Comments on: Instant Karma!

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:59:52 +0000

I have always thought this song was inspired by Al Capp’s visit to them at the Bed-In For Peace where he talked nasty to and insulted John and Yoko. John couldn’t very well punch him in the nose because the whole event was “”for peace”. (And Capp knew it and thought he had John over a barrel) But you know John was seething. So he wrote this song instead. “What in the world you thinking of, laughing in the face of love?”, etc. of course my theory doesn’t work if Capp’s visit was AFTER the song was written.

By: Slave

Slave — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:35:04 +0000

Do you think the attack on Paul McCartney began with the first verse of this song? I never thought about it until now but it could be interpreted as John yelling at Paul and George for not taking his love for Yoko seriously. Lennon might have cast the first stone in their public feud.

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Sat, 14 May 2016 15:23:08 +0000

Well, although George states that he participated in this classic Lennon song, I don´t hear much of guitar or piano. I think john played acoustic piano, not George.

By: Alane

Alane — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:28:34 +0000

Brilliant! A real awakening for all.

By: John W

John W — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:44:35 +0000

Although I love the song and feel its one of John’s best late efforts, the production is muddy. The song reverberates like its down at the bottom of a hole. All the instruments as well as vocals seem to bleed together. There’s no depth. I still love it though.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:34:06 +0000

Just to add;to think this was all recorded in just one day. Lennon wanted recorded there and then. The result was instant brilliance.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:34:27 +0000

A John Lennon masterpiece, produced brilliantly by Phil Spector. George Harrison is on there to boot. Wonderful hypnotic beat. Loved listening to this when I got the compilation Shaved Fish in March 1981 along with Double Fantasy.

By: robert

robert — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:12:36 +0000

The day this single came out in 1970 I bought a copy. My friend and I took it to my house (where no one was home) and we played on my parents living stereo system over and over and over for hours. We were blown away by the power of this song. Every time I hear it, I relive that day. I still have the single with the picture sleeve.

By: Canberk Duman

Canberk Duman — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:58:03 +0000

What a song! Make me want to sing all over the streets! Funniest work of John, with Whatever Gets You Thru’ the Night and Give Peace a Chance!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:40:49 +0000

What a cool song, I think it’s a great example of when Spector’s wall of sound really works because it’s the type of song that just sounds like it was completely captured in the moment, which was obviously John’s intention. Some songs need overdubs, but the energy and spontaneity of Instant Karma makes it one of John’s finest.