CORRECTION: Tara Browne did not crash his car at 120mph. He also may not have died instantly (likely later that day or the next day in hospital). I incorrectly trusted this information from multiple modern sources (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237213/A-Day-Life-Tragic-true-story-Beatles-famous-hits-revealed-new-book.html, www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy-20161028-gsct25, www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2016/05/strange-but-true-tara-browne.html) While the car did indeed crash into a parked van, it seems that newspapers in 1966 reported Tara Browne dying because of 'a 120mph sports car' meaning the car was capable of going 120mph but not necessarily that it was going that speed at the time of the crash. This has led modern reports to confuse the speed of the crash, which, in turn, has affected this video. My apologies!
Tara Browne: A lorry is not a van. And Kensington is not Chelsea. Here is an idea: do some serious research before you post this kind of crap. Hope this helps
@@4Mr.Crowley2 Also, and critically, the reference isn't to Tara Browne at all. I can't remember who it does refer to, but Lennon said definitively it was not Browne. I'll try to follow up later.
I was 13 in the 1980s. I only vaguely knew about the Beatles and mostly their mop-top thing. My parents were mad at me, my brother hated me and I had no friends. It was dark. In my room I put on my headphones and turned on the radio. This song came on. I knew it was the Beatles but it was like nothing I had ever heard before. My eyes closed, I could see waves of color emanating from a beautiful Sun. I was transported, changed. Life was beautiful again. I had never done drugs or even had a beer, but I was high in the best way possible. For six years, I would describe this song to people and they could not tell me what the name was. I lived in a small town. The name of the song, as I would come to find out was A Day in the Life.
BRILLIANT! I've always said that people who say "you need to be stoned to understand an album/song, etc" are the ones who are too stupid to enjoy it at its basic level. Music is either in the category of you like it, or you don't. No drugs necessary.
Of course you have at least done drugs to enjoy music! No musician has done creative work without experiment with drugs! Like Dylan said you have to bend your mind a little to live properly@@andyhinds542
Exactly. Also auto tune, AI garbage, labels gutting A&R and just hiring songwriting committees and interchanging sisngers just to fit a look, and the urge to just release singles for instant cash - this means we will never have absolute masterpieces like Dark Side of the Moon again…ever
We were just talking about how the album as a whole should make a comeback. It isn't the 1st album you think of but we were playing Scary Monsters by Bowie. One of my personal faves.
Lennon was one of a kind generationally sorrowfully missed. Almost every song he wrote was ahead of its time. His solo work is so much more appreciated today. He just didnt care abkut making pop songs anymore. True Genius
@@dondamon4669I disagree. Mind Games and walls and Bridges were good albums. Lennon retired because he had to care for Sean as Yoko did not want to. That is a full time job ask any mother.
Remember how Ed Sullivan came out to tell the girls to be quiet during the other acts? Remember how they showed the names on the screen because we didn't know what they looked like yet?
I was also six, turning seven in April. For my birthday I got Meet the Beatles album and a practice drum pad and sticks. I got every one of their albums when they came out. The Beatles were my life. I still have those albums but they're in terrible shape. But I have the 2009 cd remasters in stereo and mono. Never get tired of listening to the greatest band of all time.
I had the amazing opportunity this past summer to visit Abbey Road Studio's studio II. Along with two other individuals, we played the final chord for this song on the actual pianos used byThe Beatles. Once in a lifetime opportunity I will never forget.
@@Oh_I_Will I have a LOT of footage both inside Abbey Road Studios AND Hogg Hill Mill Studios (shhhhh 🙂), but I do not have a RUclips channel and really have no desire to create one.....
@@secondchance6603 I honestly don't care what you think......why should I? I hope any and all others here have the same opportunity I did. There are open houses at Abbey Road which one can attend. They are not very often, but do occur. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Hogg Hill Mill. Sign up on Abbey Roads mailing list and they WILL send an invitation when one happens. I've attended two of these over the years. This past summer was their "Stories in Sound". It was hosted by the authors of RTB (Recording The Beatles). Had basically free reign in Studio II. I'm simply not at liberty to discuss how I was able to visit Hogg Hill Mill. Sorry.....
I find his most relevant work for the world today is his & Yoko Ono's (I quote): DECLARATION OF NUTOPIA We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA. NUTOPIA has no land, no boundries, no passports, only people. NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and its people.
EXCELLENT VIDEO! Thank You for the clarification about this tragic story involving Tara Browne. I remember it as being the story behind the supposed death of Paul McCartney and his supposed double. It is indeed nice to be able to finally know the truth! I'm subscribed!
The Sgt. Pepper album was/is extraordinary. A co-worker invited several of us to his house during our lunch break. He had this album that he said we "had to hear." and he was correct. 1967, and I had to go out and buy it shortly after.
SGT PEPPER! I praise God that I was a teenager when this album was released. The found memories of listening to this album during a time of living through the perils of a dis functional family and how it carried me through… Priceless.
I remember when Sgt. Peppers first came out. It was 1967, I was 14 years old. The guys I hung out with had an old chicken coup out back of their house and had turned it into a clubhouse. We listened to that album for the first time in that clubhouse. I was not really a Beatles fan up to that point but that album changed everything. It completely blew my mind. As the final note of A Day In The Life faded away, I sat there stunned by what I had just heard and about jumped out of my skin when the never goose me any other way part came on.
"A Day In The Life" is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the song in the whole of music history of actual music pieces that has the longest sustained music note, which of course is at the end of "A Day In The Life" after the crescendo. Believed to be an E major chord.
Probably my favourite record by them...for now😅 i love the Beatles and it's a bit difficult to decide. Pepper and the white album are my two favourites.👍🏻💯🎸
I’ve heard a number of people say that a DJ misreporting the Browne car crash in the United States and discussing Browne and the Beatles and people thinking it was about Paul being involved in the crash started the entire “Paul is dead” insanity (in those days one couldn’t just check the Daily Mail website of course)
I used to listen to the LA radio station, KLOS 20 years ago when every Sunday 9am to noon they played "Breakfast With The Beatles". 3 hours of nothing but Beatles music and interviews from people that were close or that worked with the four members of the group. One particular story that I remember was during the recording of "A Day In The Life" back in early 67. Lennon and McCartney wanted the BEST orchestra to help record this song, so the London Philharmonic was hired to come in and play at John, Paul's and George Martin's direction. When asked to play slightly off key, David McCallum, the leader of the London Philharmonic, was overheard saying "Why do we need to play off key?" "You could get any orchestra to play off key!" "Why hire us for that?" Little did he know that the genius of Lennon, McCartney and Martin would eventually be realized. I thought it was a great and interesting story of the genius of the Beatles.
He was David McCallum Senior, father of David McCallum, the actor from The Man from UNCLE and later, that police series, I've forgotten the name, but he played Donald 'Ducky' Mallard, the forensic man.
Stan Kenton was the first recording of discordant orchestral music,in an album he had an orchestra tune-up their instruments all at once the album was called "City of Glass!" late 50's or early 60's Kenton was known for avant-garde jazz!
I will always associate the song with 9/11. I remember driving home from work that day with it on the radio. That final crescendo and piano was too much for me. I had to pull over and I burst into tears.
Just need to calculate how many holes by hole diameter. If you have 10 separate diameters measured by how many would fill Albert Hall, then it would be accurate. It would also beg the question of how much time someone would have for such an experiment.
Beatles fans everywhere know the part about the guy who blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed lyric was from a newspaper article John Lennon read.
I read Tara Browne's biography and there are a few inaccuracies in this video. He was possibly going too fast but there's no evidence of him doing 120mph. It was in the Earls Court area around midnight, heading north. Those Lotus Elan's were only carbon fiber , I couldn't imagine a worse car to have a crash in.
That crazy orchestra part is actually the sound of Tara Browne speeding and crashing into the pole in his car. This song is actually quite dark. It's about how people die everyday and Paul's part is about how people just go on with life despite this. The "I'd love to turn you on" Is right before the "car crashing" orchestra part of the song. Tara at the time was cheating on his wife at the time with Susie. The overall message is that being rich/thinking you can do whatever you want doesn't make you happy or even healthy for that matter and when you die...no one will care...everyone else will continue to just go on with their seemingly mundane/simple lives. It's a sad song but teaches morality.
Lennon told Martin he wanted a sound, "Like the beginning of the world to the end," or something like that. Listen to the first few measures of this song: it's genius, all by itself. Then think of the additional brilliance it took to add the perfect middle-8, production and orchestration. Sad that Lennon restricted himself to non-Beatlesque, basic rock songs after 1970. There was some great stuff, but the team that helped him channel his cosmic visions was dissipated in the wind.
... you can like both I started out as a Beatles man then gained a deep appreciation for the Stones too. They are the peanut butter and jelly of 1960s great bands ...
@DouglasRichardson-er4ky In the 80's and prior people were very adamant about liking either or... I never understood such reasoning, I like what I like 😃 Got my Let it Be album, waiting for the John Lennon album. Beatles & Stones were the big bands and many other fantastic bands (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd to name a few) I like. Around 20 yo I discovered Frank Zappa...mindblowing 👍 After that I discovered the music of Ry Cooder 🤠
@@Michel-r6m ... Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Pixies, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray are all worth a listen too. You're right there WAS a Beatles vs. Rolling Stones division back then I remember this. I definitely was a Beatles freak off the getgo Sgt Peppers was my 1st ever LP purchased must have been about 1979 🤔 also purchased the VU banana album with Andy Worhol art simply because my favorite fruit was ... 🥁 ... you guessed correctly if you guessed 🍌! Wow did that album blow my 7 year old mind!! My mother and father both reacted with complete negativity to the screeching feedback of the rock n roll violin they were both classical musicians by trade so hearing a violin make such violent noise sent em both through the roof bonkers "TURN THAT CRAP OFF!!!" lol 😆
@@DouglasRichardson-er4ky I often play Lou Reed Transformer and David Bowie Ziggy in tandem 👍 Pixies are great (Joey Santiagio 😎 Bowie covered Cactus by Pixies). Howlin' Wolf recorded in London with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts 😎 Another album worth mentioning is Hooker 'n Heat (JLH with Canned Heat) 👍
@Michel-r6m JLH Boom Boom Boom 💥😎 is great I remember Bowie was an early Pixies fan ALSO Stevie Ray Vaughan promotor. I liked Tin Machine when they came out Bowie was incredible I can't say I'm a huge fan of all his music but there is no denying his brilliance. I can't believe Bob Dylan has been continuously touring for most of my life he is unstoppable 🚂
I remember that Christmas. Sgt. Pepper came out and my brothers locked themselves in their room and I smelled something funny all day, till my dad got home…..lol
I read somewhere that The Beatles had whimsically stated that wouldn't it be great if that last piano chord at be very end of the song could last forever. Apparently this was ingeniously enabled by having the last fading sound of the chord etched into the innermost groove of the record. So as the song finishes on a spinning turntable, the needle of record players of the day would need to be lifted up manually or, in this case, could be left to stay in that final groove and therefore the chord would keep playing indefinitely. Amazing! The level that some people's mind work!
Before I found out the reason for this part of the song. I wondered if it was about Singer Jan Berry of Jan & Dean. As it fit Jan's accident up to the point of Noticing the lights changing. A Lucky man Jan was born to well to do Parents his father William Sr had worked for Howard Huge and flew on the Spruce Gooses only flight. The Reel to Reel Jan used to record Jennie Lee came from Howard. Made the Grade Jan was a Genius who did Music on nights and weekends as he was going to UCLA and Ca School of Medicine. Blew his Mind out in a Car. Jan suffered serious Brain Damage. People stood and stared , they'd seen his face before. In the News paper Photo floating around at the time and since. Two Los Angles Police Officers are looking at the car with a Photo of Jan & Dean laying on the mangled wreck. Jan's accident happened April 12 1966.
Just a small point but I always believed Tara Browne did not die instantly in the crash but died the following day in hospital. I could be wrong though.
Wonderful way the song ended with all four Beatles playing the same Emajor chord on different pianos, and holding it while the volume was increased by the sound engineers as the chord faded. I read somewhere that their producer, George Martin, also played some type of keyboard while the band played pianos, and the final chord lasted approx 40 seconds.
"no body knows how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....." The host didn't describe what that part of the lyric meant, but thanks for the info about all the holes in the road as part of it. I always thought it might be a reference to the air headedness of people in Albert Hall. But I don't know if Albert Hall is a government building or if it's something else.
Awww! You mentioned The Beatles and The Stones in the same video lol. Actually, I never understood the whole rivalry thing, because they both have a lot of good songs.
In some of the newer re mixes of this song, they remove the alarm clock ringing........and that's a bad thing to do because the ringing is such a classic part of the song.
My blonde brother and Paul McCartney looked nothing like each other in their respective youths. However, today their hair's the same colour, and, after my brother trimmed his bushy eyebrows, they look like twins!
For that last iconic Emajor chord played on multiple pianos,the engineer turned up the faders so much,to keep the sustain, you can hear Ringo’s shoe squeak on the floor of the studio? I may have details wrong about who’s shoe but ,the squeak can be heard if you really listen…I’m pretty sure it was Ringo’s anyway
It was the piano stool that they sat on. Someone either got up or sat down on one of them, and that's what you're hearing. And you can also hear someone saying "Shh" right after the squeak, in order to remind everyone to keep as quiet as possible.
A) Tara wasn’t remotely close to Lennon. He was an acquaintance of McCartney, though not ‘close’, but they’d hung out. Lennon was mistrustful of all posh types, and was wary of Tara, barely spending any time with him. B) Tara wasn’t doing anything close to 120mph - not only is it impossible to reach that speed in central london, the Elan wouldn’t make that speed. C) He didn’t die instantly, but shortly afterwards. I stopped watching at that point.
Back in the 80s when we were making music at my friends house, it wasn’t unusual for us to read the abortion ads in the local paper as voiceover for the music so lyrics from the newspaper is not all that odd.
Wonder how much "A Day in the Life," really the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was really inspired by Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds or Smile albums.
It was ironic Lennon had given Bob Dylan a rub for writing songs from stories written in the news paper but Dylan got it from Woody Guthrie and of course Lennon wrote one of his most iconic songs the say way.
The dichotomy of the two stories obviously struck John. The tragic loss of life and the banality of the report of the number of holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
I'm pretty sure that Paul was joking when he said to George Martin that it was "a drug album". They may have used marijuana (in Paul's case) and LSD (in John's case) for inspiration, but you can't work very well under the influence of drugs and you certainly can't record a masterpiece if your brain is affected by drugs. There is a famous episode when John accidentaly took some LSD while recording and it was a disaster that could have killed him when he was left alone on the roof to sober up.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
I will not breakdown this song but write a fascinating stat about Sg Peppers.Now i do not know whether John and Paul got to write a song about their town,Liverpool,but one came up with Strawberry Fields and the other with Penny Lane.They were meant to be part of Sg Peppers but in the end and here i do not know whether George Martin made the decision or it was John and Pails,but those two songs were left out and released as a double A-Side single.I often wonder if they were left on Peppers whether it would have made it an even greater Album or whether it was a better idea to turn them into a double A-Side.I guess each and everyone of us has their own opinion on that.Personally i would have loved them to be on Sg Peppers.
I have to agree with you. Those two masterpieces could have pushed out two of the slightly less brilliant songs now on the album (take your pick), resulting a massively high-quality collection that might even surpass Revolver in excellence.
@@childeric57 Thanks for replying to me,appreciate that.Anyway,i have gone away from picking the best Beatles Album.I used to always go for Sg Peppers but then found myself,harking back to revolver,then i get the hots for Rubber Soul and just the other Day,got to hear on my car radio,The Night Before,from Help and i just can't get it out of my head.One Album that i never pick as their best is Abbey Road,though it has become the first Album to reach number 1 again after 50 years.Maybe because it was their last i dont really know.Although i am a Beatles addict,i do agree with you that there are some songs that i find very below their standards.Nice corresponding with you,Childeric.Stay healthy,happy and safe,my friend.
Leave it to trained musicians to be told to play whatever they want for 24 bars, starting on a low E and finishing on a high E, and need hand-holding to understand it.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
1:14 Sorry, but that is NOT the picture of a car that hit a van at all (unless you're talking about a 3 wheel bicycle pedal "van"!) and also not any faster than 25 MPH! Did you have AI hairball this up? I have a feeling it's the actual car and the idiot just broke his neck on the windshield. That's a fiberglass body!!! If that car hit a parked ANYTHING at 120MPH, it would look like the planes that hit the World Trade Center! THINK a little before you barf such ridiculous garbage for sensational effect!!!
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
That Lotus did not drive into anything at 120 miles per hour. The front suspension is still in tact. At 120 miles per hour, there is no way that his female companion would have survived the crash. You might want to have a look at crash video's at 60 miles per hour with modern cars that can absorb much more energy from an impact, just for reference. The Elan's monocoque is rigid and probably not very good at absorbing impact. The driver probably got hit in the chest by the steering column, as we can see that it must have protruded into the car.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
You say he "died instantly" but there are multiple reports that he survived the accident for at least 2 hours. Two witnesses wrapped a blanket around him, which means there was access to him in the car to do so. As it was winter, this is why they wrapped him. It's Marianne Faithfull telling the press he was on LSD, which conflicts with the coroner's report that say he had no drugs or alcohol in his system. Suki's sister had a similar accident only the week before.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT. Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!! If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
Crazy that two rather non-events, spoiled Tara crashing a beautiful Lotus and himself on the one hand (not exactly a great loss, is it) and that blonde Rolling Stone member of the 27 club (seriously overrated- inspired this special song.
Much more than that. The PID rumor was started by a DJ, and caught on with a cuIt. When PauI's brother Mike confronted the DJ about his Iie on the Mike Douglas show, the DJ had a meltdown, afterwards tried to hit Mike, and threatened to send him to the hereafter.
CORRECTION: Tara Browne did not crash his car at 120mph. He also may not have died instantly (likely later that day or the next day in hospital). I incorrectly trusted this information from multiple modern sources (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237213/A-Day-Life-Tragic-true-story-Beatles-famous-hits-revealed-new-book.html, www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy-20161028-gsct25, www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2016/05/strange-but-true-tara-browne.html)
While the car did indeed crash into a parked van, it seems that newspapers in 1966 reported Tara Browne dying because of 'a 120mph sports car' meaning the car was capable of going 120mph but not necessarily that it was going that speed at the time of the crash. This has led modern reports to confuse the speed of the crash, which, in turn, has affected this video. My apologies!
Danke!
He was speeding yes but not at 120mph yikes.
Makes much more sense. Thank you for following it up.
Tara Browne:
A lorry is not a van.
And Kensington is not Chelsea.
Here is an idea: do some serious research before you post this kind of crap.
Hope this helps
@@4Mr.Crowley2 Also, and critically, the reference isn't to Tara Browne at all. I can't remember who it does refer to, but Lennon said definitively it was not Browne. I'll try to follow up later.
I was 13 in the 1980s. I only vaguely knew about the Beatles and mostly their mop-top thing. My parents were mad at me, my brother hated me and I had no friends. It was dark. In my room I put on my headphones and turned on the radio. This song came on. I knew it was the Beatles but it was like nothing I had ever heard before. My eyes closed, I could see waves of color emanating from a beautiful Sun. I was transported, changed. Life was beautiful again. I had never done drugs or even had a beer, but I was high in the best way possible. For six years, I would describe this song to people and they could not tell me what the name was. I lived in a small town. The name of the song, as I would come to find out was A Day in the Life.
BRILLIANT! I've always said that people who say "you need to be stoned to understand an album/song, etc" are the ones who are too stupid to enjoy it at its basic level. Music is either in the category of you like it, or you don't. No drugs necessary.
Your brother hated you and you had no friends 😂 you must of a real bully jerk
Never heard so much rubbish in my life 😂
Of course you have at least done drugs to enjoy music! No musician has done creative work without experiment with drugs! Like Dylan said you have to bend your mind a little to live properly@@andyhinds542
Took you six years 😂😂 how slow were you!! Beatles fans are so weird
I loved the days of listening to an album from beginning to end, the creative process of deciding what to end an album with made a huge difference.
Exactly. Also auto tune, AI garbage, labels gutting A&R and just hiring songwriting committees and interchanging sisngers just to fit a look, and the urge to just release singles for instant cash - this means we will never have absolute masterpieces like Dark Side of the Moon again…ever
@@4Mr.Crowley2 Me too. I also miss the time where the album cover art was a part of the overall experience.
And sharing the album with friends. I miss it too.
I miss going round to friends houses to listen to records.
We were just talking about how the album as a whole should make a comeback. It isn't the 1st album you think of but we were playing Scary Monsters by Bowie. One of my personal faves.
Lennon was one of a kind generationally sorrowfully missed. Almost every song he wrote was ahead of its time. His solo work is so much more appreciated today. He just didnt care abkut making pop songs anymore. True Genius
His solo work was terrible apart from plastic on band the rest is middle of the road crap, why he retired
@@dondamon4669I disagree. Mind Games and walls and Bridges were good albums. Lennon retired because he had to care for Sean as Yoko did not want to. That is a full time job ask any mother.
@@dondamon4669hes the most famous rockroller of all time, its ok
Nonsense and he didn’t retire, he was shot.
I enjoy how the time signature changes throughout the song, which makes it unique and very enjoyable.
Very enlightening. Love learning things I didn't know before. Thanks. - from someone who watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan live as a six-year-old.
Remember how Ed Sullivan came out to tell the girls to be quiet during the other acts? Remember how they showed the names on the screen because we didn't know what they looked like yet?
I was also six, turning seven in April. For my birthday I got Meet the Beatles album and a practice drum pad and sticks. I got every one of their albums when they came out. The Beatles were my life. I still have those albums but they're in terrible shape. But I have the 2009 cd remasters in stereo and mono. Never get tired of listening to the greatest band of all time.
I had the amazing opportunity this past summer to visit Abbey Road Studio's studio II. Along with two other individuals, we played the final chord for this song on the actual pianos used byThe Beatles. Once in a lifetime opportunity I will never forget.
Show us the video of your visit
@@Oh_I_Will I have a LOT of footage both inside Abbey Road Studios AND Hogg Hill Mill Studios (shhhhh 🙂), but I do not have a RUclips channel and really have no desire to create one.....
Complete rubbish! The piano isn't even there
@@lg4360 So you're talking BS then? Good to know.
@@secondchance6603 I honestly don't care what you think......why should I? I hope any and all others here have the same opportunity I did. There are open houses at Abbey Road which one can attend. They are not very often, but do occur. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Hogg Hill Mill. Sign up on Abbey Roads mailing list and they WILL send an invitation when one happens. I've attended two of these over the years. This past summer was their "Stories in Sound". It was hosted by the authors of RTB (Recording The Beatles). Had basically free reign in Studio II. I'm simply not at liberty to discuss how I was able to visit Hogg Hill Mill. Sorry.....
Lennon was a genius.
Between Lennon,Harrison and McCartney there is a thousand years of enjoyment and enrichment for us to revel in 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I find his most relevant work for the world today is his & Yoko Ono's (I quote):
DECLARATION OF NUTOPIA
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundries, no passports, only people.
NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.
All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and its people.
Lennon was asked if he was a genius. He said if there is such a thing as a genius then yeah, he is one.
100%.
He is.
A haunting beautiful song that digs into your heart… beautiful song
EXCELLENT VIDEO! Thank You for the clarification about this tragic story involving Tara Browne. I remember it as being the story behind the supposed death of Paul McCartney and his supposed double. It is indeed nice to be able to finally know the truth! I'm subscribed!
The Sgt. Pepper album was/is extraordinary. A co-worker invited several of us to his house during our lunch break. He had this album that he said we "had to hear." and he was correct. 1967, and I had to go out and buy it shortly after.
SGT PEPPER! I praise God that I was a teenager when this album was released. The found memories of listening to this album during a time of living through the perils of a dis functional family and how it carried me through… Priceless.
I remember when Sgt. Peppers first came out. It was 1967, I was 14 years old. The guys I hung out with had an old chicken coup out back of their house and had turned it into a clubhouse. We listened to that album for the first time in that clubhouse. I was not really a Beatles fan up to that point but that album changed everything. It completely blew my mind. As the final note of A Day In The Life faded away, I sat there stunned by what I had just heard and about jumped out of my skin when the never goose me any other way part came on.
I was 14 in 1967 too and your story is very similar to mine. Wasn't that a great time to be growing up?
@tomb8112 It was a time like no other.
I was 14 in that year, and it reminds me of where I was and what I was doing at the time and the people that I knew.
"A Day In The Life" is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the song in the whole of music history of actual music pieces that has the longest sustained music note, which of course is at the end of "A Day In The Life" after the crescendo. Believed to be an E major chord.
Probably my favourite record by them...for now😅 i love the Beatles and it's a bit difficult to decide. Pepper and the white album are my two favourites.👍🏻💯🎸
I always thought of the that final piano chord as the car crash from the beginning of the song. To me it bookends the piece rather nicely.
I’ve heard a number of people say that a DJ misreporting the Browne car crash in the United States and discussing Browne and the Beatles and people thinking it was about Paul being involved in the crash started the entire “Paul is dead” insanity (in those days one couldn’t just check the Daily Mail website of course)
I used to listen to the LA radio station, KLOS 20 years ago when every Sunday 9am to noon they played "Breakfast With The Beatles".
3 hours of nothing but Beatles music and interviews from people that were close or that worked with the four members of the group.
One particular story that I remember was during the recording of "A Day In The Life" back in early 67.
Lennon and McCartney wanted the BEST orchestra to help record this song, so the London Philharmonic was hired to come in and play at John, Paul's and George Martin's direction.
When asked to play slightly off key, David McCallum, the leader of the London Philharmonic, was overheard saying "Why do we need to play off key?"
"You could get any orchestra to play off key!" "Why hire us for that?"
Little did he know that the genius of Lennon, McCartney and Martin would eventually be realized.
I thought it was a great and interesting story of the genius of the Beatles.
He was David McCallum Senior, father of David McCallum, the actor from The Man from UNCLE and later, that police series, I've forgotten the name, but he played Donald 'Ducky' Mallard, the forensic man.
The whole orchestral session story is probably my favorite studio story I ever heard, and there’s some fierce competition lol
Great post cheers my friend 👌👍
Thanks! 👍
Tara Browne was not "killed instantly", he died the next day from his injuries.
Stan Kenton was the first recording of discordant orchestral music,in an album he had an orchestra tune-up their instruments all at once the album was called "City of Glass!" late 50's or early 60's Kenton was known for avant-garde jazz!
Awesome video have a great day also one of my favorite songs ❤😊
What's awesome about it?
I will always associate the song with 9/11. I remember driving home from work that day with it on the radio. That final crescendo and piano was too much for me. I had to pull over and I burst into tears.
Thats what always delighted me about this band. They continually changed and were pretty much style setters.
You would have blended in perfectly on Radio Caroline back in the day. Fantastic video and broadcasting voice 👌
It takes approximately 202.7692307692308 holes to fill the Albert hall just in case you were wondering
Or one large one
Just need to calculate how many holes by hole diameter.
If you have 10 separate diameters measured by how many would fill Albert Hall, then it would be accurate.
It would also beg the question of how much time someone would have for such an experiment.
The picture of the car in the beginning was not the result of a 120 mph crash. A lotus would have been destroyed to little bits and pieces
Beatles fans everywhere know the part about the guy who blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed lyric was from a newspaper article John Lennon read.
I would've imagined that the car would be unrecognizable after "crashing at 120 mph into a parked van". It's surprisingly intact given that speed.
I read Tara Browne's biography and there are a few inaccuracies in this video. He was possibly going too fast but there's no evidence of him doing 120mph. It was in the Earls Court area around midnight, heading north. Those Lotus Elan's were only carbon fiber , I couldn't imagine a worse car to have a crash in.
@@TT_1221 he wasn't doing 120, that was just what the car was capable of
That crazy orchestra part is actually the sound of Tara Browne speeding and crashing into the pole in his car. This song is actually quite dark. It's about how people die everyday and Paul's part is about how people just go on with life despite this. The "I'd love to turn you on" Is right before the "car crashing" orchestra part of the song. Tara at the time was cheating on his wife at the time with Susie. The overall message is that being rich/thinking you can do whatever you want doesn't make you happy or even healthy for that matter and when you die...no one will care...everyone else will continue to just go on with their seemingly mundane/simple lives. It's a sad song but teaches morality.
Where did you hear that the sound was supposed to signify the car crash? Never heard any of the Beatles say that or anyone else.
I read many years ago that George Martin suggested using an orchestra. John had planned on just using the band.
Lennon told Martin he wanted a sound, "Like the beginning of the world to the end," or something like that. Listen to the first few measures of this song: it's genius, all by itself. Then think of the additional brilliance it took to add the perfect middle-8, production and orchestration. Sad that Lennon restricted himself to non-Beatlesque, basic rock songs after 1970. There was some great stuff, but the team that helped him channel his cosmic visions was dissipated in the wind.
I am a bit more a Stones guy...but.
Ordered Let it Be and John Lennon compilation album I should get tomorrow. Already had Sgt. Peppers 👍
... you can like both I started out as a Beatles man then gained a deep appreciation for the Stones too. They are the peanut butter and jelly of 1960s great bands ...
@DouglasRichardson-er4ky In the 80's and prior people were very adamant about liking either or... I never understood such reasoning, I like what I like 😃
Got my Let it Be album, waiting for the John Lennon album.
Beatles & Stones were the big bands and many other fantastic bands (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd to name a few) I like.
Around 20 yo I discovered Frank Zappa...mindblowing 👍
After that I discovered the music of Ry Cooder 🤠
@@Michel-r6m ... Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Pixies, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray are all worth a listen too. You're right there WAS a Beatles vs. Rolling Stones division back then I remember this. I definitely was a Beatles freak off the getgo Sgt Peppers was my 1st ever LP purchased must have been about 1979 🤔 also purchased the VU banana album with Andy Worhol art simply because my favorite fruit was ... 🥁 ... you guessed correctly if you guessed 🍌! Wow did that album blow my 7 year old mind!! My mother and father both reacted with complete negativity to the screeching feedback of the rock n roll violin they were both classical musicians by trade so hearing a violin make such violent noise sent em both through the roof bonkers "TURN THAT CRAP OFF!!!" lol 😆
@@DouglasRichardson-er4ky I often play Lou Reed Transformer and David Bowie Ziggy in tandem 👍
Pixies are great (Joey Santiagio 😎 Bowie covered Cactus by Pixies).
Howlin' Wolf recorded in London with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts 😎
Another album worth mentioning is Hooker 'n Heat (JLH with Canned Heat) 👍
@Michel-r6m JLH Boom Boom Boom 💥😎 is great I remember Bowie was an early Pixies fan ALSO Stevie Ray Vaughan promotor. I liked Tin Machine when they came out Bowie was incredible I can't say I'm a huge fan of all his music but there is no denying his brilliance. I can't believe Bob Dylan has been continuously touring for most of my life he is unstoppable 🚂
I remember that Christmas. Sgt. Pepper came out and my brothers locked themselves in their room and I smelled something funny all day, till my dad got home…..lol
Sgt Pepper came out in May 1967. Magical Mystery Tour came out just before Christmas.
Genius. .As always.
RIP a sweet young man: the honourable Tara Browne. And he left 2 children.
My absolute favorite. Very telling.
I read somewhere that The Beatles had whimsically stated that wouldn't it be great if that last piano chord at be very end of the song could last forever. Apparently this was ingeniously enabled by having the last fading sound of the chord etched into the innermost groove of the record. So as the song finishes on a spinning turntable, the needle of record players of the day would need to be lifted up manually or, in this case, could be left to stay in that final groove and therefore the chord would keep playing indefinitely. Amazing! The level that some people's mind work!
Before I found out the reason for this part of the song. I wondered if it was about Singer Jan Berry of Jan & Dean. As it fit Jan's accident up to the point of Noticing the lights changing. A Lucky man Jan was born to well to do Parents his father William Sr had worked for Howard Huge and flew on the Spruce Gooses only flight. The Reel to Reel Jan used to record Jennie Lee came from Howard. Made the Grade Jan was a Genius who did Music on nights and weekends as he was going to UCLA and Ca School of Medicine. Blew his Mind out in a Car. Jan suffered serious Brain Damage. People stood and stared , they'd seen his face before. In the News paper Photo floating around at the time and since. Two Los Angles Police Officers are looking at the car with a Photo of Jan & Dean laying on the mangled wreck. Jan's accident happened April 12 1966.
Those two had magic in a bottle when they worked together.
Just a small point but I always believed Tara Browne did not die instantly in the crash but died the following day in hospital. I could be wrong though.
Lennon's narrative about the accident is shown on Free As a Bird video.
A well a everybody's heard about the bird
B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
word up
Why is that gruesome image of Paul in that video? The window of the ambulance shows if for just a second.
@@mr.g1758 Ya know why////
@@mr.g1758 It's not PauI
Indeed. John is telling the truth in “Free As A Bird.” I watched that frame by frame. It is, in fact, Paul he is singing about.
Articulate and well presented. thank you for this content. Also- is that Michael Nesmith of the Monkees at 8:04?
yes 😊 it is. That’s crazy !
@@SabineThinkerbellum do you know this?
@@pikiwikiI recognized him immediately. Then I wanted to write a comment and saw yours.
Yes, The Monkres were visiting the Beatles at the time. There are also some great photos of McCartney and Mickey Dolenz from that visit
@@DavidJohnson-tn2pyWasn’t it also the time that the Monkees met Jimi Hendrix in London? And asked him to join them at their US tour?
The Abstract song of the 20th century a true masterpiece!
Wonderful way the song ended with all four Beatles playing the same Emajor chord on different pianos, and holding it while the volume was increased by the sound engineers as the chord faded. I read somewhere that their producer, George Martin, also played some type of keyboard while the band played pianos, and the final chord lasted approx 40 seconds.
"no body knows how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....." The host didn't describe what that part of the lyric meant, but thanks for the info about all the holes in the road as part of it. I always thought it might be a reference to the air headedness of people in Albert Hall. But I don't know if Albert Hall is a government building or if it's something else.
It was more than a song it was almost magical.
Awww! You mentioned The Beatles and The Stones in the same video lol. Actually, I never understood the whole rivalry thing, because they both have a lot of good songs.
Also, they were friends in reality. The rivalry was just media nonsense.
The 4000 holes are still here in Blackburn. So the song is still relevant today😂
I remember all the mystery and speculation that surrounded this piece at the time.
In some of the newer re mixes of this song, they remove the alarm clock ringing........and that's a bad thing to do because the ringing is such a classic part of the song.
The newer "re-mixes" of the Beatles albums are complete RUBBISH!!
Giles Martin is horrible when it comes to re-mixing what his dad did. Giles SUCKS!!!
we need a beato/macca 3-hr long interview.
My blonde brother and Paul McCartney looked nothing like each other in their respective youths. However, today their hair's the same colour, and, after my brother trimmed his bushy eyebrows, they look like twins!
That’s bc in their youths, there was the original James Paul McCartney. Your bro resembles Billy
Timothy Leary lsd even the magnificent The Moody Blues and a bunch of whole lot of bands in every direction
For that last iconic Emajor chord played on multiple pianos,the engineer turned up the faders so much,to keep the sustain, you can hear Ringo’s shoe squeak on the floor of the studio? I may have details wrong about who’s shoe but ,the squeak can be heard if you really listen…I’m pretty sure it was Ringo’s anyway
It was the piano stool that they sat on. Someone either got up or sat down on one of them, and that's what you're hearing.
And you can also hear someone saying "Shh" right after the squeak, in order to remind everyone to keep as quiet as possible.
So 19 yr. old Suki survived in a 120 mph crash in a small convertible ? RUBBISH !!
That car, 120 mph, into a parked car? Would've disintegrated.
Read the pinned comment for clarification.
A) Tara wasn’t remotely close to Lennon. He was an acquaintance of McCartney, though not ‘close’, but they’d hung out. Lennon was mistrustful of all posh types, and was wary of Tara, barely spending any time with him.
B) Tara wasn’t doing anything close to 120mph - not only is it impossible to reach that speed in central london, the Elan wouldn’t make that speed.
C) He didn’t die instantly, but shortly afterwards.
I stopped watching at that point.
I had heard early on that this song was about their manager, Brian Epstein.
I love the languid, disconnected way Lennon sang. And McCartneys break was its exact opposite. Frenetic.
This song is 90% John.
Long Live The Beatles
Back in the 80s when we were making music at my friends house, it wasn’t unusual for us to read the abortion ads in the local paper as voiceover for the music so lyrics from the newspaper is not all that odd.
Definitely one of the great rock n roll songs of all time 🤔
Wonder how much "A Day in the Life," really the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was really inspired by
Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds or Smile albums.
Oh. Interesting. The connections behind the scenes
It was ironic Lennon had given Bob Dylan a rub for writing songs from stories written in the news paper but Dylan got it from Woody Guthrie and of course Lennon wrote one of his most iconic songs the say way.
December 18th, 1966 was also the birthday of Keith Richards Humm
What was he doing with the Stones ?
You forgot to add that the last piano chord was played on multiple pianos by multiple players
That car looked in pretty good shape for crashing into a parked van at 120 mph.
Was that supposed to be the actual image of the car?
@@Xxxxxrrr6464 it is the actual image, yes.
The dichotomy of the two stories obviously struck John. The tragic loss of life and the banality of the report of the number of holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
I'm pretty sure that Paul was joking when he said to George Martin that it was "a drug album". They may have used marijuana (in Paul's case) and LSD (in John's case) for inspiration, but you can't work very well under the influence of drugs and you certainly can't record a masterpiece if your brain is affected by drugs. There is a famous episode when John accidentaly took some LSD while recording and it was a disaster that could have killed him when he was left alone on the roof to sober up.
Supposedly they blew a dog whistle in that final chord so any dogs in the room would start barking.
Gee; I thought I knew everything about "Day in the life", news 50 years late!
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
Never could be any other way
George Martin strikes again. They were lucky to have him.
That time The Beatles got the credit for inventing what Zappa had already created.
Does anyone agree: the album cover looks a bit like a tableau of band standing before a grave?
Yes. I always thought the grave was supposed to be the "old" Beatles. They were showing that this was the start of a new era for the band.
a 120 miles/hour crash site looks different from the picture 1:14
How much were members of the orchestra paid I wonder?
The Giles Martin remix of Sgt. Pepper is really good.
Umm... And Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds played a role.
JOIN THE PACK !!!!! :)
I will not breakdown this song but write a fascinating stat about Sg Peppers.Now i do not know whether John and Paul got to write a song about their town,Liverpool,but one came up with Strawberry Fields and the other with Penny Lane.They were meant to be part of Sg Peppers but in the end and here i do not know whether George Martin made the decision or it was John and Pails,but those two songs were left out and released as a double A-Side single.I often wonder if they were left on Peppers whether it would have made it an even greater Album or whether it was a better idea to turn them into a double A-Side.I guess each and everyone of us has their own opinion on that.Personally i would have loved them to be on Sg Peppers.
I have to agree with you. Those two masterpieces could have pushed out two of the slightly less brilliant songs now on the album (take your pick), resulting a massively high-quality collection that might even surpass Revolver in excellence.
@@childeric57 Thanks for replying to me,appreciate that.Anyway,i have gone away from picking the best Beatles Album.I used to always go for Sg Peppers but then found myself,harking back to revolver,then i get the hots for Rubber Soul and just the other Day,got to hear on my car radio,The Night Before,from Help and i just can't get it out of my head.One Album that i never pick as their best is Abbey Road,though it has become the first Album to reach number 1 again after 50 years.Maybe because it was their last i dont really know.Although i am a Beatles addict,i do agree with you that there are some songs that i find very below their standards.Nice corresponding with you,Childeric.Stay healthy,happy and safe,my friend.
Thank you Johnny, and all the best to you. We're two lucky characters having the Beatles' music to roam around in like an enormous pleasure garden...
@@childeric57 Oh yes indeed.Very lucky.
But what about the book?
....Of The Law
Leave it to trained musicians to be told to play whatever they want for 24 bars, starting on a low E and finishing on a high E, and need hand-holding to understand it.
Again. George Martin's importance cant be understated.
It wasn't just any drugs. It was LSD.
1:33 There is no way that that car was in an accident at that speed, judging by the wreckage. Not enough.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
1:14 Sorry, but that is NOT the picture of a car that hit a van at all (unless you're talking about a 3 wheel bicycle pedal "van"!) and also not any faster than 25 MPH! Did you have AI hairball this up? I have a feeling it's the actual car and the idiot just broke his neck on the windshield. That's a fiberglass body!!! If that car hit a parked ANYTHING at 120MPH, it would look like the planes that hit the World Trade Center! THINK a little before you barf such ridiculous garbage for sensational effect!!!
Wow! Excellently informative video on a ground-breaking album. Thank you!
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
Gosh I never realised Paul McCartneys nose was so much like a Roman nose 😲 His DNA would be interesting.
Good job lads ❤ interesting video thanks
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
That Lotus did not drive into anything at 120 miles per hour. The front suspension is still in tact. At 120 miles per hour, there is no way that his female companion would have survived the crash. You might want to have a look at crash video's at 60 miles per hour with modern cars that can absorb much more energy from an impact, just for reference. The Elan's monocoque is rigid and probably not very good at absorbing impact. The driver probably got hit in the chest by the steering column, as we can see that it must have protruded into the car.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
of course he was hanging out with Brian Jones before the accident.. I ❤️ Brian Jones no Jones no Stones
You say he "died instantly" but there are multiple reports that he survived the accident for at least 2 hours. Two witnesses wrapped a blanket around him, which means there was access to him in the car to do so. As it was winter, this is why they wrapped him.
It's Marianne Faithfull telling the press he was on LSD, which conflicts with the coroner's report that say he had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
Suki's sister had a similar accident only the week before.
A perfect example of why NOTHING on the internet or RUclips should be believed 100%
It's filled with lies, misinformation, or construed "facts"
Great to know these details. Thx.
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
That car was definitely not going 120 when it crashed....
The info you're hearing on this video is INCORRECT.
Don't rely on the internet or RUclips for ANYTHING regarding history!!
If you want the truth, go back to older interviews from John Lennon himself. Not from some third-party lackey, like this fool who made this video!!
also the producer was the 5th member of the band he had so much creative influence.
Mal didn’t produce this masterpiece
From George Martin's own words he only assisted the Beatles technically and had almost no creative influence.
Crazy that two rather non-events, spoiled Tara crashing a beautiful Lotus and himself on the one hand (not exactly a great loss, is it) and that blonde Rolling Stone member of the 27 club (seriously overrated- inspired this special song.
Tara did not die instantly. He only died the next day in hospital.
please check the pinned comment on this video
Many people think Paul was replaced by a double..but if you watch him play bass early on and later... that's almost impossible to mimic
Much more than that. The PID rumor was started by a DJ, and caught on with a cuIt. When PauI's brother Mike confronted the DJ about his Iie on the Mike Douglas show, the DJ had a meltdown, afterwards tried to hit Mike, and threatened to send him to the hereafter.
Even the devil is known as “the counterfeiter. The man of 1,000 voices
The songs would have been impossible to compose by a stand in.
@@johnmc3862 OG Paul left behind at minimum 50 songs, some finished, some unfinished or Lennon finished them. 🧐 Research, Research.