John Lennon - Nobody Told Me [Remastered] [HQ]

Remastered from the original 'Milk and Honey' master.

This a rare music video sourced from a Laser Disc copy of 'John Lennon - Video Collection'.

"Nobody Told Me" is a John Lennon song, featured as the first single released from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Milk and Honey album in 1984. The song was originally written for Ringo Starr to include on his Stop and Smell the Roses album, but Lennon died before the song could be used. "Nobody Told Me" was Lennon's last single to reach the top ten on Billboard magazine's Hot 100, peaking at #5.

The B-side features Yoko Ono's "O'Sanity", also from the Milk and Honey album.

The lyrics make reference to "a little yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu" which is similar to a line from J. Milton Hayes' poem entitled The Green Eye of the Yellow God. Hayes' line was "There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu".

Another line in the song is "There's UFO's over New York and I ain't too surprised", apparently a reference to a UFO sighting Lennon had back in 1974. He made reference to this in the liner notes to his 1974 album Walls and Bridges with the message: "On the 23rd August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a U.F.O. - J.L.".

The tag line "Nobody told me there'd be days like these..." is in contrast to the old saw "My mother told me there'd be days like this."

The video was a clipshow, as are most posthumous Lennon videos.

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[Vince Ceniceros]

Strange days INDEED!!

[JonBenait06]

No, the mob didn't have him rubbed out for jeopardizing their lucrative gambling operations (everyone's a winner/nothing left to lose), it was higher-ups in the u.s. gov't. that didn't want him interfering with their future war plans. So they had one of their Manchurian candidates do his thing. So I wasn't surprised a couple decades later when there were unidentified pilots flying about in the skies over NYC.

[JSL79]

This is one of my favorite solo Lennon songs. And it's interesting that had John lived the song would've gone to Ringo. For obvious reasons, Ringo couldn't bring himself to do it after 12/8/80.

[Joseph Gossey]

Hello Bettina: I am with you there, He was and still is my favorite singer and role model.

[stompin stan]

Legend!!!

[goback3spaces]

Can't. It's too sad.

[TheJokersWildCoC17]

Ok well the day John Lennon died is sadder for me. If I wanted to talk about how sad the children's crusade was, I'd do it on a video about it.

[goback3spaces]

The Childrens' Crusade was sadder.

[Jennifer Schillig]

This is one of my favorite of John's solo numbers...probably because it was the first I'd ever heard, even before I became a Beatles fan.

When I was a kid, in the early days of MTV, they played this video quite a bit, so I got to both see and hear John even after his death.

Great song! (Although the quote at the beginning of the video gives me chills...John signed an autograph for that scum only hours before said scum killed him.)

[Earthman99999]

Sad that the World was robbed of a probable Beatles reunion on MTV. This song makes me think of what could have been.

[John Keith]

Even when not part of The Beatles he still liked malapropisms :)