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Sexy Sadie for John is a great piano part I think.

Great pianist who was massively ripped off, never got any royalties

Great. Yes please to Nicky Hopkins.

Thank you Martin.

LOL

cool

Always loved how he really got cookin’ on the outro of the Stones’s song “Salt of the Earth” on the album “Beggars Banquet”.

Great article on Nicky Hopkins the best, playing with all those major bands! You really know how to play your piano!!

Thats actually a good idea

When you started playing I am the Walrus, I could hear the music kick in automatically in my head. I got chills. Many childhood listenings of the Beatles are ingrained in me but I didn’t expect that from I am the Walrus maybe bc we didn’t own the album when I was growing up.

His work with QMS was pretty fine, as well.

Good insight, Martin! Thanks! Been learning a lot from studying your videos

Hopkin's playing on Steve Miller's "Baby's House" is beautiful. I have read that the solo section was improvised that day at the studio. Truly gorgeous.

Thank you for making and sharing with us this gift of a video. Lovely.

Great music with everyday's lyrics. Thank you ❤

His work on War is Over was a perfect touch too

Your word choice is very interesting haha

Haha, I am quite new to songwriting. This idea of writing new words on existing melody has been on my mind lately. If the story is boring, the brilliant melody cannot help. It makes me realize that I don't need beautiful melodies like Paul's to have a good song.

Are you a piano teacher

Who played piano on their early hits like "You Like Me Too Much"?

It's good but the original song is better😅😊

Are you Tenor?

Es de george

Hopkins on Time waits for no one will produce little bumps on your arms ! Mick Taylor not bad either .

Good music theory to point out. 😅Paul, fortunately for us all, grew up in a home with a piano. Most of us as fans of his have probably heard that, and that his father played in dance bands. That gives any child more opportunity to learn and develop their ear from an early age, if they’re interested. Of course lots of other kids have grown up with a piano in their home, but Paul obviously really wanted to play. I think that because Paul played piano, it gave him a better sense of how music, (chords & scales) is laid out, and enhanced his approach with guitar playing. Combination of talent, opportunity and passion is something that all the Beatles kind of shared, especially when they became a band and lived together for months at a time playing bars in Germany.

4:30 I kinda doubt it's John's. You can see on the video this part is done by Nicky. I only wonder who wrote it... I think it was Nicky's ideas.

I am shocked that when showing John Lennon's piano style... you did not use "Imagine".. for the example....

Although I had heard his name before, I never realized his importance until I read his obituary in the early 90's in the newspaper. I remember thinking "Wow, this guy was incredible" as I read all the tracks he played on. Glad he's finally getting his due. His first solo album is great as well.

George being my favorite beatle, yet asking about chords and stuff makes me feel a lot better about learning piano, that even the greats dont know every little thing and its helping put this all into perspective

I enjoyed your post, and also all the mentions in the comments of songs and artists that feature Nicky Hopkins' piano. I'd like to add his piano on Wooden Ships w/Jefferson Airplane..

I like his piano part in "Citadel." What else would a piano player do with a song like that? He found the exact right addition.

“Don’t pass me by” wasn’t that Ringo on piano?

The way Hey Bulldog is played, I had literally no idea it started on Piano, to the point that seeing you play it on piano and it sound *exactly* like the song threw me off

Nicky Hopkins was the best

This non musician appreciates your explanations. May I suggest that you pronounce the H in the word thirds? Some of us small minded people hear something different.

What a great pianist you are!

This is great sir. Thank you. Glad the algorithm found your channel. This is right up my street. Going to practice ‘Angie’ now.

WOW! A piano lesson with The Beatles! 😂 Great STUFF! ❤

this vid nicely illustrates a key element of hopkins: he intuitively knew piano's role in rock-n-roll. he was never flashy or trying to lead, that's the electric guitar's duty; the keys were there to fill in the spaces with rhythm, lines, color. no one built mortar better.

I think 1984 is his best.

the really importan music of beatles was composed by george martin. lennon and mc artney just learned how to play what martin composed.

if you lived here you could have just gone and seen him. in 1975 in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in OKC he played the first notes of Great Balls of Fire and several women shrieked. He instantly stopped and said, "We'll get to it." just toying with the audience. in 1973 in Tulsa I was close enough to touch him. a woman at the edge of the stage with a beehive hairdo was scowling at him and he stopped mid-song and said, "I want to know what YOUR problem is." She said, "I came here to see the real jerry lee lewis (meaning the ountry singer. rock and blues were clearly his love). He said, "baby, what do you think this is?" then he said, "what do you want to hear?" she nsmed some country song and he played it for her. At the end there was a mad riot where the audience went nuts. i picked up his plastic glass of coke as a souvenir. Outside, I took a drink. It was bourbon and coke mixed half and half. at that time he looked great, sounded great. i thought, "he looks so young." he was. he'd just already been famous a long time. I was twenty.

oh wow ..... if i could sub twice ... i would

No wonder Ray Davies can find the right words, but this is exactly how I would define Nicky’s work myself. Turn an ordinary track into a gem.

Brilliant insight and demonstration of Nicky's keyboard skills.

Very nice 👍

My friend Nicky he was a really nice guy In the best possible way The industry made him sick RIP my friend

Paul was the most accomplished Beatle on all instruments: piano, guitar, bass and maybe even drums.

I never knew Nicky played piano on "Revolution." Many thanks!

Nicky is amazing.....Two of my all time favorite Nicky pieces are Angie (which you covered) and George Harrison's The Light That Has Lighted The World. His playing on both songs really make them what they are. He was awesome!