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Michael the answer to your question is simple, The Beatles played Beatles music. They were a genre 🙂 That’s for your positive reactions.
Lead singer on this is John Lennon. Paul sings the high harmony.
John Lennon wrote this song and sang lead. Producer George Martin suggested speeding it up and making it a rocker instead of a ballad, as Lennon had envisioned.
Dont worriy Michael we all love the Beatles. Watching them as a 10 year old with 😅my 16 year old sister was a trip.on ed Sullivan show. Next day all 100 elvis record she put in storage.
Please Please Me is the title track from the Beatles' debut studio album in 1963 & was produced by George Martin. The album has14 songs that were a mixture of cover songs & original material. Lots of great songs "Love Me Do", "Twist & Shout", "P.S. I Love You", "Do You Want To Know A Secret" etc.
I agree with you Michael, I LOVE the early Beatles!!!!
The Beatles ROCKED in their early days - everything is solid and energetic.
This was very watered down from what they were doing in 8-hour sets in the sleaziest, roughest bars in Hamburg in 1961 as teenagers with George Harrison under-age at 17. New York CBGBs and punk was easy listening compared with what they were doing before they became famous
This is their first #1 hit, "Love me Do" was originally their first song released on their own name, but this took off a little better. This album was recorded (14 songs) all in ONE DAY. All 14 songs were on the pop top 40 hits the next year, with the top 5 songs being all Beatles songs. It was like that for a couple years.
They started doing covers early in their career, but by this point, almost all their songs were original. Their use of covers dwindled later in their career. To be different than the other acts early on, they couldn't keep playing all the covers, so they started writing years before this. (They started in 1958) Top solos----Get Back,(john), Something (George) Taxman (Paul) and The end (John,. George and Paul all on lead guitar with Ringo's only solo in the whole catalog).
The Beatles said these live performances were difficult to do because it was hard to hear each other over the screaming fans. After you watch one of their songs you should listen to the studio release to fully appreciate how well they played them live. Unlike some bands, like the Rolling Stones, Sir Paul McCartney said they wanted their music to be lighter with positive messages of love. "Blackbird" was written in 1968 to help give hope to black "birds" (English slang for girls) trying to cope with the racism that took down MLK that summer. Lovely song.
Happy memories form my childhood , loved them all my life ( now 70 ) . Just great music they changed the world back then thank god they did .
You have to understand something about concerts from this era: they had no monitors, so they couldn't hear themselves singing; and there was no mixing (as they do at ALL modern concerts). So what they were able to do under those circumstances is rather remarkable! It goes to their professionalism and their genuine talent.
At the actual performance these guys demonstrated enormopuse professionalism - because they couldn't hear what they were doing and the vast majority of the audience were screaming...
Beatle mania - VOX developed a whole new line of amps designed to overcome the issues - they had 100wats of power...
Oh my is that ever "live", having heard the single enough times five or six life times ago. The harmonies and just fun they seem to be having.
When they played in the big arenas there was that much noise from the fans they couldn't hear themselves playing, Ringo would keep time watching George's foot tapping. That's when they packed up touring and went into the studio.
Reminds me of John's line "We were trying to sing and play louder than the crowd and we couldn't do it. And we had amps!"
It's kind of amazing how in tune they are considering.
Four of them are the best! I Love all the beatles music.
You should watch their 1st movie "A Hard Days Night" it gives you a good idea of what Beatle Mania was like.
"Please Please Me" was written by John Lennon as a take on Roy Orbison (as quoted from Paul McCartney).
George Martin wanted them to do a song called How Do You Do It?, which went to #1 in England for Gerry & The Pacemakers, but the Beatles said we'd rather do our own song. Please, Please Me was born. After some fine tuning and speeding up of the tempo George Martin said I think you have your first #1 (in England) he was right.
George Martin didn't just "THINK" it was there first #1, he TOLD them, "Congratulations, boys, you just recorded your FIRST # 1 hit" and he was right. That was how confident George Martin was about them. Just as Brian Epstein, their manager TOLD them that one day they would be bigger than Elvis...in those words. He was right.
You should listen to "Helter Skelter" (the first Heavy Metal song), "Hey Bulldog" (great rocker) or "Yer Blues" (blues), they will knock you out.
I was 11 years old when they came out , I became a musician because of them , real Beatles fans loved and still love them ,I’m 73 and I still love them
What's funny is that they couldn't hear themselves singing, or the music. Ringo kept time by watching the guitarists hands and what the singers were doing. It's amazing how great the live performance sounded considering they were all essentially playing and singing deaf.
Guitar solos include while my guitar gently weeps........Yer Blues........... Helter Skelter...... Revolution
More early Beatles ...they were so fresh, youthful and energetic...try THIS BOY, live for beautiful 3 part harmony.FROM ME TO YOU and TICKET TO RIDE, live at the British musical Express awards
Please listen to these songs from the albums, as well,so you can hear what the harmony really sounded like. The reason these sound "off", is that John, Paul and George couldn't hear each other!
They progressed at exponential speed. 1963: 'Please Please Me'. 1966: 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. That's an insane pace of creative development.
You gotta remember, they couldn’t hear themselves (and there seemed to be mic issues everywhere they played. You can barely hear Paul and George in this.) I’m fact, when they played Twist and Shout at this show, John was singing the wrong lyrics and Paul and George didn’t even know because they couldn’t hear him - so they didn’t change the shadow lyrics to help make his mistake less noticeable. It’s hilarious. But for the most part, they were all in tune most of the time, despite the craziness. Gah! Wish I had been alive at the time ❤
Great insight!
Loved the early Beatles stuff this is definitely one of them
John is my favorite. Loved him and Paul banging out Twist and Shout. Very good memories of my childhood
This is why the Beatles are the greatest of all time. 🌺✌️
They were SO young and different from other bands at the time. John wrote and sang it. that's pretty much how it went, whoever wrote it is singing it. The harmonizing among the three of them is the magical vocal cement. (and add the fact that they wrote their songs AND played their own instruments, it was a fairly new concept back then!) 4 Kids from the same town, becoming the biggest rock band in history. Lightning in a bottle!
They were the best. No posing or nonsense, they were amazing.
How uniquely special.
My favorite Beatles song.
You keep forgetting they’re credited for creating at least 10 genres. The world went from listening to 1950s Elvis Rock n Roll to suddenly this brand new sound of 1960s Pop Rock. Elvis was miffed that fickle fans were replacing him with four Mop Tops that were stepping on his Blue Suede Shoes. Michael Jackson was deemed the King of Pop but it was The Beatles that ushered it in
Not quite. The 1950s rock n roll had passed on with the original fans being married with children and homes to pay for. Elvis had gone into the army, Chuck Berry did time in prison. The music industry regained control with lots of Bobbies (reference Jerry Lee Lewis). The Beatles cut them down like corn before the sickle. In fact, there was a lot of good stuff recorded in that in-between period and The Beatles drew on some of it (eg Goffin & King, early Motown)
This song is 60s years old This year and is still a fabulous song❤🎩
This is from the D.C. concert between the first Sullivan show in New York and the second show in Miami, the Beatles took a train down and did the concert in between.
If you notice from this video, it wasn't just the girls going nuts, the boys were too. The Beatles sparked so many boy bands.
I remember dancing to these songs at junior high dances! Great fun!
They started writing their songs early on. Mainly it was because they played at venues that had a lot of acts and the other acts would inevitably sing some of the songs they were going to sing. So, they just wrote their own.
The Beatles definitely wrote this song. It was their first #1 in the UK.
They were not kind of "guitar solo band". However, there are some songs, where the guitar is kind of exceptionally juicy, and I will name them in my favorite order 1) Abbey Road Medley, and 3 songs in that medley: "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Carry That Weight" and of course "The End". Abbey Road was their final album, and the final real song in it was called "The End", and in that song Paul, George and John went solo together in turns 2) I've Got A Feeling 3) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 4) Dig A Pony 5) Roll Over Bethoven (nice old song with George singing and playing also the guitar solo of course, there are nice old live clips about this 6) If I Needed Someone, I somehow love this old George's song and the guitar sound of it 7) Drive My Car 8) Day Tripper. The band had its most guitar solo maybe in George's song "My Guitar Gently Weeps", and the guitar solo was played there by Eric Clapton, and the song is great, but somehow has never been my ultimate Beatles favorite.
You gotta respect George’s guitar riffs in this song, since most of those sections were played on John’s harmonica on the studio version.
There's good reason & lots & lots of evidence why The Beatles are the greatest musical group EVER!!!!! While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- 1968 -- has fabulous guitar work, in part thanks to Eric Clapton. George Harrison wrote the song, but was smart enough to recognize his best friend, EC, could best make a guitar shed tears, & he invited him to the recording session, with the other Beatles all welcoming the outside talent they so highly respected. George is playing, too, & the 2 together created a musical treasure.
Just a word of advice -- listening to live performances by The Beatles is not your best choice when you're just discovering their magic. Get to know the songs as they were released & better understand how much they did grow & mature, as musicians, as songwriters, as men. An utterly remarkable transformation in less than 8 years total.
Brought in Eric Clapton because John, Paul, and George Martin were ignoring him. His guitar was weeping because they weren't giving him a chance to play it like he wanted. Clapton was a big enough name at the time to impress John & Paul
You mentioned their ages. John and Ringo were 23, Paul was 21, and George was 20.
Your question about guitar solos had me thinking about my favorite Beatles solos. As someone else said, the Beatles weren't a big guitar solo band, but there are definitely some. Probably my favorite is John Lennon's lead work on "Get Back," which is absolutely perfect for the song. George Harrison's light touch on the nylon-string guitar for "And I Love Her" is also a fave. Not super fast or complicated, but perfect for the song. Paul McCartney is also a good lead guitar player, and all three (John, Paul and George) swap leads near the end of "The End" on the Abbey Road album.
One of the things that makes the Beatles unique is that three of them (John, Paul and George) could have been the lead singer and lead guitarist in any top-tier band. All three play keyboards as well, but Paul is probably the standout there -- he could definitely been the keyboard player in any top-tier band. And Paul is a decent drummer, as well. (In the original version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," Paul plays all the instruments and does all the voices -- you can see that here: ua-cam.com/video/cdDPR8GzXy8/v-deo.html) And, of course, they all wrote very good songs, together and separately.
The Boys the sit to goal! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They always did some covers. And some were hits. They were earlier on. But they mostly by far did their stuff. Almost all their hits but not all were originals.
Twist and Shout on VeeJay was a hit, once the Capitol singles started getting it heard.
All of their hits were original
I love early Beatles, dont get me wrong at all.. but Id suggest balancing out again with some later things like Tomorrow Never Knows, Helter Skelter, and Strawberry Fields Forever, which are an important part of seeing an even fuller vision of their range which you still havent seen yet.
"Oh Lookout! Helter Skelter!"
One other tip, maybe it’s helpful for you… the sound of their early records is way better than the sound on these early live performances, which is fun to see for audience reaction, but not the best sound for the band. At first I thought maybe you were using live versions to get around recording copyrights, but then I realized you’ve been using the studio recordings for their later songs anyway. Their early records have a great vibe and energy to them and sound way better than what are usually very poorly recorded live performances, when often they could not even hear themselves performing. Fun to see the old footage, but not always the best way to hear and evaluate the early songs.
@@JaySpangler I agree with this. The Beatles were really a studio band from the beginning. You should not underestimate George Martin's ear, or direction.
@@JaySpangler I don't know WHY some people seem to want to discourage reactors from watching their LIVE performances in concert, especially when they NEVER SAW the Beatles perform live, and I am not talking about their TV performances, where they were usually more subdued in their performance as on the Ed Sullivan Show. THIS concert was 2 days AFTER their first appearance in the U.S. on the Ed Sullivan Show. They are SO much MORE ANIMATED and ENERGETIC than they were on Sullivan. It was their first full concert in the U.S. and they were EXCITED to finally making it BIG in the U.S. when NO OTHER BRITISH group had ever done so. THIS Washington COLISEUM (in D.C.) concert is MY favorite one to watch, and to SHOW people that weren't born yet when this was going on. It is their highest energy concert that I have see on film. ESPECIALLY on "I SAW HER STANDING THERE" and on "LONG TALL SALLY" (Ringo is beating the HECK out of those drums on those two songs......nothing like his very subdued drumming on most TV appearances of in their "promo films" (videos) They can ALWAYS listen to their recorded versions, but the Beatles in concert were also VERY VISUAL and the between song banter and antics were always a JOY. You understand their sense of humor which doesn't come out on a studio recording. IT also helps to show that it just wasn't their MUSIC that drove us fans crazy , but they way they were as people and on stage. People NEED to do BOTH, listen to the studio recordings AND WATCH the films of their live performances or the many documentaries about them during their touring years and the "Beatlemania" period. It's NOT just for people to see the audience reaction, it's to see THEM, and also to see the BARE stage when they performed. Just mics, their amps and that's IT. NO colored flashing lights, lasers, visuals behind them on a screen, flashpots, flares, etc, and NO BIG VIDEO screens so fans at the back could see them. They didn't even have MONITORS in those days ( the units that are placed on the floor directly in front of each performer so they CAN hear themselves. I once did a karaoke and it was not a noisy room, fairly quiet, and I couldn't hear myself at ALL, with no monitor.) THESE DAYS performers don't need monitors because most of them wear it in their ears. So even if the fans were quiet and not screaming, they STILL wouldn't be able to hear each other. That is why when two of them were harmonizing behind the one singing lead, they would share a mic, so they were next to each other in order TO harmonize correctly. I would never discourage anyone from watching or reacting to ANY performer live in concert, especially ones that they have never seen before. 😊
@@patticrichton1135 Hi Patti. Im sure you and I are on the same page about so much! :) I dont believe I discouraged anyone. I did say what the Beatles themselves have said.. that the live performances are usually very poorly recorded, and not an example of the band's best sound, and that they often had trouble singing and performing when they were unable to hear themselves and each other. Since this UA-camr appears to be trying to see their full range and get to know the songs, I suggested some songs he hadn't heard yet that are very different from the ones he has. I also suggested that its great fun to watch the old footage and to see the excitement of audiences reacting to them, but if you are attempting to judge the songs and the sound of the band, their studio recordings sound 5,000,000% better than the old concert footage. I wasnt trying to discourage anything, but to offer some universally accepted perspective to a new listener, even as espoused by the four Beatles themselves.
More Beatles pls...
You're exposing yourself, Mayoman! Word! Keep it up.
A lot of great solos and of course as they progressed rapidly, the music around them was also progressing rapidly and so what was considered great in one year might not be considered as great two years later, but that's just shows you how fast that popscene was moving. But anyway I would have to say Helter Skelter. There's so many great solos but Helter Skelter presaged metal, Punk, and post-punk.
This is a pretty rough recording, but you get the essence. They wrote this. They moved from this to many different genres, experimental, creative. They were geniuses.
They are their own genre.
My top three Beatles guitar solos are: Something (Abbey Road); Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles); Hey Bulldog (Magical Mystery Tour); Taxman (Revolver). Special award to Sitar in Norwegian Wood (Rubber Soul)
I love your summery of this song. Also love your channel please don’t give it up.
Thanks so much Lisa means a lot!!
I really do love your channel, I have not watched anything that I don’t like. I love your enthusiasm it’s infectious.
Not just women loved him....we all loved them
This is from their first U.S. concert on February 11, 1964 at the Washington Coliseum two days after their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Unfortunately most of their concerts are poorly recorded. You should listen to the studio recording to really appreciate the song, but admittedly is fun to watch their live performances.
Thanks for the date. So John and Ringo were both 23, Paul was 21, and George was 20. So young! Ringo is now 82 and Paul is 80.
"Do what ever they wanted, the world on the tip of their fingers." Lennon said they were more popular then Jesus" what a controversy that started.
You know that's a bad use of the reference. The comment was made in a relatively obscure interview, in England, where Christianity was on a steep downward curve, unlike USA of the time. And he said it with regret that a genuinely good person (whether sunnagod or not) was being forgotten by a celebrity and shallow culture of 1960s fashion. US media picked up on it sometime later to use it in a twisted way and to appeal to the sort of folk who now want to destroy USA by invading the seat of government
This audio-footage is a very good example of why The Beatles stopped touring, because the screaming from their obsessed female fans was so insane, The Beatles literally could not hear themselves playing.
They were not READY to STOP touring at this point. They had only been touring in the UK and Europe for a year. There biggest ambition was to "make it in America" and they DID! This was their very first concert in the U.S, at the Washington (D.C.) Coliseum on Feb 11, 1964, two days after their first Ed Sullivan Show performance. They were STILL ENJOYING it at this point. It wasn't until after their 1966 American tour, that they got fed up. SO at this point, they were loving it.
They ranged in age from 20 to 23 at the time (Feb.64). They make all the rest of us into slackers at that age.
They had been playing 8-hour all night sessions in red light sleaze joints in Hamburg when they were teenagers in 1961
They did get better with time. IMHO their Magnum Opus was their last studio album, Abbey Road.
It was actually John Lennon singing this one.
There are no minute-long instrumental solos on Beatles tracks (except for "Within you, without you", which is played by Indian session musicians). The longest are around 20-30 seconds and tend to blend beautifully into the songs, spanning a wide variety of genres, from brilliant acoustic love songs like "And I love her", to rock-rock'n'-roll, hard rock passages, reverse psychedelic guitar parts, pop, country&western and so on, and so on. The longest solos (40-50 sec), without having it timed now, are in the rough "Yer Blues" and in "The End" within the "Abbey Road medley", in which all the Beatles share drums/guitars solos. As a guest of the Beatles in "While my guitar gently weeps", Eric Clapton delivers one of his most beautiful guitar performances ever.
Harrison is known to be the nominal lead guitarist, but Lennon and McCartney also played some solos. In addition, all of them have developed into multi-instrumentalists over time. As instrumentalists, the Beatles were not virtuosos, but of course they were extremely professional and incredibly tricky, who developed that inimitable aesthetic, for which their sound is known and loved to this day.
The solo in "The End" is technically 9 separate solos of 2 bars each...
Ask for George the voice notice that this is a live performance also noticed the expertise with which The Beatles use and share the mics especially Paul and George.
Classic Beatles. Mona Lisa Twins do a sweet cover of this.
they wrote everything from day 1.
Although it's not a guitar solo, it being an instrumental track, I'd recommend Cry For A Shadow which was a send-up of The Shadows, with Lennon playing lead guitar. I don't know about in the USA, but here in the UK Cry For A Shadow I don't think was released as a single. In fact, I can't even remember when or how I first heard it, but I love it. Although it's uptempo, there's a touch of poignancy to it.
I would really like you to react to Jerry Lee Lewis performing Whole Lot of Shaking Going On. The video is him performing life to a British audience and he stands on the piano. It is in black and white. Absolutely phenomenal performance.
All while in their 20's.
The early Beatles performances are fun to watch as historical documents but the technology just wasn't in place yet to support a band of this magnitude in 1964. This was in February 1964 right after their debut in America on the End Sullivan show. They hopped on a train in NYC and went to DC were they played a couple of shows.
Lots of energy but the audio just isn't good. I might suggest that when listening to early Beatles you should probably check out the studio versions.
This is actually a really great song and the album version sounds great, give it a listen. This is from their debut album "Please Please Me" released in the UK I'm March of 1963 and a great album.
They only had two track stereo in 63 and The Beatles were very fortunate to have signed with EMI records and had George Martin as their producer. I'm not big on the whole God thing but something with this band was almost preordained or something. This band was magical and you're never gonna see the likes of these four again.
These early recordings sound so crisp for two track stereo. EMI had the best recording studios in the world at the time and how fortunate for us.
I always sum up The Beatles like this. We and all musicians reside in our galaxy, The Milky Way. The Beatles were and still are of a galaxy of their own. They were that damn gifted and talented.
Peace ❤
Trying to pick three "best" guitar solos from their catalog is near impossible. But one of my all time favorites is George Harrison's solo in "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party". Great country style licks, with nods to Carl Perkins and Chet Adkins. And speaking of Carl Perkins, listen to "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" where George Harrison rips off _two_ awesome solos while covering the Perkins song.
I did not mean to imply direct copying when I used the phrase "rips off". I meant it in the sense of just really getting into his playing with excitement and passion.
early beatles so cool
Love the song Norwegian wood off of their Rubber soul album. Plz give it a listen
The Rumbel version of this is much better and colorized, good quality. This song was the first No. 1 in the U.S. by them. It was an amazing time! Thanks.
Have a listen to "In My Life".
Yes, this was written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney helped out. John sang lead, and Paul and George sang backup. Listen the the studio version, and you will hear an amazing recording. It sounds better than good.
Cooool!
Their three (3) best solos? The best is Penny Lane featuring a piccolo trumpet. It is astounding and so uplifting. Another very tasteful solo is George Harrison's guitar on the cover of Till There was You. A third memorable solo is the piano on In My Life. There are many others (such as George's solo on And Your Bird Can Sing) but the aforementioned are really top notch.
Actually...the early Beatles composition and their playing is FAR BETTER than their later music..technically..melodically...structurally.
Tech....they had played 10 hour gigs in Hamburg and Twice daily in the Cavern ( lunchtime sessions 600) and evenings from 1960 till 1962. They lived together, learnt together, went out together.
They knew each others playing intimately. So we're SUPERB LIVE..you missed something good when the girls weren't screaming at the Litherland or odean didsbury or at Southport....all of you will never know how rocking great they were then.
Musically...their use of Aeolian cadences..mixilodian sequences ..etc is phenomenal in the first four albums.
Get to songs like " I've got a feeling"..and your back to the old hat 3 chord trick!
Even let it be is very simple.
Structurally...the stories told in the songs are rounded and complete..definate.. precise...giving the listener a story to understand..a message...a meaning..and engaging the listener.
TELL ME... what does I am the walrus actually mean???? Anybody???
Or revolution 9!
They would never have gotten away with R9 and the like when trying to get a recording contract. Musically it's rubbish.
SO...
hi michael, maybe try we can work it out. one of their best early songs or help, another good one. love watching your reactions.
The Beatles did a few cover songs in the early days….but all the songs you are critiquing are their own songs. Paul and John are the most successful songwriting team of all time. They would get together once a week, just the two of them, for only 3 hours. They never had a dry session….and always were able to write a hit record in that time. They would go to the studio and play down a simple track recording so they wouldn’t forget it. Whoever was in the studio at the time, had to stop recording to let the Beatles lay down a track because none of them could write music notation! None of them had any formal musical training! All self-taught!
I believe they were 24/25 years old here.
No, both Ringo and John were 23 (Ringo was born July 7, 1940....John on Oct. 9, 1940). Paul was 21 (born June 18, 1942) and George was 20 but would turn 21 on Feb, 25 (born in 1943) They date of this concert was Feb.11,1964
The Beatles were not known for guitar solos. Most of their songs have good guitar work. The guitar was used as a part of the overall sound of the song and designed to fit as an integral piece of the composition.
If ur looking for guitar work try Jimi Hendrix Voo Doo Child
Giants walked among us....
React to Norwegian woods or the long and winding road or or revolution or back in the ussr.they have a big catalogue of music lol
Notice how small their amplifiers were? A whole industry sprung up because of the amps weren't powerful and bug enough for large venues. The Beatles often couldn't hear what they were playing with all the screaming.
Notice how well behaved the audience was? Another sign of the times.
I know it's always fun to watch a concert version of a song...but the sound quality tends to be bad. For a first-time listen, you should listen to recorded version first.
john lennon was lead singing that song.......
so you are a music lover and its the 1st time that you have heard this song wow hey maybe have a listen to cover versions of this song
The lead singer here was John Lennon, not Paul
I like the fact that Harrison didn’t sound great…it’s live, and raw….and man, some energy going on here. A lot of clips from bands we see from back then aren’t actually live…kick ass job from one of the true greats of Rock!!!
This is at the Washington Coliseum in February 1964, right after the first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. this is a famous concert and fortunately, film of it. You could watch the whole thing online and get a damn good idea what "Beatlemania" meant....can't hear themselves, screaming girls etc. Thinking in context of the time of early1964 [of which I was a child of 8] this was a phenomenal happening and singing/rocking group. Long haired groups were created by the Beatles, no more short hair like you're wearing lol. Most parents hated them, authorities claimed they were another commie plot to corrupt America's youth. Taken in today's context, they are tame, what's all the fuss about? Blah Blah blah...it is impossible to judge the Beatles correctly and historically if your mind is closed to only the present and recent history of 20 years, even 30 years, you cannot see how outrageous they were to parents some almost 60 years ago. And they knew exactly what they were doing writing boy-girl love songs of any speed...that's what was selling at the time, and that's how they broke down the door for everyone else, and continued to lead the way, never sticking to one style after the Rubber Soul album of late 1965, or even the HELP album before, really... few other Liverpool/English groups who came over to the USA in the wake of the Beatles in 1964 survived in the USA past three years because they did not change their format or writing. The Dave Clark Five was the first band to follow the Beatles to the USA, and people have forgotten that. They were done by 1968. Others did survive as legends because they were more R and B based like the Rolling Stones and the Animals, and more to come after that short period of about 3 years. the Beatles never stuck to one style, were superior song writers always willing to experiment once they stopped touring in 1966, and that's why they have become icons, whether one likes their music or not.
Yes he DOES need to watch this entire concert on line but mainly because how ENERGETIC they are in this performance compared to their more toned down performance on Ed Sullivan. RINGO goes nuts on his kit at this concert which he never did on TV appearances, plus all the between songs banter and antics that they didn't do on TV. I LOVE this concert SO MUCH. It is the BEST one to SHOW people, and also the one in Paris and Australia 1964 are great, but THIS one is the best as far as WATCHING the Beatles in action
As my guitar gently weeps, George Harrison song
You should watch A Hard Day's Night, and Help.
The lead singer is John Lennon.
George 19, Paul 20, Ringo and John 22
Try the song Nowhere Man
One of there microphones had a bit of bad hearing and too bad for you that you had to hear this take from underwater. Try the 45 record next on a rich boy's better player. For years I didn't know how good these rich neighbor boys down the block had it . They complain about unseasoned ordinary innocent green beans and sub-par treatment from look away listeners. Great stereo sound so amazing from next door they will yell over being unhappy about the rice overcooked TWICE.
Duracell bunny on drums.
In a few bars, you get better than Buddy Holly & The Crickets, elements of Little Richard, New York girl groups harmony, Everley Brothers harmonies, all sorts of skills at the same time that had never been combined before, though some had managed one or two elements. The song itself is a bit more than teen pop - as teenagers playing 8-hour sets in the dirtiest toughest red light bars in Hamburg they experienced various forms of being 'pleased' intimately
Paul McCartney is not the lead singer, it depends on the song, Lennon sung lead on this song and Paul does on probably a roughly equal amount
If you want to hear a Beatles heavy metal song then react to Helter skelter