The actual interesting thing about him choosing Ringo as 4 or 5 was that Ringo was the replacement drummer. Pete Best was the original 4. Ringo was either the replacement 4 or the 5.
The statement said Tom Scott no longer counts as a Young Internet People makes me age 20 years instantly. Like, we're not even 40 yet, give us a fuckin' break!
My level of excitement kept going up with each new person showing up in the video. From "oh nice, it's Taha" to "wait, is this going to be all of AIP" to a happy yes. Been a while since the last AIP video so it was extra nice seeing them Them asking if Ringo was the drummer hurt a bit though, haha
As someone who is STILL WAY TOO YOUNG to have experienced the Beatles myself, and as someone who is aware that common knowledge changes all the time, and as someone who knows that even what common knowledge is or should be is rightfully challenged all the time, my jaw still dropped when I watched them struggling to know who Ringo Starr was and to only now find the connection to the even more famous Beatle by naming "that woman who made the vegetarian sausages".
Also a reminder we will all be forgotten given time. In like a 100 years, no one will know the Beatles anymore (except for some nerd historians). I think that's perfectly fine, but it also means everyone of us matter here and now (and not later). No one will care in the future so just enjoy life while you can.
@@markusklyver6277 That's mainly true, but Beethoven and Mozart are still fairly well-known today, so I think it'll take a little more than a century for the Beatles to be forgotten.
“Is he related to the woman who makes the vegetarian sausages?” This all had a really similar energy to when someone under the age of 30 is asked a question about pre-decimal currency on The Chase 😂😂😂😂
Also, it's difficult to feel bad that we in the US didn't have Ringo as Mr Conductor because we had George Carlin instead after the first season or so.
I was thinking along the lines of the Soviet era bootlegs and maybe you could tell it was his because it was recorded onto an x-ray of his arm or something. I was trying to think of my vinyl knowledge and then only things I could think of is that people made copies on old x-ray prints and that people melted them down and made ashtrays out of them.
4:20 For the record, Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine for both the British and American dubs. The first two seasons were later redubbed for American audiences by George Carlin, but Ringo was the first American narrator.
I feel like I've seen so many Beatles references in Tom Scott's productions, if he is a massive Beatles fan I'd love to just hear him talk about it forever.
There are many people that say they are the 5th Beatles. The Wikipedia article on "fifth Beatle" will give you a starting point on information to look into about the many people with various levels of claims to be the fifth Beatle.
I was thinking that he had the album signed by the other 3 guys, with like "for Ringo, John" etc. I am not surprised that much that that's not the right answer, but I am very much surprised that that was not one of the early guesses by the panelists
I knew that Ringo narrated Thomas the Tank Engine because Tim Minchin references it in his song "Lullaby". I also knew that there were four members of the Fab Four, but that counts as General Knowledge, Taha!
I giggled when I read Thomas the Tank Engine, I immediately thought about Gary's "Thomas the Tank Engine on water" "-Tinder Username" from a specific Citation Needed episode
Tom was surprised Sabrina knew about HMV, but HMV was a record store chain in Canada (a subsidiary of the British chain) for a long time, from 1986 until 2017. So even thought she's solidly Gen Z, there's a slight chance she may have gone into an HMV at some point in her life.
I thought it might be like on some vinyl there were little scratched messages between the run-out groove and the label and his said something in particular. Had no idea they were simply numbered and that every single one was therefore unique.
At the 3 minute mark I was on the wrong theory and couldn't leave it. That the record was printed on an x-ray image that was of Ringos body. The printing records on x-ray images was done in the 50s and 60s to smuggle banned music into the Soviet Union.
Fun Fact: After Pete was no longer with The Beatles, he put out an album of his own original music. He titled it "Best of the Beatles" and of course people bought it thinking that it was like a "Greatest Hits" album, when it wasn't. He was sued for false advertising, but he won the lawsuit, because you couldn't deny that he was indeed (Pete) Best, of the Beatles.
Also, that's a lot. And also I'm amazed it still works. It makes me wonder if someone at youtube is intentionally making sure they don't break that api because of that video.
I Knew it was going to be about the serial numbers but I wasn't sure if it would be 00004 or it would be that the original didn't have the serial numbers for what ever reason
6:42 “there were only 4 Beatles” [Stuart Sutcliffe has entered the chat] [Pete Best has entered the chat] [Norman Chapman has entered the chat] [Tommy More has entered the chat]
1:30 My first thought thought was that he had jokingly added "Me!" under the portrait of himself, but then I remembered it was the "White Album" which is actually just a self titled album that is called the white album because it's entirely white; so I'm not sure there even is any portraits on it. My second thought was that it was labelled "Ringo's copy" or something by the manager or something, though that would not prove it's one of the early copies. So I wondered it it might have a dated postage stamp on it (though it seems rather careless to mail a vinyl record). Then I just googled the album to se the cover just to see if I could think of a clever way he could prove it; and then I saw that the album was blank except for a faint "The Beatles" label (which I seem to remember was actually only added as a sticker later because it was confusing having a completely blank album in record stores; or maybe it was only embossed on the original run or something very faint like that...) and of course a serial number. And then I remembered I think I've heard about this story before. And I'm pretty sure the reason he could prove it's his original copy is because he had one of the first 4 serial numbers; probably number 4 (since I'm sure Lennon and McCartney got the first two, and presumably they thought Harrison was the 3rd most important Beatle). I'm almost certain that's it, so I accidentally spolered myself one and a half minute in, lol.
I had no idea he had number. I guess they were just handed the first 4 copies and they just each took a random one without thinking about the symbolism of which number it was. It doesn't seem to be a well known fact who got the 3 other copies, so I couldn't find anything about who got the specific other numbers (except an unanswered question about it in some obscure forum). I guess if the number was considered at all and they did not just pick a random one; maybe either Lennon or McCartney took number for himself 4 and gave Ringo number 1 and presumably number 2 to Harrison as a symbolic gesture of them _not_ being the "least important" Beatle's.
I thought I heard somewhere that all four Beatles had a “Version 1” because there were 7 or 9? Presses producing the album, all with the numbering. So John got a number one from one machine, Ringo from another and so on.
I also do not know remotely enough about the Beatles but I looked up the cover of the white album and saw photos of the back which has pictures of them on it, if I saw the right one? Maybe on his unique version, his photo is in a unique position, to the very left for example or it is in colour and everyone else is in black and white?
Is it weird that I knew Ringo from his performance as the conductor in "Shining Time Station" (USA spinoff of the British show "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends") long before I knew he played music?
The fact that Sabrina asking if The White Album was on Vinyl is totally legit makes me wonder how old I really am. Perhaps I'm immortal and just don't know it.
They also had 8-tracks at the time. That was mostly for use in cars and other such places where a turntable was impractical, and it was fairly new tech in 1968, but it was a valid technology for the era.
Guess at 0:50 was it a white label copy with his name written on the label? I think I'd have asked if it was pressed from a different die to the commercially released version. Asked if there was something special on the run out groove where the kind of information only the deeply nerdy care about sometime goes. The "White Album" actually called "The Beatles" was released in November 1968. I've just cheated - did Ringo get #1 because he was the oldest Beatle, did John get #2, Paul #3 and George #4? I don't think there's anyway I would have asked if it had something to do with Ringo being the oldest member of the band
Sorry for any Beatles fan who reads this, but prior to this video, I didn't even know Ringo Starr was a drummer for the Beatles. The only thing I know about him is that he has started painting since 2005, with his most noteworthy artworks being "Hat Man" (2008) and "Elaphant Foot" (2008).
Initial thoughts: not a Beatles fan, but if I remember, it was called the "White Album" because the cover art was blank (or was that Metallica's Black Album, or both). Maybe it was so because they didn't agree and decided on a "proper/standard" one. So, maybe their personal copies had their own custom covert art used as a placeholder until the final design was decided (which was not). TL;DR: it was custom cover art because the final version did not exist yet.
"There are only four Beatles"... cue long discussion on the history of the band before they made it big (Ringo would be at least number 6) and the later concept of "the fifth Beatle".
You say he is seen as the 4th Beatle but he is technically the 5th! The Beatles originally had a different drummer but he wasn't a good fit so the producers found Ringo instead! Think they said he was too handsome or something.
That's essentially what's happened with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem! The original shrine was built over Christ's tomb, then when the number of people wanting to visit it was too great, another church was built over the top of it, and another one over that, and so on!
6:42. "There are only 4 Beatles." Revising history much? There were 11 people who were part of the band at one point or another, with Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best and Billy Preston being the most famous and longest lasting.
Billy Preston was never really part of the band, he was a guest musician who did contribute a lot to the Let It Be album, but never an official member. They did consider having him join officially, but it never happened in the end.
On the White Album, in addition to the Beatles and 7 guests, at least 39 sessions musicians contributed. Edit : most pop bands are products. Without session musicians, their music would be dull...
@@lorenzoblum868 That being said, when it comes to the Beatles, the vast majority of the time the session musicians would be for orchestral instruments and things like that. It's not like the producer was getting other people in to play guitar or bass or drums or whatever because he didn't think the band could do it well enough.
@@lorenzoblum868 Any sources for that? Because with the exception of the Beatles themselves occasionally inviting someone else to play with them, like Eric Clapton playing on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, or Billy Preston playing on most of the Let It Be album, they played all those things themselves.
I was rather disappointed that the highlight from this episode doesn't feature Sabrina's hangry cat... Oh, and to all you Beatles membership pedants in the comments, there are currently NO Beatles, and only TWO former Beatles. How's that for pedantry?
I’d better delete my spoilers, but I guessed it (essentially; 4 instead of 1) about halfway through. Ironically, Ringo was absent for several of the key recording sessions for the White Album. For example, Paul played drums on _Back in the USSR_ (a parody/joke on _Back in the USA_ ).
Haha, thanks for the test troll, OP 🤣 And for the ignorant commenter... You should check their range of songs (hint: it's huge), you will definitely recognise the most familiar ones, and not to forget how significant they are to the history of pop music.
@pohjanvanamo I am familiar with their work, I just don't think it's very good, I mean it's fine but nothing to write home about. Yellow submarine is the only song of theirs I actually like
@@hircenedaelen ok. I do like many if their songs... All the the time I learn more of them, some I like, some are ok, maybe few to pass. When I heard Eleanor Rigby I really liked it, the melody and the well written loneliness. Blackbird is soft, gentle... even if the meaning behind it wouldn't be known. And songs like When I'm sixty-four just make me smile and feel warm happiness 😊 I do like the most well known ones too, Let it be, Hey Jude and Yesterday. Obladi-Oblada too. Just to mention few.
The actual interesting thing about him choosing Ringo as 4 or 5 was that Ringo was the replacement drummer. Pete Best was the original 4. Ringo was either the replacement 4 or the 5.
Tom Scott interacting with young internet people is such a gift to the world.
The statement said Tom Scott no longer counts as a Young Internet People makes me age 20 years instantly.
Like, we're not even 40 yet, give us a fuckin' break!
@@jasont9294 ........why?
@@jasont9294 Yes but it's still a shortend slang term for vinyl records
@@AlexanderNash Uh, yes?
not to mention his age is so uncanny, i feel like the only thing that aged is his hair
i love how Tom pulled the rip-cord the second he attempted the Ringo impression.
it was wakko from the animaniacs!
My level of excitement kept going up with each new person showing up in the video. From "oh nice, it's Taha" to "wait, is this going to be all of AIP" to a happy yes. Been a while since the last AIP video so it was extra nice seeing them
Them asking if Ringo was the drummer hurt a bit though, haha
Tom has been absolutely killing it with the guest lists
As someone who is STILL WAY TOO YOUNG to have experienced the Beatles myself, and as someone who is aware that common knowledge changes all the time, and as someone who knows that even what common knowledge is or should be is rightfully challenged all the time, my jaw still dropped when I watched them struggling to know who Ringo Starr was and to only now find the connection to the even more famous Beatle by naming "that woman who made the vegetarian sausages".
I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who knows more about Linda McCartney than about Paul McCartney.
Same!
This reminds of a phrase I was thinking of earlier today "ignorant is not the same as stupid".
Also a reminder we will all be forgotten given time. In like a 100 years, no one will know the Beatles anymore (except for some nerd historians). I think that's perfectly fine, but it also means everyone of us matter here and now (and not later). No one will care in the future so just enjoy life while you can.
@@markusklyver6277 That's mainly true, but Beethoven and Mozart are still fairly well-known today, so I think it'll take a little more than a century for the Beatles to be forgotten.
@@korganrocks3995 For as long as there are tribute bands, they will still be remembered. Musicians are pretty much all tribute bands
The first thought I went for was that it was a copy for him to play along with and his audio track was muted or left off.
“Is he related to the woman who makes the vegetarian sausages?”
This all had a really similar energy to when someone under the age of 30 is asked a question about pre-decimal currency on The Chase 😂😂😂😂
Anyone under the age of 50 you mean?
I didn't know Linda McCartney even made vegetarian sausages
Also, it's difficult to feel bad that we in the US didn't have Ringo as Mr Conductor because we had George Carlin instead after the first season or so.
Ringo: "It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything."
Carlin: "Thomas had never seen such bullsh*t before."
Ringo was the narrator of Thomas & Friends, the model animated series from the 80s. Mr Conductor came later
Did MrConductor ever say the seven dirty words?
I was thinking along the lines of the Soviet era bootlegs and maybe you could tell it was his because it was recorded onto an x-ray of his arm or something.
I was trying to think of my vinyl knowledge and then only things I could think of is that people made copies on old x-ray prints and that people melted them down and made ashtrays out of them.
I've heard of those! National Geographic did something similar in 1979 and included whale recordings on a thin vinyl in between pages
4:20
For the record, Ringo Starr narrated the first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine for both the British and American dubs. The first two seasons were later redubbed for American audiences by George Carlin, but Ringo was the first American narrator.
I feel like I've seen so many Beatles references in Tom Scott's productions, if he is a massive Beatles fan I'd love to just hear him talk about it forever.
I think the fact he accidentally implies the album might be from 1974 suggests he is NOT a massive Beatles fan.
@@philiplawtonExactly. Jay Foreman definitely is.
There are many people that say they are the 5th Beatles. The Wikipedia article on "fifth Beatle" will give you a starting point on information to look into about the many people with various levels of claims to be the fifth Beatle.
Sign I’m a Beatles fan: I figured it out in less than 30 seconds. Further evidence that I’m a Beatles fan: much of this video was painful to watch 😂😭
when you mentioned that he was the narrator of Thomas, i was so excited for someone to say that outside the thomas fandom, and i don’t know why 😂
Funny enough, Ringo was the fifth Beatle as he replaced the original drummer (Pete Best iirc)
4:01 I half expected to hear “Mystery Biscuits” here
good reference :) same
I was so happy when I heard answer in progress on the podcast. I was hoping for this collab!
"There were reportedly 12 copies of #1"
I was thinking that he had the album signed by the other 3 guys, with like "for Ringo, John" etc.
I am not surprised that much that that's not the right answer, but I am very much surprised that that was not one of the early guesses by the panelists
Along the same lines as Sabrina at 6:05 my first thought is that he had scratched out all the songs except "Don't Pass Me By." Classic Ringo!
I thought maybe his kiddos had cut their first teeth on the cover or something, so it could be proven with historical dental records... 😂
nice collab with answer in progress.
I knew that Ringo narrated Thomas the Tank Engine because Tim Minchin references it in his song "Lullaby". I also knew that there were four members of the Fab Four, but that counts as General Knowledge, Taha!
I giggled when I read Thomas the Tank Engine, I immediately thought about Gary's "Thomas the Tank Engine on water" "-Tinder Username" from a specific Citation Needed episode
@@peachierose3356 I've actually forgotten that one. Time to re-watch Citation Needed, clearly.
Tom was surprised Sabrina knew about HMV, but HMV was a record store chain in Canada (a subsidiary of the British chain) for a long time, from 1986 until 2017. So even thought she's solidly Gen Z, there's a slight chance she may have gone into an HMV at some point in her life.
I thought it might be like on some vinyl there were little scratched messages between the run-out groove and the label and his said something in particular. Had no idea they were simply numbered and that every single one was therefore unique.
At the 3 minute mark I was on the wrong theory and couldn't leave it. That the record was printed on an x-ray image that was of Ringos body. The printing records on x-ray images was done in the 50s and 60s to smuggle banned music into the Soviet Union.
Just to point out there were originally 5 Beatles
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best (drums) & Stuart Sutcliffe (bass)
So Ringo is actually number six.
Fun Fact: After Pete was no longer with The Beatles, he put out an album of his own original music. He titled it "Best of the Beatles" and of course people bought it thinking that it was like a "Greatest Hits" album, when it wasn't. He was sued for false advertising, but he won the lawsuit, because you couldn't deny that he was indeed (Pete) Best, of the Beatles.
Now this one I got instantly 😊🎉
7:22 This Video Has 60,983,771 Views
Also, that's a lot. And also I'm amazed it still works. It makes me wonder if someone at youtube is intentionally making sure they don't break that api because of that video.
Did you also code this comment to make it update every time?
I was surprised Tom was surprised at the HMV reference, but apparently it's a British chain. It was in Canada too until about five years ago
Not knowing much about the Beatles, numbering was one of my first thoughts, but I figured that would be too obvious.
I Knew it was going to be about the serial numbers but I wasn't sure if it would be 00004 or it would be that the original didn't have the serial numbers for what ever reason
I have a friend who knew Ringo Starr PURELY as the Thomas and Friends narrator. The beatles are definitely, definitely less relevant than ever.
6:42 “there were only 4 Beatles”
[Stuart Sutcliffe has entered the chat]
[Pete Best has entered the chat]
[Norman Chapman has entered the chat]
[Tommy More has entered the chat]
[Billy Preston has entered the chat]
@@titaniumtitan7093 yes, how could I forget the only other musician who got credit on a Beatles album.
Did Pete Best get #5?
Love this cast. Sabrina Taha and Melissa are great!
That was like the vinyl version of shouting "First!" on the comments.
1:30 My first thought thought was that he had jokingly added "Me!" under the portrait of himself, but then I remembered it was the "White Album" which is actually just a self titled album that is called the white album because it's entirely white; so I'm not sure there even is any portraits on it. My second thought was that it was labelled "Ringo's copy" or something by the manager or something, though that would not prove it's one of the early copies. So I wondered it it might have a dated postage stamp on it (though it seems rather careless to mail a vinyl record).
Then I just googled the album to se the cover just to see if I could think of a clever way he could prove it; and then I saw that the album was blank except for a faint "The Beatles" label (which I seem to remember was actually only added as a sticker later because it was confusing having a completely blank album in record stores; or maybe it was only embossed on the original run or something very faint like that...) and of course a serial number. And then I remembered I think I've heard about this story before. And I'm pretty sure the reason he could prove it's his original copy is because he had one of the first 4 serial numbers; probably number 4 (since I'm sure Lennon and McCartney got the first two, and presumably they thought Harrison was the 3rd most important Beatle).
I'm almost certain that's it, so I accidentally spolered myself one and a half minute in, lol.
I had no idea he had number. I guess they were just handed the first 4 copies and they just each took a random one without thinking about the symbolism of which number it was. It doesn't seem to be a well known fact who got the 3 other copies, so I couldn't find anything about who got the specific other numbers (except an unanswered question about it in some obscure forum).
I guess if the number was considered at all and they did not just pick a random one; maybe either Lennon or McCartney took number for himself 4 and gave Ringo number 1 and presumably number 2 to Harrison as a symbolic gesture of them _not_ being the "least important" Beatle's.
I thought I heard somewhere that all four Beatles had a “Version 1” because there were 7 or 9? Presses producing the album, all with the numbering. So John got a number one from one machine, Ringo from another and so on.
I also do not know remotely enough about the Beatles but I looked up the cover of the white album and saw photos of the back which has pictures of them on it, if I saw the right one? Maybe on his unique version, his photo is in a unique position, to the very left for example or it is in colour and everyone else is in black and white?
Label "Artist Copy" printed on it at various places?
My immediate instinct was that they were numbered and he had #4 😂 So glad someone said it
2:36 Actual bruh moment. 😆
Some thoughts popped in my head that I thought maybe it's an additional song in only one.
Is it weird that I knew Ringo from his performance as the conductor in "Shining Time Station" (USA spinoff of the British show "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends") long before I knew he played music?
The fact that Sabrina asking if The White Album was on Vinyl is totally legit makes me wonder how old I really am. Perhaps I'm immortal and just don't know it.
They also had 8-tracks at the time. That was mostly for use in cars and other such places where a turntable was impractical, and it was fairly new tech in 1968, but it was a valid technology for the era.
I initially thought that 'clearly' was a very intentional word, and assumed that Ringo's pressing was, quite literally, transparent.
oh man i figured this one out fast by accident, and it's because they actually mention it in the beginning but then leave that train of thought
Melissa trying to guess "DNA" without saying "bodily fluids", haha... 😅
It's only a couple of years ago that I got the gag in the band name.
2:34 the word surviving makes it seem like the whole band was in some car accident or something and ringo was the only one who didnt get burned alive
Oh my goodness I am that person who was yelling* at the screen!!
Guess at 0:50 was it a white label copy with his name written on the label? I think I'd have asked if it was pressed from a different die to the commercially released version. Asked if there was something special on the run out groove where the kind of information only the deeply nerdy care about sometime goes. The "White Album" actually called "The Beatles" was released in November 1968. I've just cheated - did Ringo get #1 because he was the oldest Beatle, did John get #2, Paul #3 and George #4? I don't think there's anyway I would have asked if it had something to do with Ringo being the oldest member of the band
Sorry for any Beatles fan who reads this, but prior to this video, I didn't even know Ringo Starr was a drummer for the Beatles. The only thing I know about him is that he has started painting since 2005, with his most noteworthy artworks being "Hat Man" (2008) and "Elaphant Foot" (2008).
I'm going to give myself that one. Bc my first thought and the answer I would've guessed was the serial number.
Initial thoughts: not a Beatles fan, but if I remember, it was called the "White Album" because the cover art was blank (or was that Metallica's Black Album, or both). Maybe it was so because they didn't agree and decided on a "proper/standard" one. So, maybe their personal copies had their own custom covert art used as a placeholder until the final design was decided (which was not).
TL;DR: it was custom cover art because the final version did not exist yet.
Good swing, and but still misses. I did remembered correctly about the covert art being blank, though (now I'm googling Metallica's...).
Tom, you didn't want to do a deep dive into 'The Fifth Beatle'?
In the US, Ringo was the original Conductor. The second was George Carlin.
2:36: No, Paul is dead! Or why would he not wear shoes on the aby road cover?
I don't get why it's weird that Sabrina knows of HMV, they didn't fully close out of Canada until 2017
Dang, i was hoping it had a yellow submarine sticker on it.
My dad is a pretty into the beatles and didn't know this
So - am i the only one wondering what James Strieb is doing on the thumbnail?
I watched copy 3900 of this video
Beatle #5 is obviously Billy Shears, Tom.
who has the number 9?
"There are only four Beatles"... cue long discussion on the history of the band before they made it big (Ringo would be at least number 6) and the later concept of "the fifth Beatle".
In fairness to Taha, if he considers Ringo "fifth", it could be because he's heard of Pete Best.
Or George Martin
Or Stu Sutcliffe
Or Billy Preston
You say he is seen as the 4th Beatle but he is technically the 5th! The Beatles originally had a different drummer but he wasn't a good fit so the producers found Ringo instead! Think they said he was too handsome or something.
Ngl, i would buy a copy of the White Album if it was JUST Ringo’s drum tracks
gonna be so honest. i thought it was gonna be his footprint 😭😭
My mind went straight to DNA sample. I hope I'm wrong
I also don't know the Beatles, but to be fair, I don't pay attention to modern-day artists either. :P
So Ringo was the OG *first!" commenter 😂
why does taha look like a mii in the thumbnail
I wonder if each new owner of a super valuable object ever puts it in a case so that you have a Russian nesting doll situation?
That's essentially what's happened with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem!
The original shrine was built over Christ's tomb, then when the number of people wanting to visit it was too great, another church was built over the top of it, and another one over that, and so on!
Pressing No1?
Maybe a record without drums on it?
Has is probably out of date now because in the beginning he said that he auctioned it in 2015
Honestly being young is not an excuse to know nothing about the Beatles. They are a huge part of 20th century
It kind of breaks my heart to hear someone say they know nothing about the beatles.
6:42. "There are only 4 Beatles." Revising history much? There were 11 people who were part of the band at one point or another, with Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best and Billy Preston being the most famous and longest lasting.
Billy Preston was never really part of the band, he was a guest musician who did contribute a lot to the Let It Be album, but never an official member. They did consider having him join officially, but it never happened in the end.
On the White Album, in addition to the Beatles and 7 guests, at least 39 sessions musicians contributed.
Edit : most pop bands are products. Without session musicians, their music would be dull...
@@lorenzoblum868
That being said, when it comes to the Beatles, the vast majority of the time the session musicians would be for orchestral instruments and things like that. It's not like the producer was getting other people in to play guitar or bass or drums or whatever because he didn't think the band could do it well enough.
@@thatmarchingarrow guitar, bass, piano, drum and a lot more added during recording...
@@lorenzoblum868
Any sources for that? Because with the exception of the Beatles themselves occasionally inviting someone else to play with them, like Eric Clapton playing on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, or Billy Preston playing on most of the Let It Be album, they played all those things themselves.
HMV is still around, so...
I was rather disappointed that the highlight from this episode doesn't feature Sabrina's hangry cat...
Oh, and to all you Beatles membership pedants in the comments, there are currently NO Beatles, and only TWO former Beatles. How's that for pedantry?
I'm afraid I don't think we saw it!
Glad to see another person who doesn't give a rats tail about the Beatles
Pete was the Best of The Beatles
I’d better delete my spoilers, but I guessed it (essentially; 4 instead of 1) about halfway through.
Ironically, Ringo was absent for several of the key recording sessions for the White Album. For example, Paul played drums on _Back in the USSR_ (a parody/joke on _Back in the USA_ ).
How can you know so little about The Beetles? The Bad Four, as they were known, are Manchester’s greatest export!
Why would they? Their some old band that did meh music in the 60s
I think you mean the "Fab Four" from Liverpool?
Haha, thanks for the test troll, OP 🤣
And for the ignorant commenter... You should check their range of songs (hint: it's huge), you will definitely recognise the most familiar ones, and not to forget how significant they are to the history of pop music.
@pohjanvanamo I am familiar with their work, I just don't think it's very good, I mean it's fine but nothing to write home about. Yellow submarine is the only song of theirs I actually like
@@hircenedaelen ok. I do like many if their songs...
All the the time I learn more of them, some I like, some are ok, maybe few to pass.
When I heard Eleanor Rigby I really liked it, the melody and the well written loneliness. Blackbird is soft, gentle... even if the meaning behind it wouldn't be known. And songs like When I'm sixty-four just make me smile and feel warm happiness 😊
I do like the most well known ones too, Let it be, Hey Jude and Yesterday. Obladi-Oblada too. Just to mention few.
Who are these people?!?
Is Paul still alive? Lol
SIR Paul to you
Well he could have stolen one from Paul and sold it.....
Isn't Tom himself of an age where the Beatles were no longer relevant?
That album just has a serial number? Don't know that's too interesting. 😅
coffee stain?
Paul’s not alive. The giveaway is the Abby Road album cover. Paul’s imposter isn’t wearing shoes.
Yes Taha Khan is dissapointing me, lol.
He could have stolen it off John Lennon...
This demonstrates why the future of the human race is doomed
I mean, technically he only narrated the first season of Thomas the Tank Engine, but I'll give you that one.
Technically Ringo was the fifth beatles
Unless you include Stuart Sutcliffe
Please don't judge my generation based on these heathens