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Favourite John Lennon songs
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Joe, that’s a very moving song and video! Thanks for sharing it. Between this song and Imagine, I think there is incredible insight John gives.
Yes thanks John for giving us your love, peace, and music!
All You Need Is Love.
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Jung,
Hello and love your posts!!! So many to pick from but Am going back a bit and say Mr. Postman, I know it is a cover but John does a great job singing this one and another one again a cover is You Really Got a hold on me. John in the early days was hands down the man his voice was so cool to listen to and when they did Help? That was John at his finest in my book. God I really miss him….
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Hi Bill, thanks. 🙂 I always liked the Carpenters Mr Postman, until I came across the Beatles cover with John singing it, and it’s hands down my favourite now. Now I can’t wait for the MLT at the Cavern Club version next Friday.
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I like all too, except a few with Yoko with him …for me, her voice, like Neil, Willie, irritates me…lol…
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Just an update… in regards to wherever the original posting is on here, about who played John in the ” Yesterday ” movie that came out a year or two ago….I said it was Robert Carlyle whom I had thought but it was also mentioned on here it was someone else that did role… I came across a few online articles recently , that stated it was Robert Carlyle…he was uncredited …
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I remember this song was huge and played on the radio a lot around the time John Lennon died.
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It’s a kind of interesting contrast to listen to Girl that John wrote 15 years earlier. It reveals a progression and maturity between the 2 songs. One of passion and longing in Girl, and another of love and fulfillment in Woman.
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Another great cover John did like Mr. Postman and Twist & Shoot.
Is Mr. Moonlight.
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Not a second time.
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It won’t be long.  John really had a great rock & roll voice.
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Joe, those are great Lennon songs, especially that last one with the effective interweaving of the vocals, and John certainly has a remarkable singing voice that is so expressive. In this practice session video he really gets into his singing, and the mood of the song really comes across powerfully the way he sings. And wow, George Harrison can make that guitar sing and plays off the rest of the band so wonderfully!
For the Raw Studio Mix of ‘How Do You Sleep?’ (Takes 5 & 6)
Front Centre – John Lennon: electric guitar, vocal
Front Left – Nicky Hopkins: electric piano
Front Right – George Harrison: electric slide guitar
Surround Left – Alan White: drums
Surround Right – Klaus Voormann: bass“Imagine you are at the Lennon’s home, Tittenhurst Park in Ascot, England. It’s night. It’s the last week in May in 1971 and you are their special guest, sat in a chair in the very center of the their recording studio, Ascot Sound Studios. John Lennon is sat in front of you, teaching the musicians one of his latest compositions. He is talking and singing and playing the same wood-finish Epiphone Casino electric guitar he played on ‘Revolution’. A bearded George Harrison is in front of you, to the right, playing electric slide on John’s pale blue Fender Strat. Just behind you and to your right, Rod Lynton with Ted Turner from Wishbone Ash are strumming chords on twelve string acoustic guitars, and directly behind you to the right, John and George’s old friend Klaus Voormann is playing his deep hand-painted Fender Precision bass. Behind you to the left, Alan White (who would later join Yes) is playing his Ludwig silver sparkle drumkit, and in front of you to the left, John Tout from Renaissance is playing chords on the Steinway upright piano, and to his right, Nicky Hopkins is improvising on the red-top Wurlitzer Electric Piano, literally days before he leaves for Nellcôte to play on Exile on Main Street with The Rolling Stones. You are listening to the band playing ‘How Do You Sleep’ and all the hairs are standing up on your arms.”
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How do you sleep at night. One of Johns song to Paul. When the Beatles broke up. I love this song and the writing by John. Good one Jung.
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Pick your favorite John Lennon songs is like “pick your favorite child” but if I had to commit to one it would be this one:
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That’s a beautiful song Jim, thanks for sharing it. They do that song in the movie Mr Holland’s Opus, and it’s very moving.
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