Maybe he loved biological Paul but not Bill Shepherd the freemason imposter...

Correct: the real James Paul, from Liverpool, England was John's good & close friend from their teen years... However, Billy Shears, born in Scotland 5 years before McCartney, (who is the entertainer that the CIA chose to replace James Paul when Paul died in September, 1966....) that talented, but obnoxious, Scotsman is someone who earned Lennon's loathing.

Brothers sometimes fight. And bandmates are a bit like married couples when they split-catty and unfair. But I think they cared a great deal for each other really.

Excellent 👍

Very well said!

No...think of me now and then

as talented as lennon was it didn't stop him from being an a..hole. he changed his mind regularly, he lied, he was egotistical and more. he thought that he was the best. and he wasn'''t anything close. he was so jelaous of Mccartney that his comments and behavour were embarrassing. so sad because he was an extraodinary gifted songwriter.

He stole from Zappa!!

He went on stage with Zappa, which was a huge honour for Lennon, then he stole the credit for, and re-named King Kong, a Zappa piece.

Zappa could care less of Lennons Status. When Lennon & Ono showed up as his door, he could care less. He kind of said "Lennons at the door? Big deal, what am I supposed to do jump up and down for joy? To be honest..I think the man was jealous of John Lennon. ☹👓

@@user-kq1hg3eo6l Oh I think it was the other way round. Lennon was jealous of Zappa's musical talent, which was on a level way above Lennon's.

"A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono"

Correct. John would describe this thing as muzak.

He'd shit all over the popular music, laughing in rage.

John would love modern music.

@@michaelmorningstar8645 John had no time for manufactured music

@@teresaolszanka112 He has time for Tomorrow Never Knows. So you are wrong about that.

hard pass from me.! the thought of the spotlight on me.. dead embarrassing.! 😬🫣 ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

I'd like to give it a try 😊

It would really have an effect. And probably not entirely pleasant.

Better than they did!

Better

Dylan never said anything much, either. Just cobbled words together that some misguided people read into what was never there.

@@samnous2002 Lmao @ 👆🏻

@@samnous2002 and cant sing,..

drugs kill the memory

Couldn't have said it better myself. Nobody's perfect

John Lennon had a massive ego from time to time. John was pissed off cause George Harrison never mentioned him as a mentor or something similar in Georges book "I me mine"? A little íronic if we think about the title of the book? If I could have chosen a Beatles member to sit and talk to I would choose George without a doubt. Paul had problem with his ego as well. You could tell by the way George looked at Paul in the Anthology video that he was annoyed by Pauls ego?

@@strikerorwell9232 Tbh, the book was an unreadable mess and mostly about George's spiritual journey. I don't think he mentioned any of the Beatles or even Clapton in it. I guess they asked John about it at tjhe wrong time...

What an ass! John Lennon, a top 40 idol, had the audacity to criticize the cream of the crop jazz session musicians which made up blood, sweat and tears. Comparing Blues (Part 1 and part 2) to Lennon's top 40 naive hit Imagine, is like comparing Coby steaks to a big mac.

​@@strikerorwell9232Paul's 'ego' kept the band going for as long as it did.

Actually the reverse is the case. Double Fantasy came alive when it was re-released in a stripped down version, removing some awful '80's production commonly used back then. (imo)

most of it is unlistenable garbage. and he never missed a chance to diss george martin, but he sure could have used his production.

George Martin's luckiest day was when Epstein gave him the production duties for the Beatles. Absolutely agree with J.L , a producers job can be very overrated. If they don't bring the songs to the table, a producer has nothing. If the Beatles didn't land in his lap, George would still be remembered for his ''comedy' records. By the way, how lucky is Giles, he now sits in his old man's lucky chair.

That depends on your point of view. Two Virgins was hardly Lennon's masterpiece, was it?

Yoko did it...😁

@@MacDaddyBanks and the audacity to let yoko try to sing. i mean screech like a wounded stray cat.

@@dennis3351 ...in a blender...

​@@dennis3351ehh it DID work on the right tracks, don't totally write yoko off. have you heard "why" by the plastic ono band? that's punk rock as hell. it sounds like an unreleased captain beefheart track.

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So true! Like screeching nails on a blackboard....

Exactly. Not only threatened by other’s talents, but envious.

He had no problem abandoning Cynthia and Julian.

I think you might be on to something. Maybe he was self-conscious, and secretly worried that his latest releases wouldn't live up to his fans' expectations.

You nailed that one dude!

​@@JackTheSkunkI grew up in the 1970s, I rarely heard any songs, on the radio, from John Lennon's post Beatles music. I think his last album before his son Sean was born,around the mid 1970s, was not a commercial success. Paul McCartney,on the other hand, had hit after hit in the Pop music charts. John Lennon's "Double Fantasy",1980 album was of course a huge seller after his death. I was around 13 when he was killed, I still have that album.

Zappa was a dick but intriguing as fuck...

Zappa was pissed off a how Lennon took the live tape the two had made (Some Time In New York City disc2) and claimed the track King Kong and renamed it Jam Rag.

@@PaulMabley it wasn’t cool but the track was horrible and Lennon probably thought they had improvised it or hell, I’ll steal it for Yoko.

Zappa was legit and that's why Lennon hated him. I was in elementary school when the Beatles hit it big and I've never understood how. Compare to the Moody Blues or Jefferson Airplane.

@@vonhalberstadt3590 well, that’s a extraordinarily subjective minority opinion. Even members of those bands would call the Beatles the greatest band of all time. Specially, Justin Hayward. The Beatles created 15 groundbreaking revolutionary albums in seven years, biggest selling recording artist of all time numerous musical idioms created huge cultural impact, including major, cultural statements about peace, love, and spirituality, in the midst of a world torn apart by strife. Several enduring musical masterpieces that will be recognized 100 years from now. Hope that helps make you understand why they’re so big, then and now.

This was probably due to this weird primal scream therapy John and Yoko were doing at the time. This was a really really angry John Lennon period.

Yes, the context is important. That should've been mentioned at least once.

Well said

George Harrison once said that if you didn't like something John Lennon said, just wait 15 minutes. Or something like that. John's moods changed more often than Michigan's weather.

Well, He was a bit of an early Johnny Rotten of his time.. I see some parallels there there personality-wise. And even in the subject matter of discontent and unconventional nature of his song writing.

He was crippled by self doubt. You can't judge a man's entire life on one interview from 1971, a time when Lennon was struggling to remember who he himself was after years of chaotic living, heavy drugs use and more recently damaging episodes of primal scream therapy. He was a man lost at sea in the early 1970's.

Who cares? If you believe the man's personal quirks to be fair game then you are compelled to weigh them against the artistic wealth he gave the world. The latter outweighs the former by about a billion to one.

At least he wasn’t Kanye West levels of egotist

lets hear your hits

@@AnthonyMonaghan Right. and a Sea man like his dad

Even though he disliked the Grammys, he appeared on the 1975 Grammys .He and Paul Simon took to the Stage! Quite funny! 😆😆 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nruchZubvLuvlGw.html&ab_channel=RecordingAcademy%2FGRAMMYs

No more than anything else he claimed not to care about meaning everything was just an opportunity to insult. Malignant narcissist JL would insult anyone and anything just to make himself the center of attention.

@@user-zy3zd3sx2d Irony alert.

Then abandoned his own son

Living through Vietnam I can say that JL did more for the cause of peace than any other artist in the history of rock ‘n roll, despite his many faults.

Taking a songwriting credit for one of the songs as well.

I just put the jist of that on the most recent comment lol

I have read elsewhere that it was unintentional, and that he apologized later. Also-John didn’t need to steal anyone else’s songwriting credit!

John Lennon did get sued for plagiarizing Chuck Berry's You Can't Catch Me in Come Together.

@@hansvandermeulen5515 Was that one of the manyJohnnie Johnson songs that Chuck never gave him credit for? Also, John could transform the most banal tune into sublime beauty, a la Three Blind Mice >> All You Need is Love. It was cheeky of John to pinch the line though.

ATUTE OBSERVATION

She sounds pretty on I'm Your Angel. Oh dear Lord, Kiss Kiss Kiss makes me blush. She made Donna Summer sound like an amateur!

Lol Yoko is a great singer and they worked together as a songwriting duo. He wasn't pidgeonholing her by any stretch

You’re delusional. Her voice like an angel carried him for years 😂

I think Yoko howling and screaming on a mic while John played with Chuck Berry, pretty well showed everyone she had no taste! Very controlling and manipulating women! Her deciding that John should be with Pang, no real man would allow that! John never should have sung the line “they’re going to crucify me”!

Yoko's stuff on Double Fantasy is very good.

Actually John attacked Paul in his infamous Rolling Stone interview after which Paul let fly with Ram and Too Many People. John upped the ante with How do you sleep? Then they made up but some folks pretend the 'feud" is still going on which is just the fan being a douche.

You didn't know that? Listen to "How Do You Sleep", Lennon, and "Too Many People", McCartney.

That's where the brothers Gallagher nicked it from.

​@@ST-xg3gyToo Many People may be about John, but it's still Paul's typical happy melodic songs.

I think what really set off John was the line: "That was your first mistake, you took your lucky break and broke it in two". In fairness, John was a real SOB for most of 1970, barring Paul from the 'Let It Be' mixes was in pretty poor form. I can't blame Paul's bitterness.

​@@XFLexiconMatt C'mon is obviously. Ram is full of messages and attacks to Lennon, Harrison and Ringo. People can't see it because Mccartney or whatever his name is, have that little cutie face and he talk nicely

without mccarney lenonn would be nothing. the 2 together were incredible.

stoned/high all the time doesn't help

He had issues for sure, but I adore the music he created during and after the Beatles. And I do believe he was a strong force in ending the Vietnam War. Prickly as he was, we could sure use another Lennon these days, IMHO

At times and in some ways, but also his being gone was strongly in-the-cards.@@debbie9929

JL was a flawed genius, somewhat like Elon Musk, for an example. Only Lennon drew attention to the Vietnam war and wrote at least two anthems for the anti-war movement, Give Peace a Chance and Imagine. Musk commercialized EVs and revolutionized space transportation. These are both incredible additions to the human pantheon.

I won't argue with that, but I'm also of the opinion that no one was more convinced of Zappa's genius than Zappa himself. With Zappa and Lennon on the same stage, it's a wonder their combined egos didn't reach critical mass.

liberal democrats wanting to limit free speech- imagine that!

drugs break you down

Where?

He was an atheist who stopped believing in God.

>>... "We all miss and love you, John." . Nope! Not true.

​@@FrankHerrera-qr1mhWhere do you get that idea from? he rejected religion yes, but certainly had a spiritual side. He said "People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or anti religion. I'm not." everything i gave read suggest he was a spiritual non religious theist or agnostic. I have yet to read anything suggesting him to be religious or atheist.

@friwilli Lennon admitted that "Imagine" was almost a communist anthem. Communism is atheistic by nature. Spiritual? His lyrics in "God" clearly state he believed in nothing except Yoko and himself. He could've compared The Beatles to anything other than Jesus (as he stated), but he didn't. He went after Christianity. You can tell his apology is forced and not sincere. There is no doubt, however, that in dying, he got all the answers he had in life.

@@FrankHerrera-qr1mh Are you now going to suggest Lennon was a communist too, because you think "imagine" is ALMOST communistic? This is ridiculous. The Beatles also wrote "I am a walrus" does that make the walrusses and eggmen? First of all "Imagine" is by no means communist, if you study communism and listen to the songs lyrics, this should be obvious. imagine is far more utopian and promoting anarchy than communistic, but it is not really a political song, nor is it promoting atheism, and even if this was the topic this would not make Lennon and communist atheist. I love every part of the lyrics of Imagine but I am neither communist or atheist in fact I hate both communism and atheism, so there is nothing to your argument. And about God...first of all believing in God is not the same as being spiritual, and it's ridiculous to assume John literally believed in nothing but himself and Yoko, especially since it would contradict your "imagine" argument which said nothing about either him or Yoko but is in fact full of ideals about a better world, something neither atheism or communism could or would do.... Imagine lyrics include... imagine there's no country....a brotherhood of man...this is talking about love, there is nothing remotely communistic or atheist about this...same goes for the lyrics "nothing to kill or die for...no possessions, no greed or hunger, SHARING the world and streaming" All of this suggests spiritual ideal far more than communist or atheist...how else could you imagine a world of love with no possessions?

Jim Morrison hated Led Zeppelin also

Ringo had a lot of success after the Beatles but there will always be magic associated with the Beatles no matter how much success any of them had on their own..

He had no problem with Alice Cooper

​@saulbennett4677 Who cares? I love Led Zeppelin Great Band 👍

@@saulbennett4677 and Keith Richards didn't like their work either although he spoke well of Page. I can't imagine who a person could dislike Zep, it really puzzles me. I have the feeling that none of these guys ever sat down and listened to their first 5 albums beginning to end. They pushed the borders of what rock was and I think they were intimidated by them. First song, first album, HOW can anyone who likes rock NOT like 'Good Times Bad Times" ? It makes NO sense.

Yes!

what hard life? he was middle class the other three lower class.

Having an absent father and a mother who gave him to her sister to raise him and then died because of an accident when John was a teenager, is not exactly an easy life, even if he was middle class.

Probably some uptight Christian hiding out at National Lampoon who didn't like the line ' God is a concept by which we measure our pain' Without doubt the Beatles are bigger than Jesus lol

​@@grimmertwin2148Yeah, Tony Hendra, Christopher Guest, and Michael 0'Donaghue were DEFINITELY "closet Christians" at National Lampoon. Shit, they were regular Pat Robertson/Moral Majority supporters. You clown ...

you're never careful when you're high all the time and you hurt people with your loose lips

Amen

Lennon WAS the mainstream. Paul was mainstream too, but didn't pretend otherwise.

Being mainstream doesn't mean one can't criticize the mainstream, look at Kurt Cobain for example @@robertjones447

Music today is 💩

Check out the tedeschi trucks band

@@robertjones447 Lennon was far less mainstream with the Beatles than silly love songs and junk from Paul. Lennon - 40 great songs, Paul - 15, just watching.

You don't trash people you respect.

@@user-zy3zd3sx2d all of these artists and entertainers criticize people.. in Lennons case he only seemed to do it to ones who he considered equal to him in ability

Why don’t you write a book

@@jimshepard8822 I could write a book about this and several other topics.. some people are just gifted this way . Some aren't

and beauty.

You mean her screechy howling and banging on a tambourine type of talent? lol A refugee looking groupie.

@@jerryweber1768 lol

Was John Lennon giving love to others when he used to pee on anonymous passersby from his upper level hotel windows? Lennon was the biggest jerk in Rock history!

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Yip. Big named folk have to sound like what they're saying now is final & definite when it really isn't.

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He was human .

@@jeffreese1828 Great observation.... But so was Hitler.

You are right, but many great comments nevertheless..

Exactly. A hypocrite when it came to love and peace. He was a volatile, angry, attention-seeking exhibitionist.

Because love SELLS.

Dumb take.

Exactly.

One word, Bingo!

you totally misunderstand both lennon and ono.

Geniuses

When he went in 1980 I was 13 years old my older brother masssive Beatles fan he became a saint no one had a bad word to say about him the more I read about him the more I come to the conclusion he was a irritating selfish prick give peace a chance he couldn’t find peace within himself and his family he treated his x wife and child like shite and as for Noko can’t be bothered because you’re a so called genius dont give you permission to slag people off and treat people like shit

Five What? 🤔

@@user-kq1hg3eo6l How did you see my comment without seeing the subject of the video to which the comment was posted?

I too was thinking that 5 musicians would be far too few for John “the God”Lennon to be hating on.I would guess that 5000 would be more likely.

'Penny Lane' was mostly McCartney.

@@hungfao Yes, so it was. Duly edited.

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Only because Dylan misheard the lyrics ' I get bye' for 'get high' on a Beatles track. He had to cover himself for not listening properly lol

@@grimmertwin2148 Yes, this might have happened ("I can't hide", misinterpreted to be "I get high"), but it is not the only reason that Dylan encouraged Lennon to write more meaningful lyrics. When they met, Lennon was already a big fan of Dylan's and appreciated his inciteful, poetic lyrics. Similarly, Dylan was already a fan of the Beatles and appreciated the inventiveness of their music. They influenced each other to their mutual benefit.

Maybe you need to capitalize "God" since you do it for everyone else!

Gods are like butt-holes... everybody's got one. I don't believe John Lennon was god with a small "g" or a god with a capital "G". He was a creative singer-songwriter-musician and recording artist.@@edwardlagrossa1246

In a way I understand that. Although I've always liked Young for the most part, I've never liked that song, and truthfully, Young is one of those artists who can be as good as it gets and as bad as it gets on the same album.

Could have fooled me..

Exactly, he called him his best friend in a television interview at the time which you can find.

But he did hate George. Or rather George hated John's guts. Nasty stuff.

Theirs was a very complicated relationship. They loved each other but their paths diverged and they basically took it out on each other. They did reconcile eventually, though.

@bobthebear1246 I don't think John and George had reconciled at the time of John's unexpected death. George later told Paul that re regretted this very much.

Spoiled child...

I suspect all geniuses have their accompanying flaws

@@briancollins5117 John had A LOT of them.

She reportedly turned down his sexual advances, which is allegedly how Norwegian Wood came about.

I've seen a few times. Beautiful voice. Beautiful woman. Beautiful person.

.....that's what he WANTED you to think !! He was a MASTER of the put-on and the provocation.....like when he sang on Revolution..." count me out....IN " !! manager Brian Epstein asked the Beatles if they could suggest a title for his upcoming biography and Lennon blurted out : " QUEER JEW ! ", causing the hurt Epstein to flee in tears. Lennon practically was begging for someone to punch him out....like when he said to the young Tom Jones : " Oh yeah, you're that PUFF from Wales ! "

He was the peaceful wife beater

He was an asshole, he beat women and treated his son like crap. You cant deny he was a musical genius, but not such a good human being

Irony alert.

Great band,way ahead of the Fab Four musically..

You are missing out! They had some great songs. Maybe start with their greatest hits?

John got critical with performers who he felt didn't live up to his standards and those who didn't seem to represent pure straightforward rock and roll. Joni and Joan were girlie folk singers. BST was jazz rock. Dylan went gospel. Paul's "granny songs" didn't cut it. Just remember John's standard in '71 was rock to change society. He was looking at musicians through that lens.

Really, John didn't really hate any of those Musicians. He never met them!!!!!😱He might of disliked their music but, thats it. I think HATE is a strong word to use. John was all about *"Love & Peace" ❤☮ ✝🎸*

Wondering if the Beatles first reaction to hearing he was shot was possibly from an enemy he had insulted?

But it was gods decision to have Christ murdered, anyway he was only dead for a couple days for crying out loud, that's no big deal I've had weekends I don't remember too.

Only if you believe God controls everything in which case human agency doesn’t exist and we are robots in a play. Many Christians feel that way, but I sure don’t. I believe in free will

@@taddallman-morton6796 so do I. Determinism makes the whole Christian argument into a charade.

@@patbrennan6572 I know it means nothing to you now. After all, Esau sold his birthright for what amounts to a bowl of soup. But you are jesting at the most holy event in history. Professing yourself to be wise, you've become a fool. ( Romans 1:22. ) I hope that God will give you light.

@@bobtaylor170 wonderfully expressed!

their musical taste/style changed after fame,drugs, and a bit of growing up

John was miles than better Paul wrote way better songs Paul wrote cheesy songs.

He was a junkie

@@KaliYugaSurfing According to those who know, he only used for about a year in the late 60's

Paul was the talent. Case closed.

I think that's a great assessment

No doubt Lennon was a musical genius and innovator, but as a person, he was a woman beating asshole who just couldn't keep his damn mouth shut. I'll listen to his music with admiration, however, I couldn't care less about his opinion about or on anything. He should have just created music and kept his mouth shut!

Artists are always a bit whacked.

His way to release was to do drugs and hit women, his work in the 70s was nothing close to his Beatles work. He doesn't even look like the same guy. He was aging hard and fast. People want to call him a tortured genius. Thats fine, but Lennon was far from a good human being. Sing about peace and love and act like you oldest son doesn't exist. The negative BS will go on, because its who he was.

When John quit the Beatles, he actually quit the Beatles. The other Beatles did the Beatles thing as solo acts. Paul continued writing Beatles songs as a solo act. George and Ringo did as well. But John's music changed profoundly after he quit the Beatles. His music had a stripped down, serious, anti-commercial quality. He wrote songs that he wanted, and that he knew would not be cute, fruity, commercial, and therefore, popular. Gone forever were the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Strawberry Fields Forever," and "Across the Universe" type pop ditties, that arguably were some of his best songs. He chose NOT to do this anymore, or not very much. When he accidentally wrote a Beatles song, he would give it to Ringo. He gave "I Am the Greatest," and "Goodnight Vienna" to Ringo, after all. In a sense, he quit being his old self, in the hope of being something better, as a new, Beatle-free self. Many of the songs on Imagine and Plastic Ono Band represent this change in John's anti-Beatle approach to music. You can take "Cold Turkey," "How Do You Sleep?," "Crippled Inside," "Mother," "I Found Out," and "Gimme Some Truth," as a few examples of this new approach to his song writing, once he had creatively and imaginatively left the Beatles for good. Surely his former fans were appalled by this change in his music, preferring the old John to the new John. That would be a short-sighted approach though. As caustic, cruel, brutal, and anti-commercial as these new songs were, they also represent some of the best writing in his career. But John was liberated by leaving the Beatles. You can see that being in the Beatles became a prison for all four of them?

That's utter nonsense. John's solo stuff was kickass! A lot of it wasn't 'Beatley', but it was fine, often profound music in its own 'write'. POB and Imagine are two of the best Beatle solo offerings. Along with All Things Must Pass and Band on the Run. Imho.

John's solo career rocked what are you talking about

@@andrewbell2712 I listen to all the songs you mentioned, but in the end I rather listen to Help, In My Life, and Come Together, or She's So Heavy.

John's solo stuff was far better than Paul's or George's