Tag: John Lennon

John Lennon: Give Me Some Truth 

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After the Beatles ended, many of the Fabs took off in new directions with solo albums. John Lennon was no exception with the beautiful Imagine.

Loaded with amazing songs aside from its namesake, Imagine also has: Crippled Inside (some say a jab at Paul McCartney), Jealous Guy, Oh My Love, How Do You Sleep (possible jab at McCartney or John himself), Oh Yoko, and others.

My favorite aside from the namesake of the album is, Gimme Some Truth. A political lambast of lyrics by Lennon and some amazing music behind the song. 

With John Lennon on vocals and guitar, George Harrison on slide guitar and guitar, Session Legend Nicky Hopkins on piano, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on the drums. I’m sure Yoko was doing something too somewhere in there. I’m not sure what but probably was part of it too.

Complex filling blues chords and timely slide guitar riffs make this track catchy and hard to ignore.

Check out the lyrics as well, they’ll really blow your mind. I find them quite appropriate in today’s political/social climate as well.  

As always, thank you for reading and listening…

-aaa

The Late Great Johnny Ace by Paul Simon off of Hearts and Bones Circa 1983

Anthony2 Comments

I posted this back on July 19 of this year and for whatever reason I’m just thinking of this song right now as we come close to the anniversary of the of the murder and subsequent death of John Lennon.

I was thinking of writing a post about this, and I forgotten that I already had. Just wanted to re-share it with many of you who may not have seen it before or may not be allowed to see it for other reasons I can’t control.

I hope you enjoy it again or for the first time and please listen to this song. It’ll really do something to you. It has everything like I mention in my brief article below.

This just does something to me every time I hear it. it’s got everything hope happiness, love, sadness, heartbreak, and this beautiful eulogy at the end in this lovely coda by Philip Glass. It’ll break your heart. A touching tribute to Johnny Ace and John Lennon.

Check it out below, I think a lot of you may not be familiar with it.

-aaa

The Late Great Johnny Ace

Instant Karma! It is real

Anthony3 Comments

Instant Karma! Is a track off the Plastic Ono Band, a very catchy John Lennon song. Plastic on a band was sort of a super group of Lennon’s at formed in 1969 through 1970. He’s really talking about something here. 

     “Instant Karma’s gonna get you, gonna

knock you on the head. You better get 

       yourself together, darling. Are you soon 

       gonna be dead.”

This is so true karma is real and it does get ya. I always try to be positive and lead positive impacts on others. I think if you don’t, it comes back to you tenfold I’ve seen it happen. Do by others it’s just a natural thing and it feels right and then you know karma’s on your side. In the 90s I recall Nike did a really interesting ab campaign with this song and like the words popping at in 3-D was very powerful and I think it worked well.

Anyhow, enjoy this tune it’s very good, and you’ll find very interesting who was on hand to record this song in the studio:

John Lennon: lead vocal, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, piano

George Harrison: electric guitar, piano, backing vocals,

Klaus Voormann: bass guitar, electric piano, backing vocals

Alan White: drums, piano, backing vocals

Billy Preston: Hammond organ, backing vocals

Yoko Ono: backing vocals 

Mal Evan’s: chimes, hand claps, backing vocals

As always thank you for reading and listening 🎵🎶🎼😊

-aaa