History NightmareFuel / JohnLennon

* The album cover is also nightmare fuel for different reasons.

* Accounts from those around him paint a less than pretty picture. His first-born son Julian recalls him screaming at him so loudly that he caused the 12-year old's ears to bleed, and he once nearly beat a man to death for accusing him of being in a homosexual relationship. (Which his [[Music/YokoOno widow]] thinks he probably was.)

When Music/JohnLennon started recording outside Music/TheBeatles catalogue his solo output was more personal and, as a result, sometimes sounded a lot creepier too.

* Accounts from those around him paint a less than pretty picture. His first-born son Julian recalls him screaming at him so loudly that he caused the 12-year old's ears to bleed, and he once nearly beat a man to death for accusing him of being in a homosexual relationship. (Which his [[Creator/YokoOno widow]] thinks he probably was.)

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* Turn out the lights and listen to "Two Virgins". The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around John's homebrew recording studio (actually just an assortment of tape decks) in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie... unless you're a sound collage devotee, in which case you're probably laughing all over the floor.

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* "God" has a far too bouncy tune to be a dirge and far too funereal to be a rhapsody, the piano chords have this biting quality like a wild animal snapping at you, and Lennon's vocals sound about twelve times as ghostly as they did in The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".

[[caption-width-right:205:An eerily prophetic photo from 1968, photographed by Tom Murray]]

* Turn out the lights again, and listen to the radio reports from the night of his death -- either those you recorded yourself at the time, or the many airchecks available on Youtube, especially WABC's.

* "Mother" The way the song ends with Lennon's screaming getting louder and louder to the point where it sounds between a mix of inhumane and demonic. [[LastNoteNightmare The actual ending of the song is a bit more terrifying since it just sounds like John is screaming into the damn void]].

* Turn out the lights and listen to "Two Virgins". The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around John's homebrew recording studio (actually just an assortment of tape decks) in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie.

** It's a TearJerker to hear him denounce each of his influences, finally ending with Music/TheBeatles and then sing ''"The Dream is over... I was the Walrus/But now, I'm John."''

* Turn out the lights and listen to "Two Virgins". The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around a recording studio in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie.

* Some of Yoko and John's screaming during "John & Yoko" can catch you by surprise.

When Lennon left the Beatles his solo work became more personal and, as a result, sometimes a lot creepier too.

* "Baby's Heartbeat". A heartbeat monitor recording of John and Yoko's unborn child. This would be charming in a way, were it not for the fact that the child died in miscarriage, making the two minutes of silence that follow on the record all the more morbid.

* Some of Yoko and John's screaming during "John & Yoko" came catch you by surprise.

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''Shaved Fish''

* "God" has a far too bouncy tune to be a dirge and far too funereal to be a rhapsody, the piano chords have this biting quality like a wild animal snapping at you, and Lennon's vocals sound about twelve times as ghostly as they did in The Beatles' ''"A Day in the Life"''.

* Turn out the lights and listen to "Two Virgins". The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around a recording studio in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie.

* ''"God"'' has a far too bouncy tune to be a dirge and far too funereal to be a rhapsody, the piano chords have this biting quality like a wild animal snapping at you, and Lennon's vocals sound about twelve times as ghostly as they did in The Beatles' ''"A Day in the Life"''.
** It's a {{Tearjerker}} to hear him denounce each of his influences, finally ending with Music/TheBeatles and then sing ''"The Dream is over... I was the Walrus/But now, I'm John/."''
* ''"Cold Turkey"'': A song about Lennon quitting his heroin addiction. It's an uncomfortable song in which Lennon sings about feeling ill and desperate. To top it all off, [[LastNoteNightmare the last lines are just him screaming and moaning his pain away]].
* Turn out the lights and listen to ''"Two Virgins."'' The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around a recording studio in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie.

* ''"Cold Turkey"'': A song about Lennon quitting his heroin addiction. It's an uncomfortable song in which Lennon sings about feeling ill and desperate. To top it all off, [[LastNoteNightmare the last lines are just him screaming and moaning his pain away]].

[[An eerily prophetic photo from 1968, photographed by Tom Murray]]

* "God" is perhaps the single scariest song ever recorded. The tune is far too bouncy to be a dirge and far too funereal to be a rhapsody, the piano chords have this biting quality like a wild animal snapping at you, and Lennon's vocals sound about twelve times as ghostly as they did in "A Day in the Life".
** It's a {{Tearjerker}} to hear him denounce each of his influences, finally ending with Music/TheBeatles and then sing "The Dream is over... I was the Walrus/But now, I'm John/."
* "Cold Turkey": A song about Lennon quitting his heroin addiction. It's an uncomfortable song in which Lennon sings about feeling ill and desperate. To top it all off, [[LastNoteNightmare the last lines are just him screaming and moaning his pain away]].

* "Cold Turkey": A song about Lennon quitting his heroin addiction. It's an uncomfortable song in which Lennon sings about feeling ill and desperate. To top it all off, the last lines are just him screaming and moaning his pain away.