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The Beatles are on a whole different level than everyone else
Except for Pink Floyd. The only band on the same level.
@@tobismusicchannel3033 Nice opinion, honestly they are my #2 but no one can compare to the Beatles :)
I actually like Punk better than anything by the Beatles. Beatles are great, but Punk is better.
@@Decimator-jh4gu nah bruh you tripping but there is a brick on the wall and I'm completely numb about your opinion
@@Decimator-jh4gu listen to Revolver it'll change your mind
The Beatles would have gotten a kick out of seeing you listen to their music for the first time. Its eye opening seeing a kid hear this music for the first time and slightly amusing. Im 63 and remember when all this music was first on the radio.
Vincent Mouzon Im enjoying his reaction Just As You Are. If you haven't seen him listen to and critique a day in the life definitely do it. It's fantastic.
Vincent Mouzon a world where this music was pop music is a wonderful world 🙏🏼
Bob Wags indeed I did see that already. I also saw the one for "Satisfaction" with The Rolling Stones. He was unaware that Mick Jagger was a member. Lol. It was priceless!! It reminded me of the first time in my early twenties when I first found out that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were at one time actually a comedy team.
67 here, and only for a few more weeks. I remember when this was all new, and I too am enjoying seeing someone from the current generation discovering "our" music.
Vincent Mouzon This reminds me of a young lady I worked with a couple of years back. She was a college student and 19 years old. Every so often I would ask her a question about who somebody in history was. Who was FDR? Who was RFK? Who was Neil Armstrong? One morning I turned to her and asked, who is Keith Richards? Her eyes got very wide and she got a big smile and she jumped up and said, "I know this one! He was the second man on the moon!" She was positive that she nailed that one. She was serious and that is a true story.
I think Keith would appreciate that story.
Listen to 'Here Comes the Sun', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and 'Something', all three were written by George Harrison. You won't forget his name after that.
agenttheater5 After that he toured with the Travelling Wilburys.
Blue Jay Way is underrated
This is still a relatively "early" Beatles song. Their most groundbreaking phase came after this song. They officially split in 1970 for a variety of reasons (that go far beyond Yoko Ono).
"Early Beatles" = Before 1967.
The cutoff point is "Strawberry Fields Forever."
Paul McCartney admitted months ago on Howard stern that the Beatles broke cuz of John wanting to do his own thing aka yoko ono
Kyle Hopkins no they argued a lot before that, they were stressed from live tours and Paul was the last one who wanted too keep doing them. Then afterwards they kept arguing about different things and John left for Yoko Ono and was the first one to leave, then George, Ringo, and Paul was last to leave and announced it.
This is actually NOT a love song, it's about Paul's mother which died when Paul was just fourteen. For long time he didn't even know the reason why she has died etc., well just google for the story behind this song
"Why she had to go? I don't know. She wouldn't say"
Paul McCartney did not write this about his mother. He said that someone was asking him if that's why and he said he may have written it about her unintentionally.
The song you are saying is Let it be
Listen to Eleanor Rigby. The best song off of one of their best albums "Revolver".
Personally, I’d argue it’s For No One.
Paul McShartney Both are excellent but I like Good Day Sunshine.
Revolver was a monster album for Paul.
The Black Queen I'd say best song on the album was I'm only sleeping
@@antonioiniguez1615 I'd say doctor Robert
About the only way someone of your generation can appreciate how groundbreaking the Beatles were is to listen to the top five songs on the American charts in December of 1963, a month before "I Want to Hold Your Hand" hit the airwaves. This was the tired musical arena that the Beatles not only entered, but completely shattered. By March of 1964 -- only three months later -- all top five spots were theirs -- "Can't Buy Me Love", "Twist and Shout", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", and "Please Please Me." Most musicians would die to pen just one hit song, yet the Beatles seemed to crank them out effortlessly, still sounding fresh over 50 years later. One really can't understate their impact on both music and culture.
The Top Five of December, 1963:
1. "Dominique" by The Singing Nun ruclips.net/video/EO7cD6qmydo/видео.html
2. "I'm Leaving It Up To You" by Dale & Grace ruclips.net/video/gOOvq_HeJv0/видео.html
3. "Everybody" by Tommy Roe ruclips.net/video/5OesKimDbcA/видео.html
4. "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen ruclips.net/video/rXOWgR7FUq4/видео.html
5. "She's A Fool" by Leslie Gore ruclips.net/video/DmUVxoF-FVY/видео.html
The Top Five of March 1964:
1. "Can't Buy Me Love" ruclips.net/video/srwxJUXPHvE/видео.html
2. "Twist and Shout" ruclips.net/video/b-VAxGJdJeQ/видео.html
3. "She Loves You" ruclips.net/video/S302kF8MJ-I/видео.html (Note the behive hairdos of the female audience. The 60s as we know it had yet to happen.)
4. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" ruclips.net/video/jenWdylTtzs/видео.html (From the February 9, 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show that started it all.)
5. "Please Please Me" ruclips.net/video/vv3uLMhyHi0/видео.html
@Riff McClavin I'm an original Beatlemaniac (saw them on Ed Sullivan - I was 7) and this is the first time I've seen anybody list the top 5 songs that were on the US charts in December '63. Great idea! And wow, when you look at those 5 and compare them to the 5 Beatles songs topping the charts 3 months later.... that does indeed give a vivid impression of the explosion The Beatles caused. Thanks for doing this. I'm going to have fun checking all those Dec. '63 videos :-) p.s. I think you mean one can't *overstate* their impact!
dude. I like everything music has offer. the Beatles are the greatest band that existed. I'm an Eminem, pac and biggie fan. trust me, the Beatles are great
This is the most covered song of all time also and it’s one of my favorites
Savage Steel I believe it is *the* most covered song of all time. Lennon wasn't impressed, but it's bloody brilliant.
This and "Something" are up there as most covered songs ever.
ronindebeatrice I prefer the Seeker's version of yesterday.
Simple melody all the way through. My favorite song of all time. Since this is when I was in 4th grade ...... :-)
No, they didn't split in 1965. What happened is that the Beatles' primary writers were Lennon and McCartney, and early on, they usually wrote together. By 1965, they were more apt to write separately (but not always), but the songs were still credited to Lennon and McCartney. They didn't break up until around 1969, and didn't really announce it to the world until 1970.
Carl Baumeister Who said they split in 1965?
EXACTLY......
The kid implied that they because this was a "solo" McCartney effort, it meant he and John weren't writing together anymore and the band was breaking up. Listen to his comments from about 2:20 to around 2:50.
Wonderful song.
I've been listening to 'Yesterday' since 1965....not one of my all time favorites, but certainly right up there.
Hey Jude is probably the next logical Beatle song going by your pattern.
I think he should play what is considered the Beatles masterpiece and has also been voted the greatest of all time, In my life by John Lennon.
Hey Jude is my least favorite Beatles song. A smashing bore from end to end.
Yeah, its their #1 best selling single. I didn't care for it much either.
MickTheQuickk - worse than revolution#9???
Matt kenary Rev#9 is probably something Lennon came up with on the spur of the moment with too much coke in his nose. Not really a serious song.
"Yesterday" was not written about Jane Asher because Paul was with her until sometime around 1967, possibly a little later and other commenters explain that Paul said the song was about his mother. Their producer George Martin was a classically trained musician and his influence can be found on almost every Beatle recording. In addition to "Yesterday," other songs that used a string quartet were "Eleanor Rigby" from the album Revolver and "She's Leaving Home" from Sgt. Pepper. There are a number of recordings that do not have the traditional guitar, bass, and drums such as "Fool On The Hill," "When I'm 64," Honey Pie," and "For No One." The Beatles were not afraid to break the mold of what rock music should be and under the guidance of George Martin it always came through successfully. Right after Sgt. Pepper was released their manager Brain Epstein passed away. He was the glue that kept them together as a unit and after he died the Beatles became more individualistic with the best example of that being "The White Album." As others have noted, Yoko was not the sole reason for their breaking up. By 1969 they were tired of being boxed in as Beatles and with Yoko being in the studio during recording sessions, bad business arrangements with Allen Klein, and the failure of the original Apple idea, they were tired and wanted to break out on their own. A great example of this is George Harrison's first album after the Beatles split. "All Things Must Pass" was a triple album although the third disc was just loose jam sessions and only the first two records have original music. Some of the songs on that album went back as far as 1966 so their desire to be individuals has its roots long before they actually broke up. Keep up the good work because people like you will help keep the Beatles alive for generations to come.
Great song, but my favorite early Beatles song (and John Lennon song period) is "In My Life."
In my life is my fav beatles song.
Here, there and everywhere is a close second
Wonderful Song.
I can't pick a favorite Beatles song, nor a favorite John song, but while In My Life is great, I like several of his songs better, such as Help, Norwegian Wood, Across the Universe, Lucy in the Sky, Julia, Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, and on and on. I guess it proves to me how great he was (and he's not even my favorite Beatle!).
I love how you appreciate music. Nice taste bro. I like it
How is cutting a song "appreciating music"?
@@viktorjohansson4424 he does it so he doesn't get copyrighted
That's not true at all.
@@viktorjohansson4424 kikki
I want to hold your hand was John and Paul writing together. Yesterday was Paul flying solo.
My number 1 favorite song of all time. The first time I heard it, I cried, and I still cry 50 plus years later. They broke up because they were tired of preforming to crowds and their songs not being heard due to screaming. They all wanted to do their own thing. If you believe the rumors, Paul was killed in a car crash in 66. Neat to see a brother listening to our music!!!
The Beatles were still together after this song. Their breakup was in April 1970.
Tom Ferrara Who said they weren't?
The kid himself: 2:20 - 2:50.
He woke up one morning with the melody in his head. This is the first, but not the last, song about his mother. Let it Be was written after he had a dream about his mother. Mother Mary comes to me... His mother's name was Mary.
The Beatles (when looked at over their 10 or more year career) can't possibly be looked at as anything less than genius. The variety, the intensity, the sublte changes-- They ARE truly....unbelieveable.
It's interesting to observe others discover this music. I recall school kids in the early 80s saying they don't listen to the Beatles because they weren't into "Classical" music. Since then, every generation likes the Beatles in their own way which tells me it will be around a long time. Bach has been listened to for 400 years so we'll see.
Fun fact. Paul dreamed this melody and woke up and went to the piano as Linda gave him his breakfast so he used the words "scrambled eggs" in the place of "yesterday". The melody came first, the poetry came later.
1965 was when the Beatles really started to get good and they kept getting better and better. When said they started do songs on their own, it means the started writing songs on their own. They still performed the majority of the songs together. Even when they started to get on each others nerves in 1968/1969, they were still getting better musically.
It WAS Yoko Ono, John started bringing her to recording sessions and trying to give her a voice in their musical choices, Abby Road was recorded in separate sessions each cutting their parts on separate tracks, to avoid her. It was the beginning of the end.
The fact this song came to Paul in a dream
hard to believe this is almost 55 years old. just listen to this song! the themes, motifs, etc are universal. if it doesn't resonate in your heart strings, then I say you aren't human. you were right in saying it's "simple", but in 1965 it was ground breaking in it's style and production and there is a reason it is still so loved some 5 decades on!
From 1960-2000 British music is a wonderland of genius.
George Harrison is amazing. Get All Things Must Pass.
They had virtually spent every day together for years. They needed to go different directions. They needed to get out. Yoko was a reason, but there were many others. Paul was the first to say goodbye and walk out the door. He said they'd been talking about it for several years and he just finally needed to grow up and be someone else. This song, Yesterday, and Lady Madonna are my favs.
There music was so diverse that it NEVER got boring.
Not sure if somebody has explained this yet or not, but Paul wrote this song after having a dream where he heard that tune. To remember how the tune went he initially called it "Scrambled Eggs". Just one more reason why The Beatles were lyrical geniuses!
It's great to see people appreciating this music nearly 60 years later. Some things you probably didn't know. They broke up nearly 5 years after this song came out, but it is true they were both credited for writing it. That's how Paul and John usually did things, being in a band. Also, I'm a huge huge Beatles fan. Yoko was not responsible for the group breaking up, even Paul says that now. They were naturally growing apart. Keep up the good work.
When this came out, it was played repeatedly, not just once, but 3 or 4 times in a row.
Bet you’ll love “while my guitar weeps.”
I vote for you to listen to Tomorrow Never Knows next. You could then follow it with a different artist's song, The Chemical Brothers' Setting Sun.
luckymustard he should react to the whole revolver album
Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite Beatles song and is probably the first psychedelic song recorded
Rubber Soul. Arguably the most progressive album of its time. Possibly the best album of all time. A must listen
Interesting that Paul claims that he was sleeping, or half sleeping and the melody of Yesterday came into his head. Amazing...
Paul came up with the melody in a dream. The original was temporarily titled Scrambled Eggs.
It wasn't released as a single in the UK until 1976 and then reached # 8 only because it was practically already owned by everyone at that point.
Still the top selling musicians of all time. 20 number 1 songs in 6 years, and then they were gone.
This was the beginning of rock so it was so good back then and takes us back to a simpler place in time
You have to imagine that this was 50-60 years ago, not far from world war two in a world where everything was minimalistic. So back then music was way different then now, it was at the start of the music revolution with Elvis, Beatles and Rolling Stones. And remember that this is a time where parents and fans were in conflict with eachother ( those who survived the war and those who were born after war )
Try to listen too the music change from the 50's to the 60's where Elvis kicked in, you literally can hear the lame music taste changes in wild rock and roll modern music that we love now on these days. All the modern music that we love now, came from that era.
I like hearing the impressions given by The Beatles to a young persons without the exposure to what I consider to be essential listening going up. It is fun hear his fresh reaction. I am having fun listening to his reactions.
One of the most fascinating things about this song is that Paul McCartney heard this song in a dream that he had. When he woke he thought that it must have been something he heard somewhere that popped up in his dream. When no trace of the song could be found it became apparent that Paul McCartney's mind created the song while he slept. The rest is history.
the masterpiece of century xx...Classic music..
They split in September 1969 when Lennon told the others he was leaving but it became official in April 1970 when McCartney released his debut solo record with a Q&A that said he saw no time the Beatles would work together again. The cracks were already appearing but Yoko Ono was the wedge that finished them off.
Lennon-McCartney agreed very early in their career as long as they remained in The Beatles that any and all songs they wrote would be credited jointly to both of them. This only started falling apart in 1969-70 as the group started to break up that songs were credited to one or the other. Early in the Beatles career many songs were truly co-written 50-50 or close to it but as time went on more and more were mostly done by one or the other, i.e. "Yesterday."
In many interviews Lennon used to joke about getting pissed off if fans would compliment him on writing "Yesterday." And sometimes he wasn't joking.
Eleanor Rigby and We Can Work it Out
Apparently, McCartney woke up with this fully formed in his head. To me, it does have that kind of dreamy feel to it. Also parts of it kind of evoke the 'mother Mary come to me' lyric in my head, I don't know why.
There is not a school kid on the planet who has not had to cover a Beatles track in school, this being one of the most covered
According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.[5] Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.[6]
McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). As he put it, "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it."[6]
Upon being convinced that he had not robbed anyone of their melody, McCartney began writing lyrics to suit it. As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled "Scrambled Eggs" (the working opening verse was "Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written. In his biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney recalled: "So first of all I checked this melody out, and people said to me, 'No, it's lovely, and I'm sure it's all yours.' It took me a little while to allow myself to claim it, but then like a prospector I finally staked my claim; stuck a little sign on it and said, 'Okay, it's mine!' It had no words. I used to call it 'Scrambled Eggs'."[7] The original song, Scrambled Eggs, was written to hold the music and phrasing in place. It was performed by Paul McCartney and Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and has been recorded and released by the Brittles, a Beatles-pastiche band.
During the shooting of Help!, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney took advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song. Richard Lester, the director, was eventually greatly annoyed by this and lost his temper, telling McCartney to finish writing the song or he would have the piano removed.[8] The patience of the other Beatles was also tested by McCartney's work in progress, George Harrison summed this up when he said: "Blimey, he's always talking about that song. You'd think he was Beethoven or somebody!"[9]
McCartney originally claimed he had written "Yesterday" during the Beatles' tour of France in 1964; however, the song was not released until the summer of 1965. During the intervening time, the Beatles released two albums, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale, each of which could have included "Yesterday". Although McCartney has never elaborated on his claims, a delay may have been due to a disagreement between McCartney and George Martin regarding the song's arrangement, or the opinion of the other Beatles who felt it did not suit their image.[6]
Lennon later indicated that the song had been around for a while before:
Given their ages then and Paul's genius composition work and vocal this is such a master piece.. As I get older (i'm 54 ) it makes more of an impact on me IMO a great piece of music ✌️🇬🇧
I’m an old timer and I had to play this in a string quartet at my junior high school graduation. Brings back memories.
Yoko is a good scapegoat but remember, these guys lived and worked together from the late 50's until 1970. They were tired and were becoming solo artists that were still in a band. Watch the movie Let It Be to gain some insight into how they had grown apart. John was with Yoko and Paul was with Linda and they both wanted to be with their families.
"I said something wrong": Paul's dad was a cotton salesman but cotton was a dying market; his mother was a nurse and, unusual for the time, made more money that her husband. When Paul's mother died, instead of expressing remorse he blurted out, "What'll we do without her money?" A second later he was horrified at himself, but he had said it and had to live with it. The line in "Yesterday" came from his lingering guilt
Check out Get Back or Don't Let Me Down. If you can find them, I definitely suggest the live rooftop versions. It was the first time they had played live in years, they did it unannounced on the roof of their building until the cops stopped them, it was also the last time they played live. Crazy stuff, also a bit more rock than the ones you've been listening to
Was 'yesterday' the song McCartney woke up with in his head and he asked the other band numbers what it was but they didn't recognize it and Paul realised it was new and he had composed while he dreamed. Did you notice the counterpoint melody played on cello in the background ?
the genuine music of the Beatles
i find it hard to believe at your age this was the first time you've ever heard that song.. wow
It blows my mind that anyone on Earth hasn't heard this song. But I'm old. Ha! But it's very cool to see this young man appreciate my childhood music. There is hope for you kids after all. Kidding. The world is in good hands if this guy is an indication of the future. BTW,lots of Beatles songs are perfect for a guitar student. Keep listening bud. You'll get to Coltrane soon!.. peace
I first noticed young people listening to old music a few years ago when some teens discovered The Beach Boys (they made a video back then. Seems many are doing it these days) They admitted there was so much more to the songs back then, and they would not go back to listening to the more modern stuff.
“Why she had to go” Paul said he subconsciously was talking about his mom who died when he was a kid.
They didn't split up until 1969-70, but by 1965 they were all getting their own musical ideas, so even though a song was still listed as by Lennon and McCartney, it was almost always either one of them or the other that wrote it. You can basically call 1965 the end of the "Early Beatles" and the start of their more experimental music.
As for Yoko Ono, she was simply one part of the situation that led to their split up. The Beatles had been together for about 10 years and had very little life outside music and the group - it was becoming like a prison for them. They were all wanting to do different things, especially spending more time with their girlfriends and families. John and Yoko married in 1969, Paul and Linda also married in 1969. It's only natural that that would put pressure on being in a band as full-on as the Beatles.
Another tid-bit here, back in the 60s' the emphasis was placed on "hit singles", not album sales for that was where the money was for the record company and producers. The Beatles were only active (recording) for eight years but sold 1.6 BILLION singles and 77 MILLION albums. That is impressive!
I wouldn`t say they started to concentrate on solo stuff after this song but they did stop touring not long after. They wanted to be a little more experimental and only split in 1970. Enjoying the reactions so far, keep up the good work
Richard Towell They were four front men.It was bound to happen.
McCartney in recent years came to the conclusion that Yesterday was about his mother who died when he was 14 years old. "Why she had to go, I don't know..."
The funny thing about the title of this song is when Paul originally wrote the lyrics it was called "scrambled eggs"!
Really? I hadn't heard that, but it sort of makes sense.
^ I couldn't believe the original title either until I saw Paul on a TV interview !
This is a deceptive song because it isn't a love song. Paul is singing about his mothers death. She died of breast cancer when he was just 14. He wasn't told she was ill, wasn't told how she died, wasn't allowed to attend the funeral or know where she was buried. He was set to school on the same morning he was told of her death and was told he shouldn't cry and to "soldier on"
"I said something wrong now I long for yesterday" refers to him teasing his mum and upsetting her shortly before her dearh (not realising she was ill)
I watched paul talking about yesterday .... He thinks the lyrics were about his mum who died of cancer when he was just 14 .... There is tons of information about "yesterday" when basically he woke up one morning with the song in his head ..... Have a great time looking
Wait now, hold on, the reason The Beatles broke up, coming from any long time Beatles fan, if you know thier whole catalog and story: They achieved so much in such a short time, a blink of an eye in todays recording industry standard, that they exhausted their mutual partnerships. Like childhood friends, or a family, that is still a family, still friends; sometime close, sometimes distant, sometimes in love and sometimes fighting like cats and dogs. That and the ridiculous pressures fame had put on them. Lennon imfamously once said, and I'm paraphrasing: "We're bigger than Jesus Christ with the youth right now." And he was correct, but in the mid 1960's with everything else going on, that was heresy! So they ate a ton of shit over that one misunderstood observation and statement, then the pressue began to build on them. But Yoko Ono, by herself, did not break up The Beatles.
It's so amusing to watch these neophytes discover greatness. The music is so timeless it impacts them the same way it hit everybody else. At the time of it's release it was new to everybody and everybody loved it for a reason. Good reason(s).
I think Prawy Internet is getting this song confused with ‘ Let it Be ‘, which was in fact about Paul’s mother visiting him in a dream and giving him comfort.
Squints, the Beatles continued to make music together for several more years after this song was released. They stopped touring, but made some incredible music that influenced musicians everywhere. Check out: Helter Skelter from the white album for the polar opposite of yesterday. I really need to watch you listen to that song.
nobody special He never said they stopped in 1965.
This is one of the few songs by the Beatles sung only by McCartney with his guitar and a four string quartet.
If you watch the "abbey Rd" recordings DVD, I think it's the "let it be" doco, you can see the tension between them. They were all branching out in their own way.
The yoko part comes into it with john's (I hate to say it) Narcissistic Personality. Yoko was the "golden child" and her word was golden. So when she suggested John was king and the others were "not at his level" he bought into it and enforced it. So when Paul challenged the partnership (to enable solo careers) John saw it as a threat and created "how do you sleep"
OK so I'm on a bit of a tangent but it describes the tension behind the internal politics of the Beatles that might shed a light as to why it wasn't released as a single but became so popular.
The Beatles also proclaimed they were a rock group and had no place for a ballad at the time of recording.
Yoko wasn't the cause but, alongside pauls dissolution of the partnership, was the catalist for the breakup.
The. Cracks were there just needed the feul to explode, and that they did, in beatles memorabilia and history
Hey Jude, Help!, Here comes the sun, Blackbird, Eleonor Rigby, Let it be, Revolution, Come together ... you have so many amazing songs left to uncover.
Here, There, and Everywhere
This isn't a love song. Well... it is but for his mother who died of cancer when he was 14. "I said something wrong" is because when his mom died they were poor and he said "what are we gonna do without her money?". It's an amazing and sad song. I understand it better now that my mother died of cancer too and fuck yeah this song is the perfect description of the feeling.
The 5th Beatle suggested Yesterday to be recorded with strings. Originally it was written with electric guitars and drums.
Well, *originally* it was written as an acoustic guitar strum, but as soon as Paul started figuring out where to put bass and drums, George Martin said, "hey this would sound better with a string quartet." Martin had a lot of experience in soundtrack and comedy records so he knew how to integrate strings into the arrangement. Martin was like the perfect "technician" to tell Lennon/McCartney how to put their ideas down onto tape.
I'm sure others have already said this but they did not split in 1965 but 1970 and Yoko Ono was instrumental in that.
All they were saying is that from around 1965 they each wrote solo but still collaborated together to make a complete Beatles Unit and it was easier just to Joint Credit them on all their songs unless written by George or Ringo who got theiir own credits like the gorgeous" Something" by George but do NOT pause that or it loses its magic, my friend...
they broke up in 1969, but it was finalized in 1970. 1965 was before their artistic peek. Try listening to A Day in The life, its their masterpiece.
George and Ringo both had somewhat successful solo careers.
Check out George Harrison's All Things Must Pass Album, brilliant. He also wrote Something in the Way She Moves on Abbey Road and Here Comes the Sun. One of my favorite songs George wrote was Old Brown Shoe and While my Guitar Gently Weaps. George also did some really cool traditional Indian music. Check out Within you and Without You.
He's a young black man who probably grew up in an area where the Beatles had 0 influence culturally. That's what makes his channel interesting
John Lennon left the band for Yoko In 1969, Paul McCartney didn’t want to carry on by 1970, and George and Ringo we’re together on and off until John officially ended it in 1975
the beatles basically framed pop in the way of making music simple and powerful, structure and effectivness. Not exclusive to this song though and they did a lot of long ones too.
showed that a testiment of a good modern song, is being able to deliver it in around 3 minutes. This rule held for a looooong time in pop music and still holds.
About the Beatles... so much of what they did, musically, was new at the time. It's old news to you now, but at the time, so many of the engineering and sound manipulations were new... never heard before. They were revolutionary in a lot of ways and, besides being cute as heck, their albums broke a lot of new ground.
You said the sound was basic and simple. However, it was a full orchestra on a pop song, not a 4-piece band, but an orchestra.... pretty phenomenal for the rock era of the mid-60's... and it was beautiful.
Also, Yoko got the blame for the break up but she was just a piece of it. John fell for her hard but the band was already starting to fall apart and (although I don't really much like Yoko's attitude then and now) she just provided another reason, not the only reason. They all were individuals and wanted to pursue their own roads... sadly it was rather inevitable. Unlike the Rolling Stones, they wanted to go their own ways, I guess.
Paul has said that The Beatles did not break up because of Yoko Ono. They officially broke up in 1970.
"Yesterday" was not really a song about something specifically that happened to Paul. It was just a melody that came into his head during a dream, and then he spent the next several months searching for lyrics to match the song's obvious beauty. I wasn't about Jane Asher. She would be with Paul another 3 or 4 years. While Paul wrote this song solo, he was still writing quite a bit with John, but they were more and more writing separately, and using each other to finish songs. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was NOT the Beatles' last song -- in fact, it was one of their first hits. The Beatles were in the midst of "Beatlemania" in 1965, and they didn't break up until late '69/early '70. And while Yoko certainly was an influence, there were many factors that contributed to the split. FYI. (Nice to see a young guy discovering this great band, BTW. Keep it up!)
I'm sorry if I'm repeating one of the other commenters, but the reason that Paul recorded this song by himself is because it came to him in a dream. For that reason, none of the other Beatles needed to participate in the writing of the song. Then, the only Beatle instrument that's played on this song is an acoustic guitar, meaning there was no need for the other Beatles to play on it. He's back up by violins, etc.
This song is from their early period. They still had to go through Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sargeant Pepper, etc. In other words, the best was still to come. Beatles went through lots of changes musically. They were a very creative band. By the way, Paul and John always let the other two have a cut on each album. They were very democratic that way. Keep studying the Beatles. You'll be surprised how your musical mind will expand.
When you watch and listen to the Beatles, remember that most of this came out before 99% of all the rock you've ever heard did. A lot of this was experimental and first time done stuff. They broke up in Dec 1970, I was shoveling out the driveway and my brother came out to tell me.
I should start doing this - reacting to the most ubiquitous music on planet earth like it just beamed in from Mars.
I grew up listening to the Beatles. I believe that one of the reasons the Beatles made it so far so fast was because they had songs that every generation enjoyed. They had the fast, loud sometimes weird songs that you can dance to for the younger generation. Although the younger generation also liked the slower songs. But the older generations like the slower songs too even though many of them were outraged at the Beatles at first saying they were going to demoralize the younger generation and they were of the devil. Rock music in general was discouraged. Even Elvis Presley when on TV they would not film him from the waste down at first since he had that dance move that was obscene. Now they allow just about anything. Miley Cyrus and others that are disgusting to many of us is the new way the next generation pushes the limits the way the Beatles pushed the limits back then. One thing I love about the earlier songs in particular was the fact that they sang what you feel when you fall in love or when your heartbroken. Most of the songs in recent times are so full of just filth but the Beatles were fun and full of hope and love and joy and sometimes sadness like you have in your life. At first, they even wore suits and ties to preform because this was their job and they wanted to be presentable. Later in the crazy drug years they wore whatever was the style of the day, all flower power and psychedelic tie dye stuff and wrote songs that you can tell what they were trippin on. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, octopus garden, Maxwell's silver hammer. Their music constantly progressed and kept changing the model of what all rock music was and became. Another group that was right there with them but didn't get the recognition that the Beatles got were the Bee Gee's. They started as young boys in the late 50's and continued until 2003 when Maurice died. They were also a fantastic group and were for 45 years. The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records.
Yoko did not break up The Beatles. They all wanted different things musically and away from each other. By 1970 they had all grown into their own forces of nature and needed to express themselves solo.
music brings us together
1965, that's a couple of years before Jimi Hendrix broke through.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is a good one.
This song was about the death of Paul's mother when he was a teenager.It's even more depressing when you know the actual meaning.