INCREDIBLE!| The Beatles - A Day In The Life | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION
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- INCREDIBLE!| The Beatles - A Day In The Life | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION
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The most amazing thing about the Beatles is that they are NOT over-rated.
Not if you ask some of the edgelords out there.
They're not always my cup of tea. But I will *always* afford them mad amounts of respect. They've earned it so many times over.
Very well said and very true also! Everyone can not be wrong. Cos basically everyone loves them!
most over rated band in history. George Martin production. Paul And George Were Genius. Lennon was a pathetic loser.
To me Led Zeppelin is the second greatest band. What is the gap between the Beatles and Zep?
"Love me do" was only 5 years away from this song. The evolution of this band is insane.
You got that right.
Yeah. Years ago, I made a folder with every Beatles song in chronological order and it just confirmed to me how these guys led the evolution of rock music. They certainly didn't do it on their own but their success gave record labels the confidence to support others go outside the box.
Evolution? It's called drugs
@@djd2819Madly enough, I made a folder of all their lyrics. Spent a fortune (of my dad's money) on printer ink doing it.
Yep
The manager of the Hollies was present at the recording. When he left, someone asked him what did you think? His response: "I give up."
Great comment. Pete Townsend actually admitted that he was totally intimidated by The Beatles genius.
As a fellow musician friend said, "I don't know whether to go home and practice or throw my instrument away". Talk about raising the bar!
Ha, lovd that. Proper order
My dad bought this album Sgt Pepper when it came out, he played it late at night and it woke me, I came out of bed being a little girl and he said: "Come listen to this, these are the Beatles, this is unprecedented". I will never forget it, and became a huge Beatles fan.
Bless your Dad.
Awesome father ❤
“Unprecedented” what a perfect word to describe that album. 👍
This is a beautiful story.❤
Wow, thats an amazing memory to have
Ringo's drumming on this is utterly, utterly magnificent. Those huge orchestral swoops have often been referred to as 'orchestral orgasms', and they were achieved by asking the full orchestra - over a specified number of bars - to move from the lowest not on their instrument to the highest, which confused the heck out of such formal players! And finally, that massive, massive chord at the end was play by all four Beatles and their roadie, Mal Evans, all thumping one hand each into the piano simultaneously. All in all, one of the most landmark, iconic pieces of music ever recorded.
I remember reading that on the last note, the only way they could get it to stretch out so long was to continually turn up the microphone volume as the sound from the piano damped out so that they could pick up every last second of sound.
Yes, Ringo was a genius on drums. This song, Something, Rain, Come Together. People who dismiss his drumming don't understand music. And anyone who's had a band and tried to cover a Beatles song know that your drummer can never play the part correctly.
@@eximusic Ringo is a sorely underrated drummer in my opinion.
You guys are so spot on, this track was truly revolutionary, nothing, and I mean nothing, came before it, everything came after it. ✌️
@@andymageen5308 That is the story of this band, everything came after!!!!!
Hard to believe this song, 1967, STILL stands up 55 years later! The Beatles work, all in less than 8 years, will never be surpassed!
I'm going on 75yo: The point is that The Beatles were THE FIRST one day we were listening to Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and Frankie Avalon, the next every aspect of music changed FOREVER!
I think it was Spike Milligan that said that Queen Victoria died in the 1960's. Someone else( I don't remember who) said the old world died somewhere between the end of the "Chatterly" ban and the Beatles first LP.
Both early 1960's
Without a doubt, A Day In The Life, is The Beatles EPIC MASTERPIECE!!!
Why do people need to add the word epic to everything? It absolutely does not fit here.
Can we talk about “next level” for a second… This song revolutionized popular music, without understatement.
Absolutely agreed 💯. I'd argue further that this album revolutionized popular music and influenced everything that would follow.
Surely without overstatement?
I think you meant without "overstatement".
That's why Sgt. Pepper's is still the "most important" album of all time, even if (arguably) no longer the "best." Sgt. Pepper gave every band the latitude to do whatever they wanted--there were no more "rules."
No that was Tomorrow Never Knows
I think this is one of the most important songs ever recorded... it broke all the rules and was a dam breaker for modern music. That last note being the hammer.
Nobody comes close the the Beatles for sheer creativity and mind blowing music. Their music changed the world.
Without Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper, there would be no Pink Floyd, no Moody Blues, no Yes, no King Crimson, no Steppenwolf, and a thousand others. The Beatles literally wrote the road map for for the explosion of R & R. Their genius will be appreciated in 100 years.
that is correct. and also the white album, metal came from helter skelter
Let's not forget Brian Wilson's influence on The Beatles. George Martin, commonly referred to as "The Fifth Beatle", stated in an interview that without Pet Sounds, there would never have been a Sgt. Peppers. But in turn, without Rubber Soul, there wouldn't be a Pet Sounds either. The Beatles and The Beach Boys were serious competitors and, at the same time, were each others muse.
@@bestcongressmoneycanbuy9704 Well... At first, there was a fifth beatle and his name was Stuart Sutcliffe. But he left the band for a girl from Hamburg and died with 22 years in Hamburg. And 2nd... The name of the Beatles manager was Brian Epstein and not Brian Wilson. If I remember well, Brian Wilson was, one of the Beach Boys...
The Beatles coMpletely reinvented popular music. I was lthinking exactly what mark said here.
You went a little too far with the namedropping there. Pink Floyd is older than you think and were already around when the Beatles made those records. Pink Floyd was recording at the same place (Abbey Road) and at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt Peppers. February to May 1967.
This was the last song on Sargent Peppers and is considered the best album closer in the history of rock music. No one has equaled it.
I'll take When The Levee Breaks over this every day.
Exactly!
@@savvyplayz3484 I think that is my all time fave of LZ. But to compare the two is like comparing Monet to Van Gogh. Both masterpieces, but very different.
@@savvyplayz3484 While that may be my favorite last song on an album, 'A Day in the Life' really adds a new layer to the entire Sgt Pepper experience.
I highly recommend you watch the Beatles “Get Back” documentary by Peter Jackson. You can witness their genius as they create the album.
John's voice is very ghostly in this and sends chills up the spine.
John also uses that haunting voice on the White Album in the song, "Cry Baby Cry".
Agreed. His best vocal ever.
When I was in high school, in the mid 90's, my modern history teacher did a 3 day seminar on Sgt. Pepper, completely paused the curriculum and taught only this album, for three days straight. That's how cool this whole album is.
It was a world of 1sts.
I love when teachers share something they are passionate about like that. To have one student remember that as something important means he accomplished his goal.
I had an English teacher in high school who did the exact same thing when the White album came out. We spent at least a week listening to the songs and reading the lyrics and trying to interpret what they meant to us! Such a cool class. When my parents divorced, my father remarried after a year. She was like 36 yrs old and I was about 13. When he moved her in, she had the Beatles Rubber Soul album! Okay, I determined she was pretty cool at that point! I had a cool stepmom!
And this was recorded on a 4 track recorder. It was beyond anything done before. Back then there were no 164 track mixers, no auto tune, no overdubs or samples. This sing was made without any outside input from session musicians. I’m 66 and I lived thru that era. Believe it or not this album and song changed everything about music and paved the way for other talents to experiment and take it further. Gen Z is truly missing something if you’re not listening to the Beatles. I love both your reactions. Fifty years ago it blew us away. Nice to see it still does
You got that right, fellow Baby Boomer! Imagine hearing this off the original radio station release, at the stroke of midnight and this was the final song on the album. The Rob Squad reaction was just as it was then: mind blown! BAM!! Also, kudos must go to the producer of this album, Sir George Martin. The orchestra climb whereby every instrument starts at their lowest note and climbs to their highest note, regardless of the range, in the exact number of bars, was what made the song the legend that it is.
Well...a full symphony orchestra is there.
Amen to that! I remember where I was when I first heard it in elementary school.
The original song was John's but he felt it was incomplete. He showed it to Paul who came up with the middle part "Got up, got out of bed..." etc. John also said he wanted "war sounds". He, Paul and George Martin put their heads together and came up with the crescendos. For my money, this is the best Beatles song by far. Two musical geniuses at their creative peak. It changed everything. Popular music was never the same.
It's like two people waking up to different perceptions of the day John serious, then Paul having a different lighthearted perception of his day its beautiful 💖💫💖
Yes- That is an incisive observation. This piece is a never-ending source of enthrallment.
Wish it was 5 minutes longer.
It definitely sounds like John's writing style.
Well said!
And let’s not forget Ringo’s drumming on this song. It’s perfect
John and Paul: "What do you think of drum solos?"
Ringo: "I hate them"
John and Paul: "He's hired!"
When the Beatles released 'Rubber Soul' it was a huge leap forward for British music, then they released 'Revolver' it blew our minds and again there were sounds no one had used on a record, the following year 1967 'The Summer of Love' out came Sgt. Pepper I cannot describe to you what we all felt and thought, it was an amazing time to have lived through and probably set us up for the way we saw the world for the rest of our lives, the drugs helped as well, 😂😂😂🙃
Rubber Soul, Pet Sounds, Revolver and Sgt Pepper expanded what you could do with an album as an art form
Talent was there long before any drugs.
They still do brother. 😁
Greatest band
Oh , they were taking drugs alright @@sross54
Im 71. I was 11 when i heard my first beatles tune. It was october 1963. I even remember exactly where i was. I think i held my breath the whole song.., i wanna hold your hand. I was so choked up. I remember thinking finally, my music has arrived!. Imagine growing up through your teens to the soundtrack of the beatles. I was nuts for all the wonderful music that followed the beatles, but they remainded my favorite group. I still believe i was born at the best time to enjoy this misic and was able to attend many concerts. I lived in LA. So access wasnt a problem. As i look back, i wouldnt miss it for the world! Yes, born at the right moment.
I'm 71 also and I second everything you wrote. The Beatles set the standard for every band that followed them.
Dick Clark said it best when he said, "Your music is the soundtrack of your life".
What can I say. They changed my life way back in 1964. Music has never been the same. Long live rock and roll!!!!🤟🤟
Me too, the Ed Sullivan show that they debuted in the USA did it for me, life altering moment.
@@vicprovost2561 same show man lol.
Yep. Then 6 months later my 18 year old half Brother moved to Canada from Liverpool. 🎶
It changed my life at 5 years old that Sunday night.
@@pattyduke3079 I was only six. Ain't it cool.
The most incredible band EVER! four men creating music that will last forever.
Innovators and genius!
And the 2 eldest Beatles were only 27 here 😱
@@eviekelpie1 Actually 26!
@@sexysadie2901 if this was 1967, both John and Ringo were born in 1940, makes them 27. Anyway, they were damn very young
Ringo deserves mentioning . his drums are always perfect for the track ,each one a creative gurney of drumming and as he said never competing with the singer.
The Beatles …the best band to ever walk the Earth 🌏
Just remember: The Beatles did EVERYTHING first.
Apart from the B7 chord 🤔😂🤣🤪
The Beatles appropriated American Afro blues. The blues were first. But I love the Beatles!
@@phillipareed2 And the Beatles always acknowledged the influence of those roots with respect. They named names. They covered songs they loved and paid homage to the original artists. Then they went on to do their own thing.
There was this other band, I believe they were called The Beach Boys;)
Everything? I mean, yea pretty much.
Took a Beatles class as an elective in college. This was their attempt to combine two unfinished songs together. One was John's and one was Paul's. Love how creative they were. This has to be my favorite Beatles song.
Fun Fact ...At the end of this song (on the album) is a few seconds of a note so high pitched humans can not hear it however dogs and cats can....it was added by john as a kind of wise guy joke meant to drive the listeners dogs or cats crazy without the listener even knowing why ...lol
I read that somewhere. They had two really intriguing yet strikingly different songs that weren’t quite completed. The genius was in putting them together.
Paul said he wanted the two cacophonous sections to "sound like the end of the world." I'd say he succeeded.
@@allanjones1680 My cat's ears were just twitching at the end!
@@sarahdee374 😃
The Beatles are the greatest band of all time. Pioneering and I don’t think that any band will surpass them, in my lifetime anyway. Great reaction as always.
they bridged musical eras that changed so much form early to late 1960s. I heard the Beatles first when I was 9 or 10 and they changed so much through my teenage years. And Billy Preston, the "fifth Beatle", brought more to to table
Totally agree. Thanx for this guys ❤😊
The absolute genius of the Beatles and the Lennon/McCartney dynamic in one song, right here.
This is a Master Piece Obviously But the Construction of it John Started it Paul Filled the Middle. John Finished it! " This is their Best! RIP John George!! 💔❤
I was 14 years old when this song came on the radio in our family kitchen. It was 1967. The song haunted me for days. I'd never heard anything like it in my young life. It seemed that each time I heard a new Beatles song from 64 on, their would be a new guitar hook or inventive sound. You never knew what new musical package was waiting to be unwrapped. The best of times.
I too was 14. Heard this literally on my 14th Birthday. I thought I was in the presence of angels, or other worldly beings or God. I just so so so miss these guys.
@@thefishpiesky We were so lucky to be alive when the Beatles music was coming out for the first time.
We were. We were. I’m reliving it all though with the remixed box sets, and Let it Be movie series and with Jay and Amber’s Reaction vids. (The vibe those two emit is so uplifting) They capture something of “the first time” brilliantly. But the Beatles do seem to have some super power that sweeps successive generations up.
@@asticou I was a child when John Lennon died. I never came to terms with it. God bless that man, I'm so grateful he made such a mark on me. Almost worth the agony.
@@ikemreacts Such a loss
It was a wonderful time to be alive on this planet.
The 60’s were awesome most of my family were all alive with plenty of time to go on…
Everyone had work, everything was cheap and we all got along.
The main thing is everyone loved the Beatles and people all had respect for each other.
I agree. The music was so phenomenal
The two most famous chords in history: the one at the end of this song and the one at the beginning of "Hard Day's Night."
You missed one out . Feedback on I Feel Fine
That’s a note but ye @@davidalexander2607
The chords at the end of this song were used by Apple as the startup sound for the Macintosh computers.
Not only did the Beatles push the boundaries of popular music, they wrote and performed fantastic, timeless music.
Sgt. Pepper was the Beatles' transition into psychedelia, and the album reflects that, starting with pretty traditional rock'n'roll, then the song Strawberry Fields itself transitions from regular rock into a very psychedelic feel by the end of the song, and the album just goes from there. A Day in the Life was the final track on the album, and full on surreal.
John wrote the first part … and with Paul’s help they finished the song !! They are playing the tape backwards at the end . The greatest band loved by almost everyone ❤️
I've probably heard this song a hundred times, but it never fails to give me chills.
100 ? Pfft - They're rookie numbers. :-)
@@sagan666 Estimate. ;-)
A masterpiece that still hits hard 55 years later.
There are a lot of Beatles songs, this one included, that they never played in concert. They stopped touring because they couldn’t hear themselves because the crowd would just scream over the top of the music so they became just a studio band putting out albums
Arguably their greatest song.
I inherited my older siblings Beatles records. I was 5 and 6 years old and listening to this song in 1969 with them so the Beatles have been the soundtrack to my life. To see young, intelligent and creative people such as yourselves become infatuated with their amazing music makes me smile. Thank you.
Same for me - born in 1961!
Meee toooo...born in 63' ...!!!! Sister born in 1960..!!!
Same here, I grew up listening to them because of my older twin brothers (10 yrs older). I remember listening to all their albums with them, also remember seeing Let It Be in the theater with them, I was 7 years old and was in awe. I will never forget that.
Born in 57 here was Fortunate enough to watch the Beatles evolve into the worlds greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever
Born in 57 here was Fortunate enough to watch the Beatles evolve into the worlds greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever
Simply one of the best Beatles songs ever! A masterpiece of lyrics and music.
Those drum fills are amazing.
To think this masterpiece started out from John reading a story in the local paper about someone from the House of Lords killed in a car accident and another article next to the story about potholes in the street. John, and then Paul picked up ideas for songs from their surroundings and made them into masterpieces. John writing Strawberry Fields and Paul responding with Penny Lane. John writing A Hard Day's Night and Paul responds with Can't Buy Me Love. John writes If I fell and Paul responds with And I love Her. It happens over and over again in their catalog.
I beleive it was the son of member of the House of Lords. His name escapes me now, but he was to be heir to the Guiness fortune. I believe he went through a light and crashed into the back of a lorrie. I understand he swerved at the last second to save his girfriends life.
Name was Tara Brown who was an heir to the Guinness fortune, who died in an single automobile accident ..
Yes Tara Browne Paul was friendly with him.
This song is on their '67 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album put ALL of rock n roll on notice!!! PLEASE take the time to listen to the entire album! 💖
When the tempo changed so did the singer, John to Paul, then later back to John. And cameos from Mick Jagger, Monkee mike Nesmith, and British singer Donovan among others. And the Beatles couldn't have realized their imaginations without producer George Martin. He was a HUGE part of their sound and success.
Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull, too.
@@fuchsiaswing8545 PLUS George Martin (their producer, obviously) and PATTIE BOYD HARRISON (GEORGE'S wife)
George Martin was the 5th Beatle
Not only did The Beatles push the boundaries, they set new ones. They experimented with sounds that nobody else in music at the time had considered. This song is a perfect example of that.
Like recording caliope music backwards...
In the little instrumental part that connects the two parts of the song, Paul told the small orchestra there to use those 8 bars to go from the bottom note of the scale to the top note in any way each individual musician chose. You can really hear that as the section builds up!
In my Life by the Beatles.....
Great song about life's reflection's 🤔♥️
R.I.P. John and George the World misses you two 🙏💔😢
@@TANTRUMGASM you understand women need a strong hand to keep them in their right mind.....
Women love a Bad Boy.........
Even a serial killer Ted Bundy got married and had a child after killing dozens of women????
Female Logic 😱😵
Please play "IN MY LIFE" sometime by the Beatles, it's deep.
The Beatles producer George Martin was also a creative and technical genius, responsible for some of the magic and innovation they gave the world. He was known as the fifth Beatle. This track is a technical masterpiece.
John’s voice is absolutely astonishing . It’s the icing on the Sgt. Pepper Cake right here.....Paul’s middle section of the song sets the tone for Lennon’s return summing up the rest of this masterpiece.......
His voice was not epic. Nobody's voice is epic. That's not what the word epic means.
Ringo has always been underrated. Great drum fills in this one, as usual.
What makes him amazing is he's left handed playing a right handed drum kit. Some of the songs they did is difficult for someone playing the same handed drum kit they are because his hands are opposite.
Saw Ringo 4 weeks ago in Oklahoma. Sir Paul Dallas 2002.
Ringo ran off the stage about 4 times. I guess when you got to go you got to go.
Ringo was definitely the best drummer for The Beatles.
Ringo's creative drumming in this song is a masterpiece
Of everything they’ve ever done - this is probably the greatest thing they ever did - “tomorrow never knows” included.
I consider it the top of the mountain, what they had been building towards. Epstein's death threw them for a loop, and while they made more masterpieces, none approached this zenith of their careers.
This song is my favorite of all. But more relevantly, this song shows how critical the Lennon-McCartney collaboration was. The first part is Lennon's work. The part that begins with "Woke up, got out of bed..." is McCartney's addition. You mentioned that it sounded like two songs, and, in a sense, it was. But the two were so tuned into each other that they could write separately, then bring the two parts together to create a whole.
Greatest song written by greatest band of all time!
This was recorded in 1967. This was incredibly WAY ahead of it's time.
And yes, that's Mick Jagger, along with Keith Richards and Michael Nesmith (The Monkees) sitting at the feet of the masters as they recorded this masterpiece.
And I think Marianne Faithfull as well.
And Donovan
Love The Beatles!!! “Long and Winding Road” Is my favorite!!🤘
They NEED to react to Let It Be.
Released in 1970 . One of the few songs that came out in the 70s From the Beatles
One of the biggest differences between the Beatles and other bands was the way they explored different sounds and chords.
They say that to make that last note ring so long that they had to turn the microphone volume up so much that you can actually hear the air conditioner running at Apple Studio. I never could hear it though.
This song highlights Ringo's drumming... The jazz blend and beat around 5:45 is superior!!
That Big Chord at the end of the song is 4 separate pianos all hitting the same chord at the same time and then just sustaining. So intense
The E chord!
That ending chord with the fade-out is to my knowledge the longest sustained note in recorded music.
@@winsloweskimo1 Can’t confirm nor deny that but I do know that they did it by moving the mixing board faders up as the notes trailed off keeping the volume consistent.
That last chord is the greatest chord in music history.
Glad that they are still appreciated. I was 9 when they "came to America". They were always beyond just relevant, even in the throughs of the greatest explosion of music in history (the 1970s).
Extra kudos for letting the final note run the full duration. Most reactors would have cut it off. Your respect for the music is admirable.
When they recorded the final piano chord, as the sound decayed they raised the recording faders to maintain the chord as long as possible
This is one of my all time favorite Beatles song! Just brilliant! John wrote this using the newspaper!
Arguably their greatest song. Can't wait to watch this one!
Good ear for recognizing John's voice right away - you are becoming quite the Beatles connoisseur!
Another Beatles masterpiece with a similar name (but very different) is "In My Life". Beautiful, evocative, a reflection on love...it made me cry the first time I heard it at the age of 12. It still does, all these years later.
Hope you react to it. It's such an emotional, beloved song.
💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙
This song is pure genius.
Yep, Ringo‘s drumming. Amazing. And the London symphony orchestra was told to start their instruments on their lowest notes and then rise as the conductor guided them upwards to their highest notes. That’s where they got that amazing sound. This song is a masterpiece of the 20th century. I cannot wait for you guys to react to the Abbey Road medley. It is their goodbye.
By far one of the greatest pieces of music in history..
That's the F Major chord at the end. 47 seconds sustained. The longest known recorded single chord, and unaccompanied. (At the time)
Can never get enough Beatles songs.
Imagine being 12 yrs. old & buying SP'S & freaking out for the next 6 months. This whole album is mind blowing!!!
A twelve year old wouldn't understand it. I was 18 when I first heard this because that's how old I was when it was released. There had never been anything else like the album, Sgt. Peppers, so everybody's minds were blown. It was a dazzling, eventful time in music, but this was still so much more than anything else we had. Dylan was also busting out walls, but in a different way. He did more with words than they did, but they did so much more with production. This was a studio album. Nobody went to a concert and heard this. The Beatles final concert was in 1966, the year before this was released.
@@nancyhallatr A 12 year old could understand it perfectly, lol.
@@nancyhallatr I beg to differ. I was 11 when I first heard this, and I had already been following their careers since '63...and had been listening to (and singing along with), popular music since I was 5 or 6 years old, you know, Frankie Valli, Bob Dylan, the Stones, the Kinks, and especially...The Beatles. They were life altering. My two sisters and I bought every single that came out with our allowances. We had our own little acapella group, "Tony & the Tigers", and we sang all the songs (because I knew all the words), and we even got the neighborhood kids into it too. We all sat around the sandbox and the swings, ate candy, sang songs, and talked about them and what they meant to us. Age is not really a factor, when it comes to understanding (and interpreting), what you see and hear. Just my two cents...for what it's worth. ✌😎
@@sexysadie2901 I concur. Age is not really a factor at all. 😉👍
On my 12th birthday, in 1978, my Uncle Ken walked me to Kmart and bought me this album. He handed it to me and said, "You're a man now."
I think the beatles did every genre of music
The Beatles "Fool On The Hill"...Nuff Said.
This is in my opinion, the greatest song ever recorded....This is them at the peak of their game. A complete cohesive unit
Doesn’t get any better than this song 🙋🏻♀️
The greatest song ever recorded to me is The Great Gig in the Sky. It caught lightning in a bottle.
@@vincentschmitt7597 Yeah, this song is widely considered the greatest song of all time. No offense to Floyd,Gig is a Masterpiece in it's own right
From the greatest album ever, and they left off Strawberry and Penny Lane from the sessions LOL. I can't even imagine where those would have placed in this opera of songs
It’s fantastic. Zero argument from me.🖖🏼
This song is a masterpiece.
One of the best song's ever produced by the Beatles and George Martin
Even the last 30 seconds of the sustain on that last chord fading to silence is just phenomenal .
"A Day in the Life" is probably the greatest Lennon-McCartney collaboration. John wrote the first section of this (the trippy "I read the news today, oh boyy..."), which is like a dream. Then comes the orchestra crescendo, followed by Paul's part (Woke up! Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head...). This is like the alarm clock waking you up, and now you gotta get your day started. But then when he lights up and "has a smoke," he starts to go into the dream state again, and we return to John singing the final verses, followed by another orchestra crescendo. And finally that huge doom-laden E Major chord struck simultaneously on multiple pianos. The chord seems to go on forever, giving the listeners time to think about what they just heard. Probably the most brilliant piece of music ever created in the 20th Century. Glad you liked it!
The blend of separate themes contributed by John & Paul --- made A Day In A Life , SURREAL & so powerful .
A Day in the Life is a patchwork of John and Paul's distinctly separate styles of musicianship edited together by George Martin, their producer. They had pieces of snippets of songs that weren't completed and weaved them into a single song. The transitions are brilliant too, and there's a music composition term for it, but at the moment the name of that term escapes me! I hope someone in the comment section knows and remembers what I'm trying to identify. This song also directly inspired Billy Joel to write Scenes from An Italian Restaurant (as well as the movie Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman)
Are you thinking of a crescendo?
@@richarddefortuna2252 No. It's a very specific composition theory term involving a number of chords.
This same composition technique happens in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
@axltyler okay. Interesting. I'll have to ask around, then - I'm a drummer, so never dealt much with advanced compositional theories. Thanks for the info!
@@richarddefortuna2252 A crechendo is a quivering note that ends a song. Yes, this song does end on a crechendo.
Axltyler: The technical term when two songs are combined together is "mashup." Here is an example. It's Elise Trouw (pronounced "troll" from Dutch) doing a "mashup" of a Foo Fighters-Caldwell song...
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♥️Diane, Vancouver,Canada. TuNO15/22 07:19 pm
And this from a pop group who were doing ‘Twist and Shout’ three years earlier.
They added calming space for you at the end - just leave it a couple of seconds and be prepared to be jolted right out of it
This is one of their most unique songs, with John doing the opening and ending vocals, and Paul in-between. To me, the John bits are when the narrator is dreaming/ day-dreaming, the Paul bit is when he is awake, and the rising orchestra are the points that he awakens from his dreams. This song was the final song on the Sgt Pepper Album, and ended with an impact. This song, like most of Sgt Pepper, made a statement that popular music could be art. People of the time, played, replayed, and endlessly discussed the album and this song.....and still do.
Pauls bits are autobiographical. When the fabs were teens, he and George would take the bus to John's house. Paul was picked up first and while riding to George's house he would sit on the top deck of the bus smoking ciggies and daydreaming.
If I recall correctly this is another Beatles song where they pieced together different song ideas into one beautiful masterpiece. They did a similar thing on Abbey Road with side two of the album being short snippets of song ideas that work so well together. One example of their genius to me anyway.
I can get on board with this. John's parts talk about mundane things but they are just a shade off, kind of like the old Energizer bunny commercials. Something just says, "This isn't quite real." I could totally see myself having a dream about holes filling the Albert Hall.
As someone who was born in 1954 and was 10 years old when The Beatles appeared on American television for the first time, I can confidently say that this band changed my life, changed music and fashion, changed the world. The musical and spiritual journey they went on during those 6 or 7 years from start to finish is unmatched. It is a journey that the world went on with them. After them, nothing was the same. The reason their music still resonates almost 60 years down the road is the pure and actual genius of their art.
well said.
100% agree and since I was also born in 1954 and first saw them on Ed Sullivan show, nothing was the same in music again. I feel so blessed to have lived through that era of music and to have been old enough to recognize what had happened. It happens that we were visiting my aunt for dinner that night. She was a single mother raising four children and my parents had us three children. After dinner my oldest girl cousin said she was going to her room to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I can remember asking her who the Beatles were. She was appalled that we didn't know who they were. So us 7 kids gathered around the television set and watched the world of music change in the length of two songs. We were always the cousins who were a little out of the mainstream and my four cousins were part of the popular groups. I doubt we would even have known each other if it weren't for the fact that we were related and they sort of had to be nice to us, LOL! All four of them went on to somewhat tortured lives, succumbing to drug and alcohol addictions. Us three kids navigated our teens and went on to have productive lives. I recently saw my girl cousin after not seeing each other in over 35 years. We had a good laugh about it and she is quite open about her struggles with addiction and has been sober for about 15 years. She didn't remember if she had graduated from high school and I told her that she had. She asked me if I was sure and I showed her her graduation picture in my yearbook. Funny thing, life. The Beatles will always be amongst my favorites. So many memories.
Beautifully put. In my baby book, there was a space to list “Fads” in 1959. My mother put 1. Foreign cars and 2. Rock and roll 🤣🤣🤣 She took me to see A Hard Day’s Night when I was 5…she fell for them just like the rest of America did.
Born in '54 here as well and yes to all you said. I think of them as MY Beatles.
Well said, Mr. McManus. I was a Beatles fan, but "Sgt. Pepper's" absolutely blew my mind and lifted the whole Beatles experience into the stratosphere.
George Martin is the only person who deserves to be called the 5th Beatle. He had a background in classical music. He was the one who came up with all those sounds you heard on this song. He did this for them time and time again. Lucy in The Sky, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, I am The Walrus, A Day in The Life, and about a million more songs. Billy Preston was good, but he was on ONLY one Beatles album.
Äh, ja... And what's with the guy, that stayed in Hamburg and died with 22? He was member of the band, long before anybody of them did know anythig about a guy, that called George Martin...
His name was Stuart Sutcliffe and the reason he was in the band was because he was a friend of John's, but he did not even know how to play a guitar. @@melchiorvonsternberg844
I really think The Beatles would be more popular today than then. People couldn't explain them, they'd break everything.
"Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall". One of the greatest lines ever. I love this song.
That piano note was the longest sustained note ( at the time ) ever recorded.
They pushed the faders all the way up. It was said if you listened hard enough you can hear the air conditioning unit at the very end.
One thing about the Beatles that most might not realize, they stopped live tours in 1966. After that, they made several songs, like this one, that would be next to impossible to perform live, yet were received on a grand scale in their albums.
I remember hearing an interview with Paul about how he and John had their two separate songs and they were inspired by The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” to put the two dissimilar songs together with some bizarre musical bridge. That became “A Day in the Life.” A masterpiece in my book!
Amber, you've correctly identified a major foundation to The Beatles' songwriting. If you look back into it, you'll note that the vast majority of their catalog is credited as written by Lennon/McCartney. When those two lads got together to start writing songs, they often came in with a number of partials they'd been working on alone. They then proceeded to marry the parts into a single song. As far as this song is concerned there is a ton of different aspects you could dissect and analyze. For the entire album this comes the band had begun to push the parameters of what one could put into a song and how to achieve the sounds they heard in their minds. As a result, they were true trailblazers. They not only started using orchestras and string sections, but some of the effects they achieved in recording were groundbreaking. More than that, they were unheard of before, so they, George Martin and the engineers had to invent ways to achieve those effect. Today we've got all kinds of digital technology to create almost any sound you can dream up. We can get a delay that's more than 500msec that sounds like an echo in a huge canyon. They didn't have that available to them. To achieve that, they hooked up two tap machines and ran the tape from one machine to the other. Yet even as they were dreaming up all this "newfangled" tech and sounds, you'll find that some of their compositional acumen is solidly based in music theory that in some instances goes all the way back two centuries. Not bad for four blue collar lads from Liverpool.
Freaking Goosebumps hearing this. Masterpiece
been a Beatles fan for over 35 years. i love seeing other people hear them for the first time, reminds me of when I heard these songs for the first time on cassette. In my mind, they simply were a phenomenon
Absolutely my favorite of all the Beatle greats.
Some say the greatest rock song of all time.
Listening to the Beatles albums in order is quite rewarding because you can hear their genius flower from one record to the next. It's astonishing.
The Beatles with their innovation remind me of a quote about genius. "Talent hits targets no one else can. Genius hits targets no one else can see".
The Beatles had stopped touring in the summer of 1966. Their last concert was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. That used to be where the Giants and 49ers played ball. This song is from Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Heats Club Band album, which was released about a year later. They knew that they would never be able to recreate this music live with the technology that was available at that time, anyway. Their decision to stop touring had to do with that as well as they were just getting tired of it. Keep up the good work, y'all!