Double Fantasy According to John's Assistant
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- Hello everyone and welcome back to The Beatles Forever. Today we will look at how the album Double Fantasy began and how it got recorded.
We will look through the eyes of John's assistant Fred Seaman.
He wrote a book about his experiences with John and Yoko. It was entitled The Last Days of John Lennon.
It is interesting to find out about those days from a person close to the family at that time.
"Double Fantasy" sounds like an accurate description of John and Yoko's marriage. The loving public marriage they pretended to have, and the toxic private marriage they really had.
Yup...that must have been some BS to have put up with. Cant imagine a woman telling me what to do everyday at home
😂😂 better to be with yourself @@Robd07
I remember reading an interview with producer Jack Douglas in a recording magazine. In the interview he said that after the album was finished, Lennon met him at the studio to wrap things up business wise. Lennon stated clearly that he was done working with Joko. Unfortunately we didn't get to hear what that might have sounded like.
What's Joko?
@@johnschulenberg7560 John's wife singing. : )
I think Double Fantasy served to shake off the rust for Lennon after not recording for 5 yrs which in the music industry is a long long time...i think the album after DF would have been interesting but as you said we didnt get to hear what that might of sounded like
Really? Ive heard a number of interviews with Jack Douglas and he never brought that up. Did Douglas relate what were the reasons why Lennon said he was done working with Yoko? Or was he just done with Yoko?
@@johnschulenberg7560 Joko is Yoko thinking she could sing and thinking she could write a song. What a JOKE she was. At the time of DOUBLE FANTASY, I was thinking they were close to splitting anyway.
Maybe he did steal some s*** from the apartment and really called out Yoko for what she was, but it was one of the best books I read on The Beatles.
Great book!!!!
Actually feel sorry for John. His family history led him to pick a mother not a wife. Still love John and always will. Life is sad.
Yeah and yoko knew how to manipulate all that
Life really is sad. Tragically so. Yet, we struggle through this old world, always trying to look up. Kind of makes it more sad actually. I don't know where I am going with this.
@Topazthecat She sucked the life out of him. He could only make music when she wasn't around.
fundamentally he was a tormented soul with alot of anger but that was in many ways that made his music speak to so many
@@loosilu So true. She was a blight on his life, keeping him in the depressed state he was in when she found him. He needed some real therapy. Instead she brought him heroin, astrology, and attention seeking stunts. Other than those bindings that she used to control him, she ignored him or sent him away entirely to have affair after affair.
After the many John Lennon uploads on You Tube, you’ve managed to post a very good video. Thank you, I loved all the pictures that went along with the narrative. Because of the genius of John, Yoko’s songs on the album managed to sound decent mixed between John’s excellent song writing skills. You have to wonder if John was alive today if he would have still been with her. I doubt it. I always felt she had some mystical hold on him. She’s also been a long time heroin user over the years. Oh well, we’ll never know. I’m thankful I got to experience John Lennon in my lifetime. He certainly made significant musical contributions to the world and he’s sorely missed!
@@jv-ep2tc Exactly.
Hi Bill thank you for liking the video. I am glad you liked the pictures. Your question about whether John and Yoko would still have been together if he had lived is a good one. It is hard to say.
Agree on the photos
She was and is a witch. This is widely known. Also widely known, the fact that John was going to divorce her. There have been books written on these subjects. It’s not pure conjecture. Many people from the inner circle have attested to this. Either every single one of them is inexplicably lying (and all telling the exact same lie) or it’s true. 🍏
He married his mother, he had childhood issues. He may have gone back to May Pang. She says he may hv gone back to Yoko bcs he'd given her full control over his assets & would hv lost most if he divorced her; & that was afraid of being deported. I have no respect for him, after the way he treated Julian & Cynthia. He was weak, & gave his soul over to Yoko.
From everything I have seen from Joko, l would not be surprised if she decided against the divorce because she wanted to be on half of the album. Joko at this point had the most control of John’s money and she wanted more money and to be someone in the music industry. This was Joko’s opportunity to try to be someone in the music world. Unfortunately for her, she is and has only been a wife of a music legend.
Joko will never be anything more than amateur night at the improv.
After I bought and played Double Fantasy I wanted half of my money back.
I always wondered why Double Fantasy was a dual effort. I wish Yoko hadn't insisted on being on it too.
Hard to believe she had the ordasity to think she was an equal to John's song writing ability and being worthy to have her crap on the same album as John, and to think of herself as a rock star, holy crap.....he should have stood up to her when she failed to put anything together...i don't see her as an artist in any form other than a con artist, she was nothing other than the mother of John's child, but I guess we have to respect Johns choice of choosing her as a wife, poor fellow
it's too bad Lennon couldn't stick to his first thought which was correct: after 5 years being away from the music scene--he should've done this album as a solo effort & forgot about Yoko. Her efforts didn't help this album.
We only wanted to hear John, not that screeching witch.
The ‘$’ in front of ‘Hit Factory’ made me laugh.
A beautiful remembrance you share as a kid from that era! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you, Rene, for liking the video I appreciate it.
Great stuff, wonderful commentary. You did it well, and kept it interesting.
Thank you, Gene, for your compliments on the video I appreciate it.
Mrs. Oh No had no ear for music and was a junkie. John fell for a complete dud and then when he tried to get away, she, in true narcissist fashion, went to any lengths to reel him back in.
The 18 month separation occurred 7 years earlier. John spent maybe a month in Bermuda tops, but they were a married couple that still lived together
Yoko had two boyfriends at the time. She moved one of them into the Dakota the day after John died.
Not really. He spent a lot of time in Long Island, Florida, Bermuda or traveling the world-all alone. As a matter of fact even Sean said he hardly knew his mother and she was a stranger to him when John died.
It's crazy to find out finally that Yoko manipulated John and took advantage of his fears and insecurities. Cynthia loved him when he had nothing. Instead of finding another, "mommy", he should have stayed with his girl. I know coz I made that exact same mistake, lol
You all really seem to believe what Fred Seaman has written ? I don‘t !
@@vitavomloehbergyour entitled to your opinion. I’m a huge Beatles/Lennon fan . Been so for decades. I happen to love Fred’s book. I found it to be balanced and meshed with much of the information that appeared before and after Fred’s observations.
@@finch45lear But it doesn't matter how and if you like it, the only thing that counts is if it's true what he's written and I doubt it.
You are falling for complete LIES!
I had a great laugh hearing that John felt like Paul trying to produce an album and pushing the others around him to do their work. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? 😂
I think John learned his lesson about needing to keep control of things after the mad mad sessions in LA with Phil Spector
And yeah, I really DO think ...
Somebody has to take charge to produce a fraction of the output they were producing. No doubt all of them learned from each other, but particularly from John who was the leader of the group after all.
@@Photologistic I think the point though is that John was bent out of shape at McCartney's taking charge of The Beatles from Brian's death onward, not realizing that SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT with Brian gone. Lennon was very hard on Macca for stepping into that role. After all Macca was on fire, in his prime. While Lennon himself was flaking off with Yoko.
Hopefully Bermuda is when Lennon begins to really appreciate what Paul brought.
@@charwest9449 I agree completely, and it was sad to see John getting burned out. Huge Macca fan here, but somehow John, not sure if it’s the vocals or the sense of humor or musical style, John is my favorite.
David GEFFEN played his cards skillfully to get the gig via “Mother”…
Well it got him the Kurt Cobaine gig many years later coincidence??
@@marksimons4108 haha sounds like a strategy he was very familiar with ...
That should have been totally his album. But he should have had gotten out much more, and let musicians who had grown out of the rock star lifestyle, ones who admired him and just plain loved music, hang around him and also jam with him.
John should have stood his ground with Yoko. His marriage was dissolving again. He needed to have the guts to split from her for good. Now that she had fame and loads of money, she didn’t need him.
Thank you, Don, for your comments. I agree her songs were not in the same style as his rock and roll songs.
Did/Does Jojo have Fame......
.....probably not even infamy.....as time progresses . ......?.................................................
Love your posts!
Thank you Levi I appreciate it
A new fan. Thank you and wish you the best.
Aloha.
Thank you, John, for your well wishes. I really appreciate it.
Yoko had a live-in “companion” , Sam Havadtoy that summer of 1979 when John was in the Bahamas. Yoko was trying to stop Heroin while a John was away. Havadtoy didn’t want to marry Yoko which may be why Yoko decided against divorcing John. After John died, Havadtoy moved in with Yoko & stayed until 2000.
I would entirely believe this as the truth.
@@petermcgarrymusicandflying I have read that Havadtoy is gay. I don’t know if that’s just Yoko fanatics trying to make themselves feel better.
You got that right! Plus while John was with May, Yoko had the hots for studio musician David Spiinozza...She's no angel that's for sure. I wish he would have stayed with May.
@@claresherman2278 I know that Eliot Mintz, Yoko’s right hand man, who lived with the Lennons from time to time, is gay, but not Havadtoy or his predecessor, artist Sam Greene who lived with Yoko from 1978-79. Havadtoy came when Greene left. The story goes that after John’s death, Yoko insisted Havadtoy wear John’s clothes.
@@sharynloshakoff5404 Yeh, I heard that too about her making Havadtoy wear John's clothes.
Good job, but I would disagree about the reason John worked fast in the studio? You mention they where paying for the recording time out of their own pocket, at this point in his life John had more money than he ever had, and he was well known for his speed in the studio, he had a short amount of patience and didn’t like spending lots of time on perfection, he was a 2or3 takes type of artist. What you don’t realize is even if you are signed by a label, the artist usually pays for the recording, they need to sell some records to cover that, then they get their share
Thank you, Joe, for your comments on the video. I didn't realize that the artist usually pays for the recording. That was an interesting fact.
I saw Yoko. In Seattle, Crocodile club. Her and Sean kicked ass!!! John would have been there, excited how much the crowd dug her!!!!
I'm almost certain that in a recent court ruling, a judge ordered that Seaman is not to (publicly) speak or write about Lennon and the Beatles....
Thank you Carlito for that information. I didn't hear about that.
I don't think that she would ever stop going after Fred. He wanted Julian to have the journals, like John had told him.
Well I am afraid that at the end of the day Yoko was a parasite. But John sadly had a mommy complex and May Pang would have been so much better for him. The worst part was Yokos shite treatment of poor Julian. Don't believe me go look at some of Julian's interviews about the dragon lady. Case closed.
Julian's comments in recent years about John have been more balanced. He agrees that John had not been a great father (as he himself admitted at the time) but he also acknowledges that John was making attempts to improve their relationship in 1980. Of course John thought he had 30-40-50 years left in which to do this.
Julian has also been pretty civil and diplomatic about Yoko in recent years. Julian is very close to Sean and he knows if he attack Yoko Sean would react badly.
@@JStarStar00 Yes, but that's not the same as erasing what Yoko actually did to him and all of John Lennon's family. Julian's just staying mum and tolerating the narcissist for Sean's sake.
He was actually fortunate to not be around two addicts
Loved the pictures and your narration. I used to own a similar model of Ovation guitar John is playing. I loved that guitar. I remember when DF came out. I was very disappointed. The hits "Starting Over" and "Watching The Wheels" were very commercial and hygienically safe. I liked "Woman" and "Beautiful Boy" but still, hardly what I expect from John. This album shows how 'wimped out' John was at that time. I think had he lived into the eighties, maybe the new wave and leaving Yoko might have pushed him back into himself again. Musicians have to careful not to let a woman take you over and allow her to follow her feminine agenda. It will suck the mojo and creativity out of the man.
Fantastic; work, looking forward to more of your videos, thank you!
Thank you C for your comments. I really appreciate it
Great video!
Thank you so much for producing and posting.
Poor John and his mother issues. Yoko Ono was an established and rather well regarded conceptual artist of the 60s when she met Lennon. Probably unsure about this maternal role at first, she seemed to have no problem assuming the power and control the mother-seeking Lennon assigned her.
I take anything Fred Seaman said with a grain of salt at best. I could never trust a man who most likely stole Johns dairy’s and notebooks. God bless you John, it was you that opened my eyes and my brain and you will forever be my hero Peace-n-Love❤
They where supposed to go to his son Julian but Yoko never respected Johns wishes and kept them herself!
I enjoyed the pictures illustrating your video!
Thank you Anatol for enjoying the pictures.
The Ballad Of John And Yoko is ultimately a myth-a fairytale in contrast to the far cry that was the reality…
Could u elaborate? Really interested to know the real truth about that sham relationship.
@October In books like Frederic Seaman’s “The Last Days Of John Lennon”, May Pang’s “Loving John”, Albert Goldman’s “The Lives Of John Lennon”, and John Green’s “Dakota Days”-all unauthorized but reliable accounts of the Lennons and their less-than-happy marriage-regardless of the propaganda maligning and discrediting them as merely “hit-jobs with an axe-to-grind”-you’ll get the sad-skinny, contrasting reality with the authorized, homogenized-myth perpetrated for decades by the Lennons themselves, as well as the Lennon Estate after John’s tragic death… Research it for yourself and draw your own conclusions…
As a long-time fan of the Beatles, I respect the fact that John loved Yoko. However, I considered her a no-talent hack. Or more politely, an esoteric talent. Shrieking in a bag takes little creativity.
It's all a marketing exercise....she would have been great with social media...imagine (pardon the pun) doing all those stunts (events!) with modern social media at her disposal... 🙂
Her music in the seventies and on double fantasy wasn’t shrieking in a bag. I’m not saying it was great but it was a singer singing songs she wrote, not too avante garde
what about all the songs where she wasnt shreiking? i think she only does that on one track from double fantasy
Linda too sans the screaming
@@julianciahaconsulting8663 The difference with Linda is she never claimed to be a musician or singer- and she still managed to be a hundred times better than Yoko. And she was a brilliant photographer.
This is a wonderful insight into how things were when John decided it was time to do 'Double Fantasy'. I enjoyed the narration very much. I must say, back in 1980, I always thought the song "I'm losing you" seemed out of place on the album. Knowing that John normally wrote meaningful songs about some aspect of his relationship with Yoko, I couldn't get my head around why that song should be on the record. Now I know, but it's a sad revelation. Also, I always knew John had engineered Yoko's input on the album but I loved her songs. I really felt that they were a well-balanced inclusion. They were a revelation in themselves and I thought, avantgarde as they were, that they were charming and had actual potential as pop songs. Still one of the best albums of all time.
Yeah Losing You was good and the Yoko part of it - Moving On - was what i thought was her best on the album...the whole piece actually worked pretty well - but yer right it did cast a weird shadow on all the marriage and parenthood bliss heard on the rest of Double Fantasy.
Would have loved if "Serve Yourself" had been on DF
Thank you, Brook, for your comments. I appreciate it.
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Thank you, Ron, for your comment. I appreciate it
Really hope street of dreams comes out..
Speaking of streets I know that's Hell's Kitchen but does anybody recognize the street they're standing on here. 6:18 I remember the building with the pillars across the street in the pic. Looks so familiar.
John wrote loads of songs between 76 and 80..finished songs..
It’s funny to hear that the husband would push the wife to do something she wasn’t qualified for and wasn’t interested in when the genius McCartney was just a phone call away
@@monkusbee it's obvious, the wife had the husband compromised somehow against his wishes. $$ or possibly even more grim.
John and Yoko had not been recently separated. This was 1980. They got back together in 1975.
Sad to think after 5 years away from recording we finally get ? Half of a lennon.album..same with Milk & Honey in 1983
Cuando fui😢a comprar el álbum doble fantasía, el vendedor me dijo que me recomendaba más la colección de John Lennon, pero yo quería ese, el nombre sonaba bien, aún así me dijo que si no me gustaba me lo podía cambiar, tenía 12 años, cuando llegué a casa, de la emoción no me fijé qué lado puse, y eran canciones de Yoko, sonaba como guajolote sin corral, me sentí estafada, creí que me habían dado un disco equivocado, revisé y sí era, sin dudarlo fuí a cambiarlo, no es mala actitud hacia Yoko, pero me parece que se colgaba de John, para obligar a sus seguidores a escuchar sus chillidos, el arte se goza, no es para sufrirlo, murió John, y quién quiere escuchar graznar a la señora ?
Seaman, gotta love that name,was a lowlife opertunist,got the job from his relative,Seans nanny, but yes apparently marriage wasn't as perfect as they put on for the public
Very strong people still have their Achilles heal. Why are we so surprised.
Very interesting video. Thanks. When I got the Double Fantasy cassette and heard Yoko I wanted to trash it. Her voice is like listening to fingernails being scraped over a chalkboard. The worst crap I ever heard. I had a double cassette recording system so I made another tape and I cut all of Yoko’s garbage out leaving just Lennon’s songs. They were great. I loved Watching The Wheels and Woman the best. A side story. When Watching the Wheels was recorded a producer at the studio saw a street musician and told him he’d give him $50 to play his
hammer dulcimer in a song. The poor street musician sat in and playing his track on Watching the Wheels. Then after he was paid and out the door he learned that he was playing on a John Lennon song and muttered “fifty bucks!”. That producer took advantage of his poverty. When you listen to that song you can easily see how the hammer dulcimer made that song great. His contribution will be heard forever but he will remain an unknown. Hopefully he learned not to let predators rip off his talent.
The one big reason why Yuky Ono dropped the pursuit of a divorce, was that her lawyer informed her that she would get little financial benefits, then John informed her that he was ready to make a new album, and suddenly she relished at the possibility of $$$$. from the sales. In fact,at the time she was dating her home designer, who also lived with Yuky in her apartment...a real witch that one.
John would have let her go, eventually
John should never of got involved with Ono,should of stayed with Cynthia, what was he thinking,Ono can't sing only screech,no talent. He payed for the decorations, after selling his english mansion.
I reimagined double fantasy as a S oLo john lennon no yoko. 14 songs song by john
Fred’s book is great!
If you don’t like Yoko’s tunes just take them out of your playlist. I have the album and song book and it’s some of John’s best stuff.
It's easy to not include her in a playlist now. But back then you had to get up each time to move the needle on the vinyl to skip her song to just hear John's, and then again to skip her next song, etc... Or else try to record it to a cassette tape from the vinyl, where again you had to stop and start recording to skip her songs before you got your final mix. So of course people were very annoyed with her to have to do that if you wanted to skip her songs, CDs weren't even a thing yet. It would have been better if they had just put all of John's songs on the A side with all of hers on the B side. Making playlists now is SO much easier than trying to make a cassette mix tape way back then, LOL.
The trick is to make your mind go blank which is a prerequisite to receiving input from a higher power
- John Lennon
Yoko definitely sabotaged Double Fantasy. John’s songs are great, but the album would’ve been epic if Yoko’s songs were trashed and replaced by more of his songs
It was meant to be john solo with real love and gown.. it wud have been massive comeback..yoko halved the sales...
Yoko ruined his career, imho. Can you imagine the level of embarrassment for John if Yoko went through with the divorce? John threw everything away for that woman, even his first born son Julian.
Mother superior always had to get her way.
yup.
Musically speaking Yoko was pretty much devoid of any talent whatsoever.
Hi. I'm The Muse. ❤✌
They had been together for five years since the separation.
Never knew that Bjorn Borg was also involved in music
Good story
Thanks for watching
This video sounds like it was narrated by Michael Jackson with a slight southern accent lol
Show business, my friends!
Is this being narrated by Carol Kaye of The Wrecking Crew? Sounds just like her. 🤷♂️
Thin ice indeed
Judging by this, had John lived, John and Yoko would have gotten divorced eventually.
This could have been read with a bit more feeling, no?
It would not surprise me if she was behing his death . I read an article of people close to them that feel the same way . Sad
18 months with mae pang
18 months
@13:20: "David Jeffen"? It's pronounced 'Geffen', a very famous name in the music industry. John & Yoko may hv bn living together but she was still having an affair w/ the Italian guy who was with her in NY while John was in Bermuda. She told John she was dating other men. Narrator should have known this, rather than making up a romanticized version of what was really going on btwn them.
I'm no fan of Yoko, but John had many affairs, from what i've heard and read.
It’s true what they say, Love is blind.
The reviews for Double Fantasy at the time were rather underwhelming. Nothing groundbreaking. But John's death changed our perspective of the album so it became something more. Milk and Honey was a nice bonus a few years later.
John and Yoko had one thing in common. They were both Nietzschean figures: beyond good and evil.
Check out blank pages by Frank James and peacock alley by Damion angel 2 really fine albums
John knew that Yoko didn't have any musical talent. Of course he knew. But she's such a manipulative narcissist so she always got what she wanted. I wonder if she had the murder planned as well. She became a very rich widow..
maybe have a review on jill gibson she is a songwriter was 1 lp w mamas and papas
Yoko is a Genius when she was a little girl she wrote a poem about a tree that produced apples peaches and oranges on the same tree , she was instrumental in many of his lyrics and also the visuals and the vids not to mention the BED IN For PEACE . They new there were Billions of people watching them, so they Sang about peace . Reluctantly he felt he had an obligation because he was in the publics eye ✌️💓
Ying and Yang
Dozens claim to have been Lennon's "assistant".
He wanted GOWM..with bagpipes..
Who’s David Jeffen?
@Marc Leclair ohhhhh David Geffen
Half of the album was great, John’s half of course. He should have made it as Single Fantasy 😅
Too much acid meant John thought Yoko could sing.Bonkers.
As a non-popular opinion (I guess), Yoko's songs are more modern, fresh sounding, more in tune for that period post punk-rock, new wave fashion, and even her limited and far-eastern modelled voice was suited for that kind of "cold" minimalistic music, not much for our melodic western (classical based) pop. Even the angst of her songs is more in chime with times, for me more reminiscent of the early heart-on-sleeve angry John. John's music is beautifully arranged, sincere (as usual), but a little bit "oldies" sounding in comparation (except Losing you). Ok, Yoko's voice is not easy to love (maybe except for in Beautiful boys, Moving on, or Let me count the ways). The critics of the day also noticed this middle-age, complacent, not progressive laid-backness, and they didn't like it, and there was no chance to be top selling album, without the tragedy. But I guess at that stage John and maybe even Yoko could have live with it, just making the music they liked for the fans. We'll never know... PS: what I'm really interested is, how much is John's musical (to be specific compositional) input in Yoko's songs...
When did all this happened When yoko wanted to divorce john again
Fred Seaman stole Lennon’s personal diaries, and his writing books. A thief out to profit from his employer after his death. And who is still profiting from his time with John.
He violated the trust the Lennons had with him. It’s hard to reconcile that, even though his recollections are very personal and illuminating.
Codependency sucks.
How can you buy a cow for a quarter million dollars
Without Yoko you don’t get”Starting Over”
She is John’s muse. Sometimes a muse can be the distraction.
I always think this song is about Paul.
"It's time to spread our WINGS and fly, don't let ANOTHER DAY go by, MY LOVE"
@@kevindoran9389 I always thought that too. Thank you. It's nice to know I'm not alone. Another clue is John's Beatle haircut on the cover.
The producer of John’s 1981 album (that he was planning) said John was absolutely going to ask Paul to work on it with him and was very excited about it. But then December happened 😔
@@thesilvershining thanks for your comment. I didn't realize that. I wish they could have gotten together again and produced an album together.
No, he knew Oh No was leaving him. And he was off to England "to see, and see to HIS family" as John's sister put it. So his starting over could only really have been aimed at Paul and THEIR early days. Besides, he never did any of that stuff in the song with Oh No. They never stayed in cheap little roadside places. Are you kidding. It was always caviar and Tittenhurst estate and Presidential suites and camera lights flashing for the publicity starved princess. He was the lowly serf.
If your John FREAKIN Lennon how do you have a hard time finding ANY !!!company to help you.
I dunno but Yoko shows signs of being of the spectrum.
Yoko is a malignant narcissist as is Trump & Musk. All three feel they respectively are the best
@@sharynloshakoff5404 Do not ever put Yoko in the same sentence when speaking of brilliant men who are masters of their chosen fields Shaz again!
@@Neil-Aspinall Seriously, dude, you think Musk & Trump are brilliant? Please take your meds and stop using the moniker of a truly brilliant man, Neil Aspinall
I really feel for Lennon's memory. With the Beatles break up he seemed a venomous man always with a snarl on his lips. Now it is accepted now that McCartney tragically died and was replaced by Billy "Shears", in hindsight we can now see that Lennon was devastated and totally unable to grieve in public for the loss of his "blood brother"
I got bored....
PRETTY BORING MONOTONE DIALOGUE.................................
I like your reading style..a little awkward but fine
Thank you JohnK I appreciate your comment.
@@thebeatlesforever your human-ness shines through!! Good job..stand tall!!
Wtf is she taking about that they were getting used to each other again after the separation? They were apart 73- early 75. Sean was born in 75,and John was there from then on. Lots of bs in this video
They spent lots of time apart during 75-80. I don’t think they ever recovered from whatever broke them up to begin with.
He stoled John's diary
Double Fantasy is a doubly awful record. There isn't a listenable track on it.
every song is much much better than anything swimming pool q's or Guadalcanal diary ever did. mediocre indie pop.
I'm Losing You, Woman, Beautiful Boy and Beautiful Boys, Watching the Wheels.
@@danwall6662 Every single song you mentioned is dreadful. The melodies are trifling piffle and the lyrics so childish and maudlin I am always astonished anyone can get through them more than once.
And need I comment about Lennon's nail-on-chalkboard vocals? George Martin may have been able to coax useful vocals out of him in the Beatles, but by Double Fantasy....holy hell. If he ever finds any note in the root of the chord, it's nothing short of a miraculous. Not to mention how thin and nasally and characterless it is.
@@chuckschillingvideos You are either tone deaf or " taking the piss" as we day in Liverpool.
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Personally I really didn't care for Double Fantasy. It sounded like John had nothing worth really writing and singing about. The song 'I'm losing you' done with Cheap Trick was fantastic and all of his songs could have used some UPBEAT arrangements. As for her songs, I just can't listen to her sing.
I don’t think Double Fantasy would ever be a great album…it’ll always a pop album tinged with snapshots of the Lennon’s life at that time. Yoko was entwined within the album as she was in John’s life. Not a great album, it’s nonetheless a beautiful album that revolves around the love of two people and their relationship that was, too soon, cut short.
zzzzn. Nothing like skreeching noise to revive a career of skreeching noise.
I found this so interesting! I remember Fred Seaman said he bought Paul's Coming Up single and played it for John and said it impressed and inspired him, bringing out that sense of competition that he hadn't felt for years. Great video! Loved seeing all those photos from that period too.
I remember also hearing it was specifically the live version released overseas and not the US single version of Coming Up that impressed him. The live version is awesome, it seems to have more energy and interplay between the musicians. Paul's voice is more rockin too.
Coming Up was sh!t. John had lost his good taste...
@@kevinr.3542 Nope, it was actually the “freaky voices” one that John loved.
@@thesilvershining he probably also picked up on the louder bass and more energetic horn part.
Thank you Well hello there for liking the video. I appreciate your compliments and your memory of Fred saying he played Paul's song for John and how it impressed and inspired him. That was interesting.
Double Fantasy would have been great if it was released with only John's songs
After a 5 yr Hiatus.
John & Yoko's Double Fantasy
And Milk & Honey .
I always felt John's Songs should have stood Alone apart from Yoko.
That hurt Commercially .
Watching the Wheels was his last
Masterpiece.
Also I would have loved the other Version of
I'm Losing You featuring member of Cheap Trick.
It Rocked.
I say have them both.
One as a Reprise .
I always felt John had alot left.
John loved Yoko.
But there was a side to Her that held him back.
May Pang didn't.
John was very Creative in that period.
WALLS AND BRIDGES is right up there with POB & Imagine.
Thanks for the insight.
Thank you Bill for your comments.
You are right I think it would have been better if John had done all the songs for the album. Yoko was more advent Garde and John was rock and roll.
Walls and Bridges was a great album
She sucked the life out of him. He only made music when they were apart.
@Lucie Melahn I agree .
Linda was great for Paul.
May was with John.
Cynthia as well.
John was a tortured Soul.
But that's what some of your greatest Artist are.
When John was locked in.
I still feel he was the Best of the Three.
POB & Imagine are Masterpieces.
Walls and Bridges ( My Favorite)
As well.
To this Day Jules is very close to MAY PANG.
A Gentle Soul.
Nobody waited five years to hear new Yoko Ono music.
She’s got good songs on Double Fantasy though. Her songs were the only contemporarily hip songs on that album.
Kiss, Kiss,Kiss is a perfect example of the new new wave sound.
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What if Chuck Berry had kicked Yoko off stage in that one video? She’s terrible