Drummer reacts to "How Do You Sleep?" by John Lennon
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George on the slide is insanely good - yet so simple. The genius of George Harrison
Klaus was an old friend of The Beatles from Hamburg. He also drew the cover of Revolver. 🕊❤️🎼
Klaus should be in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Look Up the fantastic bio of him here on CZcams.
And played bass for the Manfred Mann band.
John’s Response to McCartney’s too many people
John was such a genius. He could write such amazing tunes with wonderfully original riffs and grooves. RIP.
John met Klaus when the Beatles were playing in Germany, before becoming famous. Klaus went on the play bass with the Rock band Manfred Mann. Klaus may be best known as the artist who created the Revolver album for the Beatles, doing all the drawings and pasting the collage photos. Klaus played bass on many of John's early hits.
Just roll outta bed, have breakfast , feed all the musicians, engineers, invite Old buddy George, and after that stroll to next room, oh a studio...and Jam. That's living. ❤😂
This version is so much better than the version that ended up on the album, produced by Phil Spector. Overproduced with strings and stuff. This one has so much vibes and George’s guitar is absolutely beautiful.
The only thing you did was "Yesterday, but since you've gone you're just a "Another Day." Indeed. Ouch.
That’s my favorite part of the song!
Yeah - that line was suggested by Alan Klein.
Oh yeah this will irritate any McCartney fan because he was pretty innocent and all this and they were just being jerks. Later they all apologized. But that's no way to treat a brother over the universe. They would've been broke had Paul sued. He couldn't sue Alan Klein the only way he could save himself from Alan Klein was to suit the Beatles. Which they were grateful for after it was all over with because they all admitted Paul was right. But when you look at this it just makes me sickjust makes me sick John crucified Paul gave him years of horrible Press. All because they all screwed up. So I hate the whole thing personally
I LOVE the way John sweeps his strumming between pickups. Like a locomotive
Dude him and George both were on fire Here. I love their harmony with the guitars. Such talented musicianship
They actually had been together for ever. Since they were 14-16 years old, till they were almost 30. They were brothers, and brother sometimes argue. No big deal. It was the business that was causing most of the problems.
Lennon at his most bitterness. But he came around in the end.
He knows and we all know how good they all were
John admitted a few years later that Paul was right about Klein
The post-Beatles rivalry between them really wasn't as severe as a lot of people think - there's a lot of legend and myth that gets in the way. They were always friends. Friends fight. Legal issues makes that worse. They make up, etc.
Thank you for saying this. :)
Friction isn't always bad. "Too Many People" and "How do You Sleep" are both good songs.
Can't wait when you hear 'God' from Lennon. Love that song... it's one of those songs you remember forever. It's so nonchalantly brave, honest, heartbreaking and just great. Just like Lennon.
It really is. So is Mother, and Isolation is, well, the whole album is important in many ways.
@@lauraallen55 Yeah those are favourites too. Just a fantastic album.
@@VampeyMK Might be the most amazing album I've ever heard, and that's saying something!
Lee, that bass player Klaus Voormann knew the Beatles all the way back to the early days when they were performing in Hamburg before they were famous. He was an art student at the time. He did the cover artwork for the "Revolver" album. He played on many songs with all of the Beatles' except for McCartney.
Also, I had the opportunity to meet Nicky Hopkins at an album signing event in 1984. He played on the soundtrack for the Sci-Fi book, "Battlefield Earth"
A great raw version of the tune. So good to see John & co playin' live.
For the best drumming of any Lennon song. It's gotta be Instant Karma
Klaus Voormann was an early friend of the Beatles when they did their gigs in Hamburg, Germany before hitting it big. They first met in 1960. Voormann introduced them to his artist friends, especially Astrid Kirchherr. It was Astrid who is credited with giving the Beatles their famous hair styles and moved them away from leather jackets and into mod, stylishly cut clothing.
Both, the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums, are absolutely great. John at his best.
John & Paul were watching Saturday Night Live at John's Dakota apartment a few years later when they made their joke offer of three thousand dollars for The Beatles to reunite. John said he and Paul almost took them up on it. This was after The Beatles had been offered 50 million for one concert.
Paul later said only John saw the offer and told Paul about it a week later when SNL started and John remembered the offer. There's a movie based on the version of events you described.
@@johncampbell756 I'm going on John's description of the event from his Playboy interview. He said that ultimately, "they were both too tired."
@@johncampbell756 It's The Beatles Rashomon effect: 4 different truths depending on who was being interviewed. SNL continued the gag when George was the musical guest a bit later, and Ringo much later.
@@robertsaul234 Crosby, Stills and Nash each remember their first meeting being in different places, but all agree that once they sang together once at that house, the group was formed. Each thinks it was a different singer's house, all in the same neighborhood though.
It's a matter of taste but this is an early rehearsal take from the Imagine movie and still missing a couple of key ingredients from the finished version that appeared on the album. John was still feeling his way in the song at this stage and John is not yet singing the haunting long vocal note that makes the chorus on the album version. Nice string overdubs on the album version too. You should check it out
I definitely plan on listening to this and working class hero from the studio cuts. I think the requester just wanted me to see some of the videos too. But I am definitely gonna check out the original Imagine album
@@L33Reacts I did want you to see the videos. Don't forget to check out the whole Plastic Ono Band album, too! It's an absolute masterpiece. It's not an album to sit and jam to, but rather one that's full of pain and anguish with him expressing all the hurt and abandonment he felt as a child. I would probably have grown up to be a criminal or something bad if I had his childhood.
@@L33Reacts Enjoy!
Love this live version
Just read where some New York Newspaper writer said that Taylor Swift was bigger than the Beatles the most ridiculous and laughable thing I’ve ever heard 🤣🤣🤣
Rick Beato did a video on that the other day. Check it out.
But is she bigger than Slim Whitman?
My a**.
Jesus is laughing about that one....
@@russallert I see what you did there.
Paul's first single after the breakup was Another Day. So it rhymed with Yesterday. But they all were as close as brothers, so they can say what they want about each other. Look out if someone from the outside should take aim. They would come to each others defense.
And before someone chimes in, Paul's Song "Dear Boy" off of RAM wasn't directed to John, it was a song directed to Linda's ex husband.
John thought it was about him.
The others thought Three Legs was about them. They thought the beetles screwing were about them.
that is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! Thank you for bringing it up, I was going to, if no one else had.
@@patticrichton1135 Beatles lore gets pretty convoluted depending on the memory of the person telling it lol! Including me. I usually go check the Beatles Bible to make sure first.
Paul wrote songs with passive aggressive little digs because it was his personality. John wrote a song that was very pointed and direct because it was his personality. They loved each other. That's all that matters.
The video you showed for "Working Class Hero", and these outtakes from the "How Do You Sleep?" sessions are just not the same as hearing these iconic songs as they're presented on Lennon's studio albums.
Remembrance videos and studio outakes certainly can lead to an increased appreciation of the artist, but I really think you would appeciate all these things more if you initially heard the iconic album versions of the songs being celebrated, even if you don't play them on the channel.
And don't get me wrong, the "Imagine" Box Set collection is fascinating, and a must for those who really want to delve into the depths.
I know you say you "don't really care", and that's your perogative, which I'll respect. It is your channel after all, and as Lennon also once said, "Whatever gets you thru the night, it's alright."
Just my thoughts, that's all. 😊
Like your P&J analogy
You should do a reaction to John’s song “mother”
He really should! That one, and God, and Isolation, and anything, really from Plastic Ono Band, and beyond, as well as more from Imagine.
@@lauraallen55 the plastic ono band album is a gem
@@vivasanpietro It's just so good. Really impactful.
The Beatles werent the best musicians but they created great music together. Their creativity and the way they played together made them outstanding.
Alan White I think was 20 years old when he recorded the Imagine album which included this track. He also played drums on John Lennon's Instant Karma, as well as some of the tracks on George Harrison's ALL THINGS MUST PASS, all before joining YES.
Klaus is a friend of The Beatles from the Hamburg days. He plays bass on Carly Simon's You're so Vain. Check out the iconic intro.
Also a member of the Manfred Mann band 1966 to 1969 - Klaus was a very accomplished yet relatively unheralded musician. Graphic art was his original profession, so he's definitely multi-talented. Still alive and kicking at 86 years of age.
If you want to keep the story going, try Sue Me Sue You Blues by George Harrison.
After the line "The only thing you done was Yesterday", John originally wrote "You probably pinched her anyway". His manager, Allen Klein, said he thought that might be a mistake and possibly open himself to a lawsuit. He suggest John change it to "And since you've gone it's just Another Day", a reference to Paul's most recent single. John liked it and so that's the way it wound up.
'You probably pinched that bitch anyway' meaning he probably stole the song.
I've heard John say that Klein also came up with "The only thing you done was yesterday ..."
Enjoyed the video. Great to see it going down live in the studio.
Bassist Klaus Voorman was a friend of the Beatles from their pre-Ri go Hamburg days. He designed the cover art for the Revolver album. Klaus played on a bunch oh John's stuff and on some of George's stuff.
This was a year or two before Alan joined Yes.
In 1976, Lorne Michael's, producer of Saturday Night Live offered The Beatles, live on air, $3000 to reunite on SNL. John was living in NYC and saw the offer. Paul visited John the next week. When SNL started, John told him about the offer. A movie was made vased on the initial story that Paul saw the offer with John, and they almost went down to the show, but George and Ribgo weren't around.
Voorman did the artwork for REVOLVER
Klaus is the one who designed Revolver album cover.
Klaus Voorman was in Manfred Mann.
There was so much resentment between them post Beatles. I think Paul wanted to carry on as before but the others had had enough.
And John's comments are spot on... The track is one barnstormer... And I have loved it ever since I heard it te week the album released... You have heard Klaus Voorman's name from George's albums... and also from the fact that Klaus first met them in Germany when they were learning to be Beatles.... Way back in 1960/1... They became the band they were whilst Klaus was watching. You will read about him and Astrid as very important people in their lives in their own way. And it's another illustration of once you were in the Beatle circle you were there...
The other thing to remember about this time in John's life is that he was dumping on everything that came before including The Beatles... There was so much coming out at the time.. but you learned to take it with a pinch of salt because if you were sensible you took it with a pinch of salt.... Because it was like the worst divorce in history and you know how acrmonious they can get... John and Paul were just able to write songs about it too...!!!
Paul responded with "Silly Love Songs" which is a perfect pop song, so it's all good.
I don't think Paul responded to this song with that. I think he responded to John calling his songs 'Silly granny songs'
Yeah buddy
Lee, your words at the end of each reaction video you do are always wise. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for this. I haven't given this one it's due through the years. I hear it differently now. Great art.
One of my favourite pieces of music ever.
A great version of this song and the video really adds to it for me. It's interesting to see how casual everyone is while putting together the song.
John’s Jealous Guy was the most authentic voice . ☮️
That's such a good song. Too much focus about a short period of time when they were in a mood, and not enough about what mattered most for them.
John's line "The only thing you done was Yesterday" was in reference to what was probably Paul's biggest hit song with the Beatles. Followed by "But since you've gone you're just "Another Day" was a nod to Paul's first #1 after the Beatles. So naturally Paul soon followed up with "Smile away" from "Ram" in retaliation to John's song "How do you sleep" Bickering brothers lol
Ram came before How Do You Sleep.
Run of the mill by George Harrison is about Paul as well from this period in time.
The Beatles weren't getting along very well at this time after the break up.
It's hard to be in a band for a long time.
Sometimes there are resentments along the way, but still My old band mates are still brothers 'till the end.
Even though we've all gone our seperate ways. ✌️♥️🍏
Wah-Wah too. Ringo had Back Off Boogaloo. They were all unhappy with Paul at the time. That's great about your bandmates. :)
The late great _Nation Lampoon_ did a comedy album in 1973 ("Radio Dinner") on which they did a parody of Lennon that sounded a lot like this song (with bits of others) called "Genius Is Pain" that basically was verbatim quotes of Lennon from an interview in _Rolling Stone._ It kind of flips this whole song on its head and makes him sound like an unappreciated prima donna. I confess the song is feels almost sacrilegious to listen to but it's not completely off base in lampooning him. Of course, almost nobody remembers it, and everybody remembers Lennon's music because he really was a musical genius.
John🤗
They knew Klaus from 1960 when they played the clubs of Hamburg Germany. This was before Ringo was in the band and they had a bass player named Stuart Sutcliffe. So John goes back with Klaus.
Yep, a stellar line-up playing here. One minor quibble: Klaus Voormann's name isn't pronounced like Santa Claus, but instead rhymes with house, mouse, spouse, louse, etc. He has a big footprint on the rock world, from playing with Manfred Mann to his work as a studio musician in the 70s to producing the German New Wave band Trio in the 80s, and not to forget his art work (Revolver cover, the cover of The Bee Gees' major label debut album).
By the way, if you want to see Klaus singing and playing bass live with Manfred Mann, check out their cover of Hound Dog. czcams.com/video/cHYutY0hYfM/video.html
the chorus they finally got to with the "how do you sleep........................nights" pause was key
You need to watch 'Yer Blues', the live version with Lennon playing with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell
Klaus also did the famous bass line on Carly Simon's You're So Vain.
Dear Mr McCartney….
Klaus Voormann is a guy that goes back to the Beatles Hamburg days when John's friend Stuart Sutcliffe was in the band playing bass.
Kinda also lets you know where George's loyalty lay.
I think that all three of them were ticked off at Paul during this period, and a lot of it over business stuff. I know George was not in the best of moods with Paul during the last days, and for a time afterwards. Wah-Wah was mainly about Paul, after all.
@@lauraallen55 Ringo wasn't, He was asked to play drums on this, but he didn't like the lyrics and told John that he had gone TOO far, didn't want any part of it, and he left. I would have too. It was that darn Allen Klein that was at the root of all of it, and in the end, Paul was RIGHT NOT to go with Allen....John, George and Ringo eventually realized that and actually admitted that Paul was right about Klein.
@@patticrichton1135 Yes, I know the history with Allen Klein. However, Paul was also suing them, and there was bad blood all round. Ringo did Back Off Bugaloo about Paul. He did say he thought some of the lines they were considering went too far. I don't know if he 'walked out' or not. What I would do? No idea, and I don't think anyone really does because it was their personal fight, and they were all good friends. John and Paul were hurt, and put it to song. Each in the style of their individual personalities. Personally, I would have been very hurt at the passive aggressive way that Paul did things, more so than I would at the direct and pointed way John did. Everyone is different.
A lot of people talk about how mean and horrible John was to Paul, but they all did mean things to each other. Not my - or anyone's place to judge in my opinion.
Klaus Voorman designed the Revolver album and also designed the cover for the Anthology compilations.
its a great tune, with different lyrics it would be a classic, I am just never entirely comfortable listening to this!
John obviously felt the same way so more or less remade the song as "Steel and Glass" 👍
Mark, that's how I feel about it. I don't like those lyrics, I don't see how any Beatles fan would, the music and groove of the song itself is great, but not those hurtful lyrics.
Since everyone here is saying this was a response to "Too Many People," I'll take their word for it. I'd always heard it was a response to "Live and Let Die," which it sort of echoes. But, yeah, bitterness towards Paul.
Live and Let Die came out a couple years after How Do You Sleep. How Do You Sleep was definitely a response to not just Too Many People, but all the other things Paul did on Ram that were digs at John, or all the Beatles, or perceived to be.
Alan White was the drummer here!!
wow, I do love this song, and I do know it was a hit on Paul because they were fighting, but I’ve never heard the whole song without one verse of him, saying how do you sleep at night and adding “you Cunt” at the end of it. ” How do you sleep at night, ya Cunt?” That’s how always knew for sure no matter what people said it was a song to Paul, when he was fighting with Paul that, oh yeah, using that word, he was fighting with Paul. Still good song, though I never did find the one that Paul wrote to him because I believe Paul wrote one first that John took offense to and then John wrote this to Paul. I’m glad you’re loving the Beatles so much. They are my very favorite group getting closely tied with the Eagles though but I don’t think I’ll ever get over the Beatles.
John says it "Could have been about anybody". Oh, it's pretty clear it's about Paul. "The only thing you done was "Yesterday" and since you've gone you're just "Another Day". References to songs by McCartney with a double meaning. But hey, Paul got some jabs in himself. "Too Many People", "Dear Boy" (although some sources say Paul says "Dear Boy" was about Linda's ex, I personally tend to think it was also aimed at John.) Regarding John's line about "A pretty face may last a year or two, but pretty soon we'll see what you can do". Well, we saw, and O think it's safe to say McCartney did pretty darn well for himself, lol.
He (and the other two ex-Beatles) were just having a spat, and did it through song according to their individual personalities. John was also known to trash talk his own songs, so he knew Paul was talented. According to him, he was 'in a mood'. The Backseat of My Car, Three Legs, those beetles on the cover, - lots of little digs there. Just because they were subtle or veiled, doesn't mean they didn't hurt just as much as pointed and direct ones did.
Have a listen to John's album Walls and Bridges. Especially the track Steel and Glass. You'll see why. 🙂
The other 3 all took shots at Paul around the time of Ram and his single another day.
This one is Ringo. Like John's song Many of the lyrics are direct shots at Paul. In May of 70 Paul got furious at Ringo, and he told him to get out of his house. Ringo was the messenger boy when they wanted Paul to delay the release of his first album so it didn't conflict with the Let It Be release date
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Have a listen to the album Walls and Bridges. Especially Steel and Glass. You'll see why. 🙂
Sleep well knowing their feud was capped a few years later. There are photos online of the two shooting the bull on a sunny day in California and visiting in NY. Too bad Paul and Linda were turned away from the Dakota by Yoko the last year John was alive, same story when Paul phoned, never passed on. John was never told anything about it but staff have collaborated the stories. So sad how a person can be controlling but it's complicated.
Best part of the SNL offer, Lorne Michaels says "You can give Ringo less if it cinches the deal", hah!
George later said that he regretted working on this song. Understandable, though it's a great song!
Do you happen to have a source for that?
Interesting that Bob Dylan used that same groove on Slow Train Comin' - just slightly faster and shifted about one beat in the bar.
Also interesting that some of the lyrics in this were suggested by Alan Klein ... and an almost identical song on Walls and Bridges - Steel and Glass - is John's final assessment of Alan Klein ... In John's words, "Maybe Paul was right."
Not identical at all. Just the riff is re-used. And a brilliant song too which got buried a bit on side2. In fact the best song on the album.
The album version is even better. It's funkier. But it is sad that they had such vitriol towards each other. They did patch things up a bit years later
John's had much more vitriol than Paul's. John's was OBVIOUS as to who it was directed to, Paul's wasn't....I never thought his was an attack on anyone, until people pointed it out. But when John's came out, I knew EXACTLY that he was targeting Paul. I thought it was odd when he put in the line "jump when your Mama tell you anything" supposedly saying Paul jumped when Linda said anything. Was he kidding, everyone is aware that JOHN jumped whenever YOKO told him anything, and in private, he always called Yoko "MOTHER" So he was actually projecting there, and referring to himself.
And had the strings which take it to another level.
Dude, look up NICKY HOPKINS, piano-player to the stars of the 1960s and on.
John was pissed off with McCartney that day!
The way he described it was a 'mood' lol!
strait up diss track
I hear there's a rumour Paul played drums on the final take......🙃
Paul poked the bear. Do not poke the bear. After the Imagine album, though, I find John's muse largely expended. Several tracks on Imagine are Beatles leftovers: the melody of Jealous Guy, Gimme Some Truth, Oh My Love.
I think John had *loads* of songs after Imagine that were not like Beatles' songs. Paul had a lot of Beatle-ey sounding songs, probably more than John did. John had 10 studio albums in - what - 6-7 years. They weren't all Beatles leftovers by a long shot.
I may have had the amount of money wrong but one of the workers on Saturday night live Remember the story Of how John and Paul called up and offered to come down He was lying or not I have no idea. The only reason I brought the story up was to prove Not long after this song was released, the two of them made up and became friends again And stay that way until john lennon was killed right before christmas in 1980 I will never forget that night.
I'm pretty sure that George Harrison was quite uncomfortable when he heard the lyrics to this song, especially as he was helping John with the music for it.
A very direct, "in your face" diss track, which was unusual and quite unique for the times, but definitely not Paul's style. But John did also write "Gimme Some Truth" for the Imagine album, so his lyrical response to Paul does make some sense.
I would suggest you listen to Paul's reply to John, a song called "Dear Friend", which is on the Wings debut album "Wildlife". It's basically a solemn, slow-tempo song with Paul on piano, singing lyrics that feel truly sad, heartfelt, and haunting. The opening lines always get me....
"Dear friend, what's the time?
Is this really the border line?
Does it really mean so much to you?
Are you afraid, or is it true?"
Thankfully, they made amends quite quickly in the end. Brothers for you....❤
From what I can tell George wasn't super happy with Paul during this time period either, and prior. Have you seen what he says to Paul during the recording of one of their songs on Let it Be? He says something to the effect of 'I'll play it however you want me to, including not playing on it at all'. There were a lot of bad feelings all around towards the end and just after for a period of time.
@@lauraallen55 Very true. 🙂
According to Alan White, John read the lyrics to the band before the first take and asked if they were comfortable playing on the song.
@@thomassharmer7127 So, George was not uncomfortable with the lyrics. I wonder where people get their ideas, or rather why they put their own ideas onto someone else.
I find it incongruous that the songs Imagine (peace peace peace) and How Do You Sleep (hate hate hate) are on the same album.
Showing John's "range"?
Sometimes, Lennon could be a real asshole. Yes, Paul took a few digs at him but not as bad as these. But at least they resolved their situation and became friends again before Lennon was shot.
I'm sure Paul could be a real asshole too, in his own way. In fact, I know it. lol! According to John, it was a mood, an angry letter at his best friend.
You know, the digs Paul took at John (first by the way) although subtle, hurt John as only Paul knew how to do, maybe just as much as what John said hurt Paul. They were different personalities so expressed their hurt towards each other differently. John didn't cover anything up with a public 'face'. Paul did. He put two beetles screwing each other on the album cover, either inside or on the back. That was subtle and nuanced, but I'm sure it hurt the others, just as Three Legs hurt George and Ringo as well as John. Veiled digs can hurt just as much as in-your-face ones can. Sometimes even more.
I mean George wrote Wah-Wah about Paul, mainly. And, Ringo did Back Off Boogaloo at Paul. No villains here, only friends unhappy with one another.
McCartney's only negative comments in Too Many People were "You took your lucky break and broke it in two." and "Too many people breaching practices Don't let them tell you what you wanna be". He didn't criticize his songs.
So what? They both had their individual personalities, and being in-your-face like John was is no worse than the subtle little digs Paul made. Paul got some in in several songs on Ram, not just Too Many People. He knew what would hurt John, just as John knew what would hurt Paul. They were best friends having a fight, but loved each other. Their business how they handled it, and they made up. No bad guys here.
Paul has said he sang 'Piss off' cake in the beginning of the song, by the way.
Three Legs, Back Seat of My Car, Smile Away... there are things there. Ringo did Back Off Boogaloo about Paul, as George did Wah-Wah mainly about Paul. They were all unhappy with him during this time period. Paul made the opening shots anyway.
I think it was ''preaching' practices.
Also, John criticized his own songs all the time, too.
yes it was preaching. I copied and pasted for the lyrics online. it was their error.@@lauraallen55
A 19 year old Alan White
Calm down, calm down 😂
George Harrison on slide.
John was often pretty mean, but he could have been a lot more vicious here. The original Plastic Ono Band was Klaus Voorman, Alan White and Eric Clapton! Oh, and Klaus rhymes with house.
I loved John for the amazing bundle of great music he gave us, but, he was a damaged human. The songs “Mother” and “God” are clear examples. All of it was in his lyrics. It probably started with “Help!”.
Its not nice knowing the context but what a great song and sound. Could this be another first ? The diss record ? 😂 Long before the rappers were dissing each other . I cant think of diss tracks before John and Paul and George on his album .😂 Another first by the GOAT s 😂
Nice. But it would be good for you to hear the actual album versions that we all grew up with. These raw cuts and anthology versions are not the finished product. This song has some nice orchestration to it on the Imagine album, and the strings tuning up in the intro is a joking reference to the opening of the Sgt. Pepper album. I hope you will give it a listen.
Band blood in Pepperland I guess.
"the only thing you done was Yesterday"
George just can't leave a space can he? I can understand why he and Paul clashed over the guitars in the beginning of Hey Jude.
This is still more of a jam though. The finished track only has slide guitar in the solo, and got a lot of praise from John. Aware of the Hey Jude 'situation' - hey, no-one gets their choices right all the time, but I was struck watching Let it Be just how spare George's lead playing usually is - in Get Back (and I know John plays lead there) his playing is very restrained, only playing embellishments and doubling the riff. Dig a Pony too is a masterclass in tasteful lead work.
Paul´s diss in Too Many People is very Paul-like. A bit subliminal, avoiding direct confrontation. Lennon´s diss in How Do You Sleep is very John-like, straight for the throat, a full on assault. So I think they both were as wrong in this public beef, but John comes off worse because he´s so aggressive by nature. I don´t think that´s fair. But as you said, at the end of the day, they made up and were cool with each other. That´s all that matters. It´s funny too that these two guys that broke so much new ground in the Beatles together also might´ve created the first "rap battle".
I'm glad that someone else noticed that it wasn't Paul being just a little mean but John being a complete jerk. It was *their personalities* coming out in their music. Paul could be veiled, nuanced, subtle, but still was hurting John and the others. He had a few digs in several songs not just at John, but all of them, and he had the two beetles screwing on the cover. Honestly, I prefer directness of John over the kind of passive aggressiveness of Paul. No question how someone feels that way!
This was John at his lowest. Why would Sgt Pepper take Paul by surprise, when the whole concept was his? Great song, though!
Paul knew his album was going to do well, but feigned surprise when it did. In the context of this song, John is saying Paul was being fake.
I will remember that period of a few years where it was openly known about John and Paul's picking at each other. I love John and I would say that he was more my favorite than Paul. But I have to admit. I think John was just a touch more vicious than Paul. I know, he said some things that I don't think even he really believed because he essentially mocked Paul's body of work and since he was half of all that work, it really seems a bit disturbing. I know, John felt that Paul didn't have any depth to his music. And I believe he was right. And the proof in my eyes was when Paul went on to create wings. Who many people love? But I find it to be just a bunch of music that could well have been in the mid-sixties rather than the early 70s. But still it was cruel of John to call Paul out and essentially mock much of what Paul did. Don't get me wrong. I'm not oblivious to the fact that it was a given. Take a tit-for-tat. But I just wanted to point out that I prefer John and yet, I believe that John might have been a little over the line, but they're arguing, especially because we the public that love them. Both really didn't need to see or hear that.
John had a habit of dissing even his own music at times so was not a hypocrite. He was a lot more pointed and direct than Paul, but that was his personality. Paul was more passive aggressive (even he said that about himself) and subtle because that was his personality.
They had a fight through song. John called his an angry letter done in a song. They hurt each other, and they loved each other and they made up.
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Everything you said is absolutely true.And I agree with it and in my own words Said basically the same thing overall. I'm 76 years old and was at the perfect age at the time they existed together. And for the period after they broke up. The thing I was disappointed in. Because I like John the most of the fab 4, but I thought it was over the line to actually be little Paul's music. It was unnecessary and a cold shot. And I thought it was the only thing he shouldn't have gone after and yet he did. And more interesting is I agree with John's criticism of Paul's type of writing. Because I do think that. I think Paul was a bit superfluous and John got right down to what's real. It's because I liked John so much that it was disappointing him to go at Paul the way he did and I'm not talking about remembering it now. I'm talking about when it happened. How I felt how shocked by was? And it had nothing to do with the fact that they didn't get along. That had been well-known for a long time, and I get people being snitty about the other guy. It's just disappointing to me. Because of the fact of how I cared.
@@bradjenkins1475 That must have been hard being around then, and being disappointed in someone you thought highly of. I understand completely!
I wasn't around then, but, like you, John is my favorite. That doesn't mean I don't like Paul or his music. I just am more drawn to what John did creatively. More is known about John and who he was because he was very open about it. Whereas, with Paul, he had more of a 'public' face he wore. Not that he was private, but more that John was very out there.
I've read a ton on them together and a ton more on John, individually just because his personality intrigues me.
There are times that I wish I had been born much sooner than I was so I could have experienced their music in the moment.
Every one of those players in the video are now deceased. Oops. Except for Klaus.
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Klaus is still alive. There's a documentary from a few years back on him worth looking for. Paul shows up to play bass on a record he was working on. Very interesting guy, he thought he had lost the original pen and ink Revolver art but it was just buried in a pile of others. He was paid about 50 lbs, around $140 in 1966 money. Yikes.
@@spooley Wow. That artwork is probably invaluable now.
You will be, too, someday.
Well, Damn😢
Why aren’t you doing original album versions? He doesn’t even have all the lyrics finished here… Lyrics are so important.
He's doing them because it's what I requested. I have a reason for doing it this way. He's got the gist of the lyrics I'm sure lol! He plans on listening to both this album and Plastic Ono Band.
Don’t get me wrong… I love this!!! But you should listen to the original version before you start reacting to outtakes and live performances.
"Some people can sleep at nighttime knowing that love is lie." - Paul's response in the song Some People Never Know from Wild Life.
'McCartney's lines “Some people can sleep at night time/Believing that love is a lie” have been interpreted as a response to John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep? ', although the recording and release dates make this unlikely.'
@@lauraallen55 Wildlife came out 3 months after Imagine. I remember DJs would play all the "diss" tracks in a row, including this song and Harrison and Starr songs, like a concept album, whether Paul intended it that way or not. Dear Friend from Wild life was always included also.
Lee, you gotta do the Imagine album versions of this and Gimme Some Truth. George’s solos are the most thoroughly angry and evil things ever played on a guitar. Much heavier, too. Pure vitriol and so unlike George.
Ringo was asked to play on this, but when he heard the lyrics he said nope this has gone too far and walked out.
I will always love Ringo for doing that.
That's not how the Beatles Bible describes what happened. They didn't need another drummer, did they?
@@patticrichton1135 Don't really think that's what happened.
Check what the Beatles Bible says about Ringo. He came to the studio, and told John it was 'too far' at some things they were considering putting in. They were carrying on suggesting this and that, and a lot of it didn't make it in to the song anyway.
Ringo saying 'that's too far' at a couple suggestions is not the same as what is described here. Not at all.
@@patticrichton1135 Do you love Ringo for doing the song about Paul called Back Off Boogaloo, too?
Why would he be asked to play when they had a drummer? Ringo came into the studio when they were all coming up with lyrics. They rejected a lot of their own lyrics they came up with. Ringo heard some of them, and said 'that's going too far' or words to that effect. He didn't get asked to play, and walk out. Come on, now. He did Back Off Boogaloo about Paul, after all.