Maybe more of a quack then a con man? ... but it could be both as well. We can't get into his head to confirm. The Maharishi certainly was a con as they all eventually realized and GTFO of there.
As a person who has experimented with psychoactive drugs myself, and recommends intelligent people to do so (under pre controlled and guided circumstances) I feel Lennon's willingness to indulge Alex would not have been a factor without the influence of LSD🤣😂🤣🤣
@@stevenfunderburg1623 Lol. That may be true. It's so weird, though -- you'd think he/they would pick up the bad vibes better with acid. I assume he did have a bad "aura" about him. P.S. I make a point of never outright recommending such things to anyone, preetty powerful stuff. Sounds like you're careful about it anyway.
Just marveling at the pace of change and development in the 60s. The Sgt. Pepper album literally shook the music world at every level of brow. It would be understandable that an artist might be a bit daunted about what to follow up that kind of monumental success with. It took Fleetwood Mac 2 1/2 years to follow up Rumors, The Eagles took nearly 3 to follow Hotel California, and Stevie Wonder over 3 years to follow Songs in the Key of Life. And yet the Beatles just toss out the MMT project within about 6 months of Peppers release.
@@stuartwray6175 The phrases "lowbrow", "middlebrow", and "highbrow" have generally fallen out of fashion in these postmodern times with those lines being blurred. That was actually taken from a quote back then but I can't remember by who, that around the time of Pepper The Beatles appealed to every level of brow, ie the teenybopper's, the educated middle class, and the elite intellectual crowd.
@@Willowdog08what a terrible opinion. Plus, why would the universal enjoyment of something as harmless as that be a shame? You're a useless, bitter person. Wallow in your negativity alone.
Sheesh. All this time I thought "mystery tour" was just a name the Beatles came up with. I never knew until right now that that's a British term for school kids taking surprise field trips.
@@nolcrayus WWWHHHAAAATTTTTT!!!! Perhaps. I'm still waiting for the magic chip that get implanted in you brain. Connecting the Neurons directly instead of a smartphone. Magic Alex should of invented it by now.
@georgelucas2571 - I think Jar Jar was a grifter. I mean, he had absolutely no business being in the Galactic Senate. Ridiculous! Of course, Jar Jar was never one of John Lennon's gurus, so I may be just a tad off-topic. 🤷🏻♂️
John loved Yoko and despite her issues I really believe she saved John who was pretty messed up. Before his senseless demise caused by a nutcase he was on the right track and seemingly becoming content.. something that took him until 40 years old to achieve. Not sure what would have been if not for Yoko but it's hard to imagine. But he certainly was not happy even with his great success.
@@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 - Agree. I’ve got no problem with Yoko. At least, I don’t know enough about the John-Yoko relationship dynamic to have a well-informed opinion about her.
Agreed! Most US' older adolescents and those in their 20s were not part of the counter culture during the 1960s. Far more were involved in the Vietnam antiwar movement and the growing Black, Brown and women's civil rights movements. We owe a lot to these activists who stood against government repression and a national culture that had closed its eyes to continuing discrimination of people of color and women, as well as gays. Many of us began to question the status quo bc of these movements and the nation benefitted from the increased patriotic criticism of practices that conflicted w/ the greatest ideals stated in the Dec of Independence and the US Constitution.
@@mattscanlon2541hippies were all of those things you claim were not part of the hippies . Also most young people supported the war and were racist. Most young people mimic their parents. Always a minority that rebel.
The war became less popular when more white boys came home in body bags and the nation learned more of the lies perpetrated by diff prez administrations.
6:10 "Wallpaper speakers". Sounds like something out of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. "Wallpaper speakers appear on the shore, coming to take you awaaaaaaay..." 🎵🎵🎵🎵
It’s funny how even to this day, people tend to put all the blame on Paul for the end of the Beatles. McCartney’s not the easiest person to work with (ask Harrison and Ringo) but almost all the big factors that led to the break up were all because of John Lennon’s foolishness. Forcing Yoko on the band and the engineers, believing Magic Alex’s bs, getting hooked on heroin, and getting the band involved with Alan Klein and Phil Spector etc…
In my experience most people rather blame Yoko (that is to say Lennon, if we’re being honest) and credit McCartney for keeping the band going post-1966. Which I think is fair.
It would certainly appear that way, and he obviously carries a good deal of blame, but in his defense, george and ringo still came around and made music with lennon after the break up
Who cares? No one is perfect and brilliant people generally less so. But sure you and your ilk can point out all the "flaws" from your banal insignificant lives.
@CosmicMapping - But they paid him the equivalent of like 5 million dollars in today's money to invent a bunch of implausible recording equipment for Apple Studios! They must have kind of believed in him--although, I think it was mostly John and George that made that happen. Pretty sure Paul was at least suspicious, and I suspect that Ringo was too.
@@bobbystereo936 George invited them to visit Apple HQ if they were ever in London. They showed up a couple of months later, just in time for the office Christmas party, and it didn't take long for all hell to break loose. On top of disrupting the party and getting into a fight over the food, they ended up staying there for a few days until George demanded that they leave.
Another fantastic Video👍👍 -Magic Alex was a total Bull Sh*t artist, a charlatan, He had this rasputin type of personality that had a strange effect on The Beatles.
Nah they knew he was full of it you can see them making fun of him and his inventions behind his back in the get back documentary lmao the only one who really took him seriously was John.
@@StudioMargalima Reminds me of the old saying about the US/UK: "Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long distance." For me, driving down to Monterey from SF was the maximum distance for a day trip.
That's a bit of a stretch mate. The band leader jackets are a natural extension of the original Sgt. Pepper's idea, which had nothing to do with Hendrix
These mini documentaries collectively are better than the anthology. He anthology is great but this is the real stuff we want to know that would never be approved by Apple Corp. Well done
The Beatles were amazing singers, musicians, and songwriters - but completely lost spiritually, which ultimately is ALL that matters. Many of us found Jesus Christ - and everything we'd been searching for. The Beatles, for all their creativity - found NOTHING. All these years later - I STILL love The Beatles music - but, in the end - what a tragic waste of 4 gifted lives.
This movement so desperately needed organization, the ideas were beautiful and aspiring but without meaningful organization it just became a big drug party. Now since it failed once we’ve completely backslid into an individualist dystopia. We missed such an amazing opportunity.
Thank you Film Retrospective, for following through on your promise to follow up on the Magic Alex storyline. I actually resisted the urge to Google it for a week and you made it worth my while, well done 🤘
I love that around 13:08 you almost let out a chucke talking about Alex lmao, he was such a wackjob, I didn't know he was involved to SUCH extent with The Beatles, I thought he just wanted to build them a studio.
It’s an interesting study to see what happens when you have a generation of kids so spoiled and entitled. You get the Boomers; fake love, drugs, greed, selfishness, and narcissism
Not only was Lennon abusive with big anger and drug problems, but he was gullible and easily conned. The other 3 should have put him on probation as soon as Magic Alex showed up. Incidentally, Lennon did more damage with his nonsense than Paul or the other 2 put together. (After I wrote this I imagined Mick and Keith getting a sales pitch from Magic Alex. For some reason I have to think that they would have ridiculed him mercilessly and thrown him out. But maybe they hired him too?)
scrambaba - Awwww poor baby. This isn't a management company and you honestly have no clue what you're talking about. A bunch of wasted emotion on people you never knew and will never know. Judgemental, faux-pious holier than thou and most of all - BORING. Sorry the PR on Lennon does not pan out for you like it does with your favorite milquetoast band (Hall and Oates? Backstreet Boys? Partridge Family?) - tosser.
All true but it was Johns band so all the good to come from it as well goes to his credit. He was just tired of being married to Paul and the Beatles and preferred to be married to Yoko instead... but none of this was directly Yoko's fault. George and Ringo were getting over it too. As did eventually Paul who did want to keep it together but it was not possible by that time between management issues and them getting along together when they really wanted solo projects.
The only thing to know here is that you're completely biased against Lennon (that's all you've written so don't bother changing your story) and are judging a person that had conservatively a million times more talent than you and gave an incredible gift of music to the world, which from everything you've written you have zero appreciation for and only disdain and gossipy drivel. You draw your own conclusions "from the record" and they're driven by your judgmentally biased stamp (ie "he fell for Yoko's artistic philosophy", etc), which is blatantly obvious. And your motive for all this? Other than your childishly thriving on vindictiveness, I have no idea and don't really care. Have the life you deserve. We're done here.
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh That’s not true. There are few contemporary cultural figures about whom there is such a huge amount of information available. It is not hard to draw reasonable conclusions from the record. With Magic Alex it is irrefutable that John was his champion, even though he was a crazy moron. John also brought in the embezzling crooked thief Allan Klein. John also decided he hated the Maharishi and swallowed the defamatory and false accusation that he tried to seduce one of the Beatles entourage hook, line and sinker. And he fell for Yoko’s artistic philosophy, which achieved very minor fame on its own. John thought it was the most profound art ever made.
It seems amazing how each Beatles album that followed 1967 was so absolutely great, despite the discord, misguidance, drug abuse, and manipulation of such hangers-on
Magic Alex reminds me of many 'dudes' I knew back in "the day" (the 60s & 70s) highly unreliable and untrustworthy. And i got that vibe BEFORE the narrator filled us in on the real Alex. He saw a niche for himself and exploited it to the max.
I was born in 1959, and I'm a huge Beatles fan... BUT, I have yet to listen to John and Yoko's record. I believed everyone else when I was told how terrible it is.
I think Paul gets kind of a bum rap for the MMT movie. The styling was ahead of it's time actually. MTV did similar stuff decades later. And the colors were critical to the visuals yet the BBC first aired it in black and white. Face palm. Granted is comes off as a bit confusing and plotless I still enjoy it and as a bonus it got a great soundtrack.
most of the stuff that magic Alex talked about inventing is being used everyday now. a few in a roundabout way. we talk to our phones and other systems like Siri and alexa. LSD was a fantastic way to learn about things.
Magic Alex said make a 🌞 that shines at night?? A better studio 🎙 Forest Gump would be embarrassed by Magic Alex's lies and promises 😂 how to waste money and be naive in hands of a crooked.
Maybe in theory a hippy lifestyle can be a good thing but in realty groups of kids on drugs never pans out well. The good thing that came out of it was the music but the lifestyle was short lived once most realized it sucked being broke.
I seriously doubt Lennon disliked Pauls press @ LSD.Hippies: not all praise drugs, okay. Some, are into peace/joy/nature/creativity/freedom from artificial. Blackbird, Dr Prudence, HelterSkelter, While My Guitar Gently, +23 massive tunez; not a come down at all.
Very cool, there's even an early cameo from the Paul imitator who we thought had only appeared after Abbey Road rumors that he was dead. At 14:28 the under rehearsed Paul replacement was unwittingly captured on film playing right handed. Albeit on an upside down Left handed guitar. What will the freaks make of that?
Say what? Just because someone is a lefty doesn't mean they won't play right instruments ever. But Paul never performed live or on any released recording not using his lefty basses or guitars. Ever. Of course there are some who can't get over this 50+ year old obvious hoax so they are still looking for clues lol.
Through no thanks to his talents whatsoever. Flying cars were envisioned in the '50s. When we get them in 2082, we won't be giving credit to the visionaries of the '50s, will we?
Hendrix performed the Sgt. Pepper’s tune live about two days after it was released guy. Floyd recorded next door to the Beatles and inspiration probably went both ways between them.
That's such a load of bs lol. Sgt. Pepper's was a gargantuan seller - the biggest of the year - and the defacto boundary pushing rock/pop album of the year. A massive inspiration to multiple artists you just mentioned. You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown what does sales have to do with anything? my guess is e.g. motley crue outsold talking heads but that hardly means the former is better or more influential than the latter. sgt peppers may have been innovative wrt production but musically it's really not all that substantial, and as bowie has pointed out in an interview, bands such as velvet underground have had much more influence on contemporary music than the beatles.
@@alanh7247 one of the hip dudes you mentioned instantly covered a Beatles track from 1967, do you not get the logic? How passé can they reasonably have been following your own logic? To use the word logic once more, your logic is disjointed and not really logical, it's illogical. Lolsz
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It is unsurprising that Magic Alex disliked the Maharishi. A con man knows another con man when he sees one. Alex was just defending his turf.
My thoughts exactly lol
He wasn’t really a con man, he was just a man with confidence who could play tricks on people, and scam them
@@CantTellYouYou realize you just defined a con man? 😅
Maybe more of a quack then a con man? ... but it could be both as well. We can't get into his head to confirm. The Maharishi certainly was a con as they all eventually realized and GTFO of there.
Magic Alex was such a grifter. What a ridiculous person
Yep. Emblematic of the shallowness and sinister undertones of the time.
@@Vingulsounds like a character in a Monty Python sketch
His daddy helped put in greek military in 1967
As a person who has experimented with psychoactive drugs myself, and recommends intelligent people to do so (under pre controlled and guided circumstances) I feel Lennon's willingness to indulge Alex would not have been a factor without the influence of LSD🤣😂🤣🤣
@@stevenfunderburg1623 Lol. That may be true. It's so weird, though -- you'd think he/they would pick up the bad vibes better with acid. I assume he did have a bad "aura" about him.
P.S. I make a point of never outright recommending such things to anyone, preetty powerful stuff. Sounds like you're careful about it anyway.
Just marveling at the pace of change and development in the 60s. The Sgt. Pepper album literally shook the music world at every level of brow. It would be understandable that an artist might be a bit daunted about what to follow up that kind of monumental success with. It took Fleetwood Mac 2 1/2 years to follow up Rumors, The Eagles took nearly 3 to follow Hotel California, and Stevie Wonder over 3 years to follow Songs in the Key of Life. And yet the Beatles just toss out the MMT project within about 6 months of Peppers release.
It is incredible...Like Bowie in the 1970s.
At every level of 'brow'?
@@stuartwray6175 The phrases "lowbrow", "middlebrow", and "highbrow" have generally fallen out of fashion in these postmodern times with those lines being blurred. That was actually taken from a quote back then but I can't remember by who, that around the time of Pepper The Beatles appealed to every level of brow, ie the teenybopper's, the educated middle class, and the elite intellectual crowd.
It’s a shame because it’s mostly crap.
@@Willowdog08what a terrible opinion. Plus, why would the universal enjoyment of something as harmless as that be a shame?
You're a useless, bitter person. Wallow in your negativity alone.
Sheesh. All this time I thought "mystery tour" was just a name the Beatles came up with. I never knew until right now that that's a British term for school kids taking surprise field trips.
Did you know helter skelter is the British name for a tornado slide?
If john was blown away by a box with lights, imagine his reaction to a smart phone.
He would be on (Twitter) X all the time
The smart phone evolved over time. it didn't just drop from outer space.
@@kabiamWhat!!!!??!!
@@erniericardo8140 He would be a great shitposter
@@nolcrayus WWWHHHAAAATTTTTT!!!! Perhaps. I'm still waiting for the magic chip that get implanted in you brain. Connecting the Neurons directly instead of a smartphone. Magic Alex should of invented it by now.
John was never the best judge of character once the Beatles got famous, hanging around with grifters like Magic Alex and Allan Klein.
Also Yoko
@georgelucas2571 - I think Jar Jar was a grifter. I mean, he had absolutely no business being in the Galactic Senate. Ridiculous!
Of course, Jar Jar was never one of John Lennon's gurus, so I may be just a tad off-topic. 🤷🏻♂️
@@BugRib Yoko was about half as talented and productive as Jar Jar but you could always draw a parallel.
John loved Yoko and despite her issues I really believe she saved John who was pretty messed up. Before his senseless demise caused by a nutcase he was on the right track and seemingly becoming content.. something that took him until 40 years old to achieve. Not sure what would have been if not for Yoko but it's hard to imagine. But he certainly was not happy even with his great success.
@@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 - Agree. I’ve got no problem with Yoko.
At least, I don’t know enough about the John-Yoko relationship dynamic to have a well-informed opinion about her.
The media was obsessed with hippies in the sixties… the vast majority of young people were not hippies
Agreed! Most US' older adolescents and those in their 20s were not part of the counter culture during the 1960s. Far more were involved in the Vietnam antiwar movement and the growing Black, Brown and women's civil rights movements. We owe a lot to these activists who stood against government repression and a national culture that had closed its eyes to continuing discrimination of people of color and women, as well as gays. Many of us began to question the status quo bc of these movements and the nation benefitted from the increased patriotic criticism
of practices that conflicted w/ the greatest ideals stated in the Dec of Independence and the US Constitution.
@@mattscanlon2541hippies were all of those things you claim were not part of the hippies . Also most young people supported the war and were racist. Most young people mimic their parents. Always a minority that rebel.
Its always been a minority in the US that try to raise others’ consciousness vs. racism and mindless nationalism. We still have a long struggle ahead.
The war became less popular when more white boys came home in body bags and the nation learned more of the lies perpetrated by diff prez administrations.
Magic Alex, Gurus, Maharshi, etc ... what a bunch of grifters.
you forgot Yoko
6:10 "Wallpaper speakers".
Sounds like something out of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
"Wallpaper speakers appear on the shore, coming to take you awaaaaaaay..." 🎵🎵🎵🎵
Well done!
Or maybe "Wallpaer speakers...climbing up the Eiffel Tower..."
It’s funny how even to this day, people tend to put all the blame on Paul for the end of the Beatles. McCartney’s not the easiest person to work with (ask Harrison and Ringo) but almost all the big factors that led to the break up were all because of John Lennon’s foolishness. Forcing Yoko on the band and the engineers, believing Magic Alex’s bs, getting hooked on heroin, and getting the band involved with Alan Klein and Phil Spector etc…
In my experience most people rather blame Yoko (that is to say Lennon, if we’re being honest) and credit McCartney for keeping the band going post-1966. Which I think is fair.
It would certainly appear that way, and he obviously carries a good deal of blame, but in his defense, george and ringo still came around and made music with lennon after the break up
Who cares? No one is perfect and brilliant people generally less so. But sure you and your ilk can point out all the "flaws" from your banal insignificant lives.
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh In their mummies basement! :)
@@TheCliffandPhilShow Yes absolutely, and whilst chewing on their blankies and crying themselves to sleep ... ;-)
Hilarious how everything that was wrong with America back in 1967 was blamed on LSD ...😉😆😅😂
By people who never tried it.
Magic Alex… cracks me up that they thought he was legit
right? it amazes me the gullibility... haha.
he's amazing, this guy, right, he can do ANYTHING! Really he can.
I think they always knew lmao. Their relationship gave big “keeping this guy around cause he’s hilarious” vibes.
after taking over, Paul had to give John something
@CosmicMapping - But they paid him the equivalent of like 5 million dollars in today's money to invent a bunch of implausible recording equipment for Apple Studios!
They must have kind of believed in him--although, I think it was mostly John and George that made that happen. Pretty sure Paul was at least suspicious, and I suspect that Ringo was too.
Never trust a hippie
😂
Dance with them instead
Most are probably conservative Trump supporters now lol. Or at least centrists.
Forget the Beatles, where’s our movie on Magic Alex? 😂
Yes he did well for a television repair man 😂
Wouldn't he make for a fascinating character to explore on film?
He also forgot the Hells Angels story when George met them in San Francisco.
@@bobbystereo936 George invited them to visit Apple HQ if they were ever in London. They showed up a couple of months later, just in time for the office Christmas party, and it didn't take long for all hell to break loose. On top of disrupting the party and getting into a fight over the food, they ended up staying there for a few days until George demanded that they leave.
@@bobbystereo936 I don’t think he covers the same anecdotes twice
You left out the George Harrison Hells Angels story when he went to San Francisco.
'Magical Mystery Tour' song co-written with John according to Paul (Many Years From Now book). Way more than 3 chords in it too.
"No director...no script."
Uh oh.
I love Mystery Tour though.
Magic Alex: The Scrapmans best friend
Another fantastic Video👍👍 -Magic Alex was a total Bull Sh*t artist, a charlatan, He had this rasputin type of personality that had a strange effect on The Beatles.
Monty Python character played by John Cleese
Nah they knew he was full of it you can see them making fun of him and his inventions behind his back in the get back documentary lmao the only one who really took him seriously was John.
"I can build a better studio than Abbey Road...." Geez, Alex was an idiot, how did anyone fall for his lies?!
The Monterey Pop Festival was held in Monterey, not San Francisco.
Big, big difference. I used to go up to the Monterery area all the time. San Francisco is another 2 hours north.
It's not far away. Less than 2 hours.
@@fazole Yep, been there, done that. Lived in SF for 11 years -- but wouldn't move back there today.
I get that for Mericans it's a walk in the park. But for instance for Europeans 2 hours is a fairly long drive.
@@StudioMargalima Reminds me of the old saying about the US/UK: "Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long distance." For me, driving down to Monterey from SF was the maximum distance for a day trip.
Hendrix comes to London in 66 wearing a band leader's jacket. In 1967, the Beatles start dressing in band outfits....
Kinda like when Hendrix hears I’m only sleeping ,backwards guitar solo 1966 . He comes out with …u know what ….1967
That's a bit of a stretch mate. The band leader jackets are a natural extension of the original Sgt. Pepper's idea, which had nothing to do with Hendrix
Also, the band leader jackets weren't actual attire. They were just used for the cover art/Pepper's imagery and Hello, Goodbye video.
@@TheJayson8899 Even if, nothing wrong with being inspired by greatness which the Beatles certainly recognized when they saw it.
As a kid I loved the movie Magical Mystery Tour...and still do!
Another great documentry, thanks 👍
Alex was their drug dealer, lied about the Maharishi ,and lied for John claiming Cynthia had been unfaithful with him, what a creep.
Thought Crosby was the dealer
gotta love the crack up at 13:08😂
Magic Alex comes across as an Owsley Stanley wannabe, who unfortunately lacked Stanley's considerable real talents.
Magic Alex sounds like the world's first meth head. Taking apart random machines for days, weeks on end.
Destination unknown. But 90% of the time the bus was headed for Blackpool to hear Paul tell it.
These mini documentaries collectively are better than the anthology. He anthology is great but this is the real stuff we want to know that would never be approved by Apple Corp. Well done
The Beatles were amazing singers, musicians, and songwriters - but completely lost spiritually, which ultimately is ALL that matters. Many of us found Jesus Christ - and everything we'd been searching for. The Beatles, for all their creativity - found NOTHING. All these years later - I STILL love The Beatles music - but, in the end - what a tragic waste of 4 gifted lives.
George may have found salvation
This movement so desperately needed organization, the ideas were beautiful and aspiring but without meaningful organization it just became a big drug party. Now since it failed once we’ve completely backslid into an individualist dystopia. We missed such an amazing opportunity.
Thank you Film Retrospective, for following through on your promise to follow up on the Magic Alex storyline. I actually resisted the urge to Google it for a week and you made it worth my while, well done 🤘
Amazing how quickly the Summer Of Love turned into The Winter Of Our Discontent!
It seemed fun on paper until most realized that being broke sucks and large groups of people on drugs together never pans out well.
I love that around 13:08 you almost let out a chucke talking about Alex lmao, he was such a wackjob, I didn't know he was involved to SUCH extent with The Beatles, I thought he just wanted to build them a studio.
1:15 David Gilmour and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd 😉
What’s the gig I wonder?
I am the walrus was conceived about this time so it wasn't without it's creative excellence.
The one thing most can agree that was good to come out of the hippy era was the music.
So THAT'S how this sausage was made!
Is this a documentary about Magic Alex?
Well at this point allot of people were asking for more information on Magic Alex. So i gave the people what they wanted
Please do some videos on Fleetwood Mac!
It’s an interesting study to see what happens when you have a generation of kids so spoiled and entitled. You get the Boomers; fake love, drugs, greed, selfishness, and narcissism
That's the same for all youth culture, as true today as it was back then. Only the specific fads and outward styles have changed.
Not only was Lennon abusive with big anger and drug problems, but he was gullible and easily conned. The other 3 should have put him on probation as soon as Magic Alex showed up. Incidentally, Lennon did more damage with his nonsense than Paul or the other 2 put together. (After I wrote this I imagined Mick and Keith getting a sales pitch from Magic Alex. For some reason I have to think that they would have ridiculed him mercilessly and thrown him out. But maybe they hired him too?)
Lennon was always the problematic Beatle. A musical genius, but a difficult person.
scrambaba - Awwww poor baby. This isn't a management company and you honestly have no clue what you're talking about. A bunch of wasted emotion on people you never knew and will never know. Judgemental, faux-pious holier than thou and most of all - BORING. Sorry the PR on Lennon does not pan out for you like it does with your favorite milquetoast band (Hall and Oates? Backstreet Boys? Partridge Family?) - tosser.
All true but it was Johns band so all the good to come from it as well goes to his credit. He was just tired of being married to Paul and the Beatles and preferred to be married to Yoko instead... but none of this was directly Yoko's fault. George and Ringo were getting over it too. As did eventually Paul who did want to keep it together but it was not possible by that time between management issues and them getting along together when they really wanted solo projects.
The only thing to know here is that you're completely biased against Lennon (that's all you've written so don't bother changing your story) and are judging a person that had conservatively a million times more talent than you and gave an incredible gift of music to the world, which from everything you've written you have zero appreciation for and only disdain and gossipy drivel. You draw your own conclusions "from the record" and they're driven by your judgmentally biased stamp (ie "he fell for Yoko's artistic philosophy", etc), which is blatantly obvious.
And your motive for all this? Other than your childishly thriving on vindictiveness, I have no idea and don't really care.
Have the life you deserve. We're done here.
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh That’s not true. There are few contemporary cultural figures about whom there is such a huge amount of information available. It is not hard to draw reasonable conclusions from the record. With Magic Alex it is irrefutable that John was his champion, even though he was a crazy moron. John also brought in the embezzling crooked thief Allan Klein. John also decided he hated the Maharishi and swallowed the defamatory and false accusation that he tried to seduce one of the Beatles entourage hook, line and sinker. And he fell for Yoko’s artistic philosophy, which achieved very minor fame on its own. John thought it was the most profound art ever made.
It seems amazing how each Beatles album that followed 1967 was so absolutely great, despite the discord, misguidance, drug abuse, and manipulation of such hangers-on
Magic Alex reminds me of many 'dudes' I knew back in "the day" (the 60s & 70s) highly unreliable and untrustworthy. And i got that vibe BEFORE the narrator filled us in on the real Alex. He saw a niche for himself and exploited it to the max.
I was born in 1959, and I'm a huge Beatles fan... BUT, I have yet to listen to John and Yoko's record.
I believed everyone else when I was told how terrible it is.
I think Paul gets kind of a bum rap for the MMT movie. The styling was ahead of it's time actually. MTV did similar stuff decades later. And the colors were critical to the visuals yet the BBC first aired it in black and white. Face palm. Granted is comes off as a bit confusing and plotless I still enjoy it and as a bonus it got a great soundtrack.
most of the stuff that magic Alex talked about inventing is being used everyday now. a few in a roundabout way. we talk to our phones and other systems like Siri and alexa. LSD was a fantastic way to learn about things.
That Acid was a hell of a drug
Yeah.
Magic Alex said make a 🌞 that shines at night?? A better studio 🎙 Forest Gump would be embarrassed by Magic Alex's lies and promises 😂 how to waste money and be naive in hands of a crooked.
He may have cost them money, but he probably saved them more by helping to expose the Maharishi as another kind of charlatan.
The bongo/tabla-like drums in the beginning sound almost exactly like the Goron City music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Unless they were going to become a full-on prog-band the comedown was inevitable.
hippie= short for hypocrite.
The Yellow Submarine is the worst LP released with the exception of Hey Bulldog.
Maybe in theory a hippy lifestyle can be a good thing but in realty groups of kids on drugs never pans out well. The good thing that came out of it was the music but the lifestyle was short lived once most realized it sucked being broke.
Monterey Pop Festival, held in San Francisco ? Hmmm...
A film about going nowhere. Very cool, but why the hell would he think that means no plot? Like cmon Paul
Man, those drugs were pretty potent back then. George seemed more level headed than the rest of them. Magic Alex..what a scam artist.
The Monterey Pop Festival happened at the Monterrey Fair grounds in Monterey a couple hours away from San Francisco.
Glad you mentioned this, we aren’t even part of the SF Bay Area, but a lot of people can’t grasp how big California is.
I live the Mahical Mystery Tour movie. It’s one of my favorite ever
1:15.......David Gilmour and Nick Mason. Hyde Park.
Sounded like to me the Beatles were naive marks when it came to getting conned by other people.
Great context, as always!
11:17 lol, the stock photo guy even looks like Magic Alex a bit
paul n ringo hated it
they werent the only ones
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Paul's full name ... WAS ... James Paul McCartney. When did he change it? Only the Pepper Pots know for sure.
After Sept 11 1966.....
@@PaulFormentos 9/11 ???
@@PaulFormentos shadow ban check?
maharishi needed some VO5, desperately.
@1:15 Dave and Nick 😎
Yoko Ono CIA operative.
Nobody ever talks about the Fact that Paul wore Glasses as well.
I seriously doubt Lennon disliked Pauls press @ LSD.Hippies: not all praise drugs, okay. Some, are into peace/joy/nature/creativity/freedom from artificial. Blackbird, Dr Prudence, HelterSkelter, While My Guitar Gently, +23 massive tunez; not a come down at all.
Magic Alex!! 🤣🤣🤣 World class bll$hitter!! Same with the Indian guru, the Maharishi....
Roll up for the mystery tour
Peppers is garbage. Lucy and a day in a life are the only highlights really
Getting better in reverse is a hidden song
Beatles came down after REVOLVER!
It was all fun until the payment came due....Paul's sacrifice in the "car crash"
Yet produced even better records. Interesting.
En buen criollo, ALTO CHANTA el Alex. Y prueba también de lo perdido que andaba John a partir de mediados del 67.
Surely, at some point, someone must have noticed that this "Magic Alex" was just a nut.
Noice
Quite.
Ole Alex daddy was to do with Greek military coup in 1967
Please do documentarys on the recordings of other Beatles albums.
1:15
Very cool, there's even an early cameo from the Paul imitator who we thought had only appeared after Abbey Road rumors that he was dead. At 14:28 the under rehearsed Paul replacement was unwittingly captured on film playing right handed. Albeit on an upside down Left handed guitar. What will the freaks make of that?
Say what? Just because someone is a lefty doesn't mean they won't play right instruments ever. But Paul never performed live or on any released recording not using his lefty basses or guitars. Ever. Of course there are some who can't get over this 50+ year old obvious hoax so they are still looking for clues lol.
How The Beatles imploded after Pepper
We were on drugs and didn't know what we were doing.
Thank God George Martin didn't die.
Yay a new video! I really look forward to your videos!
I learned the word " grifter" here.
love the 60s shit.
Lol
Great film, as usual.
You are a truly great storyteller
Great work! I’ve subbed and liked too!
Much appreciated
As much of a grifter Alex was, a lot of his ideas have come to take place.
Through no thanks to his talents whatsoever. Flying cars were envisioned in the '50s. When we get them in 2082, we won't be giving credit to the visionaries of the '50s, will we?
Another great video! Yucko is poison. Too bad Magic Alex couldn't have made her invisable.😅
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@@CosmicMapping Get Back JOJO......
You rock, bradda!
13:09 even he broke
lol. 1967 beatles were old guard/passé... the doors, hendrix, cream, janis, pink floyd, etc were the new wave...
Hendrix performed the Sgt. Pepper’s tune live about two days after it was released guy. Floyd recorded next door to the Beatles and inspiration probably went both ways between them.
That's such a load of bs lol. Sgt. Pepper's was a gargantuan seller - the biggest of the year - and the defacto boundary pushing rock/pop album of the year. A massive inspiration to multiple artists you just mentioned.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown what does sales have to do with anything? my guess is e.g. motley crue outsold talking heads but that hardly means the former is better or more influential than the latter. sgt peppers may have been innovative wrt production but musically it's really not all that substantial, and as bowie has pointed out in an interview, bands such as velvet underground have had much more influence on contemporary music than the beatles.
@@Vingul lol. hendrix played a beatles tune, therefore the beatles.
@@alanh7247 one of the hip dudes you mentioned instantly covered a Beatles track from 1967, do you not get the logic? How passé can they reasonably have been following your own logic? To use the word logic once more, your logic is disjointed and not really logical, it's illogical. Lolsz
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Meh. Paul STOLE a page (or TWO) via Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters.
Oh Paul was taking over and it destroyed the band.