,i keep finding songs i love especially from george harrisons work , what a band they were , a force of nature .

  • John loved America and the American people...it's sad that one of them murdered him.

  • @troikagirl ya the worlds worst shot

  • what a piece of sh*t standing there in the background at 0:10.  makes me physically sick to see him.

  • chapman was brainwashed into doing it. Mind Control, look it up.

  • i'd like to hear Robert Wyatt do this song.

    also, there are fAR too many photos of Paul,

    considering this is a Dakota-era John song.

  • Beautiful melody.

  • This is so lovely.

  • Walkin down a sideway on a perfect afternoon...

  • i will gladly pay you tuesday for my life back today

  • Shame John never got to record this one in the studio. Its a beautiful song. What happened to Pauls plans to do something with it?

  • Wildenfree: I am in sympathy with your post. BenefitOfMrKite: Thanks for posting this, anyway.

  • YOOO THIS SONG I NEVER HEARD BEFORE..HOW COME ITS NOT IN THE MILK AND HONEY ALBUM OR IN THE DOUBLE FANTASY? THIS IS NOT HIS LAST SONG EVEN DOUGH I NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE..GORW OLD ALONG WITH ME IS HIS LAST SONG ACTUALY DAYS BEFORE HE DIED

  • I think "free as a bird" is an other unfinished song :)

  • HOW DID YOU GET THAT SONG

  • why are there so many photos of Paul? This is John Lennon's song, and ONLY his song..

  • AMEN to what wildenfree said. PLEASE leave that f*cker to die in Attica.

  • wow, I want that second picture on a poster

  • Hopefully Paul can finish this with some input from Ringo

    Although I think Paul might be too busy...

  • 0:11-0:16 To the suck ass motherfucker on the right, FUCK YOU!

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  • Hi there,

    I thought I heared it all and then this song pops up. It is so brilliant.

    It is every day clearer to me what a genius John Lennon was.

    Thanks for putting this material on Youtube !

    Regards

    Martin Wolffgramm

    The Netherlands / Beatlez&Bitz soloproject.

  • yeah i agree with wildenfree fuck that cunt!

  • This is a lovely melody, I hope McCartney finishes it some day. Who knows if Lennon ever wanted it released though.

  • this version will be released as last beatles single including carnival of light as B side at

    xmass 2010

  • @luciferion2000 really? that's going to be greatt!

  • This was supposed to be on Anthology 3 with the living Beatles recording on it, but George didn't like how Real Love and Free As A Bird turned out, so they didn't use this.

  • Long live the greatest songwriters of the modern era LENNON @ McCartney

  • @scott29298 Lennon AT McCartney?

  • SO BEAUTIFUL LOVE U JOHN

  • Everything you would expect from a Lennon song...its simply beautiful!!!!!

  • i wish he never fuckin came to new york. ah what are you gunna do. he deserved to become a nice wise old man, after everything he went through. psh, idk.

  • wow

  • SO BEAUTIFUL! I'm on the verge of tears from this. Paul, please, release the Beatles version. Carnival of light would be cool too.

  • @BeatleMathYT how can we get Paul to finish this stuff and put it out he also done some stuff with George called all for love unfinished the only Mccartney @ Harrison composition

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  • AWFUL?!?! I really hope you were kidding, or maybe you just meant awful song quality? This is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. EVER.

  • when are they going to release the now and then they all are on. They should have released it on 090909 and also Carnival of light (as a single)

  • Cool song. Who's gonna polish this song and put it back on utoob?

  • Great, but please, don't put pictures of that fucker Chapman

    onto your video, don't give that fucker the pleasure of any publicity.

  • I just used the picture because it's the last with John on it. ;) I hadn't enough time to cut this idiot out...

  • Ok, nice job though,despite.

  • @BenefitOfMrKite I find it incredibly ironic and sad that Lennon's last photo was signing his last album for the man who would destroy everything he was.

  • man your cool as shit. how did it go in your head. "man, hey everyone watch this, im going to go actually take time to search a john lennon song, and disrespect a man that was murdered by putting "i like chapman" in the comment box." then im gonna be fucking awesome, ppl are gonna be so mad, and there gonna stop listening to john lennon, because im so cool, and there gonna flame my page., man this is how i get all the girls" is that pretty much how it went in your head ? get a life pal

  • I doubt the idiot who calls himself SlimeTron5000 (at least the slime part is right) has ever been with a woman or man or whatever the thing desires. It also desires attention even if it's bad attention, so ignore the lonely putz. He's a zero,a loser, a nothing just like the scuzbag that killed John Lennon.

  • @wildenfree In my opinion we shouldn't talk shit about Mr.Chapman even if he is a fucker or not because that was the whole point of John's songs... to Live As One and a Brotherhood Man :)

  • @xBigxBossx93 No, sorry I don,t think John would had forgiven the murder of Yoko, I know Yoko hates this man with a vengence, if this man shot a member of your family any notion of " Love and forgiveness " goes out of the window, no Im sorry

    Their is and will always be a limit. He robbed Yoko of a husband/father/ lover and robbed me and my generation of an idol..rot in hell fucker !

  • @wildenfree1 well yes true but wouldn't this make you in a sense worse than him?

    I mean because instead of putting the example of love and forgiveness you're showing hate and thirst for vengeance.

    and sincerely I think John would've forgive him too no matter what because remember he did was a pacifist.

  • @xBigxBossx93 yes, to live as one, but when you have a cancerous growth on your body (i.e. the one), you cut it off. i agree with bigxboss above. "love and forgiveness" has its limits, and this went beyond the limit (for me).

  • @neilawright yes I know that, but again... everyone gets theirs... Mr.Chapman will one day...

  • @wildenfree Please call that murderer "Crapman" instead of his real name, thanks.

  • @PhillyDippy5  Good call.

  • @wildenfree I don't utter his name - but it needed to be said so thanks

  • @Shamagogue So Yoko is a man? The famous nude picture of Ono and Lennon maybe goes against the shit you just made up.

  • Oh you're right...photos can't be "altered or retouched" can they!!!!

  • @Shamagogue Haha...Not in the time they took the photo, early 1970's, didn't have the technology to "edit photos"

  • 3:52 yoko Looks HOT !!! xD

  • What year was this song from?

  • Thankyou for posting. That's the first time I've ever heard that. Beautfiul song.

  • if radio head came before lennon yes this might sound like radio head head.......... radio head rips off the beatles they completely stole sexy sadie one of their songs

  • @SkUmDiCtAtOr

    In a 1969 interview, John Lennon stated one of his favourite songs was "I've Been Good To You" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. The Miracles song begins with the line - Look what you've done / You made a fool out of someone - compared to Sexy Sadie's - What have you done? / You made a fool of everyone. [wikipedia]

    *shrugs*

  • wow ok i guess you still learn something new everyday, ok i wont argue with what you say im only 20 yrs old so i dont really no who influenced the beatles i do no that however the beatles have one way or another influenced just about everysingle modern band so when i hear this sounds like radio head im quick to say nay radio head sounds like beatles anyway u get what i mean well im gonna check that song out rite now thanks for the fact

  • Only not as good

  • Your 100% right Superstray27

  • this is so great. it's in its earliest recorded form and its still awesome. imagine if it were finished! imagine if lennon had lived! man, you can only wonder what great songs he would've written...

  • Paul wants to finish it?....even death can't keep these two apart.Cool.

  • I miss John and George.

  • that melody is crazy..haunting even.

  • this made me cry

  • beautiful song! i love it! i wish he could of finished it, and those 4 ppl are the only peeople that have right to do anything 2 it

  • and me

  • i think its finished i mean how could you improve tht

  • Really nice song. Love all the photos through all the years. Man, what could have been....................

  • This is a beautiful song and only hints at what songs we lost and never got to hear when John was taken from us.

    JFK and aliens... hmm! I think the CIA may have been interested in killing JFK for being soft on Communists in Cuba and the missile crisis and Vietnam and also for allowing the Civil Rights Movement to make it into US Law... but maybe I'm a cynic. But aliens had nothing to do with it.

  • Cute photo's! Songs like this make me sad,he never finished them,why? They are beautiful!

  • Do it - do it -Get it Down!

  • It's beautiful and haunting at the same time

  • Love it. Hope McCartney & Starr finish it soon!!!

  • There are only four people living I can think of that have any right to do anything with this song:

    Paul McCartney

    Ringo Starr

    Julian Lennon

    Sean Lennon

    I'd like to see Paul work on it with Ringo... if only George was still with us... :'(

    But I can't help feeling John would want Sean to do it.

  • I think if Sean were old enough at the time, John would have included him on if not all most of the songs he ws working on. And Paul was thinking of using some archival stuff from George if their gonna do le song :) George -N- John Rest In Peace

  • sean and julian no

  • To work with johns stuff feel to Emtionell, said both paul and George, when was asking about this song....

  • This is a rarety indeed.  Nice find mate. Love the beatles eversince.

  • Are you guys crazy or what? Try just enjoying the music and if you don't like it or want to read nonsensical and ignorant stuff into it, satan, ok, what a bunch of crap! If you don't like the music or the musician, don't come to the sight. Do you just like to argue or what?

  • More People Like Me Hope Paull Will Finish This Beautiful Song Unfourtnately incomplete...

  • No one really dies when they 'die'. There is no death. It is an illusion of the material world that we die. We can only see what our material senses see but there is veil that covers our eyes so we are all blinded at the moment.

  • You are correct sir!!!

    Their is no death...just a man made up word.

    Their is a new begining at that moment they named "death"

    John & George are their..along with their friends and family and our friends and family,etc. Thanks be to GOD!

    Believe in Jesus Christ for a magical life in Heaven!

  • Well i'm not completely sure,but i think paul wanted to release it on the Anthology 3, replacng A new beginning,but the song wasn't really there's and wouldn't be much of collaboration between the fabs.

  • In fact George (Harrison) voted it out, I heard.

  • I don't know if that was a serious knock at George, but if it is, you're an idiot. They all agreed that if they didn't like the finished product they could veto it. George did many things, musically and for socially bettering the world; ask Dhani.

  • I was trying to be funny but that does make me an idiot. George seem like a nice guy but I am not into the religion he was into from India. He is no longer around. But the Beatles did drugs and so this why some people do not like them and Lennon was a heroin addict at one time. Not a good role model for the kids.

  • Every single person you know has used drugs at some point or another in their lives. Do you drink? Do you take pain medicine? The only difference between them is the fact that they distort your perceptions. Religion does the same, and I assume you are an advocate for Christianity, judging by what you've said.

    Admittedly, after Yoko twisted and perverted most everything that John was, he wasn't much of a role model. They didn't intend to be role models anyway.

  • the Beatles spread a lot of love to people all over the world , and the message they leave to the world is LOVE .

    love is all

    trevor sizzle

  • so i guess you prefer the "i wanna hold your hand" stuff over the "Revolver- Abbey Road stuff?"

    and also don't pay attention to who the people are, listen to the music, that's what matters, it doesnt matter who was hindi or about secret messages on album covers, just enjoy the music

  • I'm not sure why anybody would necessarily assume you're Christian. There are a lot of other religions besides Christianity that exist outside of India. I don't think the Beatles thought about being role models. Heck, at the time of their greatest successes they weren't that old themselves. As one gets older there usually is a tendency to learn from one's mistakes. I used to drink but gave it up after I realized there was no point in it anymore. Besides I need to set an example for my kids.

  • "at the time of their greatest successes they weren't that old themselves"

    So true.

  • You obviously don't have a clue about George's religion and therefore have no business commenting on it. Hinduism predates Christianity and Christianity stole a lot of its ideas about Jesus from Hindu ideas about Krishna. Go read up on it.

  • @BenefitOfMrKite none of them wanted 2 do this and in 2007 paul tried finishing it

  • any latest update about Paul wanting to finish the song?

  • at 2:43, theres some sorta otehr sound in teh back round i dont know what it is but its sounds great. verry beutifle song i dont think theres anywork neede on it, i mean teh crude recording, honest, its sounds great and works with it verry well. teh piano is just hauntng, realy and so is johns voice as it always is. rest in peace john

  • is paul hitting a bong in one of those pictures

  • ahaha no he's playing some sort of flute-ish instrument

  • Why is it that superb artists such as John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marilin Monroe, are taken in mysterious and unexpected circumstances, while people like Britney spears, paris hilton and tom cruise torture us with thier eternal mediocrity for years and years and years and years????????......

  • i completely agree with you and also music is shit now adays! i mean does anyone use there minds to write music these days? i mean elliott smith and bright eyes are exceptions. anyways someone with talent and intelligence comes out from the ground and burns all the liars and leaves a blanket of ash on the ground

  • i want to give you a thousand thumbs up

  • because of satan! only kidding! all the real artist's live on the edge's of society, away from the hype, because they're just regular people, with extraordinary talent and since they don't play the game well?

  • I've always been curious about the picture at 0:13. The guy on the right looks like the character Mark Chapman from the movie Chapter 27. I don't know if that's what Mark really looked like. But I don't know, it reminds me of him. *shutters*

  • lol, yes, that's a really famous picture - john lennon signed Mark Chapman his new records a few hours before he shot him.

  • Es increible que después de tanto tiempo siga descubriendo canciones de Lennon, sin duda el mejor compositor del siglo 20.

  • What's not finished about this? Beautiful!

  • Great Lennon song. But why so many of Paul's photos all over this video? Not only Paul's pictures but of his solo albums', too.

  • did he not finish this song because he died?

  • WOW YOU THINK???? retard

  • I agree with revox777 but this is rare song so thanks for posting

  • Thanks for posting this.....Great pic's LM

  • its boring to you because your a freaking psycho like david mark Chapman. u Have no feeling for the music.

  • lovely song very touching

  • This is John's song. Why there are pic of Paul?

  • Read the informations to this song?

  • Don't put that Fucking Chapman pictures in these videos!!!!

  • 1:13 my two biggest idols, gone. great song

  • Mmmmm, I'm dubious about this song is original. It seem a little common melody. Many people emulates the Lennon voice enough well.

  • this is his work

  • A lady, whos name I forget, took the last photo of John in New York. He's nude and he's hugging Yoko, whos dressed. She also took a photo of Whopie Goldberg nude in a bathtub full of milk.

  • i think i cryed ... maeks me sad .. its brilliant

  • Actually sounds kinda finished the way it is. I think the best a song ever sounds, is the first time you play it (write it).

  • This song was recorded on one of those little portable cassette players. John always had one on his piano. Just like "Real Love" and "Free as a Bird" Grow Old with Me" etc. If John had taken this tune into the studio..It wouldve been his next HIT! Don't get me wrong, sounds good now..but this could of sounded Excellent!

  • Wow

    Where did this ever appear?

    Which album?

    Brilliant!

    You are all right. This would be great for Paul to sing

  • he is like a musical genius.

  • great!

  • Lennon was a freakin' genius

  • Haunting song for Paul to complete

  • what a nice song, me likie

  • john lennon has always been my hero, why would ANYONE wanna kill him?!?

  • According to a BBC documentary I saw a few years ago, he was killed by the US secret service, because he was becoming an embarrassment with his anti-war and anti-government protests. Supposedly the assassin had been brainwashed a la "Manchurian Candidate".

  • Totally. People who believe some random fan killed Lennon refuse to look at the big picture. RFK, JFK, MLK, Lennon, take a closer look.

  • Believe it or not, JFK was murdered by the CIA. The gunman was in the motorcade! JFK was going to make public the truth about Aliens.

    The truth is, they are here and have always been here. JFK had to be silenced!

  • aliens?

  • Hmmmm...Remeniscent of " I don't want to lose You"

    Tuff for many to hear the mistakes, but to me,it's very beautiful...just a small mistake, & VIOLA! A Diamond borne out of the rough! Never to be borne again

  • Paul would sound great singing this.

  • what a beautiful song...thats the god of music the true power the real lennon legend he was hiding inside him.always when that 'john' comes out, magic songs are created

  • fantastic song!  so heartfelt.

    I can imagine how emotional it would be for McCartney to sing this, especially with some of these lyrics..

  • BTW it's on

    Free as a Bird - The Dakota Beatle Demos

    Good Album!

  • Yes, why INDEED have a picture of MDC???? >:(

    I hope Paul can get rid of that buzz/hum that plagued the Threetles attempted use of it.

    If Ringo plays on it, will they call themselves the Toodles? :-)

    (Twodles doesn't look right, that's why...)

  • why include an image of chapman you dummy.

  • sure this is lennon and not mccartney?

  • Are you joking?

  • If each of you will send me one pound, I will finish it.

  • Paul wants to finish he can finish it. If Ringo wants the same, more power to him. If the millions of you want to try give it your best. I just think Paul should get the obvious nod. Ed

  • can u pathetic losers just enjoy this song! god

  • How true Scully. Ed :)

  • It sounds great no matter which version you listen to. Sure, it would be nice to have it completed by Paul and Ringo, but it's also fine in this simple, haunting, original version. Does anyone have this in MP3 form?

  • DO IT MACCA.

  • Id like to mess with it. I have a 16-Trk Digital studio. I can add Bass, Guitar, drums, Strings, vocals etc.. It would be fun!

  • yeah, please do it and post it !!! ;-)

  • don't forget to add strings now.

  • If Yoko gave it to the surviving Beatles to perform then i think Paul and Ringo should finish the song. If the lyrics are known and complete then Paul just needs to perform the song with minimal arranging etc...

    The song is one of John's best so it needs to be recorded properly although this demo is hauntingly beautiful and tragic of course.

    If Paul needs to add a bit of lyric then it could be one of the last Lennon/McCartney songs.

  • No, I think it would be nice for Paul to do it. That's as close as we can get to a Lennon-McCartney collaboration anymore, and it is sad that John Lennon is gone.\

  • i think that paul should not finish this and leave it at it's unfinished state and just put the song to rest because it belongs to john. john loved paul as if he were a close brother, but he would not want him to finish the song.