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John Lennon — Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
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huckncatch
(PDX)
Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 17:30
 
Both my boys were sung to sleep with this -- regularly!

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Feb 20, 2013 - 19:36
 

marvelous...  love it...

Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 18:42
 
As bad now as it was then...

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 18:40
 
Always wondered how Julian feels when he hears this…

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 10:10
 

soooo beautiful...  love this song...

gatorade
(Peninsuland)
Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 20:49
 
Outrageous. Only a 7.4 average. A solid 10. 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 09:12
 


As my dad used to say, "It's a long way to Tupelo..."  love this classic song...

 

bachbeet
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 23:05
 
John was never afraid to sing a song that might be considered out of his usual "safe place."  Here, he unabashedly pronounces his love for his son, Sean.  He obviously wanted only the best for him.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 22:46
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Bumping from 9 to 10.  Very few songs can bring me to tears when I'm completely sober, but this one does. It's so beautiful, evocative, emotional, and tender... I had a really heart-felt post typed, but I deleted it. The music speaks for itself.  I miss you, Mr. Lennon. See you on the other side...
 
Miss you so much, Ann...

rest in peace... 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 22:44
 


This is such a poignant and wonderful song...  incredible...  thank you so much RP for playing this song...  check this out—






 

drsteevo
(Location Location)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 07:52
 
This song is a great gift from a father to a son.  Wouldn't we all want to know how our fathers loved us when we were children, and to hear it so eloquently stated.

michaelgmitchell
(Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 07:48
 
 ofanansky wrote:
Ten years ago at the funeral of a friend's little son, we sang this song. Still brings tears to my eyes.
 
Thanks for this. Had to reach for a tissue myself. I actually HATE that we lost John that night. And it's a strong word, yes.

ofanansky
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 07:45
 
Ten years ago at the funeral of a friend's little son, we sang this song. Still brings tears to my eyes.

ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.)
Posted: May 13, 2012 - 12:52
 
 jagdriver wrote:

..... 

What really freaks me out is him singing, Happi-ness is a warm gun..... It's a little too prophetic, don't you agree?
 
Mother of all bitter ironies or simply a prosaic coincidence?

Lots of people talk about safe driving or gun safety only to be a victim later.  People write love songs about someone who is "yesterday" by time the song is published..

For me, that song is simply so mixed up in my art-emotional kettle.  Great song, but oh, do I miss you, John Lennon.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 10:40
 
 big_gare wrote:

Yeah.  What you said...
 


Thanks...  this is a beautiful song...

 

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 10:26
 
 AvoidingWork wrote:

Click
AAUUGGHH!!!  
back back back
.
.
.
You're a cruel man WonderLizard.

 
Aw, c'mon...it's just nakedidity—as Radar would say. Hee-hee.


kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 15:39
 
 jagdriver wrote:

I concur. He really needed to stop popping massive quantities of "pill du joir," shooting up with Yoko, and going on extended binges with Ringo, Harry, et al. ......

......What really freaks me out is him singing, Happi-ness is a warm gun..... It's a little too prophetic, don't you agree?
 
Yes indeed, jagdriver! "Happiness is a Warm Gun" always gives me the creeps now.


AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 15:40
 
 WonderLizard wrote:

Ah, then you really need the original cover to Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Music_No.1:_Two_Virgins
 
Click
AAUUGGHH!!!  
back back back
.
.
.
You're a cruel man WonderLizard.


big_gare
(Langley, Bee Cee, Canada)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 15:34
 
 romeotuma wrote:


Oh, yes, 10 for sure...  John Lennon was so happy when he wrote this song...  this song brims with optimism...  love it...

 
Yeah.  What you said...


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 15:32
 
Wonderful song. 

Ready to tune in tonight to Scorcese's George Harrison documentary.;

C57BL6
(PB)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 15:31
 
Speaking of  l'affinite pour les Gauloises...

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 19:49
 
...has anyone uploaded kate bush's bertie yet?..

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 19:48
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Bumping from 9 to 10.  Very few songs can bring me to tears when I'm completely sober, but this one does. It's so beautiful, evocative, emotional, and tender... I had a really heart-felt post typed, but I deleted it. The music speaks for itself.  I miss you, Mr. Lennon. See you on the other side...
 

Oh, yes, 10 for sure...  John Lennon was so happy when he wrote this song...  this song brims with optimism...  love it...




Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 15:06
 
Bumping from 9 to 10.  Very few songs can bring me to tears when I'm completely sober, but this one does. It's so beautiful, evocative, emotional, and tender... I had a really heart-felt post typed, but I deleted it. The music speaks for itself.  I miss you, Mr. Lennon. See you on the other side...

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 25, 2011 - 21:02
 


amazing how beautiful this song still is...  still love it...

 

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 19:41
 
 hippiechick wrote:
Great show about John last night on American Masters.

{#Cry}
 
Hi, hippiechick! {#Wave}  I saw that show - it was amazingly well-documented, and showed a side of John and Yoko that most people never got to see.  John truly loved Yoko, and she him.  Even when she was talking about him so long after his murder, she choked up.  I think my favorite part was when Jack Douglas talked about his and Yoko's "goodbye" to John - they sat in the studio and just listened to everything John had ever recorded, musical or verbal.

Whatever anyone thinks about Yoko and whether or not she was "good" for John or whether or not she broke up the Beatles, the fact remains - John and Yoko were deeply, passionately, completely in love, and no one should fault that, in this world of self-gratification and "me-first"-ism. They had the real thing.

I love this song on so many levels - the gentle side of John, the perception and love he showed to his and Yoko's child, his beautiful lyrical style... John Lennon may have been a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me, he was exactly what the world needed at the time, and he was cut down far too soon.

Miss you, John.



linden
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 19:40
 
 TobyRush wrote:
As a music theory prof, I play a piece of music at the start of every class period as I'm taking attendance. On the day I returned to work after the birth of each of my three boys, I'd play this song as I showed pics to the class. Then, last November, our first girl... had to pick a different tune. :)
 
I favor "Isn't She Lovely?" by Stevie Wonder, myself.


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 19:33
 
 vandal wrote:
The album cover always bothered me - I have issues with Yoko. . .
 
Ah, then you really need the original cover to Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Music_No.1:_Two_Virgins


hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 19:27
 
Great show about John last night on American Masters.

{#Cry}

Netto
(Khimki, Russia)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 10:34
 
 PA1749 wrote:
Anyone ever listen to Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking? He has some pretty harsh words for Yoko on there.
 
Yes, I'm. One of favourite work of Waters. But John sincerely believed that Yoko his muse. God will judge him.


Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 10:29
 
 vandal wrote:
The album cover always bothered me - I have issues with Yoko. . .
 

a lot of us do. 

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe, PA)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 10:25
 
Liked John. Not Yoko. Anyone ever listen to Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking? He has some pretty harsh words for Yoko on there.

calypsus_1
Posted: Sep 05, 2010 - 14:14
 

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Forest267
(Milwaukee)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 11:07
 
This will always be a special song for me, sang it for each of my three boys when they were very small. Hope they hear it when they are adults from time to time, and remember how these words rang so true for their Dad.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 10:38
 
The album cover always bothered me - I have issues with Yoko. . .

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 09:43
 


love it...

 

fingerpin
(OhiO)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 09:42
 
Life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other plans. {#Heartkiss}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 18, 2009 - 19:26
 


This is a beautiful song...  it is good for the ears to listen to this song...



jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 15:49
 
 kaybee wrote:

No John Lennon was not a god and it is unfair to put that much onto a human being's shoulders.  To people that loved him, Lennon could often be cruel and insensitive.  Cynthia Lennon had to fight like hell for support for his son Julian and that certainly doesn't say much for Lennon's parenting skills.

That said, John Lennon had a lot of great qualities:  intelligence, great songwriting and music skills (of course) a deep understanding of what was really going on in the world and later, a desire to change it for the better.  I've always felt that the greatest tragedy of Lennon's loss was that he was just beginning to "come together" as a human being and find peace with himself and those he loved, when he was killed
 
I concur. He really needed to stop popping massive quantities of "pill du joir," shooting up with Yoko, and going on extended binges with Ringo, Harry, et al. A few years earlier, to watch him playing rhythm on Hey, Jude was pretty pathetic; he was one empty person at the time. Like Clapton, he needed to clean up and start placing some value on his own life, Yoko's, Julian's, and everyone else who loved him. With this LP he was just starting to really come into his own and it's interesting to ponder what his artistry may have produced had he lived. 

What really freaks me out is him singing, Happi-ness is a warm gun..... It's a little too prophetic, don't you agree?



stkman
(Texas)
Posted: Feb 13, 2009 - 05:24
 
First John wasn't a god and probably would resent that a 10 is "god-like", this isn't ancient Greece. Second John knew he could be a jackass, smartass and hard person to get along with. Third as with people that have a family when they are young and are on the road alot, that family suffers.The second family gets a better deal as we usually mature with age. John was a house father that was deeply involed in raising Sean, with Jullian he was busy playing(not allways music)so his first family got neglected. Sean helped ground him and provided inspiration for a quite beautifull song. Double Fantasy proved that his writing brillance was far from over and as its a shame when any life is cut short we feel cheated losing such a great talent. I allways felt that his life was more together and that he was in the process of righting some wrongs like his relationship with Jullian but thats just my opinion.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 17:37
 
 tiare wrote:
Get over it- (we all do not seem so great to those around us) In the long run he worked hard to make this all better for us = he is a GOD!!
 
No John Lennon was not a god and it is unfair to put that much onto a human being's shoulders.  To people that loved him, Lennon could often be cruel and insensitive.  Cynthia Lennon had to fight like hell for support for his son Julian and that certainly doesn't say much for Lennon's parenting skills.

That said, John Lennon had a lot of great qualities:  intelligence, great songwriting and music skills (of course) a deep understanding of what was really going on in the world and later, a desire to change it for the better.  I've always felt that the greatest tragedy of Lennon's loss was that he was just beginning to "come together" as a human being and find peace with himself and those he loved, when he was killed

Everytime I hear him sing the line: "the monster's gone", it gives me the chills.



Relayer
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 10:09
 
I feel bad for Julian, he didn't get half the attention or love from John as Sean did (at least according to some Lennon biography shows I have seen).

hippiechick
(Heaven, a place where nothing ever happens)
Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 09:53
 
{#Cry}

phlattop
Posted: Dec 11, 2008 - 22:20
 
Paul McCartney professed in an interview to really loving this song. May have even been a desert island tune for him.

I had this on vinyl and I seem to remember at the very end of the song hearing Lennon telling Julian "to get in the water" .
It's not there on the CD. Is my memory off here? 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 11, 2008 - 19:28
 


Great song from a great album... we still miss you, John...



sub-arctic
(63°50' N)
Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 06:18
 
We have one three-year-old boy and we're expecting another one any day now. (Yes, we know this one will also be a boy...)

Before I couldn't really relate to this song, but now I can!

gekkosan
(Ithaca, NY)
Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 06:18
 
I don't even want to read the comments for this song.
Becoming a Dad has turned me into an emotional sop, and I absolutely love this song and get all watery eyed every time I hear it and think about my own beautiful, beautiful boy.

Thank you John, for giving us this song.

Atlantis
Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 06:15
 
He didn't half do some rubbish after the Beatles split.  Ugh.

tenacious_v
(ubiquity)
Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 10:39
 
unfortunately anything that reminds me of Celine Dion makes me want to gag uncontrollably......

Pyro
Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 10:30
 
So sad he was killed shortly after this CD was released.  He never got to see his beautiful boy grow up.  "I can hardly wait to see you come of age, but I guess we'll just have to be patient...."

RIP, John.