Hold On - John Lennon

[MrMGD92]

Who wrote this song can somebody tell me please?

[mustache888]

here's to my hero, for always staying true no matter how much he changed RIP

[Johnny66215]

:3

[Johnny66215]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA COOKIE AHAHAHHA WHAT A CLOWN d: 1:07

[XxTheWeekendWarsxX]

the cookie part scared the shit out of me the first time i heard it hah

[maritzabelmonge]

COOKIE!

[thewillrocks1]

when i ever get in trouble i just say hold on it kinda helps

[notpeterhansen]

John watched a lot of TV. He liked Sesame Street. So he said Cookie as an homage to The Cookie Monster. Sorry guys, sometimes the truth is straight forward :D

[GoldenBeatles]

@notpeterhansen really? :D

[polycarpx]

So John says "Cookie!" in this song and then Ringo says "...cookie! in "Early 1970". This must've been some sort of inside joke. Maybe the joke was getting their fans to ponder a non-existent mystery. They were geniuses.

[sm374820rocks]

COOKIE. the wise words of John Lennon.

[CalamityCameron]

Vox amps with them heating up bulbs - pure class sound reverbing - ing -ing

Happty Birthleday mr John,

a bit late but old blighty is screwed again with this lot running it. Circa Nov 2011

[MoorishMusings]

at 1:08 there is a demonic statement of "cookie." What is that about?

[RuleIWill]

cookie?

[Sirfev2010]

@RuleIWill Cookie Monster Invented Jim Henson 1969 Fab.

[memofromturner]

COOOOOOKIE!

[love4gwen202]

yoko hold on its gonna be alright:)

[PrincessAngelStar12]

John is a weird fellow, that COOKIE was very random

[ragingbull2001]

what a great singer

[specky60]

thought cookie was the name of the guy playing bass,could be wrong....

[FetaCheese222]

@specky60 Nope, that's Klaus Voormann on bass.

[liamMCR]

haha "Cooookie"

[PiratedFilmsPro]

@chaselovespizza you die soon.

[chaselovespizza]

@PiratedFilmsPro hey srry i realized i shouldnt say that i'll remove it!

[ButterflyFeerie]

I want a cookie, lol!

[plexusnexus]

cooking



[greenwich1754]

3 people with diarrhea could not hold on 'till they reached the john.

[rpg23245]

Blu brought me here and Lennon made me stay

[Raeanynumber]

Cookie!

Lol!

[beatlekid123]

Cookie!

[TheRealRaptorJesus]

Factoid of the Day: Poo comes out of people's butts!

[TheRealRaptorJesus]

Factoid of the Day: Poo comes out of people's butts!

[TheRealRaptorJesus]

Factoid of the Day: Poo comes out of people's butts!

[lensinilas]

COOKIE!!!!!

[thedroogfulable]

how come im not hearing the cookie part?????

[ghostwhiskey]

@thedroogfulable must be something with your speakers

[CoolerKing37]

Why is Lennon dressed as the Artful Dodger @ 0:25?

[meanmachine210]

@CoolerKing37 it was for a t v show he was a guess in in 1967

[bubbadude117]

Johnson & Jonson (Blu) - Hold On John

^ A nice tribute to John Lennon

[ikikikke]

The beginning made me think of Sun King...

[torchfire1]

cookie was yoko's nickname

[sokerplair]

note that ringo also grunts COOKIE in the song "EARLY 1970" referring to john....

[Hippie69guy]

They do not hate Yoko, they just want to hate somebody.

[909kong]

Why do people hate Yoko so much...she seems like an Ok person.

[dynospectrum]

COOKIE!

[monsterhockey7]

was the cookie monster thing on the original cut? Someone educated about it please respond, no opinions please, just fact.

[Dime067]

@monsterhockey7 He threw the "Cookie" part in there for his son Sean, to imitate the cookie monster from sesame street. 

[masterjoey1029]

@Dime067 He foresaw Sean being born four years before? I think you mean Julian, pal.

[Dime067]

@masterjoey1029 sorry man im only human, but thank you for correcting me

[masterjoey1029]

@Dime067 No worries, man!

[dkelly26666]

Sad trivia: That picture of Lennon at 1:34 was taken the very day of his death. Still such a young man.

[80thisvelvetglove]

hold on world, world hold on, it's gonna be alright

[thetechreviewer97]

COOKIE!!

[MajorTom106]

John Lennon liked Sesame Street. COOKIE!

[Mrlightdice]

cookie...



[physicalgraffiti714]

This just helped me so much, I love this song.

RIP John

[EarthH2oLuma]

..."it's going to be alright you're going to see the light"... love that line!

[Josh17bass]

Cookie !! :O !! 

[Here4theFab4]

Cookie

[ForDaBirds47]

i fucking love that cookie part. i was just really depressed and it just made me laugh my ass off.

[RosieLeighGreen]

All of these ideas he had, and 30 years after his death they all went out of the window, what do we have to hold on to now?

[ultimatepie27]

3 people don't like it when people randomly say cookie

[Israeli3030]

Fuck Yoko

[RantingThespian]

@Israeli3030 Fuck you.

[Israeli3030]

@RantingThespian i didnt break up the beatles...

[RantingThespian]

@Israeli3030 I know, John, Paul, George, and Ringo broke up the Beatles. Hell, Ringo quit before the White album because he felt they were all buddies and he was the odd one out (but was convinced to come back), then George left during Let It Be because he was getting tired of being pushed around by Paul (and would only come back if they changed from Paul's "Get Back" rehearsal to a real album).

They were cracking long before John got with Yoko. Hell, John said it started when Brian died.

[claybagman]

Cookie!!!!!

[hiimnickful]

cookie 1:09 wtf

[biggdaps]

Whats John correcting with the Cookie part?

[mollehhhx]

everytime i hear the 'hold on yoko' part it breaks my heart. I don't know, it's just like he's singing it to yoko after he died, telling her to be strong.

[stwey11228]

damn you can feel the love in the song

[MattDuesk]

COOOOKIE

[AllfatherBlack]

One of the very few Beatles-related songs I like, and I like it a LOT.

COOOKIE

[TheMrFinneth]

I don't understand the COOKIE part, someone please explain?

[TheMrFinneth]

@filemen2 I mean why does he say it

[filemen2]

@TheMrFinneth Oh, I thought you were asking about the comments about it. Sorry. Disregard.

[TheMrFinneth]

@filemen2 Haha that's okay. But do you know why he says it? Or is john just being himself :P

[h812]

@TheMrFinneth I think at this time in johns life, he was spending a lot of time at home with his kid. There were re runs of that show with the cookie monster. It was just in his head. I read that somewhere...

[TheMrFinneth]

@h812 That makes sense, cause if you listen to 'I'm stepping out' he says he's been watching too much sesame street. That's really cool since sesame street was my favorite show growing up, and I'm only 14

[CR00K]

Blu

[tdeluna]

@CR00K J&J, Boy!!!

[donzie975]

Such a short simple song but just brilliant, you're music will never die John

[BeatleJohnGeorge]

Hold on John, John hold on 30 years since you left us

[Jakabones]

I heart Cookies.

[blingshevik]

RIP&L--Rest In Peace and Love, John!!!

[ruffdraft07]

30 years later from his passing...John Lennon has contributed to our art and it still stands the test of time...thank you John!! omm nomm nomm cookie!!!

[Jethrofinger]

I just learned that the "Cookie" part is in reference to Cookie Monster. LOL!

[PinchofPsychedelic]

The cookie part scared the crap out of me

[ravenrene68]

@PinchofPsychedelic LOL!!!, ive always loved that part. he apparently was watching a lot of sesame street at the time and just thought hed throw that in there...thats what ive read the most anyway. but hey, hes john lennon, he can do what he wants, right?

[kozmicblues14]

@PinchofPsychedelic LMAO! i KNOW I was like wtf? haha John sounded like a creeper cookie monster lol

[shanehenning26]

great song

[andlookmore]

I will hold on, but sooner or later we all need to try again and change this world for the better.

[AnnalovesKevinJayy]

COOKIE

[back2realitygal11]

0:52 HIPPIEHIPPIEHIPPIE's. <3 and wtf with the cookie? I'm scared

[jmanu777]

2 people don't like cookies.

[longview1987]

who's with john at 1:25 ? doesnt look like Sean or Julian

[bz4kh]

@longview1987 It's Julian.

[GuitarHeroIIIRocker]

@longview1987

It's Julian

[rwt596]

oh no! two people got distracted and missed the like button!

[hello50guitar]

1:11 sexy

[hello50guitar]

This song is awesome.

[hello50guitar]

John is a sexy cookie.

[hello50guitar]

0:44 They look like teenagers. I love that.

[hello50guitar]

John is sexy.

[sausagenpeppers]

happy bday to the best songwriter of all time

[sabbathsabbathsabbat]

hold on john

[Aikamatkustaja]

Happy B-day John! We miss you!

[clubpenguinfreak546]

2 People don't seem to like john the cookie monster

Happy Early B-day John <3

[Beatleboy1968]

God I love this song.....

[KoochiiMonstrr]

watch?v=XjhoFw8KXJQ

to the Guy WHo unvented Sampling.

there an ode Gets wrote.

LA Livinn.

[gypsynat79]

Love your selection of pics!

[johnlennonistheman]

COOKIE!

[Xmenfan246]

Personnel:

John Lennon - vocals, guitar

Ringo Starr - drums

Klaus Voormann - bass

[ipawnurass]

cookie!

[baztekiller]

one of the best bass lines ever

[madziutek0908]

Hold on, all ;)

[Keeweehz]

COOKIE

[toocoolotool218]

I'm practicing this song on the guitar and when I do I like to add another verse that goes

"hold on world, world hold on, it's gonna be okay. We're gonna see the day"

[shaneh1983]

great song

[skinnydipper16]

his songs start to become a bit narcassistic in his solo work...

[flarbton]

@skinnydipper16 you could say that about any song writer... unless they are writing about nothingness... death, then you'd say that was narcissistic as well. Lennon had a fucked up life and many do, so he finally focussed on his personal life with Yoko and tried to have some fun and also address causes they felt compelling... the rest is history. Had he lived he might have gotten bored with his home life and ventured out into music and mere entertainment and fun as he had in his youth.

[flarbton]

@flarbton if on the other hand you might refer to songs like Cold Turkey, then yes that was a severe case of Lennon being narcissistic and quite absurd with regards to subject matter. How many of his fans or people in general could possibly relate to he and Yoko going cold turkey from heroin or whatever variety of drugs they were addicted too? not many, so that was totally delusional for him to even hope that that would be a hit lol.

[Hemingway271]

Man I love this song, but who else thinks that Cookie part is just a little creepy?

[bilbomarks]

@Hemingway271 Birth of cookie monster. You heard it first. 

[shamirosa]

cookie hahah D:

[Marshallsg]

Does the start of this before he sings sound at all like Don't Let Me Down to anyone else?

[psychill22]

@Marshallsg Hell yeah! Probably evolved into this.

COOKIE!

[Marshallsg]

@psychill22 Lol. Probably.

[kanga888]

@Marshallsg i think this song is about masturbation lol

[PrincePurple]

@Marshallsg

Good ears. The reason they sound the same is because they share chords and the riff is played on the same strings, followed by a Fm7th chord, in both songs. When you play "Don't Let Me Down" on guitar nd then play "Hold On" you laugh because you realize John was ripping off himself. They are played using the same fingerings, same strings, same chords. Same guitar, too. "Hold On" is a musical brother to "Don't Let Me Down."

[bilbomarks]

@PrincePurple He ripped himself off ALOT. Almost embarrassingly so.

[filemen2]

@Marshallsg For sure. I hear it a lot in John's music, like the similarity between "Look At Me" and "Julia".

[TheBeatles344]

COOKIE!!!

[Oddmartian2]

The music at the start reminds me of "Sun King."

[FilmStudentWannabe]

This is such an amazing song! I can't stop listening to it! COOKIE!!

[clubpenguinfreak546]

This song relates to me so much, I would listen to it when I'm having troubles with things,

[FilmStudentWannabe]

Why does he randomly say "Cookie"?? That's so random. What purpose does it have?

[michaelvkelly1]

@FilmStudentWannabe he actually says 'cook it' its a reference to cooking up herion which john was taking quite regularly at the time.

[SuperElzilcho]

@michaelvkelly1 no junk no soul.

[psychill22]

@michaelvkelly1 That is definitely cookie.  I'm sorry but it sounds clear as hell he is saying cookie.

[AntiFacistParty]

@FilmStudentWannabe its funny

[gambitismycat]

love this so much god man makes me wish i could be buddies with lennon bt i think we all are if we truely connect with his words

[1234whatever]

To the day... #1

[KellanLutzishawt]

pahaha the cookie part scared the bejeezus out of me! lol wtf was that all about?xD i love john

[Lorenzo2go]

Is that slow motion, Don't Let Down? Just has a familiar ring to it.

[TheNicholas0202]

I love him so much

[Haze1075potown]

Thank you John

[KwertyKris]

Mmm... cookie....

[VioletHydeee]

COOKIE.

[mgucunski]

@VioletHydeee i always wondered why that sample was in the song. I think it doesnt add to the idea...?

[ApplwPiw]

mmmmmmmmmmm..... god.....

[ghostie543]

I listen to this when I'm feeling depressed. It helps

[jx14aby]

@ghostie543

The shot of John at :56 seems so lonely. I can still remember when the Beatles launched their solo careers and how we all so wanted them to get back together and this photo just brought it home that John wasn't with the Beatles anymore. So sad.

[ghostie543]

Ya, when I think about the great friendship him and Paul shared it kills me when I see something about them fighting/ not being friends anymore. You're right, it's very sad

[beatlesmania9295]

I honestly think that John did a lot better without the others, music wise.

[jx14aby]

Don't go crazy.

[beatlesmania9295]

how am i going crazy??

[jx14aby]

John did incredible work with the Beatles - especially due to the musical genius of Paul. His solo work is beautiful, but I often wonder how different (much better?) it would be with Paul's touch.

[erscott13]

@ghostie543, it sure does help.  Enormously comforting song. Elisa