It's finally here: the A Hard Day's Night sessions documentary! Please like and share the video to help with the algorithm, and subscribe for more documentaries like this. Enjoy! 👍 I made an oopsie at 1:07:26 when I said _"learning towards"_ when I meant to say _"leaning towards."_ 🤣 Mea culpa.
I was 13 at the time A Hard Days Night came out. The perfect age at the perfect time. How lucky I feel that I was at the right age to enjoy the experience of Beatle mania. I'm 73 now and still enjoy their music as much as I did when I was 13. If I Fell is my favorite early Beatle tune. I learned how to play it on my J160E years ago. Its such feel good love ballad.
I'm from Australia and I was 14 when A Hard Days Night came out. I didn't see them when they came to Australia but my friend Norm did and he said you couldn't hear anything for the screaming of the girls. RIP John and George
I too was 13 when 'A Hard Day's NIght" came out and growing up in Sydney. At the theatre at Pitt St. where I saw the film, the screaming was so bad that I walked out in disgust. Also the Beatles' Liverpudlian accents were so thick I couldn't understand a word they were saying (between screams). Later, when I could understand them and I saw the film again, I didn't see it as a Beatles film but a Dick Lester film. Brilliant Director.
I was negative 18 when it came out and I'm still 42 years old lol. Born in the wrong era. Yet I still fully appreciate this music just as if I grew up along side it.. essentially because I DID grow up along side it.. I had awesome parents ;)
@@edwardlagrossa1246 Age six here. I was precocious in music and was tagged even in elementary school as being musically adept. So I got funneled into music world and have been there, at least in part for 54 years. This led to much professional music. Wonderful experiences.
Very well done! I would simply add that despite the fact that Alun Owen only presented an “adolescent” view of the Beatles, it worked wonderfully in its day. I was 13 when it premiered and we just ate it up. That film helped establish them here in the States. Even as kids we knew their music was different and we loved it. Their lovable mop top image was all we had to know them by. It was a good introduction and we grew up along with their music. I still love the movie because it was part of my youth. It’s one of those “you had to be there” situations. Keep up the good work.
@@jacquolen1952 Well said by you! At first Beatles live concerts were filled with almost ALL young teens. But later concerts had plenty of young adults and even older people and celebrities!
Probably the first video to reveal things I never knew about the greatest band ever. I was 12 in 1962 and saw how they changed the face of music forever. We never got to appreciate the type of pressure they were under. This shows their multi faceted and unique talents of each of them and those closest to them
That was really good. Over the years I've watched just about everything about the Beatles that I could get my hands on, but I had never heard a lot of the interviews by the boys that you have here. There are some really cool and insightful bits. Well done. Peace.
Great, professionally made documentary. It terms of great songs, I think a hard days night is their best album and as a result the best album ever made by anyone. Its John's album alright and it show cases him, on top form and pre the drugs, psychedelic later years. Its the fab four at their pinnacle. In some ways John was running ahead of the pack at this stage, how could any one touch him in this form. It took till pepper for Paul to become the dominant force. Don't forget the abbey road team also. Norman Smith became a top producer and pop star in his own right. When he had the smash hit with baby i know in the early 70s, Lennon was gobsmacked, he thought Norman was so boring he called him "Normal Norman". The ballads alone on the album are out of this world.
Gus! Absolutely loved this documentary!!!!! Outstanding I love the break down of each song. And how the movie behind the scenes came together! Best Beatles documentary I have watched in years! Awesome Hard work! Great job and thank you 😊
I've been watching your content and also film retrospectives content on various beatles albums and i'm really struck about how Paul is just so honest and open and realistic in some of the interviews i've heard. He just tells it like it is.
I should have known better has always been one of my favorites Beatles tracks. What an album. I’m very lucky to have my dad’s original collection of Beatles records from when he was a kid in England in the 60s
I remember being a 7 year old kid waiting for weeks to see this movie. When the time came I had to wait in a long line at our local theater in Chicago with my sisters and their friends. When we finally got in I could not hear a thing as the girls all screamed the WHOLE movie. The girls acted like the Beatles were actually in the building. They were nuts!!! I do not think anybody now a days can believe just how big the Beatles were back then.
A friend told me he'd seen the film at a matinee performance full of girls screaming--he went home with his ears ringing. A day later he went to an evening performance, no teen girls.
The song by the Beatles " I'LL BE BACK " Has 2 different bridges - ( middle eights ) Listen to it closely - It is a real change in popular music song writing - !
At 25:14, behind John's hand is, I think the Dakota Building, which sits opposite Central Park West. Years later John & Yoko would move and reside there.
I used to think you were just overdramatizing your past videos but like maybe I was just being bitter bc I love your vibe and you put so so much work into this video much appreciated❤️
Cover art was an integral part of the record collecting experience.The first thing i would do after putting the record on the turntable is read every single word of the sleevenotes,the cover art would be discussed for hours on end.
The opening chord on "A Hard Day's Night" is actually 2 guitars, each playing a slightly different chord. One is a Fadd9. You may be correct about the other guitar.
The 'he's very clean' and 'clean old man' for Paul's grandad(Wilfred Brambell) is a reference to Wilfred's appearance as Albert Steptoe in the 'down-at-heel' comedy series Steptoe and Son in which his son Harold(Harry H. Corbett) regularly referred to him sneeringly as 'you dirrrty old man',the Beatles being very aware of that show,I believe an American version of it was made called 'Bamford and Son' or something similar.
They actually performed songs on record, playing and singing w minimal mistakes. Take after take. George Martin's production was perfect for their sound. It was a perfect storm.
@BeatlesBible1 That's awesome! I ust realized that Sgt.Pepper is there as well! The Revolver one was really great, one of the manys interesting to see , is how their musical proficiency is always right there with the technical studio abilities emerging. Much appreciated content on your channel and good luck with the upcoming ones 👍
Actually, “Please, Please Me” was inspired by “Cathy’s Clown”, employing a similar two-part harmony for the verse, with Paul and John both starting on the G and John descending while Paul stayed on the G.
A Hard Day's Night is essential not only if you're a Beatles fan but also if you like jukebox films and the cinema in general. I consider myself all three.
Most serious songwriters view 'Modulations' or 'Key changes' as a lazy way to propel or pad out a song. I have heard Macca say as much. So, when Paul says it was George Martin who suggested the 1/2 step up modulation for the guitar solo in And I Love Her, I tend to believe him. George Martin came from the Tin Pan Alley era of songwriting. A time when modulations were used with far more frequently. Paul and John virtually never put key changes in their songs. They saw it as a hackneyed practice. Penny Lane and You're Going to Lose That Girl have key changes written in to the songs chord structures. The only 3 Beatles songs I recall using this "old school' trope are 1) The a Capela call/response vocals at the end of Good Day Sunshine (1/2 step up E to F) 2) Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Reprise (1 full step-up F to G) 3) the final 2 chords of George Harrisons 'Piggies'. (1/2 step up Aflat to Eflat). This last one is open to interpretation. Great job B B. Those 87 minutes flew by. Cheers, RNB
Ab to Eb is a fourth, not a semitone . The other thing on “ Good Day Sunshine “ . Yes it goes up a semitones on outro, but it’s not a call response, it’s Paul singing a “ round “ a very classical borrowed idea . “ And I Love Her “ modulation from E to F chordally, bringing the song to key of G minor sets up the ending of the song, it was some lazy hack bit of an arrangement. As this was an acoustic guitar song it made sense as you can hear when there are open strings. Ending in a D major made perfect sense . To me * it sounds like it may also have an interval harmonic on the G,and B strings in the seventh fret - which makes total sense - when the D major is played as the outro. * I have not listened to the song min quite some time so I may be mistaken on the harmonic being played simultaneously under the D major chord in the mix.
@@jacquescousteau217 Hi jacques. Piggies natural key of the verse goes from G to D. The quirky outro shifts up a half step to Aflat and lands on an Eflat. I also said that was up for interpretation. As for the GD S "call/response". I felt this was an easier way for the non musicuan to understand my reference. But I believe you understood the gist of my comment. I could've said echo phrasing. I just felt call/response was easier to digest. I certainly didn't mean to ruffle any feathers. This is only a comment section after all, not a symposium on music theory Cheers. RNB
@@themamat I personally would include "Bill" and "Lucy" in the same catagory as Penny Lane and Lose That Girl. The "key change' is a product of the song chordal flow. Not added to the song along the way for musical propulsion or padding. RNB
I'm glad channels like this exist. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you aware of the Mike(Sage of Quay)Williams channel? He claims as "fact" that The Beatles did not write any of their own material before 1967 and session musicians were used because they were musically inept. It's absolute nonsense of course. He claims they were far too busy touring to have the time to write. (He quotes 75% of their time was taken up with "live" performances"). There is no way they were performing for 75% of the time. They were doing shows that lasted barely 20 minutes! There are countless photos floating around the internet that show them taking holidays individually and this shows they weren't on the go 24/7. Why does Mike Williams say session musicians were used to get the job done quickly then go on to say "A Hard Days Night" took a 125 days to make? Real Beatle fans Know it took just over a week. One of the many devious things he has done is to show a photo of The Beatles looking at pages of script and pass it off as them learning the lyrics to songs already written for them. I could go on about some more of his ridiculous "theories,claims and research" etc,but I won't.Once again,thanks for a very entertaining and honest documentary.
@@BeatlesBible1 It's his constant sullying of The Beatles I find annoying. He offers absolutely no proof whatsoever for his claims that they didn't write or play on any of their early albums bit tends to state this as "fact". It beggars belief also the amount of people who hang on to his every word. There is a channel here on RUclips: "Peter Duncan (a rebuttal to Mike Williams) which shows how deviousMike Williams really is.
Sort of reminds me of a book from late60s- early 70s that says they didn't write their later stuff! Says it was the soviet communists or the cia( i don't remember wich,but that sort of thing).It says it is impossible for their music to have evolved so.much. people write books .@@laurencetyson7395
Great video! The entire song "A Hard Day's Night" is not mixolydian, the first part is, but some of it is just G major, like when the chords go C to D, and the melody there hits F#, that is no longer mixolydian, also the bridge when it hits Bm, not mixolydian anymore and also the melody has the flat 3rd blue note in there Bb, great song. I think part of what makes the song great is how the modes change from mixolydian to major etc
Very well done documentary. Great original recordings of interviews. The Beatles today are thought of as a teenybopper band, but they were great inventive musicians and business men. It all seemed so natural to them. Paul said it best about their songs in this documentary. “They were good for the times “, but I still love the Beatles songs today.
I didn't particularly want to watch this as im a rubber soul and onwards man and held off for a week ...... It's the best piece of work you've ever done. It's absolutely amazing. Thank you .
The often stated idea, in this case stated by Paul, that the Beatles had decided not to go to the U.S. until they had a #1 record in the U.S., is belied by the fact that both the Ed Sullivan appearance(s) as well as the Carnegie Hall shows were scheduled back in November 1963 during Brian Epstein's trip to New York. I Want to Hold Your Hand went to #1 in the U.S. in January 1964 just a few weeks before their scheduled U.S. trip. It was one of the dominoes that fell right at the exact time, and not something that they had any control over. Although I think (but I'm not sure) that Brian decided it was time to try and get them on U.S. television only after he knew that Capitol was planning to release I Want To Hold Your Hand at the end of December.
I was 13 when Help! was released. After seeing it, I told myself, I like the movie A Hard Days Night better but I prefer the songs from Help! From someone on the outside looking in, I thought AHDN was done very well regardless of the internal criticisms.
VERY GOOD VIDEO. EXCELLENT DOCUMENTAL .BUT YOU.FORGOT TO MENTION THE OTHER TWO SONGS RECORDED DURING THOSE SESSIONS ,MATCHBOX Y SLOW DOWN. HAVE GOOD.😴😴
Was 11 when came out. Did everything I could do to dress like the Beatles and be cool. Dress codes were rigid at the time and my parents wouldn’t let me wear Beatle boots and I had to hide them outside. Didn’t know what weather would do to suede boots and they were ruined…But for a few moments I thought I was as cool as the Beatles….Even now still try to embody the spirit, fun and humor of A Hard Days Night.🐇
Music documentaries without rights to play any of the music being discussed seems to be a regular thing on RUclips, especially with the Beatles. I think it is absurd. It’s like watching an art historian lecture on the Mona Lisa without ever showing a picture of the painting. Sure the information can be interesting, but the enduring frustration from the musical silence is too painful. And this for 90 minutes! 34:45
Bro. This is an absolutely gorgeously composed and edited doc. Super informative and inspiring. My only issue is that you didn’t edit out the breaths you take between sentences. It sounds ridiculous to say. But once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. And it ends up being insanely distracting and frustrating to listen to. Anyway, great job overall.
@24:00 it kills me that these guys are the least accurate historical source of their own careers than anybody.🤦 it was handy, convenient & extremely fortunate that they had a no.1 hit in the US on the heels of their arrival in the states. the reality is no.1 or not, they were booked to go back in 10 or 11/63. probably before the no.1 they earned was even written.. it is a good story though.
Regarding key changes...sometimes it was to the detriment of the song. I've been playing a key change after the middle section of "Do you want to know a Secret" for years, sounds great. I've dropped the one in Norwegian Wood's M8 to make more sense harmonically when sung solo. As for "Happy Crimble, War is Over" it simply doesn't need so many key changes to work. Whatever...
No; most songs from 1962-67 were actually co-written by Lennon and McCartney. However, the common rule is that the song is mostly that Beatles' tune if that Beatle sung it.
@@BeatlesBible1You’re wrong. Lennon wrote “If I Fell”, ALONE, with no assistance from Paul in it’s composition. Paul’s Q Magazine claim to co-authorship, that he composed the intro, has been 100% and conclusively debunked. It’s shameful that the Beatles Bible continues to give Paul’s false narratives oxygen: you repeat this same falsehood on your site. For the sake of the truth and history, you need to correct your error. You’ve been alerted to this repeatedly now! Be BETTER!
Did John write “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” or was it cowritten because the narrator says it was cowritten but the recording of the interview played right after that has John saying he wrote the song without crediting Paul and realizing that it would be a good track for George to sing? John was also quite good at giving Paul credit for the songs he actually contributed to for the most part too
It's finally here: the A Hard Day's Night sessions documentary! Please like and share the video to help with the algorithm, and subscribe for more documentaries like this. Enjoy! 👍
I made an oopsie at 1:07:26 when I said _"learning towards"_ when I meant to say _"leaning towards."_ 🤣 Mea culpa.
I like that you put Woody Guthrie's pic when you said folk song ❤
Sending this to all my "Beatle buddies"!
👋 🇬🇧
Wow,man,thank you!
Forgiven.
If I Fell is one of my 180 all-time favorite Beatles songs.
I was 13 at the time A Hard Days Night came out. The perfect age at the perfect time. How lucky I feel that I was at the right age to enjoy the experience of Beatle mania. I'm 73 now and still enjoy their music as much as I did when I was 13. If I Fell is my favorite early Beatle tune. I learned how to play it on my J160E years ago. Its such feel good love ballad.
I was eight!
I'm from Australia and I was 14 when A Hard Days Night came out. I didn't see them when they came to Australia but my friend Norm did and he said you couldn't hear anything for the screaming of the girls. RIP John and George
I too was 13 when 'A Hard Day's NIght" came out and growing up in Sydney. At the theatre at Pitt St. where I saw the film, the screaming was so bad that I walked out in disgust. Also the Beatles' Liverpudlian accents were so thick I couldn't understand a word they were saying (between screams). Later, when I could understand them and I saw the film again, I didn't see it as a Beatles film but a Dick Lester film. Brilliant Director.
I was negative 18 when it came out and I'm still 42 years old lol. Born in the wrong era. Yet I still fully appreciate this music just as if I grew up along side it.. essentially because I DID grow up along side it.. I had awesome parents ;)
@@edwardlagrossa1246 Age six here. I was precocious in music and was tagged even in elementary school as being musically adept. So I got funneled into music world and have been there, at least in part for 54 years. This led to much professional music. Wonderful experiences.
Wow
Just excellent work
Can’t imagine the amount of effort you put into this!
Just excellent!!!!
Thank you very much!!
Very well done! I would simply add that despite the fact that Alun Owen only presented an “adolescent” view of the Beatles, it worked wonderfully in its day. I was 13 when it premiered and we just ate it up. That film helped establish them here in the States. Even as kids we knew their music was different and we loved it. Their lovable mop top image was all we had to know them by. It was a good introduction and we grew up along with their music. I still love the movie because it was part of my youth. It’s one of those “you had to be there” situations. Keep up the good work.
@@jacquolen1952 Well said by you! At first Beatles live concerts were filled with almost ALL young teens. But later concerts had plenty of young adults and even older people and celebrities!
Probably the first video to reveal things I never knew about the greatest band ever. I was 12 in 1962 and saw how they changed the face of music forever. We never got to appreciate the type of pressure they were under. This shows their multi faceted and unique talents of each of them and those closest to them
Cool!! I was 10 yrs old..Now I'm 70, I saw
The movie at the Century theatre in Toronto 😊
Were the women screaming that day in the theater?
These documentaries are excellent. Thank you
Glad you like them!
That was really good. Over the years I've watched just about everything about the Beatles that I could get my hands on, but I had never heard a lot of the interviews by the boys that you have here. There are some really cool and insightful bits. Well done. Peace.
Thank you very much!!
Certainly better than every Elvis movie!
Great, professionally made documentary. It terms of great songs, I think a hard days night is their best album and as a result the best album ever made by anyone. Its John's album alright and it show cases him, on top form and pre the drugs, psychedelic later years. Its the fab four at their pinnacle. In some ways John was running ahead of the pack at this stage, how could any one touch him in this form. It took till pepper for Paul to become the dominant force. Don't forget the abbey road team also. Norman Smith became a top producer and pop star in his own right. When he had the smash hit with baby i know in the early 70s, Lennon was gobsmacked, he thought Norman was so boring he called him "Normal Norman". The ballads alone on the album are out of this world.
I think John lost interest, temporarily, after Brian died. Death has a strange effect on most people, and John was no exception!
Thoroughly enjoyed it, THANKS Beatles Bible!
Thank _YOU_
Again
Spectacular work!
Really enjoyed!!
Fine job!!
Thanks, Gus! Wonderful work!
xoxo The Clarences
AHDN is one of my favorites... The deep tracks like "tell me why" are fantastic.
Gus! Absolutely loved this documentary!!!!! Outstanding I love the break down of each song. And how the movie behind the scenes came together! Best Beatles documentary I have watched in years! Awesome Hard work! Great job and thank you 😊
It was a very good film The Beatles were a great band back then in the 60'S?it was a funny film too and the Beatles were great in it.😊
Great docu! Thanks for posting!
Thank you very much!!
I've been watching your content and also film retrospectives content on various beatles albums and i'm really struck about how Paul is just so honest and open and realistic in some of the interviews i've heard. He just tells it like it is.
I should have known better has always been one of my favorites Beatles tracks. What an album. I’m very lucky to have my dad’s original collection of Beatles records from when he was a kid in England in the 60s
I remember being a 7 year old kid waiting for weeks to see this movie. When the time came I had to wait in a long line at our local theater in Chicago with my sisters and their friends. When we finally got in I could not hear a thing as the girls all screamed the WHOLE movie. The girls acted like the Beatles were actually in the building. They were nuts!!! I do not think anybody now a days can believe just how big the Beatles were back then.
Nice!
……women……
Saw this in the movies 11 times @ $1.25/ticket.
I saw it in a theatre in Christchurch New Zealand in 1964 as a 13 year old and girls were screaming .
A friend told me he'd seen the film at a matinee performance full of girls screaming--he went home with his ears ringing. A day later he went to an evening performance, no teen girls.
VERY NICE JOB SINGING THE INTRO TO “IF I FELL”!!! PERFECT PITCH, BEAUTIFUL TONE!
You snuck that in there on us. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks!
Why are you yelling?
I enjoyed your presentation; thank you.
Great coverage of my favorite Beatles recording!
Keep the Tavistock Fairytale alive, well done 🤗🤗🤗
The song by the Beatles " I'LL BE BACK " Has 2 different bridges - ( middle eights ) Listen to it closely - It is a real change in popular music song writing - !
Great video Gus!!! Totally not against another documentary being made in the future!
At 2:49, that is Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, not producer Bud Ornstein.
Thanks Beatles Bible🎉🎶🎵🎶
Fantastic doc full of things I didn't know and have never heard. Thank you for your great work. Also reckon Paul's had more than a few joints at 22.14
At 25:14, behind John's hand is, I think the Dakota Building, which sits opposite Central Park West. Years later John & Yoko would move and reside there.
You have a very nice voice! Great narration, and thank you for taking us on this journey!
Ringo had such a gift for titles
He really did
Great job! Well researched, and analyzed! Also, comprehensive. An excellent presentation. Bravo!
Glad you liked it!
Amazing. Keep up the hard work this is fantastic!
Thank you! Will do!
Bro I love the song Tell Me Why and your cover (or whatever you got it from) sounds so amazing. Where can I listen to the whole cover song?
Brilliant presentation. Thank you. Best wishes. 🌞🤸🏽♂️🫶🏼
Much appreciated ❤
Fantastic work!
Professional!
Incredible!🎉
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Very interesting video.
So
GREASE 😅😅😅😅
Thanks, on of my favorite movies. but of course it's the music that makes it so.
Thanks Gus that was well detailed, enjoyed it thoroughly.
Thank you very much!!
John really put in some work for Hard Days Night.
Yet another great upload..thank you and keep up the good work!❤
Cheers, brother!
@BeatlesBible1 thanks once again from 50 year Beatles fan.
I used to think you were just overdramatizing your past videos but like maybe I was just being bitter bc I love your vibe and you put so so much work into this video much appreciated❤️
Thanks
This was a great take on AHDN album. Great effort
Enjoyed it. Thank you.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend also my favorite youtuber ❤😊
Thanks
Cover art was an integral part of the record collecting experience.The first thing i would do after putting the record on the turntable is read every single word of the sleevenotes,the cover art would be discussed for hours on end.
Good job! Enjoyed it very much.
Thank you very much!
The opening chord on "A Hard Day's Night" is actually 2 guitars, each playing a slightly different chord. One is a Fadd9. You may be correct about the other guitar.
The 'he's very clean' and 'clean old man' for Paul's grandad(Wilfred Brambell) is a reference to Wilfred's appearance as Albert Steptoe in the 'down-at-heel' comedy series Steptoe and Son in which his son Harold(Harry H. Corbett) regularly referred to him sneeringly as 'you dirrrty old man',the Beatles being very aware of that show,I believe an American version of it was made called 'Bamford and Son' or something similar.
They actually performed songs on record, playing and singing w minimal mistakes. Take after take. George Martin's production was perfect for their sound. It was a perfect storm.
Amazingly detailed and interesting album sessions docs. Will you be doing The White Album and Abbey Road too? As extra exhausting as they would be!!
Yes, in 2025!
@BeatlesBible1 That's awesome! I ust realized that Sgt.Pepper is there as well! The Revolver one was really great, one of the manys interesting to see , is how their musical proficiency is always right there with the technical studio abilities emerging.
Much appreciated content on your channel and good luck with the upcoming ones 👍
The best Beatle album. All the songs are good.
Amazing, watched HDN movie at the matinee when I was 9. Also HELP ! Everyone loved the Beatles then. Magical
It"s interesting to hear their original Liverpool accents that would fade beginning with their move from Liverpool to London in 64.
Cathy’s Clown by the Everly Brothers was another possible source of inspiration for the song I Should Have Known Better.
Actually, “Please, Please Me” was inspired by “Cathy’s Clown”, employing a similar two-part harmony for the verse, with Paul and John both starting on the G and John descending while Paul stayed on the G.
A Hard Day's Night is essential not only if you're a Beatles fan but also if you like jukebox films and the cinema in general. I consider myself all three.
AN HOUR DROP, LETS GOOO
I’ve always wanted to know what went behind the movie
Most serious songwriters view 'Modulations' or 'Key changes' as a lazy way to propel or pad out a song. I have heard Macca say as much. So, when Paul says it was George Martin who suggested the 1/2 step up modulation for the guitar solo in And I Love Her, I tend to believe him. George Martin came from the Tin Pan Alley era of songwriting. A time when modulations were used with far more frequently. Paul and John virtually never put key changes in their songs. They saw it as a hackneyed practice. Penny Lane and You're Going to Lose That Girl have key changes written in to the songs chord structures. The only 3 Beatles songs I recall using this "old school' trope are 1) The a Capela call/response vocals at the end of Good Day Sunshine (1/2 step up E to F) 2) Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Reprise (1 full step-up F to G) 3) the final 2 chords of George Harrisons 'Piggies'. (1/2 step up Aflat to Eflat). This last one is open to interpretation. Great job B B. Those 87 minutes flew by. Cheers, RNB
Also in the chorus of "Continuing Stories of Bungalow Bill". Just sudden change of key in one chorus from C to A.
Ab to Eb is a fourth, not a semitone . The other thing on “ Good Day Sunshine “ . Yes it goes up a semitones on outro, but it’s not a call response, it’s Paul singing a “ round “ a very classical borrowed idea . “ And I Love Her “ modulation from E to F chordally, bringing the song to key of G minor sets up the ending of the song, it was some lazy hack bit of an arrangement. As this was an acoustic guitar song it made sense as you can hear when there are open strings. Ending in a D major made perfect sense . To me * it sounds like it may also have an interval harmonic on the G,and B strings in the seventh fret - which makes total sense - when the D major is played as the outro.
* I have not listened to the song min quite some time so I may be mistaken on the harmonic being played simultaneously under the D major chord in the mix.
@@jacquescousteau217 Hi jacques. Piggies natural key of the verse goes from G to D. The quirky outro shifts up a half step to Aflat and lands on an Eflat. I also said that was up for interpretation. As for the GD S "call/response". I felt this was an easier way for the non musicuan to understand my reference. But I believe you understood the gist of my comment. I could've said echo phrasing. I just felt call/response was easier to digest. I certainly didn't mean to ruffle any feathers. This is only a comment section after all, not a symposium on music theory Cheers. RNB
The D major at the end of And I Love Her sounds so sweet to tge ears.
@@themamat I personally would include "Bill" and "Lucy" in the same catagory as Penny Lane and Lose That Girl. The "key change' is a product of the song chordal flow. Not added to the song along the way for musical propulsion or padding. RNB
Great information. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Excellent and exhaustive detail, kudos.
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⚜️’ Beatles broke all the freaken’ rules 🎶😘🎧💯🎭🎈
I'm glad channels like this exist. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you aware of the Mike(Sage of Quay)Williams channel? He claims as "fact" that The Beatles did not write any of their own material before 1967 and session musicians were used because they were musically inept. It's absolute nonsense of course. He claims they were far too busy touring to have the time to write. (He quotes 75% of their time was taken up with "live" performances"). There is no way they were performing for 75% of the time. They were doing shows that lasted barely 20 minutes! There are countless photos floating around the internet that show them taking holidays individually and this shows they weren't on the go 24/7. Why does Mike Williams say session musicians were used to get the job done quickly then go on to say "A Hard Days Night" took a 125 days to make? Real Beatle fans Know it took just over a week. One of the many devious things he has done is to show a photo of The Beatles looking at pages of script and pass it off as them learning the lyrics to songs already written for them. I could go on about some more of his ridiculous "theories,claims and research" etc,but I won't.Once again,thanks for a very entertaining and honest documentary.
Mike Williams sounds like he's desperate for attention. :)
Yes, I am aware of him. He amuses me; I like conspiracy theories. 😂 Though I don't really believe them.
@@BeatlesBible1 It's his constant sullying of The Beatles I find annoying. He offers absolutely no proof whatsoever for his claims that they didn't write or play on any of their early albums bit tends to state this as "fact". It beggars belief also the amount of people who hang on to his every word. There is a channel here on RUclips: "Peter Duncan (a rebuttal to Mike Williams) which shows how deviousMike Williams really is.
@@laurencetyson7395 Right! It's all been debunked and that idiot is just a waste of time! :)
Sort of reminds me of a book from late60s- early 70s that says they didn't write their later stuff! Says it was the soviet communists or the cia( i don't remember wich,but that sort of thing).It says it is impossible for their music to have evolved so.much. people write books .@@laurencetyson7395
Love love The Beatles
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Thank you for watching!
Great video! The entire song "A Hard Day's Night" is not mixolydian, the first part is, but some of it is just G major, like when the chords go C to D, and the melody there hits F#, that is no longer mixolydian, also the bridge when it hits Bm, not mixolydian anymore and also the melody has the flat 3rd blue note in there Bb, great song. I think part of what makes the song great is how the modes change from mixolydian to major etc
Thank you!
Great job!!!
Thank you very much!!
Very well done documentary. Great original recordings of interviews. The Beatles today are thought of as a teenybopper band, but they were great inventive musicians and business men. It all seemed so natural to them. Paul said it best about their songs in this documentary. “They were good for the times “, but I still love the Beatles songs today.
Good work!
Thank you very much, sir!
I was 10 when this film came out. Had the Capital record in mono. Was a wonderful period in their writing.
These are fantastic 👏
John mentioned the Dylan album "highway 64". It's actually highway 61.
Well, the name needs to be changed to 'Highway 64' if John said it.
@@michaelharrington75 Or the highway could be named Beatles Hwy. ?
Great job.❤
I didn't particularly want to watch this as im a rubber soul and onwards man and held off for a week ...... It's the best piece of work you've ever done. It's absolutely amazing. Thank you .
Great work! First song to the last, their most consistent lp. Seriously! The reach never exceeds the grasp.
The often stated idea, in this case stated by Paul, that the Beatles had decided not to go to the U.S. until they had a #1 record in the U.S., is belied by the fact that both the Ed Sullivan appearance(s) as well as the Carnegie Hall shows were scheduled back in November 1963 during Brian Epstein's trip to New York. I Want to Hold Your Hand went to #1 in the U.S. in January 1964 just a few weeks before their scheduled U.S. trip. It was one of the dominoes that fell right at the exact time, and not something that they had any control over. Although I think (but I'm not sure) that Brian decided it was time to try and get them on U.S. television only after he knew that Capitol was planning to release I Want To Hold Your Hand at the end of December.
Interesting video
I was 13 when Help! was released. After seeing it, I told myself, I like the movie A Hard Days Night better but I prefer the songs from Help! From someone on the outside looking in, I thought AHDN was done very well regardless of the internal criticisms.
Excellent! What about the now ever-present baseball cap though?
VERY GOOD VIDEO. EXCELLENT DOCUMENTAL .BUT YOU.FORGOT TO MENTION THE OTHER TWO SONGS RECORDED DURING THOSE SESSIONS ,MATCHBOX Y SLOW DOWN. HAVE GOOD.😴😴
Thank you very much, sir!
Id give you 10 likes if I could. Bravo🎸🥁
Great film -- listen to Ella Fitzgerald's live version of "Can't Buy Me Love" -- fab!
Great video about this “infamous” tour.
@firesociety Paul is not lying over years of conversations he's just remembering it as best he could !
LOVED HARMONICA IN THEIR SONGS LOVE ME DO
People really sleep on the instrumental tracks in the film, but I think they’re marvelous.
Done watching, you showing Billy Shears as Paul McCartney .
✊ *pid*
@@amarshmuseconcepta6197He is indeed, but far too few have done the necessary research....
"And I Love Her" has an eight bar middle, not four. I had to own the movie. I love everything about it.
Was 11 when came out. Did everything I could do to dress like the Beatles and be cool. Dress codes were rigid at the time and my parents wouldn’t let me wear Beatle boots and I had to hide them outside. Didn’t know what weather would do to suede boots and they were ruined…But for a few moments I thought I was as cool as the Beatles….Even now still try to embody the spirit, fun and humor of A Hard Days Night.🐇
Music documentaries without rights to play any of the music being discussed seems to be a regular thing on RUclips, especially with the Beatles. I think it is absurd. It’s like watching an art historian lecture on the Mona Lisa without ever showing a picture of the painting. Sure the information can be interesting, but the enduring frustration from the musical silence is too painful. And this for 90 minutes!
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Interesting to note that on the back side of the Brazilian album cover of Hard Day's Night the song " If I Fell" is titled "If I Feel".
Bro. This is an absolutely gorgeously composed and edited doc. Super informative and inspiring. My only issue is that you didn’t edit out the breaths you take between sentences. It sounds ridiculous to say. But once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. And it ends up being insanely distracting and frustrating to listen to. Anyway, great job overall.
Thank you very much!
@24:00 it kills me that these guys are the least accurate historical source of their own careers than anybody.🤦
it was handy, convenient & extremely fortunate that they had a no.1 hit in the US on the heels of their arrival in the states. the reality is no.1 or not, they were booked to go back in 10 or 11/63. probably before the no.1 they earned was even written.. it is a good story though.
Regarding key changes...sometimes it was to the detriment of the song. I've been playing a key change after the middle section of "Do you want to know a Secret" for years, sounds great. I've dropped the one in Norwegian Wood's M8 to make more sense harmonically when sung solo. As for "Happy Crimble, War is Over" it simply doesn't need so many key changes to work. Whatever...
The photo of John, Paul, & Ringo in Central Park at 25:00 has Lennon's head right over the Dakota.
9:32 Wrong sleeve on Love Me Do. It NEVER had that sleeve, which was discontinued at the start of 1962.
i thought If I Fell was written solely by Lennon? Anyway regardless, one of their very best, perfection.
No; most songs from 1962-67 were actually co-written by Lennon and McCartney. However, the common rule is that the song is mostly that Beatles' tune if that Beatle sung it.
@@BeatlesBible1You’re wrong. Lennon wrote “If I Fell”, ALONE, with no assistance from Paul in it’s composition. Paul’s Q Magazine claim to co-authorship, that he composed the intro, has been 100% and conclusively debunked. It’s shameful that the Beatles Bible continues to give Paul’s false narratives oxygen: you repeat this same falsehood on your site. For the sake of the truth and history, you need to correct your error. You’ve been alerted to this repeatedly now! Be BETTER!
Did John write “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” or was it cowritten because the narrator says it was cowritten but the recording of the interview played right after that has John saying he wrote the song without crediting Paul and realizing that it would be a good track for George to sing? John was also quite good at giving Paul credit for the songs he actually contributed to for the most part too
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