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Caption : KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
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Caption : GIRL. 🔴 That’s me! Writing about this dream girl again that hadn’t come yet. ‘Girl’ is real. There is no such thing as the girl; she was a dream, but the words are all right. It wasn’t just a song, and it was about that girl – that turned out to be Yoko in the end – the one that a lot of us were looking for. I never wrote about people except for myself. When Paul and I wrote lyrics in the old days we used to laugh about what Tin Pan Alley people would do. And we’d do it like an exercise. It was only later on that we started to try and match the lyrics to the tune. I like it. It was one of my best. It’s the one we say, ‘tit, tit, tit’ in. I was just talking about Christianity in that – a thing like you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I’m only saying that I was talking about ‘pain will lead to pleasure’ in ‘Girl’ and that was sort of the Catholic Christian concept – be tortured and then it’ll be all right, which seems to be a bit true but not in their concept of it. But I didn’t believe in that, that you have to be tortured to attain anything, it just so happens that you were. The song ‘Woman’ is the grown-up version of ‘Girl’ to me. GIRL. Is there anybody going to listen to my story All about the girl who came to stay She’s the kind of girl you want so much It makes you sorry Still you don’t regret a single day Ah girl Girl girl When I think of all the times I tried so hard to leave her She will turn to me and start to cry And she promises the earth to me And I believe her After all this time I don’t know why Ah girl Girl girl She’s the kind of girl who puts you down When friends are there you feel a fool When you say she’s looking good She acts as if it’s understood She’s cool ooh ooh ooh Ah girl Girl girl Was she told when she was young That pain would lead to pleasure Did she understand it when they said That a man must break his back To earn his day of leisure Will she still believe it when he’s dead Ah girl Girl girl
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Caption : I’M ONLY SLEEPING. Congratulations to The Beatles, director Em Cooper and producers Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin and Laura Thomas for winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Video, constructed from over 1,300 oil paintings.
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Caption : DON’T LET ME DOWN. Apple Corps offices rooftop, 3 Savile Row, London #onthisday 30 January 1969 When’s the last time you were on a rooftop and what were you up to?
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL!
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Caption : I’M ONLY SLEEPING. 🔴 That’s me. Dreaming my life away. It’s all backwards guitars too. When you’re on tour, you exist in this kind of vacuum all the time. It’s work, sleep, eat and work again. We work mad hours, really, but none of us would have it any other way. When I look back, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t in the business – it seems years to me, now. In Hamburg, you would only have two hours’ sleep, and then you’d have to wake up and take a pill, and it would be going on and on and on, since you didn’t get a day off; you’d just begin to go out of your mind with tiredness and you’d think you’d be glad to get out of there. But then you’d go back to Liverpool, and only remember the good fun you had in Hamburg, so you wouldn’t mind going back. What with playing, drinking and birds, how could we find time to sleep? I dream in colour, and it’s always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night. One recurrent dream, all through my life, was the flying bit. I’d always fly in time of danger. I remember it as a child, flying around, like swimming in the air. I’d be swimming round where I lived or somewhere I knew very well, usually. The other times in dreams I remember are nightmarish, where there’d be a giant horse or something and whenever it would get near to a danger point, I would fly away.
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Caption : I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY). 🔵 ‘She’s So Heavy’ was about Yoko. When it gets down to it, like she said, when you’re drowning you don’t say, ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream. And I just sang ‘I want you, I want you so bad, she’s so heavy,’ like that. It is pretty heavy. The ending, you know, because we used the Moog synthesizer on it. I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY). I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me mad I want you I want you so bad babe I want you I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me I want you I want you so bad babe I want you I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me mad I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me She’s so Heavy Heavy She’s so Heavy She’s so heavy I want you I want you so bad I want you I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me mad I want you You know I want you so bad babe I want you You know I want you so bad It’s driving me mad It’s driving me mad Yeah She’s so
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO! Please leave your birthday wishes for Yoko in the Comments. Make a wish on the ‘Wish Tree for Yoko’ at wishtreeforyokoono.com #happybirthdayyoko
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Caption : 💁🏻♂️ Any questions?
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Caption : HELP! 🔴 Yes. That’s mine. I wrote it. It was getting hard to be someone then. I was grossly overweight and needed help and only one critic/reviewer ever spotted it and it was Al Aronowitz in the New York Post. He said ‘Johnny’ or whatever he was calling me, ‘is crying out for help.’ And I didn’t realise that I was at the time. I was just writing a song for the movie. I wrote it ‘Bam! Bam!’ like that, and got the single. It was really getting weird then. The whole Beatles thing was just beyond comprehension and I was eating and drinking like a pig and I was fat as a pig, dissatisfied with myself and subconsciously crying for help. It was like the Fat Elvis period. You see the movie, he’s very fat, very insecure and completely loss of self. I’m singing about when I was younger and all the rest of it. Now the positive thing is, yes, yes, I’m very positive. I also go through deep depressions where I’d like to jump out the window, you know? I am an amazingly emotional person. It’s becoming easier to deal with as I get older and I realise, I try – I don’t know whether control is the right word – or I’ve grown up a little, or you calm down a little but the swings and the motion from ecstatic highs to suicidal depressions are actually physically and mentally wearing and I’ve always had it, all my life. I remember Maureen Cleave, a writer – the one who did the famous ‘We’re more popular than Jesus’ story in the Evening Standard – asked me, ‘Why don’t you ever write songs with more than one syllable?’ So in ‘Help!’ there are two- or three-syllable words and I very proudly showed them to her and she still didn’t like them. I was insecure then, and things like that happened more than once. I never considered it before. So after that I put a few words with three syllables in, but she didn’t think much of them when I played it to her, anyway. I don’t like the recording too much; we did it too fast, trying to be commercial… I might do ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Help!’ again, because I like them and I can sing them.
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Caption : REVOLUTION.🔵 You say you want a revolution, well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution, well you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don’t you know that you can count me out Read more about ‘Revolution’ → johnlennon.com
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Caption : I’M ONLY SLEEPING. Congratulations to The Beatles, director Em Cooper and producers Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin and Laura Thomas for winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Video, constructed from over 1,300 oil paintings.
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Caption : WOMAN. Woman I can hardly express My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness After all I’m forever in your debt
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter ‘I am he as you are he as we are all together’ and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children’s chant – ‘Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick’ – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ or putting all your faith in one idol. It was ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’, Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles’ work or anybody’s work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious.
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO! Power to Yoko! Peace to Yoko! Love to Yoko! from John. Feb 18 ‘71. JOHN AND YOKO FOREVER! #happybirthdayyoko
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOKO! Power to Yoko! Peace to Yoko! Love to Yoko! from John. Feb 18 ‘71. JOHN AND YOKO FOREVER! #happybirthdayyoko
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON. To celebrate John’s birthday today, October 9th, a new Deluxe and Expanded version of Imagine (The Ultimate Collection) is now available to stream and download, including the entire full-length collection of tracks (some previously only available on Blu-Ray) in Hi-Res Stereo and Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos. Rather than releasing all 78 tracks in one massive long playlist, each set of mixes (Ultimate, Elements, Evolution, Raw Studio and Out-Takes) is now being released as 5 separate albums, to be listened to and enjoyed in the way they were originally intended, as produced and curated by Yoko Ono Lennon. We’ll be doing the same with the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Ultimate Collection soon, and then releasing a brand new, completely remixed Mind Games (The Ultimate Collection) in the summer of 2024, featuring an incredible six albums worth of material, followed by even more surprises later in the year. We hope you enjoy Imagine and on John’s birthday make a wish on Yoko’s WISH TREE to send to the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER at wishtreeforyoko.com. Join us to watch IMAGINE PEACE TOWER @imaginepeacetower lighting up in Iceland today at imaginepeacetower.com. love, Yoko and Sean.
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Caption : Fishing from the window of a hotel room at the Edgewater Inn, Seattle, WA, 21 August 1964.
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Caption : OH MY LOVE (Elements Mix) This is the Elements Mix of ‘Oh My Love’ now available on streaming and downloads as part of a full album of Imagine Elements Mixes, sounding especially good in Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos. This mix features just John’s double-tracked vocals.
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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Caption : What songs would you like John to play you on his acoustic guitar?
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Caption : Cassette tape portrait of John Lennon by @alynncor
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO! @ringostarrmusic
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Caption : Photo: Allan Tannenbaum @soho_blues 1980
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Caption : KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
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Caption : KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
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Caption : HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY YOKO! Congratulations to Sean, Dave, Brad and all the team and many grateful thanks to @theacademy for The Academy Award for ‘WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko’ ✨
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Caption : A DAY IN THE LIFE. 🔵 It was a good piece of work between Paul and I. I had the ‘I read the news today’ – all that bit. And it turned him on, you know. Because now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of a song. It just sort of happened beautifully. And we arranged it and rehearsed it – which we don’t often do – the afternoon before, so we all knew what we were playing. And we just all got into it. And it was a real groove, you know, the whole scene, on that one. It had two stories. One was (Tara Brown) the Guinness child that killed himself in a car. That was the main headline story. And on the next page there were about four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. It was (written) in Kenwood, the house in the suburbs. I’m on the piano and the TV is going, over in the corner, flickering. And I was just looking for inspiration and I looked down. Do you know those kinds of sections they have in newspapers of top different things that happened? They had about four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire – a real story that the council had spent real money. The bulk of the song was written entirely by me. Paul’s contribution being that little beautiful little lick going into his song, ‘I’d love to turn you on’ – that melodic little piece there where it changes – is his contribution. It came to a where I needed a middle eight, but, you know, that would have been forcing it. All the rest had come out smooth, flowing, no trouble. And to write a middle eight would have been to write a middle eight. We got into ‘how about putting a whole different song’ which he already had – that had nothing to do with ‘A Day in the Life’ – which is all about being on the top of the bus in a barber chair. He sang that (middle) bit. He had that one little lick floating around in his head. He couldn’t use it for anything. He stuck it on. And putting those two together was a precursor to the Abbey Road (medley) style, later on.
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Caption : I’M ONLY SLEEPING. Congratulations to The Beatles, director Em Cooper and producers Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin and Laura Thomas for winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Video, constructed from over 1,300 oil paintings.
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Caption : Portrait by Jack Mitchell at his studio on E74th St., NYC, 2 Nov 1980. jackmitchell.com
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Caption : DIG A PONY. Apple Corps offices rooftop, 3 Savile Row, London #onthisday 30 January 1969 What does it all mean?
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Caption : NOW AND THEN. THE LAST BEATLES SONG. OUT 2 NOV 2023. #NowAndThen “Now And Then” is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later. On 2nd November, “Now And Then” will be released worldwide at 2pm GMT / 10am EDT / 7am PDT. Go to the link in our bio to preorder/presave “Now And Then” in a variety of digital, vinyl, and cassette editions, including Beatles Store exclusives. A 12 minute documentary film will debut on November 1 on The Beatles’ YouTube channel at 7:30pm GMT / 3:30pm EDT / 12:30pm PDT and tells the story behind the last Beatles song, with exclusive footage and commentary from John, Paul, Ringo, George, Sean Ono Lennon and Peter Jackson. On 10th November, The Beatles’ ‘1962-1966’ (The Red Album) and ‘1967-1970’ (The Blue Album) collections will be released in 2023 Edition packages with expanded tracklists. All the songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and new 4CD and 180g 6LP vinyl collections pair ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ in slipcased sets. Digital, CD, and vinyl available to pre-order/pre-save now, including some you’ll only find in The Beatles Store. @JohnLennon @PaulMcCartney @GeorgeHarrisonOfficial @RingoStarrMusic
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Caption : HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY YOKO! Congratulations to Sean, Dave, Brad and all the team and many grateful thanks to @theacademy for The Academy Award for ‘WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko’ ✨ #Oscars2024
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Caption : NOW AND THEN. #NowAndThen is now available to listen to worldwide! 🎧→ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼
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Caption : DAY TRIPPER. 🔴 That’s mine. Including the lick, the guitar, the whole bit. I think Paul helped me out with the verse. ‘Day Tripper’ was under complete pressure, based on an old folk song I wrote about the month previous. It was a very hard going, and it sounds it. It’s just a rock and roll song. It wasn’t a serious message song. It was a drug song. I just liked the word. ‘Day Trippers’ are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a boat, you know, a ferry boat or something. But it was kind of, you know, ‘you’re just a weekend hippie’. The real line in that was ‘she’s a prick teaser, she took me half the way there’. But we wrote ‘big teaser’ in the lyrics. ‘Paperback Writer’ is son of ‘Day Tripper’ – a rock ’n’ roll song with a guitar lick on a fuzzy, loud guitar – but is Paul’s song. Listen on Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/gb/album/day-tripper-2023-mix/1713066744?i=1713066902 DAY TRIPPER. Got a good reason For taking the easy way out Got a good reason For taking the easy way out now She was a day tripper One way ticket, yeah It took me so long to find out And I found out She’s a big teaser She took me half the way there She’s a big teaser She took me half the way there now She was a day tripper One way ticket yeah It took me so long to find out And I found out Tried to please her She only played one night stands Tried to please her She only played one night stands now She was a day tripper Sunday driver, yeah It took me so long to find out And I found out Day tripper yeah Day tripper yeah Day tripper Day tripper yeah Day tripper
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Caption : THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE VOTE. John: We are going to have an International Peace Vote. We’re asking everyone to vote for either Peace or War and to send in a coupon with their name and address. This is going to be done worldwide, through music papers initially and, when we’ve got about twenty million votes, we’re going to give them to the United States. It’s just another positive step. Ontario Science Center, 17 Dec 1969. What’s your vote? 🗳️ PEACE or WAR?
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Caption : What’s your favourite song from the early Beatles ‘black and white’ era? Photos: John Lennon making faces to Max Scheler in a break from filming ‘A Hard Days Night’ on a train between London Paddington and Minehead, UK, March 1964
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Caption : What’s your favourite song from the early Beatles ‘black and white’ era? Photos: John Lennon making faces to Max Scheler in a break from filming ‘A Hard Days Night’ on a train between London Paddington and Minehead, UK, March 1964
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Caption : What’s your favourite song from the early Beatles ‘black and white’ era? Photos: John Lennon making faces to Max Scheler in a break from filming ‘A Hard Days Night’ on a train between London Paddington and Minehead, UK, March 1964
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Caption : EXPANDED BLUE ALBUM 🔵 What’s your favourite tracks? 1. Strawberry Fields Forever | 2. Penny Lane | 3. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4. With A Little Help From My Friends | 5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | 6. A Day In The Life | 7. All You Need Is Love ¶ 8. I Am The Walrus * 9. Hello, Goodbye ¶ 10. The Fool On The Hill * 11. Magical Mystery Tour * 12. Lady Madonna * 13. Hey Jude ¶ 14. Revolution * 15. Back In The U.S.S.R. § 16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps § 17. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da § 18. Get Back ¶ 19. Don’t Let Me Down † 20. The Ballad Of John And Yoko ¶ 21. Old Brown Shoe * 22. Here Comes The Sun ‡ 23. Come Together ‡ 24. Something ‡ 25. Octopus’s Garden ‡ 26. Let It Be † 27. Across The Universe † 28. The Long And Winding Road † 29. Now And Then * 30. Blackbird § 31. Dear Prudence § 32. Glass Onion § 33. Within You Without You | 34. Hey Bulldog * 35. Oh! Darling ‡ 36. I Me Mine † 37. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) ‡ * 2023 Mix † 2021 Mix ‡ 2019 Mix § 2018 Mix | 2017 Mix ¶ 2015 Mix EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 🔴🔵 → https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/RedAndBlue2023 On 10th November, The Beatles’ ‘1962-1966’ (The Red Album) and ‘1967-1970’ (The Blue Album) collections will be released in 2023 Edition packages with expanded tracklists. All the songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and new 4CD and 180g 6LP vinyl collections pair ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ in slipcased sets. Digital, CD, and vinyl available to pre-order/pre-save now, including some you’ll only find in The Beatles Store.
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Caption : NOW AND THEN. #NowAndThen is now available to listen to worldwide! 🎧→ 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼
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Caption : Portrait by Jack Mitchell at his studio on E74th St., NYC, 2 Nov 1980. jackmitchell.com
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Caption : (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER. But when I see you darlin’ It’s like we both are fallin’ in love again It’ll be just like starting over
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Caption : Portrait by Jack Mitchell at his studio on E74th St., NYC, 2 Nov 1980. jackmitchell.com
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Caption : BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KITE. John is playing bass harmonica and George is on chord harmonica. 🎧 → Listen To This John Lennon Harp & Harmonica Playlist (→ link in bio).
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Caption : THE BEATLES. What’s your favourite track from ‘The White Album’?
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Caption : GIVE PEACE A CHANCE & REMEMBER LOVE. @yokoono & @sean_ono_lennon in association with @abbeyroadstudios and @umrecordings donate Ltd Edition acetates to 50 charities, non-profits & care organisations for them to raise money for Peace and Love this holiday season: @actionaiduk @afhcharity @allianceformiddleeastpeace @americanredcross @americares @amnesty @aneraorg @beyondconflictcharity @britishredcross @britukraid @thecartercenter @centrepointuk @chooselove @concernworldwideuk @directrelief @disastersemergencycommittee @doctorswithoutborders @globalpeacefoundation @hopeforhaiti @humanaidadvocacy @icrc @internationalmedicalcorpsuk @ipinst @rescueorg @mercycorps @mindcharity @minesadvisorygroup @novaukraine @nspcc_official @oxfamgb @thepcrf @peacedirect @peaceoneday_official @projecthopeorg @refugecharity @refugeesintl @sffny @salvationarmyuk @savechildrenuk @unrwa @refugees @uk_med @unfpa @unicef @warchilduk @warchildusa @whyhungerpix @womenforwomenuk @worldfoodprogramme @worldvisionuk In a note accompanying each record, Sean Ono Lennon says: ‘Happy Holidays. To raise the spirit of Peace and Love this December, here is one of only fifty Limited Edition acetates that have been hand-cut at Abbey Road. It’s yours – to sell, auction, raise money to help your charity or to fund your Xmas party – to GIVE PEACE A CHANCE and REMEMBER LOVE. The 50 double-sided 12” acetates were individually hand-cut on the lathe at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Sean Magee. These rare vinyl acetates are the latest ‘Ultimate Mixes’, produced by Sean Ono Lennon, mixed by Paul Hicks, engineered by Sam Gannon and executive produced by Yoko Ono Lennon. Each edition is stickered and numbered out of 50 and includes a machine-printed signature from Yoko Ono Lennon, making them incredibly collectable. #givepeaceachance #rememberlove Find out more at johnlennon.com
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Caption : 💁🏻♂️ With the new year just around the corner, what would you like to see more of on the John Lennon Instagram in 2024? Let us know!
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Caption : 💁🏻♂️ What are your most treasured John Lennon items and why?
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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Caption : HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER). Yoko and I wrote it together. It says it: ‘War is over – if you want it.’ Because it was still that same message: the idea that somebody is either going to give us power or [has] taken our power or has made us go to war or not made you go to war. Or the President did this to us. We are just as responsible as the man who presses the button. It’s that idea of ‘god in the sky’ is a separate thing, you know? It’s all that separation. It’s all the same thing – nationalities, religions, authority – it’s all the same garbage. As long as people imagine that it’s something people are doing to them, they have no control. The people have the power. We must try an make them aware of this. You can stop everything by stopping – slowing the whole place down – giving people time to think.
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Caption : LEON WILDES RIP. On behalf of John, Yoko, Sean, Julian, Kyoko and the whole extended Lennon family, we mourn the loss of our dear friend Leon Wildes, and send our love and prayers to his family and friends. Attorney Leon Wildes represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1972 through 1976 and, in a landmark case, secured lawful permanent residence for them, despite much contrary legal authority, Lennon v. United States 527 F. 2nd 187 (1975).
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Caption : LEON WILDES RIP. On behalf of John, Yoko, Sean, Julian, Kyoko and the whole extended Lennon family, we mourn the loss of our dear friend Leon Wildes, and send our love and prayers to his family and friends. Attorney Leon Wildes represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1972 through 1976 and, in a landmark case, secured lawful permanent residence for them, despite much contrary legal authority, Lennon v. United States 527 F. 2nd 187 (1975).
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Caption : LEON WILDES RIP. On behalf of John, Yoko, Sean, Julian, Kyoko and the whole extended Lennon family, we mourn the loss of our dear friend Leon Wildes, and send our love and prayers to his family and friends. Attorney Leon Wildes represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1972 through 1976 and, in a landmark case, secured lawful permanent residence for them, despite much contrary legal authority, Lennon v. United States 527 F. 2nd 187 (1975).
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Caption : Happy Birthday Julia Lennon ♥️
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Caption : I’VE GOT A FEELING / EVERYBODY HAD A HARD YEAR. Apple Corps offices rooftop, 3 Savile Row, London #onthisday 30 January 1969 Have you ever been to visit 3 Savile Row? If you could go back in time and be at the Apple/Bag One offices in 1968/9, what events would you like to be there for, and what would you most like to do?
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Caption : EXPANDED RED ALBUM 🔴 What’s your favourite tracks? 1. Love Me Do * 2. Please Please Me * 3. From Me To You * 4. She Loves You * 5. I Want To Hold Your Hand * 6. All My Loving * 7. Can’t Buy Me Love * 8. A Hard Day’s Night * 9. And I Love Her * 10. Eight Days A Week * 11. I Feel Fine * 12. Ticket To Ride * 13. Yesterday * 14. Help! * 15. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away * 16. We Can Work It Out * 17. Day Tripper * 18. Drive My Car * 19. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * 20. Nowhere Man * 21. Michelle * 22. In My Life * 23. Girl * 24. Paperback Writer † 25. Eleanor Rigby † 26. Yellow Submarine † 27. I Saw Her Standing There * 28. Twist And Shout * 29. This Boy * 30. Roll Over Beethoven * 31. You Really Got A Hold On Me * 32. You Can’t Do That * 33. If I Needed Someone * 34. Got To Get You Into My Life † 35. I’m Only Sleeping † 36. Taxman † 37. Here, There And Everywhere † 38. Tomorrow Never Knows † * 2023 mix † 2022 mix EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 🔴🔵 → https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/RedAndBlue2023 On 10th November, The Beatles’ ‘1962-1966’ (The Red Album) and ‘1967-1970’ (The Blue Album) collections will be released in 2023 Edition packages with expanded tracklists. All the songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and new 4CD and 180g 6LP vinyl collections pair ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ in slipcased sets. Digital, CD, and vinyl available to pre-order/pre-save now, including some you’ll only find in The Beatles Store.
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Caption : NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN). 🔴 ‘Norwegian Wood’ is my song completely. It was about a little affair I’d been having. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife Cyn to know that there really was something going on outside of the household, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smokescreen way that you couldn’t tell whether it was real or it was another Beatle story. I don’t know how I got to ‘Norwegian Wood’ – the actual title. It was the first sitar used on a pop record and I specifically asked George to play the sitar on the record. NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN). I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room Isn’t it good Norwegian wood She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn’t a chair I sat on a rug Biding my time drinking her wine We talked until two And then she said, ‘It’s time for bed’ She told me she worked in the morning And started to laugh I told her I didn’t And crawled off to sleep in the bath And when I awoke I was alone This bird had flown So I lit a fire isn’t it good Norwegian wood
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Caption : KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
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Caption : KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
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Caption : 🏆 Beatlemania is BACK 🏆 The Beatles claim 18th Official Number 1 single – and break UK Official Chart records in the process ✨@officialcharts
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Caption : THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO. It’s just the story of us getting married, going to Paris, going to Amsterdam, all that. It was very romantic. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn’t find a white suit – I had sort-of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on. I wrote that in Paris on our honeymoon. It’s a piece of journalism. It’s a folk song. That’s why I called it ‘The Ballad Of…’ Recorded by @JohnLennon & @PaulMcCartney #onthisday 14 April 1969 at @abbeyroadstudios.
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Caption : THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO. It’s just the story of us getting married, going to Paris, going to Amsterdam, all that. It was very romantic. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn’t find a white suit – I had sort-of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on. I wrote that in Paris on our honeymoon. It’s a piece of journalism. It’s a folk song. That’s why I called it ‘The Ballad Of…’ Recorded by @JohnLennon & @PaulMcCartney #onthisday 14 April 1969 at @AbbeyRoadStudios.
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Caption : MAD DAY OUT. Photographer Don McCullin: It was quiet and they came to the Sunday Times building on Gray’s Inn Road. At the top of the building was a photo studio that had been created by Tony Snowdon. There was no agenda except they wanted to give Life magazine a cover picture, which I photographed in colour. I used Ektachrome, and Ringo’s chrome yellow shirt jumped out of the blue of his suit. I turned on the wind machine… The wind machine was throwing their hair around and their famous faces looked like the figures on Mount Rushmore. To my amazement it worked and we got a beautiful cover. Thinking back on it, Life used to pay five hundred quid for a cover so maybe I actually lost out on it, but I was thrilled. #onthisday 28 July 1968
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Caption : IN HIS OWN WRITE. The Wrestling Dog Once upon a tom in a far off distant land far across the sea miles away from anyway over the hills as the crow barks 39 people lived miles away from anywhere on a little island on a distant land. When harvest time came along all the people celebrated with a mighty feast and dancing and that. It was Perry’s (for Perry was the Loud Mayor) job to provide (and Perry’s great pleasure I might add) a new and exciting (and it usually was) thrill and spectacular performer (sometimes a dwarf was used), this year Perry had surpassed himselve by getting a Wrestling Dog! But who would fight this wonderous beast? I wouldn’t for a kick off. John’s first book, ‘In His Own Write’ was published #onthisday 23 March 1964
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Caption : IN HIS OWN WRITE. The Wrestling Dog Once upon a tom in a far off distant land far across the sea miles away from anyway over the hills as the crow barks 39 people lived miles away from anywhere on a little island on a distant land. When harvest time came along all the people celebrated with a mighty feast and dancing and that. It was Perry’s (for Perry was the Loud Mayor) job to provide (and Perry’s great pleasure I might add) a new and exciting (and it usually was) thrill and spectacular performer (sometimes a dwarf was used), this year Perry had surpassed himselve by getting a Wrestling Dog! But who would fight this wonderous beast? I wouldn’t for a kick off. John’s first book, ‘In His Own Write’ was published #onthisday 23 March 1964
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Caption : IN HIS OWN WRITE. The Wrestling Dog Once upon a tom in a far off distant land far across the sea miles away from anyway over the hills as the crow barks 39 people lived miles away from anywhere on a little island on a distant land. When harvest time came along all the people celebrated with a mighty feast and dancing and that. It was Perry’s (for Perry was the Loud Mayor) job to provide (and Perry’s great pleasure I might add) a new and exciting (and it usually was) thrill and spectacular performer (sometimes a dwarf was used), this year Perry had surpassed himselve by getting a Wrestling Dog! But who would fight this wonderous beast? I wouldn’t for a kick off. John’s first book, ‘In His Own Write’ was published #onthisday 23 March 1964
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Caption : THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Starting Feb 9, The Beatles Channel (Ch. 18) on @SIRIUSXM is celebrating the 60th anniversary of @TheBeatles’ first U.S. visit with special programming all weekend long. Hear airings of their full performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, new episodes of The Beatles Channel shows The Big Bang, Fab Fourum, Across the Universe, and Way Beyond Compare, special stories from celebrity guests, and more. https://blog.siriusxm.com/beatles-first-us-visit-anniversary
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Caption : BEAUTIFUL BOY (DARLING BOY). Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful boy Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful boy Before you go to sleep say a little prayer: ‘Every day in every way it’s getting better and better’
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Caption : HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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Caption : Nothing’s gonna change my world…
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Caption : ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. 🔵 It’s one of the best lyrics I’ve written. In fact, it could be the best. It’s good poetry, or whatever you call it, without chewing it. See, the ones I like are the ones that stand as words without melody. They don’t have to have any melody, like a poem you can read them. I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was irritated. She must have been going on and on about something and she’d gone to sleep and I’d kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream. I went downstairs and it turned into sort of a cosmic song rather than an irritated song, rather than a, ‘Why are you always mouthing off at me?’ or whatever, right? But the words stand, luckily, by themselves. They were purely inspirational and were given to me as ‘boom!’ I don’t own it, you know; it came through like that. I don’t know where it came from, what meter it’s in, and I’ve sat down and looked at it and said, ‘Can I write another one with this meter?’ It’s so interesting: ‘Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass they slip away across the universe.’ Such an extraordinary meter and I can never repeat it! It’s not a matter of craftsmanship, it wrote itself. It drove me out of bed. I didn’t want to write it, I was just slightly irritable and I went downstairs and I couldn’t get to sleep until I put it on paper, and then I went to sleep. It’s like being possessed, like a psychic or a medium. The thing has to go down. It won’t let you sleep, so you have to get up, make it into something, and then you’re allowed to sleep. That’s always in the middle of the bloody night, when you’re half awake or tired and your critical facilities are switched off.
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Caption : John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Mind Games New @thamesandhudson book → June 2024. Told in revelatory detail, this is the definitive exploration of the writing, recording and release of John Lennon’s celebrated fourth solo album, Mind Games. See johnlennon.com for more details.
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Caption : October 9th is John’s birthday. Thinking about him it makes me sad. The two of us have shared so many unforgetable experiences e.g. our concert in Toronto 69. When John called me to join his new band, I didn’t know that our first concert as the Plastic Ono Band was supposed to be in Toronto the next day. When I asked him how we were going to rehearse in this short time, he said: “No problem, we’ll have at least 8 hours to rehearse.” I answered: “But the flight to Toronto takes 8 hours?” John answered: “That’s exactly what I mean.” Graphic motif also available as art print AP 73 in the KV store. #johnlennon #klausvoormann #voormann #thebeatles #beatles #plasticonoband
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Caption : HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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Caption : HEY JUDE. ‘Hey Jude’ is Paul’s. It’s one of his masterpieces. He said it was written about Julian, my child. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to visit me or Julian. I think it was just to see Julian to say ‘hi’ to him, because he’d been like an uncle, you know, he was always good with kids. And he came up with ‘Hey Jude’. But I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it, Yoko’s just come into the picture, he’s saying ‘Hey Jude / Hey John’. I mean, so I’m sounding like one of those fans that’s writing things into it. But you can hear it as a song to me. Although it’s also a song about him and Franny Schwartz at the time, too. But you hear the lines ‘on your shoulder’ and all those things I always took personally because I was the one with a chip on my shoulder. And ‘go out and get her’ and forget everything else. So subconsciously I take it that he was saying, ‘go ahead’. On a conscious level he didn’t want me to go ahead. Subconsciously the angel in him was saying, ‘bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude don’t be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better And anytime you feel the pain hey Jude refrain Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder Hey Jude don’t let me down You have found her now go and get her Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better So let it out and let it in hey Jude begin You’re waiting for someone to perform with And don’t you know that it’s just you Hey Jude, you’ll do The movement you need is on your shoulder Hey Jude, don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better better better better better oh Na na na na na na na, na na na na Hey Jude
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