The essential matter to embrace and understand about this photo shoot in the English countryside sporting hats and beards is that The Beatles were channeling The Band... The Band were the favourite of everyone in the 1968-69 rock'n'roll realm... with images of them in upstate New York appearing everywhere behatted and bearded... And The Beatles were going further than them with larger hats and beards at Tittenhurst One week later, Bob Dylan and The Band arrived to The UK to perform at The Isle of Wight on Aug 31st John, George and Ringo arrived to The IOW with advance copies of "Abbey Road" and Robbie Robertson of The Band remarked that Bob and The Band were all blown away by what they heard...
I have heard from multiple sources that George wrote "Wah-Wah" just after having walked out of the "Let It Be"/"Get Back" sessions the previous January 10th. He went home and wrote the song that afternoon. He described it as "a swipe at McCartney" (said to journalist Timothy White).
This was the very last time all four Beatles were in the same space together. There were a few days when three would be in the same room but never again would all four be together. And, this photo shoot was weeks before Abbey Road was even released, which makes that even crazier.
@@weboes1There is some debate about that. It was something Chris O’Dell said but others at the party say Paul and John were not there. IMO I don’t believe John was there as he had very little to do with the others around early 1970.
I enjoyed how your narration suited the photos and film from that momentous day. I’d not seen Linda’s film footage before, and many of the photos were new to me as well. Thanks very much. This was greatly appreciated.
The lovely but somewhat melancholic Super 8 footage was included at the very end of the last episode of the Anthology series on TV, VHS and DVD. They should extend and restore a new version of Anthology and reinstall sections that were taken out after the TV showing, like Pete Best visiting the EMI Studio 2, and release a longer Blu Ray issue - Peter Jackson probably wouldn't mind doing it, but Universal and/or Disney might disagree, maybe?
I learned a lot never realizing the similarities between photos released subsequently over the years. And thanks for the backstories to George’s iconic ‘All Things Must Pass’ album.
It isn't [unless something has happened recently], but should be in full, agree with you 😍 Complete will ALL photos taken that day, including the 'neglected' photos- it's The Beatles' last photo session, d*mmit. But I guess it will be difficult to work out, as there were four different photographers present - Ethan Russell, Monte Fresco, Mal Evans and Linda McCartney. Lots of copyright and estate 'noise', maybe. But it would be just wonderful, if it was possible!
@diddywahdaddy I just found a few weeks ago another photo from this session that I never saw before. It shows all four of the Beatles sitting on the ground, outside. There will always be a few new frames showing up.
Great video, Colin. They were so good at pulling off iconic group images, and this session produced some beautiful shots, despite the purported weariness and discontent.
Having grown up with the Beatles and being very familiar with the album covers, it's always interesting to me when you find out "when" the photos were taken. I always assumed the Hey Jude album cover preceded Abbey Road. I'm not sure why. I suppose it's because I'd seen it before I'd seen Abbey Road - at least, that's what I remember. Even more crazy, is how young they were when they broke up. They had accomplished so much in such a short time.
Your comment about how George wrote Wah wah is wrong. It had nothing to do with this photo session. He was referring to the filming of the Get Nack rehearsals in January of 69.
The reason the Beatles broke up? WAS the Beatles themselevs. People and life moves on. Although, I do get the feeling, as a life long Fab Four fan who's read and learned so much about them, while they wanted more, they were also resisting the change (as well as themselves). It's weird. People will fall out of love. Yet, their actions will prove a part of them is acting out towards the others because of hurt and still clinging onto the old life. But, the end always reminds you of the start and the better times. And that's why it's so hard to move on - even when you want to. A day in the life I guess.
It is my understanding that George wrote "wah wah" after the the row during the filming of "Let It Be" film. Not on the last day of the Beatles photo shoot.
@@bernardboulanger898 So you are saying John Lennon never loved? That peace is a stupid concept? Neither love nor peace has anything to do with money or being rich. That is your own bias to think otherwise.
I was thinking as I watched this vid that George seemed not to be participating as much, distancing himself in a lot of these photos so I wasnt surprised when you said he was miserable and stated "they photoed us having a row"
One of my favorite George "looks" (along with the "Concert For Bangla Desh" beard - but my favorite will always be young baby-face Beatlemania George). He looks like a cross between an Amish man and a rabbi.
@@dannyvine3605: No doubt Friar Park is beautiful, but its just too busy for me somehow. I´d likely have a change of heart though if I could walk the grounds in person.
The Beatles broke up due to a number of reasons but mainly because it had worn itself out. People LIKE to point out an EXACT reason for the split but there were many.
Yes. Mostly that John and George started hating McCartney’s musical compositions and his dominating manner plus him trying to put his new father in law as money man after getting baby trapped by a well known and well passed around groupie who had slept with some of his close music friends before.
In most of the pictures widely released from this photo session, the four of them look miserable. In many of these, they don't, particularly. Same thing happened in the "Let It Be" sessions: a couple of photos have been held up as examples of how miserable they were, but more from the same roll show them laughing and smiling and looking like they were having a good time. (I thought "Wah-Wah" had been written right after George walked out of the "Let It Be" sessions, though. I might've misinterpreted a comment.)
Absolutely!! They all later admitted in separate interviews (all of which I've seen and heardwith my own eyes and ears) that Paul had been right all along about Alan Klein!! I hope they all apologized to him at some point..
Klein also saved the Beatles from going bankrupt by sorting out the mess that was Apple and got them all the highest royalty rate they ever had - something McCartney never complained about! Klein may have taken 20% of the Beatles earnings rather than 20% of any income increase but the myth about him busting up the Beatles is wrong!
Then why were they talking about breaking up in the get back doc BEFORE John and YOKO went to see Alan Klein for the first time and John and YOKO hired him? Also on the tapes from the sessions Paul talks about no longer wanting to go to song writing sessions with John because John insisted on YOKO participating. The first meeting to get George back into the group went south because YOKO was doing all the talking. Geoff Emerick said the atmosphere in the band changed the moment YOKO attended the first white album session. George even said YOKO was a big part of the break up. Getting any hints as to who was really responsible?
@@joegordon2915 Yoko never broke the Beatles up! Paul and George were seen in the Get Back / Let It Be film arguing and that between all the Beatles was happening more and more. Nothing to do with Yoko as each Beatles started to get interested in solo projects and had individual interests (something George mentioned in Anthology), that started when they stopped touring. When Brian Epstein died they also never had a focal point to deal with their business interests and started bickering amongst themselves as they all had individual ideas! Worth reading up about the Magical Mystery Tour film and how each Beatle contradicted the other in editing. They could not agree on lots of things business wise and that drove a wedge between them. Also you forgot to mention how Yoko was not the only female at the White album sessions. George and Ringo had their wives there and Paul had his girlfriends there. That had never happed before for a whole album! One last point - why do you think George and Ringo went with Klein as manager and not Paul’s suggestion? That had nothing to do with Yoko either!
In terms of the message of the video about George, it can be summed up this way. George wanted out of the band. He had an albums worth of songs and the only way to record them was to go solo.
halcyon? Not for them. The 70s marked the end of the post world war 2 dream and that decade would end w/ Thatcher and Reagan and things have been going downhill ever since.
I think the remark about them filmming them having a Row came from inside the studio when paul was complaining about George's guitar playing and George said just tell me how you want it and I'll do it. In a not to civil tone of voice.
@@aisle_of_view George had a lot on his mind during this time. His mother was ill (and died a few months later) from brain cancer, his marriage was falling apart (George was shagging around and getting grief from some of his mistresses), and he was not getting on well with John and Paul.
@@Mark-v7y8t Not quite true, as it was John who invited the other Beatles to his home for the photo shoot. Fair to say though he was keen to end the Beatles at this time.
Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Kasabian arrived at Cielo Drive at just past midnight, August 09 1969, so it would have been just after 08.00 am August 09 in England. However, I also live in England and at about 8am on the morning of June 05th 1968, my school friend was killed by a tractor. We were both only five years of age. I wasn’t with her, but I learned later that she had been walking along the footpath (sidewalk) with her brother, when a small terrier dog safe behind a gate, started barking at them. The gate was right next to the road, and the sudden fright of it, made Patricia run into the road just as a tractor was passing that very spot. She was killed instantly. Many years later I learned that Robert Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded at 12.10am in California. So that would have been about the same time that Patricia was killed. Of course, Kennedy would survive until the next day, but whenever I hear any reference to Robert Kennedy, I am immediately reminded of Patricia. The Beatles track, Dear Prudence also reminds me of that day. I remember the first time I heard tracks from the white album and that was only a few months after the tragedy of 1968.
Of course. Of all the things and events that have occurred in the last 100 years, why not study the Beatles. No war or hate. Only love and grand music. They gave us joy and hope. They will be listened too and appreciated far into the future. And the Beatles themselves as individuals, while not perfect (no one is) were all intelligent gifted artists that guided a generation.
This was very nostalgic and great fun, thank you for putting this together. So if this was their last photo shoot that means the Abbey Road photos had already been taken. So what was the point of this photo shoot then?
I thought that Wah Wah was written earlier and presented to the Beatles for Abbey Road, but rejected by John and Paul. It was, according to George, the FIRST song he recorded for "All Things Must Pass."
Wah Wah which is a dig at McCartney’s selfish and dominating personality, was written after the argument at Twickenham Studios during the Get Back album/film sessions.
I believe that John gave that cottage to the Hare Krishna devotees while they were waiting for for their Bury Street Temple. There is an interesting interview with John and Yoko and George and the founder of the Hare Krishna movement. I believe the interview was there at that cottage. But he (the founder) didn't want to stay there because he's so Johnny and yoga running around naked and he didn't want to be around that mind of behaviour
Wings was always quite mediocre since after Pepper, most of McCartney’s music was nothing more than corny, schmaltzy stuff draped in cheesiness and estrogen.
@cactaceous Hello. The very album I ever bought (on 8 Track) was Wings Greatest. I really enjoyed it!! I was 12 years old. Isn't that what it's all about?
Wings had 23 Top Forty hits, and 9 of their albums made the Top Ten. John, George and Ringo are the ones which had mostly "mediocre" albums. The Wings had probably a dozen songs that are/or were staples on classic rock stations, while the other Beatles were lucky to have 2 or 3.
@@mikejohnson-cw3ol Sir, chart success does not equate to good or great. By that metric then why were almost all McCartney and Wings albums destroyed by the critics too? Justin Bieber had a lot of chart success. So does Taylor Swift now. Are they actually good? No, they are not. If you look at the majority of groups or performers that have been groundbreaking, musically progressive and/or culturally important, they were mostly not very successful in the “top fourty”. Or at all.
Not exactly. Wings struggled to reach anything like The Beatles' effortless game. No one speaks of Wings' magical impact on music, culture, and history.
All the excuses for why they weren't smiling very much are lame. If you couldn't do it for yourself, then do it for your fans. Gee wiz George it's not gonna hurt you to smile. At least take the hat and cover your face!
@@archangelmusic13 I sure wish he had shown it. From what I heard, George didn't want to be there and was a hard person to get to liven up and it shows.
george's within a month and a half of the release of two songs that current generation of listeners prefer to nearly everything lennon/mccartney ever did and he's miserable. it's hard to imagine finishing something like "abbey road" fills 2 guys with this much disgust... mccartney was most sympathetic band member at this point although he's not my favorite.
@@marcyfan-tz4wj - Keep in mind that the music you speak of were all rejected by the Beatles (I think John, Paul and producer George Martin knew a little something about good and bad music). With the Beatle breakup, suddenly George’s music was released in a vacuum. Eager fans bought his music AS IF it were Beatle music. Also keep in mind one of Harrison’s “hit” singles was, in fact, PLAGIARIZED. Yeah yeah…it wasn’t intentional. Hard to believe he didn’t know he was copying one of his very favorite songs (He’s So Fine).
@@-Luka-Brazi the hit songs i was talking about were "something" and "here comes the sun". i was talking about george (and john) being miserable to be in a band primarily with mccartney who had tried to keep the group together.
@@marcyfan-tz4wj - Oh, sorry. I thought we were talking about his first solo album “All Things Must Pass”. Look, I love the Beatles but strongly dislike Harrison the man and, Harrison’s body-of-work. Yes, Lennon was also bored by then but Harrison was ALWAYS complaining. The “Spiritual Beatle”…the “Quiet Beatle” was never either. Take a look at his video “George Harrison Talks About Paul McCartney” and listen to his venomous, petty vitriol on a subject that could’ve been brought to McCartney face to face. Instead, Harrison took his dirty laundry on air on a national forum. Boooo!
@@-Luka-Brazi George’s mother was ill around this time- she was later diagnosed with brain cancer. Also his marriage was falling apart along with his friendships with John and Paul - so not surprising really!
Sad old 70 and 80 year olds still blather on about the beatles. They were 4 no-talent losers from England. Back in the 60s, England was considered exotic by American rubes - hence the fame
What do you mean no talent loosers what the fuck have you accomplished on the level they did Lennon McCartney greatest duo ever and then Harrison ... you sound bitter and jealous .. they are legends which the fuck you anit
7:00 George never made that statement about this photoshoot, and he began writing Wah-Wah 7 months earlier in January after temporarily leaving the band during the Get Back sessions.
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These guys will always be number 1!!!!!
The essential matter to embrace and understand about this photo shoot in the English countryside sporting hats and beards is that The Beatles
were channeling
The Band...
The Band were the favourite of everyone in the 1968-69 rock'n'roll realm...
with images of them in
upstate New York appearing everywhere behatted and bearded...
And The Beatles were going further than them with larger hats and beards at Tittenhurst
One week later, Bob Dylan and The Band arrived to The UK to perform at The Isle of Wight on Aug 31st
John, George and Ringo
arrived to The IOW with advance copies of
"Abbey Road" and
Robbie Robertson of The Band remarked that
Bob and The Band were all blown away by what they heard...
Love this kind of informal info .
Fascinating, thank you.
I have heard from multiple sources that George wrote "Wah-Wah" just after having walked out of the "Let It Be"/"Get Back" sessions the previous January 10th. He went home and wrote the song that afternoon. He described it as "a swipe at McCartney" (said to journalist Timothy White).
Yes that is correct. The person making this video was wrong.
This was the very last time all four Beatles were in the same space together. There were a few days when three would be in the same room but never again would all four be together. And, this photo shoot was weeks before Abbey Road was even released, which makes that even crazier.
Apparently they were all at Pattie’s birthday party in 1970. Don’t know if they were all together at any point though.
@@weboes1There is some debate about that. It was something Chris O’Dell said but others at the party say Paul and John were not there. IMO I don’t believe John was there as he had very little to do with the others around early 1970.
I think it was in the Mal book too. One of those things we’ll probably never know for sure.
"And that was that " ,as the saying goes.
So close to Ringo's wedding on 1981...😢
I enjoyed how your narration suited the photos and film from that momentous day. I’d not seen Linda’s film footage before, and many of the photos were new to me as well. Thanks very much. This was greatly appreciated.
The lovely but somewhat melancholic Super 8 footage was included at the very end of the last episode of the Anthology series on TV, VHS and DVD. They should extend and restore a new version of Anthology and reinstall sections that were taken out after the TV showing, like Pete Best visiting the EMI Studio 2, and release a longer Blu Ray issue - Peter Jackson probably wouldn't mind doing it, but Universal and/or Disney might disagree, maybe?
Hadn't you ever watched The Beatles Anthology???
I learned a lot never realizing the similarities between photos released subsequently over the years.
And thanks for the backstories to George’s iconic ‘All Things Must Pass’ album.
FAB 4 FOREVER !!
Wow! This is truly amazing imagery. Hope that the complete photo session is available as a book.
It isn't [unless something has happened recently], but should be in full, agree with you 😍 Complete will ALL photos taken that day, including the 'neglected' photos- it's The Beatles' last photo session, d*mmit. But I guess it will be difficult to work out, as there were four different photographers present - Ethan Russell, Monte Fresco, Mal Evans and Linda McCartney. Lots of copyright and estate 'noise', maybe. But it would be just wonderful, if it was possible!
@diddywahdaddy I just found a few weeks ago another photo from this session that I never saw before. It shows all four of the Beatles sitting on the ground, outside. There will always be a few new frames showing up.
Absolutely magnificent! Thank you. Thank you.
Great video, Colin. They were so good at pulling off iconic group images, and this session produced some beautiful shots, despite the purported weariness and discontent.
are you related to elvis costello?
I find it very sad that this was their last photo shoot! It's like the beginning of the end!
It was the end. John left 3 weeks later.
Like many things in life, nothing lasts forever.
@@robertmasina7388
As George said: "All things must pass."
Having grown up with the Beatles and being very familiar with the album covers, it's always interesting to me when you find out "when" the photos were taken. I always assumed the Hey Jude album cover preceded Abbey Road. I'm not sure why. I suppose it's because I'd seen it before I'd seen Abbey Road - at least, that's what I remember. Even more crazy, is how young they were when they broke up. They had accomplished so much in such a short time.
Just in less than eight years (from "The Cavern" to Stardom)
Your comment about how George wrote Wah wah is wrong. It had nothing to do with this photo session. He was referring to the filming of the Get Nack rehearsals in January of 69.
Your right, it followed after he quit and went home which is when he wrote that track.
Nice and accurate, well done.
Very interesting. Thank you.
The linda's 8mm record should be longer than that...hopefully one day someone will show the extend version
John is wearing Mal Evan's hat. It's bit like the bow tie, in Get Back, George sent out for and John wanted one too.
I've always heard that George had written Wah Wah in January 1969 after quitting The Beatles
The reason the Beatles broke up? WAS the Beatles themselevs. People and life moves on.
Although, I do get the feeling, as a life long Fab Four fan who's read and learned so much about them, while they wanted more, they were also resisting the change (as well as themselves).
It's weird. People will fall out of love. Yet, their actions will prove a part of them is acting out towards the others because of hurt and still clinging onto the old life.
But, the end always reminds you of the start and the better times.
And that's why it's so hard to move on - even when you want to.
A day in the life I guess.
It is my understanding that George wrote "wah wah" after the the row during the filming of "Let It Be" film. Not on the last day of the Beatles photo shoot.
Exactly. BIG mistake in this video. He's trying to educate fans and he gets this big mistake thrown in. ☹️
Your understanding? Proof?
@@AlexYoung-iq6by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-Wah_(song)
@@brenthenshaw3585 Lots of speculation and opinions but as is usual with Wiki that's about all😉
Indeed, out of Harrison's numerous accounts on the subject
Imagine no possessions. I think my estate could use a pond.
Only a fool would say that.
- Steely Dan
@@daegueric HAH! lovely! :)
Truly, it's like 'all you need is love' easy to say when you're rich as Crossus. John Lennon didn't really walk the walk.
@@bernardboulanger898 So you are saying John Lennon never loved? That peace is a stupid concept? Neither love nor peace has anything to do with money or being rich. That is your own bias to think otherwise.
@@dannyvine3605 No you said that . I said something entirely different.
The Beatles at the pinnacle of their success and musical sophistication.
I was thinking as I watched this vid that George seemed not to be participating as much, distancing himself in a lot of these photos so I wasnt surprised when you said he was miserable and stated "they photoed us having a row"
I noticed in one of the photo's, the other 3 (with families and such) are all walking together, except for George, who is way back to the rear, alone.
George looks like Wyatt Eurp, kinda badass.
One of my favorite George "looks" (along with the "Concert For Bangla Desh" beard - but my favorite will always be young baby-face Beatlemania George). He looks like a cross between an Amish man and a rabbi.
Tittenhurst Park, as it was then, has always been my fantasy home.
I think Friar park, George’s home, looks better with its grottoes, caves and alpine rock garden.
@@dannyvine3605:
No doubt Friar Park is beautiful, but its just too busy for me somehow. I´d likely have a change of heart though if I could walk the grounds in person.
@dannyvine3605 both are amazing but I'll lean towards Friar Park
@@frankcaurso1314 Except on that fateful day of the knife attack.....
What a Beautiful Home. I wish he stayed here instead buying that New York Apt. (The Dakota) He might still be with us today. 😢
As in this final photo session, how the band progressed in face and hair length from their earlier mop top days.
The Beatles broke up due to a number of reasons but mainly because it had worn itself out. People LIKE to point out an EXACT reason for the split but there were many.
Yes. Mostly that John and George started hating McCartney’s musical compositions and his dominating manner plus him trying to put his new father in law as money man after getting baby trapped by a well known and well passed around groupie who had slept with some of his close music friends before.
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While they were out standing in the long grass, Ringo is also standing on an upturned box to put him at the same height as the other three.
In most of the pictures widely released from this photo session, the four of them look miserable. In many of these, they don't, particularly. Same thing happened in the "Let It Be" sessions: a couple of photos have been held up as examples of how miserable they were, but more from the same roll show them laughing and smiling and looking like they were having a good time. (I thought "Wah-Wah" had been written right after George walked out of the "Let It Be" sessions, though. I might've misinterpreted a comment.)
You’re correct about Wah Wah.
it was alan klein who busted the beatles. and john finally said it a few years later. paul was right about alan klein. mick even warned them.
Absolutely!! They all later admitted in separate interviews (all of which I've seen and heardwith my own eyes and ears) that Paul had been right all along about Alan Klein!! I hope they all apologized to him at some point..
Klein also saved the Beatles from going bankrupt by sorting out the mess that was Apple and got them all the highest royalty rate they ever had - something McCartney never complained about! Klein may have taken 20% of the Beatles earnings rather than 20% of any income increase but the myth about him busting up the Beatles is wrong!
Then why were they talking about breaking up in the get back doc BEFORE John and YOKO went to see Alan Klein for the first time and John and YOKO hired him? Also on the tapes from the sessions Paul talks about no longer wanting to go to song writing sessions with John because John insisted on YOKO participating. The first meeting to get George back into the group went south because YOKO was doing all the talking. Geoff Emerick said the atmosphere in the band changed the moment YOKO attended the first white album session. George even said YOKO was a big part of the break up. Getting any hints as to who was really responsible?
@@joegordon2915 Yoko never broke the Beatles up! Paul and George were seen in the Get Back / Let It Be film arguing and that between all the Beatles was happening more and more. Nothing to do with Yoko as each Beatles started to get interested in solo projects and had individual interests (something George mentioned in Anthology), that started when they stopped touring. When Brian Epstein died they also never had a focal point to deal with their business interests and started bickering amongst themselves as they all had individual ideas! Worth reading up about the Magical Mystery Tour film and how each Beatle contradicted the other in editing. They could not agree on lots of things business wise and that drove a wedge between them. Also you forgot to mention how Yoko was not the only female at the White album sessions. George and Ringo had their wives there and Paul had his girlfriends there. That had never happed before for a whole album! One last point - why do you think George and Ringo went with Klein as manager and not Paul’s suggestion? That had nothing to do with Yoko either!
spot on
Thank u❤
Bands breaking up wasn't a big deal in those days. You kind of expected it.
In terms of the message of the video about George, it can be summed up this way. George wanted out of the band. He had an albums worth of songs and the only way to record them was to go solo.
The last photo of the Beatles all together
What I've always noticed about these photos, is that they all look like they don't want to be there, as if they really would rather be anywhere else.
Just FYI Wah-Wah was written in January 1969 during the Get Back sessions.
It's a cool looking site that was private, where they could relax
Also maybe a house warming party
And a few were smoked
The photographs are remarkable as befits the Fab Four, can we have a return of those halcyon days please?
You cannot go back in time.
halcyon? Not for them. The 70s marked the end of the post world war 2 dream and that decade would end w/ Thatcher and Reagan and things have been going downhill ever since.
I think the remark about them filmming them having a Row came from inside the studio when paul was complaining about George's guitar playing and George said just tell me how you want it and I'll do it. In a not to civil tone of voice.
Does anyone know who is in the boat at 1:09? John, Yoko and who else?
00:05 Look at that body language from George. He wants nothing to do with them.
Same with John who doesn't even want to be in same zip code as the other three.
@@aisle_of_view George had a lot on his mind during this time. His mother was ill (and died a few months later) from brain cancer, his marriage was falling apart (George was shagging around and getting grief from some of his mistresses), and he was not getting on well with John and Paul.
@@Mark-v7y8t Not quite true, as it was John who invited the other Beatles to his home for the photo shoot. Fair to say though he was keen to end the Beatles at this time.
It was only a week or so after this photo shoot that John told the others thar he wanted to leave the band at a meeting at 3 Savile Row.
@@Mark-v7y8t Really it was Billy the others were sick of, he never had Paul's love for them
I love the last frame, John Lennon Plastic Ono Band cover ?
Yes....
I love the donkeys!...great addition.
It is Julian, John’s son from his first marriage
This final Beatles picture shoot might have been for their monthly fan magazine if I remember right.
They were for general publicity photos. They did have a new album coming out. They weren't really for The Beatles Monthly Magazine.
I thought George wrote Wah Wah after walking out of the Let It Be sessions.
Interesting. Ringo wearing cool shirt during final 66 tour
Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Kasabian arrived at Cielo Drive at just past midnight, August 09 1969, so it would have been just after 08.00 am August 09 in England.
However, I also live in England and at about 8am on the morning of June 05th 1968, my school friend was killed by a tractor. We were both only five years of age. I wasn’t with her, but I learned later that she had been walking along the footpath (sidewalk) with her brother, when a small terrier dog safe behind a gate, started barking at them. The gate was right next to the road, and the sudden fright of it, made Patricia run into the road just as a tractor was passing that very spot. She was killed instantly.
Many years later I learned that Robert Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded at 12.10am in California. So that would have been about the same time that Patricia was killed. Of course, Kennedy would survive until the next day, but whenever I hear any reference to Robert Kennedy, I am immediately reminded of Patricia.
The Beatles track, Dear Prudence also reminds me of that day. I remember the first time I heard tracks from the white album and that was only a few months after the tragedy of 1968.
Unusual footage, and glad to tune it, but it would be far better if you hadn't read it, just said it.
Wonderful video. Well done. They looked so much older than they were! There was a lot of mileage on them.
All ancient history now.
What a really pointless and stupid comment
最後の樹！
And in the end....
Nigel in Canada 🇨🇦
can you believe we still care about Beatle trivia ?
Of course.
Of all the things and events that have occurred in the last 100 years, why not study the Beatles.
No war or hate. Only love and grand music.
They gave us joy and hope. They will be listened too and appreciated far into the future.
And the Beatles themselves as individuals, while not perfect (no one is) were all intelligent gifted artists that guided a generation.
@@charlie-obrien George Martin 5th Beatle
Paul had shaved his beard off in Feb.1969, over 6 months before the final photo shoot.
Then he grew it back in late 1969
This was very nostalgic and great fun, thank you for putting this together. So if this was their last photo shoot that means the Abbey Road photos had already been taken. So what was the point of this photo shoot then?
Publicity photos are always needed in addition to the actual album cover photos.
I thought that Wah Wah was written earlier and presented to the Beatles for Abbey Road, but rejected by John and Paul. It was, according to George, the FIRST song he recorded for "All Things Must Pass."
Wah Wah which is a dig at McCartney’s selfish and dominating personality, was written after the argument at Twickenham Studios during the Get Back album/film sessions.
I think the busts were Paul’s, brought in for the photo shoot.
Dr. Lecter... Dr. Lecter...
I wonder who those other kids are with Julian .
Had they done the cover shoot of _Abbey Road_ yet?
@@alanr4447a Abbey Road pictures were taken on 8 August 1969 - these pictures from Tittenhurst park were taken on 22 August 1969
@@dannyvine3605 Ah, thanks!
What if they all looked like cousins of "Tiny Tim", and no one much wanted their photos?
Hey jude album.. I'm guessing that was an American release.. It wasn't a British album release
I thought Diana was the goddess of beauty?
On the photo Paul pose like a freemason
The masterminds a mason
There must be a way to determine the identity of the unknown Victorian bust.
A relation of Crowley?
I believe that John gave that cottage to the Hare Krishna devotees while they were waiting for for their Bury Street Temple. There is an interesting interview with John and Yoko and George and the founder of the Hare Krishna movement. I believe the interview was there at that cottage. But he (the founder) didn't want to stay there because he's so Johnny and yoga running around naked and he didn't want to be around that mind of behaviour
Paul really loved being a Beatle. Too bad George and John were fed up. Wings, however, carried on the heart of the Beatle magic.
Wings was always quite mediocre since after Pepper, most of McCartney’s music was nothing more than corny, schmaltzy stuff draped in cheesiness and estrogen.
@cactaceous Hello. The very album I ever bought (on 8 Track) was Wings Greatest. I really enjoyed it!! I was 12 years old. Isn't that what it's all about?
Wings had 23 Top Forty hits, and 9 of their albums made the Top Ten. John, George and Ringo are the ones which had mostly "mediocre" albums. The Wings had probably a dozen songs that are/or were staples on classic rock stations, while the other Beatles were lucky to have 2 or 3.
@@mikejohnson-cw3ol Sir, chart success does not equate to good or great. By that metric then why were almost all McCartney and Wings albums destroyed by the critics too? Justin Bieber had a lot of chart success. So does Taylor Swift now. Are they actually good? No, they are not. If you look at the majority of groups or performers that have been groundbreaking, musically progressive and/or culturally important, they were mostly not
very successful in the “top fourty”. Or at all.
Not exactly. Wings struggled to reach anything like The Beatles' effortless game.
No one speaks of Wings' magical impact on music, culture, and history.
Looking at these pictures and considering the times, they don't look very happy or into it.
Four scruffs. They started out as scruffs in Hamburg & then became stylish in 1962 & ended le scruffe.
What about that fanny pack of John's? I've never heard anyone talk about that.
They all look thoroughly sick of each other
Nice gaffes Lennon and Harrison had, guess the taxman didn't get it all then.
Who cares. We have the music
John looks like Charles Manson
George is miserable from frame 1 to frame 500? The spiritual one has been miserable since 1965.
Yes, his happiest interviews were 1963,1964
Welp the 1966 death didn't help as he gently weeps his name on White album
They all look so unhappy.
You Say Paul ! ... I Say Billy ...!
And i say idiot
And I say no, no, no!
Billy Preston??? Wrong video man
Billy's here have you guessed see I wondered
@@PaulFormentos What??? 🤣
All the excuses for why they weren't smiling very much are lame. If you couldn't do it for yourself, then do it for your fans. Gee wiz George it's not gonna hurt you to smile. At least take the hat and cover your face!
there is a photo from this session that he didn't show. they are all standing behind john at the table and they are all laughing and smiling.
@@archangelmusic13 I sure wish he had shown it. From what I heard, George didn't want to be there and was a hard person to get to liven up and it shows.
Pfft! “Classic”? There was nothing classic about the forever unhappy George Harrison.
george's within a month and a half of the release of two songs that current generation of listeners prefer to nearly everything lennon/mccartney ever did and he's miserable. it's hard to imagine finishing something like "abbey road" fills 2 guys with this much disgust... mccartney was most sympathetic band member at this point although he's not my favorite.
@@marcyfan-tz4wj - Keep in mind that the music you speak of were all rejected by the Beatles (I think John, Paul and producer George Martin knew a little something about good and bad music).
With the Beatle breakup, suddenly George’s music was released in a vacuum. Eager fans bought his music AS IF it were Beatle music.
Also keep in mind one of Harrison’s “hit” singles was, in fact, PLAGIARIZED. Yeah yeah…it wasn’t intentional. Hard to believe he didn’t know he was copying one of his very favorite songs (He’s So Fine).
@@-Luka-Brazi the hit songs i was talking about were "something" and "here comes the sun". i was talking about george (and john) being miserable to be in a band primarily with mccartney who had tried to keep the group together.
@@marcyfan-tz4wj - Oh, sorry. I thought we were talking about his first solo album “All Things Must Pass”. Look, I love the Beatles but strongly dislike Harrison the man and, Harrison’s body-of-work. Yes, Lennon was also bored by then but Harrison was ALWAYS complaining. The “Spiritual Beatle”…the “Quiet Beatle” was never either.
Take a look at his video “George Harrison Talks About Paul McCartney” and listen to his venomous, petty vitriol on a subject that could’ve been brought to McCartney face to face. Instead, Harrison took his dirty laundry on air on a national forum. Boooo!
@@-Luka-Brazi George’s mother was ill around this time- she was later diagnosed with brain cancer. Also his marriage was falling apart along with his friendships with John and Paul - so not surprising really!
Sad old 70 and 80 year olds still blather on about the beatles. They were 4 no-talent losers from England. Back in the 60s, England was considered exotic by American rubes - hence the fame
What do you mean no talent loosers what the fuck have you accomplished on the level they did Lennon McCartney greatest duo ever and then Harrison ... you sound bitter and jealous .. they are legends which the fuck you anit
"Imagine no possessions - I wonder if you can" Right John? Hypocrite.
Was told to write those NWO lyrics
7:00 George never made that statement about this photoshoot, and he began writing Wah-Wah 7 months earlier in January after temporarily leaving the band during the Get Back sessions.
Yoko is missing 😢
So John Lennon left Tittenhurst Park in order to end up living in The Dakota ????
WTF ???????
Better H in New York?
you look tired my friend 😴