@pinchold, why do you have to keep making stupid comments... Every video I watch there you are with some negative bullshit that doesn't make any sense
Great tune that would have been number one had the Beatles released it. Such a "feel good" tune" as their early hits were. I miss John and those times so much.
@MadflowsA honest mate its true i'm a scouser and love lennon to bits! been threw all his music. but if you ain't heard much of dylans music goa out and get some belive me you won't regret it lad'
in Yokos book about Memories of John Lennon, Billy J Kramer talks about the fact that it was John who suggested that Billy add the middle initial "J" to his stage name, and that John was proved right about that...John had no problem giving him the song, and, in fact played a song for Billy that he and Paul had just written-"I want to hold your Hand"..."You cant have that one tho, were going to go inthe studio to record it next week!"!
How incredible cana band be when it takes great songs like Bad to me and consider then throw aways. John even considered "Cry baby Cry", "Your Bird can sing", "It`s only love", "Mean Mr Mustard", "Run for your life", and "Hello goodbye" as songs that he wished he never wrote, all except Hello goodbye in which Paul wrote but John hated this song most of all. John Lennon was just and incredible artist. The more i learn about him the more i`m amazed.
@LACraig621.....think he hated Hello Goodbye more because it "almost" relegated his I am the Walrus to being a B side due to radio finding Hello more palatable for high rotation airplay. It was actually released as a double A single.
Typical early Lennon tune, very un-rocky but (and) very nice. Great similarity with other give-away tunes (mostly to Billy J. Kramer), i.e. "I'll keep you satisfied". Anybody heard a Lennon demo of that one? By the way, as you can hear at the end, there are two voices in harmony. Also some fill-ins from a second guitar. Who is the other - Paul or George? George is my guess.
Typical early Lennon tune, very un-rocky but (and) very nice. Great similarity with other give-away tunes (mostly to Billy J. Kramer), i.e. "I'll keep you satisfied". Anybody heard a Lennon demo of that one?
This is exactly how many songs are started. There is no other way to say it. A producer does this and does that to get to what we hear on what is now a CD or download.
Of course history shows this was really released by what I recall as Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas. I could be wrong.
Sì è vero, Lennon è stato sfortunato a lasciare la vita a 40 anni, ma credo che durante le migliori parti della sua vita, si sia divertito davvero tanto! Riposa in Pace, John!
@kaisariani Yeah, i'm a beatle freak, i think they are the most valuable people on earth, if i could choose what i could be in my life i undoubtly would choose to be a beatle. I think they are the greatest persons because they were not typical people but special people, ultra talented, gifted, and genius people. John Lennon and The Beatles are better than any nobel prize, politician or assorted boring scientist, they were real artist (not like the media artist today) naturally talented. Heores.
@franz1987 its only love is a nice song even though lennon did not like it and the song on help i wud of left out was tell me what you see , georges songs are the best on that album
There is absolutely no reason to think that they gave away 'bad songs'; this is much better than say 'Little Child', 'P.S. I Love You' or 'When I Get Home'.
@JapaninArmeija I partly agree. 'P.S. I Love You' really has something special IMO. Although I think they definitely should have put 'That Means a Lot' instead of 'I Need You' or 'You Like Me Too Much' on Help! album. (No offense to George Harrison) just an opinion
@Franz1987 Oh well, anyway all their song had a bit of awesome anyway. But the Anthology version of 'That Means a Lot' is to me the greatest Help! lost song. But again that's just opinions we're stirring around. Peace
@Franz1987 Wow, you have the worst taste ever, the worst song it's only love? OMG, it's one of the best songs actually, the worst song is act naturally. You must have a mental issue.
@WiltatKansas na, i don't like it. John was embarrassed of it himself.
On Help I like....Help, Ticket to Ride, Hide Your Love Away, Your Gonna Lose That Girl, I Need You, Another Girl, Yesterday, Ive Just Seen a face, Tell me What you see, and The Night Before
The lesser songs on the album are act naturally, its only love, and you like me too much. so, personally would rank 'its only love' in the like bottom two or three on album. Thats just me though, everyone has their one favorites
@Franz1987 I just learnt how to play it's only love in guitar and i sure you that it's a great song. Not many people can write it. Anyway John was embarrases on everything about himself, he just loved Help! I know many John's songs that they are great to me and to everybody except for John, he didn't like his voice either.
@WiltatKansas to Franz1987, WiltatKansas is right on and knows his John Lennon & music so trust me on that. John didnt like "it's only love" because John thought that he didnt sing it right, but the song is great like most of John's..
John Lennon still to this day tops them all. It is true though that he did tell George Martin that he wanted to do all of The Beatles songs over which stunned Martin.
@WiltatKansas i see you at every beatles video,you must be one of the biggest fans.Where did you heared that john didnt like his voice because i think i heared it too?
@kaisariani John didn't like his voice, just like he didn't like many of his compositions after writing a song, but the fact is that he is one of the greatest singers and songwriters, to my taste simply the best.
@Franz1987 I'm not here to argue…. i just am wondering what you are comparing these songs to? I see you are comparing it to the album…? thats a bit silly dont you think. I find it better to rate a whole album and you are going to rate the songs within a album dont compare them. Just listen to the song and let it speak for it self with out the other tunes in the background. I understand everyone has their favorites and im happy to see we all share the same interests. Good stuff.
@Franz1987 Everyday on the bus to school I would sit alone and take out my iPod and listen to It's Only Love. The worst song on Help is Tell Me What You See. It's simpleand beauitful. I put It's Only Love in my top 5 songs on Help! It is not the worst at all.
The Beatles were able to give away songs because everything they did was stellar. They were the greatest (second only to Christ) phenomena of all time!
Hear an amazing version of this song and others (composed but never released by the Beatles). "Off the Beatle Track" by Apple Jam released 09-09-09. Find them on the web at offthebeatletrack , and youtube
@yiommi I've never seen it before either, it's hard to date it even - 63? 64?. I wonder whether it was taken during a radio interview, judging by the large mic there. Maybe John was given that guitar to do a song live.
If Simon Cowell says that The Beatles would have failed on the X-Factor then it's probably true. The X-Factor isn't about music it's a yearly conveyor belt of sub-standard covers being performed by glorified karaoke singers. Simon Cowell is a closet homosexual. The Beatles are legends....Cowell
Well The Beatles would have failed on X-factor. Why u ask? Simple, the "artists" that come out of that show are talentless knobheads. I could use a whole lot of words to describe The Beatles, but neither talentless nor knobhead fits my decription of em. So mr Cowell is right, The Beatles would've stood a chance!
@Sideyone well perhaps he's right if you think of Love me do period...having said that and with the benefit of hindsight I'm sure Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr would have responded- stuff it-we'll do it our way-anyway we've already passed the audition!!. Well they did & now its set in history. Perhaps Simone may not be where he is had it not been for that very history. PS loved Billy J's version of Bad to me....1st girlfriend and all that...sigh...where's the tissues.
I think Simon's point was that the state of music today is such that highly original great bands don't have a chance. Billy Holiday and Frank Sinatra would fail too.
Firstly don't like John's rendition of this .. But if any idiot says that the Beatles would'nt have cut it today .. They and a handful of other groups and solo artist's ... Layed the foundation and brought us to the place we are now .Music.WORLD LEADERS ..Regards Chief Muppet
Simon Cowell and anyone else can play the "if it were now" game all they want. The fact is that this is the way it happened and John changed the face of music. To speculate otherwise is like the childish fantasy "What if General Custer would have had a Sherman tank?" Well - he didn't and the results are unchangeable. What gets me about Cowell's statement is the implication that people are SO MUCH MORE HIP AND SOPHISTICATED now that the Beatles wouldn't cut it. Rubbish.
Si John lennon hubiere sido solista sin yoko (subrayado), hubiera brillado igual que con los beatles. no los ocupaba (en especial a McCartney) Lennon era la esencia de los beatles, el creador, el fundador, el alma del grupo. Lastima que una pinche vieja fea bruja lo transtorno. Y es la verdad, pese a quien le pese, pudo haberse conseguido una vieja mejor en cualquier pueblo de quinta de cualquier pais.
"they were so naturally talented they did not know what they did half the time". can you imagine that most powers in music have no clue what they are doing now? especially that simon cowell
He use to take a tape recorder and tape himself playing a song all the way through by himself, then he would rewind it and play what he just recorded then hit record on a second tape recorder and record himself playing along with the first. He wrote almost ALL his songs that way. All the way to Double Fantasy. About as low tech as you can get but extremely effective at least for him..
was never a throw away...they were asked to write a hit for another band..so obv their gona put some hard work into it and not just give em some throwaway garbage
Nobody's as great as Lennon-McCartney were back then. Their music was the heart of the sixties. Pure joy emanated from them. Wish young people would do it again. We need the inspiration today.
He loved music and focused on it. He was extremely intelligent which helped.
Try imagining good songs in your head then find the basic chords of the song. Ask yourself what you want the song to sound like. Find the little riffs and guitar fills. Work on your rock and roll love song voice. Music is infinite in possibility.
trying to combine what i started to post above w/ this (new here. character limits ???). technically difficult ?, not. the beatles did *not know how to play their instruments, or how to write songs*. they made it up as they were going along.they had no idea of what chord 'should' come next, so they put in whatever they wanted. and they *made it work*. if you/re trained to play in traditional ways, the beatles will torture your fingers.they played the wrong notes & chords & made them sound right.
the other thing is, george is apparently playing around w/ a fender jazzmaster. true ? don/t know if fender knows this (me ? mostly les paul, but yeah, i have my strat ...). not that it/s that important, but really, the guitars make the sound (& i have one big guitar question for a little while from now ...)
Paul knew exactly what he was doing.....He knew exactly what chords should and could come next...He experimented, but it's flat wrong to say he didn't know what he was doing. John, on the other hand, wrote songs the way you describe....he figured out what sounded right....
okay, we/ll disagree. start w/ 'yesterday'. 1st 2 chords ? F major & e minor. e minor does not exist in the key of F major. so, are we changing keys ? well, no, cause later (after an A7, which would be an a minor in a strict key of F), goes to B flat & C, which resolves normally into F. then, chorus in A major, not minor. the odds that these are rather classical composed are pretty small. (hey, none of *my* music is tonal, but that/s not the question). you pick up a guitar, you throw chords ...
It's obvious this person has absolutely no idea what he's takling about. The Beatles were praised by critics and musicians alike for their mastery of chord and chord progressions. They were so naturally talented they didn't even know what they were doing half the time. You are a fool who knows nothing of music.
I never knew John Lennon wrote this song! The song was stuck it my head, so I randomly looked up info on it to see what year it came out and stuff, and found out about John writing it! Anyways I love him singing it here...he should of put it on one of The Beatles albums!
i think you mean next to lennon and mccartney, bob dyaln is the most covered song writer of recent times. Yesterday is the most covered song of all time.
What's the fucking difference? Why be such an insuferable pedant? Those are rhetorical questions so please dont depress me further by answering. Unless you've not
@pinchold, why do you have to keep making stupid comments... Every video I watch there you are with some negative bullshit that doesn't make any sense
mrjamesgrimes 1 month ago
Great tune that would have been number one had the Beatles released it. Such a "feel good" tune" as their early hits were. I miss John and those times so much.
jimidee33 2 months ago
Kinda Buddy Holly-ish.
visor109 2 months ago
John Lennon will always be one of the best songwriters ever! And his voice is very good too!
k54meir 4 months ago
JOHN LENNON IS THE GREATEST FUCKING SONGWRITER EVER
MadflowsA 4 months ago 3
@MadflowsA amen to that!
hutter2006 1 month ago
@MadflowsA sorry but this ain't true, he was fucking brilliant but bob dylan is the greatest songwriter ever, even john knew it mate
suarez77able 2 weeks ago
@suarez77able No way.
MadflowsA 2 weeks ago
@MadflowsA honest mate its true i'm a scouser and love lennon to bits! been threw all his music. but if you ain't heard much of dylans music goa out and get some belive me you won't regret it lad'
suarez77able 1 week ago
thanks man, really enjoyed this. Excellent photos! 00:16 is me favourite
jekk23 5 months ago
0:26 a jazzmaster!!!
ZRN959 6 months ago
Hermoso, Lennon es un genio total!!!
llAlvarockll 7 months ago
Favorite song evaaaarrrrrr!!!!!!!! p.s. I'm thirteen...
SuPeRrAnDoM71 7 months ago
@GJNCA American Idol is a reflection of taste of those who take the time to vote, in other words mindless teeny bobbers.
Eagle027 7 months ago
Hey!
Does anyone know where the picture at 15 seconds is from?
It looks like sometime in 1965????
Just wondered
mrmoonshaker 8 months ago
@mrmoonshaker yeah i would say from 65'
nightcrawler511 6 months ago
@nightcrawler511 john wrote this in '63.
pinstripesforever 3 months ago
in Yokos book about Memories of John Lennon, Billy J Kramer talks about the fact that it was John who suggested that Billy add the middle initial "J" to his stage name, and that John was proved right about that...John had no problem giving him the song, and, in fact played a song for Billy that he and Paul had just written-"I want to hold your Hand"..."You cant have that one tho, were going to go inthe studio to record it next week!"!
robrobrob73 8 months ago
you write a song you sing it and then you give it to someone and he sings it better than you do. I wonder how John felt.
pinchold 9 months ago
@pinchold I happen to like John singing better :)
JettaGirl 3 months ago
LOVE this demo, I think that if John could see this he would find the monkey at the end amusing....thanks for posting
MsJune54 9 months ago
If these guys were talented enough I'm pretty sure that someone would have given them a break.
sillyduffers 10 months ago
oh john.i want to die
neoportland 10 months ago
@GJNCA Bob Dylan, John Lennon, or Neil Diamond wouldn't need to audition they're too good for Simon.
IzRaiiinI 11 months ago
great version.
danlen86 11 months ago
This shoulda been a keeper..........
hofner96 11 months ago 2
Very good song!!!!!!
TJCATLOVER 1 year ago 2
whats with the sheep at 1:02?
XD
yippyyipy 1 year ago 2
Good one
mongrelhead1 1 year ago
DL the audio from this video at soundnabber doht cohm.
MarylinDogon819 1 year ago
De que año es la foto del segundo 0:28
therotiv4 1 year ago
Whoa! Lennon with A FENDER IN THE EARLY 60's!!! Thats crazy. Never seen a picture with him and a Fender. Thanks for the upload great song man.
mrjordanc1 1 year ago
How incredible cana band be when it takes great songs like Bad to me and consider then throw aways. John even considered "Cry baby Cry", "Your Bird can sing", "It`s only love", "Mean Mr Mustard", "Run for your life", and "Hello goodbye" as songs that he wished he never wrote, all except Hello goodbye in which Paul wrote but John hated this song most of all. John Lennon was just and incredible artist. The more i learn about him the more i`m amazed.
LACraig621 1 year ago 3
@LACraig621.....think he hated Hello Goodbye more because it "almost" relegated his I am the Walrus to being a B side due to radio finding Hello more palatable for high rotation airplay. It was actually released as a double A single.
MrByrdbath 11 months ago
very cool : )
SIRONEDRAGON 1 year ago
1 noob pls go listen lady gaga
dazdn1k 1 year ago
1:10 Kurt cobain
Festivephone1979 1 year ago 2
@Festivephone1979
haha
dazdn1k 1 year ago
lol sauce
2TPENNY 1 year ago 2
sounds like he recorded this with george :D
LordEizen 1 year ago
Typical early Lennon tune, very un-rocky but (and) very nice. Great similarity with other give-away tunes (mostly to Billy J. Kramer), i.e. "I'll keep you satisfied". Anybody heard a Lennon demo of that one? By the way, as you can hear at the end, there are two voices in harmony. Also some fill-ins from a second guitar. Who is the other - Paul or George? George is my guess.
steffekingen 1 year ago
Typical early Lennon tune, very un-rocky but (and) very nice. Great similarity with other give-away tunes (mostly to Billy J. Kramer), i.e. "I'll keep you satisfied". Anybody heard a Lennon demo of that one?
steffekingen 1 year ago
♪♫♪ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♪♫♪
ModGirl1967 1 year ago
I think Epstein saw his own Motown - where the writers spread them out and sometimes sang their own.
1967mustanggta 1 year ago
epstein had a whole stable of groups...they shared alot and competed at the same time they all got bigger that way.he was a marketing genius.
79goldmaster1 1 year ago
Oh, this is so sweet hearing John sing a song I've only heard another group do before. Cool. Thanks for this. :)
Cozycriter 1 year ago
What a pleasant discovery. Charming, disarming; I could go on.
BigJiggety 1 year ago
lovely
TommyWindsor1 1 year ago
This is exactly how many songs are started. There is no other way to say it. A producer does this and does that to get to what we hear on what is now a CD or download.
Of course history shows this was really released by what I recall as Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas. I could be wrong.
Bluntfacts 1 year ago
Sì è vero, Lennon è stato sfortunato a lasciare la vita a 40 anni, ma credo che durante le migliori parti della sua vita, si sia divertito davvero tanto! Riposa in Pace, John!
SECRETDRBoogie 1 year ago
I SWER JOHN LENNON IS PERFECT!!! ((ºJº))
willoghby03 1 year ago
Yes...a chimpanzee, thats - just - um - exactly what this song needs....
James133335 1 year ago
i love how even some of their songs can have a sad meaning but are still bouncy and cute lol.
LucyPeace9 1 year ago
I LOVE it!!! I wish John had decided to allow this to be a hit for the Beatles, although I admit that Billy does a terrific job! :D
Babyhowdy233 1 year ago
Ringo at 1:21.......
Interview1998 1 year ago
great song,i dont know it,is a released song?
kaisariani 1 year ago
@kaisariani Yeah, i'm a beatle freak, i think they are the most valuable people on earth, if i could choose what i could be in my life i undoubtly would choose to be a beatle. I think they are the greatest persons because they were not typical people but special people, ultra talented, gifted, and genius people. John Lennon and The Beatles are better than any nobel prize, politician or assorted boring scientist, they were real artist (not like the media artist today) naturally talented. Heores.
WiltatKansas 1 year ago 2
@franz1987 its only love is a nice song even though lennon did not like it and the song on help i wud of left out was tell me what you see , georges songs are the best on that album
stelloyd90 1 year ago
Too bad the Beatles didn't keep 'Leave My Kitten Alone' and turf 'Mr. Moonlight '...
that's one musical decision I don't get ..
getthedoggie 1 year ago
where can you find that pic at 1:13
Bayleafistic 1 year ago 2
i think paul is singing on this too
malpakoza 1 year ago
A great song never released by The Beatles......they "Beat" hell out of Billy J Kramer's version......
canrockfan 1 year ago
There is absolutely no reason to think that they gave away 'bad songs'; this is much better than say 'Little Child', 'P.S. I Love You' or 'When I Get Home'.
JapaninArmeija 1 year ago
@JapaninArmeija I partly agree. 'P.S. I Love You' really has something special IMO. Although I think they definitely should have put 'That Means a Lot' instead of 'I Need You' or 'You Like Me Too Much' on Help! album. (No offense to George Harrison) just an opinion
mewrth 1 year ago
@mewrth I love 'I need you'....The worst song on Help! is 'its only Love' by far in my opinion
Franz1987 1 year ago
@Franz1987 Oh well, anyway all their song had a bit of awesome anyway. But the Anthology version of 'That Means a Lot' is to me the greatest Help! lost song. But again that's just opinions we're stirring around. Peace
mewrth 1 year ago
@Franz1987 Wow, you have the worst taste ever, the worst song it's only love? OMG, it's one of the best songs actually, the worst song is act naturally. You must have a mental issue.
WiltatKansas 1 year ago
@WiltatKansas na, i don't like it. John was embarrassed of it himself.
On Help I like....Help, Ticket to Ride, Hide Your Love Away, Your Gonna Lose That Girl, I Need You, Another Girl, Yesterday, Ive Just Seen a face, Tell me What you see, and The Night Before
The lesser songs on the album are act naturally, its only love, and you like me too much. so, personally would rank 'its only love' in the like bottom two or three on album. Thats just me though, everyone has their one favorites
Franz1987 1 year ago
@Franz1987 I just learnt how to play it's only love in guitar and i sure you that it's a great song. Not many people can write it. Anyway John was embarrases on everything about himself, he just loved Help! I know many John's songs that they are great to me and to everybody except for John, he didn't like his voice either.
WiltatKansas 1 year ago
@WiltatKansas to Franz1987, WiltatKansas is right on and knows his John Lennon & music so trust me on that. John didnt like "it's only love" because John thought that he didnt sing it right, but the song is great like most of John's..
John Lennon still to this day tops them all. It is true though that he did tell George Martin that he wanted to do all of The Beatles songs over which stunned Martin.
1west72ndstreet 1 year ago
@WiltatKansas i see you at every beatles video,you must be one of the biggest fans.Where did you heared that john didnt like his voice because i think i heared it too?
kaisariani 1 year ago
@kaisariani John didn't like his voice, just like he didn't like many of his compositions after writing a song, but the fact is that he is one of the greatest singers and songwriters, to my taste simply the best.
WiltatKansas 1 year ago 13
@WiltatKansas
Absolutely!!! My favorite rock songwriter EVER!!!! JWL ftw.
lalalives 4 months ago
@Franz1987
yea same with dig a pony, he hated that one and called it garbage, but I love it
Franz1987 1 year ago 10
@Franz1987 i love it too...
BeatlEPMJo 1 year ago
@Franz1987 I'm not here to argue…. i just am wondering what you are comparing these songs to? I see you are comparing it to the album…? thats a bit silly dont you think. I find it better to rate a whole album and you are going to rate the songs within a album dont compare them. Just listen to the song and let it speak for it self with out the other tunes in the background. I understand everyone has their favorites and im happy to see we all share the same interests. Good stuff.
mattdillonfogarty 1 year ago
@Franz1987 Everyday on the bus to school I would sit alone and take out my iPod and listen to It's Only Love. The worst song on Help is Tell Me What You See. It's simpleand beauitful. I put It's Only Love in my top 5 songs on Help! It is not the worst at all.
thebeatles102998 1 year ago
@thebeatles102998
I love 'Tell Me What You See', one of the best harmonies between John and Paul in all the Beatles songs. To each their own though
Franz1987 1 year ago
@Franz1987 Fair enough. I respect your opinion. :)
thebeatles102998 1 year ago
@Franz1987 all songs on help are good. especially "that means a lot".
Burromovie 1 year ago
@Burromovie that's not a song on help, is it?
1997girl60 1 year ago
@1997girl60 it almost was but it became unreleased until it was released in 1996
Burromovie 1 year ago
@mewrth I disagree, i need you is one of the best songs of the Help! album. Of course, that means a lto also was a great song.
WiltatKansas 1 year ago
This would have been a nice addition to The Anthology
Spada56 1 year ago 2
This is a real gem. I'm so glad you posted this. This is gold :)
wilsondylanmccartney 1 year ago
The Beatles were able to give away songs because everything they did was stellar. They were the greatest (second only to Christ) phenomena of all time!
Rock123 1 year ago
pretty sure the photo is 65. lennon looks odd without his rick or casino.
sorton1963 1 year ago
good pics!
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nathan12322 2 years ago
BEST ALBUMS 1960 1970 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND=Genius
fernandothamessanlee 2 years ago
Wonderful chord changes.
PogoMorgan 2 years ago 2
Hear an amazing version of this song and others (composed but never released by the Beatles). "Off the Beatle Track" by Apple Jam released 09-09-09. Find them on the web at offthebeatletrack , and youtube
55Happy 2 years ago
I love this song and sheep and monkey.
Pifiya86 2 years ago 2
I love the pic at 0;29 ive never seen it before whats the story behind it do you know?
yiommi 2 years ago
@yiommi I've never seen it before either, it's hard to date it even - 63? 64?. I wonder whether it was taken during a radio interview, judging by the large mic there. Maybe John was given that guitar to do a song live.
WilburyVision 2 years ago
..YEAH ITS TWO DRUNKIN BEATLES LATE AT NIGHT IN HAMBURG..JOHN HAS THE FENDER jag marster gtr...
sunriseRISE 2 years ago 3
where rock'n roll was reinvented
hamburg
probably they ate some strange upper pills ! And had lots of thirst
ar10willard 2 years ago
...is the reason the charts are so full of garbage acts. God I despise chart music almost as much as Cowell presumably despises himself...
Sideyone 2 years ago
If Simon Cowell says that The Beatles would have failed on the X-Factor then it's probably true. The X-Factor isn't about music it's a yearly conveyor belt of sub-standard covers being performed by glorified karaoke singers. Simon Cowell is a closet homosexual. The Beatles are legends....Cowell
Sideyone 2 years ago 32
Well The Beatles would have failed on X-factor. Why u ask? Simple, the "artists" that come out of that show are talentless knobheads. I could use a whole lot of words to describe The Beatles, but neither talentless nor knobhead fits my decription of em. So mr Cowell is right, The Beatles would've stood a chance!
lenlagher 2 years ago
@Sideyone well perhaps he's right if you think of Love me do period...having said that and with the benefit of hindsight I'm sure Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr would have responded- stuff it-we'll do it our way-anyway we've already passed the audition!!. Well they did & now its set in history. Perhaps Simone may not be where he is had it not been for that very history. PS loved Billy J's version of Bad to me....1st girlfriend and all that...sigh...where's the tissues.
MrByrdbath 11 months ago
@Sideyone That last remark took away from your credibility a little, but other than that, I very much agree.
TheFpuff 6 months ago
I Love John ♥♥♥ <333
Diddlify 2 years ago 4
what up with the monkey at the end?
Jbeatles815 2 years ago
What ever happened to a band being
lucky enough to be spotted playing in a club after working their asses off for years
...making a tape and hoping someone hears it..and gives them a break...now...everyone sounds alike...looks alike..and everyone is a ..
"ahem'...SUPERSTAR!! Music today is total shit!!!
beatlejim64 2 years ago 5
IF Simon Cowell said that, he was insulting the X Factor, not the Beatles...
waybabelicious 2 years ago
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simon cowell is much better than the beatles, he is a better song writer and his songs are more popular
winstonlikethat2005 2 years ago
sounds so good,from the greatest band of all time.
thunderagent67 2 years ago 4
I think Simon's point was that the state of music today is such that highly original great bands don't have a chance. Billy Holiday and Frank Sinatra would fail too.
Ribzypunk 2 years ago
Boy, I hear a lot of both of them in this one. It sounds like one of those totally co-written ones, like "If I Fell."
Saffron333 2 years ago
Firstly don't like John's rendition of this .. But if any idiot says that the Beatles would'nt have cut it today .. They and a handful of other groups and solo artist's ... Layed the foundation and brought us to the place we are now .Music.WORLD LEADERS ..Regards Chief Muppet
Muppetfarm 2 years ago
Simon Cowell and anyone else can play the "if it were now" game all they want. The fact is that this is the way it happened and John changed the face of music. To speculate otherwise is like the childish fantasy "What if General Custer would have had a Sherman tank?" Well - he didn't and the results are unchangeable. What gets me about Cowell's statement is the implication that people are SO MUCH MORE HIP AND SOPHISTICATED now that the Beatles wouldn't cut it. Rubbish.
douglasj53 2 years ago 5
Si John lennon hubiere sido solista sin yoko (subrayado), hubiera brillado igual que con los beatles. no los ocupaba (en especial a McCartney) Lennon era la esencia de los beatles, el creador, el fundador, el alma del grupo. Lastima que una pinche vieja fea bruja lo transtorno. Y es la verdad, pese a quien le pese, pudo haberse conseguido una vieja mejor en cualquier pueblo de quinta de cualquier pais.
abogadopenalista 2 years ago
While the song was written during then, no way is this recording from 1963.
drunkenstooge 2 years ago
Actually thats pretty amazing because it was
Franz1987 2 years ago
Simon Cowell said recently that the Beatles would have failed in the x factor. That just about says it all, really
adamkincaid1234 2 years ago
Right and from hearing what passes for music today it's obvious those clown wouldn't know REAL musical talent no matter WHO comes along.
LODGE4444 2 years ago
It does indeed say something.
It says Simon Cowell is an asshole!
oysterjoe 2 years ago 5
@adamkincaid1234 Who is Simon Cowell to say this.......the Beatles are in a league totally their own.......
BENNIEBONGO 2 years ago
I Love Lennon ^_^v! I miss him, he had such great music. what a talented man! You'll never find a man like John Lennon again [sadly]
TheBeatles433 2 years ago 2
These lyrics sound more like Paul than John!
lhcarter 2 years ago
I disagree...the imagary in the lyrics sounds much more like John to me...but, to each their own.
mahones64 2 years ago
"they were so naturally talented they did not know what they did half the time". can you imagine that most powers in music have no clue what they are doing now? especially that simon cowell
cshargeit 2 years ago
eveybodys got something to hide except 4 lamb and monkey
TonySarandrea215 2 years ago
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TheNaturalChannel 2 years ago
One of the best songs that they never recorded. No offense to Billy J. Kramer, but probably should have kept that one. Thanks for sharing.....
pilesovinyl 2 years ago 26
whats with the lamb and the mokey at 1:00 and 1:21
THEALLSTARMLB2009 2 years ago
what? you dont have a lamb and monkey at home? thats odd :)
alienhuman 2 years ago
He use to take a tape recorder and tape himself playing a song all the way through by himself, then he would rewind it and play what he just recorded then hit record on a second tape recorder and record himself playing along with the first. He wrote almost ALL his songs that way. All the way to Double Fantasy. About as low tech as you can get but extremely effective at least for him..
Edhallick 2 years ago 3
Cool!!! I never knew that.
Kenny2WWE 2 years ago
Timmy! Livin a lie!
lucaslmgv 2 years ago
amazing songwriting. the tune sounds so simple but it's actually so complicated... Early Lennon stuff really rocked.
nehansan 2 years ago
Pretty darn good for a "throw away."
SingleMaltdd 2 years ago 5
was never a throw away...they were asked to write a hit for another band..so obv their gona put some hard work into it and not just give em some throwaway garbage
tripper85 2 years ago
1:04... ?!
Danikas 2 years ago
Muahahhaa!
Catya91 2 years ago
Pois...
Danikas 2 years ago
Nobody's as great as Lennon-McCartney were back then. Their music was the heart of the sixties. Pure joy emanated from them. Wish young people would do it again. We need the inspiration today.
zephyrquartz 2 years ago 2
They can't... the beatles already wrote all the songs
BlackieHugeHands 2 years ago 2
true. hard to write an original today.
BroncoPfefferminz 2 years ago
Everything's a copy of everything nowadays.
BlueDiscProductions 2 years ago
i'm workin on it man
spacellama27 2 years ago
OMG YES!! i love this.. <3
babyinblack 2 years ago
@ 1:10 I started crying.
BlackieHugeHands 2 years ago 2
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your a fag...go cry over the fact your a never was loser u cunt
PokeaCuntus 2 years ago
gaf is fag backwards
BlackieHugeHands 2 years ago
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i did too- and had an orgasm.
PixieDust1996 2 years ago
Yeah, he looks darn sexy there.
lhcarter 2 years ago
Where can find these picture included here as the second one?
Maugolek 2 years ago
how on earth did john come up with such catchy tunes?????? music died on dec 8 1980...
jlengfan 2 years ago 2
He loved music and focused on it. He was extremely intelligent which helped.
Try imagining good songs in your head then find the basic chords of the song. Ask yourself what you want the song to sound like. Find the little riffs and guitar fills. Work on your rock and roll love song voice. Music is infinite in possibility.
apeshitdig 2 years ago
I don't think many people really how technically difficult Beatles songs are to play - even if they do sound all happy and fluffy.
Their chord progressions were just brilliant.
riks311 2 years ago 2
trying to combine what i started to post above w/ this (new here. character limits ???). technically difficult ?, not. the beatles did *not know how to play their instruments, or how to write songs*. they made it up as they were going along.they had no idea of what chord 'should' come next, so they put in whatever they wanted. and they *made it work*. if you/re trained to play in traditional ways, the beatles will torture your fingers.they played the wrong notes & chords & made them sound right.
rwmartin3456 2 years ago
the other thing is, george is apparently playing around w/ a fender jazzmaster. true ? don/t know if fender knows this (me ? mostly les paul, but yeah, i have my strat ...). not that it/s that important, but really, the guitars make the sound (& i have one big guitar question for a little while from now ...)
rwmartin3456 2 years ago
Paul knew exactly what he was doing.....He knew exactly what chords should and could come next...He experimented, but it's flat wrong to say he didn't know what he was doing. John, on the other hand, wrote songs the way you describe....he figured out what sounded right....
jwac23 2 years ago 3
okay, we/ll disagree. start w/ 'yesterday'. 1st 2 chords ? F major & e minor. e minor does not exist in the key of F major. so, are we changing keys ? well, no, cause later (after an A7, which would be an a minor in a strict key of F), goes to B flat & C, which resolves normally into F. then, chorus in A major, not minor. the odds that these are rather classical composed are pretty small. (hey, none of *my* music is tonal, but that/s not the question). you pick up a guitar, you throw chords ...
rwmartin3456 2 years ago
It's obvious this person has absolutely no idea what he's takling about. The Beatles were praised by critics and musicians alike for their mastery of chord and chord progressions. They were so naturally talented they didn't even know what they were doing half the time. You are a fool who knows nothing of music.
docHOLIDAYS101 2 years ago 18
Trust me I know all about that. I've been playing there songs for ten years now!
gnd567 2 years ago
what's with the monkey eating a popsicle?
irishmom58 2 years ago
its johns wife yoko ono dummy
tophue 2 years ago
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XD NOT FUNNY, not funny.
PixieDust1996 2 years ago
Pretty pwn if I may say so.
MattKOTW 2 years ago
great demo, it would have been more great if the Beatles would have produced it
silverbeatles61 3 years ago 5
I cant get enough of this demo
I only heard it not more than a minute ago lol
BeatlesTributePage 3 years ago 9
I never knew John Lennon wrote this song! The song was stuck it my head, so I randomly looked up info on it to see what year it came out and stuff, and found out about John writing it! Anyways I love him singing it here...he should of put it on one of The Beatles albums!
missohio83 3 years ago 7
One of the best songs...thanks to Mr J.L. Hi B.J.K. it was nice to meet you Billy J.
neutrolino 3 years ago
Nice photo at 22!
hernandezrip 3 years ago
how many beatles song they made but sing buy other guys?
limunan 3 years ago
A stupendous amount. Next to Bob dylan, Lennon and Mccartney are the most covered song writers of recent times
simonpenum 3 years ago
i think you mean next to lennon and mccartney, bob dyaln is the most covered song writer of recent times. Yesterday is the most covered song of all time.
riks311 3 years ago 2
What's the fucking difference? Why be such an insuferable pedant? Those are rhetorical questions so please dont depress me further by answering. Unless you've not