The Beatles Rare & Unseen (2008) Documentary
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2021
- "Rare and Unseen: The Beatles". Their story is told for the very first time using original rare film and video of the band, including home movies, concert footage, newsreels and photographs from private collections.
Director: Chris Cowey
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Every new photo, footage or interview about The Beatles is a treasure.
And here we are over 60 years later and they are STILL the subject of many discussions. Unarguably the biggest band in music history. I challenge anyone to name a modern day 'artist' that will have the same impact, respect and longevity.
Michael Jackson
It was like a positive pandemic. It was infectious. I had made it up in my mond that it was just a fad and I would be different and not follow the crowd. Then I heard them, and watched them....I was hooked. Still am. That was 1964, I was 13. Im 70 now and I still get t hat same feeling, when I hear "She loves you".
I do, too.
At that point Epstein had recently passed away. Everything may have been different, had he not passed. Then I read about his preferences and John was one of his preferences. From what I read,lol. Wow. Can you imagine that stuff in 1967?
That is me exactly. I resisted the hype. I watched Ed Sullivan for the cast of Oliver. But The Beatles blew my mind. An arrow through my heart. Love those lads.
I totally agree. My older sister introduced me to The Beatles and I have been a George Harrison fan for many years now. 💖:)
I discovered them in 64, when I was 8. Went stark raving mad over them in 66, at 10. Now at 67, still watch everything I can get my hands on. Paul, I'm still waiting for u to find me in Ohio. ❤
I was 5 in 62 and believe me they blew the world apart they were fantastic, every song was brilliant better than the last,
In this cold hard World , came the BEATLES, and a magical time in history. The Beatles came just at the right time....🍁
You truly had to be there. Used to see them drive past our home in Slough often. The time of The Thunderbirds! Outstanding documentary!! Memories. The 60's was an incredible time. Still at 64 have a huge head of hair and still play Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Heart, and of course Beatles Classics! My late Granddad was a key person in Julie Andrews life, my Mum was a close friend. Phillip Robertson (My Grandad (Mum's Dad), he wrote entire music scores for Orchestra's and was himself a multi-instrumentalist, he could play anything) taught Julie so much in understanding note recognition and pitch, harmony.... Julie spent a lot of time in Manchester in those early years. She was (is) a huge Beatles fan. Thankyou posting this, such beautiful memories!!
Listening to the Beatles when I was growing up in the1960s was a spiritual experience.
it still is.
How so? How were they different etc?
@@socrates1818 Unless you're a musician, you can't fully understand the impact they had musically...and culturally as well. After their first couple of "pop" albums, they creativity exploded and took popular music to places no one had ever even dreamed of. And though many very creative musicians and groups have come and gone since, none has had or ever will have the same impact as The Beatles...LEAST of all, the (C)rappers, who produce nothing but non-melodic, primitive garbage anyway.
@@socrates1818 I have tried to write an answer to your question four times and deleted every attempt. I came down to this, if you have to ask the question, you will never understand the answer.
In Canada we had the " Twist and Shout " album with all the earliest hits and it's still my favorite album.
I want that configuration. I think Capitol of Canada records look so awesome.
The Beatles were the soundtrack of my life. In fact, in some ways they were my life. I became a fan at 16 and am still listening to them at 75! I was also lucky to see them live twice. My late wife worked in the record department of Boots the chemists so I usually had copies of their albums or singles on release day. She continued to buy me Beatles related records x items throughout our 40 years of marriage. Her last gift to me was Paul McCartney’s valentines cd, she passed soon after. So for me, for many personal reasons, they are more than just a pop group.
I really enjoyed reading your comment. What a lovely comment ❤
❤It was an AWSOME time in history!!!
Phil Collins was so right... you just had to be there - in the 60's - to understand how BIG The Beatles were.
Their legacy lives on... forever...
You had to be there for early Genesis, Peter Gabriel had no equal
I am in my seventies now, live in the U.S.A., and every now and then I get into a conversation with younger people about the sixties, the music, and The Beatles.
I try to explain the excitement and hysteria surrounding The Beatles, and I can see they are trying to understand, but they just don't get it.
Phil Collins nailed it: “the chords were quite ordinary, but what happened on top! The melody, the harmonies, I can’t do it justice.” Spot on. The Beatles were head and shoulders above their contemporaries in these things.
Anyone who's ever tried to play guitar to one of the Beatles' records knows their guitar will sound out of tune . Currently we tune to 440 and guitar tuners are set to 440 . Pianos and even electric Casio's are tuned to 440 also .But the Beatles tuned to an earlier tuning of 432 .I don't understand it much but that may be why their music felt different than most bands .Here is something said about the 432 tuning .
Music tuned to 432 Hz is softer and brighter, and is said to provide greater clarity and is easier on the ears. ... In short, 432 Hz music would fill the mind with a sense of peace and well being. Music that has been tuned to the scientific 432 Hz releases emotional blockages and is said to be most beneficial to humans.
Chords were not so ordinary though..
@@MarcVesseur Agreed. It's nonsense- a pedestrian outlook. People who analyse the Beatles critically often have no idea what they're talking about. The Beatles were extremely innovative when it came to chord structures when it was relevant to be. Just because a person is famous doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about and one should not feel obliged to agree with him.
Beatles & the Producer Martin & Geoff Emerick. The Beatles without them would have been quite different. They were the ideas men. Song + Ideas = Brilliance.
@@dickon728 ..and you..
Paul could wear a full disguise and I'd still recognize him in any setting. Very few celebrities have made a mark in such a way that they could never hide from their fans in any circumstance.
"The Beatles are gonna be around forever" pretty much sums it up.
I am an old Boomer now...listen, we Boomers will be gone in a few years, and many younger people I know do not care for the Beatles at all!...all popular music is embraced on a generational curve, you might say.
@@curbozerboomer1773 Well, I "hope" to be around quite a bit longer than a "few years", but either way, The Beatles were so far ahead of their time and cutting edge, etc. no group has ever even come close to what they created. As a long time musician (former touring) and songwriter (still), it's very frustrating to hear the garbage being passed off as music today, especially (C)rap, which is nothing more than non-melodic, tribal chanting set to a primitive beat. Compare that to the great songs and acts that came out of Motown back in the day. Lastly, many people are unaware that the violence laced, anti-social (C)rap has been PURPOSELY promoted to encourage young listeners to become anti-social, violent and criminal because the investors who bought into the privatized PRISON industry in the 1980s put a gun to the head of the music industry execs telling them they had better start promoting (C)rap and why? To keep the newly privatized prison cells FULL! Imagine that? If you don't believe it, do some DD and you'll be shocked at what you'll find!
I was 5 years old living in NY a few miles from Kennedy airport, a place I had been to many times before, when my dad called me over to the black and white TV set to see on the evening news the invasion of the Beatles. Him working part time as a pest controller he found their name amusing and later became a John Lennon fan for his music and political activism when he became an ant-war protester .
I watched them on the news walking down the steps off the Pam-Am jet . I was instantly hooked and hadn't even heard their music yet but thought their appearance was the neatest thing I've ever seen .The word "neat " was the expression of that era for kids my age, being equivalent to cool or far-out .Not long after that I had gotten my mom to get me a pair of foot wear we called Beatle boots and had a big buckled belt that was part of the fashion called Mod or The Mod Look . I even had a medallion.
It was a great new era . Young stylish women started wearing mini dresses .Only problem for me at the time , I was trapped in a 5 years old body and didn't have a chance with the 18 year old women of that era that I was attracted to .And I couldn't go to concerts to see the many rock and roll bands that were springing up like wild flowers all wanting to be like the Beatles. I did get to hear a lot of cool 45 single records played on portable battery powered record players and listened to rock and roll on am radio every Saturday. .Back then almost everything was closed on a Sunday except church and bakeries. The Beatles changed the world .
Fine documentary here! Saw them live when I was 16 ... Dodger Stadium, LA. It was their penultimate concert as Candlestick in SF was the end. Huge fan still at 71. Can and do play half their songs on my guitars today and appreciate their music more than ever. Coming up in Liverpool they would nab the American rock, pop and R n B albums early. Another key to their progress was the intense venture in Hamburg. That's where their entire show was honed and polished. Sadly, we will never experience anything quite like the Beatles again but it is grand to hear their remastered cds today. Paul's bass playing is top drawer too! Astonishing band.
They changed the world musically. socially, and changed the way we look it was an amazing time
The individual Beatles had a terrible godless impact on their generation. They promoted marijuana and all kinds of hard drugs and womanizing and profanity and other things, but their music was unlike anything ever written. And one of their most popular song was entitled, All You Need Is Love (singing)... You recognize it, but not from my voice. Well, love isn't all you need because you need a little more than that.
But The Fab Four as they were called, might have contributed to the confusion.and John Lennon claimed his Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”The legendary Beatles rock group often sang about drug usage and revolution, among other antiestablishment themes. But occasionally, their music was devastatingly incisive.
@@reynaldol.deguzman3039 Well said, and that was precisely what they were invented to do.
Absolutely. Everything was so exciting and then there was the contraceptive pill. Which liberated the women.
And my father started growing his hair. It was all happening, but positive!! The generation gap was toppled. Xxx Susan 👵👋🤞💜🙏🏻
Even though i was born the year the Beatles first stored in Ed Sullivan and had broken up by the time i bought my first record, I am so greatful that I live in a period where I've listened to them (obsessively) my whole life. It was only 100 years ago that phonographs and radio became popular and only 60 years of The Beatles.
Their image was so new with the haircuts. The blend of John, Paul and George's voices was so resonant. And the quality of their songs fit their voices perfectly.
The hair thing was such a big deal!...Sadly, when my then 14yo brother, who was starting up a band, let his hair grow out--my concerned father invited him to go to breakfast with him....but then forced him to get a haircut at the local barber ship!...He came home in tears...and my father, over time, did apologize to him for such a strong-arm tactic. But they never really got along well after that incident...The 1960s really did create a "generation gap", and that change in attitudes still causes arguments among certain age groups. Younger folks I know frequently tell me that they wish they could also experience the 1960s--I tell them that it was not all that pleasant go deal with!
Love the docs with the famous ppl talking about their love for the music and how it impacted their lives
Pretty cool! I'll be 75 this year, and this takes me back some! "What a time, oh what a time it was"!
Now on the other hand, look at the live performances of the Beatles how legit their talents are and how they instantly create superb performances on stage by their talents and skills and listen to their recorded music original compositions how unique, exciting, electrifying, thought provoking, enjoyable , and the quality of variety of songs they composed. That's God given talent and not from the devil.
They broke the mould. I've always been inspired by The Beatles because the band were four individuals. Being YOURSELF is the key
I saw them in Baltimore,Maryland in 1964. Incredible! Sar Paul,George, and Ringo solo after that. Thanks so much for posting this.
I loved the Beatles then and I still love the Beatles today. Most likely I will love them and their music forever!
Still love the Beatles
I love the way you worked the Hard Days Night album cover into this doc. Very clever!
THE BEATLES FOREVER!
I still have the awesome hardcover book of that title that I highly recommend!
The Beatles is a awesome group alot of awesome songs ❣️
In retrospect, the way things fell together is almost mystical. From Paul meeting John, then suggesting George to John. Then Best being replaced by Ringo. And being seen by Epstein at the Cavern. Almost like a predetermined jigsaw puzzle. It's an amazing story from 1960 onward.
James Drynan - I've said that many times. ✨️Magic and fantastic ✨️
@jamesdrynan George would say it was Karma. They've worked together before and had to continue their work in this life. "Something," for sure.
Toooo incredible for words... it was a priveledge to grow up with them (12 yrs old I was) from 1962 , the greatest band that there will EVER be ... they changed the world for the better... we love the Fab Four and always will 💕❤💖💕
Like me, you are obviously a Scouser.
@@sharonrebibo6015 yes 👍👌
@@trb7183 😅😍💙💚💖My mum used to talk to Mimi at the bus stop. She really did say to my mum "The guitar's all very well but he'll never make a living out of it." 😅
@@sharonrebibo6015 😁 lovely 👏👏💕💖
@@trb7183 Yes I'd do anything to go and visit my childhood days for a while.
As long as I could come back to my children.😍😘💙💚
The Beatles were three and eventually Four creative Song writers who had set no limits for their creativity.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Ringo’s songs were written for him by John/Paul and his solo career songs were written by George
@@andyxjo1 Ringo wrote Octopuses Garden off of Abbey Road
@@ritikjain6956 you’re right
Forgot about that one
@@andyxjo1 and Don't Pass Me By ....
The Beatles The Greatest!!!
What a lot of people forget is that Norman Smith, while working as recording engineer for EMI, also scored a couple of hits in his own right as *Hurricane Smith* on the Columbia label, one of EMI's two *flagship* labels, the other being His Master's Voice. Smith's two hits were "Oh Babe, What Would You Say" and "Who Was It".
My mother in law was Norman Smiths neice.
@@ianwheele2585 Was, or is? Is she still alive?
@@neilforbes416 Hi. No, she passed at Easter just gone. Often spoke about uncle Norman. we found a small book whist clearing the house, (think it might have been a prayer book) signed "To Gillian, love from Eileen and Norman". There was also his connection with The Floyd as well. Six degrees of separation !
@@ianwheele2585 Did you have Norman's own records as "Hurricane Smith"? He appeared under that name on EMI's Columbia label, *Oh Babe, What Would You Say* from 1971 and *Who Was It* from 1972 were his biggest hits.
@@neilforbes416 no, but my father liked his singles, possibly had 'oh babe' . I was 12 in 1972, so was aware of ' Hurricane ' in the charts but didn't meet my wife till 84, so was unaware of her family's connection!
It's always funny to see something about the Beatles but have to listen to 'Beatle-flavoured' music in the background throughout to avoid copyright claims.
Yeah, that 'near-Please Please Me' tune drives me batty!
I for one am kind of proud of the fact that I grew up with the Beatles and other such great musicians and I believe that there will never be any art that will ever make such a huge impression on the world. It was done and cannot ever happen again. Many will come and go, but this band and it's influence will still be felt long after I and many of us are gone. I had the a great time musically because of these people who influenced my very day to day life at the same time that they were making music and living their lives. I can't say that I heard it first, but I did hear it as it happened :)
Yes, me too! My mother bought me for my birthday present "meet the Beatles" album and i must have played that album everyday for weeks!!
What a band probably the best of all time unbelievable
There were four Beatles. George and Ringo certainly contributed!
Yes, but in 1963 it was musically Lennon McCartney. Come 1964 George started composing. Ringo, once George Martin ok'ed him, he delivered great drumming & knew instantly what to give it as Let it Be sessions showed.
There were actually sixteen people involved in the Beatles, it's all public domain.
@who's who I would like to agree with you but the Faul thing is just too bizarre. Apparently you were not alive when the Beatles were making music.
@@seltaeb9691 actually, George composed Don't Bother Me in 1963.
@@markzappasodi That tune was one of my very favorite!...I remember now, that on the early albums, Paul and John would only give George ONE track!...George made the biggest splash during the first couple of years after they broke up.
I so appreciated having the #captions available to view this music history.
Me too! Being almost totally deaf with 2 Hearing Aids made listening to people talk and sing without lipreading very
difficult. I’m very grateful
for the English Captions! 😺
I almost fainted when I first heard Paperback Writer. It was that good.
I liked John for his voice,but George his guitar playing and his looks done it for me, and I learned to play guitar,with George’s song a pity he was shadowed by the other two although their songs were brilliant, but for me George was the greatest ❤x
anyone notice there was not 1 lick of Beatles music in these 43 minutes? really enjoyed the input from the hairdressers and taxi drivers.
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The SEVEN Beatles who performed as such were - George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best*, John Lennon, Richard 'Ringo Starr' Starkey*, Paul McCartney & Jimmy Nichol* (Jimmy Nichol stepped in for Ringo for several gigs when he was ill, Australian tour, and disappeared into obscurity afterwards). The first gig with John.George, Paul & Ringo was at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Wirral - walking distance from the Bebington Oval where 'Chariots of Fire' was shot & just a few miles from Tranmere Rovers' Prenton Park, in Birkenhead. The Bridge Pub is 100 yds from Hulme Hall.
Amazing story, there's so much to know about the whole phenonom
You forgot Chas Newby.
Is there still anyone who wants to doubt the lads were the greatest rock band ever ? J friken lennon and the boys were just that the fuckin best!
Billy Preston?
@@nationaltrevor255 Clearly credited as a guest.
Delightful documentary with brilliant convincing comments that the Beatles, the Fab Four, are forever.❤❤❤❤Hallelujah
I saw the Beatles i think in 66 at Candle Stick park in Oakland Calif the tickets were 5.50 thay came out in a armored money bank truck . Thay were everything to me growing up .When I had my first born i named him Paul.something else my birthday is June 18 like Paul's 😁💋❤
Better check your ticket stub, Candlestick Park is in San Francisco, not Oakland. Also they didn't perform at Candlestick in 64, it was the Cow Palace. They began playing stadiums in 65, They played Shea Stadium in New York to 55000 and sold out in an hour, this accomplishment happened before Ticket Master and ordering online, people actually stood in line.
To John the Giants played at that park in 1961 and it was called Candle Stick Park better check Google if you don't believe me have a good day 😁
@@jacquelinemcguire3077 sure the giants played there, so did the 49ers. But again Candlestick was in San Francisco not Oakland. Yes it was The Beatles final show in America August 29 1966. Paul also played there a final time before it was demolished. But don't have one year on your comment, then change it when someone points out you couldn't have been there. Now you can have a good day. Check your facts before you speak
Wow forgive me rong town but right name i have the ticket
Jack B. Nimble 🧨
Thanks for sharing.
13:20 a pivotal moment in time, voiced ...
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I love this and the beautiful commentary about John.
Thanks for respecting James Paul!
Damn....I've seen Mickey Jones in many movies. It's just cool that he did gigs alongside the Beatles....
Many years ago I was working in a camera shop when a very attractive lady came in. I served her and she commented on how tidy my nails were. I told her I played a bit of guitar, so liked to keep them short. She replied, "My ex husband is a guitarist too!" Turns out she was Mickey Jones' ex wife!! Then a few years later I was a photographer at a local paper and got sent to Mickey Jones' house to take a portrait of him. Lovely guy, but he never stopped talking! I didn't mention I'd met his ex ;-)
I have never even heard of Mickey Jones, the actor!
Great to see the late Ken Dodd in this for a brief comment - another Liverpool legend. It was also very honest for Gerry Marsden to admit that while his band Gerry and the Pacemakers declined the Beatles advanced as better musicians after the two bands being equally famous in 1963.
They were never as famous as the Beatles. You never hear of pacemakermania, now do you. They rode the Beatles coat tails until they disappeared into obscurity, just like the rest of the merseybeat bands of the time.
"Quatre Garçons Dans Le Vent" the French name for The Beatles movie "A Hard Days Night"....."Four Boys in the Wind"
More precisely, "Quatre garçons dans le vent" means "Four Hip Boys"... and God knows they were "Hip". I was 10 years old when I watched A Hard Days Night for the first time and I had goose bumps throughout the movie.
No one gives a thought about the German woman Astrid Kirchherr who helped create the Beatles image including the famous hair cut
Some reference is made at 5:15 about the their work in Hamburg.
Anthony Xuereb : Yes it's such a shame. Astrid was so instrumental, the early black and white photography, the mop top hair cut, and of course her love for Stuart Sutcliffe.
@@nige-g Yes and I think her photography had an influence on the Fab Four
Most of us who know the Beatles story know Astrid and her influence leading to their success.
Or Theodore Adorno
Well someone gives a thought! :) She took/made some great photos of the Beatles!
RIP Gerry. And John and George.
Absolutely AWESOME!
Ive always shaken my head when Ive heard some people comment that Ringo wasn't a very good drummer despite the fact that he inspired guys like Phil Collins or Dave Grohl who both cite Ringo as a great drummer. My challenge to Ringos critics is "How would you have played the songs better? How would your drumming style have made the Beatles more famous?"
In the Autumn of 1963 I was in a band in Hong Kong made up of Americans and British teenagers called The Beachcombers & playing the entire Beatles 1st British album along with The Shadows songs, American hit songs and other British hits like Glad All Over from the DC5. We might have been the 1st and only group in the world at that time performing The Beatles album in full as we got hold of their album before others did and were already a band.
THANKS!
Just fab!!!
Thank you !
The reason the Beatles were SO big..is because they changed US! They tapped into the part of ourselves that is creative, free and loving...and that is why the Woodstock Festival happened. It was the outgrowth of Beatlemania.
They were very lucky to have no one controlling them. They also had an honest manager who wasnt a scam artist like Elvis' manager
I love how the Chiron under Phil Collins’s name at one point just reads “considers ringo a top drummer”
19:37 Phil Collins says the chords of She Loves You are ordinary. I don't agree. It's not a symphony. Extremely well-placed unique chords are what I would say. Is this a drummer talking about a musical composition? The Beatles songs had wonderful chord structures and this is an example of that.
The Eagles; and The Beatles music/video finally can be shared!!!! Amen
Thank god in my opinion those are the best bands ever. I remember being a little kid hearing I wanna hold your hand the Beatles and peaceful easy feeling from the eagles they just stuck with me and love them all it's hard to choose a favorite song out of those bands but I can say that don Henley fine of musician he is he just dosent come close to glenn Frey's style of singing and strumming Glenn frey' and george Harrison are the reason I love and learned acoustic and electric guitars and was lucky e out to be good I'm not the best lead vocalist but a damn fine intermediate lead or harmonies Glenn's the reason I toght myself to sing in his style witch not many people can recreate to a t its fairly har takes a voice that is gental and soft with slow vibrato kinda shakyish In a way a voice that sounds good gentle and can get up there. The Beatles early beegees so many bands come along thanks the the everly brothers everyone will tell you they just were stunned with them and the Beverly's changed the music industry in all possible way. The beatles and the eagles will be around for god knows how man century's. Imagine if another lifeform came across the rock and roll era 70s ("damn I guess these funny looking prehistoric monkeys they call humans had good tastes ) mabey that's why efos are seen they are just hear to try to get put music lol.
The eagles the worst band ever do not ever mention them again. That makes me ill
Who are the Eagle's.
Very nice. Enjoyed it.
The Beatles were good but not many young people know who they are.Its been 60 years sice they began to become known.
Well, *_my_* kids know who The Beatles are. I raised 'em right. 😎
Thank you.. The Beatles came to NZ. 👍🇳🇿
Excellent!
The narrative intro to this is total torture. You could use it to extract information from captives or to drive them completely insane.
😂
This has to be the longest trailer I've ever viewed! I was suspicious when that awful voice-over announcer started plugging the film about 20 minutes into the video!
Okay I haven’t got that far yet. 😂
26:40 Mickey Jones saying that the Beatles music was simple, three chords? Another drummer talking about music. People see a couple of trees-that's all they see. They don't see the whole forest.
So cool to see Mickey Jones in this. Legendary drummer with a legendary resume, yet most people only know him from his acting career.
I have no idea who this guy is, as far as acting goes!
@@curbozerboomer1773 He is perhaps most well known for his role as Pete the construction worker on "Home Improvement," but he is also remembered for many other characters such as the mechanic who took all of Clark Griswold's money in the original "Vacation" movie. If you're really curious you can look him up yourself.
This was a great documentary. I thought I knew everything about them...but I didn't.
No one will ever know everything about them. New information is constantly coming out about them and will continue to come out after we are all gone.
Very informative and Frank
Norman's memory's less than intact in this footage: they didn't all have the same haircuts, Norm. It's well known in Beatles folklore that Mr. Best kept his swept back 'Jeff Chandler' hair style. And there are 14 tracks on my copy of their first album. Still, you made some great pop singles in the early 70's, such as 'Don't Let It Die' and the other two mentioned in the comments below so peace and love to you, Norman, wherever your soul may be.
Back then, when I was a kid, I was at the record shop the very day each single or LP was released.
Great documentary but the background music... I know... I've read some biographies and believe I know their story pretty well. So here I am one of a thousand it seems! The best thing to do is to actually play one of their records, loud so the neighbors can hear! :) Not too loud, with a gentle touch :) Which will it be? Revolver or Rubber Soul perhaps!? It doesn't matter I play them all from time to time.
This is cool ! 😊
One thing that is rarely broached about the Beatles is , How did John manage to not wear glasses so often. As most older people know at the time it wasn't considered " hip" to wear glasses ( ironically it was possibly Lennon that made some glasses fashionable) . But I can't walk around in the world very long without mine on very comfortably. Much less perform on stage very well, which I do as a professional performer and audio technician.
Contact lenses, or so I've read. But you read a lot of things.
Everyone thinks Beatles songs are simple until they read the sheet music.
Beautiful.
Greatest band ever.
But lets not forget the Beatles main influence and heroes: the fabulous Rutles. It was Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry that really kicked off the cultural and musical revolution not the Beatles. The Beatles took their cue from the Rutles and ran with it and it worked. Check out the Rutles story right here on youtube but watch out for the trousers they're very tight.
But the Rutles were "A band whose legend would last a lunchtime!"
The Rutles turned me on to tea.That was a revolution in my brain.
@@RATTLEY67 Dont drink too much!!😅
The audiences did rather like the trousers.
At seven years old was listening to Beach Boys,Ricky Nelson during adolescence.
GOD BLESS GERRY MARSDEN. RIP.
I think of him as being the Mickey Rooney of the British Invasion!
@@curbozerboomer1773 I CAN SEE YOUR POINT THERE, HE ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE A REAL CHEEKY CHAPPIE, BIG GRIN ON HIS FACE ,
Magic times. The most exciting times ever? Very possibly.
I feel fortunate to have lived during their chart days. I got right in there when they were on Ed's show. While later generations cannot truly understand what it was like, a good way to experience what the Beatles did, along with the British invasion, is to listen to the top 100 hits from 60 through 63. It's not bad but mostly pretty sterile bordering on trite. Then in 64 and onward things really get interesting.
There early material wasn't simple stuff, quite different to the usual rock n roll, the music goes to different places & comes back to the chorus, this is because having Lennon & McCartney combining their musical chord structures. Re-listen to it, Love Me Do just goes everywhere. They liked to go fwd & then go back & then turn left. It seems simple but it's unlike any other at that period.
High praise from Phil Collins considering the fantastic music Genesis made with Peter Gabriel.
Pretty darn good stuff!
The chords to She loves you are not "simple" Mr Collins!
This sounding like a late night infomercial killed it for me. I wanted to see this but I can't because of that.
Sem Iz Slovenije, ex.yugoslavija in star 53 let.BeatlEs so mi spremenili živlenje,res najboljŠi band all time.Ne morem si predstavljat da ste se eni druzili z johnom paulom ringo and george.Napisite kaj o njih ,nekaj kar ne vemo!Hvala .thank you,Dusan Unger
Awesome!
@20:43 "There is actually a birth date for Beatlemania". (London Paladium, Sunday 13 October, 1963).
I like to think I was born at around the same time, which was 26 November the same year, which was also the release date for I Want To Hold Your Hand in the USA, also 4 days after JFKs assassination. A moment in time indeed.
That was fun
You said it, unauthorised.
Really well done. And I got to know the late promoter Sam Leach a bit in the early part of this century when he spent part of those years in Chicago. The one drawback I see in having watched the first 15 minutes, is no actual Beatles music involved. Not particularly surprising in this time where whoever owns the Beatles music and the presumed costs one is charged these days to use the real thing. I could see where that would be a no go for a small undertaking like this. But using this background of this sort of Mersey beat sound, I can see where someone watching that is say....under 60 might think that is the Beatles. Seems like it would have been better served to use no music at all as, I am guessing, the people for whom this will be of interest in about 95 per cent part, will be those of us who remember it all from first time round. In fact I should probably move that age limit up to 65 which I am about to be, as as a result of having an older sister, I was an ardent fan from American day one, re February 64 when I was 7. Phil Collins sort of nailed it. I mean the Beatles have still got millions of fans since they retired who do not remember them in real time. And well and truly you had to be there, nearly indescribable though god knows people have tried. Loved what Tony Bramwell said about schoolboy John too, "bit of a hooligan" or something like that.
It is true that the early Beatles' underlying chord structures were simple. It was always the melody that attracted ears. Just like Buddy Holly. However by Revolver their songs grew more and more complex.
Great documentary. Can anyone identify the cool twangy guitar instrumental music playing in the background throughout most of the film?
Ognir Rats was always a fan favorite!