Comments on: Jealous Guy

By: McLennon

McLennon — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 02:31:20 +0000

I mean, you would think so………Mal Evans would probably disagree. I remember him saying something about him driving Paul somewhere right after John told him ‘The Beatles were done’, ‘i want a divorce’, ‘i don’t want to hold your hand anymore’ (at least one of those, I mean). He said that Paul cried the entire drive (and Paul was certainly a wreck for a short period after that)…………………….So, anyway, John did make him cry.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 02:22:17 +0000

When he told Paul that the Beatles ‘were done’, he ‘wanted a divorce’, and he ‘didn’t want to hold his hand anymore’, Paul cried a lot, according to Mal Evans.

By: Danna

Danna — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:25:30 +0000

I think Paul meant to say got after you’re mum and don’t hurt her.

By: Jade

Jade — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:32:35 +0000

John couldn’t have been remembering Yoko when he wrote this song. He hadn’t left Cynthia yet to be with her. John wrote the song in India when he was there with his wife Cynthia. Yoko wasn’t on the scene yet. But, when John was in India with his wife he was contemplating leaving Cynthia for Yoko. Perhaps John knew what was coming for Cynthia and he was apologizing to her for all the harm he did and was going to do to her and their son, Julian.

By: Jade

Jade — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:25:29 +0000

John wrote the song while he was in India with his wife, Cynthia. Yoko wasn’t quite in the picture yet. John had not lived with Yoko yet. He had only lived with Cynthia up to the time he wrote this song. John use to knock Cynthia around (as he did Thelma Pickles). On one occassion when Stuart Sutcliffe and Cynthia were dancing together John became furious and dragged her away. John was a jealous guy the most with Cynthia.

He was never jealous about Yoko being around other guys.

By: Bruce S

Bruce S — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:07:48 +0000

It sounds like he would be singing Jealous Guy to a woman. “I didn’t mean to make you cry”, seems like it would be directed towards Cynthia or Yoko.

By: Yourmother

Yourmother — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 04:50:43 +0000

hey Jude was about John…. why would you be telling a 5 year old to go get a girl? I think it’s about John and Jules.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:37:07 +0000

I…?? The suspense is killing me!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 31 May 2017 00:21:51 +0000

It reads more of a song about Paul than Yoko. Just like hey Jude , to me, sounds like s song about John. I

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 22:13:42 +0000

Agreed!

By: Angelica

Angelica — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 02:09:34 +0000

Yeah and John said a lot of things even though Paul was still alive to debunk them. I mean he thought Hey Jude was about him. Are they both narcissists now? I like to think that there is at least a kernel of truth to the majority of things they’ve said, otherwise it just gets depressing

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:42:27 +0000

You’re all wrong about the subject of this song (Jealous Guy) – John wrote it for me. I recently lost my love and soulmate through my own stupidity; I happened to be listening to the song a few weeks later and immediately realised it captured in a few short, but searingly honest, sentences my exact emotions. Whether by John, Roxy, Donny or whoever, listening to it gutted me. Sent her youtube of John’s version – hope it works.

By: haiku vulcan

haiku vulcan — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:47:37 +0000

That’s not fair to Paul. I’ve always thought that the song was to the Beatles in general and Paul in particular, not Yoko. But I can’t prove it. I believe Paul, why would he lie about it? It makes perfect sense.

By: Jeff Gachihi

Jeff Gachihi — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:54:52 +0000

If one song paints a picture of an exasperated John yelling in the studio “Just play it like Paul!”, it’s this one…that’s McCartney’s bass all over…great song, by the way.

By: ja

ja — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 03:15:11 +0000

When people disagree its likely about what they’re thinking. How can one person disagree with what someone else says they are feeling? Respectfully, it seems impossible for one person to say they know without question what John was thinking — more possibly its a reflection of what that one person is feeling. Remember John kindly, he had a lot of good points.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:39:18 +0000

This song is to me a major redeeming thing of John. If it wasn’t about Paul, then it SHOULD have been about Paul !

By: TRAVIS A JONES

TRAVIS A JONES — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:41:28 +0000

Wait, where is “Child of Nature” on Anthology? It wasn’t on any of the original 3. Also, I think most of you all are thinking too narrowly. John Lennon was a brilliant, complex person(duh). As a songwriter, the meaning of your lyrics are often directed or more accurately sourced from a variety of inspirations. My opinion is the song, or parts of it, ARE about Paul (new idea I had never heard but makes sense), and definitely about Cynthia, and definitely about Yoko, and other women he had been with in his life. So, it can also be looked as an apology from him to all the women in his life, and thus women in general. That’s often how lyrics work. True, obviously, sometimes you’re obsessed with one person or subject, but otherwise it gets grey quickly, and you don’t even know yourself necessarily where it all came from, where one influence ends and another begins. A lot of song- (or any kind of) writing is inspired by all sorts of things, consciously and subconsciously. Sometimes the writer themselves may not realize until afterwards, sometimes years later, exactly what was going on in their mind, or emotionally. I find lyrics (especially in the case of someone like Lennon, who’s writing was SO from the heart) are often more about what you’re feeling than thinking, and that makes the waters much muddier if you’re truly honest with yourself.

By: sertaneja

sertaneja — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:53:05 +0000

However, John himself told Paul it was about him. It seems the problem is only because it is a romantic song. People are homophobic, we know. Most people are. But those who feel uncomfortable, ( I don’t) remove the romantic bit. After all is quite possible to add something romantic only for being more popular. Also to let Yoko think it was for her. LOL Anyway, it makes sense to be about Paul. They were fighting. John was terribly rude composing How to do you sleep. Deep inside they both liked each other in spite of all problems. Very natural to include another song saying he was sorry, and he didn’t mean to hurt him. It’s totally acceptable.Much more sense than for Cynthia, who was not with him anymore. John used to write only about what he was living at that moment. But of course, though he had Paul in mnd ( if Paul told so I see no reason to doubt) he could also have thought about everybody else he hurt in his life.

By: sertaneja

sertaneja — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:17:13 +0000

I see why people don’t accept he had Paul in mind when wrote this song. Why not? Of course, it is possible. John was a jealous guy indeed. Makes more sense to me than being about Yoko.

By: sertaneja

sertaneja — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:13:58 +0000

Johnny, this is your view only, You can’t say it was not about Paul. If John said so, maybe it was. I imagine you were not there. Unless you are a close friend of them and didn’t explain.