As the sun begins to sit on my generation that grew up along side of the Beatles, it’s good to know that people that weren’t even alive when they broke up continue to discover them and realize what a treasure they were. We were right.
The first time I heard the Beatles was in 1963, I was 10 years old. Their music has been the soundtrack of my life. I totally agree that it brings me joy to see younger people realize how magical and impactful they were - not only as a group, but individually.
@@nanook8721 I think I probably heard The Beatles for the first time in 1963 too. I lived in the Los Angeles area (Long Beach/San Pedro) at the time and used to ride all over the place on my bike with a transistor radio plugged into one ear, listening the the latest hits. Boy, the summer of 1963 was a great time in Los Angeles at the time. I was only 8. I later learned that "From Me to You" was a local hit in Los Angeles in 1963, before they took America by storm the following February. That's always been one of my favorite early Beatles songs.
We knew that we were hearing great music but we didn't waste our time fretting about where and how it fit into the history of music and we were much more aware of and appreciative of the music that preceded it than today which is evidenced by so many reactors posting on RUclips these days...
@@L33Reacts The Beatles are supposed to make you happy and feel love and be silly and feel joy (and refject your sadness) but most of all fun. They didn't always take themselves seriously, nor did they always take us (the fans) seriously, but it was a good time all round. That's how I hope you feel their music.
Teacher here. I showed this to my 7th grade class the last week of school. They weren't exactly sure who the Beatles were. They are now! #Beatlesforever.
You’re obviously an enlightened teacher. That was probably one of the most meaningful classes you took, the results will last for the lives of your pupils. 👍👏🎶🎶🎶
The fact that they got up and played live like that after a few weeks rehearsal, writing songs as they went and almost falling apart - it pleases me no end. Just a great unit to watch live.
Give this a thought. Can you imagine any other group in history having anything close to this, be their last ever performance and appearence? What a fire way to go out, and on top of the world, to boot!!!
THIS IS THE MUSIC FROM MY GENERATION! I'M SO HAPPY TO SHARE IT! I REMEMBER MAKING OUT TO THIS SONG WITH A GORGEOUS FOOTBALL PLAYER NAMED LANCE! AHHH WONDERFUL MEMORIES...
Here's a lovely quote that I think is spot on regarding Ringo's reputation as a drummer. John Lennon once said: "Ringo is the best friend a song ever had".
230 songs and 12 original UK albums were completed in an eight-year span before any of the Beatles were 30 years old. They were the Mozarts of their era-the best of the best.
The rooftop touches me every time I watch it. Just incredible. There’s The Beatles and then everyone else. Not the Stones. Not Zeppelin. Nobody touches them
In April of 1970 when at long last The Beatles announced they were splitting up-it literally brought tears to people's eyes and when on the horrible day just over 10 years later people were heart broken and crying tears by the millions -the dream was truly over. The joy-full sound the Beatles made has echoed ever since !
In I believe in the first take of don’t let me down,John just forgets the words in the “I guess nobody ever really done me” part,and don’t know if I’m right but I think it’s the first take
They worked so well live, it was what they enjoyed the most and were never as narky to each other when playing live as they were in the studio. They "got back to where they once belonged" and loved it.
To me, this is the best example of why they should have continued playing live shows. Yes, they needed a break by ‘66, and yes, the PA and stage gear was inadequate then…but a year or two later, the rock touring business had caught up. But the main point…you can see how much fun they still had performing together! Despite the personal/professional differences they were going through then, they were still a great rock band. 😞
This performance wouldn't be special if there were hundreds more. Quantity can sometimes betray quality. Also, they had to stop for their music to evolve.
@@MrKeychange a valid point for sure…but the Stones and The Who found that balance between touring and studio creativity, and that helped their longevity : )
@@jazzzman8050 Did they though? I think the Stones & Who became largely formulaic, outside one or two exceptions. You kind of knew what to expect. That's just my opinion of course. What about touring do you think would have improved the Beatles?
@@MrKeychange the joy of playing together, the continued appreciation of the rapport they’d built onstage over the years. They wouldn’t have to have gone mega tour, but a steady diet of playing together for a live audience would’ve helped imho.
In the Get Back documentary there were times when Lennon wasn't really engaged but they set up on the rooftop and he stepped up to the microphone in front of the live band and suddenly he was on fire.
The Beatles shook the world, more so in the U.S. where they landed in 1964. They went on The Ed Sullivan show, you couldn’t hear them sing, the audience was screaming too loud. The other British bands followed & we loved them all…what a gift to our ears! 🎸🥁🎹🎵🎤🎶🎼👏👏👏👏👍♥️
Have you seen Paul‘s recent performance of I Had a Feeling at Glastonbury where they incorporated John from the rooftop? When John’s face appeared on the big screen, it brought tears to my eyes.
1:15 It was INDEED the B-side to "Get Back" in April/May 1969, its first appearance. _Hey Jude_ was issued in the U.S. by Capitol in early 1970, *_before_* the _Let It Be_ album itself came out in May, so it's questionable as to "causality" of "Phil Spector leaving it out" of LIB. BTW "Apple Corps." is pronounced the same as "Apple core".
@@L33Reacts it wasn’t done so much for the level, but to shorten the ringing of the head to give it a very short, dry sound. You can hear this technique all over the later Beatles catalog - I personally love the dry sound, it’s very late 60s/70s.
Laura, thanks for requesting this. Watching this over and over never gets old even though I am. We were fortunate but took it for granted because we thought that this was the way music was supposed to be. Little did we know how precious those moments in time and that era really was.
You will notice the BASSMAN sticker on Paul's Hofner. At the start of this project he got a new Fender Bassman Bass Amp, which had this sticker. He removed it and stuck it on his bass.
Ringo said he was let down by the cops. Since they were being filmed he wanted them to drag him off his drums for the film, but they just stood there going "you got to turn that sound down"
As being an American and I had wondered how come the cops were so docile. Definitely aren't here and the Bobbies definitely didn't carry firearms over there then.
This is my second favorite Beatles song (my favorite is 'I've Got a Feeling,' also from the rooftop concert). There's such an ease about this. They're just so laid back and comfortable playing together. Despite whatever professional and personal differences they had going on, you see them here smiling at each other and loving what they're doing. You see this a lot during the Get Back documentary. Despite everything, they really liked playing together
This was the next to last song they did that day. They had performed Don't Let Me Down early in the concert as well. Get Back was the final track and it as interrupted by roadie Mal Evans turning off George and John's amp, George just reached over and turned it back on and Mal turned John's back on. After a few seconds their guitars and voices came back up. Meanwhile Paul and Billy just kept playing on. Get Back was the first two tracks in the concert. The first of these as abbreviated as it was a soundcheck for the tape engineers downstairs. Get Back take no, 2 was the best.
I saw The Beatles in Jacksonville, Fla in 1964 at the Gator Bowl stadium at the end of a hurricane. It was my first concert ever...and my girlfriends mom, drive us 175 miles to attend. I was 13 years old. She pulled up to a massively crowded parking lot ( nightime). Karen and I jumped out, promising to meet up at that spot, and went in. 2 little girls in a crowd of tens of thousands. We screamed the whole time, like most everybody and I bought an "I Love Ringo" big button pin. Karen bought "I Love George". College girls behind us laughed at our giddiness and were protective. Then we left, driving 3 hours home on the 95. Surreal.
Great tune! Lee, be sure to watch the Peter Jackson-directed miniseries called "Get Back"! It's a great re-work of the "Let It Be" film from 1970. It's great! It's a documentary of the making of the Let It Be album and, wow, it's amazing!
FYI, that's not the album version they did on the roof - or the full song. Really recommend watching all 9 hours of "Get Back" on Disney+, man. To be able to watch them as a fly on the wall as they record an album and hang out together, for a fan, is just an incredible experience. The only thing that breaks your heart after finishing it is the disappointment that they didn't continue the filming during the making of "Abbey Road" afterwards, as seeing them record "Abbey Road" would have been an incredible insight to the STUDIO side of what they did, as a companion to the more "just play" project of what became the "Let it Be" album.
They all play off each other so incredibly well - it's the classic sum being greater than the total of the parts - Paul's bass in this is wonderful, those runs, and the accents before the chorus. George plays that descending lead line in the verses, Ringo is just perfect. Everything just gels, and it's got soul too. 🙂 I agree with the others suggesting I've Got a Feeling (take 1) next. And that's not just being pedantic on the "take 1" - they nail it!). Also love I Dig a Pony, but anything from the roof is a joy to behold.
The films show, locals down on the street -some interviewed "OH, the Beatles, new music" or "this is groovy" or "this is interrupting work" - Young Women in mini-skirts, old gent's smoking a pipe, taxi drivers, Business Gents' - who were on the street, looking out windows, on other roofs. The London Police arrived, and they did turn off an amplifier - got turned back on -Ringo later said that he wanted to be pulled off his drums, as it was being filmed, yet the Police let the band finish. I was born 19 days after this. (In Ohio) Yet, I've done pilgrimage in Britain to Liverpool, to Abbey Road, and to this building on Saville. Have been a fan since 1978,
everything may have been said already, but it's really beautiful that you are seeing it through fresh eyes... and finding a new appreciation of your own.
I always love it when someone who reacts to Beatles songs gives a mention of Sir George Martin. It shows they understand how instrumental he was to their growth. His fingerprints, along with the engineers', are all over the Beatles catalog. He was a facilitator, mentor, and teacher who saw the vision and helped make it happen.
The Beatles really enjoyed and wanted to play live together; they quit touring largely because the fans were so out of control, the Beatles didn't want to be in the circus any longer. But if they hadn't stopped, we wouldn't have the brilliant studio catalog that followed. Albums such as Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, or Revolver might not have been made. I can't imagine a world without these musical gems.
Woohoo! Rooftop gig! I'm sure you'd agree that everything this gig is just perfect! And the sound man! Whenever I record anything outside it sounds like a bag of spanners😅
George's all rosewood Telecaster is one of the most valuable guitars in the world. He gave it away Delaney or Delaine and Bonnie was repurchase by George's widow in auction. It sounds so good thru the Fender Twin Reverb amp. Ringo is the father of 10,000 drummers. Boys saw him on the Ed Sullivan show and decided that is what they wanted to do. Including me and it served me well as a professional drummer for 50 years and made me a very good living.
For me one of the things about the rooftop concert is it was so good it just left us all heartbroken that that was the end of it. I was 14 when the first Beatles song came out. So I grew with the Beatles. And what a sign off.I remember getting the Sergeant peppers album and opening it and passing the album cover around the room as we were just having our minds blown. I was 17. One thing that I've often thought though. Of course their music would always stand for itself but I think the break up is why they became an obsession even more of an obsession than they already were to the world. We just couldn't believe it!!! Those of us that grew up with them being the soundtrack of our youth. Just could not believe they broke up. How could a bandlike that break up. Of course they had great solo careers which we were all grateful for
When you've fully explored most of the Beatles stuff on your channel you should definitely go and watch the whole Get Back film off camera for your own enjoyment. It's incredible to see the Beatles hanging out, composing the songs we all know together etc. You would love it.
Too short right? They should have come in for one more chorus 😉 Their final public performance - and not one of them had reached age 30. This is one of Lennon’s all time greatest songs; Dear Prudence; Jealous Guy; Imagine; Beautiful Boy; …
ABBA was offered one-billion to reunite for 100 concerts, but declined. I guess once you are worth so many millions, additional money becomes meaningless.
They were such a tight band! Hundreds of nights in The Cavern and the clubs of Hamburg let them hone their craft to a fine edge. John, Paul and George started playing together in their mid to late teens and became young men with each other. We'll never see their like again.
I saw the entire rooftop concert in high fidelity sound at the R&R Hall of Fame in Cleveland last year. It was so unbelievably good. After not playing together for a few years, they could pull off such a great concert.
If you haven't watched the documentary about the album and rooftop concert, I highly recommend it. Actually, Ron Howard did a documentary on the early years (touring, etc) so if you watch that doc followed by the documentary with the rooftop concert, you'll get a great overview of their career as a band. Interesting stuff.
I definitely can't hear this song anymore without picturing in my mind's eye Billy on the keyboards playing his heart out❤ I don't know how you'll ever find time to watch the get back sessions. But if you want to see The Beatles creativity this is where to see it. Also when Paul was trying to figure out how to do get back.... Priceless I hope you see at least that clip
Remember the controversy when Lennon said that they were more popular then Jeus with young people. He backed off on that a little and tried to explain what he meant. He was into Karl Marx also and read quite few of his writings. There is reference to that in Don Mclean's song, "American Pie", " And while Lennon read a book on Marx the quartet practiced in the park."
Although I had the Spring Single of Get Back and this song, one of my fav recollections of this track was shopping in a department store that summer in the clothes dept and the lady's section had a juke box with this record and the ladies were playing this song over and over for the entire time I was shopping. It wasn't on the radio much and I thought these women know what's good.
So Lee, you like Paul's violin bass? Well, I have that exact same 1963 Hofner bass, but you're gonna have to fly to California to see it. I might even let you play it for 10 minutes, if you beg me!
By this point, they had not performed live (except for All you need is love on broadcast) since Candlestick Park in 1966 when they stopped touring. They focused on LSD, Pot, new technology and recording in the studio at night, sometimes solo, duo, trio,..........and writing new songs. This was an impromptu, "oh shit,....let's just do it on the roof and be done with it." moment where they were planning on Mt. Everest, the Pyramids, the Collesium or something big, but at the last moment, do the simplest thing they can think of.
As the sun begins to sit on my generation that grew up along side of the Beatles, it’s good to know that people that weren’t even alive when they broke up continue to discover them and realize what a treasure they were. We were right.
Yeah you were
I feel the same.
The first time I heard the Beatles was in 1963, I was 10 years old. Their music has been the soundtrack of my life. I totally agree that it brings me joy to see younger people realize how magical and impactful they were - not only as a group, but individually.
I'm only 64. The sun isn't setting on me anytime soon! But I will say I was only 9 when this came out.
@@nanook8721 I think I probably heard The Beatles for the first time in 1963 too. I lived in the Los Angeles area (Long Beach/San Pedro) at the time and used to ride all over the place on my bike with a transistor radio plugged into one ear, listening the the latest hits. Boy, the summer of 1963 was a great time in Los Angeles at the time. I was only 8. I later learned that "From Me to You" was a local hit in Los Angeles in 1963, before they took America by storm the following February. That's always been one of my favorite early Beatles songs.
There’s a reason the Beatles skyrocketed as soon as Ringo joined. As you said, he fit like a glove.
He really did. Such a unique sound he got and it fit the duality of pop and psychedelic so well
While I agree he was perfect for them, they were about to sky rocket anyways as he was brought in after they got signed
Believe me, we DID know how blessed and lucky we were
We knew that we were hearing great music but we didn't waste our time fretting about where and how it fit into the history of music and we were much more aware of and appreciative of the
music that preceded it than today which is evidenced by so many reactors posting on RUclips these days...
Watch the rest of the rooftop. All the songs are 🔥 🦱🦱🦱🦰🐞
Lee the smile on your face is the best thing you can add
I appreciate that my friend. They really do make me happy lol
@@L33Reacts Love it! It's the best part.
@@L33Reacts The Beatles are supposed to make you happy and feel love and be silly and feel joy (and refject your sadness) but most of all fun. They didn't always take themselves seriously, nor did they always take us (the fans) seriously, but it was a good time all round. That's how I hope you feel their music.
Teacher here. I showed this to my 7th grade class the last week of school. They weren't exactly sure who the Beatles were. They are now! #Beatlesforever.
You’re obviously an enlightened teacher. That was probably one of the most meaningful classes you took, the results will last for the lives of your pupils. 👍👏🎶🎶🎶
Paul's bass sounds so thick and supple. He's always been so instinctive and melodic. It's like his bass lines thread under and within the sound.
I found it amazing that they hadn’t performed live in almost 2 years when they hit the rooftop. They made it look so easy.
Billy Preston made big contributions to this album.
"I'd like to thank you all on behalf of the band and I hope we passed the audition."
The fact you can’t stop smiling during this says it all. You have to watch the Get Back documentary at some point - 9 hours of pure Beatles joy.
The Beatles were on their own and still are. Really a miracle of a band
The fact that they got up and played live like that after a few weeks rehearsal, writing songs as they went and almost falling apart - it pleases me no end. Just a great unit to watch live.
The Beatles showing they could still perform live great. Definitely do more of this rooftop concert
He finished it! The last episode just came out 😮
Ringo putting tea towels over his drums is where that started to improve their sound
One thing I love about this is that you can see that ultimately, they still really love when they're actually out there performing in front of people.
Give this a thought. Can you imagine any other group in history having anything close to this, be their last ever performance and appearence?
What a fire way to go out, and on top of the world, to boot!!!
Something that will never be duplicated
THIS IS THE MUSIC FROM MY GENERATION! I'M SO HAPPY TO SHARE IT! I REMEMBER MAKING OUT TO THIS SONG WITH A GORGEOUS FOOTBALL PLAYER NAMED LANCE! AHHH WONDERFUL MEMORIES...
How can it get any better. 4 musicians letting their hair down & giving us a last look at them live with some great tunes. Epic.
It doesn’t. You are so right. This is the end but also the beginning of everything that followed :)
Actually 5 musicians, including Billy Preston on keyboards!!
Minus the police would be better.
Here's a lovely quote that I think is spot on regarding Ringo's reputation as a drummer. John Lennon once said: "Ringo is the best friend a song ever had".
230 songs and 12 original UK albums were completed in an eight-year span before any of the Beatles were 30 years old. They were the Mozarts of their era-the best of the best.
"Talk to me like I'm a four year old" Love it!
😂😂😂
The rooftop touches me every time I watch it. Just incredible. There’s The Beatles and then everyone else. Not the Stones. Not Zeppelin. Nobody touches them
I agree 👍 nothing comes close!
We didn't think at the time, "This stuff is going to be timeless" - at least I didn't. We just dug it. Now we know.
Some did!
In April of 1970 when at long last The Beatles announced they were splitting up-it literally brought tears to people's eyes and when on the horrible day just over 10 years later people were heart broken and crying tears by the millions -the dream was truly over. The joy-full sound the Beatles made has echoed ever since !
Your comments brought tears to my eyes, bringing a flood of memories, good and bad. I'm 71, hopeless Beatlemaniac since age 10!!!
In I believe in the first take of don’t let me down,John just forgets the words in the “I guess nobody ever really done me” part,and don’t know if I’m right but I think it’s the first take
The Beatles are the best My favorite band of all time ❤
They worked so well live, it was what they enjoyed the most and were never as narky to each other when playing live as they were in the studio. They "got back to where they once belonged" and loved it.
To me, this is the best example of why they should have continued playing live shows. Yes, they needed a break by ‘66, and yes, the PA and stage gear was inadequate then…but a year or two later, the rock touring business had caught up. But the main point…you can see how much fun they still had performing together! Despite the personal/professional differences they were going through then, they were still a great rock band. 😞
This performance wouldn't be special if there were hundreds more. Quantity can sometimes betray quality. Also, they had to stop for their music to evolve.
@@MrKeychange a valid point for sure…but the Stones and The Who found that balance between touring and studio creativity, and that helped their longevity : )
@@jazzzman8050 Did they though? I think the Stones & Who became largely formulaic, outside one or two exceptions. You kind of knew what to expect. That's just my opinion of course.
What about touring do you think would have improved the Beatles?
@@MrKeychange the joy of playing together, the continued appreciation of the rapport they’d built onstage over the years. They wouldn’t have to have gone mega tour, but a steady diet of playing together for a live audience would’ve helped imho.
In the Get Back documentary there were times when Lennon wasn't really engaged but they set up on the rooftop and he stepped up to the microphone in front of the live band and suddenly he was on fire.
This is so good .... well, it is the Beatles
lol right??
I still get a lot of emotion watching these. Seeing them playing together and having a good time.
The thing that's mind-blowing is you're probably not even halfway done with songs that will blow you away.
Not even close to halfway!
The Beatles shook the world, more so in the U.S. where they landed in 1964. They went on The Ed Sullivan show, you couldn’t hear them sing, the audience was screaming too loud. The other British bands followed & we loved them all…what a gift to our ears! 🎸🥁🎹🎵🎤🎶🎼👏👏👏👏👍♥️
This was absolutely fantastic
Totally! I have so much fun with his videos 😂
Have you seen Paul‘s recent performance of I Had a Feeling at Glastonbury where they incorporated John from the rooftop? When John’s face appeared on the big screen, it brought tears to my eyes.
Not blocked Beatles Sunday! Yay!
So glad to be a Boomer, born in '53, we had the best music ever, from the 1940's to probably 2000's!!😂
1:15 It was INDEED the B-side to "Get Back" in April/May 1969, its first appearance. _Hey Jude_ was issued in the U.S. by Capitol in early 1970, *_before_* the _Let It Be_ album itself came out in May, so it's questionable as to "causality" of "Phil Spector leaving it out" of LIB. BTW "Apple Corps." is pronounced the same as "Apple core".
Putting t-towels on his drums was a trick the engineers started to help Ringo's drum have a balanced level.
Plus he was trying to get a drum sound similar to that of Levon Helm (The Band).
Ahhhh ok makes sense. Thank you! 🙏
@@L33Reacts it wasn’t done so much for the level, but to shorten the ringing of the head to give it a very short, dry sound. You can hear this technique all over the later Beatles catalog - I personally love the dry sound, it’s very late 60s/70s.
Watching these Beatles videos with you feels like I'm watching them for the first time.
The most iconic performance ever ❤❤
Laura, thanks for requesting this. Watching this over and over never gets old even though I am. We were fortunate but took it for granted because we thought that this was the way music was supposed to be. Little did we know how precious those moments in time and that era really was.
The Beatles a gift to the world
You will notice the BASSMAN sticker on Paul's Hofner. At the start of this project he got a new Fender Bassman Bass Amp, which had this sticker. He removed it and stuck it on his bass.
Ringo said he was let down by the cops. Since they were being filmed he wanted them to drag him off his drums for the film, but they just stood there going "you got to turn that sound down"
Haha poor Ringo… never gets respect lol
@L33Reacts poor Ringo, he can't even get arrested.
As being an American and I had wondered how come the cops were so docile. Definitely aren't here and the Bobbies definitely didn't carry firearms over there then.
If you watch the Peter Jackson GET BACK documentary, the cops acted very decently.
This is my second favorite Beatles song (my favorite is 'I've Got a Feeling,' also from the rooftop concert). There's such an ease about this. They're just so laid back and comfortable playing together. Despite whatever professional and personal differences they had going on, you see them here smiling at each other and loving what they're doing. You see this a lot during the Get Back documentary. Despite everything, they really liked playing together
Great to see you enjoying this performance so much, awesome
If you can find it...the rooftop live version of Get Back is great.
I need more Beatles!! Play the last song one after 909 ❤
Watch the Get Back documentary. It's the Beatles theirselves showing their creation process during their last weeks together. Awesome.
Apple Corps, pronounced core. The pun is clearly intentional. Good to see this again! It has been a while since I watched Get Back.
This was the next to last song they did that day. They had performed Don't Let Me Down early in the concert as well. Get Back was the final track and it as interrupted by roadie Mal Evans turning off George and John's amp, George just reached over and turned it back on and Mal turned John's back on. After a few seconds their guitars and voices came back up. Meanwhile Paul and Billy just kept playing on. Get Back was the first two tracks in the concert. The first of these as abbreviated as it was a soundcheck for the tape engineers downstairs. Get Back take no, 2 was the best.
I saw The Beatles in Jacksonville, Fla in 1964 at the Gator Bowl stadium at the end of a hurricane. It was my first concert ever...and my girlfriends mom, drive us 175 miles to attend. I was 13 years old.
She pulled up to a massively crowded parking lot ( nightime). Karen and I jumped out, promising to meet up at that spot, and went in.
2 little girls in a crowd of tens of thousands.
We screamed the whole time, like most everybody and I bought an "I Love Ringo" big button pin. Karen bought "I Love George".
College girls behind us laughed at our giddiness and were protective.
Then we left, driving 3 hours home on the 95.
Surreal.
Great tune! Lee, be sure to watch the Peter Jackson-directed miniseries called "Get Back"! It's a great re-work of the "Let It Be" film from 1970. It's great! It's a documentary of the making of the Let It Be album and, wow, it's amazing!
Yeah, watching George walking out when John and Paul weren't interested in his songs was like trying to not look at a car wreck...
More from this concert please
FYI, that's not the album version they did on the roof - or the full song. Really recommend watching all 9 hours of "Get Back" on Disney+, man. To be able to watch them as a fly on the wall as they record an album and hang out together, for a fan, is just an incredible experience. The only thing that breaks your heart after finishing it is the disappointment that they didn't continue the filming during the making of "Abbey Road" afterwards, as seeing them record "Abbey Road" would have been an incredible insight to the STUDIO side of what they did, as a companion to the more "just play" project of what became the "Let it Be" album.
Rubber Soul awaits !
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They all play off each other so incredibly well - it's the classic sum being greater than the total of the parts - Paul's bass in this is wonderful, those runs, and the accents before the chorus. George plays that descending lead line in the verses, Ringo is just perfect. Everything just gels, and it's got soul too. 🙂
I agree with the others suggesting I've Got a Feeling (take 1) next. And that's not just being pedantic on the "take 1" - they nail it!). Also love I Dig a Pony, but anything from the roof is a joy to behold.
The films show, locals down on the street -some interviewed "OH, the Beatles, new music" or "this is groovy" or "this is interrupting work" - Young Women in mini-skirts, old gent's smoking a pipe, taxi drivers, Business Gents' - who were on the street, looking out windows, on other roofs. The London Police arrived, and they did turn off an amplifier - got turned back on -Ringo later said that he wanted to be pulled off his drums, as it was being filmed, yet the Police let the band finish.
I was born 19 days after this. (In Ohio) Yet, I've done pilgrimage in Britain to Liverpool, to Abbey Road, and to this building on Saville. Have been a fan since 1978,
everything may have been said already, but it's really beautiful that you are seeing it through fresh eyes... and finding a new appreciation of your own.
Watch the video where they performed Revolution. It was played in the US on the Smothers Brothers show.
I always love it when someone who reacts to Beatles songs gives a mention of Sir George Martin. It shows they understand how instrumental he was to their growth. His fingerprints, along with the engineers', are all over the Beatles catalog. He was a facilitator, mentor, and teacher who saw the vision and helped make it happen.
The Beatles really enjoyed and wanted to play live together; they quit touring largely because the fans were so out of control, the Beatles didn't want to be in the circus any longer.
But if they hadn't stopped, we wouldn't have the brilliant studio catalog that followed. Albums such as Sgt. Pepper, Rubber Soul, or Revolver might not have been made. I can't imagine a world without these musical gems.
I’ve got a feeling you’ll love the rooftop performance of I’ve got a Feeling!
Woohoo! Rooftop gig! I'm sure you'd agree that everything this gig is just perfect! And the sound man! Whenever I record anything outside it sounds like a bag of spanners😅
George's all rosewood Telecaster is one of the most valuable guitars in the world. He gave it away Delaney or Delaine and Bonnie was repurchase by George's widow in auction. It sounds so good thru the Fender Twin Reverb amp. Ringo is the father of 10,000 drummers. Boys saw him on the Ed Sullivan show and decided that is what they wanted to do. Including me and it served me well as a professional drummer for 50 years and made me a very good living.
This song ALWAYS makes me cry....and I am sooo glad that I was alive to watch The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show when I was 10....
For me one of the things about the rooftop concert is it was so good it just left us all heartbroken that that was the end of it. I was 14 when the first Beatles song came out. So I grew with the Beatles. And what a sign off.I remember getting the Sergeant peppers album and opening it and passing the album cover around the room as we were just having our minds blown. I was 17. One thing that I've often thought though. Of course their music would always stand for itself but I think the break up is why they became an obsession even more of an obsession than they already were to the world. We just couldn't believe it!!! Those of us that grew up with them being the soundtrack of our youth. Just could not believe they broke up. How could a bandlike that break up. Of course they had great solo careers which we were all grateful for
I love everything possibly imaginable about this video 😊❤
You should watch I’ve got a feeling and get back from that same concert.
When you've fully explored most of the Beatles stuff on your channel you should definitely go and watch the whole Get Back film off camera for your own enjoyment. It's incredible to see the Beatles hanging out, composing the songs we all know together etc. You would love it.
Too short right? They should have come in for one more chorus 😉
Their final public performance - and not one of them had reached age 30.
This is one of Lennon’s all time greatest songs; Dear Prudence; Jealous Guy; Imagine; Beautiful Boy; …
The Beatles were offered 50 million dollars in 1973 to do a concert and they turned it down can you even imagine that
And that is when 50 million dollars was real money!
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Not compared to 50 years earlier 😁😉
That’s $343 million today (😮)
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ABBA was offered one-billion to reunite for 100 concerts, but declined.
I guess once you are worth so many millions, additional money becomes meaningless.
I enjoy your reactions. I highly recommend "Come Together" and "Get Back". They will not disappoint.
For almost 8 years they were pioneer ground breakers . After the Beatles broke up, they all had many # 1 singles and albums .for years .
Can’t forget the U2 tribute to this concert with Where The Streets Have No Name which ended with the same result 😊
A legendary moment in the music history. I love it. 🎶😘
I've watched that video over and over for years and I always get the same thrill....
This was on January 31st on the Rooftop of their recording studio in London. Their fingers were freezing.
They were such a tight band! Hundreds of nights in The Cavern and the clubs of Hamburg let them hone their craft to a fine edge. John, Paul and George started playing together in their mid to late teens and became young men with each other. We'll never see their like again.
The movie HELP has some terrific "live" segments of some of my favorites songs of theirs.
Hey, these guys are good! Haha! Peace!
I love thousands of songs, but I love this one the most. I have for almost 50 years.
I saw the entire rooftop concert in high fidelity sound at the R&R Hall of Fame in Cleveland last year. It was so unbelievably good. After not playing together for a few years, they could pull off such a great concert.
It was that good. It was chilly outside, Billy Preston playing the keyboard. Could listen to that a few more times and will. 🎸🎶
This is the last recording of the )Beatles together.
If you haven't watched the documentary about the album and rooftop concert, I highly recommend it. Actually, Ron Howard did a documentary on the early years (touring, etc) so if you watch that doc followed by the documentary with the rooftop concert, you'll get a great overview of their career as a band. Interesting stuff.
He did the towel thing on his toms to get that kinda muted sound... very signature Ringo.
Billy Preston, Paul and George create such an intricate melodic universe in the verses. George's lines in this are simply beautiful.
I definitely can't hear this song anymore without picturing in my mind's eye Billy on the keyboards playing his heart out❤
I don't know how you'll ever find time to watch the get back sessions. But if you want to see The Beatles creativity this is where to see it. Also when Paul was trying to figure out how to do get back.... Priceless I hope you see at least that clip
Remember the controversy when Lennon said that they were more popular then Jeus with young people.
He backed off on that a little and tried to explain what he meant.
He was into Karl Marx also and read quite few of his writings.
There is reference to that in Don Mclean's song, "American Pie",
" And while Lennon read a book on Marx the quartet practiced in the park."
Sounded so good for a live rooftop concert,and the bloody coppers had to pull the plug
Although I had the Spring Single of Get Back and this song, one of my fav recollections of this track was shopping in a department store that summer in the clothes dept and the lady's section had a juke box with this record and the ladies were playing this song over and over for the entire time I was shopping. It wasn't on the radio much and I thought these women know what's good.
So Lee, you like Paul's violin bass? Well, I have that exact same 1963 Hofner bass, but you're gonna have to fly to California to see it. I might even let you play it for 10 minutes, if you beg me!
I remember this being on the 6 o clock news on the night it happened. I think everyone outside of central london was so jealous. I certainty was.
Can you imagine being lucky enough to be there for that performance. OMG!!
We have Constables here too, they are called a “COP” (Constable On Patrol). In the UK they are also informally called a “Bobby.”
You should see the whole roof top concert.
Cant believe there end was a month away!
By this point, they had not performed live (except for All you need is love on broadcast) since Candlestick Park in 1966 when they stopped touring. They focused on LSD, Pot, new technology and recording in the studio at night, sometimes solo, duo, trio,..........and writing new songs. This was an impromptu, "oh shit,....let's just do it on the roof and be done with it." moment where they were planning on Mt. Everest, the Pyramids, the Collesium or something big, but at the last moment, do the simplest thing they can think of.