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  • @alainvachon6255
    @alainvachon6255 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    The great Alan White on drums... 2 years later he would join the band Yes for the next 50 years

    • @bobcorbin3294
      @bobcorbin3294 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love the way John gives him a positive look after he hits that difficult lick

    • @stormhawk3319
      @stormhawk3319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Although not as great as Bill Bruford who he replaced on drums in Yes.

    • @KL-mt9yk
      @KL-mt9yk หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't overlook the bass player!

  • @taramahoney2412
    @taramahoney2412 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    We miss you so much John Lennon. RIP ❤

  • @garyfletcher844
    @garyfletcher844 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    He was only about 30 here. He cut his hair right after the beatles broke up in 1970

    • @bobcorbin3294
      @bobcorbin3294 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cut it to help an activist Named Micheal X who turned out not to be a nice guy.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lennon was very gullible.

    • @krashd
      @krashd หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@docsavage8640 No, gullible is falling for everything you hear. John was naive, he believed that he could change the world and nations wouldn't fight back.

  • @farfromperfek
    @farfromperfek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Allen White is playing drums with cut-up white bed sheets to give it that sound. The Producer of this song was Phil Spector who created the ""Wall of Sound" was the man you went to for a hit back then and had the idea to get that sound. Yoko never left his side which is part of why the Beatles broke up.

    • @quixote6942
      @quixote6942 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      While Yoko played a Large Role in the Beatles Breakup but half of that blame should've landed on John as well for not (lovingly) putting his foot down with her.

    • @debjorgo
      @debjorgo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Alan White, who would go on to be the drummer of the great progressive Rock band Yes. And Phil died in prison, after killing his date in 2003.

    • @illstreamthat
      @illstreamthat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I would say the rift between Paul and George was a bigger issue than Yoko. You have 3 amazing musicians that have been playing together for years and they'll eventually want to go off on their own. The rift between Paul and John was bitter with John taking jabs at Paul in his early solo stuff, but George felt disrespected by Paul on more than a few occasions. John was just the one that had the balls to actually leave the group.

    • @debjorgo
      @debjorgo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@illstreamthat Ringo and George had taken a turn at leaving the group before they were pleaded with to come back. John was much more condescending to George than Paul. During the recording of the Get Back Sessions, Paul was trying to hold a place for John's songs. John kept saying he'd come through when he needed to. I'm sure Paul was thinking "This is it. This is when we need your songs". I think Paul was thinking in terms of the Beatles' formula. If there was a formula, it was John and Paul songs, with two or three George songs and maybe one from Ringo. I think just as big a problem between Paul and George was Paul didn't want George to play on Paul's songs.
      The biggest problem with the Beatles at the time was that Paul did not want them to sign with Allen Klein, as manager.

    • @spongo
      @spongo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@debjorgo And Paul was right. Klein was a corrupt crook.

  • @Will_Fly_the_YouTube_Guy
    @Will_Fly_the_YouTube_Guy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    This song has one of my favorite lyrics ever.
    “Who the hell do you think you are?
    A superstar?
    Well right you are!”

    • @edmundlubega9647
      @edmundlubega9647 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "...If you know your history
      Then you would know where you coming from
      Then you wouldn't have to ask me
      Who the heck do I think I am..." - Bob Marley

  • @jameshuston9589
    @jameshuston9589 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I've been listening to this song since it came out. I still love it. No matter what.

  • @hichembarrak
    @hichembarrak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Next by John Lennon (RIP), "Give Peace a chance". These two hit songs were released just as the Beatles broke away.

    • @garyfletcher844
      @garyfletcher844 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Give peace a chance was 1 year before the Beatles officially broke up.

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Peace? He was a thug as a youth.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sandgrownun66 What is great about John is he was human, had lots of flaws, both parents left him, he was a bully, violent to women, beat up a drunken German sailor one night, was cleaned up as a Beatle, was an addict for a while, but then decided to come to USA with Yoko and help her get her daughter, who was kidnapped, back. John cleaned up and they had Sean Lennon together. He then spent 5 years personally raising Sean as a stay-at-home dad instead of being a "rocker". He went thru his struggles, but had the will to self improve and make himself better. He certainly wasn't perfect as a person, but his art was amazing. Since most of his songs were autobiographical, instant karma is really him talking to himself. He was thinking in terms of how he would have to pay for some of the sins of his past -- and eventually he did have to pay. It was one of the saddest days of my life when he was shot.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @sandgrownun66 lots of people make mistakes in their youth. The challenge is do you grow and change? Lennon clearly did.

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@docsavage8640 He probably went too far in trying to redeem himself.

  • @bert0522
    @bert0522 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    John was always my favorite, he's one of my fallen heroes. I don't have many left. Jim

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's both a hero and an anti-hero. Although, he gave the moniker of Walrus to Paul (song: Glass Onion), because the Walrus is the villain. John liked to get things past the censors, but in this case, he got it past Paul.

  • @glass2467
    @glass2467 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    It's called Performance Art. Avant Garde artists have been doing experimental art to push the boundaries for at least a couple of centuries. There was a fairly big avant garde scene in the 60s and 70s, and Yoko was part of that. You're not going to get it if you're not open to it. Today, it's even less likely people will get it, because society has entered into a sort of new dark ages in terms of art and other things too. By the way, that drummer is Alan White who went on to be the drummer for the band Yes.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how in the world are you gonna see, laughing at fools like me? I'm reading that YOKO didn't use a blind fold. It was a sanitary napkin as a blind fold. I didn't know that. Blinded by a sanitary napkin. What does it mean? Think. I give up. Ok google search returns: Exposure to VOCs increases the risk of brain impairment, asthma, disabilities, certain cancers, and the proper functioning of the reproductive system. Highest amounts of phthalates were found in self-proclaimed 'organic' sanitary napkins, the study found.

  • @tonydelapa1911
    @tonydelapa1911 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Throughout the last 50+ years I keep coming back to this as - I dislike superlatives for music so I’ll say - my favorite Lennon song. For lyric, music, production, and more it is a strong message and song. Thank you for covering this, Britt. I enjoyed your interpretation of it.

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Ringo used to mute his drums like this. Towels or other cloth to dampen the attack. This is 1970 and John and Yoko (an artist?) Are reeling from scream therapy, and quitting heroin, also, leaving the Beatles less than a year before.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you can also hear an echo on the drums in this track

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      primal scream therapy. You know your Lennon. 🙂

  • @PeterJ328
    @PeterJ328 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great job Britt. It was a sad day when John was taken away from us. He was my favorite Beatle since the invasion, still is. No phony pretense just in your face rock and roll. He had so much to say and he had more to say, but he never got the chance. But his music never dies. I'm glad you found him.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      However, David Bowie did record "I'm afraid of Americans". Why was he afraid?

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @PeterJ328 no phony pretense? 😂🤣😆 give the man some credit, he could do phony with the best of them

  • @1967PONTIACGTO
    @1967PONTIACGTO 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    another great Lennon solo song is "Jealous Guy"

  • @thewizard6077
    @thewizard6077 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    You should do the Beatles song "Don't Let Me Down" from their last live performance which they did on a London Rooftop.
    Peace

    • @othermotte
      @othermotte 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      An exhibition of Yoko's work has just opened at Tate Modern in London. And in reference to other comments blaming her for the Beatles breakup, that's just a repetition of misogynistic and racist tropes that the British tabloids trotted out back in the day (also see Harry and Meghan)

  • @Neotron2001
    @Neotron2001 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    John Lennon ❤

  • @coffee-xg6my
    @coffee-xg6my 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This is the record you're hearing, not a live track. In this video they are miming to the song while appearing on the show, "Top of The Pops". You'll notice there is two bass players but no guitar player in the video. The dark-haired guy on bass is BP Fallon but he's not actually plugged in and he didn't play on the actual record, he's just on stage for the TV show. The other bass player beside him is Klaus Voormann who actually played the bass on the record. The drummer is Alan White who did play on the record and later became a member of Yes. On the actual record, the players were John playing guitar and grand piano. George Harrison played electric guitar and added a piano overdub. Alan White played drums and also added a piano overdub (yeah, I know, lots of piano players on this recording, lol). Klaus Voormann played bass and added an electric Piano, Billy Preston is playing organ, Mal Evans is playing chimes and doing the handicapping, (he's playing the Tambourine in this video) and then a bunch of people from a local club were rounded up at the last minute and brought into the studio by manager Allen Klein to contribute backing vocals on the chorus along with the vocals by the band members.

    • @rjaraneta913
      @rjaraneta913 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The music is pre-recorded, but John's vocals is live.

    • @illstreamthat
      @illstreamthat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rjaraneta913 Correct!

    • @gettinhungrig8806
      @gettinhungrig8806 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rjaraneta913In the original clip from the Top Of The Pops performance yes he's singing live, but they overdubbed his studio vocal from the single record for the Lennon Legend DVD release which is what we hear here. He couldn't top his original vocal.

  • @peterzimmer9549
    @peterzimmer9549 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    …and a sanitary napkin over her (Yoko) eyes

    • @tonydelapa1911
      @tonydelapa1911 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wondered if anyone was going to point that out!

    • @shaun374
      @shaun374 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because of course there was. 😂

  • @Cyndia70
    @Cyndia70 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    John Lennon is my favorite Beatle. This is one of my favorite of his songs.

  • @keymack2477
    @keymack2477 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    First let me say that I am so glad you keep shining on, Britt!! For more greatness during his solo career try John's "Jealous Guy" and "Working Class Hero"! Keep up the great work on your most enjoyable channel!!

    • @brittreacts
      @brittreacts  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you! Will do!

  • @MeIn321
    @MeIn321 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yoko was knitting because everyone criticized her for breaking up the Beatles, and the John's band now was the Plastic Ono Band. Everyone questioned Yoko's part in the band, and she took offense to it.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the album "Double Fantasy", John and Yoko split the album, some Yoko tracks, some John tracks. "Kiss Kiss Kiss" is pretty good. When John listened to the band the B-52s, he was amazed that they were doing things very similar to Yoko. Rock Lobster, and so on. In Japanese ‘ moto’ (more) and ‘ daite’ (hug me). She then says "Hold me, hold me, hold me tighter" (Paul McCartney had a song "Hold Me Tight"). Weird fact.

  • @mgonzales56
    @mgonzales56 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    John and Yoko proclaimed 1970 as the year One of Peace. The 60's were over and we were going to start over. So instead of having long hair, they shaved their heads for peace. By the time of this video, it had already grown out a bit. John and Yoko did several protests for peace.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Washington Post publishes the Pentagon Papers and we learn that from Truman admin all the way to Nixon admin, the US government was lying to the people about the war in Vietnam. Huge protests happened in Washington DC, putting pressure on tricky dicky Nixon. The crowd sang "all we are saying, is give peace a chance". See the movie "The USA vs John Lennon". Recommended.

  • @jameshuston9589
    @jameshuston9589 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Britt, having 2? And looking like you do! Suited to be a mother. And you are so sweet and honest...too beautiful. Wish the best to you and yours always.

  • @lawrencesmith6536
    @lawrencesmith6536 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was right after their famous "Bed-In for Peace" in Toronto. They cut their hair off as a statement for world peace

  • @richardfeldkamp1707
    @richardfeldkamp1707 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Yoko Ono was an avante garde artist when she and John met. Every so often she appears in a video, sometimes with her own artistic twist.

    • @hongfang2348
      @hongfang2348 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, I think Yoko is practicing her form of avant-garde art in this video. It tickled John's brain. It's how they first met, at her art exhibit.

  • @KenBlair-jp5nz
    @KenBlair-jp5nz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Famous for his glasses

  • @garyfletcher844
    @garyfletcher844 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    He made round glasses famous. Lennon specks

    • @gidouille
      @gidouille 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He had to keep the lenses small because he was extremely near sighted. The glasses that most people wore would have had extremely thick lenses with Lennon's prescription.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No I think that was Benjamin Franklin. Others that wore them: Steve Jobs, Harry Potter. Round or circular sunglasses, often called “teashades”, were a popular choice for pop icons in the 1960s and 70s. John Lennon, Elton John, Jerry Garcia, Ozzy Osbourne and many other musicians rocked circular frames as part of their signature look. Round-shaped glasses had a huge comeback in 2020.

  • @Jimmy32099
    @Jimmy32099 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of my favorite songs. And one of my favorite reaction videos.

  • @quixote6942
    @quixote6942 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yoko was a performance /ProtestArtist. This was her protest against the traditional stereotype of the subjugated roles women had in Society. "Sit Quietly and serve the Masters of the home".
    Be Thankful she didn't join in on the song, as her "Singing" was to Screech and make loud Animalistic Sounds.
    Once he got with her, he became Ultra Political and an Uber-Feminist. For their Honeymoon, they staged a "Sleep-in" Holding Press Conferences from their bed to Protest the War.

    • @lauramurillotovar811
      @lauramurillotovar811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree with everything, except one thing: it is not true that John became political when he met Yoko. He had that oppositional and political line from before. Search the Internet for the so-called "lost interview" of John Lennon. For reasons easy to imagine, it is a part of his life that is rarely publicized. It is also worth watching the documentary film "The USA vs John Lennon."

  • @aBeatleFan4ever
    @aBeatleFan4ever 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is a great track. I love that it has the drums as the lead instrument.

  • @trevd64
    @trevd64 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dang girl I just meet you today and I’ve fallin in love, but I live in Canada so there’s that, and I’m white so there’s that and I’m old enough to be your grandpa so there’s that as well. Love your reactions to all the great music of yesteryear. I discovered Tony Bennet Duet 2 album on apple iTunes about 15 years ago and that opened me up to what might be considered my parents pop music. Many of the songs come from the “Great American Songbook”. The production and arrangements on Duets 2 bring a more modern feel to those songs. There are recording videos on TH-cam, my 2 favourites are Amy Whinehose; Body and Soul and Norah Jones; Speak Low.

  • @dalereed8727
    @dalereed8727 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love is like oxygen. By Sweet❤❤❤❤❤

  • @farfromperfek
    @farfromperfek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That is just right after the Beatles ended, he wanted a change so he changed a lot of things including his hair.

    • @alfredristan3445
      @alfredristan3445 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think it was also partly for his War protest. Hair was donated after his bed in for Peace in Montreal and the song Give Peace a Chance

  • @kevinmarker-cz3bx
    @kevinmarker-cz3bx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Stripped down reality..simply powerful..like truth.

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just Gimme Some Truth. All I want is some Truth.

  • @tracyyork1428
    @tracyyork1428 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Britt, check out Lennon's song "Cold Turkey", a great, harrowing song about heroin withdrawal. Eric Clapton contributes some blistering lead guitar.

  • @namesameasu
    @namesameasu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This song was written and performed pretty much in a day.

  • @Reviresco2
    @Reviresco2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Just thankful Yoko wasn't "performing"

    • @seanmcmeown1992
      @seanmcmeown1992 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank God for that 😅

    • @lauramurillotovar811
      @lauramurillotovar811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Okay, but is that the only thing we always think of saying about Yoko? It is unfortunate that very few people have taken a look at her work. For example, the idea that she was transmitting sitting there, knitting blindfolded, how many understand it and have reflected on it?

    • @papercup2517
      @papercup2517 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She IS performing here. How did you not notice? She is an artist, that is what she does. Just because a lot of rock music fans who know nothing about anything other than rock music don't 'get' her multi-media/ performance/conceptual art doesn't mean she was/is a bad artist. Get out of the popular music bubble for 5 minutes and check out her art profile on any arts site, and while you're at it, check out how many hit records she's had on the dance music charts in later life.

    • @papercup2517
      @papercup2517 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lauramurillotovar811 Knitting blindfolded by a sanitary towel, no less... IIRC.... 🙂
      Rock music fans need to get out of their little bubble and stretch their minds occasionally!

  • @elizabethfranco1284
    @elizabethfranco1284 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This song came out in 1970,

    • @morpher44
      @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      On June 18, 1971, The Washington Post began publishing its own series of articles based upon the Pentagon Papers. Karma starts to get Nixon.

  • @lunadyana3330
    @lunadyana3330 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Check out the Ballad of John and Yoko

  • @robinfoster7597
    @robinfoster7597 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great reaction, like you're vibe :)

  • @chuckyoneill9029
    @chuckyoneill9029 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great one liked😊

  • @spudwas
    @spudwas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is that Yoko?....Yep. She was a performance artist (no matter how weird..some works..some doesn't). It was a studio recording (live in the studio). john wanted to live the song by recording the song and releasing it as a single and in the stores under 3 weeks! Released in 2-26-1970.

  • @bobmessier5215
    @bobmessier5215 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yoko was an avant-garde artist with her own studio in NYC, when she met John. Lennon was an art major in school growing up. When they got together, they often used artistic expressions for messages to the world like bed-ins, bag-ism (covering their heads and bodies in plastic bags) and other strange protests using props. It's just a guess, but the message Yoko is portraying here with the blindfold and knitting is that 'she doesn't need to see to do'. On Lennon's last couple of albums 1980-81, she wrote and sang every other song (Double Fantasy/Milk and Honey). Great love story. She never remarried after his murder and still lives in the Dakota Building in NYC.

    • @lauramurillotovar811
      @lauramurillotovar811 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm glad to see that there are people who break out of the stereotypes "Yoko broke the Beatles", "Yoko sang horrible" and give a serious space to her work, which already existed before she met John. Of course, we can decide if we like his work or not, but that is another thing (of course, we should become familiar with Avant Garde first, as you say). She deserves her own place, but it's easier to copy stereotypes.

  • @mapegatkinson92
    @mapegatkinson92 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yoko had always been a performance artist and continued on with her art.

  • @pamagnolia
    @pamagnolia 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic song!!

  • @stephensmith60
    @stephensmith60 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To Yoko - it’s an expression of art.

  • @kevinwaters5872
    @kevinwaters5872 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As John said to Allan White when they were recording this song “Allan I have no idea what you are doing there , but keep doing it !” Allan was actually the lead instrument IMO.

  • @jameshuston9589
    @jameshuston9589 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We are electromagnetic. Where ever there is spark, there is light. We all shine light. Just can't see it, normally.

  • @stevedotwood
    @stevedotwood 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They both cut their hair as a form of protest if I'm not mistaken. Was it for peace?

  • @elong8207
    @elong8207 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Britt I love to see your reactions to songs I grew up with . Bravo Babe

  • @holypaper
    @holypaper 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Norm did some savage Yoko jokes too

  • @jonathonpalbicke6122
    @jonathonpalbicke6122 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have the John Lennon Boxed Set, nothing else to say except my favorite Beatle. 👌🤓

  • @morpher44
    @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:20 YOKO blind folded. From wikipedia : "In response to the many letters asking about her role in the Top of the Pops performance, Ono said "the blindfold means to me like everybody in the world is like blind ... the stool was like a grove". She means grove of trees I think. "How in the world you gonna see?"

  • @Brandi6666
    @Brandi6666 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lennon🤘❤️😢

  • @tresianyfb5865
    @tresianyfb5865 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Infectious brilliant song. Been know b4 birth. N thought was Mr karma. Till in my 30s. But still fits lol. 😊

  • @paulopinheirosc
    @paulopinheirosc หลายเดือนก่อน

    The most beautiful solo Lennon record is "Mind Games".

  • @roblund6919
    @roblund6919 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who's popping popcorn,i like that

  • @StumpyTales
    @StumpyTales 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The widespread hatred for Yoko even bleeding into this comments section. She was probably just a bit too 'out there' for most people to understand or relate too, so they 'othered' her as a 'weirdo', blamed her for the band break-up, etc. It's a shame that most people are totally unable to accept anything that sits outside their own world-view.

    • @kentclark6420
      @kentclark6420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She urged John to cut Julian out of his will, and wouldn't let him have contact with Cynthia or Julian. She ruled John with an iron fist.

    • @StumpyTales
      @StumpyTales 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I take no interest in the private matters of other people's families.@@kentclark6420

  • @phila3884
    @phila3884 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's performance art. Yoko is a multi-media artist.

  • @othermotte
    @othermotte 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When this came out, I thought John was casually using the term Karma as shorthand for "what goes around, comes around" and that actions have consequences (a Buddhist concept in its own right). However, 50 years later, the whole song seems to embody Buddhist concepts. The chorus "and we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun" alludes to the true nature of reality. We are all part of the cosmos with no birth, no death, only transformation. For example, the true nature of a wave or a cloud is water.
    And btw when I played this at my Sangha recently, one of my friends whispered that it's crochet. Also, a major exhibition of Yoko's work just opened at Tate Modern in London.

  • @donaldhynson4538
    @donaldhynson4538 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The perfect John Lennon song

  • @robertscola4762
    @robertscola4762 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The auction off their hair for peace

  • @junplanas1403
    @junplanas1403 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes it's his wife Yoko Ono.

  • @betsyab121
    @betsyab121 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yoko was probably doing one of her avant garde artist things! That's how she met John, at one of her art shows in London.

  • @MikeB12800
    @MikeB12800 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I could watch her play air drums for a whole video! 😊

    • @brittreacts
      @brittreacts  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe one day! 😂

    • @MikeB12800
      @MikeB12800 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brittreacts lol

  • @betty481
    @betty481 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello Britt he always wore those glasses so did yoko

    • @Oakeshott-ko8ig
      @Oakeshott-ko8ig 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think that was a blindfold, you know, to keep her from finding the microphone, so she can't sing into it. lol

  • @martingifford5415
    @martingifford5415 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Britt should do a cover version of this. I reckon it would kick ass.

  • @quixote6942
    @quixote6942 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This song is EXCELLENT for Power walking!

  • @Calibir1
    @Calibir1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He guessed Richard Simon's because the mentioned, exercise, the oldies songs (because Simon's always did "sweating to the oldies) the mentioned sweat, and the clincher - Sparkles... all Richard Simon's clues.
    Yeah, he guessed it... and that's all I got to say about that.

  • @morpher44
    @morpher44 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:20 Yoko is an artist and uses symbolism in her art. She wants you to think about what she is communicating and you might think of something she actually didn't think of. She wants you to figure it out. When she was a little girl she survived with her family in Japan as 2 nuclear bombs were dropped by the USA. Before that, she was a little girl in a well to do family. She knows how to play excellent piano and she helped John write some of the songs that John took credit for. In fact, the song "Imagine" was actually mostly Yoko's work -- but the couple knew that because of the times, it would be better if John sang it and was listed as the song writer. John admitted later that he should have given Yoko mutual credit for "Imagine". Even today this is controversial. She and John did a bed-in to protest the Vietnam war. She and John did a bag-in, where they were inside a bag with reporters talking to them while in the bag. She's an avant-garde artist who tries to figure out art that is either a puzzle, or art you can participate with. When John came to her art show, there was a ladder, a magnifying glass, and a very small word written on the ceiling. John climbed the ladder with the magnifying glass and found the word was "YES". He really like that because most artists were very negative. I highly recommend the movie "The US vs John Lennon" and/or "Imagine" full movie.

    • @gettinhungrig8806
      @gettinhungrig8806 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      John said she provided some of the concept for the lyrics of 'Imagine', that's all. She had nothing to do with the music, idiot. In fact she had zero musical talent in my book. The world would never have heard of her if John Lennon hadn't chosen her as his girlfriend for some weird Freudian reason.

  • @NotStanleyTucci
    @NotStanleyTucci 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Power to the People should be next…. Everything you liked x 10

  • @mythicsin3083
    @mythicsin3083 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I knitted during Instant Karma, blindfolded by a sanitary pad to let people know the position of women in the world
    - Yoko Ono (@yokoono) June 12, 2017

  • @keensoundguy6637
    @keensoundguy6637 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another good Lennon song I'd recommend is "#9 Dream" but headphones won't cut it. You need an accurate pair of speakers to give you room filling sound to give you the right sense of space for the song.

  • @bobrush4217
    @bobrush4217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yoko was a performance artist so she and John did crazy shit. They once went into large bags in an art exhibit promoting baggism. They also did the bed-in in Canada where reporters were expecting lewd acts but they were just asking for peace. John drew many pieces of art that the hotel staff foolishly threw in the trash.

  • @mitchellbatchelor1594
    @mitchellbatchelor1594 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was his 2nd single release as a solo artist. #3 in USA.

  • @cmoplay1
    @cmoplay1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is Yoko. She was a performance artist. I never understood it, but he sure seemed to love her.

    • @kentclark6420
      @kentclark6420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She is grotesque.

  • @trusso11783
    @trusso11783 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not late in life. This is months after Abbey Road in 1969. They shaved their heads for peace. Yoko was an avante garde artists so she was always doing weird stuff. There is another video for this with her knitting.

  • @Dolores-mu9vo
    @Dolores-mu9vo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have you reacted to Oh Yoko? It tugs at one's proverbial heartstrings, though not in a sappy Rom-Com way. It is beautiful in its simplicity, passion, and unednjnf and unyielding love for Yoko. Hell, at the end of his life, their love was so strong and intertwined, that he and Yoko even looked alike, lol. I mean this most sincerely and with all veneration toward John and Yoko. But most especially, John...

  • @kenneth2875
    @kenneth2875 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is from his solo career. Yoko was part of his Plastic Ono Band

  • @jaylevy2108
    @jaylevy2108 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Check out #9 Dream, Working Class hero, and Watching the Wheels.... 3 very different songs from his solo years

  • @meyou-dv8ns
    @meyou-dv8ns 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Frank Zappa is playing the drums, Fran Tarkenton wrote the song then mailed it to Speed Racer and his brother Racer X but they hated the song and sold it to Bob Gibson pitcher for the STL Cardinals who gave it to John Lennon. The song was recorded in 1962 but not released till 1995, I know this because I read it in a book called " Don't believe Everything You Read". Great book !!!

    • @StumpyTales
      @StumpyTales 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't give up your day job ;)

  • @munnygawn9480
    @munnygawn9480 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's a group cal!ed Jefferson Starship (Airplane) the song is "Miracles" Album or live version you'll love it.

  • @tjtampa214
    @tjtampa214 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Now this song of his I love. (But the other one about imagining there's no Heaven -no thank you. I'm keeping Heaven in mind - thank you very much.) Lyrics matter - sound and feeling matter.

  • @chrisg9196
    @chrisg9196 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    *This song is an anti-war anthem. John is warning those who advocate for and instigate war, that the product of their efforts is going to destroy them as well (likely by a nuclear war; nobody wins a nuclear war) In other words, instant karma is going to get them, as well as their enemies (the instant blast of a nuclear bomb; retribution by way of mutually assured destruction). John offers a better solution: recognize your brother: everyone you meet. It's up to you, yeah, you! (you war advocates can stop the coming of war).*

  • @dustinmcgrady2171
    @dustinmcgrady2171 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice to see you back, Brit. Congratulations on the new addition to your family!
    Please do a reaction to Dax "To be a man" mega mix...
    I think you will enjoy it. And I'm interested to hear your take on it.
    Thanks

  • @gergsar
    @gergsar 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's interesting to note, that Lennon was a certified genius....

  • @josephnucci257
    @josephnucci257 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow,you've grown into a beautiful woman in the last coupla' years. Mad respect for your videos. However you talked over my favorite line in this song...."who do you think you are...a superstar? Well right you are"! Have the day you deserve! Joe,a fan

  • @bobcorbin3294
    @bobcorbin3294 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yoko was a performance artist before she met John

  • @chuckwilliams6261
    @chuckwilliams6261 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is Yoko sitting there, knitting with a blindfold on? That's performative art, done to make you ask questions. Worked a charm. 😄

    • @kentclark6420
      @kentclark6420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's gross.

  • @dalepatrick6480
    @dalepatrick6480 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jealous Guy is also very good 😊

  • @davidgagne3569
    @davidgagne3569 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yeah, that's Yoko. Because she can never leave John alone. at least she's not singing. This was done before he left the Beatles if my memory is correct.

  • @toolfankrk
    @toolfankrk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think he wrote this song one day before this performance.

  • @jerrypost9651
    @jerrypost9651 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely loved that reaction, Britt. ❤
    What was Yoko up to? God knows. 😏

  • @phil-nt4yz
    @phil-nt4yz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The band Yes for more of the drummer.

  • @mickjones5381
    @mickjones5381 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The blindfold is a sanitary towel, it's a comment about the downtrodden woman.

  • @StuartHanson-fo7iw
    @StuartHanson-fo7iw หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great song,nice name is brit

  • @johnmorgan9553
    @johnmorgan9553 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi from the UK . people attack Yoko wrongly believing she split up the Beatles . They were totally meant for each other . Listen to " WOMAN " by John . The guy with the tambourine is Mal Evans , a roadie and fixer for the Beatles from the VERY early days ..

  • @fr.johnwhiteford6194
    @fr.johnwhiteford6194 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Instant Karma is a curse in Witchcraft, calling for immediate retribution for someone. He must have been dabbling in the occult at the time.

  • @chuckyoneill9029
    @chuckyoneill9029 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitly talking to PAULC CARTNEY

  • @RJ-oy7cq
    @RJ-oy7cq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    YOKO was just doing her typical " performance art thing"

  • @stephenrobinson3681
    @stephenrobinson3681 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It is Yoko and she was a performance artist when she met Lennon.

    • @farfromperfek
      @farfromperfek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      her being an artist of anything is debatable.