John Lennon is my favorite Beatle. still hard to believe a gifted singer-songwriter and cultural icon that spoke of peace and love. He deserved better than to die the way he did. Miss him very much, RIP. My whole family was shocked. My mom and dad had become fans through me playing their records all the time. I was 27 years old. felt like I had lost a member of my own family, and to this day, some of his songs bring me to tears A person like him only comes once in a lifetime.
Great job! Very moving and well done. Took me right back to that moment. I was 18 at the time. Strangely, I was driving home from work in suburban Kansas City and I ALSO heard 'Ticket To Ride' on the radio at about 9:30pm. I remember thinking how great it sounded on FM radio. I had been listening non-stop to 'Double Fantasy' the last few weeks and had just asked my girlfriend if she was going to buy it the next day (both of us Being Beatles freaks). She said she planned to and we said goodnight and hung up the phone. She called back maybe 5 minutes later and told me he was dead. What a miserable, shocking, horrific blow to hear that news.
I was getting ready for school (junior high, I was 13), and my Dad came into the bathroom and told me the sad news. I cried and hugged my Dad, who didn't understand and didn't know exactly what to think about my reaction. Today, I still can't get over the fact that for some bizarre reason, I got 17 more years than John Lennon ever did. Rest In Peace, John. 🙏
@@JonBlackstone HE WAS A GREAT SINGER SONGWRITER, BUT HE PUT A BULLET IN IS HEART WHEN HE ABANDONED HIS WIFE AND SON AND MARRIED OUTSIDE OF HIS RACE. POOR Cynthia Lennon & JULIAN SUFFERED, WHILE HE LICKED THE RECTUM OF YOKO (THE WITCH) AND SEAN A HALF BREED. 😮💨🤥😌😔😪😰😥😢😭😭😭😭
I was working at our family ranch up In the Boonies, by myself, with no radio or TV reception. That evening of December 8, I remember an overwhelming sense of melancholy which came over me. I immediately played my cassette of John's Imagine album. The melancholy remained, although I slowly gained a sense of peace. The next day, I drove into town for supplies, and while in the grocery store, the radio was playing over the loudspeakers. The announcer spoke of John's assassination the night before. I was floored. Growing up, John was like a Big Brother figure for me. I didn't agree with some of his antics, but always loved his leadership, sound and inspiration for The Beatles. For me, Double Fantasy was his best solo album, as he had finally and fully found his peace. By the way, I've always felt that Ticket to Ride was one of his best vocals...Thanks Jon!
I was watching Monday Night Football(which I almost never did) when Howard Cosell came on and told the viewers that John Lennon was dead. The next day on the college campus I was attending, everyone was in shock and it was a very somber atmosphere. This senseless act also caused a lot of us to go back and dig out our old Beatle Records which really made the loss even harder for us to come to terms with. For fans, the hope of a reunion of the Beatles was over…but the earlier love for that music was reignited.
That was the worst Day Ever, couldn’t believe he was gone, Forever it always be John, when I saw him on Sullivan , I just knew he was and forever my favorite, the emotions to this are forever with me. Every song, All he was in life, is Eternity, John I Miss You ! Thank You For This Video, Means A lot, Steve
Thank you. John Lennon was killed on my 12th birthday. I was already a Beatles fan and I remember vividly my mum telling me the news when I got home from school, in much the same way your mum told you. Those Double Fantasy (and Milk and Honey) songs become more meaningful to me every year.
Me, on my 28 birthday. Beatles illuminated my teenage years. I remenber, that when the presentation of a new album was announced on the radio, my heart began to beat fast. Like a rendez vous with a girlfriend. This sad day, when l arrive at my job, after two minutes, l went to the toilets to cry. Youth was over !
It was my 20th Birthday yes I am 64 now so I sang that song yesterday I'm from Gold Coast Australia 🇦🇺 a day ahead of America love to all Thankyou John for the wonderful Song's and Lyrics and your Message's through them baci x
I was woken up for school by my Mum on the morning of the 9th when she told me. 17 years old. There’s a five hour time difference here in uk so I always think of the two dates. Similar to you - I was (and still am) a massive Beatles fan. I went to school that day and it was a day I’ll never forget and never get over. Probably the saddest and most devastating day of my life. Can’t believe it’s 44 years ago. 😢
I do remember when “I heard the news” the saddest day in the world of music. I was very sad and angry at how ugly things can be. John Lennon is one of the greatest artist ever, his music brings so much joy into the world…LONG LIVE JOHN LENNON ✌🏼
A beautiful remembrance. Thank you for sharing. Like everyone else alive at that time, I knew exactly when and where. I was working a lousy part-time job when the news came across the radio. At 16 years old, I don’t think was mature enough to truly and fully appreciate the impact of this loss on me or music. I do now.
I got into the Beatles through my mum. When I started working I started buying my own copies. Their solo work as well. I remember hearing about the murder with a sense of disbelief. Couldn't be real. Unfortunately it was. Thank you for the music John. The soundtrack of my life. RIP
Thanks for the video and the great tribute to an incredible artist. I remember...I was in the Marine Corps and our squadron was on a six month deployment to okinawa. New was really slow so I did not find out until the next day. As much as I would have like to have spent the day grieving and listening to his music, I had to get up early and fly (I was helicopter air crew). At the end of the day a few of us went to our favorite club in town called "Sgt Peppers." and listened to music and drank. It wasn't until March or April when we returned to the US that I was able to pick up Double Fantasy.
I was Driving Home From Work and there was a Lennon Song On the Radio and They Said 'The Late John Lennon ' I Slammed on My Brakes in Shock! It's Imprinted in my Mind😮
Thoughtful video. I, too, remember exactly what I was doing when the news broke: I was attempting to fall asleep with my first-ever university exam taking place the next morning. The radio, always playing all night, came across with the newsflash. Needless to say, I didn't get any sleep prior to my exam. News like that felt improbable...
I have been a huge Beatles fan since I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show at about 8 years old. I will never forget the moment I heard John was shot, and the moment I heard he was dead. I was in my apartment working on a big color TV, trying to fix a slightly blurry colors on the screen and getting frustrated that I couldn't get the adjustments perfect. A news bulletin came on and said John was shot, and nothing more. I don't know why, but I got the impression it wasn't that serious. I just kept working and heard no more information for the rest of the night. The next day I was driving to work, and they were playing one Beatle song after another on the radio, and having completely forgotten about the announcement the night before, I was thinking, "This is great!" Then a break in the music came, and the DJ came on and said that John had died. I felt like I was told that my brother just died. I remember thinking I had no right to feel that way because I never even met him, but I couldn't help it. I couldn't stop thinking about it all day at work. Still saddens and angers me to this day, and I'm sure it always will.
Guessing a lot of America (myself included) got the Lennon news from Howard Cosell as he broke it live to the nation during Monday Night Football Dolphins Patriots game 12-8-80
When George Harrison heard the news he went straight back to bed! But it must have been a double shock for him - losing Lennon and fearing for his own safety.
I just found the headline in the _San Francisco Chronicle_ that someone ahead of me in line at a café in my college town, Santa Cruz, was holding on the 9th -- upsetting to see the many papers and imagine all the people in those cities (New York, Liverpool!). I recorded many of the songs played on the radio that day, and I was part of a small gathering holding hands in a circle around the town clock, where I cried much harder than I ever had. The Beatles' movies happened to be scheduled at a local theater for the next weekend, and it was good to watch them in a crowd. Couldn't have asked for a better place to go through the huge shock and loss. Thank you all for sharing your experiences. ☮️❤
I recently saw Above Us Only Sky, which was mind-bending. I didn't realize the trauma Yoko Ono went through as a child in Japan, and how it impacted her view about Vietnam.
It still hurts after all these years. I was working the midnight shift at the time and when I walked into work. I was hit with the news. To be murdered that way is still unbelievable.
I remember waiting for the album to come out because I wanted to hear the Beatles again and how disappointed I was it took me 20 years to listen and understand what it was about and then I finally could hear the album it was beautiful and it hit me that he had moved so far past the Beatles at that point I was the idiot he was only40 but in his mind he was probably 100 years old by then
I remember that awful night so well. I heard the radio bulletin on my way home from work. It was probably 10-15 minutes after he was shot. I was dumbfounded. By the time I got home, it was announced that he was dead. Unbelievable.
I was at a Springsteen show in Philly, came out at the end of the concert and turned on the radio and heard the news on WMMR. Bummer of a night, for sure.
I was 21 when howsrd cossell snnounced his drsth on monday night football. Devistation,bschock and sadness immediately came over me. Such a horrible day.
We were putting up are first Christmas tree being married my wife was pregnant with are fist child and we had friends over helping us decorate when we heard on the radio john was shot we were all in shock and played his music on are consul t.v. stereo system the rest of the night just imagine how much more he could have contributed to the music world
I can still remember my father and I watching MNF in one room my brother and girlfriend in the other room watching the news from NY and he screamed TIMMY SOMEONE JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON My thought was he has to be joking with me but with Donna there something must have happened but I was too numb to move and my father said I hope your not joking around on Timmy that is not funny later Danny said he's gone Timmy John Lennon is dead. Still in shock and watching the game Howard Cosell confirmed the news and I just lost it the family came to console me I turned on the radio heard the news and the first song I hear was HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN and I smashed my fist on the radio thinking at that moment he just got shot and killed by the gun and they play this song. I went to school the next day and was in a daze after the weekend I put all the Beatle/Lennon records away and would not listen to them for almost 3 years till I found some old friends from HS that were into their music and the magic of Lennon and the Beatles came back to me and I never lost that feeling again
I know there are many that will disagree with what I’m about to say, but it’s just my opinion. No offense to Paul McCartney, but the music Paul was writing at age 40 (and after) didn’t compare to the music John Lennon wrote when he was 40. John’s Double Fantasy album was, to me, just as good as all the other music he had written when he was younger. He hadn’t lost his style or creativity at all! But I just can’t say that about Paul’s music as he got older. As much as I loved Paul’s music with the Beatles, it just wasn’t the same after those initial hits he had with Wings. After the earliest hits of Paul McCartney and Wings, most of Paul’s music wasn’t even worth listening to, for me. Much of it was hard to believe it even came from the same Paul McCartney I had grown up listening to. I’ve never understood why, but creativity for most artists seems to come much easier when people are in their 20s and maybe early 30s. After that, it just seems to die away. There are SO many fantastic artists that seemed to become a shadow of their former selves as they got into their 30s. It’s almost like turning off the “creativity spigot,” like you would turn off the water outside. Creativity seems so productive and so easy in younger people, but seems to just die away when they get in their 30s (and after). It happened to Paul, and it happened to two more of my favorite artists, including Cat Stevens and Elton John. There are many others, of course.
I feel every word of what you’re saying and agree with your assessment as why and when it happens. I really enjoy the majority of Paul’s stuff up until Tug Of War. After that is when his albums became very hit and miss. But up until that time I feel he was creating music every bit as great as his contemporaries. I have compartmentalized all of their Beatles music seperate from their solo work; because The Beatles chemistry was something no one could compete with (even themselves). Of all four I find Paul’s catalog to be the greatest. I don’t dig much of George or John’s 70s solo stuff. I find the majority of it unlistenable (like you do Paul’s stuff). After George released ATMP he really took a nosedive as a songwriter. I dig John’s first album but can’t listen to it often because of its harshness. After that John became more of an activist than a songwriter. There are only a few tracks from each album that I enjoy. My two favorite Lennon albums are Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy. I see both of them as John’s return to his previous style of writing. I could ramble for hours! It’s so fun to engage with fellow fans! Thanks for your comments and for watching. I have a new Beatles episode dropping tomorrow!
@: I know what you mean about John’s writing on his solo work. So much of it was angry and militant…and I didn’t like that stuff either. But even when I didn’t like the message from some of his songs, they still had one of the main things he was known for…catchy melodies! That was always John’s strength…writing unbelievably catchy melodies. I also agree that Double Fantasy was more a return to some of his Beatles music in the mid 60s. The world got to see his writing come full circle. John could be very sweet or very mean in his writing.
John was a genius but that genius was largely gone by the 1970s. John ‘retired’ for 5 years because he was very paranoid that he’d lost his talent which of course he had. Songs on the double fantasy album are hers (which means all shite really) or his which are okay but unremarkable. Those people who write stuff like ‘ we’ll never know what songs would have come out’ are dreamers. His best work was way behind him.
Idiot American gun-loving Christians killed him. So called fans often criticise Yoko, although she was his choice. A worse choice was to go to the US in my opinion. Christianity sucks as do you..
We will never know how much unwritten music we lost that day ...🦘
I know. I think about that all the time. Thanks for watching.
John Lennon is my favorite Beatle. still hard to believe a gifted singer-songwriter and cultural icon that spoke of peace and love. He deserved better than to die the way he did. Miss him very much, RIP. My whole family was shocked. My mom and dad had become fans through me playing their records all the time. I was 27 years old. felt like I had lost a member of my own family, and to this day, some of his songs bring me to tears A person like him only comes once in a lifetime.
John was and will be my fave FOREVER ❤ I feel the same R.I.P John ❤
Great job! Very moving and well done. Took me right back to that moment. I was 18 at the time. Strangely, I was driving home from work in suburban Kansas City and I ALSO heard 'Ticket To Ride' on the radio at about 9:30pm. I remember thinking how great it sounded on FM radio. I had been listening non-stop to 'Double Fantasy' the last few weeks and had just asked my girlfriend if she was going to buy it the next day (both of us Being Beatles freaks). She said she planned to and we said goodnight and hung up the phone. She called back maybe 5 minutes later and told me he was dead. What a miserable, shocking, horrific blow to hear that news.
Wow it sounds like you and I had very similar experiences. Amazing. Thanks for sharing and for watching!
It still hurts after all these years.....all those unwritten songs he took with him...sad...so..so..sad....RIP John..👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was getting ready for school (junior high, I was 13), and my Dad came into the bathroom and told me the sad news. I cried and hugged my Dad, who didn't understand and didn't know exactly what to think about my reaction.
Today, I still can't get over the fact that for some bizarre reason, I got 17 more years than John Lennon ever did.
Rest In Peace, John. 🙏
Thank you for sharing. And thanks for watching!
@@JonBlackstone HE WAS A GREAT SINGER SONGWRITER, BUT HE PUT A BULLET IN IS HEART WHEN HE ABANDONED HIS WIFE AND SON AND MARRIED OUTSIDE OF HIS RACE. POOR Cynthia Lennon & JULIAN SUFFERED, WHILE HE LICKED THE RECTUM OF YOKO (THE WITCH) AND SEAN A HALF BREED. 😮💨🤥😌😔😪😰😥😢😭😭😭😭
Thank you for honoring him.
How could I forget. 😎🎶❤️ Thank you for watching!
I was working at our family ranch up In the Boonies, by myself, with no radio or TV reception. That evening of December 8, I remember an overwhelming sense of melancholy which came over me. I immediately played my cassette of John's Imagine album. The melancholy remained, although I slowly gained a sense of peace. The next day, I drove into town for supplies, and while in the grocery store, the radio was playing over the loudspeakers. The announcer spoke of John's assassination the night before. I was floored. Growing up, John was like a Big Brother figure for me. I didn't agree with some of his antics, but always loved his leadership, sound and inspiration for The Beatles. For me, Double Fantasy was his best solo album, as he had finally and fully found his peace.
By the way, I've always felt that Ticket to Ride was one of his best vocals...Thanks Jon!
I was watching Monday Night Football(which I almost never did) when Howard Cosell came on and told the viewers that John Lennon was dead. The next day on the college campus I was attending, everyone was in shock and it was a very somber atmosphere. This senseless act also caused a lot of us to go back and dig out our old Beatle Records which really made the loss even harder for us to come to terms with. For fans, the hope of a reunion of the Beatles was over…but the earlier love for that music was reignited.
That was the worst Day Ever, couldn’t believe he was gone, Forever it always be John, when I saw him on Sullivan , I just knew he was and forever my favorite, the emotions to this are forever with me. Every song, All he was in life, is Eternity, John I Miss You ! Thank You For This Video, Means A lot, Steve
Great video and tribute to John! After all these years, I still can’t believe he’s gone.
I love the collection of pictures included with this. Thank you so very much for sharing this. 🌹
Those are good. I have never seen any of them.
Thank you. John Lennon was killed on my 12th birthday. I was already a Beatles fan and I remember vividly my mum telling me the news when I got home from school, in much the same way your mum told you. Those Double Fantasy (and Milk and Honey) songs become more meaningful to me every year.
Thanks for sharing your memory. And thanks for watching!
Me, on my 28 birthday. Beatles illuminated my teenage years. I remenber, that when the presentation of a new album was announced on the radio, my heart began to beat fast. Like a rendez vous with a girlfriend. This sad day, when l arrive at my job, after two minutes, l went to the toilets to cry. Youth was over !
It was my 20th Birthday yes I am 64 now so I sang that song yesterday I'm from Gold Coast Australia 🇦🇺 a day ahead of America love to all Thankyou John for the wonderful Song's and Lyrics and your Message's through them baci x
I was woken up for school by my Mum on the morning of the 9th when she told me. 17 years old. There’s a five hour time difference here in uk so I always think of the two dates. Similar to you - I was (and still am) a massive Beatles fan. I went to school that day and it was a day I’ll never forget and never get over. Probably the saddest and most devastating day of my life. Can’t believe it’s 44 years ago. 😢
I do remember when “I heard the news” the saddest day in the world of music. I was very sad and angry at how ugly things can be. John Lennon is one of the greatest artist ever, his music brings so much joy into the world…LONG LIVE JOHN LENNON ✌🏼
One of the saddest days of my life.
Deaths of Paul and George shook me as well
I too am someone who got it for John.I miss him much.
A beautiful remembrance. Thank you for sharing. Like everyone else alive at that time, I knew exactly when and where. I was working a lousy part-time job when the news came across the radio. At 16 years old, I don’t think was mature enough to truly and fully appreciate the impact of this loss on me or music. I do now.
Thanks for sharing. And thanks for watching!
The real deal, a giant . We've truly been robbed of genius for the last 40 odd years.
I still mourn his passing .... but much of his legacy lives on in his music.
I got into the Beatles through my mum. When I started working I started buying my own copies. Their solo work as well. I remember hearing about the murder with a sense of disbelief. Couldn't be real. Unfortunately it was. Thank you for the music John. The soundtrack of my life. RIP
Thanks for the video and the great tribute to an incredible artist. I remember...I was in the Marine Corps and our squadron was on a six month deployment to okinawa. New was really slow so I did not find out until the next day. As much as I would have like to have spent the day grieving and listening to his music, I had to get up early and fly (I was helicopter air crew). At the end of the day a few of us went to our favorite club in town called "Sgt Peppers." and listened to music and drank. It wasn't until March or April when we returned to the US that I was able to pick up Double Fantasy.
Thank you for making this video means a lot to Beatles fans I’m sure!
I was Driving Home From Work and there was a Lennon Song On the Radio and They Said 'The Late John Lennon ' I Slammed on My Brakes in Shock! It's Imprinted in my Mind😮
Lovely heartfelt and personal remembrance with excellent visuals and audio selections.
Thank you for watching!
This date is so painful for me the memories of that night still haunt me never should have happened
Thoughtful video. I, too, remember exactly what I was doing when the news broke: I was attempting to fall asleep with my first-ever university exam taking place the next morning. The radio, always playing all night, came across with the newsflash. Needless to say, I didn't get any sleep prior to my exam. News like that felt improbable...
It was a shocking day. So completely unexpected and unthinkable. Thanks for sharing your memory. And thanks for watching!
I have been a huge Beatles fan since I saw them on the Ed Sullivan show at about 8 years old. I will never forget the moment I heard John was shot, and the moment I heard he was dead.
I was in my apartment working on a big color TV, trying to fix a slightly blurry colors on the screen and getting frustrated that I couldn't get the adjustments perfect. A news bulletin came on and said John was shot, and nothing more. I don't know why, but I got the impression it wasn't that serious. I just kept working and heard no more information for the rest of the night.
The next day I was driving to work, and they were playing one Beatle song after another on the radio, and having completely forgotten about the announcement the night before, I was thinking, "This is great!" Then a break in the music came, and the DJ came on and said that John had died. I felt like I was told that my brother just died. I remember thinking I had no right to feel that way because I never even met him, but I couldn't help it. I couldn't stop thinking about it all day at work.
Still saddens and angers me to this day, and I'm sure it always will.
I was twenty years old in college. I wrote a condolence letter to Yoko and I wrote to Rolling Stone and they printed my letter. We lost so much.
Guessing a lot of America (myself included) got the Lennon news from Howard Cosell as he broke it live to the nation during Monday Night Football Dolphins Patriots game 12-8-80
When George Harrison heard the news he went straight back to bed! But it must have been a double shock for him - losing Lennon and fearing for his own safety.
beautiful piece....that cut s deep
I just found the headline in the _San Francisco Chronicle_ that someone ahead of me in line at a café in my college town, Santa Cruz, was holding on the 9th -- upsetting to see the many papers and imagine all the people in those cities (New York, Liverpool!). I recorded many of the songs played on the radio that day, and I was part of a small gathering holding hands in a circle around the town clock, where I cried much harder than I ever had. The Beatles' movies happened to be scheduled at a local theater for the next weekend, and it was good to watch them in a crowd. Couldn't have asked for a better place to go through the huge shock and loss. Thank you all for sharing your experiences. ☮️❤
im not the only one.
No sir.
Thank you, John Lennon. Thank you, Beatles.
Never forget that day ❤
I can remember it all like it was yesterday! He had just begun to come back publicly into music - then he was silenced - such a tragedy
I recently saw Above Us Only Sky, which was mind-bending. I didn't realize the trauma Yoko Ono went through as a child in Japan, and how it impacted her view about Vietnam.
It still hurts after all these years. I was working the midnight shift at the time and when I walked into work. I was hit with the news. To be murdered that way is still unbelievable.
double fantasy is a great album too. watching the wheels is one of my favorite's. on par with strawberry fields and a day in the life. 😢
Thanks for sharing. And thanks for watching.
John4Ever
Nice tribute, man.
nice tribute! i think i'm the same age as you and everything you say, i can relate to.
I remember waiting for the album to come out because I wanted to hear the Beatles again and how disappointed I was it took me 20 years to listen and understand what it was about and then I finally could hear the album it was beautiful and it hit me that he had moved so far past the Beatles at that point I was the idiot he was only40 but in his mind he was probably 100 years old by then
I always considered it sad, that after many years of struggling, John found peace and ballance and then was shot.
And Yoko selected 3 songs for the day of rememberance : " Imagine / In My Life / Come Together".
Nice remembrance, Jon. What a terrible day.
I remember that awful night so well. I heard the radio bulletin on my way home from work. It was probably 10-15 minutes after he was shot. I was dumbfounded. By the time I got home, it was announced that he was dead. Unbelievable.
I was at a Springsteen show in Philly, came out at the end of the concert and turned on the radio and heard the news on WMMR. Bummer of a night, for sure.
I was in a parking lot in rancho Bernardo 💧
I called into a radio station for a tribute for him.
I told the DJ if you listen to Powerful People by Gino Vannelli that’s the way I remember him🙏
I was 21 when howsrd cossell snnounced his drsth on monday night football. Devistation,bschock and sadness immediately came over me. Such a horrible day.
Sad day in USA @ UNk🎸😔
My brother and I, both on the Upper West Side, went right down to the Dakota that night.
Is this remembering John Lennon, or remembering Jon Blackstone??
We were putting up are first Christmas tree being married my wife was pregnant with are fist child and we had friends over helping us decorate when we heard on the radio john was shot we were all in shock and played his music on are consul t.v. stereo system the rest of the night just imagine how much more he could have contributed to the music world
Sad day!!!!😢😢😢
That was the last album I bought when it came out 🥲
saddest day
Watching channels that🎗 Honor🌹 John✨️🕯✨️ not the as***sin. TYSM. ☮️✌️🕊❤💖
Man John Lennon was amazing still can’t believe smh
#itslikestartingover
I can still remember my father and I watching MNF in one room my brother and girlfriend in the other room watching the news from NY and he screamed TIMMY SOMEONE JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON My thought was he has to be joking with me but with Donna there something must have happened but I was too numb to move and my father said I hope your not joking around on Timmy that is not funny later Danny said he's gone Timmy John Lennon is dead. Still in shock and watching the game Howard Cosell confirmed the news and I just lost it the family came to console me I turned on the radio heard the news and the first song I hear was HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN and I smashed my fist on the radio thinking at that moment he just got shot and killed by the gun and they play this song. I went to school the next day and was in a daze after the weekend I put all the Beatle/Lennon records away and would not listen to them for almost 3 years till I found some old friends from HS that were into their music and the magic of Lennon and the Beatles came back to me and I never lost that feeling again
For years now I have been wondering if it was the See I A that got him.
Is this a reupload? I swear I’ve seen this.
I know there are many that will disagree with what I’m about to say, but it’s just my opinion. No offense to Paul McCartney, but the music Paul was writing at age 40 (and after) didn’t compare to the music John Lennon wrote when he was 40. John’s Double Fantasy album was, to me, just as good as all the other music he had written when he was younger. He hadn’t lost his style or creativity at all! But I just can’t say that about Paul’s music as he got older. As much as I loved Paul’s music with the Beatles, it just wasn’t the same after those initial hits he had with Wings.
After the earliest hits of Paul McCartney and Wings, most of Paul’s music wasn’t even worth listening to, for me. Much of it was hard to believe it even came from the same Paul McCartney I had grown up listening to.
I’ve never understood why, but creativity for most artists seems to come much easier when people are in their 20s and maybe early 30s. After that, it just seems to die away. There are SO many fantastic artists that seemed to become a shadow of their former selves as they got into their 30s. It’s almost like turning off the “creativity spigot,” like you would turn off the water outside. Creativity seems so productive and so easy in younger people, but seems to just die away when they get in their 30s (and after). It happened to Paul, and it happened to two more of my favorite artists, including Cat Stevens and Elton John. There are many others, of course.
I feel every word of what you’re saying and agree with your assessment as why and when it happens. I really enjoy the majority of Paul’s stuff up until Tug Of War. After that is when his albums became very hit and miss. But up until that time I feel he was creating music every bit as great as his contemporaries. I have compartmentalized all of their Beatles music seperate from their solo work; because The Beatles chemistry was something no one could compete with (even themselves). Of all four I find Paul’s catalog to be the greatest. I don’t dig much of George or John’s 70s solo stuff. I find the majority of it unlistenable (like you do Paul’s stuff). After George released ATMP he really took a nosedive as a songwriter. I dig John’s first album but can’t listen to it often because of its harshness. After that John became more of an activist than a songwriter. There are only a few tracks from each album that I enjoy. My two favorite Lennon albums are Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy. I see both of them as John’s return to his previous style of writing. I could ramble for hours! It’s so fun to engage with fellow fans! Thanks for your comments and for watching. I have a new Beatles episode dropping tomorrow!
@: I know what you mean about John’s writing on his solo work. So much of it was angry and militant…and I didn’t like that stuff either. But even when I didn’t like the message from some of his songs, they still had one of the main things he was known for…catchy melodies! That was always John’s strength…writing unbelievably catchy melodies. I also agree that Double Fantasy was more a return to some of his Beatles music in the mid 60s. The world got to see his writing come full circle. John could be very sweet or very mean in his writing.
Yoko not even putting any of his ashes nr johns mums grave..kept him away from his u.k family..cos they knew type of person she was..
John was a genius but that genius was largely gone by the 1970s. John ‘retired’ for 5 years because he was very paranoid that he’d lost his talent which of course he had. Songs on the double fantasy album are hers (which means all shite really) or his which are okay but unremarkable. Those people who write stuff like ‘ we’ll never know what songs would have come out’ are dreamers. His best work was way behind him.
John you were not more popular than Jesus Christ 😮
Idiot American gun-loving Christians killed him. So called fans often criticise Yoko, although she was his choice. A worse choice was to go to the US in my opinion. Christianity sucks as do you..
and fender, you are not smarter than a bag of rocks!
Christianity and gun-loving America killed him.
@ Jesus saves
Christianity and gun-loving America killed him.