Paul McCartney goes through Abbey Road track by track.

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  • @technodroog
    @technodroog 2 роки тому +74

    "I didn't know the tune - because I can't read music - so I just made my own." Perfect little McCartney moment.

  • @anotherjoshua
    @anotherjoshua 2 роки тому +56

    i love that when paul is talking about the Cavern and the old days, he's only talking about 6 years ago.

  • @AndrewToomey7
    @AndrewToomey7 3 роки тому +204

    Unbelievable to me that Paul McCartney in 1969, after writing some of the most iconic songs ever, casually explains “cause I can’t read music”. 🎶. Just raw talent.

    • @ericdovigi7927
      @ericdovigi7927 3 роки тому +2

      Now if only he learned how to read he'd be even better!

    • @dadduorp
      @dadduorp 3 роки тому +23

      @@ericdovigi7927
      Then maybe not. I know some jazz and classical musicians that can mad sight read…yet can’t come up with a decent melody or write a song.

    • @ericdovigi7927
      @ericdovigi7927 3 роки тому +4

      @@dadduorp well maybe he wouldn't be better, but his life would at least be a lot easier

    • @usjet333
      @usjet333 3 роки тому +7

      None of the 4 could read or write music. That's always amazed me too.

    • @ericdovigi7927
      @ericdovigi7927 3 роки тому +7

      I don't mean to sound snobby, but I've never understood the glorification of musical illiteracy. On the one hand, you don't need to be able to read or write music at all to be able to do what they did. On the other hand, musical literacy would only have helped them communicate their ideas more efficiently.

  • @DJ-bj8ku
    @DJ-bj8ku 3 роки тому +150

    I love Paul even though I’m a big John fan. There’s a seriousness, maturity and honesty that is refreshing. He was asked good questions and he actually answered them directly and said something worth listening to. It’s amazing too that they turned chance opportunities, like a sit-down at the piano or noticing a poster, and made songs like Golden Slumbers and Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. Geniuses who had some humility.

    • @stevewillson9218
      @stevewillson9218 3 роки тому +1

      In all the John interviews I've heard when asked his favourite songs on albums he rarely references Pauls songs, which is interesting.

    • @senseichess8688
      @senseichess8688 3 роки тому +14

      @@stevewillson9218 he liked a lot of Paul's songs very much... like...cant buy me love...all my loving....i saw her standing there....things we said today....fool on the hill...for no one.. hey Jude...here there and everywhere...got to get you into my life...fixing a hole...oh darling....get back...coming up...

    • @Kos0818
      @Kos0818 3 роки тому +1

      @@senseichess8688 yup what he said

    • @thomasb.3040
      @thomasb.3040 3 роки тому +3

      @@stevewillson9218 Well, that was John.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 2 роки тому +3

      He couldn't admit it publicly

  • @Rustino44
    @Rustino44 3 роки тому +128

    Abbey Road is a master class album. Here Comes the Sun, Come Together, She's So Heavy, etc. Priceless

    • @usjet333
      @usjet333 3 роки тому +9

      Yes, and it's timeless. 200 years from now, Abbey Road will still be a master class album in much the same way classical musicians still today study Mozart 230 years after his death.

    • @ZDiddy7777
      @ZDiddy7777 2 роки тому +4

      I couldnt disagree more..... if compared with other bands, maybe. Compared to other Beatles joints, it was lazy, half finished, lacked real cohesion etc... Id even go so far as to call it scatter-brained. Yet, its still better than 99% of the shit every other band put out before or since, but thats how high the bar was for a Beatles album.

    • @daviddowns7552
      @daviddowns7552 Рік тому

      Indeed a master.

    • @Bevrinton
      @Bevrinton 9 місяців тому +2

      My favourite Beatles album

    • @Isaiah538
      @Isaiah538 8 місяців тому

      Is there a better medley anywhere? With two of the greatest voices in rock? I don't mind, little stories linked together with amazing music and vocals.

  • @tylercass2584
    @tylercass2584 2 роки тому +100

    “Your new manager, Allen Klein.” Silence from Paul.

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  2 роки тому +6

      First "like" 👆 in 8 months. So funny, lol

    • @Winterstick549
      @Winterstick549 Рік тому +6

      Paul was against hiring him.
      The other three were for it.

    • @tylercass2584
      @tylercass2584 Рік тому +11

      @@Winterstick549 That was why Paul was silent 🤫 and history proved that he was right. Even John and George admitted in later recorded interviews that they should have listened to Paul.

    • @drj602
      @drj602 Рік тому +4

      Allen D’klein

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Рік тому +3

      You must be imagining that silence.

  • @westfield90
    @westfield90 Рік тому +54

    So hard to believe he was just 27. He sounds more wise and mature than most men of that age. Plus he had achieved so much by this time already. The Beatles really did achieve more in those short 8 years than most people do in a lifetime.

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +2

      I once read that geniuses peak at 27. I think with Sir Paul McCartney that's very debatable :)

    • @emailvonsour
      @emailvonsour Рік тому

      Debatable? That's exactly where he peaked.@@Beatlestories

    • @thesuncollective1475
      @thesuncollective1475 Рік тому

      I just realised, at this time he is so aware and sharp. He was on it and that's why his music was on it.

    • @yanikem6655
      @yanikem6655 11 місяців тому +1

      ‘Just’ 27? In the 1960s, most men left school at 15 to start working and had long been settled down with wives and children by age 27!!

    • @scooopable
      @scooopable 3 місяці тому +1

      @@yanikem6655 right, it's wayy later nowadays.

  • @ryadachaibou8098
    @ryadachaibou8098 3 роки тому +206

    Every "y'kno" gives me energy to keep going

    • @Kaddywompous
      @Kaddywompous 3 роки тому +1

      That’s good, y’kno?

    • @Ojb_1959
      @Ojb_1959 3 роки тому +1

      I kno, y’kno 🤙🏼

    • @lewistaylor752
      @lewistaylor752 3 роки тому

      Good drinking game y’kno

    • @mikethomas6120
      @mikethomas6120 2 роки тому +4

      I love how Yoko claimed to not at all ever heard of the Beatles. Yet she showed up at the “cute one’s” house first and then she went to meet John.

    • @scottandrewbrass
      @scottandrewbrass 2 роки тому

      Y' know.

  • @fede-tk3rm
    @fede-tk3rm Рік тому +17

    i cant believe im able to listen to this, more than 50 years later. this is amazing

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +1

      Yeah. It's a rarity and a genuine pleasure to hear

    • @redadamearth
      @redadamearth 11 місяців тому

      Why? You can listen to radio shows from the 30's.

  • @vhscopyofrainman163
    @vhscopyofrainman163 3 роки тому +76

    Abbey Road is the Beatles at their most mature. It's the Beatles making Beatles music, very meta, very good. It blows my mind

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +1

      The Abbey Road medley is the greatest piece of music ever recorded in my opinion :)

  • @azapro911
    @azapro911 2 місяці тому +1

    You can hear the gears in Paul's mind turning as he searches for the most careful response to being asked about Klein. 😂 Sadly, he privately already knows the Beatles are done.

  • @johnnyv.5142
    @johnnyv.5142 2 роки тому +26

    Let's not forget Paul's 'Oh, Darling', a great rocker on Side 1.

    • @TheJoshtheboss
      @TheJoshtheboss 2 роки тому +6

      One of the most underrated songs I think.

    • @SiLoMixMaster
      @SiLoMixMaster Рік тому +4

      Paul's vocals on Oh Darling are ridiculously good, underrated track indeed, even Lennon said he genuinely liked that one.

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому

      that tune reversed we hear "In Me lives He'. Billy letting us know the truth.

    • @Bevrinton
      @Bevrinton 9 місяців тому

      In my opinion the first heavy metal song his vocals are so heavy

  • @rjparker1234
    @rjparker1234 3 роки тому +101

    Interesting Paul says John wanted to do concerts, but he did not. Paul than does wings and performs and John becomes a very private person for years. People change, time changes. Thank you Paul John George Ringo for all the joy you brought to my journey.

    • @l.salisbury1253
      @l.salisbury1253 3 роки тому +3

      I heard the exact opposite. That John HATED performing live! Check out a concert appearence he did with Elton John just before a cover of "I saw her standing there": "I'd like to thank Elton & the boys... now I can get out of here and be sick!"

    • @RodneyOwl
      @RodneyOwl 3 роки тому +1

      @@l.salisbury1253 That’s because he was playing with Elton John.

    • @mesobococacola
      @mesobococacola 3 роки тому +6

      Yeah, taking into account John immediately did a couple of live gigs while Paul went and lived a farm life. It was then that everything turned around.

    • @rhinogamer1076
      @rhinogamer1076 3 роки тому

      You used the wrong then

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 3 роки тому +2

      @@l.salisbury1253 He hadn't been on stage for a couple of years and was incredibly nervous, and it was a hugely high pressure situation in a huge, famous venue, large crowd, with another star performer. Early on when they were performing every night, it was his routine and he was accustomed to it. I can totally understand that, as a performing musician.

  • @sebastianward324
    @sebastianward324 Рік тому +7

    How is it, that we keep forgetting how much a genius McCartney is when he speaks of his Beatle achievements - I wish that they had played the Isle of White. At that time, their songs were different x

  • @BeatlesBible1
    @BeatlesBible1 Рік тому +18

    *BEATLES BIBLE WAS HERE*

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +3

      I see you Beatles Bible, Sir/ma'am 👀. I enjoy your channel, you're very good at what you do. Very informative 🙏

  • @kimura3033
    @kimura3033 2 роки тому +14

    There are some greatest hits from this album, such as Something, Here comes the sun, Come together etc. There are also some very good songs, such as Because, She's so heavy etc. But to me, what it makes this album so special, is the side 2 medley. I'd say its the most enjoyable music I've ever experienced.

  • @vashna3799
    @vashna3799 3 роки тому +87

    Abbey Road was the most melodic of their albums. Something, Because, You Never Give me Your Money, Golden Slumbers. Dripping in melodies.

    • @ghostriderinthesky6685
      @ghostriderinthesky6685 3 роки тому +10

      Rubber soul is a good contender; In my Life, Nowhere Man, You won’t see me, Norwegian Wood, Michelle, Girl.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 3 роки тому +6

      _Abbey Road_ invented the next 50 years of pop-rock.

    • @inmundo6927
      @inmundo6927 2 роки тому +3

      @@RideAcrossTheRiver here we go again. The Beatles single-handedly invented all music genres we know today. . yeah yeah yeah..

    • @mattmiller4917
      @mattmiller4917 2 роки тому +3

      I think it's THE most melodic album.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 роки тому +7

      @@inmundo6927 Not all, and not genres. But you can hear Beatles songs and approach mined for a lot of hits of late-60s, 70s, 80s, and into 90s

  • @RockHardRiffs
    @RockHardRiffs 3 роки тому +255

    Excellent interview. Interesting how Paul points out John and George’s songs and the side 2 medley as his favorites. John pointed out his own and Something as his favorites in another interview.

    • @RockHardRiffs
      @RockHardRiffs 3 роки тому +18

      And disliked the medley I should have added...

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  3 роки тому +73

      I think the medley is the greatest piece of music The Beatles ever recorded. I don't know whether it's age but as a kid I was into the early pre-peppers stuff, for the last 30 years I've said Revolver is the greatest album ever, and now I just play Abbey Road and the White Album. Everytime I listen to Abbey Road I discover something new, it's weird. John is quoted as saying "The Beatles best work was never recorded" (in fact I'll upload that soon) but I find that very hard to believe. That Get back documentary is just amazing, the way Paul writes that song is unexplainable.

    • @RockHardRiffs
      @RockHardRiffs 3 роки тому +42

      @@Beatlestories that’s just John being John. He also told George Martin he would re-record every song he did. I don’t believe it for a second. He’s just saying shit for the sake of saying it. He has a bad habit of that…..just like me 😜

    • @wornyodelrecords
      @wornyodelrecords 3 роки тому +5

      So they all agreed on which were the best. 😉

    • @sylviaroberts8103
      @sylviaroberts8103 3 роки тому +14

      @@wornyodelrecords You’re putting words into Paul’s mouth. He merely said “I LIKE” this one and “I LIKE” that one. He never said they were the BEST. He gave a personal opinion. That’s all. He’s fully aware that everyone has their own favourites.

  • @jayburdification
    @jayburdification 3 роки тому +41

    Lol @ the interviewer thinking that the phrases “turn me on” and “blow my mind” were ‘passé’ for 1969. Paul’s answer was perfect and it turns out those phrases have both been present in the vernacular ever since. One of them even has an emoji 🤯

    • @cliveedwards2958
      @cliveedwards2958 3 роки тому +8

      Yes I got a bit pissed at the interviewer for saying that..a fashionable poseur.. which Paul answers perfectly..and you rightly point out are now part of the vocabulary..so Paul had the last laugh

    • @roberttalbot6397
      @roberttalbot6397 3 роки тому +1

      Day in the life has turn me on in it's lyric. From sgt pepper

  • @simanion
    @simanion 3 роки тому +60

    Can you imagine interviewers telling the most famous musicians in the world today that their lyrics on their latest album are a bit passé? Lol. I’ve been listening to a lot of 60s interviews with the Beatles and this blunt criticism verging on put downs is a recurring thing, and was always taken fairly well like it’s just the way it is. The dynamic between artists and interviewers has changed so much.

    • @sherwintavarez8539
      @sherwintavarez8539 3 роки тому +3

      Musicians are more insecure nowadays

    • @ignatiusjackson235
      @ignatiusjackson235 3 роки тому +8

      @@sherwintavarez8539 No, it's got more to do with relationships between the music press and the record labels, combined with the popular insistence on subjectivist relativism. None of this has anything to do with the musicians themselves. It has everything to do with the systems in which they must operate in order to make a living, as well as a complete lack of integrity on behalf of modern journalism.

    • @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747
      @luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 3 роки тому +5

      There once was a time when adults existed.

    • @harold3165
      @harold3165 Рік тому

      @@ignatiusjackson235 Also, musicians are more insecure nowadays

    • @ignatiusjackson235
      @ignatiusjackson235 Рік тому

      @@harold3165 I wouldn't say that, because it takes a certain amount of humility to be insecure. The same type of humility it takes to be talented, I'd say. We don't see too much of that nowadays.

  • @PageMarker1
    @PageMarker1 Рік тому +1

    A side of Paul McCartney I'd never heard before. Never cared much for him, but always respected him. For a guy who can't read or write music, he certainly came up with some incredible tunes, mostly with the Beatles, but afterwards quite a catalogue.

  • @jesperschultz2727
    @jesperschultz2727 3 роки тому +24

    Such well thought out arguments/explanations. What an intelligence! No political thoughts - just honesty!

  • @caseyhamm4292
    @caseyhamm4292 Рік тому +1

    i love how paul not only defends his band mates but also totally deconstructs the interviewers criticisms at the same time. such a brilliant and witty man

  • @ciaran9334
    @ciaran9334 3 роки тому +11

    3:37 I love whenever Paul randomly hams up his scouse accent

  • @RichMansour
    @RichMansour 2 роки тому +13

    This band never shouldve broken up.

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +2

      I think we can all agree on that, Rich. I just wish I'd lived through the mania :)

    • @jimrochelle3646
      @jimrochelle3646 Рік тому

      You want to leave them wanting more. Probably for the best that they did.

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому

      John and George just could not handle Billy's arrogance anymore.

    • @geneschweiss4872
      @geneschweiss4872 Рік тому

      They went out when the Beatles were on top .

    • @redadamearth
      @redadamearth 11 місяців тому

      Inevitable.

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 2 роки тому +8

    This is a really interesting interview, because this is very close to when they broke up, but Paul's still talking about them as a group and what he hopes the Beatles will be like in the future. It shows how random and unexpected their breakup was to them

  • @UncannyValleyVideos
    @UncannyValleyVideos 3 роки тому +84

    The sheer energy of the Beatles is astounding. Paul says that he likes Abbey Road better than The White Album, which insinuates that there was no material between those albums, yet the Get Back project happened a mere TWO MONTHS after The White Album hit shelves.
    Let It Be and Abbey Road were recorded in the same year. Think about that.

    • @dragonoftheeast7572
      @dragonoftheeast7572 3 роки тому +5

      That's insane to think about🤔

    • @Claude_van
      @Claude_van 3 роки тому +8

      He talks about „Let It Be“ as film project they are working on. Probably the direction of that project wasn’t that clear. The journalist didn’t ask about the music.

    • @steveconn
      @steveconn 3 роки тому +7

      Get Back broke their solidarity. John and George genuinely hated the sessions, despite whatever smoke and mirrors Peter Jackson delivered in his recut. If Paul had let them rest after the White Album they might have lasted into the seventies.

    • @UncannyValleyVideos
      @UncannyValleyVideos 3 роки тому +8

      @@steveconn I agree that they should've rested after the White Album. Maybe then they would've entered the studio with a more cohesive idea for the project. After watching the documentary it seems to me that Paul was desperate to keep the lads working. You can see it in his eyes the day after George leaves; he's close to a break down. I guess The Beatles were used to working at a breakneck pace. Based on Mark Lewisohn's Complete Beatles Chronicle, these guys BARELY had breaks longer than a few weeks prior to 1967.

    • @subg8858
      @subg8858 3 роки тому +11

      Let It Be would have been a great album if they had just included Dont Let Me Down and finished All Things Must Pass. Never understood why DLMD was left off. Still I like the album, underrated

  • @itinerantpatriot1196
    @itinerantpatriot1196 2 роки тому +5

    Paul always was very good at giving interviews, still is. Interesting to hear him dodge the question on Klein, answering it without addressing the question. I'm not sure if he got the questions in advance but if that was off the cuff it was very well played. It's a bit sad when the question about what will the Beatles be doing at 40 came around. "Mourning the loss of our friend," came to mind. Of course, who could have made that call. I think most people wish they could see the future, but I also think if you could maybe you wouldn't like the ability as much as you think. Anyway, always great to hear a Beatle interview, especially one centered on the album that changed my life. Cheers.

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому

      My pleasure and I agree with everything you said, lovely words and well written. 🗽💙

  • @raindrops21_9
    @raindrops21_9 2 роки тому +34

    The Abbey Road LP is the real Beatles masterpiece IMO. That Paul points to two songs that are not his own, as his favourites just goes to show he isn't the masive egomaniac that some like to paint him as (although he has every right to sing his own praises). My desert island discs would be Come Together and You Never Give Me Your Money. Superb.

    • @TheJoshtheboss
      @TheJoshtheboss 2 роки тому +1

      Or he said it for the exact effect to not look like that. Anyway, amazing interview.

    • @raindrops21_9
      @raindrops21_9 2 роки тому +5

      @@TheJoshtheboss why do people always ascribe the worst possible motivations to things Paul says? Very cynical view, and frankly, baffling to me. He didn't wait 10 or 15 years to voice his preference. He said it *at the time* He always favoured those songs from the album.

    • @TheJoshtheboss
      @TheJoshtheboss 2 роки тому +1

      @@raindrops21_9 I think it's because Paul demonstrated on multiple occasions to be very business and popular opinion savvy. And false humility is a powerful and clever strategy to promote yourself.
      But at the same time Paul demonstrated in multiple interviews that he is a really likeable guy. I like Paul and his music. I love his interviews. And yes, it is quite cynical view and we'll never know. I do agree that Paul often gets enough slack, probably unfairly too.
      But he just appears to be the type of a crafty PR man.
      One of the Beatle biographers said that Harrison (when he was alive) was the only one who could give an account what really between the 3 Beatles. Because John was dead, Ringo can't because he really doesn't know, and Paul won't say because he changes the history all the time.

    • @raindrops21_9
      @raindrops21_9 2 роки тому +5

      @@TheJoshtheboss (warning - this is a bit of a long one..) "Paul demonstrated on multiple occasions to be very business and popular opinion savvy" 100% agree and thank goodness for that, especially in regards to what was musically likely to sell! But being business savvy and having an eye to popularity doesn't equal "false humility", it's common sense. He loved what he did but he also wanted to make a living.
      Remember it was Paul's acuity that saved The Beatles their money when Klein mis-managed their financial affairs.
      And Paul wasn't always *such* a slave to 'popular opinion' that he would abandon what he believed to be morally right. During The Beatles tour of the US where performing to segragated audiences had been proposed, Paul was very vocal in his views that they would not perform if those were the circumstances. In a US press conference he said: "We don't like it if there's any segregation... you can't treat other human beings like animals... there's never any segregation in concerts in England and in fact, if there was, we wouldn't play 'em ".
      "Crafty PR man"? That makes him sound so conniving - I don't see that in him at all. Astute, enterprising, diligent, exacting? Yes. But also genuinely conscious of the feelings of those around him - especially as the older and wiser man he has become.
      Look I get it, Paul comes across as being *very* likeable, but I believe it's his diplomacy that can sometimes be *perceived* as insincere. But that's just perception and not necessarily an accurate assessment.
      I'm not like him, I often sacrifice diplomacy in favour of harsh 'thruths' (well, my version of the truth, anyway), I actually feel it's a perverse form of self-indulgence. I'd *rather* be more like Paul - kind and careful, it's harder and takes more self-control.
      I've also come across different accounts of the same stories that Paul has told, but is that deliberately massaging the truth for his benefit, or just a very human tendency to misremember things from the past?
      No one is perfect, and Paul will have his faults like all of us, but I think he's been given a hammering over the years. It's been excessive and IMO, unjust.

    • @thesilvershining
      @thesilvershining 2 роки тому +3

      @@raindrops21_9 This comment is perfect. Explains everything I wanted to say, so thank you!

  • @davidkieltyka9
    @davidkieltyka9 3 роки тому +48

    This interview was with BBC presenter David Wigg, recorded for the Radio 1 show Scene And Heard. It took place on 19 September 1969, the day before John Lennon told the rest of the band he “wanted a divorce.” It was broadcast in two parts, one on 21 Sept. and the other a week later.

    • @scottslaught
      @scottslaught 3 роки тому +4

      Yes, and that meeting on Sept. 20th put Paul in a tailspin. Left for Scotland very soon thereafter.

    • @OroborusFMA
      @OroborusFMA 3 роки тому +1

      John came back about two weeks later and was proposing a new Beatles album. John was just terribly inconsistent. What ended future Beatles recordings was Paul's ego - he wouldn't give George equal billing with himself and John. John, George, and Ringo continued to work together well into the 1970s. Paul was the one on the outside.

    • @davidkieltyka9
      @davidkieltyka9 3 роки тому +2

      @@OroborusFMA If you’re refering to the band meeting that was taped (for Ringo, who was in the hospital at the time with a stomach issue), during which Lennon leads a discussion on how the songwriting for a possible next album (post Abbey Road) might be divvied up, that took place on 8 September.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 2 роки тому

      False

    • @davidkieltyka9
      @davidkieltyka9 2 роки тому

      @@docsavage8640 Teeth

  • @mickeyrooneysghost6917
    @mickeyrooneysghost6917 2 роки тому +4

    I liked Paul's openness. And I really enjoyed hearing his comments about the Get Back filming now that I've seen it myself.

  • @drj602
    @drj602 Рік тому +1

    I love the early Beatles and the later Beatles. I am old enough and loved em as a ‘youngster’ and the experience of being there and hearing the young Beatles at that time was more than sufficiently mind blowing for me. 🙃🥳

  • @tyronewhitehead3123
    @tyronewhitehead3123 3 роки тому +5

    A true star any thing Beatles I’m watching and listening great hair cuts and clothes thanque and respect for giving me your fab music

  • @gringotroller
    @gringotroller 3 роки тому +38

    Didn't hear the part where Paul McCartney goes through Abby Road track by track

  • @noscrubbubblez6515
    @noscrubbubblez6515 Рік тому +2

    Those are the rarest Pepper era photos I've ever seen. The span of the Help movie (john with no glasses) to Pepper (Paul with mustache) to this interview (Paul possible beard)- gets you at least 4 of their best years. The Pete Best lawsuit for 18 million was always there in the background- it just kills any kind of Beatle's buzz... he was rejected because he couldn't grin... ach!

  • @garylee3685
    @garylee3685 2 роки тому +4

    There are similiar Abbey Road track by track interviews with John and George. The album was on their company's record label so they were plugging it.

    • @Scott-nr2ji
      @Scott-nr2ji 2 роки тому

      Great point I never considered (even though I know their history about Apple Records and all.) Now it makes more sense why they or kissing their own asses a lot more in regards to that album instead of other ones including the SUPERIOR "The White Album" (despite the former being on that same new label of theirs, it makes a lot more sense of why they were a bit over patronizing of their own songs or other songwriters within the band's songs, etc...GREAT POINT!!)

  • @neonh161
    @neonh161 Рік тому +1

    Wow, so many things said in this interview that sounds prophetic or eerie, like the "What will you be doing at 40"

  • @lhcarter
    @lhcarter 2 роки тому +8

    Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper were their two masterpieces, IMO.

  • @daviddowns7552
    @daviddowns7552 Рік тому +1

    thats a pretty cool pic or cover done here. hard days night on abbey road zebra walk. most pics of the abbey road people do are just whimpy stuff but this is very cool. ill check this out soon it seems real interesting.

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  Рік тому +1

      Lol. I've always said that pic of Paul McCartney is so cool, he looks great 🚶🏼‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️

  • @PeterStrachanMusic
    @PeterStrachanMusic 3 роки тому +16

    What a great interview...

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  3 роки тому

      I thought so too but I lost 75,000 subscribers so they're not going to be able to hear it again. I think it's a classic interview and I don't want to waste the rarer ones until there's a much bigger audience. I've had 75,000 subscribers and this interview got over 250k views 🤷‍♂️

    • @countquackula8539
      @countquackula8539 2 роки тому

      @@Beatlestories Why did you lose so many subscribers?

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  2 роки тому

      @@countquackula8539 My old channel was terminated because of copyright claims from YokoOnoOfficial and UMG, I think it's because I uploaded John's demos. I had to start over again and I'm wanting to reach 10,000 subs so I can upload the podcast, no point in uploading episodes only to get 300 views.

  • @magneto7930
    @magneto7930 3 роки тому +8

    Great interview! It's rather interesting that Paul obviously had no clue as to what was going to happen. His perspective would completely turn around in the future. I don't think John necessarily wanted to get out there and keep performing, I think he just wanted to get out there and do things that weren't Beatle-related. On the contrary, it would be Paul who would be doing the touring and John avoiding it.

    • @zero-pl3tt
      @zero-pl3tt 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, Paul seemed to be the one who most enjoyed touring out of the four. John never toured post Beatles and George only ever did two, decades apart. Ringo tours pretty consistently of course.

  • @STONESGAM
    @STONESGAM 2 роки тому +2

    The highlights for me on this album are Something, She's so Heavy, You Never Give Me Your Money, and Golden Slumbers.
    I have been listening to this a lot lately and am starting to think it's their best album. I always used to go with Revolver.

  • @Redhotshawntexas
    @Redhotshawntexas 3 роки тому +12

    10:13 Amazing that “What will happen when you turn forty?” seemed to always be the big question

    • @samuelmcgovern
      @samuelmcgovern 3 роки тому +2

      I couldn't help but think of John, who died at that age.

    • @premanadi
      @premanadi 3 роки тому +2

      @@samuelmcgovern John wrote a "self-interview" for an Andy Warhol magazine and asked himself what he would be doing when he turned 40, and his answer was "fucking guys."

  • @Fool3SufferingFools
    @Fool3SufferingFools 3 роки тому +6

    I was today years old when I learned that Paul had a stepsister named Ruth born in 1960.

  • @Wolfgang_Amadeus_X_Machina
    @Wolfgang_Amadeus_X_Machina 3 роки тому +12

    4:17 He sounds like John here.
    6:25 He sounds like George here.

    • @thesilvershining
      @thesilvershining 2 роки тому

      There’s a Wings song called “I’m Carrying” where I swore it was George singing at first, lol

    • @lhcarter
      @lhcarter 2 роки тому

      Another place I think Paul (intentionally) sounds like George is in Band on the Run, when he sings for the third time “ If I ever get out of here”.

  • @onyourmarkphoto
    @onyourmarkphoto 2 роки тому +3

    God someone calling something passe that the Beatles wrote??? Straight to their face? Incredible.

    • @JohnnyArtPavlou
      @JohnnyArtPavlou 2 роки тому

      I think it was a good call. He’s commenting from inside the Times of the culture that created those phrases. And even saw them as passé so he’s doing a little bit of critique and analysis. Why not? And then Paul clarifies in a lovely and brilliant way.

  • @debrabugay6335
    @debrabugay6335 3 роки тому +6

    Love Paul McCartney

  • @gregchristopfel8106
    @gregchristopfel8106 Рік тому +3

    “…I don’t know what’ll happen…but it’ll be alright “. Who knew the end was so near?

  • @AK-pr2nk
    @AK-pr2nk 3 роки тому +9

    She came in through the bathroom window and you never give me your money are brilliant

  • @joshuahyman3612
    @joshuahyman3612 Рік тому +2

    Not a bad track on it. -Paul

  • @karaamundson3964
    @karaamundson3964 2 роки тому +1

    I liked how you closed the vid. Quite evocative. Mournful

  • @daleywhaley
    @daleywhaley 3 роки тому +1

    Great interview thanks for sharing.

  • @oceantree5000
    @oceantree5000 3 роки тому +1

    Suss a wee glimpse of Scouse in Paul’s voice at 5:42, the “breathy” K in “speak.”

  • @phila3884
    @phila3884 2 роки тому +1

    I don't think I've ever heard an interview with any Beatle where they were flippant, or disrespectful with their answers. Except when they were obviously expected to be cheeky, they always gave a thoughtful, honest response, sometime to the surprise of the interviewer.

  • @darwinblinks
    @darwinblinks Рік тому

    since you're at my birthday number of subscribers 7.11, I subscribed!

  • @Lily_The_Pink972
    @Lily_The_Pink972 9 місяців тому +1

    I just love listening to younger Paul talking.

  • @anonymusum
    @anonymusum Рік тому

    So Paul´s fav tunes were: Something (written by George), Come together and Because (both by John).
    And now compare it to John´s lists of fav tunes.

  • @brianhassett1994
    @brianhassett1994 2 роки тому +3

    If you sold t-shirts with that photo of the lads running down Abbey Road I would definitely buy one!

    • @Robutube1
      @Robutube1 Місяць тому

      It's great isn't it?! Or should that be gear? :-)

  • @Beatlestories
    @Beatlestories  3 роки тому +15

    BIG NEWS! Hi there Beatle fans, Mark here. As of this week I will be uploading 2 videos per week until January the 10th 2022. Then I'll be uploading videos and my new podcast here to this channel, I'll also be opening the podcast on Spotify with some extras!!! Later next week I'll be uploading my first video in my new studio so you can all see what I look like and get familiar with me, I feel like as Beatlemaniacs we're all part of the same family. The main Beatle Stories channel was terminated in April due to copyright issues with YokoOnoOfficial. Only today was I told that that channel will not be coming back 🤷‍♂️.
    I'll be uploading every single video and interview with the lads I have over the next 2 years so I won't be able to monetize my channel. It's taken time to buy a new computer and rearrange a bedroom into a Beatles decorated studio, add that to how long I've waited for UA-cam and YokoOnoOfficial and you'll understand why I've been away for so long.
    You will absolutely love what's coming, we're going to go through every single day in Beatles history, every song, we're going to cover anything and everything to do with The Beatles 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
    Stay tuned!
    You never give me your money. You only give me your funny faces Http://cash.me/£beatlestories
    👆That's me in the profile picture :)
    Any donations would be extremely appreciated. I will try to give you the best Beatles related content on UA-cam but after being very ill for 2020 and half of this year I'm having to start again. We had 75,000 subscribers so losing that channel just depressed me, it took 4 years to build that channel and I was genuinely heartbroken. I really missed coming and talking to you all about The Beatles every night so please understand - I was utterly exhausted mentally, it really hurt.
    #LENNON #McCartney #harrison #starr #cavern #AbbeyRoad #sgtpeppers #TheWhieAlbum #letitbe #TheBeatles
    The best there was. The best there is. The best there ever will be.... THE BEATLES 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
    I'M BACK FOR GOOD!!

    • @Facebookfella
      @Facebookfella 3 роки тому +3

      I wonder where you had gone!! Welcome back.

    • @maryannlockwood7806
      @maryannlockwood7806 3 роки тому +2

      @@Facebookfella ☺️

    • @maryannlockwood7806
      @maryannlockwood7806 3 роки тому +1

      Mark, do you think you might do PayPal? 🤔🎧

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  3 роки тому +3

      @@maryannlockwood7806 I do Maryann but I'm not asking for anything from you bless ya x. Wait for the podcast and I'll be begging you all, lol. It's cost me a fortune for the green screen, computer, and I've got a little studio all set up so it's broke me but it's worth it to get this podcast up and running. I can't use the community tab anymore or I'd post photos of the new "studio". I've had a waterpainting on canvas blown up and put on my open brick wall, with lights around it, it looks Beatley beautiful. Also about 948636 frames of The Beatles... It looks like an art gallery. I guess I'll be using the green screen mostly but I want Beatles fans to see the studio 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

    • @maryannlockwood7806
      @maryannlockwood7806 3 роки тому

      @@Beatlestories sounds good. How will you let us know when it’s up & running for the podcast?🤔🎧

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent interview.

  • @scouseronthewirral
    @scouseronthewirral 3 роки тому +6

    When he talks about Beatles “Changing” as the time goes on The same logic applies to Elvis “Growing up” yet they expected him to be the young 50s rocker in the 60s and 70s so it’s a bit hypocritical when you think of it

  • @newwavepop
    @newwavepop 3 роки тому +3

    he asks Paul what do you think The Beatles are going to be doing when youre forty, and all i could think of was John and it got me a bit emotional.

    • @imkluu
      @imkluu 3 роки тому +2

      John lived to be 40 and was in a good place before he was taken from this world. He had reconciled with Paul, they had had dinner and talked about getting the band back together. He was happy. God Bless Him, and R.I.P.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 2 роки тому

      He and George were in a bad place

  • @grumpyoldrockers1048
    @grumpyoldrockers1048 3 роки тому +2

    Friggin AWESOME!

  • @OroborusFMA
    @OroborusFMA 3 роки тому +3

    Their disintegration was so gradual even they couldn't fully believe it until Paul filed to dissolve the partnership on December 31, 1970. There's tape of George from the summer of 1970 saying expected the Beatles to get together soon to record in addition to their solo projects.

  • @lhcarter
    @lhcarter 2 роки тому

    Like, “It doesn’t really matter if it’s wrong I’m right, where I belong I’m right where I belong. …”. Similar to John’s “ Because” in that way of word play.

  • @mooghead
    @mooghead 2 роки тому +1

    You ask any fan of any band and they will always say the early stuff is the best but The Beatles just got better and better and better... imagine the stuff they would have come up with had things had worked out differently.

  • @tattyshoesshigure5731
    @tattyshoesshigure5731 Рік тому +1

    Apart from ‘Come Together’ I never really liked Abbey Road as an album. I picked up on a lot of sadness & bad vibes that seem to permeate the record… possibly because I was on a trip at the time & I don’t think all was well with the Fabs during recording. For me the best thing about it is the iconic sleeve photo.

  • @peacecrewproducts
    @peacecrewproducts 3 роки тому +5

    Wow he talks about Get Back in an interview way before it’s release in 2021.

    • @thomasb.3040
      @thomasb.3040 3 роки тому +7

      You now there was an earlier documentary right?

    • @mattjns
      @mattjns 2 роки тому +1

      You know he saw them filming right?

  • @newsduke
    @newsduke Рік тому

    I think it’s funny how the interviewer said, “Isn’t the lyric ‘turn me on’ a bit passé?” The stuff that hip people in the ‘60s cared about! In the ‘60s, pop culture changed so quickly that even things from only a couple years ago could be called passé! Several decades later, with the Beatles firmly entrenched in the bedrock of music history, little cultural fads like that don’t matter anymore.

  • @mhildack
    @mhildack 3 роки тому +13

    Hard to imagine being interviewed as many times as he’d been then. He wasn’t even 30yrs old at this time

    • @imkluu
      @imkluu 3 роки тому

      He, and the rest of the Beatles, actually didn't do that many interviews after 1966 when they became a studio band.

  • @rojachi7847
    @rojachi7847 3 роки тому +5

    3:05 Isn't that Crosby to the right?

    • @atroyz
      @atroyz 3 роки тому +1

      Looks like him, yeah.

    • @richardwinkleman4431
      @richardwinkleman4431 3 роки тому +1

      Yep, looks like him with that signature lid

    • @thekphones5771
      @thekphones5771 2 роки тому

      1967 photograph with Mr Croz of The Byrds.

  • @CraigfromLA
    @CraigfromLA Рік тому +1

    Sounds like there was more to this interview, will you be posting the rest?

  • @Dexter32
    @Dexter32 2 роки тому +1

    Love your channel

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  2 роки тому

      Thank you Bruce, I appreciate that comment more than you'll ever know :)

  • @stormhawk3319
    @stormhawk3319 2 роки тому +3

    Abbey Road was their biggest selling non-compilation album. Although not as strong as Revolver, as important as Sgt Pepper’s or as diverse as the White Album it’s definitely their most melodic LP and shows British pop music at its height.

  • @gilsonmozart1530
    @gilsonmozart1530 3 роки тому +14

    My favorite song on Abbey Road is Oh! Darling. I think it's so underrated.

    • @Talisman09
      @Talisman09 3 роки тому +2

      everyone loves that song, it's not underrated

    • @thesilvershining
      @thesilvershining 2 роки тому

      I love singing it in the car but of course I can’t come close to those killer vocals. His poor throat, man.

  • @oreally8605
    @oreally8605 Рік тому

    If John sang the song 🎵 he wrote it. If Paul then Paul. George etc. Ringo were the only one where John & Paul wrote for him. We Beatle fans know this. This comment is for the newbies.. 😊 Subscribed.

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому +1

      "I'm Happy Just to dance With You' written by lennon sung by Harrison.

  • @Pharoset
    @Pharoset 2 роки тому +1

    Wow! I have never seen most of the Sgt. Pepper photos you are showing in the video. Where did you find them?

  • @allcal88
    @allcal88 3 роки тому +1

    9:05 - is this interview right before the meeting where John quits?!

  • @liamtg912
    @liamtg912 3 роки тому +3

    Paul answering "we'll be alright" when the interviewer asked where each of the Beatles will be at 40 years old. :(

    • @imkluu
      @imkluu 3 роки тому +2

      Well, at 40, they all were in pretty good shape. They were all doing alright. John didn't get a chance to turn 41, but he was in a good place before he was taken from this world.

    • @docsavage8640
      @docsavage8640 2 роки тому +2

      He was correct

  • @shroppy50
    @shroppy50 2 роки тому

    Fantastic interview 👌

  • @jasonrothbaum7266
    @jasonrothbaum7266 3 роки тому +1

    If John had already returned from Toronto I wonder if the band already knew he was leaving at the time of this interview. If they did, then Paul is the best actor in history.

  • @charleschezhyan2498
    @charleschezhyan2498 2 роки тому +1

    That last image of John is haunting

  • @siroswaldfortitude5346
    @siroswaldfortitude5346 Рік тому

    Not sure about the timeline, but I wish that Paul's song 'Goodbye' written for Mary Hopkin or 'come and get it' had been included on Abbey road instead of Maxwell's silver hammer.

  • @JakePhillips-o1j
    @JakePhillips-o1j 15 днів тому +1

    Hi there, I am looking to use this interview in my research - do you have information on who the interviewer is, when and where it was recorded? thanks!

    • @Beatlestories
      @Beatlestories  12 днів тому

      @@JakePhillips-o1j Hi Jake. As of now I can't remember but I will find out and get back to you, sir. I've been away from this channel for a year but next year I'll be back full time. Merry Xmas to you, sir 🎄

  • @kevinshaughnessy6396
    @kevinshaughnessy6396 3 роки тому +1

    The Let It Be session
    included songs written by George with support from John Paul & Ringo
    It was George who be indifferent
    The songs included would become the classic All Things Must Pass

  • @robbhahn8897
    @robbhahn8897 2 роки тому

    Morning Has Broken is probably the best poem turn to song since Golden Slumbers.

    • @RobertGraziose
      @RobertGraziose 3 місяці тому

      @@robbhahn8897 Cat Stevens was a great artist.

  • @PaulA-qe6om
    @PaulA-qe6om 2 роки тому +3

    I'm here to hear Maxwell's Silver Hammer described aka the most hated song by the band.

    • @scorpnov13
      @scorpnov13 2 роки тому +1

      One of Paul’s granny songs…J L

    • @thesilvershining
      @thesilvershining 2 роки тому

      George was civil about it when he did his interview. He said “Some people really like those catchy weird songs” but he said he liked “Oh Darling” which surprised me.

    • @ГалинаПолянская-ш8с
      @ГалинаПолянская-ш8с 2 роки тому

      Отстаньте, наконец, , от песни Максвелл, зачем болтать одно и то же- как будто у остальных битлов бы ли сплошные хиты и не было не очень удачных песен! Пол своим творчеством давно доказал что он лучш
      ий, да на том же альбоме Abbey Road !

    • @RobertGraziose
      @RobertGraziose 3 місяці тому

      Can you believe it. Harrison played the bass! George played bass on Old Brown Shoe also. He was pretty good on bass

  • @compalley2379
    @compalley2379 2 роки тому

    What will be the next for the Beatles? splitting up was not an option.

  • @jontwest
    @jontwest 3 роки тому +7

    How incredible to have a journalist critiquing the lyrics of 'Because'! Imagine if we actually had journalists today instead of corporate propagandists, and regarding music, what they might ask about Max Martin's sub-cretinous garbage he churns out for the corporations & his 120+ shyte clients

  • @roblund6919
    @roblund6919 3 роки тому +6

    Paul McCartney technically didn't have a single on Abby Road.and his favorites were not his,that being said Abby Road was his finest hour

    • @thesilvershining
      @thesilvershining 2 роки тому

      “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” was such a creative little song… perfect from beginning to end. I’m glad George got a great first single though, he deserved it

  • @turquisestones
    @turquisestones Рік тому

    If you take their complete songs from their complete studio albums, you'll be mezmerized by the fact that it all started with "One, two, three, four!" ("I Saw Here Standing There", the first song from the first album) and ended with "And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you make" by McCartney (the end of "Abby Road", if you consider it to be their last complete studio album) or with "Thank you all on behalf of our group and I hope we've passed the audition" by Lennon (the end of "Let It Be", if you consider this one to be the last). What other group in the history of music had this kind of symbolism in their carreer?!

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому

      What "symbolism" does Crowely on Pepper cover mean??

    • @turquisestones
      @turquisestones Рік тому

      @@PaulFormentos I don't know

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому

      Maybe it's better if you never know......@@turquisestones

    • @turquisestones
      @turquisestones Рік тому

      @@PaulFormentos Maybe it would be better if you could mention some...

    • @PaulFormentos
      @PaulFormentos Рік тому

      read Memoirs of billy shears, the blue book@@turquisestones

  • @lucasratti
    @lucasratti Рік тому

    Does someone know when this interview took place ? I just checked the dates, Abbey Road was released on 26 september 1969, and John Lennon told the others he was leaving the band less than a week prior to that on 20 September 69.
    So at this point Paul probably knew the band was over and done with, that's quite trippy.
    Unrelated but I'm french and I'm unsure of the way i write dates, is it the correct phrasing ?

  • @acushla_music
    @acushla_music 3 роки тому +12

    Wow, what Paul described was exactly what Peter Jackson made out of the footage that was shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg many years later.

    • @suttonmax73
      @suttonmax73 3 роки тому

      So true

    • @user9xyz836
      @user9xyz836 3 роки тому +1

      Peter Jackson ruined the treasure he had in his hands. Made an awful edition, cutting the scenes every two seconds and jumping from one camera to the other. One can see nothing.

    • @acushla_music
      @acushla_music 3 роки тому +3

      @@user9xyz836 i don't know if you've seen the original film but compared to that (out of the same raw material) the PJ film is amazing. of course there had to be some creative choices made with editing but I trust him enough to have left in the best parts. Have you considered that much of the editing was done to make the footage work as a linear narrative? Considering the restoration and the new story that the footage tells, I would say that it's far from an awful edition.

  • @dixgun
    @dixgun 3 роки тому +1

    Nice clip and images. ✨

  • @darrylt1031
    @darrylt1031 Рік тому

    the interviewer asks, "what are you going to do when you're 40"?.....sadly, John Lennon was mur.dered at age 40.....how chilling....

  • @Steve68858
    @Steve68858 2 місяці тому +1

    Interviews conducted by David Wigg

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 2 роки тому

    I didn't realize this but I had written a song when I was very young, while the Beatle's were the Quarrymen. And it used C and G. Paul mentioned they used C and G on Abbey Road. I think they stole my songs.

  • @Ojb_1959
    @Ojb_1959 3 роки тому

    Thanks from New Orleans, I’m in. 👍🏼🎭👍🏼

  • @florianklink2961
    @florianklink2961 Рік тому

    I'm surprised to hear from Paul, that he didn't want to go on big world tours while John liked touring. I thought it was John who got tired of it.

  • @Donnieketola
    @Donnieketola Рік тому

    Love you civil and respectful enough anyways let's write some wonderful songs.👍3👑🙏6🛏️9