*NOTES AND OTHER RECORDINGS: "I'm In Love" & "Bad To Me": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete recordings. You can listen to them on the bootleg "The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078)", or on the official compilation album "The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963". "She Said She Said [Take 2]": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete take, only the false starts. You can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63)". "Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Takes 2 to 5]": due to copyright, Take 6 is missing, but you can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2". "Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Take 7]: due to copyright, only the second half of the take was included. You can listen the full take on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2". Other recordings of John's home demos that I left out include: Yellow Submarine (Songwriting Work Tape), John and Ringo recordings (Pedro The Fisherman, Chi-Chi's Café, Down In Cuba, etc.), Esher Demos. CHANGES: -I applied minimum EQ and volume normalization to some tracks -"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)": Tape speed correction to match the version broadcasted on Lost Lennon Tapes Episode 009 88-13 -"Julia [Vocal Overdub Take #1 & 2]": According to the book "That Magic Feeling" the 2nd take is the one where John switchers Verses 3 and 4, so I swapped the tracks 4 and 5 of "(2009) John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)" -"Oh My Love": Tape speed correction -"Everyone Had A Good Year": The first seconds are from "The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol.3" -"I Want You": The first seconds are from "The Lost Lennon Tapes - Episode 157: Mal Evans Remembers", and I tried to reduce the background music noise -"Cold Turkey [Demo Take #1]": The first seconds are from "John Lennon - The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume 9 & 10 (Walrus - WALRUS 019-20)" AUDIO SOURCES: Track 01: Anthoni Machado TH-cam channel Track 02-03: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078) Track 04-08: The Beatles - Alf Together Now (Spank Records - SP-148) Track 09-13: The Beatles - Revolver: Recording Sessions Chronology Vol. 1 (dap - DAPB072CD1-2) Track 14: The Beatles - As It Happened Baby! (DarthDisc - RAR0001) Track 15: The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63) Track 16-34: The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition] Track 35-37: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 38-40: The Beatles - Revolution (Vigotone - VT-117) Track 41-42: The Beatles - The Lost Pepperland Reel And Other Rarities (Vigotone - VIGO-132) Track 43-49: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 50-56: The Beatles - A Doll's House Vol 2 [DISC 6] (Valkyrie Records - VAL-030) Track 57-59: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 60-62: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1967-68 (Silent Sea - SS 080) Track 63-67: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 68: 1989-08-21 Westwood One - The Lost Lennon Tapes - Elliot Mintz - Episode 083 - 89-35 - Dakota Kitchen Encounter Track 69-70: The Beatles - The 1968 Demos (Howdy Records - 555-04) Track 71: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1968-69 (Silent Sea - SS 082) Track 72: John Lennon - Christmas Present [DISC 1] (White Fly Records - WF 001-3) Track 73: John Lennon - The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume Twenty (Bag Records - BAG 5092)
There’s just something about John. His voice. His songs. I can’t believe this exists on TH-cam! He’s just fooling around and writing my favorite songs of all time. Such a treat for a fan and songwriter. Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely get what you said. It's such a surrealist feeling to know that we as fans have the chance to listen these private recordings and how a masterpiece like Strawberry Fields was developed. Truly a privilege.
The opening chords and melody of If I Fell are a bit of genius from an unschooled musician… it’s a very unusual progression and really shows what a natural talent he was.
@@johnmc3862 He was completely unschooled in respect of musical theory - he could play a few chords and that was about it. Same for McCartney too. The intro progression is not typical diatonic harmony, he’s changing keys in quite a sophisticated way without knowing the formal technicalities of how to achieve that. That’s what I meant by a natural talent, a genius in fact. But he certainly wasn’t an ‘educated’ musician.
Yeah. I think "If I Fell" is the first song where Beatles (Lennon in this case) showed that they were more than a great rock´n roll band. It´s much more sophisticated harmonically and melodically. Then of course Rubber Soul came and proved it even further with songs like In My Life, Norwegian Wood, Girl, Nowhere Man, Michelle.
Can anyone really realize what music would have been in the 60s and beyond without John … I am so happy we had his contribution to music for 40 years of his life.
This tape is priceless. Nothing in the world could be better than this. John is my favorite Beatle because of his voice/passion and his lyric style. A million thanks for sharing.
Me Too, but because I like his songs more than Paul’s. I mean Paul’s songs are great also, and he used to be my favorite in my teens…but now that I’m almost 70, I prefer John’s songs because you don’t get tired of hearing them…whereas I do get tired of hearing some of Paul’s great songs like Yesterday and Here, There, and Everywhere…they’re great but I really can’t keep listening to them without getting tired of them.
Good heavens! That demo for "If I Fell..." so vulnerably beautiful. And... I never thought I'd say this, but..... The Good Morning demo is maybe a better idea arrangement wise than the recording.
Yeah the good morning demo is just genius in how he changes the chords with such odd timing - not sure how he came up with that but wow it works so well. Much better than the released version.
Interesting to see all the equipment John had at home to record these demos, including several reel to reels. Fast forward 10 years to his Dekota home and he appeared to have used just a single cassette recorder for Free As A Bird, Now and Then and Double Fantasy demos etc.
I’m a songwriter who’s very influenced by The Beatles, and it’s very comforting to know that even John Lennon had to work & work on his songs to get them just right. These tapes are absolutely fascinating.
The perceverence, tenacity, craft and commitment that goes into the preworking of these songs to get them complete is nearly always lost on the first time listener of a Beatle tune...and for the old and true Beatle fan this is like looking behind the wizards curtain...and yet seeing that there is still magic...even behind it
Once again, I find myself listening to the sketches that eventually became absolute masterpieces. How did they do it? It seems that it comes from inspiration, and then afterwards an incredible amount of patience and blood sweat and tears. Sitting in a room, by yourself, thinking about one of the other two lads, that just played you a masterpiece and saying to yourself, I have to make this song just as good as Paul’s or George’s, and hopefully even better. The pressure those guys must’ve felt is phenomenal, but the energy that was sent from their fans in the direction of their souls Must’ve been like Manna from heaven. There’s one other thing that I’d like to mention. Unlike most other songwriters of their generation, they were able to take songs that were usually written, using a six string acoustic guitar and transform them into songs meant for electric guitars, synthesizers, drums, and bass, with exceptional vocals with multiple voices and harmony. The thing is with the Beatles the end product sounds better than the initial creation. With the Beatles, the end product sounds more authentic. It’s so weird, because with a lot of musicians, the song sounds more authentic played with an acoustic guitar by itself, which was the way that the song was written: on a six string acoustic guitar
This is truly amazing! The evolution of John’s songs! The early version of “She said, She said” could’ve been a whole other song that almost sounds like 90s grunge music. Thank you for sharing this.
The anthology was great but this is fly on the wall great! What an amazing creative process I never thought I'd be so fortunate to hear. Thanks for putting this up!
As a learning guitarist these recordings are inspirational. Such a precious insight into the process of mastering the instrument and the art of performing It's too easy when we're sitting and practicing alone to become disillusioned that we can never sound like our heroes. However hearing these familiar songs in their 'undeveloped' state gives us an achievable waypoint on the journey towards mastery, just as the songs themselves developed from their rough conception to the fully produced studio recordings.
The world changed when John left. And not for the better. Ask anyone who was there before and after. Thank god we still have the music, the clearest picture into the man's soul.
Wholeheartedly Thankful for Sharing. What a lovely surprise. Thank you so much for your efforts. Lots of love and light Dear John. We love you. Best wishes
His process was letting the tape run and using it as a notebook. These guys were not able to play a song in 24 keys.. but were brilliant in their own way. And, John left room for input from Paul.. and george, Ringo.. and of course G Martin.. altogether a remarkable document from one of the greatest if all time. He was essentially a rock n roller.. with the feel of a folk musician .. the ordinariness of it all is striking, refreshing. These are diamonds waiting to be refined.
This is awesome! I hope it encourages all you songwriters out there like it does me… every song starts somewhere and John’s process seems to allow for change and experimentation. Strawberry Fields - when he (or Paul? George?) adds those electric fill , it’s just magical to hear the song take shape-from John just banging on his acoustic to a semblance of the song we know and love.
I must say, of all the Beatles songs, If I Fell is the most beautiful and lovely song John wrote. It defines the early Beatles melodic sound more than anything Paul ever wrote… Why Paul continues to take any credit for If I Fell is criminal. These home demos are proof proper that it’s John’s completely, including the opening intro narration.
Estou muito emocionada e feliz ao mesmo instante por ter a oportunidade de ouvir essa voz inconfundível que é a John Lennon. Ele era suave qdo queria e sabia fazer isso com mastria. Obrigado por me proporcionar esse privilégio. Thank you so much!!
This is a fascinating compilation of old personal recordings. To go from this stage to final studio album version that we all know and love is really cool. Thanks for posting !!!!
Fantastické 👏👏♥️♥️ Moc ráda jsem si poslechla Johnova dema, nejvíce se mi líbila Dont Let Me Down a Julia ❤ John je můj nejoblíbenější zpěvák, vždy mě jeho písničky pohladí po duši 🤩 Některé jsem slyšela poprvé,moc se mi všechny libily,moc děkuji za vložení tohoto hudebního klenotu ❤️👍
O processo de criação de John Lennon era bastante caótico! Ele não perseguia a música por uma ideia definida, ele propositadamente sempre deixava uma abertura pra novas possibilidades e se deixava guiar por elas até se fazer um só com a canção! Um gênio intuitivo!
The greatest singer/songwriter in the history of popular music 🎶 That's not up for debate either.......... It's a closed issue. Thank you for agreeing😊
Some of those guitar parts from so-called "He Said He Said" sound like Dr Robert. Interesting to hear how bits of one song ended up as bits of another.
One can hear the Celtic Cadences and Modalities welling from the Irish lineage of Lennon (and also McCartney). Gaelic music is the very wellspring of the Western popular canon…from the ancient minstrels to the modern pop stars.
Ralph Vaughan Williams disagreed. He thought Celtic music contributed little to British folk music. But thank you for the point you made. It's a blessed relief from the "no American songs apart from blacks" nonsense. There is research by musicologists which supports the idea that European songs, even British ballads transported to Appalachia, were more important in the development of jazz than African sensibilities. That doesn't take anything away from blacks. Anyone who contends that blacks were negligible in the development of jazz has sacrificed the right to be taken seriously. It just simply was not "African sensibilities" alone which made jazz possible.
@@glassonion2315 I could only wish I were a musicologist. There is a TH-camr, Andy Edwards, who has several recent videos about this. But there is a masterpiece of a book which I would recommend to anyone: "Lost Chords," by Richard Sudhalter. That book is a paragon of brilliance. It's 1,000 pages long. It's a triumph of painstaking research, beautiful writing, and a musicologist's knowledge. He acknowledges at the beginning of the book that anyone who thinks that blacks had a negligible part in jazz's creation and development is a nitwit. His book is about the rest of the story, however. Early 20th century New Orleans, despite segregation laws, may have been the most integrated city in America. Whites, blacks, mixed race, Creoles ( both Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet maintained that they had entirely French ancestry ), American Indians, various combinations thereof: that's what New Orleans was. And Sudhalter's book is about the non black musicians and composers who made it possible. So, the book has a lot about the unrecorded Emmet Hardy, The Boswell Sisters, Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer, "The Austin High Gang," Pee Wee Russell, Jack Teagarden, Red Norvo, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan. He devotes only ten pages to Benny Goodman, about eighty to Artie Shaw, and with good reason. It's a great book, but unfortunately, it wasn't published until 1999 ( by Oxford Press ), so it didn't quite get just under the wire of political correctness. This surely accounts for its comparative obscurity, but as far as I know, it remains in print. I read my first copy so compulsively that I broke its spine, and bought a second one. Oddly, I don't remember that Sudhalter writes about the mid 19th century New Orleans composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk, who was Jewish, is fascinating, because from time to time you hear stuff in his work which augurs jazz. Over and over, Sudhalter stresses that jazz was open to "cats of every color," just as long as they could play. The book has a great account of the throwdown between Fletcher Henderson's guys and Jean Goldkette's ( among whom was Beiderbecke ). Rex Stewart, one of Henderson's, said they all were pretty smug about their performance, then, "all these tight assed little white boys came out and blew us away." It has absolutely fascinating stuff all throughout it. Example: you think, well, when jazz went north, it went straight to Chicago, everyone knows that. Nope. Indiana was the first non New Orleans jazz hotbed, especially The Dunes, as northwest Indiana folks call the southern beach of Lake Michigan which is between South Bend and the Illinois border. It was a prime resort area in the early twenties, and it's where Beiderbecke and Russell, among other notables, played throughout the summers of the early 1920s. It's probably where Carmichael and Beiderbecke met. And The Austin High Gang and associates ( Bud Freeman, Dick McPartland, Dave Tough, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, the tragic Frank Teschemacher [ sp? ] and others who were still high school kids ) came over from Chicago to hear Beiderbecke and the others as much as they could. The book is filled with that level of fascinating information. On Andy Edwards' channel, there is a video, Jazz is Not Black Music, which gets more into the European aspect of it. And it links to another video which is much longer. I've given you a lot of stuff to look into, and hope you will.
Well, John didn't mind playing with an out-of-tune guitar. I don't think I ever heard a tuned guitar, but there were some attempts at tuning. George on the Get Back session is always tuning… maybe a nervous habit. So we know John didn't have perfect pitch because the out-of-tuned guitars would have been too painful. And it's well enough that he didn't because sometimes accidents in all shapes -- i.e., out-of-tuned strings -- can give you unnerving inspiration. This confirms that songwriting is an opening up to the horizon of possibilities and seeing what comes across, without judgment, because what comes over is usually never perfect or in a final form. The focus is to have fun and see what the music produces for your own imagination and satisfaction. I almost think that out-of-tuned guitars are a way of disarming the seriousness of it. The atmosphere is like a carnival, trippy and human in every way. You can see the sources of Revolution 9. There is almost enough material to make Revolution 10. It's an unkempt garden of the mind and we, as with John, are surprised by what shows up. And there are bird sounds everywhere one goes. Yes, your bird can sing… and it's better to record it before it flies away.
Composing songs with an untuned guitar is a very special style. Its also my style, too. When a song sounds with a "rotten" guitar good, how good will it sound with tuned guitars etc.. J. L. knew this trick! Believe me!
@@HARJEN-we4gg That's an interesting idea, that the song will sound good regardless. You can't kill it. I've heard that said about good songs in general, that if you play it on an acoustic guitar it will still come across. A good song is a good song. I also think that Lennon was lazy... even lazy to tune up his guitars and that if he took time to tune he might forget what he was thinking about. He gave his whole attention to the song and did not stray about other unimportant things.
*NOTES AND OTHER RECORDINGS:
"I'm In Love" & "Bad To Me": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete recordings. You can listen to them on the bootleg "The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078)", or on the official compilation album "The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963".
"She Said She Said [Take 2]": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete take, only the false starts. You can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63)".
"Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Takes 2 to 5]": due to copyright, Take 6 is missing, but you can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2".
"Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Take 7]: due to copyright, only the second half of the take was included. You can listen the full take on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2".
Other recordings of John's home demos that I left out include: Yellow Submarine (Songwriting Work Tape), John and Ringo recordings (Pedro The Fisherman, Chi-Chi's Café, Down In Cuba, etc.), Esher Demos.
CHANGES:
-I applied minimum EQ and volume normalization to some tracks
-"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)": Tape speed correction to match the version broadcasted on Lost Lennon Tapes Episode 009 88-13
-"Julia [Vocal Overdub Take #1 & 2]": According to the book "That Magic Feeling" the 2nd take is the one where John switchers Verses 3 and 4, so I swapped the tracks 4 and 5 of "(2009) John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)"
-"Oh My Love": Tape speed correction
-"Everyone Had A Good Year": The first seconds are from "The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol.3"
-"I Want You": The first seconds are from "The Lost Lennon Tapes - Episode 157: Mal Evans Remembers", and I tried to reduce the background music noise
-"Cold Turkey [Demo Take #1]": The first seconds are from "John Lennon - The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume 9 & 10 (Walrus - WALRUS 019-20)"
AUDIO SOURCES:
Track 01: Anthoni Machado TH-cam channel
Track 02-03: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078)
Track 04-08: The Beatles - Alf Together Now (Spank Records - SP-148)
Track 09-13: The Beatles - Revolver: Recording Sessions Chronology Vol. 1 (dap - DAPB072CD1-2)
Track 14: The Beatles - As It Happened Baby! (DarthDisc - RAR0001)
Track 15: The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63)
Track 16-34: The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]
Track 35-37: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)
Track 38-40: The Beatles - Revolution (Vigotone - VT-117)
Track 41-42: The Beatles - The Lost Pepperland Reel And Other Rarities (Vigotone - VIGO-132)
Track 43-49: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)
Track 50-56: The Beatles - A Doll's House Vol 2 [DISC 6] (Valkyrie Records - VAL-030)
Track 57-59: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)
Track 60-62: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1967-68 (Silent Sea - SS 080)
Track 63-67: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)
Track 68: 1989-08-21 Westwood One - The Lost Lennon Tapes - Elliot Mintz - Episode 083 - 89-35 - Dakota Kitchen Encounter
Track 69-70: The Beatles - The 1968 Demos (Howdy Records - 555-04)
Track 71: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1968-69 (Silent Sea - SS 082)
Track 72: John Lennon - Christmas Present [DISC 1] (White Fly Records - WF 001-3)
Track 73: John Lennon - The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume Twenty (Bag Records - BAG 5092)
Thank you for compiling all these recordings and for your modest enhancements. John sounds so sweet and innocent in this raw portrait
Thank you so much 💓
You dont hear much from John Lennon these days. No new records or tours.
Did he retire?
@@SagaLarton are you alright?
@@jax8527 Yes fine thanks U?
You hear the "you-hoo-ooh" from Imagine on If I Fell! Mind-blowing!
My two favorite Lennon songs. What a miraculous thing it is to have these recordings.
wow you're right
4:53
Sounds like Tiny Tim.
@@guffmuff90 That's just your imagination.
There’s just something about John. His voice. His songs. I can’t believe this exists on TH-cam! He’s just fooling around and writing my favorite songs of all time. Such a treat for a fan and songwriter. Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely get what you said. It's such a surrealist feeling to know that we as fans have the chance to listen these private recordings and how a masterpiece like Strawberry Fields was developed. Truly a privilege.
We’re taught to sing from the diaphragm but Lennon sang from the heart and from a mind that knew the imagery of wonderful dreams .
Watching She Said, She Said being born is pretty amazing. I imagine he must have really felt that one when it clicked.
Love your comment.
It’s really something :)
It's truly mad how long the songwriting process was for Strawberry Fields - it really was his magnum opus
Incorrectly attributed to Lennon and McCartney when it should have been attributed to Lennon & Martin as with I am the Walrus too.
@@Neil-AspinallPaul had a lot to do with those songs, he wrote the intro to Strawberry Fields
@@Neil-Aspinall nonsense. Martin wanted songs to be Lennon-McCartney as well. It is their trademark.
@@Neil-AspinallWhat a ridiculous comment! You should delete this! 😒
Thank you for uploading this audio.
It almost sounds like Lennon is quietly crying while singing If I Fell, well thanks Lennon know I am too.
Pissed, I think?
@@georgejamestaylor7572agree he sounds pissed lol
I was thinking the same thing....specially at the end of the first demo, he sounds clearly emotional...
@@Mary-mw7ve ¿¿¿are you deaf or just dumb¿¿¿
Difficult to hold back the tears when hearing him working his way through If I Fell
i can never get bored listening to John. i love him so much
Me too. He's my absolute hero!!
I feel the same way.
❤❤❤❤❤
The opening chords and melody of If I Fell are a bit of genius from an unschooled musician… it’s a very unusual progression and really shows what a natural talent he was.
I’d say Unconventional rather than unschooled. He knew what sounded good in his head.
@@johnmc3862 He was completely unschooled in respect of musical theory - he could play a few chords and that was about it. Same for McCartney too. The intro progression is not typical diatonic harmony, he’s changing keys in quite a sophisticated way without knowing the formal technicalities of how to achieve that. That’s what I meant by a natural talent, a genius in fact. But he certainly wasn’t an ‘educated’ musician.
Yeah. I think "If I Fell" is the first song where Beatles (Lennon in this case) showed that they were more than a great rock´n roll band. It´s much more sophisticated harmonically and melodically. Then of course Rubber Soul came and proved it even further with songs like In My Life, Norwegian Wood, Girl, Nowhere Man, Michelle.
That’s when his trained ears came into play ✌️❤️
@@comedyriff5231 I think that distinction goes to "Not A Second Time" or even "From Me to You" due to their unusual bridges
I love how She Said She Said just started off as a regular 60's folk ditty before evolving severely into what it became
Can anyone really realize what music would have been in the 60s and beyond without John … I am so happy we had his contribution to music for 40 years of his life.
Even johns piano playing has its own unique signature..
so true.
I was going to say 'so true' but someone already has. May I second their comment.
the development of Strawberry Fields is mind blowing, bit by bit the masterpiece is made
He has a few. “Just like starting over” took a lot of work too it seems.
This tape is priceless. Nothing in the world could be better than this. John is my favorite Beatle because of his voice/passion and his lyric style. A million thanks for sharing.
Me Too, but because I like his songs more than Paul’s. I mean Paul’s songs are great also, and he used to be my favorite in my teens…but now that I’m almost 70, I prefer John’s songs because you don’t get tired of hearing them…whereas I do get tired of hearing some of Paul’s great songs like Yesterday and Here, There, and Everywhere…they’re great but I really can’t keep listening to them without getting tired of them.
Good heavens! That demo for "If I Fell..." so vulnerably beautiful. And... I never thought I'd say this, but..... The Good Morning demo is maybe a better idea arrangement wise than the recording.
Pure genius
The "Good Morning" take from Anthology is way better than the final cut.
it hurts my ears. so bad.
Yeah the good morning demo is just genius in how he changes the chords with such odd timing - not sure how he came up with that but wow it works so well. Much better than the released version.
What did we ever do, before TH-cam? What a treasure trove!
all this stuff was just sitting somewhere gong unheard. it's absolutely incredible the access we have now.
tapes & bootlegs trading
@@Dave_Albright yes, true. But that was such a comparatively small number of folks
Growing up my dad talked about a box set of tapes he had with some of these demos, interviews and john talking on them
We had to get bootlegs. Took a lot of trips & crate digging but felt rewarding when you stumbled across one 🕉️
Simply John Lennon... The greatest
I could listen to this for hours & hours. I close my eyes & its like he's still with us. Still loving & missing you deeply John 😘😘😘
It was the mixture of chords from different keys that made these songs so good. Helped to write the melodies too.
Love hearing these raw expressions from a musical titan.
A titan - a good word for John. He was.
love John forever and always
“Oh My Love” with Yoko’s additions is so haunting and beautiful. This video is a real gem!
You can see why he was on top of the musical food chain , the words and melodies coming out of him alone by sheer volume must be ... Destined ❤
Interesting to see all the equipment John had at home to record these demos, including several reel to reels.
Fast forward 10 years to his Dekota home and he appeared to have used just a single cassette recorder for Free As A Bird, Now and Then and Double Fantasy demos etc.
I’m a songwriter who’s very influenced by The Beatles, and it’s very comforting to know that even John Lennon had to work & work on his songs to get them just right. These tapes are absolutely fascinating.
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The perceverence, tenacity, craft and commitment that goes into the preworking of these songs to get them complete is nearly always lost on the first time listener of a Beatle tune...and for the old and true Beatle fan this is like looking behind the wizards curtain...and yet seeing that there is still magic...even behind it
I can’t believe your comment has only got one like so far! Beautifully put.
Once again, I find myself listening to the sketches that eventually became absolute masterpieces. How did they do it? It seems that it comes from inspiration, and then afterwards an incredible amount of patience and blood sweat and tears. Sitting in a room, by yourself, thinking about one of the other two lads, that just played you a masterpiece and saying to yourself, I have to make this song just as good as Paul’s or George’s, and hopefully even better. The pressure those guys must’ve felt is phenomenal, but the energy that was sent from their fans in the direction of their souls Must’ve been like Manna from heaven.
There’s one other thing that I’d like to mention. Unlike most other songwriters of their generation, they were able to take songs that were usually written, using a six string acoustic guitar and transform them into songs meant for electric guitars, synthesizers, drums, and bass, with exceptional vocals with multiple voices and harmony. The thing is with the Beatles the end product sounds better than the initial creation. With the Beatles, the end product sounds more authentic. It’s so weird, because with a lot of musicians, the song sounds more authentic played with an acoustic guitar by itself, which was the way that the song was written: on a six string acoustic guitar
This is a remarkably great piece of curated Lennon! Well done to the OP!🌌🌠
Unbelievable! It's amazing to see how he created immortal songs. He literally created these great hits out of NOTHING.
@vivito You say 'Thats not true'. Wrong. It is true.
Well wonderful early music John and Paul did. Oh miss you John.
Especially John...
This is truly amazing! The evolution of John’s songs! The early version of “She said, She said” could’ve been a whole other song that almost sounds like 90s grunge music. Thank you for sharing this.
that What Goes On demo is so Dylan sounding
The anthology was great but this is fly on the wall great! What an amazing creative process I never thought I'd be so fortunate to hear. Thanks for putting this up!
Thank you so much for sharing this
Thanks. Love how he starts singing the melody of I Should agave Known Better at the end if If I Fell.
As a learning guitarist these recordings are inspirational. Such a precious insight into the process of mastering the instrument and the art of performing It's too easy when we're sitting and practicing alone to become disillusioned that we can never sound like our heroes. However hearing these familiar songs in their 'undeveloped' state gives us an achievable waypoint on the journey towards mastery, just as the songs themselves developed from their rough conception to the fully produced studio recordings.
Julia é de cortar o coração e ao mesmo tempo uma preciosidade
The world changed when John left.
And not for the better.
Ask anyone who was there before and after.
Thank god we still have the music, the clearest picture into the man's soul.
I absolutely love your comment.
Wholeheartedly Thankful for Sharing. What a lovely surprise. Thank you so much for your efforts. Lots of love and light Dear John. We love you. Best wishes
You are the man. Thank you for taking the time to do all of this. Never realized he had so many home recordings before the 70s.
Very Rare...Amazing for all Beatle fans around the world to hear this....
The trippy attic room mellotron stuff is FAAARR out. What an amazing insight into John's acid brain 🧠
His process was letting the tape run and using it as a notebook. These guys were not able to play a song in 24 keys.. but were brilliant in their own way. And, John left room for input from Paul.. and george, Ringo.. and of course G Martin.. altogether a remarkable document from one of the greatest if all time.
He was essentially a rock n roller.. with the feel of a folk musician .. the ordinariness of it all is striking, refreshing. These are diamonds waiting to be refined.
could you ellaborate on the 24 keys part u mean they only knew a few music keys? if so that's even crazier
@@jds2056And completely wrong.
Happy birthday, John! It felt like you were right next to me. John's singing voice is like a treasure. Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome! I hope it encourages all you songwriters out there like it does me… every song starts somewhere and John’s process seems to allow for change and experimentation. Strawberry Fields - when he (or Paul? George?) adds those electric fill , it’s just magical to hear the song take shape-from John just banging on his acoustic to a semblance of the song we know and love.
How am I just now hearing this? wow
I must say, of all the Beatles songs, If I Fell is the most beautiful and lovely song John wrote. It defines the early Beatles melodic sound more than anything Paul ever wrote… Why Paul continues to take any credit for If I Fell is criminal. These home demos are proof proper that it’s John’s completely, including the opening intro narration.
Estou muito emocionada e feliz ao mesmo instante por ter a oportunidade de ouvir essa voz inconfundível que é a John Lennon. Ele era suave qdo queria e sabia fazer isso com mastria. Obrigado por me proporcionar esse privilégio. Thank you so much!!
Yoko singing about the baby's heartbeat (Oh My Love) is rather 😢
I'm so thrilled at just now finding this. Only a few minutes in, but loving it very much. Thanks for sharing🩵
Genius at work.
Exactly.
Absolutely fantastic
If you want an absolute masterclass in songwriting then this is it, folks, doesn't get better.
I just love (abd niss) him. That voice and those songs are magnificent! 💟☮️💟☮️
A treasure trove of a video !! Thank you so much!!
Seconded.
This is amazing for Beatles fans who are also musicians. Thank you!
This is a fascinating compilation of old personal recordings. To go from this stage to final studio album version that we all know and love is really cool. Thanks for posting !!!!
Sing it, Johnny! Thank you!
If I fell was a good from the start
This like heaven.
I agree.
18:11 kinda sounds like Heart Shaped Box
Fantastické 👏👏♥️♥️ Moc ráda jsem si poslechla Johnova dema, nejvíce se mi líbila Dont Let Me Down a Julia ❤ John je můj nejoblíbenější zpěvák, vždy mě jeho písničky pohladí po duši 🤩 Některé jsem slyšela poprvé,moc se mi všechny libily,moc děkuji za vložení tohoto hudebního klenotu ❤️👍
Qué hermoso, poder escuchar como armaba su sus canciones es maravilloso, muchísimas gracias. Estoy muy emocionada.
The Primordial Ooze from which some of the world's most brilliant music emerges...
To the person who made this video .. thank you, thank you, thank you ...
Thank you so much for making us this present! What a talent he was. 🙏🏼
Thank you flor these recordings.
Wow what a treat thank you so much
The most creative human that I’ve ever seen. Him and Dylan and Paul and Robbie Robertson are my Rushmore
AMAZING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS GEM.
Thanks for compiling all of these together!
Gold mine !
Many of these are new to me. Thank you for sharing !!
RIP my favorite beatle i hope everything is not too bad wherever you are, may your energy travel through the cosmos forever
An absolutely beautiful comment ...
He’s in good hands
Yes
This is just so damn awesome. Wow.
Thanks so much for these home recordings….really nice, and such great pics of John, which I’ve never seen, and I’ve seen them all! Thanks, Santiago! ❤
Thank you for posting this!❤
O processo de criação de John Lennon era bastante caótico! Ele não perseguia a música por uma ideia definida, ele propositadamente sempre deixava uma abertura pra novas possibilidades e se deixava guiar por elas até se fazer um só com a canção! Um gênio intuitivo!
Wow that early version of "Oh my love" almost sounds like a bossa nova chord progression.
didnt know yoko could sing like that
man thank you❤this is amazing
Amazing
Wow never heard the first song!!! amazing
Original songs. A very creative vision for songwriting thru guitar.
Thank you for this post.
Really fantastic !
Demo version are better than the final album take ❤
¡Qué precioso! Muchas gracias.
Lennon had a wonderful voice I have read, however, that he didn't really like his voice. But it was magnificent.
The greatest singer/songwriter in the history of popular music 🎶
That's not up for debate either..........
It's a closed issue.
Thank you for agreeing😊
God bless you, Brother!
Some of those guitar parts from so-called "He Said He Said" sound like Dr Robert. Interesting to hear how bits of one song ended up as bits of another.
Wow this is special stuff
Wow, this really insightful to his guitar playing
Material maravilloso. Gracias.
One can hear the Celtic Cadences and Modalities welling from the Irish lineage of Lennon (and also McCartney). Gaelic music is the very wellspring of the Western popular canon…from the ancient minstrels to the modern pop stars.
And Harrison was probably the most Irish of the all.
Ralph Vaughan Williams disagreed. He thought Celtic music contributed little to British folk music. But thank you for the point you made. It's a blessed relief from the "no American songs apart from blacks" nonsense. There is research by musicologists which supports the idea that European songs, even British ballads transported to Appalachia, were more important in the development of jazz than African sensibilities.
That doesn't take anything away from blacks. Anyone who contends that blacks were negligible in the development of jazz has sacrificed the right to be taken seriously.
It just simply was not "African sensibilities" alone which made jazz possible.
@@bobtaylor170 Hello, could you tell me the names of the authors or the research? I would be glad to read about it!
Cheers, a fellow musicologist
@@glassonion2315 I could only wish I were a musicologist.
There is a TH-camr, Andy Edwards, who has several recent videos about this. But there is a masterpiece of a book which I would recommend to anyone: "Lost Chords," by Richard Sudhalter.
That book is a paragon of brilliance. It's 1,000 pages long. It's a triumph of painstaking research, beautiful writing, and a musicologist's knowledge. He acknowledges at the beginning of the book that anyone who thinks that blacks had a negligible part in jazz's creation and development is a nitwit. His book is about the rest of the story, however.
Early 20th century New Orleans, despite segregation laws, may have been the most integrated city in America. Whites, blacks, mixed race, Creoles ( both Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet maintained that they had entirely French ancestry ), American Indians, various combinations thereof: that's what New Orleans was.
And Sudhalter's book is about the non black musicians and composers who made it possible. So, the book has a lot about the unrecorded Emmet Hardy, The Boswell Sisters, Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer, "The Austin High Gang," Pee Wee Russell, Jack Teagarden, Red Norvo, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan. He devotes only ten pages to Benny Goodman, about eighty to Artie Shaw, and with good reason.
It's a great book, but unfortunately, it wasn't published until 1999 ( by Oxford Press ), so it didn't quite get just under the wire of political correctness. This surely accounts for its comparative obscurity, but as far as I know, it remains in print. I read my first copy so compulsively that I broke its spine, and bought a second one. Oddly, I don't remember that Sudhalter writes about the mid 19th century New Orleans composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk, who was Jewish, is fascinating, because from time to time you hear stuff in his work which augurs jazz.
Over and over, Sudhalter stresses that jazz was open to "cats of every color," just as long as they could play. The book has a great account of the throwdown between Fletcher Henderson's guys and Jean Goldkette's ( among whom was Beiderbecke ). Rex Stewart, one of Henderson's, said they all were pretty smug about their performance, then, "all these tight assed little white boys came out and blew us away."
It has absolutely fascinating stuff all throughout it. Example: you think, well, when jazz went north, it went straight to Chicago, everyone knows that. Nope. Indiana was the first non New Orleans jazz hotbed, especially The Dunes, as northwest Indiana folks call the southern beach of Lake Michigan which is between South Bend and the Illinois border. It was a prime resort area in the early twenties, and it's where Beiderbecke and Russell, among other notables, played throughout the summers of the early 1920s. It's probably where Carmichael and Beiderbecke met. And The Austin High Gang and associates ( Bud Freeman, Dick McPartland, Dave Tough, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, the tragic Frank Teschemacher [ sp? ] and others who were still high school kids ) came over from Chicago to hear Beiderbecke and the others as much as they could.
The book is filled with that level of fascinating information.
On Andy Edwards' channel, there is a video, Jazz is Not Black Music, which gets more into the European aspect of it. And it links to another video which is much longer.
I've given you a lot of stuff to look into, and hope you will.
Great video! I hope you do a similar thing with the rest of his demos! Great work!
Esto es para todos los que amamos al loco, GRACIAS.......
Well, John didn't mind playing with an out-of-tune guitar. I don't think I ever heard a tuned guitar, but there were some attempts at tuning. George on the Get Back session is always tuning… maybe a nervous habit. So we know John didn't have perfect pitch because the out-of-tuned guitars would have been too painful. And it's well enough that he didn't because sometimes accidents in all shapes -- i.e., out-of-tuned strings -- can give you unnerving inspiration. This confirms that songwriting is an opening up to the horizon of possibilities and seeing what comes across, without judgment, because what comes over is usually never perfect or in a final form. The focus is to have fun and see what the music produces for your own imagination and satisfaction. I almost think that out-of-tuned guitars are a way of disarming the seriousness of it. The atmosphere is like a carnival, trippy and human in every way. You can see the sources of Revolution 9. There is almost enough material to make Revolution 10. It's an unkempt garden of the mind and we, as with John, are surprised by what shows up. And there are bird sounds everywhere one goes. Yes, your bird can sing… and it's better to record it before it flies away.
Composing songs with an untuned guitar is a very special style. Its also my style, too.
When a song sounds with a "rotten" guitar good, how good will it sound with tuned guitars etc.. J. L. knew this trick!
Believe me!
@@HARJEN-we4gg That's an interesting idea, that the song will sound good regardless. You can't kill it. I've heard that said about good songs in general, that if you play it on an acoustic guitar it will still come across. A good song is a good song. I also think that Lennon was lazy... even lazy to tune up his guitars and that if he took time to tune he might forget what he was thinking about. He gave his whole attention to the song and did not stray about other unimportant things.
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Sua anima è vive per sempre, 💕😅
So cool to hear him experimenting with the mellotron. Never knew these tapes existed