One of Lennon's strengths/weaknesses was his honesty. For better or worse he laid it on the table. That's what attracted so many to his work.

@damonnegron1517

2 жыл бұрын

His dad left him at an early age,he was raised by his aunt.

@DaveyFish1

2 жыл бұрын

@@damonnegron1517 while that’s true I don’t think that has much to do with the original comment

It takes an incredibly strong person to put their pain out there for the whole world to see. This song was John Lennon: honest , truth and giving.

@Mendozamosca

7 күн бұрын

Absofuckinglutely!

This album is literally the musical version of a man having a break down Has to be up there with one of the greatest albums ever made

@annakermode6646

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 100%.

@bowilcoxson1872

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite album by a solo Beatle

@chrisjohnson3694

Жыл бұрын

I'll go you one further...I can't remember the artist (I believe he was a sculptor/painter). The interviewer and the artist started talk of art, real nose in the air stuff when they started talking about the meaning of art, and the artist said: It's self expression. ..Then, these artists said, I'll give you an example. John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album is the single best example of self-expression every captured in any art. He loved the music, but he had, and the more and more he listened to it, the more he took in the words and the emotion and began to think of a man just slicing open his heart and just vomiting up all the dark stuff right into a tape recorder. So, yeah, your breakdown of a man having a break down is very accurate.

@pelaronson4086

Жыл бұрын

...Alf -dad left, cause mother Julia had another family when he arrived from war, and she was killed by policecar...when he was 16.d. really sad stuff...story. lpxxx R

@davidfradin2835

Жыл бұрын

@@pelaronson4086 Julia did not have another family.

I cried when I heard this, when it first came out, lost my dad when I was 2years old then lost my mother when I was 12years old,I feel that hurt in this song 😎

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry bout your dad Paul

@raylangley797

3 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain .my Mother was murdered by my stepfather when I was 8 yrs. old and my reel Father was a deadbeat dad that I was visited by every few years .wether I wanted him to or not . one christmas he visited and brought me a drum set . he wanted me to learn country music .I told him 'but I don't like country music ,like R&R .He took the drum set back .stayed for the weekend and left.

@chezzachezza7325

3 жыл бұрын

@@raylangley797 omg love from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😘

@MrUnderdog-vn3zf

3 жыл бұрын

@@raylangley797 omg..bro. You made it through but the pain lingers forever 💔

Some years ago I went to a song writing course. The tutor played this song to show us that you could write about anything and that writing about the most painful experiences can connect to others. The raw emotion and John's amazing vocal performance pierces your soul.

@monkmchorning

Жыл бұрын

It shows how John and Paul were headed in artistically opposite directions and found it increasingly difficult to work together.

I always related to John because I came from a similar situation. It was his honesty that I admired so much. The emotion in this song is gut wrenching and incredibly moving. I am now over twice as old as John was when he wrote this and I can tell you that the feelings never leave you, but you do cope with them because what alternative is there? Kids are going through this sort of thing all the time and that's heartbreaking. I'm fine now and when I was young John was my hero. He seemed to sing about what you felt as a teenager growing up. I never thought I'd hear anyone react to this song so thumbs up to you HarriBest and thank you 👍

@CenoWick

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 66 and still trying to come to terms with being abandoned by my Mother when I was 10 months old. My father never knew of my existence( I found his identity through AncestryDNA when I was 63).

@pavelusa3423

Жыл бұрын

@@CenoWick yes johns mother was killed by a car..sad stuff

He had such a beautiful voice.

Lennon's story is a tragedy disguised in success. John's parents both rejected him when he was a very young boy. He then became part of the (most loved) band of all time. Only to be killed by one of those fans that loved and idolized him at the way too young age of 40 years old. The finale kicker is, how many tens of millions of young men and women wanted to be him?

@futurereflections4097

3 жыл бұрын

Paul got over his mother’s death and was at peace. Lennon did not. I think he hopped out of reality and thought life was a joke and meaningless and was stuck in a dream state. He went into shock for a very long time. I think that’s part of the reason he was so comfortable being the most famous man in the world. It simply wasn’t real to him. Rip John, your mamas super proud of you up there in heaven.

@susieq9801

2 жыл бұрын

@@futurereflections4097 - The difference is Paul's mother was loving. John's mother deserted him.

@brunoactis1104

Жыл бұрын

@@futurereflections4097 I think he was getting off that hole when he got killed.

@davidfradin2835

Жыл бұрын

@@susieq9801 bullshit

@davidfradin2835

Жыл бұрын

John's mother absolutely did not reject him. She had a nervous breakdown after her husband abandoned them and she sent John to her older sister Mimi. John and Julia still saw each other and were rebuilding their relationship when Julia was killed by a drunk driver.

John’s upbringing had a lot of sorrow 😥 Good lord when I saw the pics of him as boy with the line about him saying ‘goodbye’ to her - I almost burst into tears. Thx for a beautiful reaction. 🙏💕🇨🇦

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Too sad

That"s Ringo on drums by the way. Paul lost his mother Mary to cancer. He wrote the song "Let it Be" when she came to him in a dream. John also wrote Julia, on The White, about his mother.

@dongiovanni6796

3 жыл бұрын

Good drummers do amazing and spectacular rhythmic fills. Great drummers know how to make a few perfectly even taps propel the song without creating unnecessary distraction. No one was greater at this than Ringo.

@robertsaul234

3 жыл бұрын

@@dongiovanni6796 total agreement

@antthompson6778

3 жыл бұрын

Julia what a beautiful song

@antthompson6778

3 жыл бұрын

Another beautiful song was Dear Prudence( What a Bass line omg!) Can't forget George's All things must pass. What a master piece!

@pavelusa3423

Жыл бұрын

@@dongiovanni6796 I thought john's mother died while he was young due to a hit and run..but not sure

Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mimi. When he was older and started to re-engage with his mother she was a free spirit which John was attracted to and taught him banjo chords for guitar and supported his creative side. Just as he was getting to know his mother again she was run over and killed by an off-duty policeman who was intoxicated. Lennon was around 16 - one of the bonds he and McCartney had is that Paul lost his mother at 16 or so. Lennon's father was in the merchant marine and left at a young age. The next time Lennon saw him was after he became famous and his father showed up at his door. "momma don't go, daddy come home"

@MsAppassionata

3 жыл бұрын

John was 17 when his mother Julia died. Paul was only 14 when his mother Mary died.

@chrismacdonald7955

Жыл бұрын

John's Dad was a cook on a ship in the merchant marines and his pay was sent home to his wife. However he jumped ship and went AWOL. SO the pay he would have earned, stopped. Leaving his wife and child destitute. John was a toddler at this time. His dad suddenly showed up again when John was about 5 years old and took John on a "holiday" to Blackpool, (a seaside town not too far from Liverpool full of carnival rides, games, etc.) When they didn't return as expected by the mother, she went to see why. Little did she know that her husband had booked passage on a ship for him and John to leave the country. The father did not want to give him back, so they asked John who he wanted to live with. John said he wanted to stay with dad. His Mother left in tears and as she was driving away in a taxi, she looked back to see John running after the car, shouting for his mum. She went back and they talked again, which ended with John leaving with his mother. He didn't see his dad again till after the Beatles were stars.

"Can you imagine both of your parents not wanting you?" Yes I can.

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

wow..Sorry to hear that

@thebillryan

3 жыл бұрын

I feel you. I try not to be too hard on them. I'm reminded of the Phil Larkin Poem. Anyways, try to remember them as children. Life can do terrible things to everyone when we grow up. Keep been kind to yourself. And others. x

@antthompson6778

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebillryan beautiful 1😊🎵🦋😊🦋

@toddjohnson271

Жыл бұрын

Happens all the time.....

@michelleranta3601

Жыл бұрын

Sure can

After his parents split, he was raised by his auntie, his father disappeared and his mother was hit by a car, on her way to visit John.

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Gosh! That is terrible! It makes sense..Cos when you read about Lennon..You can tell he had some demons

@sharp78htdc61

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions He sure channelled those demons into positivity and left his mark on the world, such a loss, brother.

@ottocarson

3 жыл бұрын

The man of the car was a drunk cop

@DawnSuttonfabfour

3 жыл бұрын

She was on her way home from visiting John, i believe.

@sharp78htdc61

3 жыл бұрын

@@DawnSuttonfabfour yes, you're right!

The album version of this song starts with funeral bells. 10 years later, the opening track on Double Fantasy, "Starting Over", begins with chimes of rebirth.

This is a powerful song. Lennon wanted to show his deepest emotions and express them through his art, and did so better than any other artist. His screams are the most intense of any screamer in rock history. Iconic. If you go back to his work from the early 60s and listen to the story all the way through, up to his solo work, tracing his evolution is a powerful journey. It takes the listener through a psychological evolution, and I promise you will be a different person after riding that wave. Society evolved for those who explored with him. He tried a controversial therapy back then called Primal Scream, which encouraged going back to your childhood and expressing through screaming. This helped develop his iconic scream even more.

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

its a deep song

Listen to the song Julia to hear how John felt about his mother

@lilwing6969

3 жыл бұрын

So happy you brought that up. It's so poignant. Thank you.

@mikefetterman6782

3 жыл бұрын

@@lilwing6969 also listen to his song Mother to feel how he also felt about his parents.

@mikefetterman6782

3 жыл бұрын

sorry, this is mother, my bad.

@lilwing6969

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikefetterman6782 Yes lol... This is what I was referring to. It's cool... We all have moments. 🙂

That’s why I loved Lennon. He let it all hang out.

@jimmythemadostrich8947

2 жыл бұрын

@DD especially on the cover of the Two Virgins album!

@DJ-bj8ku

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmythemadostrich8947 haha, yes!

John's life was full of tragedy. Even the way his life ended was a tragedy..

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Sad

@antthompson6778

3 жыл бұрын

Omg how true a true "Maldito Poeta"

@toddjohnson271

Жыл бұрын

Also incredible.........There are far more tragic stories than Lennon's.

Many people hold this feeling for a lifetime

Hi Harry. Great reaction to a song that always brings a lump to my throat. You can still hear the pain in John's voice in this song. John's father was a Merchant Seaman and disappeared from John's life when he was about 5 years old. John's mum, Julia, then couldn't cope on her own so John was given to his Aunt Mimi ( Julia's sister) and his Uncle George to raise. I believe that John was told that his mum had died but then found out later when a teenager that she was living not far from him. He then reconnected with his mum, who had remarried and had other children. Only for her to be killed a couple of years later when she was run over outside/near Mimi's House. John's uncle George also died when John was about 11. Paul McCartney has often stated in interviews that John once said to him that he felt he was a curse because everyone specially males that he loved either left or died. May I recommend that you read Mark Lewisohn's book The Beatles After All These Years -Tune In. The first in a trilogy of books which is the comprehensive most detailed history on The Beatles. Book 2 and 3 are not released yet. Book 1 deals with The Beatles family history from the 1800s and takes the reader through till December 31st 1962. Book 2 will be 1963 - 1966 and Book 3 1967-1970. Stay safe🤘✌

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Such a sad story

While the Beatles were going strong no one had any idea that songs like Help! and I'm A Loser were so close to John's heart and true feelings. How could a Beatle, living on top of the world be feeling down about things? It is so sad to think about his upbringing, but thank God for his Aunt Mimi.

That long pause between "I just gotta tell you" and "Goodbye" just kills me. Pure genius.

Beautiful reaction and hits home still at 52. God bless🙏

This is a powerhouse of a song. Incredible and done in his scream therapy period. There is a Shelby Lynne version that is damn close to the Lennon original.

Johns father was in the merchant marines and was abroad quite often. His mother Julia was a free spirit and acted more like an older sister than a mother to John. Though later she did encourage John, who was by then a teenager, to pursue learning how to play guitar. Initially teaching John banjo chords . At the age of 5 John was sent to be raised by Julia's sister Mimi. A very strict woman compared to his mother. John became a father in 1963 on the cusp of Beatlemania. In 1968, John left his 5 year old son to be raised by his first wife Cynthia whilst he took up with Yoko Ono. Whose own daughters whereabouts at the time were unknown to her. When second son Sean was born in 1975, John then retired from the music industry to raise Sean while Yoko ran their business affairs. He was murdered in 1980. RNB

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Dont know if its right to hit the like button on this comment..Cos its so sad

@ricknbacker5626

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarriBestReactions No worries Buddy. It is very sad. Johns anguish here is gut wrenching. Your reaction Harri was quite moving and very real. Respect to you Sir, RNB

@emilymalden3310

3 жыл бұрын

Yoko's daughter was raised by her dad. They are close now.

@ricknbacker5626

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilymalden3310 That's what I understand as well Emily. Back in 1969-1970, Kyoko's exact location was unknown to Yoko.

One of Johns most painfully honest songs. ♥️🎼🎵🎶🇨🇦

John's primal scream therapy displayed here.

Another sad thing was that John basically abandoned his first son, and hadn't been there much before he left. When John's second son was born (to new wife) he dropped work, became a house husband and was there all the time for that child. John's son from the first marriage got no inheritance when John died. The pattern had continued, but he was starting to change.

@janebraun4482

3 жыл бұрын

Julian ultimately settled, and got money from Yoko. I believe 50mil.

@TritnewNG

2 жыл бұрын

John was starting to be there for Julian more before he passed as well as take care of Sean, talking to him loads of times. Yoko fucked Julian out of his inheritance by forcing John to write him out of it, for sure.

@breakfastatmilliways

Жыл бұрын

As someone mentioned John was finally working on his relationship with Julian when he died. It’s devastating to realize that it was basically the past repeating itself. Julian managed to bond with his father just like John did julia and when John died, Julian was 17. Same age John was when julia died. It’s just horrific on so many levels.

Painful yet powerful song. Tear-jerking. John Lennon was one of a kind. His legacy is bigger that one can fathom...

There's a movie that explains well John's relationship with his mother. It's called 'Nowhere Boy' and it's brilliant.

Again, as was Working Class Hero, this song was on Lennon's first solo album, after quitting the Beatles. During the time, he was meeting with Arthur Janov, creator of Primal Therapy, a proponent of which was scream therapy, in which you release all of your pent-up frustrations by screaming. In which session John must had said, "let me start me tape recorder. I might have a song here". Stories vary, but one of which, had John having to choose between his father, who was leaving town, and his mother. He chose his father but ran back to his mother before they could leave. She shortly there after, dropped him off to stay with his Aunt Mimi. She didn't have the money or the discipline to raise a small child.

@1nelsondj

3 жыл бұрын

Good summation, his father was away at sea a lot and his mum rejected him so he ended up with neither, just his strict Aunt Mimi. He liked her husband though, his Uncle George and he found ways to get around Mimi. His mum did give him his 1st guitar and he was just getting to know her again as a teen when she was killed by an off-duty inebriated policeman. Cruel fate. My dad's history was shockingly similar to John's, even spent time in an orphanage.

@jasonmardoniomeza1711

2 жыл бұрын

@@1nelsondj yes...and his Uncle died as well which didnt help Johns depression or sense of abandonment. Paul said later that John thought he was a curse on his family. Amazing how John took his pain and was able to create some of the most beautiful music with it. But i suppose great pain can help create great art.

@davidfradin2835

Жыл бұрын

John did not have to choose between his mother and father. That's ridiculous nonsense.

@debjorgo

Жыл бұрын

@@davidfradin2835 That's the way Alf Lennon says it happened. A guy called Billy Hall, a friend of Alf's, who says he was there that day, says both Alf and Julia agreed Julia would keep John. I'm not sure what John's take on it was. Maybe he felt torn with the decision and felt he could have chosen if he wanted. I think John was around when Alf's story was circulating.

@davidfradin2835

Жыл бұрын

@@debjorgo John declined to have a relationship with Alf when he was old enough to make that decision, and he never changed that decision. As fpr what Alf's friend says happened, well, people say all kinds of stuff.

You should see a movie about John's childhood, called "Nowhere Boy."

Raw, pure, emotional journey, only Jonny could take us on!, RIP Beethoven of our generation

The Beatles writers, generally: John writing about himself and the world as he sees it while singing from his very soul. Paul making up characters and wrapping them up in clever melodies and sweet, whimsical singing. George revealing the mystical elements with instrumental backing and otherworldly vocal stylings. John, unless otherwise playing with words and music, keeping it real. I've always identified with John and always will. Children of similar backgrounds identify with John Lennon. He is us.

@francisheperi4180

2 жыл бұрын

Paul came from a happier family/extended family background. He participated in family sing-a-longs around the piano, played by his father and himself; hence his cheerful temperament.

What a Wonderful Man you ARE. Love you’re couch too!

Deep and moving song about coming to terms with the sad realities of our childhoods and making peace with it.

This song hits me. I was raised largely by my grandparents after my parents split. I lived mostly with my mom, but she kept moving from place to place, never happy. It always ended the same way for me, being sent to my grandparents to spend every single vacation period - it was rough because I was always away from my friends... for however long they could be my friends before they moved. I went years not speaking to my father, and have had maybe 20 phonecalls and a few visits since we started speaking again when I was in University. Not on speaking terms with my mother, through my childhood I was a bit of a latchkey kid, always on my own, making my own meals, often leaving home for periods of time because I was always just kind of told "stay in your room and play video games, and stay out of trouble while I live my life." - I mean, I often left, went out with friends, always having that anxiety that any moment I was going to be busted. It was like a decade of being grounded for no reason except existing.

This song always makes me cry.

You need to hear Barbra Streisand's version. She got his permission to record his song. She sang the heck out it, like she was in church. They both grew up with absent parents so both artists understood each other. This was during her rock phase of her career in 1971

John was very troubled and unstable, despite all he seemed to have. He was raised by his aunty.

@glass2467

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think unstable is the right word.

@aesem298

3 жыл бұрын

Glass 24 I mean he wasn’t in the best state of mind, because of him not seeing his mother much he ended up being attracted to her and tried to touch her breasts while they were laying in bed

@glass2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@aesem298 Come on - this was a revelation from John himself talking about an innocent act that he remembered from when he was 14 years old. A troubled childhood sure - his dad left, etc. etc. But you're implying that he was unstable as an adult, which is not true. In fact, because he had gone through therapy, and in fact everything in his later adult life was a form of therapy. And his art was the best therapy. The fact that he revealed his innermost emotional feelings to the world, as deep as he felt them, to the core, actually shows us that he was much more stable than the average person. Most people don't actually recognize the source of their anger or hurt. He did. And his art was a conscious act of revealing himself to the world. That's what's so great about his solo albums. They are revelations unsurpassed by any artist, and a total gift to us all, if we can be open enough to accept it.

@michaeltaylor8835

3 жыл бұрын

yoko didnt help

@johnkiefer3768

3 жыл бұрын

@@aesem298 wtf is your problem dude

His Mum was a woman that loved to have a good time. She played the ukulele and sang. He was raised by a stern Aunt Mimi. He didn’t get along with her. He loved his Mom and she loved him. His Dad was a merchant marine of sorts and spent most of the time away from home. He was not a part of John’s life. No doubt anyone raised this way had to be affected. He was provided a good upbringing as far as necessities were concerned. Unlike Ringo, who grew up dirt poor, John was not working class. He was middle class. He was a complex and angry man. He found his center when he reunited with Yoko, had his son Sean, and lived a good life in NYC. Where he was murdered on 12-08-1980 at the age of 40, 40 years ago.

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Sad...

@UseByDate-Expired

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know where you got your information. John's mother not only abandoned him, but she cut him totally out of her life to the point he thought she had died until he was a teenager... even though she lived and raised a family nearby.

This is the third reaction video I've seen of this song, and they're all similar, his singing always accompanied by a collection of the same photos of his family. And these photos always evince the same reaction: John was carrying quite a burden. The family photos redirects it's from the message we should be getting, "We all are carrying quite a burden." I don't deny that people do get this message, often subliminally or subconsciously, but the impact should be much moreso. This song has been with me since it first came out in, I think, 1970, I was then in my first year of high school. But it has long ago stopped being, for me, about John. In 1972, I read the book, The Primal Scream, that inspired John to seek out its author, Dr. Arthur Janov, to be treated by him. Janov taught that our body holds within us the unprocessed trauma of our lives, going back to the first, primal trauma of birth itself. Yet the pain of trauma can be purged by vigorous emotional release; the primal scream, as we actually hear John accomplishing in this recording, which is the main reason I find out so compelling. When I first read The Primal Scream as a 17- year-old, I desperately wanted this therapy for myself, but it was $3,000 more than I had. Since then, I've found out that his brand of therapy was too risky, and too reckless for me, and I've found other, more precise, but frequently also sketchy variations on Janov's idea. Central to all of these therapies comes the realization that while our human bodies are equipped with the mechanism for emotional purging, our culture, indeed our entire modern interconnected civilization, has absorbed a conditioned set of behaviors that on the one hand demand that we suppress by any means possible this mechanism of healing, and on the other hand compels us to unknowingly transmit the traumatic distress that we've picked up, and the inhibition against releasing it, to our children and our children's children's children, going back, in my estimation, about 8,000 years, far beyond our culture's memory of any such thing happening to us. We have been raised to be stupid about our emotions for a ridiculously long time. But I would never invalidate anyone's grasp on their emotions, as something in our society brutally encourages us to misunderstand and misuse ourselves. In this sense, Janov and especially Lennon are radical cultural watchdogs demonstrating to us how to take back our natural ability to heal emotionally from any trauma. And the song "Mother" shows us one way that it can be done. In the final section of the song, Lennon uses the words, "Mother don't go, Daddy come home," to physically unlock the pain in his heart that so desperately wants to be released. For me, then, the music video that accompanies his recording with photos of his family disastrously misses the main point: 'though our stories may each be uniquely different, the pain behind all of them is astonishingly similar, as is the mechanism that inhibits us from simply healing ourselves! Ultimately, this song's lyrics, so simple that they give us none of the details of John's burden, aren't about him at all, but about each and every one of us. Maybe Love isn't all we need, maybe we also need knowledge of deeper healing and sages who show us the way. Somewhere in some vault there must be the raw footage of John singing "Mother" by himself on his piano, straining his voice and yet oddly calm as he separates his burden from deep inside himself. That is the music video of "Mother" that we need!

this sort of pain never leaves you - especially after happening at such a young age - but he loved his aunt Mimi too..

I don't Have to Imagine it I know it This song was there for me as a teenager. I'm 66. My mother and I know each other now. I still feel this though. Thank you Hari

A friend of mine feels this way about his parents because each of them abandoned him as a child and his grandmother raised him. She was resentful and gave him no love. He curses them all and when he heard his mother died not long ago, he simply said "Good". I had a wonderful mother who died not long ago at the age of 94 and it breaks my heart that he never felt that kind of love in his entire lifetime. He regrets that he has never been married and has live a lonely, lonely, lonely life.

It is a very sad thing for child to grow up feeling unwanted. Whether or not they were in fact unwanted, to feel that way is just as difficult. I walked, ran perhaps, too young, but the pain will never leave. One can learn to disregard it in time, but it never leaves.

John Lennon was a master in storytelling 💜 He was saved through music & his pals Paul, George, Ringo, Donovan, Harry Nilsson🎸🎶 I have never gotten over his death, it was so needless RIP dear John☮️

Dad was in the merchant marine. Seldom home and never wanted to. Mom was a free spirit. Didnt want to be a mother. Left him with her sister. Only a bit of drums and piano to accompany his great voice. Great job, Harri.

This song was written during the time that John and Yoko were attending "primal scream therapy" with Arthur Janov. When it was released, a reviewer (can't remember who) said that "John Lennon laid his balls on the line and the whole [criticism industry] ground to a halt out of sheer respect." When John was 5, his parents made him choose which one he wanted to be with. Imagine that. His mother was killed by an off-duty policeman driving drunk, when John was 17. John already knew Paul at that time, and Paul's mum had died of cancer when Paul was 14, so that was part of the bond between John and Paul.

@andya9487

2 жыл бұрын

Not drunk, and acquitted of all charges

Im back. His father Fred , left when John was 4, and mother passed away when John was 16. now i'm 67and crying.

I just watched an older interview someone did with John’s Aunt MiMi who raised him. It was very moving. And gives you a lot of insight into John.

John's mother died by misadventure on a busy road, it was so innocuous and yet so tragic. John was scarred so deeply, a pain that would raise it's ugly head in later life. Yoko (thru no decision by herself) took the role of replacing John's mother, not by design but by a wonderful universal circumstance. John even came to call her Mother.. May you now have true Peace John Lennon..

Yes this is about his life. Many of his songs were. "help!" "I'm a Loser" "In My Life" and more. What I think raises the emotion in this song to such a high level is that it is almost acapella. His voice is an instrument itself. So beautiful.

one of the most beautiful songs, it helps you understand the man. Thank you for this video hope you are well

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

John's father was a merchant seaman never home, his mother gave her sister the baby john to raise. They were reconnecting in his early teens when she was hit by a car.

John's childhood was very tragic. His father was a sailor and left right after his birth. He went to live with an aunt and his grandfather when he was 3. He was told that his mother was dead. He found out when he was 12 that she hadn't died but suffered from mental illness and the aunt and grandfather had deemed her unworthy to raise John and just took him from her. Then, after finding her, she was hit by a bus and kill when he was 14. It almost killed him. He was a terribly troubled young man. Just like you said, we loved him and thought he had the world at his feet.

I expect John, baring his soul and pain is too hard for most. But I find it cleansing, ripping your heart open.

I lost my dad and mom ,but not the way he did. I love your reaction to this .i am a new subscriber, thank you

I like how he stops before the next line, cause the whole song is the heaviest I ever experienced.

The greatest song writer to come out of the entire Rock-N-Roll era...PLH-ELB

I really enjoyed your very astute reaction - you are very perceptive and got right down to the core of it. Thanks! His parents weren't mature, and were destined to split up, so when he was 4 or 5, his parents (terribly unfairly) told him to choose which parent he wanted. For a second, he picked his dad, then he chose his mum. She was very young, and promptly dumped him with her older sister, his Auntie Mimi, who brought him up and who, by the way, took it to heart and did a great job. He didn't see his dad again until John was a famous Beatle of over 20 years old and in the news every day. Then slimy Fred Lennon came around to The Beatles' dressing room after a big show, but only to suck up for money, and not to get to know his son. That was obviously painful to John, so he rejected that move. In contrast, his mum, Julia, for whom he wrote a beautiful song of the same name, came back every now and then when he was a teen, and showed him banjo chords she knew and they sang together. She had started to mature into a mother. They began to be close, and he thought she was amazing and would always worship her, despite the little time he had with her. But just as they were establishing a warm relationship, she was killed by a drunk driver right as she left her sister Mimi's after visiting John. He was 16 and it devastated him. He loved her. Thus: "Mother", not "Father".

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Thanx Laura..That song really affected me

@andya9487

2 жыл бұрын

Driver wasn't drunk

@ScottLG90

2 жыл бұрын

From what I've been told over the years it was an off duty police officer

Wow what an excellent reaction and review. So compassionate and attentive. I love this song, love John, and love this reaction. Subscribing for sure, please do more John Lennon/Beatles, if you have any unlistened yet!

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and welcome onboard😍

‘Can you imagine both your parents not wanting you…’ Yeah, it happens a couple thousand times a day!

Both his parents abandoned him, his mother, he was raised by his aunt, had his sister was put up for adoption, they never meet cuz she didn't know she was his sister till after he died, when John's mother was finally making up for it she died in a car accident, there's a movie called "nowhere boy" about John's childhood, its worth watching

His mother loved him but had 2 other children by someone else. He adored his mother and saw her when she came to visit. after one visit she was killed in a road accident on her way home from seeing John. he was 17. Sometime after, his grief was very apparent and showed itself in anger outbursts and being mean to others. One fellow girl student shouted at him (presciently) "Don't take it out on me because your Mother's dead" so it was quite obvious to others. His dad was in the Merchant Navy and always away. It is a gut wrenching song and made me weep buckets the very first time I heard it, aged about 14. Poor John. I am sorry for your loss Harri. love peace and music from you know where! x

An amazing song. John so much wanted a mom and dad to love him. Dad was a seaman who was never around. Mom was young and had a good time. She left John with his Aunt Mimi where he lived while growing up. Mom came back into his life and as they were getting close and forming a relationship she was hit and killed by a car. John was 16 or 17 when she passed. Dad tried to get back in his life during the height of Beatlemania. He used John's name to try to make it in music and John was really hurt by this.

This song came out during John's "primal scream" psychotherapy with Dr. Arthur Janov. He was working through some issues. John's father walked out on his family early on. His mother had been described as attentive to his material needs but emotionally distant and self-absorbed. She died when John was young after being hit by a car.

Lennon revealed a lot of personal things about his life, in his songs, especially after the Beatles. Another painful song, about his life, is Cold Turkey, you can image what that one is about.

This song brings me to tears. He was in Primal Screaming therapy at the time.

another great song

Philip Norman wrote a biography of John Lennon if you want to know more. There is so much written about him, but this is a book I really remember liking. His mother was hit by a car when he was a teenager. He lived with his aunt even before she died though.

She left him with his aunt and would sometimes visit. She got hit by a car when he was 9. He said he never cried but it caught up with him and went through primal scream therapy. It took a lot of guts to record this and release it ❤

Great reaction.

John Lennon was going through a therapy called "Primal Scream" to release his emotions from the past. This song is one of the products during that time. That treatment did seem to help him tremendously.

It is so sad , but true.

Harri you should do “Beautiful Boy” reaction! John’s beautiful tribute to his son Sean and one of Paul’s favorite songs ever

Just seen this video bro. Imagine being in the most famous band ever then leaving and making this album lol it was the first confessional LP ever made. Which paved the way for punk music and years later we had rap. Fantastic

John's mother Julia died she was hit by a bus.,when John was 16 years ago.John's dad Fred was a seaman,he left his mom and John when he was a child.

It was indeed about John and his parents. John's father left when he was young (and in fact turned up once when his son became world famous and tried to leech off of him, John pretty much told him to f*ck off). His mother, after complaints to Social Services by her older sister Mimi, gave custody to his aunt Mimi, who raised John. Julia was killed later on, hit by an off duty, driving police officer. John greatly loved his mother, and her death was a traumatic blow to him.

Heartbreaking 😥

Two subsequent politically outspoken rock artists who were also profoundly influenced by their mothers dying young under tragic circumstances were Bono of U2 and Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil. Bono's mom died of an aneurysm at her father's funeral when he was a kid and Peter Garrett's mom burned to death in a house fire when he was in university. He arrived at the scene with his brothers but it was too late. The U2 songs Lemon and Mofo are about how losing his mom at such a young age made Bono crave attention thus becoming a rock star. The beautiful Midnight Oil song In The Valley is a very personal song with references to his grandfather going down on an enemy ship as a prisoner of war and drowning, his grandmother taking in boarders, his workaholic dad dying of a heartattack and "When my mother went down it was a stiff arm from Hades. Life surprises and tears you like the Southerly". BTW the entire Plastic Ono Band album is fantastic. Its one of my all time favorite albums.

He was such a wonderful articulator of human experience . At the time they were working on some theory that screaming helped to unlock your psyche , can't remember the name of it , but this was during that period .

That happened between John 's 3/4 years old. Both parents. Raised by an Antie (MIMI) she had a piano at home.. the trust's history ☯️☯️

You should hear the sound of the voice of John’s father. Is the same as John. Freddie Lennon records a sound called “that’s my life”.

His grandparents raised. He had just gotten involved in Primal Psychology. Same story with Clapton. After the Wsr

There is a movie called nowhere boy in KZread. Which shows the story of john lennon teenage years and about his parents and his aunt mimi.

Lennon was pretty much raised by his mother's sister, his aunt Mimi. The movie "Nowhere Boy" deals with all that and his youth and meeting the other Beatles and starting the band. It ends with a young John Lennon asking his aunt to fill out a form he needs to get his passport because they're leaving for their legendary tenure in Germany where they solidified as a band. The movie portrays his asking her to fill the form because he's still a minor as him acknowledgement that she was more of a mother to him than his actual mother ever was.

You could also react to Julia. It's also about his mother who died in an accident when he was a teenager. The story of his relationship with his mother is so heartbreaking.

If I remember right, he was 10, and his aunt called a family meeting to figure out what was going to happen with John, it happened at a pier, and his parents were asked who would take him, and they both left, John watched his mother leave on a ship, and his grandmother raised him.

I can. I had the same thing. The pain can not be healed. But it sure leads to great art and music. I can also attest to that. I am a songwriter you have never heard of yet I have sold tons of songs. But I will always be sad. Double edge sword.

There is a song on You Tube by John's father. The first part sounds like it could be the beginning of Imagine, it starts on the same note.

He was learning "primal screaming" in therapy at this point. It's used in this song. Listen to Cristina Aguilera s cover.

Wonderful video. I would suggest you check out John's Beatles song from the White Album about his mother ... "Julia." She was beautiful and he adored her. He and Paul partially bonded over their recently lost mothers and make a joke out if sometimes. Paul says the most wonderful things about Julia, her beauty, her style and John's adoration. Alas, John lived with his aunt with his mother sort of flitting in and out.

A heart breaking song about john's life. His father was away in the Navy, I think. He never got over the loss of both of them. So very sad.

The ending says all the emotion

Lennon wrote this song after having gone through Primal Therapy, in which repressed, early life traumas are brought to consciousness, commonly causing people to scream like a baby during the process, due to the overwhelming emotional pain that accompanies the memories. The song includes both his hurt over the loss of his parents and the screaming caused by it during the therapy.

John's mother Julia was a very young her big sister raised John. His mother started to come back into his life and helped with his musical aspirations but unfortunately when john was about 17 his mothet was run down by an off duty police officer who was probably drunk. Paul lost his mom when he was about 14 due to illness. John and Paul bonded over love of music and the loss of their mothers.

When John was 4 yrs old his mum and dad sat him down and asked him to choose between the two of them. He chose his dad at first but as his mum left, he ran to her and never saw his dad again. His mum then gave him to her sister, his aunt mimi to raise. She came back into his life when he was about 14 and within months she was knocked down and killed by a drunk off duty policeman at the bus stop outside his house. Just afterwards he met Paul McCartney who was only 14 and just lost his own mum to breast cancer...

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

So much pain..we may never realise the full impact these had on his life

@andya9487

2 жыл бұрын

Drunk?

@amr180671

2 жыл бұрын

@@andya9487 yes, and mounted the pavement. John's friend saw it and tried to help but she was killed more or less instantly. Of course the driver got off with it and even kept his job in the police

@andya9487

2 жыл бұрын

@@amr180671 I've never read any evidence that the off duty officer was drunk...do you have a source?

John was raised by his Aunt Mimi his mother met with tragedy after being hit with a car he was 16 years old. A life without reconciliation must have been very lonely in his heart.

He looked like both parents. Sean features him now.