the beatles, give me some truth beatles version

[keepcalmycarryon]

Needs more Yoko.

[bellinghammond]

ya know what the next album after Abbey Road would have had on it? All Things Must Pass (title?) It Don't Come Easy Maybe I'm Amazed My Sweet Lord Imagine Every Night What Is Life Gimme Some Truth Junk Oh Yoko

[jake1052003]

The audio isn't sync'd to video. Forget the video. It has nothing to do with wht's going on .However, this is why "Let it be" IS GREAT. It's like archaeology. Thank god for YouTube. The guys all had lots of songs to work out and they eventlually showed up on their solo albums. How great is that? There could be 100 or 200 hrs of this stuff. Good for Paul to say "let's do this". Or as Yoda might say... "Do or Do Not". Paul is all about the DO! He can be alittle goofy, but he's Billionaire goofy!

[rockdavid3]

i think they kept working together secretly after the break-up, i still hear a lot of paul mccartney's bass and chorus style, and harrison's guitar additions on lennon's songs. Lennon and McCartney stated repeatedly that they helped Ringo and George with their songs, even wrote some of them. they avoided many lawsuits this way.

[BEATLES4EVER57]

AWESOME VIDEO !

[hmol1955]

Oh yes, he did. I love the song. Everybody was very positive surprised then - the few of us who had hear about it. I din´t get to hear it until I found it on YouTube. Yarh, strange - wonder if Paul ever regretted that he wrote it? Not exactly a hit, was it?

[cortosfyj]

WTF ? 

[hmol1955]

I imagine that Poul was scared to death by the thought of letting this song out. He was yellow of being held responsibel for opinions.

[metafis]

@hmol1955

So Paul didnt write and release the song 'Give ireland back to the irish' then?.

[anayamamasayuki]

え？？？　しらなかった！！！ singing give me some truth, by Paul... woW!

[Cydonian8Princess]

freakin' heck! I had no clue this was a lennon Mccartney composition... woah!! Well there you go!

[zerosum318]

The end of this video is an overdub and not a recording of the song. The part where Paul is sitting down cracking up is because John is playing a messed up version of Help! and Yesterday.

[geiadude]

Paul and John were way beyond that.The Beatles were not the point at that time.They needed to expand by them selves George too.As for George he really let Loose after the Beatles

[randyghobbs]

Paul is whacked out. LOL!!!

[MrJohnnythunders3]

Amazing!

[jazzylady75]

What the magic!!!!

[whoarethebrainpigs]

thank god Lennon turned this sows ear into a silk purse..its hard to believe listening to this that its the greatest band ever ..sounds like any other band fucking around in the garage on a saturday arvo...

[chiefashley56]

The magic these guys had...their songs will stand the test of time.

[jjranch4]

It is apparent that Yoko succeeded in Brainwashing all of you people. If she could Yoko Ono would say she wrote all of John's songs, Paul & John's, George's songs. All this nonesense was started by her, John should have stayed with Mae Pang. By the way, Paul wrote 'cheery, lovey, dovey songs. The Imagine album is filled with such songs.The song Imagine is filled with so many cliche's it's comical. but it still is a great song.

[Waterfront4]

Top comments bert,im into that theory ;)

[drstevie]

brilliant !

[df737]

You can tell here that Paul does not like this song at all, and he's laughing his head off at it because he's probably stoned again. But John would do the same thing with Paul's songs, and make fun of them, during practice. The collaboration between the two had fallen apart.

[robertmondry]

wow never heard this actually first heard this song from generation x, lovely song though each and every way

[LSweet2007]

Looks like Paul wrote this song and John arranged it later and took credit for it.

[Rush1013]

@LSweet2007

not even close, this was a solo project by John and he introduced it to the band during the get back sessions, Paul had no part in writing it. There were just practicing it in this clip.

[reg5381]

@LSweet2007 no way.maccartney wrote "cheery"lovey dovey songs.

[Koolkitties]

Shouldn't have put any clips to this looks silly

[ardanatz]

Gimme some truth....yeah Beatle Paul was really Beatle "Bill". Check out the beard, hiding the new "face" while they did plastic surgery on Faul. Paul used to be shorter than John back in the early 60s, now he's taller? hahaha Paul was replaced. NIce vid though. Cheers mate!

[CharlieMansonIsGod]

@ardanatz lol ya dude for sure my brother from across the pond, but you gotta admit "bill" is way funnier than Paul. I suppose with that kind of burden on your shoulders it could help to gain a pretty heft sense of humor. I especially laughed, "soft haired yellow bellied sona gary cooper gona *mumble* get DOPE!"

[CharlieMansonIsGod]

@ardanatz lol than softly "got any money for rope?"

[novocain68]

Never new they did this.... :)

[JamesTKirkCobain]

The Beatles never broke up, they only kicked out Paul because he was a dickhead. Ringo, George and John still played together but without Paul. That Lennon album Imagine was a Beatles album. George played on it and so did Ringo although he wasnt credited. Ringo also played on Lennons first solo album Plastic ono band. Meanwhile Paul had to keep playing Rockstar because he was an attention whore.

[TheDreamingSpires]

@JamesTKirkCobain Wasn't the case at all, The band crumbled throughout the years, they each found different interests.. But Paul was the one who wanted to keep it going and John just couldn't be bothered any more because he'd met Yoko (Hence the rumour that Yoko broke up the band)

Otherwise they would of done what they did with Pete best ( The original Drummer)

I think the song 'God' confirms it with the lines ''I don't believe in the Beatles, I just believe in me, yoko and me.. that's reality''

[HARALDEMANN]

@JamesTKirkCobain You're surely has the facts in place. Not! Ringo wasn't on the Imagine album. The three others didn't kick Paul out. Lennon left and Paul made it official. Get your facts right, please. Maybe in your mind, that's how would like it to be, but it isn't the truth.

[jankbass]

The video is definately not synced up with the audio and is probably of two different sessions......just my opinion.

[neutrino66]

fantastic.....

[solshower]

what a day to have found this version!

[reksub10]

@solshower 9/10/10 is john lennon's 70th birthday happy b'day Mr.lennon ....tes it is a good day to have found this vid ..mabye we where guided by a higher power.lol

[solshower]

@reksub10 yes we were guided by him lol

[David44763]

John and Paul really did love and trust each other.

[reksub10]

@David44763 yep they really did ,thats how john why john wrote "how do you sleep" with such anger ,cos he was broken hearted .he wasnt being malicious .it was his anger speaking ,cos he was hyurt really bad ..betrayed almost....9/10/10 happy 70th b'day john lennon

[altersachse]

@David44763 sorry you are so wrong !!!

[DemonstrationNation]

Wow ! Never even knew this existed thanks so much!!!

[JapaninArmeija]

This song had become a Lennon/McCartney item had the band survived.

[JohnnyRottweiler]

too bad that Paul gived a chance to that great song! Johm thought that it will be a good one ! After their breakup but neverless ...

[originalgallagher69]

why would you take your musically illiterate bird with you too much crap drugs

[originalgallagher69]

the end of the beatles. you dont take yer missus to work with yer.....gross

john lost the plot a little boy who never grewq up!

[BertLeysen]

Instead of recording the Let It Be-album, they should've let George take the leading role, record ten of his songs, two of Lennon and McCartney, and release it like that. It might've taken the pressure of the band and given John and Paul a chance to lean back for a short while, reconsidering their own songs. But it's easy saying this after the facts...

[Koolkitties]

@BertLeysen That kind of philosphy is exactly what split them up

[zappahart]

@BertLeysen you may have something there! just my opinion!!!...man do i wish they were still making beat records!!!! i still get a tear when i watch concert for bangladesh and any documentary about johns last days!!!!

[whoarethebrainpigs]

@BertLeysen i think george knew he had a batch of killer songs and thought fuck you 2,, this trains heading for a wreck ''I'll jump off and do my own album ,,he did and it was brilliant whereas Paul's was just pukeable except for "maybe I'm amazed"..

[jayfey77]

@BertLeysen when it came to other songs that werent his lennon didnt care and either didnt participate or he played half ass.lennon hated isnt it a pity and my sweet lord.2 songs harrison was already working on when he was still with the beatles.if you had read geoff emericks book you would know this.

[BertLeysen]

@jayfey77 I have read Emerick's book and I'm aware of this information you're giving me. I just don't know why you come up with this. It's not exactly the point I was trying to make...

[jayfey77]

@BertLeysen because of your previous statement of they should let george record 10 of his songs.why would they when they hated working on songs that werent theirs.

[BertLeysen]

@jayfey77 First of all, I was only thinking in a hypothetical way. Second of all, they didn't like George's input in songwriting around the period of 'Help!', but by 1969 he had made enough progress, so they released 'Something' as the A-side of a single. During the Let It Be-sessions, it wasn't so much that they didn't like his songs but rather the fact that they had to play all those songs over and over and over again.

[jayfey77]

@BertLeysen i know its hypothetical because it never happened.and you are wrong saying they didnt like george's input in songwriting in 65.they didnt mind it then.the longer they were together the worse it got.by 69 they hated working on each others songs.john didnt help with some songs he would just talk with yoko during pauls blackbird or george's let it down.and your wrong again because john hated most of paul and george's songs.he hated isnt it a pity and my sweet lord.you knopw nothing.

[BertLeysen]

@jayfey77 I know don't like the way you're talking so whatever you say, man, if you think it's correct, then it is. I'm no longer discussing this with you.

[jayfey77]

@BertLeysen geoff emerick said they worked on george'e songs as little as possible he said they didnt spend much time on them.so your wrong again.they did many takes on pau. and john songs.you sure dont act likem you've read geoff's book because your saying the complete opposite.

[VoxMax1200]

Epic and great song in same time. One of the best rare uploads!!!!

[klocke]

fucking Paul... shut the hell up, you clown

[vantalge]

@klocke Give him a break, he was high. And at least he was showing interest, which is more than John usually did when they were working on someone else's song at this stage.

[nonnel64]

Crippled inside is by the Beatles, Jealous Guy idem, Give me some truth too. Was there something new in Imagine album?

[Maugolek]

Was it so that they rehearsed this song during the Let It Be sessions and Lennon just took it and recorded for himself?

[riverdale999]

The Imagine album version of this song kills. Lennon in top form vocally and it has one of Harrison's best solos ever. Quite a few songs by all Beatles from their early solo albums were written before the break up. In a way, you could consider songs composed prior to the break up to be Beatle songs. Just think of the incredible albums they would have made if they stayed together another few years.

[JohnLennon100]

I had no idea this song was of that time ....amazing ...

[4FabBEATLES]

# John Wiener took the title of this song for his 1999 book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, about Lennon's problems with the government in the 1970s.

[4FabBEATLES]

# On the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, The Wallflowers' frontman Jakob Dylan (son of Bob Dylan) covers the song and Dhani Harrison (Son of George Harrison) reprises his father's role in the song.

[4FabBEATLES]

# John Lennon's fellow former Beatle George Harrison plays lead guitar on the song, with Klaus Voormann (a friend of the Beatles who designed the cover for the Revolver album) on bass.

[4FabBEATLES]

"Tricky Dicky" became a popular nickname for Nixon during the Watergate hearings, and came into widespread usage.

the song alludes to "soft soap," comparing its slippery qualities to a politician trying to quell public unrest with insincere praise

[4FabBEATLES]

The song was from the time, when people were heavily participating in protest rallies against the govt.

Lennon's dig at US President Richard Nixon, referring to him in the lyrics of the song as "Tricky Dicky," proved to be increasingly relevant after the song's release, when in 1972 the Watergate scandal erupted.

[harvard11]

Sensational! I had no idea that Give me some truth was a Beatles song. I knew about Jealous Guy, Imagine, etc...

[4FabBEATLES]

@harvard11 "Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.

Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine" ," "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references emerging from the time it was written, during the latter years of the Vietnam War.

The song expresses Lennon's frustration with deceptive politicians, chauvinism , and acts of military violence .

[WiltatKansas]

geniuses

[princessbobo910]

Love beatles! *****

Bo Bo  ^ v ^

[tontomcepstein]

hey you know the video does not match the audio. its just made to look that way.

[Stanzman]

Wow, I had no idea This song was intended to be a Beatle song??

Is this from the Let It Be sessions?

They should release this to DVD.

Beatle fans such as myself would cherish this!

[4FabBEATLES]

@Stanzman "Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album 'Imagine.' Work on the song began as early as January 1969 during The Beatles' Get Back sessions, which would eventually evolve into Let It Be. Bootleg recordings of the group performing songs that would eventually go onto the members' solo recordings feature a few performances of "Gimme Some Truth."

Gimme Some Truth" has political references from the time of the Vietnam War.

[rareu4532]

that was paul song haha cool...

[4FabBEATLES]

@rareu4532 no it's written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album "Imagine".

[rareu4532]

@4FabBEATLES its very straunge that paul sing it here hahaha and this was "1969"... John Lennon took this insprationens made owns song, but it was "Pauls melody from the beginn...

[reverendflash]

@rareu4532

I don't think Paul is doing anything more than trying to help with a song that John has already brought to him. And from the sound of the 'Imagine' version, it doesn't appear that John really dug Paul's ideas.

[mietta]

Oh cool!!i didn't know this...thanks!!!

[DAVWAVE]

And look at who screwing it all up. YOKO. Tald about a wasted space.

[pazzensutra]

@DAVWAVE If my wife INSISTED I bring her with me to work so she could sit there, scowl and read magazines all day while I tried to work....I'd get fired. Didn't she have a life at all? Get lost Yoko!!!

[DAVWAVE]

@pazzensutra You put it perfectly. and she did break up the group, make no mistake. Paul stills can not stand Yoko.

[joethulhuz]

@DAVWAVE So Paul can't stand Yoko, yet he made an effort to reconnect with her that led to her offering him some of John's unfinished demos which then led to the first new Beatles songs in 40 years?

[paisleybabee]

@DAVWAVE nah dude it's Paul that's got it wrong here..dead wrong! ;)

[salvadormarley]

I never even knew :)

Great.

[NoirFan01]

wow. didn't know they rehearsed song. only it seems more like paul's song here than john's.

[jaystarstar]

@NoirFan01

yeah, it's pretty clear "Gimme Some Truth" was certainly a Lennon/McCartney song, as much or more than many late-period Beatles songs.

The shouted chorus is pretty similar to numerous songs Paul did with Wings (Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey) so it's clear Paul had a very significant role in the song.

John straighened out/tightened up some of the verses (and added the 'Tricky Dicky' line) before putting the final version out on "Imagine," but it's basically the same song.

[tacako76]

Wow !! Rare vid . I have never seen such a great video !! Beatles lol . Thanks so much of posting .Please keep this !!