John Lennon
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I DON'T WANNA BE A SOLDIER MAMA, I DON'T WANNA DIE. Written by John Lennon Performed by Liam Gallagher Liam Gallagher
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NOW AND THEN. THE LAST BEATLES SONG. 2 Nov 23. #nowandthen → EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 10 Nov 23.🔴🔵 → 'Now And Then' is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later. On 2nd November, 'Now And Then' will be released worldwide at 2pm GMT/10am EDT / 7am PDT. Pre-order/pre-save 'Now And Then' in a variety of digital, vinyl, and cassette editions, including Beatles Store exclusives. A 12-minute documentary film will debut on 1st November on The Beatles’ YouTube channel at 7:30pm GMT / 3:30pm EDT / 12:30pm PDT telling the story behind the last Beatles song, with exclusive footage and commentary from John, Paul, Ringo, George, Sean Ono Lennon and Peter Jackson. EXPANDED RED AND BLUE ALBUMS. 🔴🔵 → On 10th November, The Beatles’ ‘1962-1966’ (The Red Album) and ‘1967-1970’ (The Blue Album) collections will be released in 2023 Edition packages with expanded tracklists. All the songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and new 4CD and 180g 6LP vinyl collections pair ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ in slipcased sets. Digital, CD, and vinyl available to pre-order/pre-save now, including some you’ll only find in The Beatles Store.
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REVOLUTION. 🔵 You say you want a revolution, well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution, well you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don’t you know that you can count me out Read more →
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JOHN LENNON AND HIS BAND, THE QUARRYMEN - PUTTIN’ ON THE STYLE, 6 JULY 1957.
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GIMME SOME TRUTH I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics All I want is the truth Just give me some truth I've had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth Just give me some truth No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky Is going to Mother Hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap Money for dope Money for rope I'm sick to death of seeing things From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists All I want is the truth Just give me some truth, now I've had enough of watching scenes With schizophrenic, egocentric, paranoiac, primadonnas All I want is the truth, now-now Just give me some truth.
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The War Child presents Secret 7” auction is now live! Artists and creatives from around the world - from household names to emerging talent - have each created unique vinyl sleeves for one of seven iconic tracks. And now all 700 sleeves are up for auction, with every penny raised going to War Child. But there’s a twist: the artists’ identities and the track inside will remain a mystery until the record is in the buyer’s hands. All the money raised will go towards War Child UK’s work helping children living through war. Tap the link in Secret 7'' and War Child UK’s bio 🔗 7 musicians. 7 tracks. 700 unique records. Countless lives changed. 📆 Auction ends 2 September Want to see all 700 sleeves in person? They’re on display at 180 Studios from 19 - 30 August.
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INSANE OBJECTIVES. I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. And I think that’s what I sussed when I was sixteen and twelve, way down the line. But I expressed it differently all through my life. It’s the same thing I’m expressing all the time, but now I can put it into that sentence that I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know. If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government, etc., Russian, Chinese – what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what they think they're doing. I think they’re all insane, you know. But I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. You know, that’s what’s insane about it. John Lennon, 6 June 1968
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LOVE MEDITATION MIXES Experience the song 'Love' by John Lennon like never before with a series of nine radically new Meditation Mixes, paired with deeply immersive, consciousness-shifting light sequences. See, feel and hear the music in a whole new way on the latest update of the Lumenate App.→ Seán Ono Lennon : After the surprising success of the Mind Games Meditation Mixes, and our collaboration with Lumenate the Meditation App, we are very pleased to bring you Volume Two - a collection of ambient re-imaginings of John Lennon’s classic song, to create a 9 meditations on 'Love'. #valentinesday #love #loveisreal #lumenate
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AWARENESS AND THE SYSTEM Yoko: The public believes that there's somebody up there who's very powerful because they're rich and they control the media etcetera. And they think, 'Oh, we don't have the control so we can't do it.' And we have this negativism all the time. But that's not what it is at all. They're not powerful because they're rich and they control the media. They're powerful, sadly enough because they are 'aware' and they're trying to keep other people ignorant. If our awareness level gets to the same level as they are, we outnumber them. So there's nothing they can do. John: Who is 'they'? Well, whoever 'they' are - That kept the workers uneducated. That sent children down in the mines in the Industrial Revolution in England. Who tried not to educate people. We're all part of a system, in a way, and 'they' includes us, too. #powertothepeople
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![I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 Listen in Spatial Audio on Apple Music → The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter 'I am he as you are he as we are all together' and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children's chant – 'Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick' – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting 'Hare Krishna' or putting all your faith in one idol. It was 'The Walrus and The Carpenter', Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles' work or anybody's work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. It had never dawned on me anything like that. To me it was just a beautiful poem. And then I look back after 'I Am The Walrus' and people have gone in to all this depth of what it really means, and it just meant nothing. You know it’s just an image. It’s like asking Fellini what does that image two thirds of the way through 'Juliet of the Spirits' mean? It doesn’t mean anything without the rest of it. You can isolate a frame and talk about it forever. And it's just a game. But I did look back at the Walrus and I said 'I Am The Walrus' but the Carpenter is the good guy in that story, apparently. Right? I thought oh shit, I picked the bad guy. You know. I should have said, ‘I Am The Carpenter’ but it doesn’t make sense. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious. You know, you just stick a few images together, thread them together, and you call it poetry. Well, maybe it is poetry. But I was just using the mind that wrote 'In His Own Write' to write that song. ‘Everybody’s got one! Everybody’s got one!’ There was even some live BBC radio on one track. They were reciting Shakespeare and I just fed whatever lines were on the radio into the song. That was live radio coming from the BBC, though they never knew it. When I was mixing the record, I just had a radio in the room that was tuned to some BBC channel all the time, and we did about, I don’t know, half a dozen mixes, and I just used whatever was coming through at the time. I never knew it was King Lear till years later somebody told me, because I could hardly make out what he was saying. I didn’t know where it came from. If I said, ‘I want the radio on it,’ George [Martin] would make it so that I could mix in there and the radio would be coming through the machines. It was interesting to mix the whole thing with a live radio coming through it. So that’s the secret of that one. E.L.O. is son of 'I am the Walrus' forever and ever and ever. If somebody wants 'I am the Walrus' music, they just have to buy E.L.O. records. Jeff Lynne's ELO I AM THE WALRUS. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly I'm crying. Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come Corporation tea shirt stupid bloody Tuesday Man you been a naughty boy you let your face grow long I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Mister city policeman sitting Pretty little policemen in a row See how they fly like Lucy in the sky See how they run I'm crying I'm cry I'm crying I'm crying Yellow matter custard Dripping from a dead dog's eye Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess Boy you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun. If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain I am the eggman They are the eggmen I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob Expert texpert choking smokers Don't you think the joker laughs at you? See how they smile like pigs in a sty see how they snied I'm crying Semolina pilchards climbing up the Eiffel Tower Element'ry penguin singing Hare Krishna Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Goo goo goo g'joob Goo goo g'joob Goo goo goo g'joob g'goob Joob joob jooba Jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba Jooba jooba Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Now, good sir, what are you? A most poor man made tame to fortune’s blows Slave, thou hast slain me Villain, take my purse If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body And give the letters which thou find’st about me to Edmund Earl of Gloucester, seek him out upon the English party O! untimely death I know thee well A serviceable villain as duteous to the vices of thy mistress As badness would desire What! is he dead? Sit you down, father; rest you](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1724357679022256211/ext_tw_video_thumb/1724355556842905600/pu/img/fVPLFYc2wV1JPbwj.jpg)
I AM THE WALRUS. 🔵 Listen in Spatial Audio on Apple Music → The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. I was running through the house and I just typed on the typewriter 'I am he as you are he as we are all together' and that was lying on the typewriter for about three weeks before it became a song. That was the whole song right in that line. And that was an acid trip line, and it was a great effort to just put in on the typewriter. For those of you who know those kind of things. So that line was written and left on the typewriter there for two or three weeks until I went to look at it on the next acid trip the next weekend and subsequently filled in after I met Yoko. I did have this idea of doing a song that was the police siren, you know. Didn’t work in the end, because you couldn’t really sing with police siren. Yellow matter custard and all that is an English children's chant – 'Yellow matter custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye. Spread it on a butty, Spread it on thick, Then wash it down with a cup of cold sick' – That was a Liverpool kids song. I’d seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus go on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words ‘Elementary Penguin’ meant that it’s naïve to just go around chanting 'Hare Krishna' or putting all your faith in one idol. It was 'The Walrus and The Carpenter', Alice and Wonderland. And it was only years later that I went back to check because I never went into that bit about what Lewis Carroll really meant. Like what people are doing with the Beatles' work or anybody's work, digging into it. Lewis Carroll was commenting on Capitalist and Socialist systems at the time. The Walrus and the Carpenter representing social positions. It had never dawned on me anything like that. To me it was just a beautiful poem. And then I look back after 'I Am The Walrus' and people have gone in to all this depth of what it really means, and it just meant nothing. You know it’s just an image. It’s like asking Fellini what does that image two thirds of the way through 'Juliet of the Spirits' mean? It doesn’t mean anything without the rest of it. You can isolate a frame and talk about it forever. And it's just a game. But I did look back at the Walrus and I said 'I Am The Walrus' but the Carpenter is the good guy in that story, apparently. Right? I thought oh shit, I picked the bad guy. You know. I should have said, ‘I Am The Carpenter’ but it doesn’t make sense. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous… What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been the pudding basin for all I care. It’s not that serious. You know, you just stick a few images together, thread them together, and you call it poetry. Well, maybe it is poetry. But I was just using the mind that wrote 'In His Own Write' to write that song. ‘Everybody’s got one! Everybody’s got one!’ There was even some live BBC radio on one track. They were reciting Shakespeare and I just fed whatever lines were on the radio into the song. That was live radio coming from the BBC, though they never knew it. When I was mixing the record, I just had a radio in the room that was tuned to some BBC channel all the time, and we did about, I don’t know, half a dozen mixes, and I just used whatever was coming through at the time. I never knew it was King Lear till years later somebody told me, because I could hardly make out what he was saying. I didn’t know where it came from. If I said, ‘I want the radio on it,’ George [Martin] would make it so that I could mix in there and the radio would be coming through the machines. It was interesting to mix the whole thing with a live radio coming through it. So that’s the secret of that one. E.L.O. is son of 'I am the Walrus' forever and ever and ever. If somebody wants 'I am the Walrus' music, they just have to buy E.L.O. records. Jeff Lynne's ELO I AM THE WALRUS. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly I'm crying. Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come Corporation tea shirt stupid bloody Tuesday Man you been a naughty boy you let your face grow long I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Mister city policeman sitting Pretty little policemen in a row See how they fly like Lucy in the sky See how they run I'm crying I'm cry I'm crying I'm crying Yellow matter custard Dripping from a dead dog's eye Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess Boy you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun. If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain I am the eggman They are the eggmen I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob Expert texpert choking smokers Don't you think the joker laughs at you? See how they smile like pigs in a sty see how they snied I'm crying Semolina pilchards climbing up the Eiffel Tower Element'ry penguin singing Hare Krishna Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe I am the eggman (Ooh) They are the eggmen (Ooh) I am the walrus Goo goo g'joob Goo goo goo g'joob Goo goo g'joob Goo goo goo g'joob g'goob Joob joob jooba Jooba jooba jooba jooba jooba Jooba jooba Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Ooompa oompa stick it up your jumper Everybody's got one, everybody's got one Now, good sir, what are you? A most poor man made tame to fortune’s blows Slave, thou hast slain me Villain, take my purse If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body And give the letters which thou find’st about me to Edmund Earl of Gloucester, seek him out upon the English party O! untimely death I know thee well A serviceable villain as duteous to the vices of thy mistress As badness would desire What! is he dead? Sit you down, father; rest you
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