Nowhere Man is a great example of what made John Lennon such a great songwriter. That final line of one of the verses, after describing an aimless and uncertain person, "isn't he a bit like you and me"

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@robertovalero6186

2 ай бұрын

​@@BeatlesBible1They should try to do something with that Candlestick bootleg.With AI they can do a lot with sound these days.

@paulnolan4971

Ай бұрын

He encapsulated all of us. Well, the thinkers anyway.

59 years later and we are still interested. It's amazing how timeless The Beatles are.

@hatman5142

2 ай бұрын

I love you

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

For sure! 😃

@paulnolan4971

Ай бұрын

You just reminded this Scouser of the time hehe

Nowhere Man is an absolutely brilliant song. One of the top 20 Beatles songs ever.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I love it

@ScrewballMcAdams

2 ай бұрын

Totally agree.

@lyingechols9066

2 ай бұрын

@@ivanjulian2532 thanks for your worthless response. Time to get a life. Absolutely!!👍👍

@montgomery2168

22 күн бұрын

@@ivanjulian2532 So what all would you consider his best songs, and why isn't Nowhere Man in your grouping?

@montgomery2168

21 күн бұрын

@@ivanjulian2532 I just asked you a question? I personally love the song, I just wanted to know which ones you thought were better or why you don't think this one specifically is one of his best. Especially because you made that statement when nobody was claiming it was one Lennons best songs, they said it was among 19 other of some of the best Beatles songs.

Genius from head to toe from chord to chord from letter to word.

@steveconn

2 ай бұрын

Just depressing and self-pitying, really. Rich guy blues.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@tjcint

2 ай бұрын

@cactaceous, very nicely put.

@tjcint

2 ай бұрын

​@@steveconn So blind, so blind ...

Only John Lennon could create such a magical son that the masses could readily identify with

@lyingechols9066

2 ай бұрын

And Paul helped him with this and many of his great songs, and had his own with “Michelle” , “Yesterday”, “We Can Work it Out”, “Here There and Everywhere”, etc.

@jackwegener3484

2 ай бұрын

John had two sons. So which one are you claiming was the "magical" one that the masses identified with? Julian or Sean?

@lyingechols9066

2 ай бұрын

@@jackwegener3484 he means SONG

Possibly the most musically and lyrically perfect pop song ever written.

@marcyfan-tz4wj

2 ай бұрын

a lot of fans rank it lowly which is what an actual nowhere man would do.

@vernpascal1531

2 ай бұрын

I thought that was Penny Lane, or Fool On The Hill.

@plasteredbastard

2 ай бұрын

then paul wrote here there and everywhere

@cannotfindmyshoes3

2 ай бұрын

For YOU maybe. I personaly think The Beatles have done quite a few better "pop songs''.

John true Leader of the Beatles an Icon 🎶 His Music will live forever 🎶 just as all Beatles Albums ❤

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

When push came to shove, John actually had to lead.

One of the best songs ever.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@akieokuma8868

2 ай бұрын

Sem dúvida nenhuma!!!❤❤❤

Nowhere Man is another example of Lennon bringing in what is a very good idea and it being elevated to greatness by the contributions from McCartney, George, and Martin.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

@jaelge

2 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg: No. My reference to George = George Harrison, my reference to Martin is George Martin.

@Gammaknife97

Ай бұрын

What about Ringo?

@jaelge

Ай бұрын

@@Gammaknife97: Certainly, Richie deserves as much praise as anyone, he had the talent to be able to shift gears and play in any and all of the many genres that the others wrote and played in, and the patience of Job to be able to put up with all their shenanigans. I love Ringo and his absolutely precision drumming.

I was under the impression "Nowhere Man" was John writing about having writer's block: the irony of writing about not being able to.

@billdowney1487

2 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video ? Johns voice says i tried to write for 4 hours ---- and i had nothing. Then i layed down and the words came to me.

@mccloysong

2 ай бұрын

@@billdowney1487 Of course I watched. Somehow, hearing him say it, it didn't sound like he wrote about having writer's block (as I had always assumed), as much as writing about feeling like he was in limbo at that point in life.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

It could also be about that, maybe. Thank you for commenting.

“Nowhere man” is the “Help!” Of Rubber Soul.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

@alonenjersey

2 ай бұрын

Well said. I wish I came up with that.

A great song. Beautiful harmonies.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Yes 😃

Thank you Gus and the entire Beatles Bible crew for the great videos and your stellar website. You are the best source for the Beatles super fans. Much appreciated!!

@BeatlesBible1

23 күн бұрын

I only make the videos, but thanks!

nice video

Rubber Soul has always been my favourite, with Nowhere Man near the top of their catalogue. Nice work on the video.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Me too, and thank you!

I want to hear the other takes and the other ideas. I hope we get a deluxe edition this year.

@allenf.5907

2 ай бұрын

Agree - come on Rubber Soul box set - PLEASE.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Me too

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for posting!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

A song I've long identified by...so lovely and such excellent advice to one'sself

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

Got to say Never bothered with the Beatles Bible before, this is my second view- listen to your work an, I am enjoying them, nice put together and you make them everyday relatable, thanks

The beginning of the lads creating music of true substance. The song has deeper meaning, and the melody in the pre-chorus is wonderful!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I agree

Nowhere Man is brilliant social commentary, whether witting or not. How many people do these words apply to, in part or in full ? Only Lennon could have written this.

Fantastic song, fantastic recording.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

Fascinating stuff.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Couldn't you have chosen a more flattering photo of John as the last thing we see in your presentation over the 1980 interview? Wow. Just food for thought.

@mumbles215

2 ай бұрын

He was a beat man by then. He looked in his 60s and he was barley 40

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

That's just how he looked in 1980. He looks cool in shades to me.

@JohnLennonReturns

2 ай бұрын

​@@BeatlesBible1​There are many other photos with John in glasses from various eras, including 1980 - too numerous to even mention here- where he looked healthy and COOL. You chose a photo where he looked frail and sick; are you not aware of this? No criticism, just mild bewilderment as I call something to your attention that most true Lennon fans would see in an instant.

“Nowhere Man” is one of my favorite songs - it’s definitely because of the harmonies ❤

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

The harmonies are complex and beautiful

Great video. Nicely done, sir.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir

The beautiful melodic harmony blended with the poignant words and meaning ALWAYS gives me goosebumps. "For nobdy......" ❤❤❤❤ Well done lads, well done. And THANK YOU. a thousand times over, THANK YOU for blessing us with that harmony and beautiful music.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

🙏

Nice Job putting it together

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

I would also add ‘Paperback Writer’ as another of John’s great songs. ❤

@edwardelliott194

2 ай бұрын

Paperback writer was primarily Pauls

@deargdoom8743

2 ай бұрын

I hear he also wrote Mull of Kintyre.......

What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend also Monday is my friends birthday also my birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Aminah 😃 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Paul's melodic bass here is what opened my awareness to hearing melodic bass for the 1st time and becoming a bass player...many more awarenesses came later. Another stupid comment I'd make is that I believe Paul's *best* bass riffs came to him when it was another Beatle's ,more or less, penned song.

I was fifteen when Rubber Soul was released in December, 1965. The sound of the Fender Strats on Nowhere Man blew me away.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Wow, it must've been great to live at that time.

I really relate to the lyrics.

That is such a great song. I think it's one that a lot of people can relate to.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

Love your line - "And after Nowhere Man, nothing was the same." And you are correct.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

John's songs during the early Beatle era are my favorites.

Very interesting

Nowhere Man inspired me to play the guitar. I love that song.

What a great song.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I love it

I LOVE your videos Beatle Bible. The Beatles, as men and artissts, were always EVOLVING/Growing up. And Rubber Soul is the point when they decided their power was in the studio. David

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@davidaston5773

2 ай бұрын

No@@BeatlesBible1the thanks is to you. Pace and love, David

@tjcint

2 ай бұрын

​@@davidaston5773​​ Very gracious of you to say this (the thanks is to you) ...

@davidaston5773

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome@@tjcint. I prefer love and fixing a hole 🤩✌

SPLENDID DOCUMENT !!!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

That was a very interesting last comment from John about song writing - " ... if you look below the surface, what is being said ...". This reminder about the nature of art, makes one want to re-examine a lot of material that one may have previously been exposed to, and then moved on to something else.

Paul's bassline and lalala's made this song a masterpiece

@mskisimms

2 ай бұрын

George also did the la la la la las.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I love the harmonies

Good, but why all the video tricks with you in the foreground?

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I just like it.

Love from Recife - Brazil

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Love from Ceará - Brasil ✌

@mauroluiz420

2 ай бұрын

Love from RJ -Brazil

It was always one of my favorites from the first time I heard it. I just felt it in a way that I couldn't explain at the time, but I grew to understand.

I can't wait for the Beatles come out With "Rubber soul Deluxe " with outtakes

I've always preferred Paul McCartney's songwriting, but Lennon's "Nowhere Man," is one of the best songs recorded by the Beatles.

@allenf.5907

2 ай бұрын

Over the past five or so years, I've gravitated back to John's songs. BOTH were brilliant writers, but they go can go deep in any direction that they wanted to. Case in point here.

@roywatson8133

2 ай бұрын

john liked to write about himself he never liked third person songs unlike some of pauls @@allenf.5907

I wonder if John remembered a. Song from school I remember a song called Towser about a small child’s dog like: Towser is my little friend. : He’s a real nowhere man. Etc. eat. The tune I mean.

Completely off topic but your voice is perfectly fine when it comes to your videos and I have no problem listening to it. Just another reminder since people feel the need to be unnecessarily hateful. Keep doing what you’re doing man you’re doing good!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the compliment; it means a lot to me. Also, nice Brian Wilson pic!

Oh dear, John in the thumbnail is signalling that he is a member of the big club that most of us aren't in [covering one eye as in the "eye of horus"].

@steffanmaximum

2 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg You have no idea how the music industry works.

@steffanmaximum

2 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg Stay in your fairy tale ffs.

Wish I could get some things by divine inspiration. 😂My ex-husband's deceased father used to send him advice to his dreams on occasion. I like the song. I think everyone goes through a phase where they feel like they're going nowhere. Pretty universal feeling.

There’s also distancing in the line “Nowhere Man, can you see me at all”…

Eye of Horus

Everyone seemed to look up to Brian Jones and I think he was the nowhere man.

Dude, the videos are great and I’m really enjoying listening to the clips, looking at the great photos of the Beatles… then you pop up - why? STOP IT! YOU’RE RUINING YOUR OWN VIDS, MAN!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

It's my videos, and I want to appear on them. I'm not "ruining" them.

For some reason I always thought Nowhere Man was about Lyndon Johnson because of his plans to send more troops to Vietnam.

does anybody know? there used to be a beatles channel ran by an indian kid. what happened to him?seems to be gone.

Props for sticking with the “high register” bit

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

🤣 My sense of humor always finds a way in.

I thought you were British, Mr BeatlesBible. Don't know WHY I thought that, but I did. I also imagined you as someone much older, someone who was a fan when The Beatles still existed as a band.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

No, I'm actually Brazilian. I'm in my mid 20s, but I love the Beatles very much.

It's one of my favorite songs in melody and lyrics.. John Lennon voice is golden, and he did not like it.. He was very hard on himself all around .. too bad.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

He was; they did so much great stuff.

@akieokuma8868

2 ай бұрын

Seu comentário perfeito !!! ❤❤❤

I THINK THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME UNDERDUBBING WAS USED ON A RECORDING AS WELL.

Why is Mr Tambourine Man in the background at the start?!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Because I like it.

Chuck Brow3n sang follow your orders and use your recorders.

One mystery about Nowhere Man that I have found no one address is the TV Tone in the middle of the song. That tone is what one heard when the TV stations had shut down for the night. It is brilliantly located in the song and acts also as a kind of bridge. Be that as it may, the tone is unforgettable. Any thoughts?

Help and Nowhere Man are basically the same song. Especially lyrically. Nowhere Man is basically part 2 of the lyric John started in Help.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

It's kind of a sequel, yes.

Nowhere man you dont know what your missing (Rawhide TV show theme song, good vittles love and kissin) thats hilarious and very Lennon.

@therealfronzilla

2 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg good vittles

Wow, what a song eh?

cara, você fala português né? eu sei que em português tem bem menos alcance, mas porque não faz uns videos em português? Tem muito brasileiro que não fala inglês e no Brasil não tem nenhum canal com esse seu foco.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Hmm, posso pensar em fazer em português também. Obrigado pela dica!

"🎶Ahhhh...Look at all the lonely assholes, where DO they all come from? All the lonely assholes...Where DO they all belong...??"🎶 Oops! (Wrong song!)

Why is there a "Byrd's Tune p "Tambouring Man" playing in the background of a Beatles Rockumentary ? like WTH Mate...

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Because that's what was playing around 1965.

@rickhenry8760

2 ай бұрын

@@BeatlesBible1 I understand they were playing that. I was thinking you would have incorporated "Nowhere Man" in the background instead of the Byrds. That's your channel mate and your prerogative. Thanks

funny how yer site bout PID no longer up, could it be cause you were wrong

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

😂

😎👍

Where did you get all these photos I never seen before???

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Google :)

Apparently, Brian Epstein wasn't very happy to see Tony Barrow recording the show.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Really? Why? 🤔

I wish The Beatles had never poisoned themselves with drugs.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Well, it was a win-lose situation.

This video is bogus. Other sources have indicated this song was about Pete Best, constantly trying to sue them.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Not that I know of, no.

Poor Nowhere man 😢

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Can you see me at all?

seems Marc David Chapman found the nowhere man somewhere

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Mean

@areareare9953

2 ай бұрын

Oh. Aren't you edgy. 43 years later.

@gavrilopricip11

2 ай бұрын

indeed!(made you comment bacK)@@CB-xr1eg

Stop putting a screenshot of yourself no wants to see that.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

It's my video and I wanna be a part of it.

A nice depressive winter song from increasingly lazy, dissociated John ❤

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@marvymarier8988

2 ай бұрын

"Introspective" that is ! Better than "silly little love songs" by Paul .

@steveconn

2 ай бұрын

@@marvymarier8988 At least Silly Love Songs is upbeat.

@hw343434

2 ай бұрын

So lazy he was writing “In My Life”, “Norwegian Wood”, “Girl” and “Nowhere Man” all for just this album. The greatest songwriter of all time at work

@steveconn

2 ай бұрын

@@hw343434 They're nice songs but not exactly I Am The Walrus. Mostly verse-chorus-verse, sighing sad songs. Except for In My Life probably took him two or three days to knock off at most. Mother's Little Helper, Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown, Dylan and soon Paul Simon all wrote rings around this stuff.

at 2:29, for example: get out of the video, sir

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Excuse me, it's my video, sir. I'll do whatever I please with my video, sir.

This is one time I wish the uploader used AI voice...its unlistenable, the accent the meter is incomprensible

@TheJayson8899

2 ай бұрын

lol what? He’s not even remotely difficult to understand in the slightest and his voice is far more emotive than AI garbage. You sound American.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Thanks @@TheJayson8899

Wasn't this about Brian Epstein?

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Not that I know of. "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is, though.

I used to think it was a song about a man from nowhere. But then it occured to me that this isn't a song about someone who lives in an isolation, outside of society, coming from nowhere. If we treat the word "nowhere" not as an adverb of place, but as an adjective that means "mediocre", "average", "banal", "futile" or "mundane", then the meaning of the song is completely different and in such a case it is not about John. He surely was not an average guy "making nowhere planes for nobody". Think about it.

@jfk65

2 ай бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg "Planes" was just a typo. "Nowhere Man" is about an archetypal member of 'straight' society whose life has no purpose. It's John's comment on the erosion of belief in modern society ("A Hard Days Write" by Steve Turner). And though John admits that nowhere man is "a bit like you and me", there is nothing about his marriage in the lyrics. It was only McCartney's speculation expressed in one of the interviews.

Could really go without the movie/show clips.

@cannotfindmyshoes3

2 ай бұрын

I could really go for a... Hang on, got to word this correctly. Oh bollocks. Do you fancy going out for a drink sometime ? 😉

@pizza2437

2 ай бұрын

@@cannotfindmyshoes3 Semen ass

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

@@cannotfindmyshoes3 😂 Guy doesn't waste a chance.

Nowhere Man is great. Fool on the Hill is not!!!

@TheJayson8899

2 ай бұрын

What does The Fool on the Hill have to do with anything? So random. Also it’s a fucking great song.

Kinda cool clips. But not entirely the way things had happened.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

How did things happen?

Like you were there. Give me a break. Even born?

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Excuse me, sir, I'm a vampire from 1900 even though I may look 18!! 😠😠

Lennon, who had a reputation for arrogance, was often self-critical in his songs. Contrast with George who had a habit of putting everyone else down from a more self - righteous position.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

True

It was not divinely inspired as you mentioned. It was all John Lennon.

The comment here that "Yesterday" and "Nowhere Man" were both divinely inspired is both lame and ridiculous. Paul has said many times over the years that he had the music for the song for months and asked the others if it wasn't some other previously recorded tune. He would play it on guitar and sing non-sensical lyrics, such as using "scrambled egg" before hitting on "yesterday". Here John states he tried for 5 hours to write a song, gave up, laid down, and it all came to him, music and lyrics. The comparison is clueless.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

"Divinely inspired" as in both songs came _complete_ while both John and Paul were in their sleep.

Pity you couldn't play the song, but I guess you like the sound of your own voice too much. I thought then, and do now, that this was a great song. Can't give this video a like though.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I don't play it because of copyright issues, and I do like my voice. 😄

@arthurmoore8521

2 ай бұрын

@@BeatlesBible1 In that case, please accept my humble apologies. I do feel chastened. Sorry.

For a drug addict he wrote some great songs

Please stop with the silly unnecessary crap you throw in this video. Just get to the points, please.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Don't know what you're on about, mate.

Too much talk and not enough Beatles music!

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I'm talking about the music, I can't play it, sir. 🤣

Nowhere man is a mocking song against God

Attributing a song to its writer's personal situation is stupid nonsense most of the time. I certainly wouldn't recommend in the case of someone like John Lennon.

More rubbish didnt even like the song

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

Nowhere man, please listen, you don't know what you're missing.

Boring song. Sorry.

@BeatlesBible1

2 ай бұрын

I like it.