This has been quite the year, and I see it as a new beginning for the Beatles Bible. From now on, no more A.I. voice, as many of you asked for so long, and the videos are going to become more personal and interesting. Also, a correction: 'He's So Fine' was made by The Chiffons, not The Shirelles. Playboy referred to the Shirelles in the interview, so I made the same mistake and said "Shirelles" incorrectly. Mea-culpa! Thank you for keeping up with me all this time, and good times will come! 🙏
@@BeatlesBible1Yes, It’s your emotionally charged and easier to read; Though if you’re worried about your accent being too heavy (Witch imo it isn’t) you can always right translated captions
honestly its insane that u ever thought it was cool to use AI narration for these and I say this as someone who uses AI tech like this in work - but narration is a terrible use for it. glad u came back to reality
that said if u wanted to do something actually creative with it like cloning Lennon's voice to make him 'say' the quotes there's no audio for (while making it clear what you're doing, no hiding), that could possibly be interesting
Another famous song I Can’t Help Falling in Love w You by Elvis also lifted the melody from an old French song. That melody was also in the movie The Heiress w Olivia deHavilland. There’s plenty of other examples of old folk, mountain, traditional, whatever you want to call it, being adapted into modern music. Heck even classical music makes it into rock & roll !
It has a good message about the forgotten and impoverished of the holiday season plus an anti Vietnam War message. Needed more than ever in today's insanely commercialized circus Christmas season.
When you change the lyrics while keeping the exact same chords and melody then pass it off as written by you and collect royalties for it it is definitely, utter and blatant plagareism.
@@jaelge but like by definition and law it isn’t 🤦♂️. If the songwriters been dead for 70 years, the song is in the public domain and any artist can (and many many many have) take anything they want from it and still make money from it.
Fine video but you badly misquote Paul McCartney. He didn’t say he and John were the greatest criminals going. He says, “John and I were the greatest cribbers going.” To crib means to plagiarize a little bit of something. Like the bass line from “I Saw Her Standing There” uses the same notes as the bass in the Chuck Berry song “Talkin’ About You.” Paul blended a preexisting bass riff into a brand new original song. Not criminal plagiarism, not stealing an entire song, just talking a little piece of something already out there and repurposing it for a new composition. Cribbing.
@@BeatlesBible1 Just out of curiosity, but are you by any chance related to the website The Beatles Bible that uses the slogan : Not quite as popular as Jesus? I love that site.
I heard Stewball yesterday for the 1st time and immediately thought of “I Never Will Marry” familiarly by Linda Rondstadt and later by Nana Mouskouri . It was when I was telling my 17 yo son that he noticed the link to Happy Christmas
That is amazing...Wow....who would have thought from 1784.......So this is Stewball , and what have you done, you rode with your owner, , you raced and you won.........they gave you some antlers, they taught you to fly, you worked for saint Nick....gave Rudolph the eye.......wow..so THIS is Xmas??? loved it. What a ho ho hoot.. God bless you John..your genius certainly made it better.
As a musician myself, there are lots of chord progressions that sound similar. Many songs follow a progression called a "line cliché", for example. "Something" is a good example of this and is a descending chromatic chord progression. A songwriter can't just say that a similar chord progression is evidence of plagiarism but that melody & rhythmic content over that progression is similar also. Consider the Ed Sheeran/Marvin Gaye case as an example.
Gerry Beckley, songwriter for the 1970's folk rock group America once apologized to George Harrison that he stole from George's song ''Something'' when he wrote the America hit ''I Need You''. George just laughed and said ''That's OK, I stole when I wrote Something''
I've listened to 2 versions of Stewball. Woodie Guthrie's version sounds nothing like the melody to Happy Xmas War Is Over. Maybe because of how Woodie Guthrie sings it. The second version I heard was by Peter, Paul and Mary. Their version is almost identical.
I'm English and I've only ever spelt the word as 'nick'. I think it's because back in the old-old days where people would 'nick' little bits of silver from the cons of themadays.
Definition of plagiarism: "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." - John never acknowledged publicly the inspiration from 'Stewball', and the common man doesn't know 'Stewball' exists. That being said, I don't really care that John copied this specific part of 'Stewball', because the composition had no copyright anyway, and he made a better version.
@@BeatlesBible1: You are correct. There´s a difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement. John did not infringe on a copyright because none existed but he did plagiarize someone else´s work. Jimi Hendrix popularized and profited from Hey Joe but he did not claim ownership or writing credits and it was simply listed as (Trad. Arr. Hendrix) on the 45rpm pressing because the actual composer is either unknown or unverified. Whereas Lennon actually credits Yoko Ono / John Lennon as writers of Happy Xmas.
@@jaelge The composer of Hey Joe is absolutely known, it was composed by folk singer Billy Roberts in New York in 1962. But it shared so many similarities with old folk tunes like Stagger Lee/Stack-O-Lee that many people assumed it was a 100 year old song. To the point where they would erroneously write Traditional on the song credits. So many people covering the song also added to the confusion.
@@themoviedealers: (Thanks), I wasn't aware of that, then my info was wrong or I´m recalling it wrong. However, my point is that Lennon would gladly rip someone off, while accusing others of the same.
It's a nice format, I like to see who is inspired by whom, because I write songs myself. The more I discover new music, the more I notice that many famous songs are based on old and useless gems. For example, Bad guy's bassline is based on the song Hot Cock Annie :D btw, this is Kurt Cobain's favorite band, maybe that's how Finneas found it. I tried google it, but I didn't find anything, maybe I'm the only one who discover it, because the song is so obscure and old
John Lennon talked about this many times in many publications. He said he borrowed pieces of older non-copyrighted melodies to make a newer modern version of them. John and Yoko wrote the song as a protest song against the Vietnam conflict. (the US no longer declares war since WW II). The song also brings to light the poverty and struggles of people everywhere. Before you upload a video criticizing anyone there are great resources on the Internet. I exclude Wikipedia as a source for anything.
Using a melody and chords from a public domain anonymous folk song may be plagiarism, but it is a meaningless distinction [and click-bait]. Dylan has done this countless times, as have thousands of others, throughout history. The Star Spangled Banner was plagiarism.
Not clickbait. Definition of plagiarism: "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." - John never acknowledged publicly the inspiration from 'Stewball', and the common man doesn't know 'Stewball' exists. That being said, I don't really care that John copied this specific part of 'Stewball', because the composition had no copyright anyway, and he made a better version.
really like that explanation of "war is over/ if you want it" at the end. no wonder J. Edgar kept a file on him!👀 that's some powerful stuff [ if you want it to be ]
yes john was a submersive influence to the youngsters back them, the FBI kept close tabs on john to keep him from corrupting the next recruits with his "peace" songs. America was on a war footing in those days, draft was in full swing.
The same tune was used for Johnny Ace’s “Pledging My Love,” which is probably where Lennon heard first it. I don’t think anyone has a problem with comparing “What Child Is This?” and “Greensleeves?” How many classic blues tunes are virtually identical?
If it’s plagiarized, why is it infinitely better than the song it supposedly “copies”? Why does it still sound like no Christmas song ever? It’s inspired by a traditional song but it became something much greater and with much greater meaning
Sorry, I don't agree with John's comments about George "Walking right into it". George has said that he wrote it thinking it was his, plain and simple and he paid the price. Easy for John to say because he was probably familiar with Stewball, wrote his song and got away with it but George didn't. Also the fact that John took as you said "a sad song and made it better" is a ridiculous excuse. That's totally irrelevant. 14 bars of similarity isn't borrowing, it's stealing. Even if it was John Lennon (my favourite Beatle).
Well, I give John a pass with 'Happy Xmas' because 'Stewball' is a folk standard with no copyright on it, so he's not really hurting anybody. However, George copied (accidentally, let's say) the melody to a song with a copyright on it; that's why he was sued. That's the difference.
@@BeatlesBible1 Once again, I disagree. When you say that John isn't hurting anybody, true. BUT it doesn't make him look good does it? Here's one of the greatest songwriters of all time (my favourite songwriter ever) stealing from a traditional song. Sorry the optics look really bad. Here's another example: The song Black Waterside has been around for ages. It's been covered by countless artists. The most famous version was recorded by Bert Jansch. The point is that everyone that has covered that song always gives the credit: "Traditional" or "Unknown". But when Jimmy Page "wrote" Black Mountainside, it was so blatantly obvious that he stole Black Waterside and gave it a different title AND also credited the song to HIMSELF! Did Page hurt anyone by doing that? No. But did it make him look good? Not at all.
Plagiarism is stealing. If you take a public domain song and claim that you wrote it, you have stolen. Please try not to let your misperception of legal technicalities direct your morals.
The first time I heard "Happy Xmas...", I thought, "That's 'Stewball'!" It bothered me and detracted from how I perceived the Christmas song. It made me cringe! I have since moved from that and love John's creation.
Very interesting. It’s interesting to know how far back the melody goes. Being a huge fan of Lennon it’s widely known he would nick a a few things like in Run For Your Life on Rubber Soul. But his vocal melody line or music was always his own.
How can you plagiarize any song that is already in the public domain? Even if you could, it's only similar for the first eight bars. The rest is an improvement. Get your facts straight before you accuse one of the greatest song writers of all time.
John was a master songwriter, george harrison considered himself his equal in his deluded mind, but george in all reality wasn't worthy to carry johns jockstrap. George was also well known for ripping off other songwriters, who rips off a womans band? During the beatles heyday, george would bring john one of his songs he written and john gave his scribblings a quick lookover than crumpled georges song and threw it on the floor, paul standing nearby would snicker at the scene. John would tell george to stop embarrassing himself and just let him and paul write the songs, for they knew what they were doing. The beatles grew up in liverpool a well known cesspool of criminals, its in there blood. Ringo was the only one who was not a true hardcore criminal but if something wasn't tied down he would look both ways and swipe it, he couldnt help himself. Liverpool also had a military base and the lads as young boys with snot dripping from there noses would go to the pier and watch the submarines come into the pier from there travels abroad, its where they got the inspiration for there famous yellow submarine song. The sailors themselves would sell contraband from there travels to the locals. What is ironic, john who hated silly little lovesongs eventually was writing them, he drank the koolaid and join the conversion from rock to pop. How the mighty have fallen. Many years later while living in new york, he decided to go to the local liquor store to buy some smokes, when he was returning to his apartment a crazed fan jump out of nowhere and gun down John. As he was laying on the dirty sidewalk on the mean streets of new york, trash blowing on the wind over his crumpled body, still clutching a pack of unopened marlboros in his guitar hand, he utter his final words to his adoring fans who were there. He looked up at his fans and the great poet spoked "I been shot" and then john sang no more. That day the world lost a great artist, it was of such significance that the great howard cosell broke the news on Monday night football, so all the world can hear it. Yes John was a criminal, but he was also a master songwriter, and now he belongs to the ages.
John copied a Smothers brother's song. I saw a video of it once but recently I can't the video that talked about the similarities. Yes when I found this out I felt disappointed.
George Harrison was sued for plagiarism in "My Sweet Lord." Why wasn't John Lennon sued for plagiarism in "Happy Xmas War is Over"????????????????????????????
This has been quite the year, and I see it as a new beginning for the Beatles Bible. From now on, no more A.I. voice, as many of you asked for so long, and the videos are going to become more personal and interesting.
Also, a correction: 'He's So Fine' was made by The Chiffons, not The Shirelles. Playboy referred to the Shirelles in the interview, so I made the same mistake and said "Shirelles" incorrectly. Mea-culpa!
Thank you for keeping up with me all this time, and good times will come! 🙏
I liked the ai :(..But your voice is cool too!
@@michaeldaddario2257 I didn't mind it that much, to be honest, but a real voice is superior to that of a robot. 😄 Thanks, Michael!
@@BeatlesBible1Yes, It’s your emotionally charged and easier to read; Though if you’re worried about your accent being too heavy (Witch imo it isn’t) you can always right translated captions
honestly its insane that u ever thought it was cool to use AI narration for these and I say this as someone who uses AI tech like this in work - but narration is a terrible use for it. glad u came back to reality
that said if u wanted to do something actually creative with it like cloning Lennon's voice to make him 'say' the quotes there's no audio for (while making it clear what you're doing, no hiding), that could possibly be interesting
Another famous song I Can’t Help Falling in Love w You by Elvis also lifted the melody from an old French song. That melody was also in the movie The Heiress w Olivia deHavilland. There’s plenty of other examples of old folk, mountain, traditional, whatever you want to call it, being adapted into modern music. Heck even classical music makes it into rock & roll !
True.
I've never heard "He's So Fine" when I listened to "My Sweet Lord".
It has a good message about the forgotten and impoverished of the holiday season plus an anti Vietnam War message. Needed more than ever in today's insanely commercialized circus Christmas season.
True.
It's a traditional song. I think it would be more accurate to label Happy Xmas as a derivative of Stewball/Skewball and not plagiarized from it.
Sure, you could say that too.
The best two Christmas songs are this one and the Prokoviev samples by Emerson Lake and Palmer
When you change the lyrics while keeping the exact same chords and melody then pass it off as written by you and collect royalties for it it is definitely, utter and blatant plagareism.
@@jaelge Well, then answer this, who was he plagiarizing?
@@jaelge but like by definition and law it isn’t 🤦♂️. If the songwriters been dead for 70 years, the song is in the public domain and any artist can (and many many many have) take anything they want from it and still make money from it.
Fine video but you badly misquote Paul McCartney. He didn’t say he and John were the greatest criminals going. He says, “John and I were the greatest cribbers going.” To crib means to plagiarize a little bit of something. Like the bass line from “I Saw Her Standing There” uses the same notes as the bass in the Chuck Berry song “Talkin’ About You.” Paul blended a preexisting bass riff into a brand new original song. Not criminal plagiarism, not stealing an entire song, just talking a little piece of something already out there and repurposing it for a new composition. Cribbing.
Always love the videos! Favorite channel!
Thank you; I appreciate it!
John Lennon also stole a part of an old blues song (possibly "Black Dog Blues") to write a part of "Crippled Inside" from the 'Imagine' album.
And yet he criticized George Harrison for writing My Sweet Lord. First time that I comment here. Great channel.
Thank you. 👍
I think he meant that George shouldn't have been too obvious.
@@froysk7449 What I remember George said that happened is that Allan Klein, his own lawyer, bought the rights to He's So Fine and then sued him.
@@BeatlesBible1 Just out of curiosity, but are you by any chance related to the website The Beatles Bible that uses the slogan : Not quite as popular as Jesus? I love that site.
@@Sigma-INFJ. No, I like the site, but the site and my channel are not related.
Merry Christmas Beatle people.
I heard Stewball yesterday for the 1st time and immediately thought of “I Never Will Marry” familiarly by Linda Rondstadt and later by Nana Mouskouri . It was when I was telling my 17 yo son that he noticed the link to Happy Christmas
Just discovered your channel.
You are great!
Thanks!
That is amazing...Wow....who would have thought from 1784.......So this is Stewball , and what have you done, you rode with your owner, , you raced and you won.........they gave you some antlers, they taught you to fly, you worked for saint Nick....gave Rudolph the eye.......wow..so THIS is Xmas??? loved it. What a ho ho hoot.. God bless you John..your genius certainly made it better.
As a musician myself, there are lots of chord progressions that sound similar. Many songs follow a progression called a "line cliché", for example. "Something" is a good example of this and is a descending chromatic chord progression. A songwriter can't just say that a similar chord progression is evidence of plagiarism but that melody & rhythmic content over that progression is similar also. Consider the Ed Sheeran/Marvin Gaye case as an example.
But the beautiful countermelody is original: the "war is over if you want it " part.
Yes, it's mostly original, I'd say. The parts that are the same as 'Stewball' are the first 14 bars.
@@BeatlesBible1 yes.
Gerry Beckley, songwriter for the 1970's folk rock group America once apologized to George Harrison that he stole from George's song ''Something'' when he wrote the America hit
''I Need You''. George just laughed and said ''That's OK, I stole when I wrote Something''
I've listened to 2 versions of Stewball. Woodie Guthrie's version sounds nothing like the melody to Happy Xmas War Is Over. Maybe because of how Woodie Guthrie sings it. The second version I heard was by Peter, Paul and Mary. Their version is almost identical.
True, I like both versions.
I'm English and I've only ever spelt the word as 'nick'. I think it's because back in the old-old days where people would 'nick' little bits of silver from the cons of themadays.
Yes. I misspelled it as 'knick', when it's actually 'nick'.
Merry Christmas Gus!
Merry Christmas to you too!
@@BeatlesBible1 thank you! Love the channel
John made sure Stewball/Skewball was public domain though at least. As so did Peter Paul And Mary when they made it Stewball.
Well the verse might be a little similar yet the chorus does not exist in the original, the chorus is the part that makes the song great
Traditional songs aren't copyrighted so he didn't plagiarize anything. It's just like Dylan with the girl from the north country fare
Definition of plagiarism: "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." - John never acknowledged publicly the inspiration from 'Stewball', and the common man doesn't know 'Stewball' exists.
That being said, I don't really care that John copied this specific part of 'Stewball', because the composition had no copyright anyway, and he made a better version.
@@BeatlesBible1 key part: he made a better song.
@@BeatlesBible1:
You are correct. There´s a difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement. John did not infringe on a copyright because none existed but he did plagiarize someone else´s work.
Jimi Hendrix popularized and profited from Hey Joe but he did not claim ownership or writing credits and it was simply listed as (Trad. Arr. Hendrix) on the 45rpm pressing because the actual composer is either unknown or unverified. Whereas Lennon actually credits Yoko Ono / John Lennon as writers of Happy Xmas.
@@jaelge The composer of Hey Joe is absolutely known, it was composed by folk singer Billy Roberts in New York in 1962. But it shared so many similarities with old folk tunes like Stagger Lee/Stack-O-Lee that many people assumed it was a 100 year old song. To the point where they would erroneously write Traditional on the song credits. So many people covering the song also added to the confusion.
@@themoviedealers:
(Thanks), I wasn't aware of that, then my info was wrong or I´m recalling it wrong. However, my point is that Lennon would gladly rip someone off, while accusing others of the same.
It's a nice format, I like to see who is inspired by whom, because I write songs myself. The more I discover new music, the more I notice that many famous songs are based on old and useless gems. For example, Bad guy's bassline is based on the song Hot Cock Annie :D
btw, this is Kurt Cobain's favorite band, maybe that's how Finneas found it. I tried google it, but I didn't find anything, maybe I'm the only one who discover it, because the song is so obscure and old
Did your voice change on the channel? Best Beatles channel!! 😎
No, It's just my natural voice. Thanks!
John Lennon talked about this many times in many publications. He said he borrowed pieces of older non-copyrighted melodies to make a newer modern version of them. John and Yoko wrote the song as a protest song against the Vietnam conflict. (the US no longer declares war since WW II). The song also brings to light the poverty and struggles of people everywhere. Before you upload a video criticizing anyone there are great resources on the Internet. I exclude Wikipedia as a source for anything.
John copied this song to bring to light the poverty and struggles of people everywhere, not to make himself wealthier. Surely you jest.
Love Thrice's cover
🎄✨️Happy Xmas
War is Over ... ☮️
if you want it ✨️⚡️
Happy Christmas!
@@BeatlesBible1 thanks, it was a Jolly 🎅 good time✨️🎄
Using a melody and chords from a public domain anonymous folk song
may be plagiarism, but it is a meaningless distinction [and click-bait].
Dylan has done this countless times, as have thousands of others,
throughout history. The Star Spangled Banner was plagiarism.
Not clickbait. Definition of plagiarism: "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." - John never acknowledged publicly the inspiration from 'Stewball', and the common man doesn't know 'Stewball' exists.
That being said, I don't really care that John copied this specific part of 'Stewball', because the composition had no copyright anyway, and he made a better version.
All of us folkies know Stewball. Joan Baez sang it beautifully.
Come Together/ You Can’t Catch Me.
"Good poets borrow, Great Poets Steal" T S Elliot...
He pulled a Dylan?
😂 I guess.
No he pulled a Zimmerman
really like that explanation of "war is over/ if you want it" at the end. no wonder J. Edgar kept a file on him!👀 that's some powerful stuff [ if you want it to be ]
No wonder, indeed. Thanks for commenting!
Check out the Hollies version of " Stewball "
The ).00z killed Lennon. Not the fb1 or c1a
yes john was a submersive influence to the youngsters back them, the FBI kept close tabs on john to keep him from corrupting the next recruits with his "peace" songs. America was on a war footing in those days, draft was in full swing.
Stewball x the Hollis
John made yet another masterpiece… let him rest. “Christ, you know it ain’t easy”
The same tune was used for Johnny Ace’s “Pledging My Love,” which is probably where Lennon heard first it.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with comparing “What Child Is This?” and “Greensleeves?” How many classic blues tunes are virtually identical?
Nobody tell him about "Love Me Tender"
If it’s plagiarized, why is it infinitely better than the song it supposedly “copies”? Why does it still sound like no Christmas song ever? It’s inspired by a traditional song but it became something much greater and with much greater meaning
Sorry, I don't agree with John's comments about George "Walking right into it". George has said that he wrote it thinking it was his, plain and simple and he paid the price. Easy for John to say because he was probably familiar with Stewball, wrote his song and got away with it but George didn't. Also the fact that John took as you said "a sad song and made it better" is a ridiculous excuse. That's totally irrelevant. 14 bars of similarity isn't borrowing, it's stealing. Even if it was John Lennon (my favourite Beatle).
Well, I give John a pass with 'Happy Xmas' because 'Stewball' is a folk standard with no copyright on it, so he's not really hurting anybody. However, George copied (accidentally, let's say) the melody to a song with a copyright on it; that's why he was sued. That's the difference.
@@BeatlesBible1I think Allen Klein bought the rights to He's So Fine and was the main force behind making George pay
@@BeatlesBible1 Once again, I disagree. When you say that John isn't hurting anybody, true. BUT it doesn't make him look good does it? Here's one of the greatest songwriters of all time (my favourite songwriter ever) stealing from a traditional song. Sorry the optics look really bad. Here's another example: The song Black Waterside has been around for ages. It's been covered by countless artists. The most famous version was recorded by Bert Jansch. The point is that everyone that has covered that song always gives the credit: "Traditional" or "Unknown". But when Jimmy Page "wrote" Black Mountainside, it was so blatantly obvious that he stole Black Waterside and gave it a different title AND also credited the song to HIMSELF! Did Page hurt anyone by doing that? No. But did it make him look good? Not at all.
If the chords are close, the two songs are different in many other ways.
I believe it is called INTERPOLATION, not plagiarism.
... you can still call it rip-off!
Using melodies from traditional tunes isn’t plagiarism because they are public domain.
Plagiarism is stealing. If you take a public domain song and claim that you wrote it, you have stolen. Please try not to let your misperception of legal technicalities direct your morals.
I thought that only Simone had plagiarized with her version called Então é Natal.
If you want to do John borrowing music from the classics, then try "John Lennon and three blind mice" He did that multiple times
"MANY times"
Only? He was sued for Come Together so. ..
Paul noticed the similarity right away and told John to slow it down.
Old Stewball. Peter, Paul, and Mary had done it, and I recognized it right away at age 19, in 1971.
You are talking about come together
That's 'Come Together', Sean.
The first time I heard "Happy Xmas...", I thought, "That's 'Stewball'!" It bothered me and detracted from how I perceived the Christmas song. It made me cringe! I have since moved from that and love John's creation.
I didn't know Stewball, but when I heard it for the first time as a teen, I thought they had ripped John off! 🤣
Twist and Shout is another version of La Bamba.
John Lennon didn't write "Twist And Shout". It was a cover of a song by The Top Notes.
@@marywealth6475 I never said he wrote it. In its origin it was a tune brought from Africa by slaves.
Thank you for using your real voice instead of AI. Or….. has the AI gotten that good?
It's my real voice. 🤣 Thanks, sir.
Yeah but it should have been credited TRAD/ LENNON.. to make it clear
True.
well they both soundlike on top of spaghetti too!
And Ain't She Sweet sounds a lot like Three Blind Mice.
Listen to Lennon's John Sinclair. Then listen to the spiderman theme song.
How original is it to use a basic folk melody and give it a Christmas peace anthem lyric/message? Only Lennon
This is not plagiarism.
I thought Joe ran the Beatles Bible website.
Joe runs the website, I run the RUclips channel.
Very interesting. It’s interesting to know how far back the melody goes.
Being a huge fan of Lennon it’s widely known he would nick a a few things like in Run For Your Life on Rubber Soul. But his vocal melody line or music was always his own.
Not in this song or Come Together.
How can you plagiarize any song that is already in the public domain? Even if you could, it's only similar for the first eight bars. The rest is an improvement. Get your facts straight before you accuse one of the greatest song writers of all time.
Then brazilian popular singer Simone ruined John's song with her version of it, "Então é natal". 😅😅😅
🤣 I'm Brazilian too, and that version sucks indeed.
John was a master songwriter, george harrison considered himself his equal in his deluded mind, but george in all reality wasn't worthy to carry johns jockstrap. George was also well known for ripping off other songwriters, who rips off a womans band? During the beatles heyday, george would bring john one of his songs he written and john gave his scribblings a quick lookover than crumpled georges song and threw it on the floor, paul standing nearby would snicker at the scene. John would tell george to stop embarrassing himself and just let him and paul write the songs, for they knew what they were doing.
The beatles grew up in liverpool a well known cesspool of criminals, its in there blood. Ringo was the only one who was not a true hardcore criminal but if something wasn't tied down he would look both ways and swipe it, he couldnt help himself.
Liverpool also had a military base and the lads as young boys with snot dripping from there noses would go to the pier and watch the submarines come into the pier from there travels abroad, its where they got the inspiration for there famous yellow submarine song. The sailors themselves would sell contraband from there travels to the locals.
What is ironic, john who hated silly little lovesongs eventually was writing them, he drank the koolaid and join the conversion from rock to pop. How the mighty have fallen.
Many years later while living in new york, he decided to go to the local liquor store to buy some smokes, when he was returning to his apartment a crazed fan jump out of nowhere and gun down John. As he was laying on the dirty sidewalk on the mean streets of new york, trash blowing on the wind over his crumpled body, still clutching a pack of unopened marlboros in his guitar hand, he utter his final words to his adoring fans who were there.
He looked up at his fans and the great poet spoked "I been shot" and then john sang no more. That day the world lost a great artist, it was of such significance that the great howard cosell broke the news on Monday night football, so all the world can hear it. Yes John was a criminal, but he was also a master songwriter, and now he belongs to the ages.
Gibberish
John copied a Smothers brother's song. I saw a video of it once but recently I can't the video that talked about the similarities. Yes when I found this out I felt disappointed.
If you find it, link me to it, please. 👍
war is over
if you want it ❤
It's not the same melody. They are parallel to each other. If they were airplanes one would be flying above the other in the same formation.
Sure.
Same melody in a different key
George Harrison was sued for plagiarism in "My Sweet Lord." Why wasn't John Lennon sued for plagiarism in "Happy Xmas War is Over"????????????????????????????
Because it's from the 1700s and therefore out of the legal timeframe for suing purposes.
@@fannyingabout Yes.
Rip off!
Rubbish. Only one medley is played on two.
Who cares!!! It's done all the time.
I didn't know about it. I'm glad it was explained in this video.
@@BIZARBIES There you go. 😄 Some people care. I care.