The Beatles in the recording studio (April 14th 1966) Paperback Writer
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025
- A "day in the life" of the Beatles in the recording studio. Going back to April 14th 1966 the day they recorded Paperback Writer. A great educational tool for those who are students of music, fashion, and history. In this video you get a little insight on how the beatles made their records, the way the looked, the clothes they wore, the instruments they played. great archival footage from this date in history.
That riff, one of the greatest.
The main thing I remember about experiencing the Beatles in real time was that you had no idea what their next single would sound like...
so cool
Can relate, when I become The Beatles fans by listening to their 1963 singles I Want To Hold Your Hand then suddenly I listen to Let It Be. What a huge transition.
appreciate the comment
55 years ago they recorded this incredible song. It would still be awesome if it was only just released today!
So true. It has the greatest opening riff in all of rock.
Sometimes it seems like only yesterday.
Or probably a thousand years from now.
Amen
It would be even more amazing today...
compared to the crap it would be up against
B/W with "Rain". One of the greatest singles in the history of Rock. Beatles were on top of their game.
My all time favorite Beatle era '65-'67, with this song being the apex.
An amazing groundbreaking single.
this was always my favorite 45 of theirs!
Rain chenged my perception. I heard it beside a cricket field on Merseyside, on someone's transistor radio. Nothing was ever quite the same.
Definitely. And Revolver is my favourite album. They made such great b-sides. This Boy, She's A Woman, Rain, I am the Walrus, Revolution, Don't Let Me Down, Old Brown Shoe.
According to Geoff Emerick, Paul came into the studio one day and said, “Gather ‘round, lads, I’ve got our next number one hit.” Be nice to have that type of confidence.
But was it number one?
@@filippocanaliderossi8721 yes absolutely
Paul stole several of MY! Songs 😢
I think it was more of a dig at how they could really put out anything at that point and it would be a number one.
@@kevinruddy448 lol
They were so young and creative, just inventing one wonderful song after another, and always finding new paths.
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The Beatles were way beyond anyone else of their time and since. Those guys had such an immeasurable talent. Lets face it Most of their music is so mind bogglingly brilliant it's hard to take in. And this track is one of their very best. I just love Pauls bass riff and the harmony vocals are sublime.
Hard to believe because they did the impossible. An album with 13 songs in a month? See Sage of Quay for indepth analysis. From She loves you to Norwegian Wood in 2 years? Not one song from Revolver played on the 66 tour?! Caught miming in Japan.
@@fazole what are you suggesting?
way beyond compare
Absolutely and completely agree. I was 14/15/16 etc through their beginning to end and saw it all...everyone + I was at art college in London for a lot of it. I was so f'ing lucky to see all the bands from the beginning onwards. I didn't realize I was privileged. Of course only saw the Beatles once they started touring the UK...but again it was from public awareness beginning. Saw them twice live. Just as good as their records...maybe even better because of all the screaming girls.
@@fazole they had access to the best technology.
I'm glad I was alive to witness their greatness. There will never be a better band on this planet.
There are several modern guitar effects pedals that have been designed to sound like the overdriven Vox 7120 amplifiers from the Revolver era. The distortion on Paperback, Taxman, and She Said is just amazing for 1966.
Very interested. Could you name any?
@@adambickford2406 search for Aclam pedals which makes the Dr. Robert overdrive.
@@adambickford2406 Universal Audio Ruby
@@adambickford2406 there's the Magical Mystery Box, the Dr Robert as well
It's actually based in the UL730 but nonetheless
Still amazing after all these years. Best band ever.
After a while it all seems like anyone that liked them fell in love with them in no time flat it’s like winning the Super Bowl every year when you’re playing their music
#2 ...
... behind ty The Grateful Dead.
😊✌️
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Ringo, was such an undercredited drummer, IMO... And, George was a PHENOMENAL guitarist-!!! And, everyone knows how clever and talented John and Paul were back then-!!! The Beatles are still INDESCRIBABLE to this VERY DAY... (Uncanny, IMO). 😁👍✌
Probably one of the greatest guitar sounds ever. Slight crunch with tremolo.
Paul could play some nasty aggresive guitar leads, this one obviously, Taxman, Sgt. Pepper lead song not the reprise.
That riff ain't too shabby either..
That’s two guitars you’re hearing. George on lead, and John on the rhythm guitar with tremolo
@@hammer44head He also played the solo in Good Morning, Good Morning.
Always thought this from the very first listen, Samej............perfection.
One of their very best songs, in my opinion.
I so love this song, one of my favorite Beatles as well as any music. everything in this song is amazing; arrangement, bass, rhythm, lead, drums, harmonies, backup vocals, lead vocal are all excellent. This is one of the best rock songs of all time.
I remember the first retime I heard this on the radio, it blew me away…goose bumps!
they were so ahead of thier time it's unbelievable, no one was doing stuff like this incredible.
yes jim, blew me away also !! at first i thought they said( he`s the backrider ) anyway , up until this point the sound rocked me off my chair (guitar ..echo`s etc.). up till this day 4/22 this song is still my best song period ! the single mono version of this is the best with the echo`s etc.. peace.........
Immortal song like most of their songs.
Wish it cud have been a bit longer there at the back end though with a thump at the bass and drums.
Still good though after 50 years.
Genius at work. Their musical instincts were right on, brilliant. Great pop tune.
So much goodness in this song... I have always liked those two rapid "machine gun" style rolls Ringo puts in the space between the two halves of each verse. Any other drummer would have filled that space up with any sort of good, competent drum fill, but not Ringo. Every time I hear them I'm mesmerized at how they don't seem to be on any particular beat and you can't really find the "1" in there, and yet he comes out of the fill with band dead on. It makes those gaps simply fascinating.
Still awesome even after 55 years..😊👌
One of the best Rock and Roll songs of all time.
I always have said the voices in this song are amazing!
Omg these guys were light years ahead of everyone and still are.
Amazing.
The lead sings "paperback writer" while the harmony sings "frere jacques" and it fits so well very few people even notice it. Beatles playing a joke while creating a song that has no equal.
Fr. Only really been a beatle fan for about 4 years but one of the first songs I listened to was paperback writer. I only noticed they were saying frere jacques last month.
It's "Well I Don't Care"
They were full of jokes and mind games hidden in their music it would seem.
What? The, "Frere Jacques", harmonic is under verses #3 and #4, not the chorus?.. It's never heard at the same time anybody is singing, "Paperback writer" - and it would be too much, in both places: you may have misheard this.
Their little 4-part bit in the chorus is:-
_"Paperbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack_
_Paperback writeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer_
_.................Paperback writeeeeeeeeeer_
_..................................PAPERback writer"_
One of my most favourite songs by Beatles
Oh heavens! The guitar sound. It sounds like... victory!
John seems to use fuzz pedal at 2:15...the first and only one wich was sold at this moment.
That guitar tone is to kill for
I was only about 12 - nothing was like before after listening to that and still a masterpiece!
That base line ... wow!
Jeez - it's only when you hear that guitar isolated you realise what a BRILLIANT sound it is! Imagine that blasting out at a ten thousand seat venue these days! Sheesh - they were so damn good!
McCartney had this amazing skill to take a relatively simple idea and make it into a work of musical art! Paperback Writer is just one example. He actually listened to a composition by Bach.. and from that thought of the riff starting off Blackbird, White Album song. Beatles are the best!
Are you an "Ed Sullivan Show" first glimpse guy.
I sure was !!
Sullivan was a brilliant assessor of talent !!
After the Fab 4 first Sullivan gig, he booked the boys for next two weeks, in Miami and California for simulcast to all of America.
Brilliant !!
Absolutely Brilliant !!
... helped catapult the Beatles popularity immensely ❗❗
@@stevenmetzendorf7063 Hey Steven, as you know Beatles first played Ed's show Feb '64.. I was just a youth of six years old when they did that. It wasn't until the next year in '65 that I heard them on the radio. I think I was amazed at their sound..and I thought who is that playing that song? At that point, I became a Beatles fan! So I have been a Beatles fan ever since that time. I think that they are the greatest band ever
simple ideas are really the best.......3 g's and an Eb....Beethoven's 5th.
@@jedcampett7328 I also read somewhere, that a wood pecker knocking against a tree gave Ludwig this idea of the 3 g's...knock, knock, knock...for what it's worth;-)
@@brucetowell3432 If I recall correctly, Beethoven's 5th is in Cm. (His 9th is definitely in Dm). It seems that you're correct about the idea coming from a woodpecker. You might laugh at this, but as a songwriter.. I got that same idea, I mean beginning a song with the knock of a woodpecker! Thanks for your comment Bruce!
VERY KOOL !!!!!!!! Amazing to hear this actual studio footage. And that lead / rhythm guitar is one of THE best driven tones that lives on to this day.
So cool to get a visual of them working together. You listen to some of the post-Beatle interviews from John (primarily the one's where that woman who shall remain nameless is in the vicinity) and some of the authors looking to sell a book or an article and you miss out on something elemental. Above and beyond all of it, they were friends. I've done my best to avoid regrets but there are two things I lament never having a chance to do in this lifetime, fly in space and see the Beatles work, either in the studio or on the stage. But I am grateful for videos such as these. It's not quite live but it'll do for now. Thanks for posting. 👌
I wish there would be videos of them working in the studio. Back when they're still getting along and pre Yoko
@@debbiesims138 When time travel is invented, that's where I'm going. There and the Cavern Club in 1962.
I second what you said absolutely. For us who had their music as we were finding our place in world they were family and it is wonderful to see them working together and it take us back to moment when we first heard it. My friends and I used to wait anxiously for the next record and every time was better than before. It feels so amazing to know that are people out there who have the same sentiment 🙏💐
As a teen, I was in a band with friends. For some reason, I thought music had to be as polished as on the record. Then hearing these rehearsals, realizing they weren't polished. It's refreshing to hear.
You still have a chance to get to outer space.
There may never again be a music writing team as talented as Lennon and McCartney
@@alanb.4383 George was very talented too. But not like Lennon and McCartney
@@alanb.4383 fair enough
@@alanb.4383 Paul’s song all the way.
@@alanb.4383 how, Sir, can that be possible in light of Abbey Road engineer Geoff Emerick's telling of the session start as posted by Steven D. Bennett above?
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So interesting to hear the implied chords behind the a cappella section at :36!
Good catch
@@thefonzkissjust subbed to your channel earlier today and now I see you here 😅
On take one the instruments sound basically like the record. They mixed carefully the sound of each track before recording, EQ , compression, levels, so the final mix was just fader moves, adding effects, and all the kick drum, overheads, snare, etc, were already mixed.
they had to preplan and make more decisions upfront- 4 track main deck.
Partly also due to the lack of outboard gear. If you have just one compressor and want to compress, bass, vocals and snare then each has be compressed on the way onto tape!
Agree with Timothy re. bouncing just 4 tracks along with the genius of George Martin, the 5th Beatle.
@@padrejohnruffle it's not a bounce mix. It was a live mix of the band to one track, one overdub for bass, one overdub for lead vocal, and one overdub for all the harmonized backing vocals (with the backing vocals getting huge reverb treatment after they were already recorded).. which is why you don't hear the reverb effect on the backing vocals of take 2... comnplete final take but alternative mix with studio banter intro and without the fadeout of the final mix.
SO remember when this came out..played endlessly!! great video & thanks so much!! 🥰😘
So did I...haa
This was really lovely, thank you! ❤🎸🤟
Always a pleasure to hear some cute bloopers before ultimate version (or almost ultimate ^^) .
The drumming is brilliant!
IF A METRONOME IS OUT OF TIME
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,CALL RINGO,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Very snappy. I wonder if Ringo could do exactly the same tempo and liveliness now at 81?
Ringo, post a link here of you drumming along with it now.
You truly get the sense of what a "power drummer" Ringo really was when he comes in and just commands the song
I totally agree!
Someone please explain Ringo's unique style of drumming. Out of time great. lol
I love that they all can play all the instruments. That's the key
First time I heard this coming out of a speaker outside the door of a shop in Union City, New Jersey (USA), I knew the Beatles had changed and gotten really cool .
I've heard this song hundreds of times but only now discovered that John and George are singing 'Frere a Jacques' under one of the verses. I am stunned.
Oh my God!!!! Oh my God !!! Oh my God!! Saaaaame💯This is my favorite Beatles song of all time! I just read your comment and within a half a second of reading itI hear the “frere a Jacques” in the background!!! I am stunned! I am in shocked!! I am completely, pleasantly surprised💯💯💯😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 it’s bonkers what your ears don’t pick up until someone points it out and then you can’t unhear it🤣 thank you for your comment it was like getting a rare gift and it makes me love and appreciate the Beatles genius even more🙏🏼💟☮️
Oh man, I’m in awe, I just read your comment and I can’t believe that’s today first time I heard John and George singing that verse.
I’m listening their music since I was thirteen years old and I’m 57 now. Wow! Thanks guys to pointing that out.
@@branislavstanisic6000 now you can’t unhear it.
@@Lester-Paul I've heard it since 1966.
this is my birthday April 14th. what a great song to be in session on my birthday
We are blessed to be able to hear this.
The b-side rain one of my favorite songs one of Ringo's best drumming efforts
Yes....Ring says it was his 'favorite' Beatles song..........I think he meant he did his perhaps his best, or may actually his best, drumming on "Rain" ever w'/ the Beatles. I agree.
you're a catfish using a photo of Rin Sasayama
This is one of his best
Another would be "A day in the life"
:)
@@mathmusic1490 Some years ago Ringo really said he thinks ’Rain’ is the best song that The Beatles made. However, in this year (1.5.2021) when asked he said: “There's lots of other favorites, but if you want one, 'Come Together' can't be bad,” Starr said, noting it was his favorite Beatles song. “I just think it worked perfectly with the band and the song and John being John. I loved that moment.”
Take Lennon/McCartney and add in Harrison, who really started coming into his own about this time. How many groups could boast having three great songwriters. That’s what makes the Beatles the best ever. Add in the harmonies? Unbeatable.
Only one word required here ! Epic !!
Awesome photos
Thank you. I am glad you liked them. Check out my other videos too if you liked this one. Drive My car, Lucy in the Sky...???
Fascinating project of documenting songs as they were recorded!
I like the photo (3:40) of Paul holding the Stones' Aftermath album. Wonder if it was playing in his headphones. I had read the Ringo had humorously suggested that the Beatles name the album that ended up being called Revolver, After Geography.
Thank you so very much for sharing this video with us! I really appreciate it so much!!
❤😊
So cool to hear the process.Thans for sharing
Wizards in the act of creating absolute magic.
Give their producer and the sound engineering team credit where due. Excellent.
And Paul McCartney's bass riff is the best I've ever heard.
He is also playing lead guitar. George is playing rhythm.
Wow ! What a great song ! 👍❤
The perfect pop song
Rock *
@@thehunter3387 I agree. It rocks more than pops.
Yeah, it can be called "pop" because their songs were immensely popular, and not just young girls, most of their music appealed both the young and many of their parents at the time. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing one of their songs come on within 10 minutes. They can be called a rock band too.
I think to call them either kind of sells them short. So many of their songs were constructed with such brilliant musical sophistication that goes way beyond pop and rock.
Awesome song then and now
This song and Day Tripper are my favorites. Ticket to Ride close behind.
He stole my song & got the credits from my song, 😳
I feel fine
Magical, as always!!!
My first record.
The three middle albums, Help, Rubber Soul and Revolver, represented the peak of the Beatles output. Just the right balance of innovation and straight-ahead rock and roll.
I was a 13yo teenager on a class trip to an ice skating rink in the city and was about to give up on ever mastering the art till Paperback Writer came over the inhouse loudspeaker. I was both Torvil AND Dean for 3 minutes while it played!
:)
I was only 5 yo in France and remember my mother preparing me to go to nursery school, the radio was on and I remember this tune in the air! My life has been changed since this music and I said to myself, with some child words, these guys are so genious. The riff continued to ring in my head all day long...
The promotional video clip is quite amazing both in terms of music and in video quality, looks even today as if it was a recent work
Yeah, an all time favorite. Thanks for uploading. Monkees and studio musicians kind of copied this vibe with Pleasant Valley Sunday a year later.
More Last Train To Clarksville.
@@scottandrewbrass1931 yeah but “Clarksville” rhythm is a lot more square. So hey if you like “Paperback…” check out “ the Last Ride” a song by Johnny Marr - 2003 on Johnny Marr and the Healers. Ringo’s son is even on the drums.
Well, if you’re gonna borrow, borrow from the best.
@@scottandrewbrass1931 Clarksville is nothing like this. Pleasant Valley is similar.
The reason why only one group was the Beatles.... All this on one song. And so much in a Song. This was ower school, were we fined great happines doing and hearing músic and fantastic words...
Love the Rickenbacker.
Until you play one. Lol.
Nice to see Paul looking the the Rolling Stones best ever album!
Brilliant !!
An absolute turning point!
If that was April 14, 1966, the shot of Paul holding the Stones' new Aftermath album must have been a pre-release copy (which I'm sure they swapped a lot of, friends that they were), as that album wasn't released to the public until the following day.
Yes it was a pre-release copy. The album had not officially came out yet. Good eye.
"Aftermath" For me the best rolling Stones LP.
Very rare photos . Great to see the band when they were getting along .
I heard it at a fairground wow it was awesome
Thank you .
Paul's Rick bass before he painted it Psychedelic 😁
George played rhythm guitar and some lead guitar, Paul played bass and most of the lead guitar mainly playing the famous riff
Super!
Thank you! Cheers!
I love how they are singing “ fara jaka” (sp?) in the background.
Turn it up all the way
John on tambourine, George on rhythm guitar, Paul on lead guitar. Ringo on drums.
Paul played lead guitar? Genius
@@mrsrobertcaverly I never knew until today. IT's brilliant.
Absolutely wrong. George played lead. John rhythm . And Paul Bass ( Not overdubbed). And they only recorded two takes.The second one being the only completed one.
@@scottandrewbrass1931 where are you sourcing this? Geoff Emerick memoir?
@@scottandrewbrass1931 you are wrong
Cracks me up that people that didn't grow up with the Beatles (and some that did) will say things like the Beatles were overrated. Name a group that to this day could do the opening vocals & background vocals of this song?
Or whose songs still sell 50 years later.
There’s nobody. They had three good singers. And three great songwriters. No one can match them today or probably ever will.
It is official. The fourth generation of families since the early 60s are now mad about The Beatles.
Queen?
Do you think Queen could have come up the vocal arrangements themselves? Freddie Mercury was a great singer, that's for sure.
John playing a Gretsch? Great pic!
Can hear the piano through a leslie cabinet at the end. Not sure this was on final mix. According to RTB book The Beatles possibly used the leslie built into a Lowrey organ rather than a leslie cabinet, especially on Revolver.
The Fab's firing on all four cylinders.
My favorite single Paperback Writer & B Side Rain. Best Bass Sound. Rickenbacker 4001
So good 👍
I love the early take of this song too bad this early I’ll take us not released it’s a great one here in the early versions of paperback writer before the awesome overdubs on the lead vocals effects and I love the song that doesn’t fade out.
cool ce reportage photo & recording
Man, that snare coming in at 1:17!!
Great Video
Thanks for the visit
Nearly already perfected at Take One
...The Beatles
That's Pauly fer ya.
Two takes in a session which lasted 8pm-2:30 am. Vocals overdubbed the next day.
Awesome track
3:49 Paul inspecting Stones "Aftermath"
Best thing about the photos this day was that they captured Lennon using a PEPBOX WEM RUSH fuzz box as his guitar effect, which fit nicely against the Vox amp's built-in tremelo effect on the rhythm guitar. (see photos in this video at 1:37 and 2:14 to see Lennon messing around with the PEPBOX WEM RUSH fuzz box)
Great Song
It's a song about John. He published a book. And one day John came into the studio and said: "Gather round, all you clowns, let me hear yoy say: 'Hey, you've got to hide your love away'."
Those 4 valves in that amp head are huge!
this song such a kickass rock song that riff is just BOOOM
Today.. In 1966...............
The Beatles behind the scenes making their album on Disney was awesome ...
The recording session sounded good. But I note on 3:37 Paul was holding a Rolling Stones album cover After math. Interesting shot.
I love John so much ❤️