Leah H that's what I thought at first and that's why I try to learn from it. Even though it's about someone specific, its lyrics are universal enough that one can interpret it in a way to make it personal. That's what makes a song a good song :)
I guess it was in the late 70's - there was made a rather bizarre film about the Second World War and the music of The Beatles. They had taken clips from the progression of that war and mixed it with the songs of Beatles. The one song that stood out was "The Fool On the Hill." It showed Hitler himself - before the war broke out - high up in the Bavarian mountains looking out over the world - with his sinister look - from the terrace of his hideout in Brechtesgaden. It was creepy - and it got stuck in my mind. "They don't like him... " "He knows that they're the fools..." "And the eyes in his head sees the world spinning 'round... "
@@tomrogerlilleby2890 damn. That's scary. I guess it shows the more sinister side of being an outcast. That because you were mistreated, you feel justified to be cruel to others. A song that has a similar vibe to that is Teenagers by My Chemical Romance.
The fool on the hill is an enlightened being ("he knows that they're the fools")! That's what I feel!:) Thank you for the story and for playing and singing so beautifully!
If you take the film "Yesterday" seriously - I guess it could be called "a corny ass movie." And the manuscript would have had to undergo some serious changes. But it is clearly meant to be taken as some sort of comedy - and bring the music of The Beatles to a new generation. I really enjoyed it ! Could watch these types of movies all day long.
Magical Mystery Tour is one of my favorite albums.. The Fool On The Hill is one of my favorite songs. I saw this and I was like, "yep, this is for me".
I recall reading a story about Paul and his friend, Alistair Taylor, walking his dog on Primrose Hill and being approached by a gentleman. They exchanged pleasantries and parted. Both Paul and his friend said it seemed as if the man had disappeared. Paul wrote this song about that encounter. It was covered by Sergio Mendes and others. Sweet tune.
Thank you for the video. This is the first song of the bealtes my mother showed me when I was 10. I have loved the beatles ever since. Now I am 25 and learning it this week to play for her. Love you, mom
Man, I envy people like you who are blessed with the ability to sing high notes. I have a pretty low voice and the only Beatles songs I can comfortably sing are Ringo's. lol
Your enthusiasm, sincerity and talent all come through wonderfully when you sing such classics. Keep up the great work. I would contribute financially to your endeavors if I could, but alas I cannot. Perhaps in the not too distant future.
It's important to remember that in 1967 the Beatles hadn't yet gone to India and still believed in the Maharishi, while Sexy Sadie was written in 1968, after they'd been around him a lot more and gotten disillusioned, after they'd heard stories about him hitting on women and such.
The 6th chords are predominantly found in Jazz music and many Jazz pieces end with that very soft and open sounding cluster of notes. Here Paul begins the song with a 6th which is unusual also it sets the song up in a characteristically 'soft' sound hence many of the instruments are soft and warm belonging to woodwind sections of an orchestra. This is a song that is strong in imagery where the words are sung softly with beautiful meanings fitting the 'sound' of the music just so wonderfully. It is really a 'perfect' song which I think of as there is nothing you could do to or change to make this song any more desirable or better in anyway. Paul and The Beatles had a knack of writing perfect songs in the same way The Beach Boys did with some of their beautifully crafted songs such as 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations' to name a few of theirs. I hope most people would agree this song is magical in a way a great soundtrack in a modern musical of famous soundtrack fits a very memorable piece of filmmaking give a sense of belonging together. Here the lyrics fit so beautifully with the emotional responses we feel as our minds are filled with these wondrous sounds. I love to play this song me singing it and softly playing the guitar in a fingerstyle tone. I only wish I could write a song as good as this just once in my lifetime:( 'till then I just keep finding inspiration from many other great songwriters that are out there:)
conocí Beatles a los 13, los compilados de singles exitosos. Unos años más tarde alguien cayó con los vinilos del White Album, Abbey Road y el compilado doble azul. Los redescubrí absolutamente, y perdido en el álbum azul estaba "The Fool..." Desde la primera escucha hasta hoy han pasado más de 30 años, y sigue pareciéndome la más hermosa canción que uno puede escuchar.
Have you heard the first track "Beatles greetings" on the BBC sessions? They all introduce themselves and John's introduction is "I'm john and I too play the guitar sometimes I play the fool". I always thought this song was written about him cause of that line.
Is it just me or is the fool on the hill music video an incredibly creative music video??? Like I can't think of any music videos more creative than that at that time. For all the critique the movie deserves, the music videos, like this one, are pure art
really enjoy that song, heard it when I saw the film many yeas a go as a teenager and new it was special, as for the cords they work so well, only Macca could come up with them, a good video by the way
I have just realised this classic song is a perfect pen-portrait of Victorian nature-mystic Richard Jefferies. His seminal work on finding spiritual insight through intense communion with nature, begins; 'There was a hill to which I used to resort...' ('The Story of My Heart', second paragraph). In chapter 5 he adds, 'I used every morning to visit a spot where I could get a clear view... I had a dislike to being seen, feeling that I should be despised if I was noticed. This happened once or twice, and I knew I was watched contemptuously'. In the eyes of others, he was an eccentric 'fool'. Who knows, perhaps it was Jefferies - a native of both rural England and London - who appeared mysteriously alongside McCartney and Taylor that time, as they walked in London, in the featured anecdote. 2:38
i love this!! you look like you've changed some production styles. they're good. i felt more the technical knowledge, in this one, you've been trying to express. you've made me so NOT ASHAMED of my soprano voice, it's alway so embarrassing but now i realize it's a gift. 'Fool on the Hill' is not one of their top rated songs but it's in my top 10!! that's b/c of the haunting quality paul produces. some things go beyond words. my science professor in college told me this was a song about copernicus, viewing the heavens thru his telescope on the hill (but nobody would believe that he said it went round . . .
I've always thought this song was for Paul McCartney himself, because in that period he was trying to direct the movie Magical Mystery Tour and for that the other Beatle started to don't stand him that much, so he started to feel like a "fool on the hill... with the eye in his head see the world spinning round" like he was trying to explain his feeling about he was trying for seeing clearly that confusing period all alone without his mates support...
When I stupidly did that, I just saw an endless parade of screaming faces zooming in on me. Actually, I think I had been up for a week. That was 1966, and I have not done uppers since.
Very nice HollyHobs !! Should have loads more views . One of Life's Great Mysteries ; how could one person write this plus Blackbird plus Penny Lane plus Lady Madonna plus ....etc...etc..? Inexplicable . The Maharishi was partly right : the Beatles were a channel through which the music was given to us . ( Ask Paul how a certain song came about ? It just " came to him "....) We'll find out the answer....when time is right .
I'm from Liverpool and I heard it was about a crazy man who used to stand at the top of the hill that johns art school is on, apparently all the boys used to poke fun at him.
"Gurus are generally spat upon." I think that's true for the vast majority of gurus, but the "crossover" gurus such as the Guru Maharishi, if they were spat upon at all, it was with a gushing of untold wealth. Maybe the Guru Maharishi spent time on a hill, being a fool, but when he came down he cashed in on the experience. Probably Paul McCartney should have given him co-authorship on this masterpiece, but in the final analysis, Paul paid the guru in full with favorable PR, which, as you mention, has paid dividends to Guru Maharishi, to this day. I never thought of the D6, because I too was fascinated by the idea of a fool who was a wise man, isolated yet partaking of the universe, "no one seems to like him" yet obviously everyone likes him-- he's a smash hit to this day. Those are great pictures of the Guru Maharishi up in the mountains. Where were those taken? I hated priest or minister in a pulpit, walking solemnly, yet I connect with the guru doing this. I'll watch this again.
The"fool on the hill"could be me because i time traveled from the future and paul saw me sitting on the hill seeing the world spinnin round and the sun going down evryday while the rest of the world were busy fighting and the people judging each other instead of loving.😁😁😁
Why is it called a D6 instead of a b minor 7 in root position, which is how it looks on the staff from 1:17 - 1:20? Does the whole-note D in the bass make it a D chord?
There is no such thing as a 'maravauna-cigaret' my friend..quiet a few years ago now the world has become accustomed to the word 'joint'..that said you are welcome to be your own fellow on the hill..after all enough with tradition, lets embrace originality 🐾 best 2U !
This track isn't about the Maharishi because the fool on the hill was released in the 1967, because they go to the India in 1968. anyway... I Love how this songs shows pertectly the death of a Star and the rising of a black false star, who is looked and instigated for everyone, and still that fool blackstar laughs at the end...
apparently whatever time travel method you use doesn't allow you to take audio/video equipment back with you... to bad. Eh youtube would find a way to muck it up anyway.
Your wrong about the song. It’s a geocentric cosmology song. They were not fans of the heliocentric model. Watching the Wheels go round also is a geocentric song. He’s speaking about the sun and moon circuiting above our heads.
Because it is not biological Paul. They try to make real Paul look like the imposter who stole his identity. I guess in the UK it is ok to do the crime of identity theft if it pleases the crown and they continue to rake in taxes.
I think the Fool on the Hill is about anyone who has ever felt like an outcast, but gained the confidence to be themselves anyway.
Leah H that's what I thought at first and that's why I try to learn from it. Even though it's about someone specific, its lyrics are universal enough that one can interpret it in a way to make it personal. That's what makes a song a good song :)
(Also we're name buddies lol XD)
@@leahchriistiine yeah music is awesome. And yay! Name buddies!
I guess it was in the late 70's - there was made a rather bizarre film about the Second World War and
the music of The Beatles. They had taken clips from the progression of that war and mixed it with the songs
of Beatles.
The one song that stood out was "The Fool On the Hill."
It showed Hitler himself - before the war broke out - high up in the Bavarian mountains
looking out over the world - with his sinister look - from the terrace of his hideout in Brechtesgaden.
It was creepy - and it got stuck in my mind.
"They don't like him... " "He knows that they're the fools..." "And the eyes in his head sees the world spinning 'round... "
@@tomrogerlilleby2890 damn. That's scary. I guess it shows the more sinister side of being an outcast. That because you were mistreated, you feel justified to be cruel to others. A song that has a similar vibe to that is Teenagers by My Chemical Romance.
I played this song for my cousin and she said “You should listen to real music.” I’ve never laughed harder in my life.
Pika Cheese At that time it was Rap but I don’t know what it is now
Laughing is the perfect response. Basically saying "If only you knew!"
@@st.beatles7283 HA rap??? Holy fuck did you have to go to the hospital after that laughing fit? I hope you're ok
She-
You gotta yeet your cousin🤷♀️
St. Beatles rappers all autotuning and computerizing their songs while “Hey Bulldog” was considered a throwaway for The Beatles themselves
One of their most important and undervalued songs. Genius.
The fool on the hill is an enlightened being ("he knows that they're the fools")! That's what I feel!:) Thank you for the story and for playing and singing so beautifully!
You're lowkey the dude from Yesterday
Beatz lol he does
Served as inspiration
If you take the film "Yesterday" seriously - I guess it could be called "a corny ass movie."
And the manuscript would have had to undergo some serious changes.
But it is clearly meant to be taken as some sort of comedy - and bring the music of The Beatles to a new generation. I really enjoyed it ! Could watch these types of movies all day long.
@Ossarian what the fuck is your problem
@Ossarian Thanks for the lulz, doll. You trolls are always fun to laugh at.
One of my favorite song. There is something about this song that lift your soul and take you on the hill
This is a very underrated song , one of the best beatles songs ever.
Magical Mystery Tour is one of my favorite albums.. The Fool On The Hill is one of my favorite songs. I saw this and I was like, "yep, this is for me".
A song I'll never get tired of listening to and his jumping down the hill is iconic. Love this song and you sing it beautifully.
I’ve always felt this song was the red headed stepchild to Nowhere Man.
I thought it was a another Eleanor Rigby . Something from his childhood .
I recall reading a story about Paul and his friend, Alistair Taylor, walking his dog on Primrose Hill and being approached by a gentleman. They exchanged pleasantries and parted. Both Paul and his friend said it seemed as if the man had disappeared. Paul wrote this song about that encounter. It was covered by Sergio Mendes and others. Sweet tune.
My favorite Beatles song, very personal.
Thank you for the video. This is the first song of the bealtes my mother showed me when I was 10. I have loved the beatles ever since. Now I am 25 and learning it this week to play for her. Love you, mom
Man, I envy people like you who are blessed with the ability to sing high notes. I have a pretty low voice and the only Beatles songs I can comfortably sing are Ringo's. lol
Went to see the movie "Yesterday" a while back and I couldn't help but think about how much the main character reminded me of you! :)
Lol! I know!!
Honestly think they should have chosen him for the role
@@daviswood259 was thinking the same
Same
Azalea Collins How sad that the first thing you thought about was their ethnicities. That says more about you than me.
Fool on the hill was always one of my favorites
Amazing song and lyrics. Such talent and creativity.
Your enthusiasm, sincerity and talent all come through wonderfully when you sing such classics. Keep up the great work. I would contribute financially to your endeavors if I could, but alas I cannot. Perhaps in the not too distant future.
It's important to remember that in 1967 the Beatles hadn't yet gone to India and still believed in the Maharishi, while Sexy Sadie was written in 1968, after they'd been around him a lot more and gotten disillusioned, after they'd heard stories about him hitting on women and such.
Your vibrato crushes my soul.
Another one of Bill’s classics....
If I could pick a theme tune for me
This is it. Loved this song since aged seven many years ago... and I’m not 64 yet😂.
Love this channel too
you have a beautiful singing voice, please make a cover of the entire song
real life jack malik right here!
Good job & analysis, nice vocals. Thanks!
beautiful description of the song.
The 6th chords are predominantly found in Jazz music and many Jazz pieces end with that very soft and open sounding cluster of notes. Here Paul begins the song with a 6th which is unusual also it sets the song up in a characteristically 'soft' sound hence many of the instruments are soft and warm belonging to woodwind sections of an orchestra.
This is a song that is strong in imagery where the words are sung softly with beautiful meanings fitting the 'sound' of the music just so wonderfully. It is really a 'perfect' song which I think of as there is nothing you could do to or change to make this song any more desirable or better in anyway.
Paul and The Beatles had a knack of writing perfect songs in the same way The Beach Boys did with some of their beautifully crafted songs such as 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations' to name a few of theirs. I hope most people would agree this song is magical in a way a great soundtrack in a modern musical of famous soundtrack fits a very memorable piece of filmmaking give a sense of belonging together. Here the lyrics fit so beautifully with the emotional responses we feel as our minds are filled with these wondrous sounds.
I love to play this song me singing it and softly playing the guitar in a fingerstyle tone. I only wish I could write a song as good as this just once in my lifetime:( 'till then I just keep finding inspiration from many other great songwriters that are out there:)
My favourite song of all time
Lovely voice, yours.
Love this soothing and meaningful song
conocí Beatles a los 13, los compilados de singles exitosos. Unos años más tarde alguien cayó con los vinilos del White Album, Abbey Road y el compilado doble azul. Los redescubrí absolutamente, y perdido en el álbum azul estaba "The Fool..." Desde la primera escucha hasta hoy han pasado más de 30 años, y sigue pareciéndome la más hermosa canción que uno puede escuchar.
What a nice video, about a great song!
Con subtítulos en español seguro tendrías muchísimas más vistas. Bonito video.
How The Beatles made "Don't Bother Me" would be good as well! Right on, great song
Have you heard the first track "Beatles greetings" on the BBC sessions? They all introduce themselves and John's introduction is "I'm john and I too play the guitar sometimes I play the fool". I always thought this song was written about him cause of that line.
3:35 That actually made me laugh pretty good. That recorder you were playing was perfect! 😅
you have a fantastic singing voice :)
Is it just me or is the fool on the hill music video an incredibly creative music video??? Like I can't think of any music videos more creative than that at that time. For all the critique the movie deserves, the music videos, like this one, are pure art
I love the video a lot, it’s actually quite effective!
Cool video, didn't know all that. This song always makes me think of Robbie Basho
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.
really enjoy that song, heard it when I saw the film many yeas a go as a teenager and new it was special, as for the cords they work so well, only Macca could come up with them, a good video by the way
Love the vids man keep it up!
I have just realised this classic song is a perfect pen-portrait of Victorian nature-mystic Richard Jefferies. His seminal work on finding spiritual insight through intense communion with nature, begins; 'There was a hill to which I used to resort...' ('The Story of My Heart', second paragraph). In chapter 5 he adds, 'I used every morning to visit a spot where I could get a clear view... I had a dislike to being seen, feeling that I should be despised if I was noticed. This happened once or twice, and I knew I was watched contemptuously'. In the eyes of others, he was an eccentric 'fool'. Who knows, perhaps it was Jefferies - a native of both rural England and London - who appeared mysteriously alongside McCartney and Taylor that time, as they walked in London, in the featured anecdote. 2:38
Yes . Jefferies is a forgotten genius today . Thanks for remembering him.
i love this!! you look like you've changed some production styles. they're good. i felt more the technical knowledge, in this one, you've been trying to express. you've made me so NOT ASHAMED of my soprano voice, it's alway so embarrassing but now i realize it's a gift. 'Fool on the Hill' is not one of their top rated songs but it's in my top 10!! that's b/c of the haunting quality paul produces. some things go beyond words. my science professor in college told me this was a song about copernicus, viewing the heavens thru his telescope on the hill (but nobody would believe that he said it went round . . .
The Fool is a very wise man.
Nice song, and *really* easy chords to strum on a guitar.
Such a beautiful voice you have. Nice vid.
Hey please do a video on "i should have known better", especially the chord progression. Thanks bro love these videos! :D
I love this song
Loved this video
Cheers 🥂 bro 😎
Love 💕 ya
Pity that the most clicked videos of this song are about only 2 Mio. should have tens of millions
The Jingles :
" THE FOUL ON THE REW "
( Jenk Keynon - Soul WagGadney.)
( P ) 1967
My all time favourite song ✌🏼
Nice video - you have a beautiful voice.
You sing well. 👍🏻👍🏻
I've always thought this song was for Paul McCartney himself, because in that period he was trying to direct the movie Magical Mystery Tour and for that the other Beatle started to don't stand him that much, so he started to feel like a "fool on the hill... with the eye in his head see the world spinning round" like he was trying to explain his feeling about he was trying for seeing clearly that confusing period all alone without his mates support...
D-minor is my favorite guitar chord. It's just so dark and sad. Best minor chord IMO
You should try D add 7 dim
You are best ❤❤❤
Very informative.
How you get
the back story
is amazing!
No fooling!
+Richard+ 🍀
I have always been touched by this song. For the break, I use a steam calliope setting on my keyboard.
Geoff Emmerich was the fool /genius in the studio who along with George Martin had to try to bring the Beatles innovations to life.....
The video was made in France in the mountains behind the town of Nice, and a quick Vue on a rocky beach of the Mediterranean. Sea....
'I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill'. Also related to "Time" by Pink Floyd-- but...
I remember this song made me cry one time when I listened to it while coming down of a 3 day crystal meth rampage 😣
I don't know why but that made me laugh lol
When I stupidly did that, I just saw an endless parade of screaming faces zooming in on me. Actually, I think I had been up for a week. That was 1966, and I have not done uppers since.
Very nice HollyHobs !! Should have loads more views . One of Life's Great
Mysteries ; how could one person write this plus Blackbird plus Penny Lane
plus Lady Madonna plus ....etc...etc..?
Inexplicable . The Maharishi was partly right : the Beatles were a channel through
which the music was given to us . ( Ask Paul how a certain song came about ?
It just " came to him "....) We'll find out the answer....when time is right .
Love the recorders......Led Zep used them on Stairway.
I'm from Liverpool and I heard it was about a crazy man who used to stand at the top of the hill that johns art school is on, apparently all the boys used to poke fun at him.
"Gurus are generally spat upon." I think that's true for the vast majority of gurus, but the "crossover" gurus such as the Guru Maharishi, if they were spat upon at all, it was with a gushing of untold wealth.
Maybe the Guru Maharishi spent time on a hill, being a fool, but when he came down he cashed in on the experience. Probably Paul McCartney should have given him co-authorship on this masterpiece, but in the final analysis, Paul paid the guru in full with favorable PR, which, as you mention, has paid dividends to Guru Maharishi, to this day.
I never thought of the D6, because I too was fascinated by the idea of a fool who was a wise man, isolated yet partaking of the universe, "no one seems to like him" yet obviously everyone likes him-- he's a smash hit to this day.
Those are great pictures of the Guru Maharishi up in the mountains. Where were those taken? I hated priest or minister in a pulpit, walking solemnly, yet I connect with the guru doing this. I'll watch this again.
That is one of the better songs on that album
RIP Martha!
A "NOWHERE" MAN.
That guy was probably just a fan that got extremely nervous after seeing Paul McCartney so when Alastair and Paul looked away, he dipped.
Where did you go, Mr. HollyHobs? Did you survive Covid? I miss your posts.
The"fool on the hill"could be me because i time traveled from the future and paul saw me sitting on the hill seeing the world spinnin round and the sun going down evryday while the rest of the world were busy fighting and the people judging each other instead of loving.😁😁😁
Why is it called a D6 instead of a b minor 7 in root position, which is how it looks on the staff from 1:17 - 1:20? Does the whole-note D in the bass make it a D chord?
*only if he's a good boy*
Who is the man of the thousand voices speaking perfectly loud? God wanting to say us something?
There is no such thing as a 'maravauna-cigaret' my friend..quiet a few years ago now the world has become accustomed to the word 'joint'..that said you are welcome to be your own fellow on the hill..after all enough with tradition, lets embrace originality 🐾 best 2U !
Better than Yestarday!
Of course UA-cam is broken if you can't even sing the song yourself
To quote John, "fuckin' hell"
"El tonto de la colina"
Great vid
This track isn't about the Maharishi because the fool on the hill was released in the 1967, because they go to the India in 1968.
anyway...
I Love how this songs shows pertectly the death of a Star and the rising of a black false star, who is looked and instigated for everyone, and still that fool blackstar laughs at the end...
They first met Maharishi in London in 1967
don't know why you can't do the song not because of youtube copyright. because everybody does cover songs and youtube does not silence them.?.
Paul was tripping on acid again.
Shut up idiot.
Why would John say Paul could write lyrics, “if he was a good boy”??
😁🤙
1:08 who's that girl besides him?
Please do Sexy Sadie. I heard is for the Maharishi, so I'm curious
Upping the whimsy and effects here a bit! Huzzah!
That Back to the Future recorder was perfectly dumb. Kudos!
apparently whatever time travel method you use doesn't allow you to take audio/video equipment back with you... to bad. Eh youtube would find a way to muck it up anyway.
Theres no copyright for fair use and to play for fun on youtube. You just cant do it
Your wrong about the song. It’s a geocentric cosmology song. They were not fans of the heliocentric model. Watching the Wheels go round also is a geocentric song. He’s speaking about the sun and moon circuiting above our heads.
Why does Paul look like he has Down's Syndrome in the thumbnail?
There are allot of Paul's .
His face looks smoothed out in photoshop and his eyes are kinda weird
Because it is not biological Paul. They try to make real Paul look like the imposter who stole his identity. I guess in the UK it is ok to do the crime of identity theft if it pleases the crown and they continue to rake in taxes.
Why does Paul look so scuffed in the thumbnail
Wait a second
The 'fool' on the hill is a tarot card from the tarot deck.
I'm the fool on the hill. But it's whatever... No one is listening. As usual.
Guitar in hand + f u utube = like