You know mark, the only reason Michael wound up with The Beatles’ songs was all Paul’s fault! Shortly before Michael bought the catalogue, Paul was offered the catalogue! Instead of manning up, he decided to save some money by approaching Yoko to ‘share-the-load’ financially! Yoko as usual, played him, as she does with every male she has ever encountered! They wasted time, and allowed Michael Jackson to scoot right on in there! Ouch! 😉❤️👌✌️
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Absolutely, he totally had the money but scrooged on the deal when it got pricey. I hate saying this but... Wait! Let's be real here! Paul is cheap. Really really cheap. He even payed people like Denny and the rest in wings a salary. He was so stupid to let those rights go to Jackson when he easily could have at least put up a fight... Meh
It wasn't that George had foresight. It was that no one in 1963 thought he'd have any songs worth owning. That's why he was left out of the lousy deal Paul & John signed.
@@docsavage8640 This still blows my mind that he didn't fight for them. Paul was always business minded and should have known that he would easily make his money back and then some.
Great video. You didn’t really mention Ringo. The patience of the guy! He sits there hour upon hour accompanying them with solid drumming without interfering or arguing. For that he deserved more recognition and a big shiny medal 🥇
I think every hopeful musician who is just putting a band together for the first time should watch this. It was brave of the 4 lads to allow the practice and sussing out each piece to be recorded. To be able to see and hear songs being played less that performance ready, the learning curve for each piece, and the coming together with practice...
I was 9 in February of 1980 when my father died in an accident. I was very distraught and that first night while in my room, I turned on the radio and heard "The Beatles" hour, for the first time on a local radio station. I clung to the Beatles music so tightly that year, and then, in December, John was shot. I was devastated again, as at that time, John was leaning towards my favorite. That early childhood depression and the Beatles ability to pull me out of it and get on with life, was a milestone in my life. Although I was a zoo keeper/manager/lecturer on wildlife and evolution, I picked up a guitar in my teens and, now in my 50s, still play nearly everyday. The myths about the members were nothing more than a distraction for me. Their music was my rock, not their personal lives.
As a young teen, I saw a grainy copy of Let It Be and it left me stunned. To me, the Michael Lindsay-Hogg edit of that film showed 4 guys nearly sick of working with each other, and it affected my outlook of the Fab Four for years afterwards. So it was such a pleasant surprise to see the Peter Jackson TV show depict those days in a totally different light, in crystal clear high definition, with completely different, cooperative & cohesive attitudes. The Twickenham sessions were absolutely brutal in Let It Be. But a much different attitude showed through in Jackson’s Get Back. I bought the Disney+ subscription specifically to watch the Beatles in all their glory, “all those years ago…” and I’ll eventually get the BluRay to watch over and over again! I really enjoyed the multi-part series…
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine I wonder how much of the original Let it Be Framing was based on the timing of the release…out was after Abbey Road was Released (their last album) and after they broke up as I recall. They were connecting the dots between where they were and where they ended up at breakup. The power of the edit to put in the sour and dour moments…the bickering…the low lights….I think the new trilogy provides more balance and a different “ version of the truth” Even before Jacksons LIB was released, I could tell there was a desire by Paul and the descendants to ensure the release came back to the middle--even Paul’s interviews leading up to the release were clearly poised to recreate history a bit…..either way…I loved EVERY second of it and watched it 4x.
Did it ever occur to you that the the master of fantasy and CGI technology was selected to rewrite history and put a different spin on the myth that was the Beatles? The 3 remaining Beatles hated working with the new guy. See the original film for the truth.
I didn’t mind the nine hours of viewing, it was very enlightening and with all the garbage out there it was nice to have nine hours of some thing that really caught my interest. The biggest thing I took from it, is that Paul McCartney is an absolute genius.
Paul has stated that George and Ringo had veto power on every song. Though he said he doesn't believe it ever happened, but if Ringo or George said no to a song, then it wouldn't be recorded.
9:25 What everyone ignores about the day George "quit" is it was the same day he and his wife Patty were breaking up... So, there may have been more than a disagreement about how a guitar lick was going to get played going on.
I wish they would do an un-edited dvd box set. Put it all out there. My love for the Beatles started when I was 5. My mother played the Red & Blue albums all the time. When I was 10 I got my first record player and started sneaking records from my uncles collection to listen to. It was an eye opener for me. I learned that there was a lot more to them then what is on those 4 great hits records.
That was the closing song to the movie Magic Christian starring Ringo and Peter Sellers. I learned it was a Beatles song when it appeared in the Hal Leonard sheet music book called "Beatles Compleat" published in the late 1970s. I watched it on TV.
It was never a Beatles song, it was recorded as a demo by Paul for them as a possible single but never got any further than that. Paul mainly worked on it while alone in the studio. He gave it to Badfinger telling them to play it as the demo and they would have a hit with it.
Great job bashing the critics of the "Let It Be" album! They said it was a lousy album. Those guys were idiots. "Let It Be " had 3 songs that reached #1! Every song on the album is awesome! And the film had the final Beatles live performance, which was great. This is my favorite Beatles album. The critics were morons.
I am also a huge George Harrison fan. Having said that, I think his importance in the Beatles is often overstated. For example, I just reviewed the "Red Album", which is the greatest hits from roughly the first half of their career. It's the songs that made the Beatles "The Beatles!". All 26 songs are Lennon-McCartney compositions. Obviously towards the end he was much more developed as a songwriter. But Beatlemania had already happened before most folks had ever even heard a song by George.
As for Billy Preston: Remember the goal was to play everything live! If they were going to do that, they needed someone to play piano with them. Preston is logical. George wasn’t stupid.
I love John's recording 'Cold Turkey', it illustrates what he went through sobering up, as I don't do drugs I couldn't imagine the pain, the hurting, he illustrates it clearly, BTW, I own every album released in the UK, I posted every track from every British album over a number of sessions on one of my FB groups
You prove age is but a number, your knowledge and time and effort you put into this to put these videos together, is impressive, I’m very glad I stumbled upon your channel where you give me even more insight and understanding on my favorite bands history and albums! its inspiring like this music is,it’s much appreciated man! It’s all for the music!
Thanx so much for your kind words, Dylan! Music, especially Rock music is a living, breathing art form, and I have always listened for the next thing, even today! Age is but a number, and generational arguments only bring out the ignorant! Once again, thanx Dylan!❤️😉👌🎤🎸🥁🪲!!!
Love this video. It's great to get a little more Get Back discussion after all the hype has now died down. You are spot-on and really cut through all the b.s. mythology behind this project. I honestly think this is the last great release we are going to get from the Beatles brand. Unless they have some extra Shea Stadium footage from that film (another in need of a major clean-up and proper release), this was the last true gold left in the vault. This was the greatest Christmas release for longtime Beatle fans and something to be treasured forever.
Amen, bruce! Wouldn’t it be nice if they did find something extra from their Shea Stadium Show? I always appreciate your input, Bruce! Hope all is well with you!
SHEA STADIUM WAS CLEANED UP and released in theater along with the 8 days a week documentary. It looked great. The promoters estate stepped in and claimed ownership which prevented its home video release.
No way! What are you talking about? There's another 52 hours of footage. It will come out one day like an historical artefact though possibly after all the Beatles are gone.
Great insight Michael ! That's how i looked at it after watching the 8 plus hours. It's a real pity that George lost interest in finishing "All Things Must Pass". You could see they were all into it. It could've ended up as spectacular as "I Me Mine", "Here Comes The Sun" & "Something".
re: John playing on George's songs: I was shocked that John was almost always depicted as contributing to George's songs. Even Mark Lewisohn held up that he rarely did. Unless the Get Back sessions we're an outlier, it's hard to think these "lousy feeling" sessions would be the exception.
There was some truth to John not being on George’s songs at times, but I don’t think it was purposefully done on John’s part! Perhaps subconsciously, but not purposefully!
As a teeny bopper in the USA I bought Meet The Beatles. Don't Bother Me by George Harrison was one of my favorite songs. George is my favorite Beatle from when they were The Beatles.
Concerning the rooftop concert, I always wondered what was the original setlist considering the concert was cut short by the police. Hard to believe what we saw is what they planned.
Hi from Australia This film reminds me of my first 'foray' into Beatledom. I was just 12 and was given a tape (remember cassette tapes?) of Beatle Ballads. I can remember listening to it the night of my birthday. I immediately wanted to learn to play guitar. Funnily enough, I gravitated to the keyboards instead in time. I love playing their music today. I loved Paul's music first as a youngster, but as I got older became more interested in the passion of John. Love your site too.
For fans of Get Back and Peter Jackson, you will enjoy the podcast on YT, The Things We Said today--a 4 hour interview with Peter who shares many secrets and little known facts about how he made the movie. The use of technology that originated from tech that policy use to amplify hidden camera audio, to clarify it, correct it etc. was pretty cool. 4 hours went fast…
This was excellent Michael, you absolutely rocked it. What an education I get from each and every show. Thanks so much for hanging out with us last night on our live Podcast ROYCE IN THE HOUSE. Your participation always brings new insight and energy.
Comments on 'not for the casual Beatles fan' were spot on. I think it's fair that Peter Jackson want to create a history document. Great for the dedicated fans, great for anybody in a band to see the creative process, the approach to ensemble playing.
My biggest disappointment way back then (and now) is that George didn't do one of his tracks during the rooftop performance... any idea anyone of why that didn't happen?
Great point, Betsey! My suggestion was his”I don’t care if ANY of my songs were on the album” and his one-step-out-of-the-door-attitude during the rehearsals. Any body else? Why do you all think George didn’t get his one rooftop song? After all, they repeated a couple of songs more than once! Thanx, Betsey!❤️🌻👌✌️
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine George’s only truly completed song by the time the rooftop concert took place was “For You Blue”. He seemed pretty focused on coming up with a “rocker” as they called them, and he didn’t come up with “Old Brown Shoe” until near the end of the sessions. Another factor is George didn’t really seem keen to perform live at all. It was also apparent that John Lennon and George Martin weren’t on the same page about how to produce the album, but George Harrison seemed to be in favor going back and adding more to some of these songs, bringing it up to Paul in front of George Martin when they are listening to the playback of “Let It Be”. It’s seemed to me that George Harrison wanted to save his songs for a properly produced studio album.
When George was solo on tour what I have heard from tapes from the king dome and that is were the tour started I think half way through he had no voice didn't seem at ease in front
nobody seems to be commenting on Paul & Mal, along with George Martin, talking about "the right handed nut" on his Rickenbacker bass...I find that most curious...
Hmm. Interesting. So you think that Paul was pretending he didn't want to play the roof in order to get the others to play the roof? Yeah, it was weird, b/c it certainly seemed like it may have been his or Michael's idea. Paul and Ringo go up to scope it out and test the feasibility of it, then suddenly Paul seemed to get cold feet about it. Then you have John trying to get Paul to do it and once Ringo says it's what he wants to do, Paul goes, "You do?" And that settles it. I also have a theory: I believe that the reason George quit when he did was to force the cancellation of the TV specials. He'd been expressing his reservations about it and saying he didn't want any of his songs used; he said they weren't ready etc. And he was right, but no one was listening, so he made a power move.
I'm so glad I found you. Michael (Thank you, Royce). I'm totally in step with your take on Get Back and its redress of the Lindsay-Hogg narrative. I think Michael was resentful over the rejection of his "let's play a Lybian? amphitheatre" idea and that helped color his take on the whole production. Great presentation and communication skills on display here. 👍🥰
Thanx, Rachel! You’re my find of the month! You are a walking notebook! I’m a bit like that myself, and I recognized it in you within 5 minutes of you showing up on Royce In The House! I’ll be by soon!😉❤️👌🌻
Another Let It Be myth is that the other Beatles believed that Paul treated them as sidemen. What John said was that the FILM showed the other Beatles as Paul's sidemen. He was very upset at being sidelined in the footage (as was pointed out in this video) and he felt that Paul had conspired with Michael Lindsay-Hogg to feature himself in a self-serving way. Of course, since people now see the film as one of the keys to the Paul as villain narrative, I don't see how self-serving that could be.
TBH, I never understood why people insisted that the original MLH version of Let It Be was depressing. I mean...you had Paul and Ringo doing the Jerry Lee Lewis thing....Paul cracking everybody up during "Besame Mucho"...John and Paul sharing a mic during "Two of Us"...so many positives. I think it was because at least first-generation fans knew that The Beatles were breaking up. To any average schmoe, this movie just shows a band rehearsing and recording music, with some disagreements, no big whoop...and that's pretty much how I (as someone who wasn't even born until four years after the Beatles broke up) always saw it. Now, I mentioned in another comment that every single second of the January 1969 sessions is out there on audio bootlegs. Even having heard that stuff, the Peter Jackson film is VERY revolutionary in that you get a lot more context. Seeing this material versus just hearing it is the difference between day and, oh....the entire universe suddenly going dark. There's so much more than meets the ear. (HO!)
I started a thread on AVS forums after Get Back was released entitled “The next Beatles album?” asking had they not broken up, what would have been on that album? My suggestions were: ”Maybe I’m Amazed“ ”That Would be Something“ ”Imagine” ”Gimme Some Truth” ”My Sweet Lord” ”All Things Must Pass” “Coochy Coochy”
LOL!! The truth is Lennon and McCartney were the greatest songwriters of our time, and George learned from them and worked hard to become a good songwriter. Then, he resented that them.
@@tommyzai7038 LMFHO! Yes George said if they could do it, he could do it too. Like it was hard? And, he did it alone. It didn’t help that they condescended to George. John resented Paul just as much and said that Get Back was made by and for Paul. All the camera angles on him. John complained more loudly than George ever did about becoming Paul’s side men and Paul’s bossiness rubbing them the wrong way. Even in Get Back John said he resented Paul’s changes to his (John’s) songs and his only hope was for George to push back (John admitting to the manipulation). As George says in his song Not Guilty, “I’m not trying to steal your vest…I only want what I can get…I won’t upset the Apple cart, I only want what I can get…”
They had grown up and other things crept into their lives.The break had to happen but those boys would never had stop loving each other.They needed to get certain things out of their system and in the future they would have got together for a new album,as Lennon said,if the music was good.It did not surprise me when they got back for Free As a Bird.That's how much love they had for each other after the dust had settled.When they completed the Anthology Album,another thing that was taken care of was Pete Best.Some old trucks on the album had him playing drums,before Ringo showed up.The outcome was for the 3 remaining Beatles to agree a sum of 2.5 million pounds for Pete.I am certain they would have done something together after John Lennon got himself into a recording studio again.What stopped it happening was a gun and cancer.Long may their music fill the hearts of new listeners.Abbey Road number one again after 50 years.Beat that.They left a legacy that has become a bible for up and coming new artists to learn by it.They were simply the best.
What about All those Beatles arguments? We are being sold a bill of goods here. We are seeing the Goody-Good version. The Beatles told us for years that the Get Back sessions were a drag and that they were very unhappy while recording this. The PROOF can be found on the Blu-ray on Disc 1, Chapter 6, between 1:34:00 and 1:36:00. There the Director says that this may be the last filmed Beatle show. Ringo responds that he is only saying that because he has just been watching the Beatles arguing. But Ringo says it may not be their last show because the Beatles have been arguing “for the last 18 months.” Right after that we find out that John and Paul have had a big argument. But we DO NOT SEE any of that. All we see comes a few minutes later when George quits the group. We do not see WHY George quits; we just see him walk off. All of the Beatle arguing has been edited out. But we know it really happened and left a sour taste in the bands mouth for years. But Disney is not showing us that reality - they are not showing us the Real Beatles - they are showing us the Goody-Good Beatles.
Thank you so much for Fact 18. Not that my step brother or my more avant guard friends will accept it but you are right Paul was not always the straight Beatle. In fact across his entire career he has been vastly explorative in his approach toward making music. Awesome video Michael.
Yeah mo, I could still pretty much strangle his filthy little ghost, if I could get my hands on him! Don’t get me wrong, he was a great producer in his day! But by the time Let It Be needed to be produced, I think he was a bit past his prime! 😉❤️👌 Remember: 🎸+🎤+🥁+🎶=🪲🪲🪲🪲
i always felt his wall of sound was nothing but a mush of reverb and intranspatency. imagining lisyening to that on a sixties portable turn table with an oblong paper cone speaker... yuck!!
There's been remasters of several Beatles albums and post Beatles releases of Beatles albums (ie Rarities). Someone can certainly remaster and fix Let it Be and instead of rewriting history, call it Get Back.
Don't Bother Me was always one of my fave Harrison songs, I remember buying the 'A Hard Days Night' record - it was in the movie - but it wasn't on there.
Awesome man,I am glad you made this video. I love that movie or both movies. Been a fan of the Beatles since the sixties, I agree with you I Have had a let it be tee-shirt for many years. I don't believe they every made a bad record,of course there has to be an album in last place if you are rating them but this is not it. Thanks again and take it easy.
Just subscribed. Been in bed with Covid scrolling RUclips and saw your channel suggested. Been enjoying it for a few days now. Beatles / Zep - I get it, I agree and I'm with ya.✊
Well done, Michael! And glad to know you’re a fellow Vivaldi fan! 😁. Yes, Get Back was too long for me……….too much of the going over and over and over and…..over……of this or that song….,to the point that it became kinda excruciating. Otherwise, the interactions were really interesting to watch. John seemed almost fey at times. Yoko didn’t seem intrusive…….but man, get her away from any microphone! 😏. You could definitely see the egos of Paul and John. The one thing I will say…,,and this is as a Beatle fan….that although there were moments of fun, shenanigans and humor…the general tone was, to me, tense. None of them really wanted to be there. They were still creative, but it didn’t seem to come naturally anymore……it seemed a struggle to pull it out. I think it was a very fair and balanced look at a great group of musicians who had reached the end of their journey together and needed to go their separate ways. Had John not been assassinated, I wonder if he and Paul might have reconciled to the point that they could have worked together again, The Beatles might have re-grouped for a a time, refreshed, as some others have (The Eagles for example) and created more music together.
Very good summary ! Well done ! Regarding the "Let It Be" album, what I like about it is that it has a very different 'feel' to all their other albums. When I listen to it, I feel as though it is partially live in the studio with vocal interjections on some of the tracks ! I am not sure if this is an attempt to differentiate the album from other Beatles albums. If you play the album and look at the book that came with the 'Let It Be" album, the experience comes alive ! I think its a great album !
Michael, Excellent commentary. You made really sound arguments. I enjoyed your commentary very much and agreed with you. I’m a die hard Beatles fan and your analysis was on point.
George and Dylan were pretty good friends: Dylan sang at George's Concert at Bangladesh, George visited Dylan at his Woodstock, NY home, George sang at Dylan's 30th year celebration, and was one of the members of the band that George founded, The Traveling Wilburys, for example. If you want to see another side of Dylan, you might want to react to the live video of him performing "Ballad of a Thin Man" during Dylan's 1965-1966 world tour: ruclips.net/video/63ucJmVonAc/видео.html
Don't Bother Me is the coolest track on With The Beatles. Not the best, but the coolest. It sounds completely different from all the other tracks on the album. It's the most atmospheric. It pops up in the movie A Hard Day's Night as the swinging London track in the club. Great song. Fab debut as a song writer for George. Love it.
All Paul had to do in September 1969 was agree to give George an equal number of tracks and there would have been another Beatles album. But Paul said no, and within two weeks John had decided to move on. And it was his band. Band over.
Then it should have been John who gave Harrison those tracks, O! Or at least not Harrison saying he didn’t want ANY of his songs on the album! McCartney has taken it on the chin for too many years, IMO! But thanx for your input! What do the rest of you say? Is McCartney guilty of stifling Harrison? Both John and Paul? Or was it a combination of George, John AND Paul??? Let me know!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine IMHO, Paul always made an effort to help George on his songs. George's three most beloved Beatles' songs, WMGGW, Something and Here Comes the Sun were enhanced by Paul's harmonies and bass lines. John did not participate in any of those songs I believe. Paul has been relentlessly and unfairly abused in the court of public opinion.
Great video. There's so much truth in the fact that The Beatles gave respect to each and every member. No one member was more important than the other. Paul saying no to Lindsay-Hogg because Ringo didn't want to go perform at some ancient amphitheater made them special. I think Paul spoke for everyone. That can't be said of other bands such as the Eagles. Henley and Frey may be great musicians but I can't stand them as people and how they treated the others. The truly great bands had members that were respectful and considerate to all other members. The Beatles had that in spades.
Funny, you give it five out of four stars. It's long and winding but it really is ten out of five stars. It's a learning tool that will stand the test of time: "How the Beatles worked under the pressures of making an album."
Just a couple of things... Although a classic song, "Across the Universe" was not a hit, as it was never released as a single. They rehearsed and filmed at Twickenham, they did not do any proper recording there.
Do you know if did any of The Beatles previewed the original “Let it Be” Movie before it’s release? I believe that both John and George in interviews stated how miserable of a time it was. Did The Beatles have the power back then not release the movie if they were not happy with how it came out or did they just not care? These are questions that I’ve been wondering about since the “Get Back” release and all it’s promotion. It seems to me that this film was an attempt in a way to rewrite history and where the remastered version of the original we were promised? Inquiring minds want to know.
Rewrite history or correct a false narrative. "Let It Be" left out all the positive interactions between the Beatles during these sessions. It seems to me that Hogg wanted to rewrite history.
" I've Got a Feeling " wasn't written on the spot , there's much older footage of a "lost " or unfinished Beatle song on youtube . Which I found recently . When you listen to it , it is CLEARLY " I've Got a Feeling " in utero . You can find it if you search " abandoned Beatle song that could have been a classic" listen to that and tell me it's not the bare bones of " I've Got a Feeling " .
Isn't it something how all these self-designated "experts" who weren't even there told us their false narrative for 50 years? Despite the Beatles themselves telling people otherwise, only to be vindicated by release of more footage that shows how curated the Let It Be film was to tell only a tiny part of what actually went on...
Well Weiner-Boy ‘Yawn’ Wenner insisted for decades that he was the narrator of our Rock art-form, Doc! To quote Hermione Granger: “What an idiot!” ❤️😉👌✌️
George struggled with the guitar after 1963-64, with the change of course in The Beatles music being part of the problem. Paul really came to prominence guitar-wise on "Help!" album. Always thought Paul and John were superior guitarists!!
I agree David! When they first came out, there was no one who thought he was anything but a great guitar player, but he wasn’t blues-oriented which eventually became a must for a Rock Guitarist in the latter 60s! But there at the end, he returned to guitar, and carved a niche out for himself quite nicely!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine The truth is that Beatles music was never, thankfully, blues-oriented. This allowed them to be much more creative and eclectic.
Totally with you Michael, on a 3 hour edit of ‘Get Back’. I’ve just bought the 3 BluRay disc set, but I don’t have a Player yet. I wish the full roof top gig would be released,along with new official promos for the likes of ‘Old Brown Shoe’ . I need to have a physical copy of ‘Hey Bulldog’ too.
I remember going to the bargain basement in Woolworth's in June 1975 and they were selling copies of "Let It Be" and "Yellow Submarine" for 99 cents. I was shocked because even in those days you NEVER saw Beatle albums on sale. You might see their solo albums on sale but that was it. I bought five copies of each and tried to give them away to friends and NOBODY wanted them. They were like "Aw man! Nobody cares about The Beatles anymore. This is the 70s my man! Now if you want to give away some K.C. & The Sunshine Band albums, I'll take one. Those guys are BAD! Shake..shake..shake 🎶🎵 shake shake shake 🎶 Shake yer bootie!"🤮
That was the year I bought my first Beatle album. I was 9 years old and worked at my grandparents apartment building they managed until I had enough to buy it. It was on 8-track and I can vividly remember asking the hippie that worked there "Are these guys any good?" lol... It was Meet the Beatles and I never looked back. It most certainly wasn't on Sale....i can't ever remember them on sale and almost always sold out.
@@markharrison9544 I don't think I've ever seen a Beatles 8-track. I hated those 8-tracks. The way they would stop in the middle of a song and click to the next track was so annoying. Capitol Records really screwed over American record buyers when it came to The Beatles. The first Beatles album I ever bought was Help! and it's nowhere near as good as the Parlophone edition sold in the UK. The U.S. Capitol version contained 8 Beatles song and some of background music from the movie. The UK version has 14 Beatles songs. "Meet The Beatles" hasn't been issued in 35 years. They stopped issuing Capitol versions in 1987 when The first Beatles CDs came out. You probably know all this stuff. I'm 64 now but I've been a fan since age 5 when I watched them on Ed Sullivan.
@@ldchappell1 I had quite a few Beatles 8-tracks back when I was four years old in 1981. I couldn't put a record up on a turntable, but I could pop an 8-track into the deck. That was easy. 8-tracks weren't reliable and didn't last long, but if you had a really good tape deck on a good stereo system, they could sound amazing! I've always had a place in my heat for the American Capitol albums, because that's what I grew up on from my mom's collection. Took me a good while to get used to the UK versions. I still think that side two of the UK "Help!" is a mess. All of those songs sounded so much better on their American counterparts like "Beatles VI" and of course "I've Just Seen A Face" opening the American "Rubber Soul."
Just for the record, so to speak, --while it's true that Magical Mystery Tour was broadcast initially in B&W, that was just the first showing, on BBC1 television on 12/26/67. It was broadcast in color on BBC2 on 1/5/68. Either way, it was still an incoherent mess of a film, but with great music.
George brought in Billy Preston because The Beatles weren't getting along and he felt Billy would improve the mood/vibe. (The group would be on their best behavior.) But, John said they brought in Preston because the album was recorded as a live studio album (no overdubs); so they needed Billy to play the keyboard parts that McCartney would have otherwise overdubbed.
BEWARE: This release ("Get Back" Blu-Ray/DVD) does not contain full versions of "Long and Winding Road", "Let It Be", "For You Blue", "I Me Mine" and "Two of Us". Think about it: That's HALF the "Let It Be" album missing! So, no, it's not a finished product (2:03). No excuse to withhold any songs. How much longer do fans have to wait?
@Kevin Brady I cancelled mine after watching Let it Be….was surprised I was not on it month….to month….sobs hae my money until December. After that, adios Disney
Christmas makes me think of the BEATLES, and the BEATLES make me think of Christmas .even 'GET BACK' took a lot of my time over the Winter. and when I got '8 Days a Week' on DVD for XMAS, I watched it, and don't you know it ends w/the radio Christmas show w/ the Fab 4?
*"WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG AGAIN!!!!!"* (6:20) "Magical Mystery Tour" was a TV special broadcast in *FULL COLOUR* in the early days of British colour TV. The special has been issued on DVD in *FULL COLOUR!!!* I have the DVD!
#MYTH 21 ...Magical Mystery Tour may have debuted in Black & White on 26th Dec 1967 but this is because the BBC's main black & white channel had much higher audience figures than it's sister colour channel BBC2 ( for all sorts pf reasons which i will not go into here ) which had began colour broadcasts in 1967 & a full colour service from the first week of December 1967. As it was the film was in fact repeated on BBC2 IN COLOUR in the first week of January 1968 so it was a myth that it was not shown in colour, however even if it had debuted in colour on BBC2 only a handful of people would have been able to see it as PAL 625 ( the HD of it's day ) colour TV sets were in their infancy.
John got away with Yoko being there because he was John. They did not f*** with him, to his face that is. Love the scene where Maccas working early birth of Get Back, then John waltzes in and the electricity in the room gravitates.
Greetings Michael ✌️, Last year in an interview with Peter Jackson, He (Jackson) was wanting to release on DVD an even LONGER version of Get Back something like 3 hours MORE of footage including more complete songs instead of just snippets like on the 3 part Disney series, I guess this would be a Directors Cut so to say, but I guess Disney wasnt sold on the idea, So Jackson asked Beatle fans to petition Disney as well as Apple to allow for this to happen. -Also Michael you mentioned some songs like Back Seat Of My Car, Gimme Some Truth and All Things Must Pass would have been Beatle Songs had they came out with an album following Abbey Road and Let it Be, -Heres a Complete list of songs from 1966 -1969 that could have been a 71 album release:1.Come and Get it (Had Paul Not given this song to Badfinger) 2.Long Lost John (From the Lennon Anthology, a song by Lonnie Donegan that John sang with The Quarrymen) 3. Early 1970 ( a Ringo song with John and George recorded in the fall of 1970, Allen Klien got John to call Paul to invite him to perform on this song as a ploy to disrupt his Lawsuit against him and the other 3 Beatles) --4.Hot-- As Sun (McCartney song) 5.Crippled Inside (Black Dog Blues that John sang on Let it Be sessions) 6.Teddy Boy (McCartney song) 7.Look At Me ( Lennon song written in India) --8.Id-- Have Anytime (Harrison co- wrote with Dylan during Thanksgiving holiday 1968) 8. Everynight (McCartney song from the Let it Be Sessions) 9. Jealous Guy (Lennon song from India titled Child of Nature) 10. Step inside Love (McCartney song given to Cilla Black) 11.Woke Up in the Morning ( A.K.A.Because I Love You So - Early Lennon/McCartney compostion performed during the Let it Be sessions)12. Suicide (McCartney song performed on the Let it Be sessions) 13.It Dont Come Easy (Ringo song originally titled Got To Pay Your Dues)14. Let it Down (Harrison song performed on Let it Be sessions)15. Another Day (McCartney song from the Let it Be sessions) 16. Art of Dying (Harrison song written back in 1966) 17. Imagine (Lennon song performed on the Let it Session, a snippet can be heard on the Fly on the Wall disc from Let it Be Naked CD) 18. Junk (McCartney song written in India) 19. Oh My Love (Lennon song written in India)20.Maybe Im Amazed (McCartney song,Written in the fall of 1969) 21. Mind Games (Lennon song originally titled, Make Love Not War) 22.Isnt it Pity (Harrison song) 23. Goodbye (McCartney song written for Mary Hopkin) 24.Oh Yoko (Lennon song written in India) 25. Dehra Dun ( Harrison song written in India) 26.Remember (Lennon song written during the Abbey Road sessions) 27. Wah Wah (Harrison song)28. Cold Turkey (Lennon song rejected by the other 3 Beatles) 29. Not Guilty (Harrison song unrealeased from The Beatles White Album) 30. Run of the Mill (Harrison song written in 69) 31 Behind That Locked Door (Harrison song) 32. Awaiting On You All (Harrison song written in late 69) -Well Baby Please Dont Go ( a song by Thee Olympics Performed by The Beatles during the Cavern days in Liverpool, sang by John on Lennon Anthology)
I agree with your previous statement that their should be an edited,more digestible DVD. I miss the Two Of Us,Let It Be and Long & Winding performances that were on an earlier dvd edition ( bootleg?). It lead right into the roof top performance. It was jarring to watch it any other way! I’m sure those in the studio performances are in the new official dvd boxset,which I have co-incidentally, but I have to watch in several sittings.
pfffttt Rolling Stone that magazine that bashed every Led Zeppelin album so screw them !!! Let It Be is one of my top Beatles albums I like the raw in studio feel of the album and really enjoy the Get Back film more than the original Let It Be film. Ram is considered as one of Paul's best so of course critics bashed it. Great job breaking the myths Michael. cheers !!! - VK
Thanx, brother! After you left Royce tonight, several of us shouted you out! Were your ears burnin’ Bruddah??? And I agree regarding RAM! It’s not just Paul’s best album (besides McCartney, of course!), it’s a true Masterpiece IMO!❤️😉👌✌️🪲!!!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Oh really? I was only able to jump in for a bit as I was leaving a street fest and on the bus home. I will watch the replay of the show in the next day or so. thanks for the support and maybe sometime I will come up the show sometime. cheers-VK
Hey Michael I didn’t get to watch the whole documentary for a variety of reasons, but I love your analysis, I’m a huge Beatles fan and I think the motivation to describe to the different Beatles etc. was perfect. Obviously it’s extrapolation but for as far as we could possibly know I think you’re probably accurate.
I missed this the first time, it just popped in my feed. I'd love to see things like this but I hate when they're on Disney+. Being one that never saw the original film (I know, sacrilege) this "reedited" version sounds more interesting.
" Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the Glenn..." Who knew? George Martin had a successful track record before the Beatles, producing albums by Flanders & Swann, Peter Sellers and the Goons.
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George had the foresight to keep the rights to every song he wrote... Owning his songs under Harrisongs©. Michael Jackson met George awhile after he had bought all the rights to the Beatles songs and George said.. Not mine you dont lol. Oh to be a fly on the wall when Jackson realized he didnt own some of the Beatles greatest songs!
You know mark, the only reason Michael wound up with The Beatles’ songs was all Paul’s fault!
Shortly before Michael bought the catalogue, Paul was offered the catalogue!
Instead of manning up, he decided to save some money by approaching Yoko to ‘share-the-load’ financially!
Yoko as usual, played him, as she does with every male she has ever encountered!
They wasted time, and allowed Michael Jackson to scoot right on in there!
Ouch! 😉❤️👌✌️
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Absolutely, he totally had the money but scrooged on the deal when it got pricey. I hate saying this but... Wait! Let's be real here! Paul is cheap. Really really cheap. He even payed people like Denny and the rest in wings a salary.
He was so stupid to let those rights go to Jackson when he easily could have at least put up a fight... Meh
Paul was trying to play fair and let Yoko own half. Yoko is the one who thought they could get the rights for less. Then Michael stepped in.
It wasn't that George had foresight. It was that no one in 1963 thought he'd have any songs worth owning. That's why he was left out of the lousy deal Paul & John signed.
@@docsavage8640 This still blows my mind that he didn't fight for them. Paul was always business minded and should have known that he would easily make his money back and then some.
Great video. You didn’t really mention Ringo. The patience of the guy! He sits there hour upon hour accompanying them with solid drumming without interfering or arguing. For that he deserved more recognition and a big shiny medal 🥇
I think every hopeful musician who is just putting a band together for the first time should watch this. It was brave of the 4 lads to allow the practice and sussing out each piece to be recorded. To be able to see and hear songs being played less that performance ready, the learning curve for each piece, and the coming together with practice...
I was 9 in February of 1980 when my father died in an accident. I was very distraught and that first night while in my room, I turned on the radio and heard "The Beatles" hour, for the first time on a local radio station. I clung to the Beatles music so tightly that year, and then, in December, John was shot. I was devastated again, as at that time, John was leaning towards my favorite. That early childhood depression and the Beatles ability to pull me out of it and get on with life, was a milestone in my life. Although I was a zoo keeper/manager/lecturer on wildlife and evolution, I picked up a guitar in my teens and, now in my 50s, still play nearly everyday. The myths about the members were nothing more than a distraction for me. Their music was my rock, not their personal lives.
As a young teen, I saw a grainy copy of Let It Be and it left me stunned. To me, the Michael Lindsay-Hogg edit of that film showed 4 guys nearly sick of working with each other, and it affected my outlook of the Fab Four for years afterwards. So it was such a pleasant surprise to see the Peter Jackson TV show depict those days in a totally different light, in crystal clear high definition, with completely different, cooperative & cohesive attitudes. The Twickenham sessions were absolutely brutal in Let It Be. But a much different attitude showed through in Jackson’s Get Back. I bought the Disney+ subscription specifically to watch the Beatles in all their glory, “all those years ago…”
and I’ll eventually get the BluRay to watch over and over again! I really enjoyed the multi-part series…
I agree wholeheartedly, TBL!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine I wonder how much of the original Let it Be Framing was based on the timing of the release…out was after Abbey Road was Released (their last album) and after they broke up as I recall. They were connecting the dots between where they were and where they ended up at breakup. The power of the edit to put in the sour and dour moments…the bickering…the low lights….I think the new trilogy provides more balance and a different “ version of the truth” Even before Jacksons LIB was released, I could tell there was a desire by Paul and the descendants to ensure the release came back to the middle--even Paul’s interviews leading up to the release were clearly poised to recreate history a bit…..either way…I loved EVERY second of it and watched it 4x.
Did it ever occur to you that the the master of fantasy and CGI technology was selected to rewrite history and put a different spin on the myth that was the Beatles?
The 3 remaining Beatles hated working with the new guy. See the original film for the truth.
I didn’t mind the nine hours of viewing, it was very enlightening and with all the garbage out there it was nice to have nine hours of some thing that really caught my interest. The biggest thing I took from it, is that Paul McCartney is an absolute genius.
McCartney a genius??? Agreed, JJ!
Paul has stated that George and Ringo had veto power on every song. Though he said he doesn't believe it ever happened, but if Ringo or George said no to a song, then it wouldn't be recorded.
9:25 What everyone ignores about the day George "quit" is it was the same day he and his wife Patty were breaking up... So, there may have been more than a disagreement about how a guitar lick was going to get played going on.
except they were together until 1977.
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Q: What sexually transmitted disease did George give his wife Pattie?
A: The Clapton
@sailorbychoice1 They also ignore that George's mother was very sick with cancer at that time.
I wish they would do an un-edited dvd box set. Put it all out there. My love for the Beatles started when I was 5. My mother played the Red & Blue albums all the time. When I was 10 I got my first record player and started sneaking records from my uncles collection to listen to. It was an eye opener for me. I learned that there was a lot more to them then what is on those 4 great hits records.
Amen, Twisted! 👌❤️
No matter how much is released you'll still be complaining that you want more
"Get Back" was the best thing to happen to Beatles fans.. years of negative outlook on the end of the best "Band In The Land" !! Nice video..
Thanx, Jt!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Sure.. excellent video !
" Come And Get It " ( which Badfinger had a hit with ) was originally a Beatles song.
That was the closing song to the movie Magic Christian starring Ringo and Peter Sellers.
I learned it was a Beatles song when it appeared in the Hal Leonard sheet music book called "Beatles Compleat" published in the late 1970s. I watched it on TV.
It was never a Beatles song, it was recorded as a demo by Paul for them as a possible single but never got any further than that. Paul mainly worked on it while alone in the studio. He gave it to Badfinger telling them to play it as the demo and they would have a hit with it.
Great job bashing the critics of the "Let It Be" album! They said it was a lousy album. Those guys were idiots. "Let It Be " had 3 songs that reached #1! Every song on the album is awesome! And the film had the final Beatles live performance, which was great. This is my favorite Beatles album. The critics were morons.
100 percent agree! If I would be forced at gunpoint to state my favorite Beatles album,I would have to say Let It Be.🧡
I am also a huge George Harrison fan. Having said that, I think his importance in the Beatles is often overstated. For example, I just reviewed the "Red Album", which is the greatest hits from roughly the first half of their career. It's the songs that made the Beatles "The Beatles!". All 26 songs are Lennon-McCartney compositions.
Obviously towards the end he was much more developed as a songwriter. But Beatlemania had already happened before most folks had ever even heard a song by George.
As for Billy Preston: Remember the goal was to play everything live! If they were going to do that, they needed someone to play piano with them. Preston is logical. George wasn’t stupid.
I love John's recording 'Cold Turkey', it illustrates what he went through sobering up, as I don't do drugs I couldn't imagine the pain, the hurting, he illustrates it clearly, BTW, I own every album released in the UK, I posted every track from every British album over a number of sessions on one of my FB groups
You prove age is but a number, your knowledge and time and effort you put into this to put these videos together, is impressive, I’m very glad I stumbled upon your channel where you give me even more insight and understanding on my favorite bands history and albums! its inspiring like this music is,it’s much appreciated man! It’s all for the music!
Thanx so much for your kind words, Dylan!
Music, especially Rock music is a living, breathing art form, and I have always listened for the next thing, even today!
Age is but a number, and generational arguments only bring out the ignorant!
Once again, thanx Dylan!❤️😉👌🎤🎸🥁🪲!!!
Love this video. It's great to get a little more Get Back discussion after all the hype has now died down. You are spot-on and really cut through all the b.s. mythology behind this project. I honestly think this is the last great release we are going to get from the Beatles brand. Unless they have some extra Shea Stadium footage from that film (another in need of a major clean-up and proper release), this was the last true gold left in the vault. This was the greatest Christmas release for longtime Beatle fans and something to be treasured forever.
Amen, bruce!
Wouldn’t it be nice if they did find something extra from their Shea Stadium Show?
I always appreciate your input, Bruce! Hope all is well with you!
SHEA STADIUM WAS CLEANED UP and released in theater along with the 8 days a week documentary. It looked great. The promoters estate stepped in and claimed ownership which prevented its home video release.
@@kkindron Thanx for the info, k!
That is so sad! Looks like someone is holding out for extra cash!
No way! What are you talking about? There's another 52 hours of footage. It will come out one day like an historical artefact though possibly after all the Beatles are gone.
@@gettinhungrig8806 And all of us as well 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey brother,
Another video I needed to see again. This was outstanding! Really outstanding!
Peace my friend,
DrRick
Great insight Michael ! That's how i looked at it after watching the 8 plus hours. It's a real pity that George lost interest in finishing "All Things Must Pass". You could see they were all into it. It could've ended up as spectacular as "I Me Mine", "Here Comes The Sun" & "Something".
I agree Tiger!❤️😉👌
This video is embarrassing.... people who don't know a lot about the Beatles might like it
re: John playing on George's songs: I was shocked that John was almost always depicted as contributing to George's songs. Even Mark Lewisohn held up that he rarely did. Unless the Get Back sessions we're an outlier, it's hard to think these "lousy feeling" sessions would be the exception.
There was some truth to John not being on George’s songs at times, but I don’t think it was purposefully done on John’s part! Perhaps subconsciously, but not purposefully!
As a teeny bopper in the USA I bought Meet The Beatles. Don't Bother Me by George Harrison was one of my favorite songs. George is my favorite Beatle from when they were The Beatles.
Concerning the rooftop concert, I always wondered what was the original setlist considering the concert was cut short by the police. Hard to believe what we saw is what they planned.
Free Bird? Stairway?
Hi from Australia
This film reminds me of my first 'foray' into Beatledom. I was just 12 and was given a tape (remember cassette tapes?) of Beatle Ballads. I can remember listening to it the night of my birthday. I immediately wanted to learn to play guitar. Funnily enough, I gravitated to the keyboards instead in time. I love playing their music today. I loved Paul's music first as a youngster, but as I got older became more interested in the passion of John. Love your site too.
For fans of Get Back and Peter Jackson, you will enjoy the podcast on YT, The Things We Said today--a 4 hour interview with Peter who shares many secrets and little known facts about how he made the movie. The use of technology that originated from tech that policy use to amplify hidden camera audio, to clarify it, correct it etc. was pretty cool. 4 hours went fast…
This was excellent Michael, you absolutely rocked it. What an education I get from each and every show. Thanks so much for hanging out with us last night on our live Podcast ROYCE IN THE HOUSE. Your participation always brings new insight and energy.
I am so glad they finally found this high quality 35mm film after all these years !!!
I agree Jeffrey! 😉👌
It was all shot on 16mm film, not 35mm.
Comments on 'not for the casual Beatles fan' were spot on. I think it's fair that Peter Jackson want to create a history document. Great for the dedicated fans, great for anybody in a band to see the creative process, the approach to ensemble playing.
Welcome back Rock n’roll Warrior! 😎🤩🤟🏼🌻 Thank you for a Beatles episode, that is my happy safe place. Get well soon 🌞🌻🌻
Thanx so muc, Sandy!❤️😉🌻👌
My biggest disappointment way back then (and now) is that George didn't do one of his tracks during the rooftop performance... any idea anyone of why that didn't happen?
Great point, Betsey!
My suggestion was his”I don’t care if ANY of my songs were on the album” and his one-step-out-of-the-door-attitude during the rehearsals.
Any body else? Why do you all think George didn’t get his one rooftop song?
After all, they repeated a couple of songs more than once!
Thanx, Betsey!❤️🌻👌✌️
Well George was never given the respect as a writer by John and Paul
Sure he was. It's right there in the footage. It just didn't happen until far too late for him to get over his resentment.
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine George’s only truly completed song by the time the rooftop concert took place was “For You Blue”. He seemed pretty focused on coming up with a “rocker” as they called them, and he didn’t come up with “Old Brown Shoe” until near the end of the sessions.
Another factor is George didn’t really seem keen to perform live at all. It was also apparent that John Lennon and George Martin weren’t on the same page about how to produce the album, but George Harrison seemed to be in favor going back and adding more to some of these songs, bringing it up to Paul in front of George Martin when they are listening to the playback of “Let It Be”.
It’s seemed to me that George Harrison wanted to save his songs for a properly produced studio album.
When George was solo on tour what I have heard from tapes from the king dome and that is were the tour started I think half way through he had no voice didn't seem at ease in front
Classy presentation bro. Thanks for your great effort!
Thanx, RF!
nobody seems to be commenting on Paul & Mal, along with George Martin, talking about "the right handed nut" on his Rickenbacker bass...I find that most curious...
hidden PID clue....good catch
Let It Be is a Top 5 Beatle album for me. Sensational music
Hmm. Interesting. So you think that Paul was pretending he didn't want to play the roof in order to get the others to play the roof? Yeah, it was weird, b/c it certainly seemed like it may have been his or Michael's idea. Paul and Ringo go up to scope it out and test the feasibility of it, then suddenly Paul seemed to get cold feet about it. Then you have John trying to get Paul to do it and once Ringo says it's what he wants to do, Paul goes, "You do?" And that settles it. I also have a theory: I believe that the reason George quit when he did was to force the cancellation of the TV specials. He'd been expressing his reservations about it and saying he didn't want any of his songs used; he said they weren't ready etc. And he was right, but no one was listening, so he made a power move.
I hadn’t thought about what you say about Harrison’s quitting, K! Brilliant analysis! Good one!
I'm so glad I found you. Michael (Thank you, Royce). I'm totally in step with your take on Get Back and its redress of the Lindsay-Hogg narrative. I think Michael was resentful over the rejection of his "let's play a Lybian? amphitheatre" idea and that helped color his take on the whole production. Great presentation and communication skills on display here. 👍🥰
Thanx, Rachel! You’re my find of the month! You are a walking notebook! I’m a bit like that myself, and I recognized it in you within 5 minutes of you showing up on Royce In The House! I’ll be by soon!😉❤️👌🌻
Awesome! 🥰
Another Let It Be myth is that the other Beatles believed that Paul treated them as sidemen. What John said was that the FILM showed the other Beatles as Paul's sidemen. He was very upset at being sidelined in the footage (as was pointed out in this video) and he felt that Paul had conspired with Michael Lindsay-Hogg to feature himself in a self-serving way. Of course, since people now see the film as one of the keys to the Paul as villain narrative, I don't see how self-serving that could be.
It's time to do a piece on Steve Marriott, arguably the best front man in the history of rock music. Include both the Small Faces and Humble Pie.
obviously
TBH, I never understood why people insisted that the original MLH version of Let It Be was depressing. I mean...you had Paul and Ringo doing the Jerry Lee Lewis thing....Paul cracking everybody up during "Besame Mucho"...John and Paul sharing a mic during "Two of Us"...so many positives. I think it was because at least first-generation fans knew that The Beatles were breaking up. To any average schmoe, this movie just shows a band rehearsing and recording music, with some disagreements, no big whoop...and that's pretty much how I (as someone who wasn't even born until four years after the Beatles broke up) always saw it.
Now, I mentioned in another comment that every single second of the January 1969 sessions is out there on audio bootlegs. Even having heard that stuff, the Peter Jackson film is VERY revolutionary in that you get a lot more context. Seeing this material versus just hearing it is the difference between day and, oh....the entire universe suddenly going dark. There's so much more than meets the ear. (HO!)
I started a thread on AVS forums after Get Back was released entitled “The next Beatles album?” asking had they not broken up, what would have been on that album?
My suggestions were:
”Maybe I’m Amazed“
”That Would be Something“
”Imagine”
”Gimme Some Truth”
”My Sweet Lord”
”All Things Must Pass”
“Coochy Coochy”
One of Paul's suggestion's for that Beatle's band to show up unannounced was Rick Veneer & The Renovators.
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Who else getting VIBE 😲🤫🤯🍏
I get where George's resentment comes from . . . being treated like a little brother, but he also comes off as ungrateful, IMO.
You sound like the man groaning about a disgruntled employee who you know is only revealing the truth.
LOL!! The truth is Lennon and McCartney were the greatest songwriters of our time, and George learned from them and worked hard to become a good songwriter. Then, he resented that them.
@@tommyzai7038 LMFHO! Yes George said if they could do it, he could do it too. Like it was hard? And, he did it alone. It didn’t help that they condescended to George. John resented Paul just as much and said that Get Back was made by and for Paul. All the camera angles on him. John complained more loudly than George ever did about becoming Paul’s side men and Paul’s bossiness rubbing them the wrong way. Even in Get Back John said he resented Paul’s changes to his (John’s) songs and his only hope was for George to push back (John admitting to the manipulation). As George says in his song Not Guilty, “I’m not trying to steal your vest…I only want what I can get…I won’t upset the Apple cart, I only want what I can get…”
Yeah, so true.
Excellent, well-researched video. Subscribed.
They had grown up and other things crept into their lives.The break had to happen but those boys would never had stop loving each other.They needed to get certain things out of their system and in the future they would have got together for a new album,as Lennon said,if the music was good.It did not surprise me when they got back for Free As a Bird.That's how much love they had for each other after the dust had settled.When they completed the Anthology Album,another thing that was taken care of was Pete Best.Some old trucks on the album had him playing drums,before Ringo showed up.The outcome was for the 3 remaining Beatles to agree a sum of 2.5 million pounds for Pete.I am certain they would have done something together after John Lennon got himself into a recording studio again.What stopped it happening was a gun and cancer.Long may their music fill the hearts of new listeners.Abbey Road number one again after 50 years.Beat that.They left a legacy that has become a bible for up and coming new artists to learn by it.They were simply the best.
What about All those Beatles arguments? We are being sold a bill of goods here. We are seeing the Goody-Good version. The Beatles told us for years that the Get Back sessions were a drag and that they were very unhappy while recording this. The PROOF can be found on the Blu-ray on Disc 1, Chapter 6, between 1:34:00 and 1:36:00. There the Director says that this may be the last filmed Beatle show. Ringo responds that he is only saying that because he has just been watching the Beatles arguing. But Ringo says it may not be their last show because the Beatles have been arguing “for the last 18 months.” Right after that we find out that John and Paul have had a big argument. But we DO NOT SEE any of that. All we see comes a few minutes later when George quits the group. We do not see WHY George quits; we just see him walk off. All of the Beatle arguing has been edited out. But we know it really happened and left a sour taste in the bands mouth for years. But Disney is not showing us that reality - they are not showing us the Real Beatles - they are showing us the Goody-Good Beatles.
I build you pain.....
Thank you so much for Fact 18. Not that my step brother or my more avant guard friends will accept it but you are right Paul was not always the straight Beatle. In fact across his entire career he has been vastly explorative in his approach toward making music. Awesome video Michael.
i wish phil spector would have kept his filthy fingers off of the let it be album.
Yeah mo, I could still pretty much strangle his filthy little ghost, if I could get my hands on him!
Don’t get me wrong, he was a great producer in his day!
But by the time Let It Be needed to be produced, I think he was a bit past his prime! 😉❤️👌
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i always felt his wall of sound was nothing but a mush of reverb and intranspatency. imagining lisyening to that on a sixties portable turn table with an oblong paper cone speaker... yuck!!
There's been remasters of several Beatles albums and post Beatles releases of Beatles albums (ie Rarities). Someone can certainly remaster and fix Let it Be and instead of rewriting history, call it Get Back.
Don't Bother Me was always one of my fave Harrison songs, I remember buying the 'A Hard Days Night' record - it was in the movie - but it wasn't on there.
Awesome man,I am glad you made this video. I love that movie or both movies. Been a fan of the Beatles since the sixties, I agree with you I Have had a let it be tee-shirt for many years. I don't believe they every made a bad record,of course there has to be an album in last place if you are rating them but this is not it. Thanks again and take it easy.
I agree Gary!
It isn’t even their 3rd worst album! See y video where I rate all 13 Beatle albums!
Just subscribed. Been in bed with Covid scrolling RUclips and saw your channel suggested. Been enjoying it for a few days now. Beatles / Zep - I get it, I agree and I'm with ya.✊
Well done, Michael! And glad to know you’re a fellow Vivaldi fan! 😁. Yes, Get Back was too long for me……….too much of the going over and over and over and…..over……of this or that song….,to the point that it became kinda excruciating. Otherwise, the interactions were really interesting to watch. John seemed almost fey at times. Yoko didn’t seem intrusive…….but man, get her away from any microphone! 😏. You could definitely see the egos of Paul and John. The one thing I will say…,,and this is as a Beatle fan….that although there were moments of fun, shenanigans and humor…the general tone was, to me, tense. None of them really wanted to be there. They were still creative, but it didn’t seem to come naturally anymore……it seemed a struggle to pull it out.
I think it was a very fair and balanced look at a great group of musicians who had reached the end of their journey together and needed to go their separate ways. Had John not been assassinated, I wonder if he and Paul might have reconciled to the point that they could have worked together again, The Beatles might have re-grouped for a a time, refreshed, as some others have (The Eagles for example) and created more music together.
You know, it would’ve been nice, had John not gotten killed, if he and Paul helped each other out on a song or two every now and then.
Very good summary ! Well done ! Regarding the "Let It Be" album, what I like about it is that it has a very different 'feel' to all their other albums. When I listen to it, I feel as though it is partially live in the studio with vocal interjections on some of the tracks ! I am not sure if this is an attempt to differentiate the album from other Beatles albums. If you play the album and look at the book that came with the 'Let It Be" album, the experience comes alive ! I think its a great album !
Michael,
Excellent commentary. You made really sound arguments. I enjoyed your commentary very much and agreed with you. I’m a die hard Beatles fan and your analysis was on point.
Great job at deconstructing the movie and contextualizing the creative dynamics. Quality work!
I like Don’t Bother Me better than many other Harrison songs.
It’s one of my FAVS, RA!❤️👌
I Dig a Pony is my favorite song on Let It Be.
No accounting for taste.
Another great one, love the pop-ups!
Thanx, Ned!
George and Dylan were pretty good friends: Dylan sang at George's Concert at Bangladesh, George visited Dylan at his Woodstock, NY home, George sang at Dylan's 30th year celebration, and was one of the members of the band that George founded, The Traveling Wilburys, for example. If you want to see another side of Dylan, you might want to react to the live video of him performing "Ballad of a Thin Man" during Dylan's 1965-1966 world tour: ruclips.net/video/63ucJmVonAc/видео.html
Don't Bother Me is the coolest track on With The Beatles. Not the best, but the coolest. It sounds completely different from all the other tracks on the album. It's the most atmospheric. It pops up in the movie A Hard Day's Night as the swinging London track in the club. Great song. Fab debut as a song writer for George. Love it.
All Paul had to do in September 1969 was agree to give George an equal number of tracks and there would have been another Beatles album. But Paul said no, and within two weeks John had decided to move on. And it was his band. Band over.
Then it should have been John who gave Harrison those tracks, O!
Or at least not Harrison saying he didn’t want ANY of his songs on the album! McCartney has taken it on the chin for too many years, IMO!
But thanx for your input!
What do the rest of you say? Is McCartney guilty of stifling Harrison? Both John and Paul? Or was it a combination of George, John AND Paul???
Let me know!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine IMHO, Paul always made an effort to help George on his songs. George's three most beloved Beatles' songs, WMGGW, Something and Here Comes the Sun were enhanced by Paul's harmonies and bass lines. John did not participate in any of those songs I believe. Paul has been relentlessly and unfairly abused in the court of public opinion.
So glad that All Things Must Pass was not on the Beatles album. George's All Things Must Pass album is one of my all time favourite albums
Great video. There's so much truth in the fact that The Beatles gave respect to each and every member. No one member was more important than the other. Paul saying no to Lindsay-Hogg because Ringo didn't want to go perform at some ancient amphitheater made them special. I think Paul spoke for everyone. That can't be said of other bands such as the Eagles. Henley and Frey may be great musicians but I can't stand them as people and how they treated the others. The truly great bands had members that were respectful and considerate to all other members. The Beatles had that in spades.
Excellent commentary!
Funny, you give it five out of four stars. It's long and winding but it really is ten out of five stars. It's a learning tool that will stand the test of time: "How the Beatles worked under the pressures of making an album."
Mike, I don't put much stock in what Rolling Stone has to say. They are the epitome of corporate rock.
Fantastic breakdown. Enough Said.
Just a couple of things... Although a classic song, "Across the Universe" was not a hit, as it was never released as a single. They rehearsed and filmed at Twickenham, they did not do any proper recording there.
Do you know if did any of The Beatles previewed the original “Let it Be” Movie before it’s release? I believe that both John and George in interviews stated how miserable of a time it was. Did The Beatles have the power back then not release the movie if they were not happy with how it came out or did they just not care? These are questions that I’ve been wondering about since the “Get Back” release and all it’s promotion. It seems to me that this film was an attempt in a way to rewrite history and where the remastered version of the original we were promised? Inquiring minds want to know.
Rewrite history or correct a false narrative. "Let It Be" left out all the positive interactions between the Beatles during these sessions. It seems to me that Hogg wanted to rewrite history.
" I've Got a Feeling " wasn't written on the spot , there's much older footage of a "lost " or unfinished Beatle song on youtube . Which I found recently . When you listen to it , it is CLEARLY " I've Got a Feeling " in utero . You can find it if you search " abandoned Beatle song that could have been a classic" listen to that and tell me it's not the bare bones of " I've Got a Feeling " .
Isn't it something how all these self-designated "experts" who weren't even there told us their false narrative for 50 years? Despite the Beatles themselves telling people otherwise, only to be vindicated by release of more footage that shows how curated the Let It Be film was to tell only a tiny part of what actually went on...
Well Weiner-Boy ‘Yawn’ Wenner insisted for decades that he was the narrator of our Rock art-form, Doc!
To quote Hermione Granger: “What an idiot!”
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George struggled with the guitar after 1963-64, with the change of course in The Beatles music being part of the problem. Paul really came to prominence guitar-wise on "Help!" album. Always thought Paul and John were superior guitarists!!
I agree David! When they first came out, there was no one who thought he was anything but a great guitar player, but he wasn’t blues-oriented which eventually became a must for a Rock Guitarist in the latter 60s! But there at the end, he returned to guitar, and carved a niche out for himself quite nicely!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine The truth is that Beatles music was never, thankfully, blues-oriented. This allowed them to be much more creative and eclectic.
Totally with you Michael, on a 3 hour edit of ‘Get Back’. I’ve just bought the 3 BluRay disc set, but I don’t have a Player yet. I wish the full roof top gig would be released,along with new official promos for the likes of ‘Old Brown Shoe’ . I need to have a physical copy of ‘Hey Bulldog’ too.
Can you do a review of moving pictures or the Band Rush. I want to know your view of them and where you would rank them on a list of great rock bands.
I remember going to the bargain basement in Woolworth's in June 1975 and they were selling copies of "Let It Be" and "Yellow Submarine" for 99 cents. I was shocked because even in those days you NEVER saw Beatle albums on sale. You might see their solo albums on sale but that was it. I bought five copies of each and tried to give them away to friends and NOBODY wanted them.
They were like "Aw man! Nobody cares about The Beatles anymore. This is the 70s my man! Now if you want to give away some K.C. & The Sunshine Band albums, I'll take one.
Those guys are BAD! Shake..shake..shake 🎶🎵 shake shake shake 🎶 Shake yer bootie!"🤮
Now that thar shows real brilliance from your friends lol
@@ronk2577 Yes. Sometimes you're better off going for quality friends than quantity.
That was the year I bought my first Beatle album. I was 9 years old and worked at my grandparents apartment building they managed until I had enough to buy it. It was on 8-track and I can vividly remember asking the hippie that worked there "Are these guys any good?" lol... It was Meet the Beatles and I never looked back. It most certainly wasn't on Sale....i can't ever remember them on sale and almost always sold out.
@@markharrison9544 I don't think I've ever seen a Beatles 8-track. I hated those 8-tracks. The way they would stop in the middle of a song and click to the next track was so annoying. Capitol Records really screwed over American record buyers when it came to The Beatles. The first Beatles album I ever bought was Help! and it's nowhere near as good as the Parlophone edition sold in the UK. The U.S. Capitol version contained 8 Beatles song and some of background music from the movie. The UK version has 14 Beatles songs. "Meet The Beatles" hasn't been issued in 35 years. They stopped issuing Capitol versions in 1987 when The first Beatles CDs came out. You probably know all this stuff. I'm 64 now but I've been a fan since age 5 when I watched them on Ed Sullivan.
@@ldchappell1 I had quite a few Beatles 8-tracks back when I was four years old in 1981. I couldn't put a record up on a turntable, but I could pop an 8-track into the deck. That was easy. 8-tracks weren't reliable and didn't last long, but if you had a really good tape deck on a good stereo system, they could sound amazing! I've always had a place in my heat for the American Capitol albums, because that's what I grew up on from my mom's collection. Took me a good while to get used to the UK versions. I still think that side two of the UK "Help!" is a mess. All of those songs sounded so much better on their American counterparts like "Beatles VI" and of course "I've Just Seen A Face" opening the American "Rubber Soul."
Just for the record, so to speak, --while it's true that Magical Mystery Tour was broadcast initially in B&W, that was just the first showing, on BBC1 television on 12/26/67. It was broadcast in color on BBC2 on 1/5/68. Either way, it was still an incoherent mess of a film, but with great music.
And worth thre watch just for Lennon’s I Am The Walrus, tubeless!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine I would not disagree.
Please tell, what was the Nirvana lick???
Love the video, Love The Beatles.
Thank you.
I’ll review and will address that in a future video, Muz!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Thank you very muchly. Subbed and looking forward to more of your videos.
Ram is a great album. Pretty much go the opposite way on anything Rolling Stone writes.
Ram is a Masterpiece, JJ!
George brought in Billy Preston because The Beatles weren't getting along and he felt Billy would improve the mood/vibe. (The group would be on their best behavior.) But, John said they brought in Preston because the album was recorded as a live studio album (no overdubs); so they needed Billy to play the keyboard parts that McCartney would have otherwise overdubbed.
Agree. I loved it!!!!
BEWARE: This release ("Get Back" Blu-Ray/DVD) does not contain full versions of "Long and Winding Road", "Let It Be", "For You Blue", "I Me Mine" and "Two of Us". Think about it: That's HALF the "Let It Be" album missing! So, no, it's not a finished product (2:03). No excuse to withhold any songs. How much longer do fans have to wait?
As always well done Mike! I never give Disney another dime!
@Kevin Brady I cancelled mine after watching Let it Be….was surprised I was not on it month….to month….sobs hae my money until December. After that, adios Disney
@@rikkousa To each his/her own.
Christmas makes me think of the BEATLES, and the BEATLES make me think of Christmas .even 'GET BACK' took a lot of my time over the Winter. and when I got '8 Days a Week' on DVD for XMAS, I watched it, and don't you know it ends w/the radio Christmas show w/ the Fab 4?
Me too, Tony!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine thanx, Mike. since I'm back here again, I left you an overdue "thumbs up".
*"WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, AND WRONG AGAIN!!!!!"* (6:20) "Magical Mystery Tour" was a TV special broadcast in *FULL COLOUR* in the early days of British colour TV. The special has been issued on DVD in *FULL COLOUR!!!* I have the DVD!
#MYTH 21 ...Magical Mystery Tour may have debuted in Black & White on 26th Dec 1967 but this is because the BBC's main black & white channel had much higher audience figures than it's sister colour channel BBC2 ( for all sorts pf reasons which i will not go into here ) which had began colour broadcasts in 1967 & a full colour service from the first week of December 1967. As it was the film was in fact repeated on BBC2 IN COLOUR in the first week of January 1968 so it was a myth that it was not shown in colour, however even if it had debuted in colour on BBC2 only a handful of people would have been able to see it as PAL 625 ( the HD of it's day ) colour TV sets were in their infancy.
John got away with Yoko being there because he was John. They did not f*** with him, to his face that is. Love the scene where Maccas working early birth of Get Back, then John waltzes in and the electricity in the room gravitates.
that was awesome thank you
Id love to chat Beatles with ya all day man, I think share many of the same opinons. Great work and a pleasure listening. Thx!
Thanx, Eric! Ditto, man!
Greetings Michael ✌️, Last year in an interview with Peter Jackson, He (Jackson) was wanting to release on DVD an even LONGER version of Get Back something like 3 hours MORE of footage including more complete songs instead of just snippets like on the 3 part Disney series, I guess this would be a Directors Cut so to say, but I guess Disney wasnt sold on the idea, So Jackson asked Beatle fans to petition Disney as well as Apple to allow for this to happen. -Also Michael you mentioned some songs like Back Seat Of My Car, Gimme Some Truth and All Things Must Pass would have been Beatle Songs had they came out with an album following Abbey Road and Let it Be, -Heres a Complete list of songs from 1966 -1969 that could have been a 71 album release:1.Come and Get it (Had Paul Not given this song to Badfinger) 2.Long Lost John (From the Lennon Anthology, a song by Lonnie Donegan that John sang with The Quarrymen) 3. Early 1970 ( a Ringo song with John and George recorded in the fall of 1970, Allen Klien got John to call Paul to invite him to perform on this song as a ploy to disrupt his Lawsuit against him and the other 3 Beatles) --4.Hot-- As Sun (McCartney song) 5.Crippled Inside (Black Dog Blues that John sang on Let it Be sessions) 6.Teddy Boy (McCartney song) 7.Look At Me ( Lennon song written in India) --8.Id-- Have Anytime (Harrison co- wrote with Dylan during Thanksgiving holiday 1968) 8. Everynight (McCartney song from the Let it Be Sessions) 9. Jealous Guy (Lennon song from India titled Child of Nature) 10. Step inside Love (McCartney song given to Cilla Black) 11.Woke Up in the Morning ( A.K.A.Because I Love You So - Early Lennon/McCartney compostion performed during the Let it Be sessions)12. Suicide (McCartney song performed on the Let it Be sessions) 13.It Dont Come Easy (Ringo song originally titled Got To Pay Your Dues)14. Let it Down (Harrison song performed on Let it Be sessions)15. Another Day (McCartney song from the Let it Be sessions) 16. Art of Dying (Harrison song written back in 1966) 17. Imagine (Lennon song performed on the Let it Session, a snippet can be heard on the Fly on the Wall disc from Let it Be Naked CD) 18. Junk (McCartney song written in India) 19. Oh My Love (Lennon song written in India)20.Maybe Im Amazed (McCartney song,Written in the fall of 1969) 21. Mind Games (Lennon song originally titled, Make Love Not War) 22.Isnt it Pity (Harrison song) 23. Goodbye (McCartney song written for Mary Hopkin) 24.Oh Yoko (Lennon song written in India) 25. Dehra Dun ( Harrison song written in India) 26.Remember (Lennon song written during the Abbey Road sessions) 27. Wah Wah (Harrison song)28. Cold Turkey (Lennon song rejected by the other 3 Beatles) 29. Not Guilty (Harrison song unrealeased from The Beatles White Album) 30. Run of the Mill (Harrison song written in 69) 31 Behind That Locked Door (Harrison song) 32. Awaiting On You All (Harrison song written in late 69) -Well Baby Please Dont Go ( a song by Thee Olympics Performed by The Beatles during the Cavern days in Liverpool, sang by John on Lennon Anthology)
I agree with your previous statement that their should be an edited,more digestible DVD. I miss the Two Of Us,Let It Be and Long & Winding performances that were on an earlier dvd edition ( bootleg?). It lead right into the roof top performance. It was jarring to watch it any other way! I’m sure those in the studio performances are in the new official dvd boxset,which I have co-incidentally, but I have to watch in several sittings.
pfffttt Rolling Stone that magazine that bashed every Led Zeppelin album so screw them !!! Let It Be is one of my top Beatles albums I like the raw in studio feel of the album and really enjoy the Get Back film more than the original Let It Be film. Ram is considered as one of Paul's best so of course critics bashed it. Great job breaking the myths Michael. cheers !!! - VK
Thanx, brother!
After you left Royce tonight, several of us shouted you out!
Were your ears burnin’ Bruddah???
And I agree regarding RAM! It’s not just Paul’s best album (besides McCartney, of course!), it’s a true Masterpiece IMO!❤️😉👌✌️🪲!!!
@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Oh really? I was only able to jump in for a bit as I was leaving a street fest and on the bus home. I will watch the replay of the show in the next day or so. thanks for the support and maybe sometime I will come up the show sometime. cheers-VK
Don't bother me is one of my favorite Beatles songs
Is Get Back a remixed and re-edited Let It Be? 🤔🤔🤔
5 out of 4 stars is pretty good. Nice video enjoyed it. Thanks
Thanx, Mark! And I meant all 5 outta 4!😉
Hey Michael I didn’t get to watch the whole documentary for a variety of reasons, but I love your analysis, I’m a huge Beatles fan and I think the motivation to describe to the different Beatles etc. was perfect. Obviously it’s extrapolation but for as far as we could possibly know I think you’re probably accurate.
Don’t pay for Disney+, find a friend that has it and use their account to watch it. Disney doesn’t deserve any more money.
I agree JJ! Disney has become a joke!
It wouldn’t surprise me, if Jann Wenner was on their board!
I missed this the first time, it just popped in my feed.
I'd love to see things like this but I hate when they're on Disney+.
Being one that never saw the original film (I know, sacrilege) this "reedited" version sounds more interesting.
You talk about the Beatles' summer releases? What about the Beach Boys,? They weren't exactly slouches in the 'summer releases' department!
I saw Let it Be Film in 1971 on Wilshire Blvd, LA.
" Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the Glenn..." Who knew? George Martin had a successful track record before the Beatles, producing albums by Flanders & Swann, Peter Sellers and the Goons.
I had the pleasure of been at the Liverpool lads last gig ,, i was in the street below..Iv got a feeling blew us away .
In my opinion Hogg came off as a douch' bag. He wasn't supportive at all. He was worried the band would break up before he was finished filming.
See the scene where Linda lights into him
You need to stop pointing at me while you are talking. Lol