Exceptional analysis with an exquisite sense of detail, I'm so glad I came across this channel last year. All respect to you and your excellent work, madam.
Is this the best "Beatles Get Back review" thing ever? I believe it is! Thank you so much! The Beatles, whatever they really were, had great timing in their production and increasing fame. Except for "Let It Be" which is the worst timing possible for the lads. They were at the inception of their wonderful but painful last phase of "Abbey Road", but decided to make this documentary when they were going through a difficult transition. They were slowly becoming aware that it was a preparation for their great summation, their beautiful musical ending, and bright new "solo" beginnings. Originally the villain, George shines through, after decades, as the only realistic one who knew they were reaching the end. When the musical geniuses were busy being witty and wonderful Beatles, George was rehearsing the end. "See ya around the clubs..." “We could make solo records and then come back and make Beatles records….” he said later when he tried to tell them the future. His wisdom, of course, like all spiritual people, was mostly ignored by the Big Heads, the "dynamic Duo" Billy and John, The crimson dynamo and the Titanium Man. Ringo? Rock steady and always ready on the drums.
Great work! Thank you for part 3. It does seem that George was first constrained by the Paul/John fabrication powered by studio songwriting aces. When they gave everything over to Billy that didn't free George up as the machine still wanted the John/Paul myth to continue and Billy was a prolific songwriter himself.. Not surprising he wanted out early on. Also, I think you laid out convincing evidence that the rooftop video was overdubbed. The point about hundreds of feet of cable - It would have been XLR cable for the mics - So they linked 20 20ft cables together? Unlikely. The signal would be pretty bad one would think. They probably had a portable to capture the ambient noise and a general recording. Later, once they knew they had to overdub they constructed the myth of recording in the basement to explain the excellent quality..
Cat you nail it again wow. Thankyou for all the time and work you put in must take ages .I have problems with my memory and find it difficult to watch a half hour show on the TV. But your shows are so well put that I have no trouble listening and taking on board everything.i enjoy every minute and the time passes by in a wink.Love how your mind works and think your voice is perfect for easy listening. I enjoy all your subject tremendously thankyou so much.❤
A self-imposed piece of torture! That's it, isn't it? This one statements puts the entire thing into perfect perspective! Beautiful, Cat! Brilliant analysis! My deepest gratitude.
Pardon me for commenting to myself but, Cat, you've analyzed VERY technical questions such as how was it possible to nullify London's busy street noises? And setting up the roof to begin with? And that cop's comments about couldn't they just have transferred something to something? Very revealing and, Cat, you hit a HUGE home run with me here. Every question, observation, all the oddities and, I suppose, propaganda for as you say, perhaps the Beatles themselves bought into their own myths of their capabilities while you see right through so much -- best I can say, again, thank you. Top notch!
Really enjoyed this series. One thing on the cabling around 40:00 - I used to work for mobile recording, and for this type of setup you used to use one big cable called a Multicore, which has a whole bunch of separate single channel cables encased in it, with a break out box at each end so you can patch it how you want - you can send multiple channels stereo or mono up (or down) and the cable is super tough. I know because I used to lug them up over the rooves of various TV studios & venues to do live OB recording with sound trucks (I did TFI FRiday eg). Without comms though you would need a runner when you were testing the lines whcih would be an absolute nightmare, esp if something went wrong which it does all the time in a live setting. TFI we had 2 days of rehearsals -Wed setup & run thru with the band's tech stand ins, Thurs full run thru with the bands, and then the live broadcast on the Friday eg. Bear in mind they used to still film actually LIVE soap opera back in the 60s, so the tech was relatively good enough to do that - certainly as far as cabling goes! - - but this whole doc has the feel of a band being purposefully torn down. I know my parents saw this TV doc of Let it Be as a total downer, smashing the dream as it were. Seems totally on purpose.
In the Let It Be film, when Billy first walks out on to the roof, he pointedly looks at something on the horizon. The camera then shows the Natwest Tower (or Post Office Tower) in the distance. Which is where the Melody Maker Awards were filmed on the evening of the 10th Sept '66, with Paul and Ringo appearing. Paul's final appearance on film or photo. There used to be a restaurant at the top of that building, which is probably where it took place. (Memoirs says it was "Paul's best double", but I think it is Paul. Maybe Billy thinks of himself as the real Paul; and Paul was merely the 'first double'?!)
I always feel nostalgic when I see old pictures of the Post Office Tower, because my dad used to work for the GPO. We had a photo of the tower in our lounge when I was a child. I remember the revolving restaurant at the top too. I thought the Melody Maker Awards were held on 13th September 1966, but who knows? Paul did an interview for "Disc" on 10th September 1966 though, so that was definitely his last interview.
@@supernaturalbeatles It's a likeable enough building design! Certainly better than the London Eye (tacky ferris-wheel?). I think the awards may have been broadcast on 13th but documented earlier /on the 10th? Either way, the dynamic between Paul and Ringo appears correct in body language. Ringo looks perfectly happy (whereas he looks very unhappy 3 months later in his next interview outside EMI on 22nd December!).
Previously I posted a comment to Pt. 2 stating how astonished I was at the Beatle's writing style. Cat was absolutely kind enough to respond to some of my observations after finally seeing "Get Back" but "Let It Be" after so many years, since it was released, actually. Cat is mesmerizing in her analysis. I am utterly compelled. She blew me away with her statements of Shears specifically which led to another question but I must leave it here. Let it be, in other words. The Beatles was a huge part of my adolescence. So, Cat, thank you for this from the bottom of my heart.❤
Glad you enjoyed it. Don't worry, I'm not at the end! There's so much left to analyse. My next mission is a musical analysis of all of the Beatles' albums. If you have questions, do leave them here, or email me: supernaturalbeatles@protonmail.com.
Thank you for a great series! You did a great and through dive on this movie. I always look forward to your videos. I have been a PID believer since 1968.
As well as relaying all the electrical cables and other equipment the roof as had to be reinforced to sustain all the the weight etc, giving way to the myth that it was an impromptu performance.
I really enjoyed this presentation, thankyou. Razor sharp observations & questions as usual ( from you). As I watched the 1st 2 parts , the chaotic disarray & lack of focus the band & associates portray really reminded me of bands that I used to be in , as in new, inexperienced bands trying to get a demo together, with total lack of direction, focus or decorum, not as one would expect from a very experienced & the most famous ( infamous) band in the world. Like you say, maybe they fell under the spell of their own myth.
Great analysis and lots of unanswered and possibly unanswerable questions. It occurs to me that the Beatles went into this project believing that they could do the apparently impossible, i.e. write, rehearse, record, and perform a brand new album of songs live within a month. It doesn't make sense that Billy in particular would begin something that they had no hope of completing. Unless it was a deliberate act of self-sabotage and I can't see how that would have been to anyone's advantage. So perhaps something went wrong after they started and it was too late to back out? Maybe at least of the new songs were to be delivered to them as if written by the Beatles themselves? It still would have been a challenge to play/record them but maybe that _was_ the challenge. If those new songs did not arrive, for one reason or another, that would have been a huge problem for them all, especially Billy and George Martin. They would have been left with whatever they could cobble together themselves, or had left over from earlier sessions. Just a theory. Maybe we will learn the truth some day?
Again, for mic-ing a gig, if you want ambient sound from the audience (or London street sounds), you need to record that seperately and that gets mixed back in at the mix-down stage. It won't bleed in too much from a vocal mic, and the bass will be DI (Direct input) to the desk via the multicore. All in all, it's impossible to not have all sorts of audio inconsistencies in a recording like this. So, as an engineer, you mix the ambient sounds really loud inbetween, but as soon as the music stars, you pull it all down specifically so you DONT have the ambient sounds going as the song plays and you will surge it back inbetween. Or if there is some obvious cheer form the audience that needs to be heard (like a Freddie Mercury thing)
So glad I found your channel thanks to James Delingpole's Mike Williams interview. Are you also "Andrea" from Truth Well Told Tarot? You guys sound identical.
Stockings where put in front microphones to help reduce or eliminate plosive sounds when vocalist sang words starting with ‘p’ s or ‘b’s - not sure if it would work on wind - perhaps, or perhaps another “mis-fact”?
Well thanks for watching Get Back so I didn't have to! I skimmed through episode 1 and found it painfully dull; with occasionally funny/charming moments that were few and far between. I suspect the most important purpose of the project was to get some footage of the Beatles in the studio, weaving their alleged craft....
It would be good if an experienced sound engineer , with knowledge of the equipment used at this time period, could answer & enlighten us to some of those glaring technical issues you raised here , on the recording process actually used, or the deceptions ( miming etc). You raise great & pertinent questions on this. Of course it would be easy to do this now , or even in the 80s, but 1969, 1970.. the distance between the basement & the rooftop & all the technical issues this would cause, would be huge.
I just watched the new let it be film, not watched it for many years, and I was stuck how fake the rooftop performance is, and I've only got a basic knowledge of the technology.
I always thought the "pretty policemen" were a reference to Billy i.e. "the old bill" being slang for police -- everyone I knew called police "old bill". And Bill is old, in terms of the group members. So when the police say the obvious: "just dub the sound on afterwards?" it was important that they said it.
I'm 6ft tall and wear size 9s (UK). Although I prefer my shoes to be slightly too small, rather than too big. The real Paul had very small feet. They look like little doll's feet in the I Feel Fine video which is a great piece of footage to analyse the true heights of: John; Paul and George. They were all the exact same height. And they are all very small men -- they had the bodies of teenage boys; I guess because of the post war food rationing none of them reached their full growth potential?
@@supernaturalbeatles There's some amateur camcorder footage of George Harrison at a Formula 1 car racing event in the late 1990s on RUclips. And at the end he walks off with Dhani and a group of people and you can see how disproportionately short George was compared to everyone else! I think even Dhani is much taller. (It's from around 1997 when he had long hair.)
a fantastic series, cat! thanks for drudging through all the ridiculousness! no wind sound on the roof-top? sure, jan! 😂 there's no way that recording is from the roof-top! The wind would contribute to the sound quality of the song. Very sus! great job, my friend!
Cat, one of the most heavily occulted TV shows is (not sure if you're aware) Doctor Who. Check out episode 2 of the new series (The Devil's Chord). They don't play a large part but it's set around The Beatles and Abbey Road. I haven't seen Yesterday but I gathher part of the general premise is similar. One of the general criticisms is that the actors look NOTHING like the band. This seems particularly of note to me (didn't the co-producers Disney also have Get Back?) - almost to the point of goading us PID realists. Second is the overall theme and nature of the baddie. And thirdly is the one song they sing in it - I will leave that as a surprise, did they throw us a bone with that one? Well worth a watch, good wishes!
@supernaturalbeatles Whippets. I'd love to hear your opinion on the paperback writter video, it's loaded. The obvious (terrible) double of McCartney in close up at the start. The absence of another close up when they're sitting on the bench even though we see him in profile (the 'fake' paul) it just cuts when panning from ringo, straight to Lennon. Is that neill aspinal standing right behind Lennon at the start of the video, maybe 10 seconds in ? So strange. I think the performing paul in the video looks very like billy, could it be him ? I think so. Blatant deception as per... Billy is working for the 'daily mail' writing all that fan stuff behind the scenes as 'william sheppard' ? But he wants to be the big buck, a big seller, the 'paperback writter'
@supernaturalbeatles fantastic, also keep an eye (no hinky shitte) on Harrison, especially when in the background, definitely not the same person in close up. Ringo not playing the drums ? Not the first time we've seen him do Jack all in a music vid, cus he wasn't actually drumming, right ? I'm sure I've seen him on an exercise bike in one before 😅 they tell you straight to your face. Ringo was definitely replaced. The guy that was photographed in the hospital for tonsillitis in 1964 is the replacement, totally different people in both appearance and demeanour, look at any interview with ringo in 63 he's bouncing around the place and much smaller than ringo 2. Interview in 64 onwards, completely different personality and size
I'm interested in the perspective shift of the narrative, I've not heard either yourself or Mike (I know you work independently, it's just you are the two I follow) address it I don't think. We had the final 'return to form' of Abbey Road (the final - originally occulted - song is very telling - Savile Row is just off Bond Street) and then the finally released 'mess' of Let It Be and the less than flattering film. I am wondering if the Let It Be film was to 'explain' why they broke up at that time, and now that sufficient time has gone by (and history is being rewritten, again) we get the myth that it wasn't that bad after all (?). Be very interested in your thoughts here.
I must say every time it shows them rehearsing all they seem to be doing is is just messing about and not actually being serious or dedicated to what they are doing.
5:11 what's your thoughts on bill calling George Martin to come in and be the one to speak to George about what to play or tell him to stop playing qhat he's playing so billy doesn't look so bad on the film? Im not sure when it is but theres another moment where George Martin says to George again and then looks over to Paul.. it might be true. possible
I love you and this is all brilliant but! 36 mins ish - no background London noise etc - AI can sort all of that out now, you can do it on your phone :/
Just out of interest I was wondering where you stand on the Beatles writing their own songs. If they were expected to chip in with songriting after a certain stage, roughly when is it you believed this occured? After watching Mike Williams' analysis on the Rubber Soul album, I believe this to be a period when they were still heavily reliant on outside help with somgriting. But it's impossible to say to what extent. Sometimes I wonder if George was the only one pre-Billy era who had any influence at all on writing the songs he was said to have written. His songs on earlier albums were never that catchy and always sounded a bit amateurish to me. But to see John and Paul take all of the credit for their supposed songs (if this is the case) would have given him a massive chip on his shoulder, which comes across in his outward demeanor. But songs like 'Something' and 'here comes the sun' are in my opinion two of the finest Beatles songs ever recorded, so I really don't know what to believe! I will say this though... 'Here comes the sun' does have astrotheological undertones and could be a covert reference to Billy as Jesus or the son/sun coming along to save the day under the new Beatles religion.
I also wonder if George was the most serious songwriter of the Beatles, prior to Billy's arrival. It would explain his grievances if that was the case. I don't believe he wrote everything attributed to him, but I think lots of his songs really were by him. He had lots of time to write them, since no one expected much from him, and he only got to contribute a couple of songs per album anyway. I think "Revolver" might actually be the crossing point, as I've always had a suspicion that the Beatles contributed some creative work to that album beyond singing. I think it's unlikely that Paul died, Billy turned up, and the rest of the Beatles were spontaneously able to write hit songs! That scenario is just as unlikely as the idea that they wrote all of their own songs in the first place. This means that the turning point was before "Sgt Pepper", but definitely after the impossibly rushed through "Rubber Soul", therefore "Revolver" is the logical choice. As for "Here Comes the Sun", you might be right. Certainly it contains a lot of influences from Indian music too. In Memoirs, we are told that Billy is also Vishnu, which would tie into George's Hinduism.
I haven't finished making videos, if that's what you mean. I'm having personal issues that are taking up all my free time right now, but I will return to making new videos soon.
It was a very curious initial feature of the group that the 3 who played not sitting down had exactly the same height - at least in the magazines. You can't beat that for programming - kind of inimitable too. Maybe those Cuban heels had control-knobs
I think the purpose of John appearing in 'How I Won The War' was to get him used to screen acting. So he could think of later Beatles as just another acting gig.
@@nickbadseed George almost said as much in his '90s interview when he says: "After the, you know, 'event', in 1966, it all just became like a job to me."
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No, thank YOU ever so much.
Your research is unparalleled.
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Exceptional analysis with an exquisite sense of detail, I'm so glad I came across this channel last year. All respect to you and your excellent work, madam.
Is this the best "Beatles Get Back review" thing ever? I believe it is! Thank you so much!
The Beatles, whatever they really were, had great timing in their production and increasing fame. Except for "Let It Be" which is the worst timing possible for the lads. They were at the inception of their wonderful but painful last phase of "Abbey Road", but decided to make this documentary when they were going through a difficult transition. They were slowly becoming aware that it was a preparation for their great summation, their beautiful musical ending, and bright new "solo" beginnings.
Originally the villain, George shines through, after decades, as the only realistic one who knew they were reaching the end. When the musical geniuses were busy being witty and wonderful Beatles, George was rehearsing the end. "See ya around the clubs..."
“We could make solo records and then come back and make Beatles records….” he said later when he tried to tell them the future. His wisdom, of course, like all spiritual people, was mostly ignored by the Big Heads, the "dynamic Duo" Billy and John, The crimson dynamo and the Titanium Man. Ringo? Rock steady and always ready on the drums.
Great work! Thank you for part 3. It does seem that George was first constrained by the Paul/John fabrication powered by studio songwriting aces. When they gave everything over to Billy that didn't free George up as the machine still wanted the John/Paul myth to continue and Billy was a prolific songwriter himself.. Not surprising he wanted out early on.
Also, I think you laid out convincing evidence that the rooftop video was overdubbed. The point about hundreds of feet of cable - It would have been XLR cable for the mics - So they linked 20 20ft cables together? Unlikely. The signal would be pretty bad one would think. They probably had a portable to capture the ambient noise and a general recording. Later, once they knew they had to overdub they constructed the myth of recording in the basement to explain the excellent quality..
Cat you nail it again wow. Thankyou for all the time and work you put in must take ages .I have problems with my memory and find it difficult to watch a half hour show on the TV. But your shows are so well put that I have no trouble listening and taking on board everything.i enjoy every minute and the time passes by in a wink.Love how your mind works and think your voice is perfect for easy listening. I enjoy all your subject tremendously thankyou so much.❤
A self-imposed piece of torture! That's it, isn't it? This one statements puts the entire thing into perfect perspective! Beautiful, Cat! Brilliant analysis! My deepest gratitude.
Pardon me for commenting to myself but, Cat, you've analyzed VERY technical questions such as how was it possible to nullify London's busy street noises? And setting up the roof to begin with? And that cop's comments about couldn't they just have transferred something to something? Very revealing and, Cat, you hit a HUGE home run with me here. Every question, observation, all the oddities and, I suppose, propaganda for as you say, perhaps the Beatles themselves bought into their own myths of their capabilities while you see right through so much -- best I can say, again, thank you. Top notch!
Yep once it's dead it's dead
I hope all is well with you and this channel. I'm really looking forward to your songwriting analysis series.
Really enjoyed this series. One thing on the cabling around 40:00 - I used to work for mobile recording, and for this type of setup you used to use one big cable called a Multicore, which has a whole bunch of separate single channel cables encased in it, with a break out box at each end so you can patch it how you want - you can send multiple channels stereo or mono up (or down) and the cable is super tough. I know because I used to lug them up over the rooves of various TV studios & venues to do live OB recording with sound trucks (I did TFI FRiday eg). Without comms though you would need a runner when you were testing the lines whcih would be an absolute nightmare, esp if something went wrong which it does all the time in a live setting. TFI we had 2 days of rehearsals -Wed setup & run thru with the band's tech stand ins, Thurs full run thru with the bands, and then the live broadcast on the Friday eg. Bear in mind they used to still film actually LIVE soap opera back in the 60s, so the tech was relatively good enough to do that - certainly as far as cabling goes! - - but this whole doc has the feel of a band being purposefully torn down. I know my parents saw this TV doc of Let it Be as a total downer, smashing the dream as it were. Seems totally on purpose.
In the Let It Be film, when Billy first walks out on to the roof, he pointedly looks at something on the horizon. The camera then shows the Natwest Tower (or Post Office Tower) in the distance. Which is where the Melody Maker Awards were filmed on the evening of the 10th Sept '66, with Paul and Ringo appearing. Paul's final appearance on film or photo. There used to be a restaurant at the top of that building, which is probably where it took place.
(Memoirs says it was "Paul's best double", but I think it is Paul. Maybe Billy thinks of himself as the real Paul; and Paul was merely the 'first double'?!)
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I always feel nostalgic when I see old pictures of the Post Office Tower, because my dad used to work for the GPO. We had a photo of the tower in our lounge when I was a child. I remember the revolving restaurant at the top too. I thought the Melody Maker Awards were held on 13th September 1966, but who knows? Paul did an interview for "Disc" on 10th September 1966 though, so that was definitely his last interview.
@@supernaturalbeatles It's a likeable enough building design! Certainly better than the London Eye (tacky ferris-wheel?).
I think the awards may have been broadcast on 13th but documented earlier /on the 10th? Either way, the dynamic between Paul and Ringo appears correct in body language. Ringo looks perfectly happy (whereas he looks very unhappy 3 months later in his next interview outside EMI on 22nd December!).
Previously I posted a comment to Pt. 2 stating how astonished I was at the Beatle's writing style. Cat was absolutely kind enough to respond to some of my observations after finally seeing "Get Back" but "Let It Be" after so many years, since it was released, actually. Cat is mesmerizing in her analysis. I am utterly compelled. She blew me away with her statements of Shears specifically which led to another question but I must leave it here. Let it be, in other words. The Beatles was a huge part of my adolescence. So, Cat, thank you for this from the bottom of my heart.❤
Glad you enjoyed it. Don't worry, I'm not at the end! There's so much left to analyse. My next mission is a musical analysis of all of the Beatles' albums. If you have questions, do leave them here, or email me: supernaturalbeatles@protonmail.com.
Thank you for a great series! You did a great and through dive on this movie. I always look forward to your videos. I have been a PID believer since 1968.
What a fantastic video have you enjoyed playing RUclips videos have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
As well as relaying all the electrical cables and other equipment the roof as had to be reinforced to sustain all the the weight etc, giving way to the myth that it was an impromptu performance.
I really enjoyed this presentation, thankyou. Razor sharp observations & questions as usual ( from you).
As I watched the 1st 2 parts , the chaotic disarray & lack of focus the band & associates portray really reminded me of bands that I used to be in , as in new, inexperienced bands trying to get a demo together, with total lack of direction, focus or decorum, not as one would expect from a very experienced & the most famous ( infamous) band in the world. Like you say, maybe they fell under the spell of their own myth.
Another great video. You make some great points. It's entertainment! It's show business, with an emphasis on business!
Great analysis and lots of unanswered and possibly unanswerable questions.
It occurs to me that the Beatles went into this project believing that they could do the apparently impossible, i.e. write, rehearse, record, and perform a brand new album of songs live within a month. It doesn't make sense that Billy in particular would begin something that they had no hope of completing. Unless it was a deliberate act of self-sabotage and I can't see how that would have been to anyone's advantage.
So perhaps something went wrong after they started and it was too late to back out? Maybe at least of the new songs were to be delivered to them as if written by the Beatles themselves? It still would have been a challenge to play/record them but maybe that _was_ the challenge.
If those new songs did not arrive, for one reason or another, that would have been a huge problem for them all, especially Billy and George Martin. They would have been left with whatever they could cobble together themselves, or had left over from earlier sessions.
Just a theory. Maybe we will learn the truth some day?
Again, for mic-ing a gig, if you want ambient sound from the audience (or London street sounds), you need to record that seperately and that gets mixed back in at the mix-down stage. It won't bleed in too much from a vocal mic, and the bass will be DI (Direct input) to the desk via the multicore. All in all, it's impossible to not have all sorts of audio inconsistencies in a recording like this. So, as an engineer, you mix the ambient sounds really loud inbetween, but as soon as the music stars, you pull it all down specifically so you DONT have the ambient sounds going as the song plays and you will surge it back inbetween. Or if there is some obvious cheer form the audience that needs to be heard (like a Freddie Mercury thing)
Loved it..❤
So glad I found your channel thanks to James Delingpole's Mike Williams interview. Are you also "Andrea" from Truth Well Told Tarot? You guys sound identical.
Nope, I don’t know anyone called Andrea. I’m Cat. Glad you found my channel!
Stockings where put in front microphones to help reduce or eliminate plosive sounds when vocalist sang words starting with ‘p’ s or ‘b’s - not sure if it would work on wind - perhaps, or perhaps another “mis-fact”?
Well thanks for watching Get Back so I didn't have to! I skimmed through episode 1 and found it painfully dull; with occasionally funny/charming moments that were few and far between. I suspect the most important purpose of the project was to get some footage of the Beatles in the studio, weaving their alleged craft....
It would be good if an experienced sound engineer , with knowledge of the equipment used at this time period, could answer & enlighten us to some of those glaring technical issues you raised here , on the recording process actually used, or the deceptions ( miming etc). You raise great & pertinent questions on this.
Of course it would be easy to do this now , or even in the 80s, but 1969, 1970.. the distance between the basement & the rooftop & all the technical issues this would cause, would be huge.
I just watched the new let it be film, not watched it for many years, and I was stuck how fake the rooftop performance is, and I've only got a basic knowledge of the technology.
I always thought the "pretty policemen" were a reference to Billy i.e. "the old bill" being slang for police -- everyone I knew called police "old bill". And Bill is old, in terms of the group members. So when the police say the obvious: "just dub the sound on afterwards?" it was important that they said it.
I'm 6ft tall and wear size 9s (UK). Although I prefer my shoes to be slightly too small, rather than too big.
The real Paul had very small feet. They look like little doll's feet in the I Feel Fine video which is a great piece of footage to analyse the true heights of: John; Paul and George. They were all the exact same height. And they are all very small men -- they had the bodies of teenage boys; I guess because of the post war food rationing none of them reached their full growth potential?
...... or they're.....gasp....women.
Thank you for your feedback. We all have wide feet in my family, so sometimes it's hard to gauge these things.
@@supernaturalbeatles There's some amateur camcorder footage of George Harrison at a Formula 1 car racing event in the late 1990s on RUclips. And at the end he walks off with Dhani and a group of people and you can see how disproportionately short George was compared to everyone else! I think even Dhani is much taller. (It's from around 1997 when he had long hair.)
a fantastic series, cat! thanks for drudging through all the ridiculousness! no wind sound on the roof-top? sure, jan! 😂 there's no way that recording is from the roof-top! The wind would contribute to the sound quality of the song. Very sus! great job, my friend!
Very odd that the work seems so hard for them after the one day recording session for their debut and Rubber Soul being made in one month.
The real title could be GET BUCKS
Cat, one of the most heavily occulted TV shows is (not sure if you're aware) Doctor Who. Check out episode 2 of the new series (The Devil's Chord). They don't play a large part but it's set around The Beatles and Abbey Road. I haven't seen Yesterday but I gathher part of the general premise is similar. One of the general criticisms is that the actors look NOTHING like the band. This seems particularly of note to me (didn't the co-producers Disney also have Get Back?) - almost to the point of goading us PID realists. Second is the overall theme and nature of the baddie. And thirdly is the one song they sing in it - I will leave that as a surprise, did they throw us a bone with that one? Well worth a watch, good wishes!
I don't u know what "occulted" means.
@@UnlimitedHangout It means "secret" "hidden"
@@CaraChapina Worship of Crowley....
I am six foot and my two sons are of a similar height and we all take an eight shoe size, so not really unusual.
Great stuff👍
I'm a 6'0 Irish male with size 8/8.5 uk but thats small for my height. Harrison is very slight no doubt
Thanks for your feedback! The Beatles definitely weren't big built men.
@supernaturalbeatles Whippets. I'd love to hear your opinion on the paperback writter video, it's loaded. The obvious (terrible) double of McCartney in close up at the start. The absence of another close up when they're sitting on the bench even though we see him in profile (the 'fake' paul) it just cuts when panning from ringo, straight to Lennon. Is that neill aspinal standing right behind Lennon at the start of the video, maybe 10 seconds in ? So strange.
I think the performing paul in the video looks very like billy, could it be him ? I think so.
Blatant deception as per...
Billy is working for the 'daily mail' writing all that fan stuff behind the scenes as 'william sheppard' ?
But he wants to be the big buck, a big seller, the 'paperback writter'
@@weps8983 I'll take another look at the video and let you know.
@supernaturalbeatles fantastic, also keep an eye (no hinky shitte) on Harrison, especially when in the background, definitely not the same person in close up. Ringo not playing the drums ? Not the first time we've seen him do Jack all in a music vid, cus he wasn't actually drumming, right ? I'm sure I've seen him on an exercise bike in one before 😅 they tell you straight to your face. Ringo was definitely replaced. The guy that was photographed in the hospital for tonsillitis in 1964 is the replacement, totally different people in both appearance and demeanour, look at any interview with ringo in 63 he's bouncing around the place and much smaller than ringo 2. Interview in 64 onwards, completely different personality and size
I'm interested in the perspective shift of the narrative, I've not heard either yourself or Mike (I know you work independently, it's just you are the two I follow) address it I don't think. We had the final 'return to form' of Abbey Road (the final - originally occulted - song is very telling - Savile Row is just off Bond Street) and then the finally released 'mess' of Let It Be and the less than flattering film. I am wondering if the Let It Be film was to 'explain' why they broke up at that time, and now that sufficient time has gone by (and history is being rewritten, again) we get the myth that it wasn't that bad after all (?). Be very interested in your thoughts here.
What do u think "occulted" means?
Thanks Cat, how can you get a great drum sound on a roof ?😂...
Very interesting and you're right about the song writing coz the Beatles music is not idiomatic.
I must say every time it shows them rehearsing all they seem to be doing is is just messing about and not actually being serious or dedicated to what they are doing.
5:11 what's your thoughts on bill calling George Martin to come in and be the one to speak to George about what to play or tell him to stop playing qhat he's playing so billy doesn't look so bad on the film? Im not sure when it is but theres another moment where George Martin says to George again and then looks over to Paul.. it might be true. possible
You might be right there. It's certainly possible.
In relation to George's UK size 8 feet, my dad is 5ft 10 with uk size 9 feet. I always thought George was about 5ft8; maybe 5ft 9 at a push.
I love you and this is all brilliant but! 36 mins ish - no background London noise etc - AI can sort all of that out now, you can do it on your phone :/
Just out of interest I was wondering where you stand on the Beatles writing their own songs. If they were expected to chip in with songriting after a certain stage, roughly when is it you believed this occured? After watching Mike Williams' analysis on the Rubber Soul album, I believe this to be a period when they were still heavily reliant on outside help with somgriting. But it's impossible to say to what extent. Sometimes I wonder if George was the only one pre-Billy era who had any influence at all on writing the songs he was said to have written. His songs on earlier albums were never that catchy and always sounded a bit amateurish to me. But to see John and Paul take all of the credit for their supposed songs (if this is the case) would have given him a massive chip on his shoulder, which comes across in his outward demeanor. But songs like 'Something' and 'here comes the sun' are in my opinion two of the finest Beatles songs ever recorded, so I really don't know what to believe! I will say this though... 'Here comes the sun' does have astrotheological undertones and could be a covert reference to Billy as Jesus or the son/sun coming along to save the day under the new Beatles religion.
I also wonder if George was the most serious songwriter of the Beatles, prior to Billy's arrival. It would explain his grievances if that was the case. I don't believe he wrote everything attributed to him, but I think lots of his songs really were by him. He had lots of time to write them, since no one expected much from him, and he only got to contribute a couple of songs per album anyway. I think "Revolver" might actually be the crossing point, as I've always had a suspicion that the Beatles contributed some creative work to that album beyond singing. I think it's unlikely that Paul died, Billy turned up, and the rest of the Beatles were spontaneously able to write hit songs! That scenario is just as unlikely as the idea that they wrote all of their own songs in the first place. This means that the turning point was before "Sgt Pepper", but definitely after the impossibly rushed through "Rubber Soul", therefore "Revolver" is the logical choice. As for "Here Comes the Sun", you might be right. Certainly it contains a lot of influences from Indian music too. In Memoirs, we are told that Billy is also Vishnu, which would tie into George's Hinduism.
@@supernaturalbeatles On Revolver box set outtakes show they are playing on those sessions
10:41 "its all show biz"
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Perhaps Let it Be/Set Back was their "blood out" Illuminati humiliation ritual 😏
Great as always, Cat. Dropped you an email over a week ago to your Proton address, maybe it's sitting in the spam folder.
I have replied to your email now. Sorry for the delay!
Is this channel done?
I haven't finished making videos, if that's what you mean. I'm having personal issues that are taking up all my free time right now, but I will return to making new videos soon.
The Esher tapes come to mind - how real is that
When Bill steps into the octopus' garden he kills each and every vibe that could have been there
(it's his film or something)
'E with a C' - that's music-theory for'em - is kind of the opening chord to Oh! Darling
Being an official op they must have had a blank check for good - a hundred in the sandal
It was a very curious initial feature of the group that the 3 who played not sitting down had exactly the same height - at least in the magazines. You can't beat that for programming - kind of inimitable too. Maybe those Cuban heels had control-knobs
It’s weird my dad is 6’2 and he’s size 8 feet I’m shorter but still a 9 most the time, less hormones in the milk I think
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Don't know how they keep a straight face when Billy talks about the old day's writing songs.
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I think the purpose of John appearing in 'How I Won The War' was to get him used to screen acting. So he could think of later Beatles as just another acting gig.
@@neilsun2521 interesting theory, very possible.
@@nickbadseed George almost said as much in his '90s interview when he says: "After the, you know, 'event', in 1966, it all just became like a job to me."