It's not 30 or 40 years; it's 50 going on 60, which makes them even more amazing and they did it all in a span of 7 to 8 years. Please Please Me to Come Together. 🤯
@@kurtsaxton9665 they were actually influenced by many of their contemporaries.... you havent noticed the evolution? From 3 minute pop songs to genius master pieces. But bands like Pinl Floyd and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention and Bob Dylan and Buddy Holly, have all been mentioned by the Beatles. Then theres the originals Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley. And never forget Ravi Shankar. Not to say the Beatles weten't absolutely extraordinary, they were but so are some of their contemporaries and progenitors. It's what the Beatles did with these influences that was so special.The Beatles will almost certainly last the test of time but think about this: you may not like classical music but almost everyone can immediately recognise and can hum or whistle Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Wagner, Strauss, Chopin etc,etc, etc. That is the test of time. Do you think they'll remember Ed Sheeran in 300 years hahaha I think not but I strongly suspect the Fab Four will last as long as people have ears.
I think this is the best example of Lennon being Lennon and McCartney being McCartney in one song. Shows their contrasting and complimenting styles for me.
My parents played Beatles music all the time when I was a kid. But when I was 10 years old, I didn't appreciate this song and Lucy in the Sky and Strawberry Fields. But when I was in my 20s, those were the songs that I played over and over and over. I would put on the CD specifically for those songs.
Who the hell says Ringo was underrated? I've heard that for years, but no one ever says who underrates his drumming. Ask any professional drummer. They all will attest to his incredible talent.
I was 15 on 1967... This music, this album are my Everest. My best age. My best time. For the rest of my life I'm absolutely influenciated for what I yet feel. They reprent my way of beeing, my life, my soul, my present. THANKS for having lived this period of the 60's!
When people ask me: "What is your favorite Beatles' song?" my answer is: "The one I'm currently listening to." They were geniuses, along with their producer George Martin..
The entire Sgt. Pepper album deserves to be listened to beginning and end, and this is the end. One time I was driving to work at a job where my commute was apparently exactly the length of Sgt. Pepper, because the end of "A Day In The Life" faded out just as I pulled into my parking spot. It was just another day at work...but it felt SO much more profound.
Dude, they broke up 51 years ago!!!😉😁✌ John was singing first and third, Paul was singing "Woke up, got out of bed..." Ringo is such a great drummer, this is my favorite Ringo track!!!, I absolutely love his drumming through this whole song!!! 😁👍✌
I fully agree, man, the drumming is out of this world. Only a genius could have lifted this already magical song up soo much with the skips, beats, and ruffles he makes here.
I love all types of music but the Beatles just hit different. Strawberry Fields Forevers, Something, Helter Skelter, Tomorrow Never Knows and 100 more literally.
The Beatles turned “Rock and Roll” into “Rock” by distilling and defining essentially every sub-genre. Nobody has made a rock song since that wasn’t influenced by them.
For me the best song of The Beatles listen 2021. You can imagine what people think when they listen this song for first time in 1967 ?? Now you have to play " tomorrow never knows " is so far ahead of it's time
These songs are actually 50 years ago. We must understand that age and time means nothing. They are talking about everything we deal with now but just more enlightened compared to today's music.
I agree with the first part of your comment but if you think "today's music" doesn't have sounds, images, and concepts as enlightened as the Beatles (or more, considering every band today was influenced by the Beatles and their influences) then I feel sorrier for you than I do for people who haven't heard the Beatles. You're missing out if you think musical progression and enlightenment ended with the Beatles...
Paul McCartney was experimenting with Avant Garde music during this time, so the whole orchestra starting on the lowest note and ascending to the highest note was considered experimental for rock music at that time. This song is considered the number one Rock song of the 20th century according to Rolling Stone magazine. It really is amazing that a pop group that was singing I Want to Hold Your Hand in 1964 was turning out a masterpiece like this just three years later. No other group had such a prolific output of songs in such a short span of time. John sang the first stanza and Paul came in on the second stanza after the orchestral section when the alarm clock went off. You can tell them apart because John has a more nasal tone and Paul's voice is more smooth and round, plus he has a higher range than John.
@S A Not totally true. Many of Paul's contributions on Revolver are svante garde influences - even on songs he isn't the primary writer on. The tape looping was his idea.
Yeah they went from I want to hold your hand to I'd love to turn you on in 3 years I first heard this song on the car radio in January 1967 and I was literally blowing my mind out. Good reaction but he didnt go all the way to the end for the surprise
Paul was way more avant garde than people gave him credit for. He was living in London while John was stuck in his country estate with his wife and child. Paul was attending art galleries and symphonies and going to book stores and other happening gatherings in the city. Paul was instrumental in pushing the group into new directions, probably more than John.
@S A Paul was into the avant garde scene in 1966 and through 67. Most of the avant garde stuff on John's songs from 66 and 67 is Paul trying to "sabotage" (accord to a Lennon interview) Lennon's songs with a sense of "looseness and experimentation"
This album came out in June of 1967--------I was almost 17 (I'm 70 now)--------------The whole album was unlike anything that had come before it---------I wish today's music could be as transformative.
They were working on this song 54 years ago this week (January 1967) - there are actually NO Beatles recordings less than 50 years old - not counting the two songs they put together for the Anthology project using John’s song demos.
John's first and second verses, "About a lucky man who made the grade," were written about the death of Guinness heir, and friend of Paul, Tara Browne, in a car crash; the third verse, "I saw a film today, oh boy," was a reference to the Dick Lester film "How I Won the War," in which John played Musketeer Gripweed; while the fourth verse, after Paul's middle section, was based on a newspaper story about there being 4000 potholes in the roads of Blackburn, Lancashire. Out of such divergent sources they found genius.
His drumming gives the song a symphonic dimension. I had listened to this song hundreds of times and suddenly it dawned on my how crucial the drums were. I had a feeling associated with them that I didn't really even attribute to the drums.
@S A ha! You ain't kidding, even though Roger is a musical genius, he's a bit of an asshole, he fucked the band over pretty hard with the animals album, but they all knew they wouldn't be as great without each other so they touched it out until they just couldn't any more.
@@emcsquare5045 You mean documented fact? The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper while Pink Floyd was recording Piper at the Gates of Dawn (produced by former Beatles engineer Norman Smith) at the same time in EMI (now Abbey Road) Studios. Not sure where you got your anecdote.
@@LeChaunce I've posted the link twice amd its not showing. Google Roger waters says say peppers changed pink floyd, then come back to me with your "facts".
Two things: First is to underscore the point you made that this music is timeless, still sounding completely fresh and relevant so many years later. Second, it's mind-blowing to consider that this song is only three years after the Beatles catalog consisted of worthy but basically simple two and a half minute love songs gleaned from American rock and roll from the nineteen fifties. Such growth combined with such quality is beyond remarkable.
The Beatles' best songs are those they created early on because they relied on melody rather than studio work. Their early songs, although inferior, were in the tradition of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Berlin, Kern, Arlen, and the "Great American Songbook". Those of the later period, such as the ones on "Sgt. Pepper", have third rate melodies covered up by imaginative studio dressing. In popular music, similar is better and it's all about melody.
It is so much fun watching young folks like you finding out about this amazing group of musicians. There are only about 180 other great songs by them! Even their 150th best song is better than a lot of artists' best songs.
What i would give to be a young 'un in June of 1967 and hearing this in a room, lights down, for the first time. You'd have no frame of reference for something like this, especially from a megastar pop band. Pure mind expansion, a new world of possibilities. "They got it - they had it back then and they still got it now. The Beatles are simply amazing" - indeed, brother!
i cant even begin to explain, or understand, what they meant to me. i grew up with them, from the first hits to let it be. i was about 10 when they finally ended it. it felt like they were the mirror, and the instigators, of what was happening in the world. even at that age, i felt like there something behind the music, talking to us all. like they were a conduit to something larger than them. that time was, as you might say, FIRE. it was, i believe, a prelude to what is coming. and what that is, i cannot say, but it will feel like the Beatles music towards the end, at least in part. maybe their music will finally be revealed in full. i know, i sound crazy. but talk to people about then. age of aquarius? yes. but more like the overture to the age of aquarius. which is still on its way right now.
Lennon wrote and sang the first and last part. McCartney wrote and sang the middle part. Each brought a 'partial' song to the table and they stitched them together. The music was done in 1966 and they were bringing in very experimental music.
You've got Lennon beginning the song "I read the news today....." up to the first operatic crescendo, then the melody changes slightly, with the repetitive piano chords (which actually start going into the crescendo), and Paul takes over vocals, "woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head......" Lennon chanting dreamily leading into the second operatic crescendo, then back to John, basically keeping the newly adopted tempo " I read the news today, oh boy, 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire........." Only these guys can make reading the paper about car wrecks, running late for work, hurrying to the bus, and potholes in the town of Blackburn into such an epic masterpiece! And, oh yeah, "I'd love to turn you on........" If you've ever done LSD, this stuff makes a lot more sense! "Penny Lane" is another good example, a walk by Paul, down Penny Lane and what he sees. The Barber, Banker, Policeman, the pretty nurse selling poppies........Brilliance! We are so fortunate!
John sings the first and last part and Paul sings in the middle. This is one of the most classic songs of all time. It can out in 1967 the last track on the Sgt Pepper Album 54 years ago and is still as strong and evocative today. The Beatles music will continue to go on and on down the generations as it is so good .
This album was so different from anything else on the radio at the time, the musical possibilities it opened were awe-inspiring. ...by the way, that fade out at the end? It doesn't fade! They kept turning up the volume as the piano chord died down, so that it seemed to go on forever.
In my opinion what makes a great song is: you need all parts, all instruments and all melodies to be great apart but feel like something is missing without each other.
The last original Beatles single was released in 1971, I believe. So it’s been 50 years. Amazing how they have remained so musically relevant to this day. Check out some of their early album cuts that weren’t released as singles. A good place to start might be their album Rubber Soul, which is chocked full of some real gems.
Hi...John sings the main verses and Paul does the middle "woke up...fell out of bed...". The first time I listened to this song, I was dumbfounded, mouth hanging open, totally unconscious of my reactions till a few minutes later...I declared that I wanted this song to be played at my funeral...lol...in '67, I was 15 yrs old
This decade is the 60th anniversary of all their albums starting next year. 2019 was the 50th anniversary of their final album Abbey Road, the album that was the template for 1970s rock.
If you crank up the end of this song and just let it play that chord rings for a very long time and you can hear other musicians packing up instruments and music to leave the studio. Then if you let it play even longer into silence you'll eventually hear a very odd "coda" to the song.
Do you know that for the longest time I did not know that the coda even existed because I had an automatic turntable that would pick up the needle before that last part came on. I was shocked when I first got to hear the whole thing.
If you consider that the beatles were writing for about 8 years (1962 - 1970) Thats 416 weeks. They wrote 229 songs - That's about one masterpiece every two weeks!!!!!
John singing the lead and Paul on the bridge of the song singing about catching his bus!!! "I'd love to turn you on" And all that "Beatle Noise" concocted by Beatles and producer George Martin"!!!
The Beatles changed the direction of rock and pop music in such dramatic fashion, no other band has ever had that kind of influence that led to multiple sub genres of rock. And as an old Hippie rock and roller myself, who grew up and toured during the Beatles Era, it just warms my heart to see young people like you getting into the Fab Four and digging on how talented and deep they were as songwriters, musicians, and really spiritual mentors that left behind a legacy of music that is timeless in its meaning.
Thanks for yr obseervation! Only the good belovers of this music note the final piano (several pianos...) 15 seconds...You need to listen this aparent silence to understand completely the music.
I love seeing people experience a Beatles song for the first time. I've been a fan for almost 30 years now and I gotta tell you my top 3 - While my Guitar Gently Weeps, I am the Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever. With Gently Weeps, you get to experience George Harrison taking the lead and with the other two you experience more Lennon surrealism. My favorite Paul cut is a deep one, The Night Before - a solid mid 60s rocker from their movie, Help!
Note that the idea for those crescendi came from John and Paul, who'd planned them into the arrangement before starting recording. They wanted a cacophany "like the end of the world". George Martin was initially reluctant to hire a full orchestra for it but was persuaded. The random climb from lowest note to highest was Paul's idea.
This song is like a psychelic anthem - threw us all off when it was released and I was living near London, going to school there. You keep time well, going right along with Ringo's solid beat.
Great reaction to a complicated and truly great song. The Beatles rabbit hole runs deep. I'd suggest Tomorrow Never Knows as a song that continues to be ahead of its time.
Great reaction! The Brits, in general, can spoon out a dollop of melancholy so sincerely, so effortlessly. It's really quite a talent that I'm sure there are university courses about how and why somewhere out there.
Back in the day we listened to the whole album, not single cuts. You can order the CD version of all their albums, they go for less than ten bucks and you own them forever. You are missing out by listening to a few numbers and leaving it at that. You are a great guy and I enjoy your reactions. Please react to Ray Charles "Hit the Road Jack" live SNL 1996 thanks.
Yeah, that is great song! Hey, if you like the Beatles, please react to "And I Love Her," its one of the prettiest love songs ever written. Also "Something" by George Harrison. Thanks for the great music and reactions!
John and Paul both sang main parts on this song. One of my favourites is an early one called, "If I Fell". I recommend it for reaction video if only for the voice harmonization.
That last note went on for 42 seconds unheard of for a radio station to play a song that long plus 42 seconds at the end for one note shows you how good the Beatles were
You don’t fully understand this album until you trip balls while listening. That’s why everyone was so shocked. It created a real life dream. LEGALIZE SHROOMS AND LSD.
The Beatles were not a band: they were a miracle!
Brilliant way to describe them.
It's not 30 or 40 years; it's 50 going on 60, which makes them even more amazing and they did it all in a span of 7 to 8 years. Please Please Me to Come Together. 🤯
A gift from the heavens fella
My favorite. And the way they evolved was cool. I met John Lennon on the streets of NYC. Really great day for me.
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There early stuff was cool to. Such pleasant songs, love songs.
There’s the Beatles...then everyone else
Agreed, and not to diminish the accomplishments of other artists, just, The Beatles were other-worldly.
They definitely influenced everybody who came after them.
no better words spoken....
@@kurtsaxton9665 they were actually influenced by many of their contemporaries.... you havent noticed the evolution? From 3 minute pop songs to genius master pieces. But bands like Pinl Floyd and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention and Bob Dylan and Buddy Holly, have all been mentioned by the Beatles. Then theres the originals Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley. And never forget Ravi Shankar. Not to say the Beatles weten't absolutely extraordinary, they were but so are some of their contemporaries and progenitors. It's what the Beatles did with these influences that was so special.The Beatles will almost certainly last the test of time but think about this: you may not like classical music but almost everyone can immediately recognise and can hum or whistle Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Wagner, Strauss, Chopin etc,etc, etc. That is the test of time. Do you think they'll remember Ed Sheeran in 300 years hahaha I think not but I strongly suspect the Fab Four will last as long as people have ears.
Pls..Just watch the REO brothers band..hopefully they sounds like almost original Beatles bro....promise...
I think this is the best example of Lennon being Lennon and McCartney being McCartney in one song. Shows their contrasting and complimenting styles for me.
Agree. Regards from Chile.
My parents played Beatles music all the time when I was a kid. But when I was 10 years old, I didn't appreciate this song and Lucy in the Sky and Strawberry Fields. But when I was in my 20s, those were the songs that I played over and over and over. I would put on the CD specifically for those songs.
George Martin admitted Strawberry Fields should have been on SPLHCB.
Sgt Peppers is now 53 years old. Released in 1967 and changed music forever.
Hell yeah. 36814 and broke the mind of The Beach Boys. Since the couldn’t have it back together!!!
He's underrated, but Ringo State's drumming has more swing and swagger than most of them. Sgt. Peppers was a very trippy album. GENIUS.
Totally agree, it's GENIUS here.
its funny because early on with them he tried so hard not to swing but he just stopped caring after awhile
I love his drumming...
Who the hell says Ringo was underrated? I've heard that for years, but no one ever says who underrates his drumming. Ask any professional drummer. They all will attest to his incredible talent.
Never missed a beat!
Imagine a WHOLE orchestra in the studio recording those fills. That was real.
as a lifelong Beatles fan I have to say that this for me, is their magnum opus; thanks for the reaction !!!!
I don't know. "In My Life", "Across the Universe", "The Long and Winding Road". So many great songs. Great reaction.
@@edprzydatek8398 yeah I did say "for me"
The best song of the best album of the best band of all times. To me it's the greatest piece of music ever.
My all time favourite... Both John & Paul sang parts. John first, then Paul then John...
@@alonsoquirosgranados7568 Of course, I agree. Except that "Revolver" is better.... :P
You get it, you absolutely get it!!!
The Beatles can make you feel ____ (fill in the blank). They could bring any and every emotion. They were magic.
I was 15 on 1967... This music, this album are my Everest. My best age. My best time. For the rest of my life I'm absolutely influenciated for what I yet feel. They reprent my way of beeing, my life, my soul, my present. THANKS for having lived this period of the 60's!
When people ask me: "What is your favorite Beatles' song?" my answer is: "The one I'm currently listening to." They were geniuses, along with their producer George Martin..
The whole album is amazing! I love that young people are experiencing The Beatles. I grew up listening to them.
The entire Sgt. Pepper album deserves to be listened to beginning and end, and this is the end. One time I was driving to work at a job where my commute was apparently exactly the length of Sgt. Pepper, because the end of "A Day In The Life" faded out just as I pulled into my parking spot. It was just another day at work...but it felt SO much more profound.
this is close to my favourite song, it's weird, clever and John's voice is incredible & haunting.
Dude, they broke up 51 years ago!!!😉😁✌ John was singing first and third, Paul was singing "Woke up, got out of bed..." Ringo is such a great drummer, this is my favorite Ringo track!!!, I absolutely love his drumming through this whole song!!! 😁👍✌
I fully agree, man, the drumming is out of this world. Only a genius could have lifted this already magical song up soo much with the skips, beats, and ruffles he makes here.
Totally agree! Ringo was epic here.
That's a masterpiece right there. Imagery and a stream of consciousness story, with a killer ending. It never gets old!
I love all types of music but the Beatles just hit different. Strawberry Fields Forevers, Something, Helter Skelter, Tomorrow Never Knows and 100 more literally.
I like your list!
Glad you enjoyed this classic song. This was the first time a band truly used the studio as a creative facility rather than just a place to record.
Such tension with the orchestra in those parts. Love it. John sings the beginning and the end. Paul sings the middle of the song.
The Beatles turned “Rock and Roll” into “Rock” by distilling and defining essentially every sub-genre.
Nobody has made a rock song since that wasn’t influenced by them.
The best thing for me about the Beatles is all the songs.every one.
For me the best song of The Beatles listen 2021.
You can imagine what people think when they listen this song for first time in 1967 ?? Now you have to play " tomorrow never knows " is so far ahead of it's time
These songs are actually 50 years ago. We must understand that age and time means nothing. They are talking about everything we deal with now but just more enlightened compared to today's music.
Yes late 60s!
Timeless !
It takes time to make music in time.
Actually nearly 55 yrs ago now. I remember well this music and the times.
I agree with the first part of your comment but if you think "today's music" doesn't have sounds, images, and concepts as enlightened as the Beatles (or more, considering every band today was influenced by the Beatles and their influences) then I feel sorrier for you than I do for people who haven't heard the Beatles. You're missing out if you think musical progression and enlightenment ended with the Beatles...
i feel like its the shortest near 6 minute song ever, you're always left wanting more once its over, that's the beauty of this song
"They cranked that volume all the way up on this right here..."
Bruh..."Helter Skelter"
Paul McCartney was experimenting with Avant Garde music during this time, so the whole orchestra starting on the lowest note and ascending to the highest note was considered experimental for rock music at that time. This song is considered the number one Rock song of the 20th century according to Rolling Stone magazine. It really is amazing that a pop group that was singing I Want to Hold Your Hand in 1964 was turning out a masterpiece like this just three years later. No other group had such a prolific output of songs in such a short span of time. John sang the first stanza and Paul came in on the second stanza after the orchestral section when the alarm clock went off. You can tell them apart because John has a more nasal tone and Paul's voice is more smooth and round, plus he has a higher range than John.
@S A Not totally true. Many of Paul's contributions on Revolver are svante garde influences - even on songs he isn't the primary writer on. The tape looping was his idea.
Yeah they went from I want to hold your hand to I'd love to turn you on in 3 years
I first heard this song on the car radio in January 1967 and I was literally blowing my mind out.
Good reaction but he didnt go all the way to the end for the surprise
Paul was way more avant garde than people gave him credit for. He was living in London while John was stuck in his country estate with his wife and child. Paul was attending art galleries and symphonies and going to book stores and other happening gatherings in the city. Paul was instrumental in pushing the group into new directions, probably more than John.
@S A Paul was into the avant garde scene in 1966 and through 67. Most of the avant garde stuff on John's songs from 66 and 67 is Paul trying to "sabotage" (accord to a Lennon interview) Lennon's songs with a sense of "looseness and experimentation"
@@betsyab121 Exactly
John Lennon sang first section, then Paul McCarthy sang the second with "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb accross my head. etc." BRILLIANT
John Lennon sang lead in this song and Paul McCartney sang the middle part.
WOW, I never knew that. NOT
@@beatlebuick At 6:40 in the video, our host asks who's singing. John Andrews above was simply replying to that question.
F.y.i Mal Evans did the count up to the build up
But who sings the "ahhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhh" when Paul goes into a dream?
@@SlickBlackCadillac probably john
This album came out in June of 1967--------I was almost 17 (I'm 70 now)--------------The whole album was unlike anything that had come before it---------I wish today's music could be as transformative.
They were working on this song 54 years ago this week (January 1967) - there are actually NO Beatles recordings less than 50 years old - not counting the two songs they put together for the Anthology project using John’s song demos.
absolutely the best Beatles tune. Just sublime.
John's first and second verses, "About a lucky man who made the grade," were written about the death of Guinness heir, and friend of Paul, Tara Browne, in a car crash; the third verse, "I saw a film today, oh boy," was a reference to the Dick Lester film "How I Won the War," in which John played Musketeer Gripweed; while the fourth verse, after Paul's middle section, was based on a newspaper story about there being 4000 potholes in the roads of Blackburn, Lancashire. Out of such divergent sources they found genius.
Ringo's work on this is so good.
His drumming gives the song a symphonic dimension. I had listened to this song hundreds of times and suddenly it dawned on my how crucial the drums were. I had a feeling associated with them that I didn't really even attribute to the drums.
@@anthonyodonnell6105 same here. he is just phenomenal on this and i did not put it together in my mind until recently. Cheers.
In an interview with Roger waters he said the day he sat and listened to this album was the day Pink Floyd was born.
Even though they were working on their first album in the same building at the time this album was recorded?
@S A ha! You ain't kidding, even though Roger is a musical genius, he's a bit of an asshole, he fucked the band over pretty hard with the animals album, but they all knew they wouldn't be as great without each other so they touched it out until they just couldn't any more.
@@LeChaunce yeah, if you know something different than Roger does you may want to take that up with him.
@@emcsquare5045 You mean documented fact? The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper while Pink Floyd was recording Piper at the Gates of Dawn (produced by former Beatles engineer Norman Smith) at the same time in EMI (now Abbey Road) Studios. Not sure where you got your anecdote.
@@LeChaunce I've posted the link twice amd its not showing. Google Roger waters says say peppers changed pink floyd, then come back to me with your "facts".
Two things: First is to underscore the point you made that this music is timeless, still sounding completely fresh and relevant so many years later. Second, it's mind-blowing to consider that this song is only three years after the Beatles catalog consisted of worthy but basically simple two and a half minute love songs gleaned from American rock and roll from the nineteen fifties. Such growth combined with such quality is beyond remarkable.
Beautifully made point! Thank you!
The Beatles' best songs are those they created early on because they relied on melody rather than studio work. Their early songs, although inferior, were in the tradition of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Berlin, Kern, Arlen, and the "Great American Songbook". Those of the later period, such as the ones on "Sgt. Pepper", have third rate melodies covered up by imaginative studio dressing. In popular music, similar is better and it's all about melody.
Hi from england . love your stuff . I was 18 when this came out ! A different world then . You have an open sensitive ear and heart .
simply, The Beatles are the G.O.A.T....
Out of all the billions of people on this planet, 4 guys changed music forever
It is so much fun watching young folks like you finding out about this amazing group of musicians. There are only about 180 other great songs by them! Even their 150th best song is better than a lot of artists' best songs.
The lyrics for A Day In The Life literally came from a London newspaper!
The song, at that time, was banned from AirPlay by the BBC!
Imagine listening to this song after writing that newspaper and saying “hey I wrote that!”
The Daily Mail aka The World’s Greatest Newspaper.
What i would give to be a young 'un in June of 1967 and hearing this in a room, lights down, for the first time. You'd have no frame of reference for something like this, especially from a megastar pop band. Pure mind expansion, a new world of possibilities.
"They got it - they had it back then and they still got it now. The Beatles are simply amazing" - indeed, brother!
Listen again, just for the drumming. Woooow, Ringoooo. That is some added magic, very few would have even thought of.
This songs a masterpiece.
i cant even begin to explain, or understand, what they meant to me. i grew up with them, from the first hits to let it be. i was about 10 when they finally ended it. it felt like they were the mirror, and the instigators, of what was happening in the world. even at that age, i felt like there something behind the music, talking to us all. like they were a conduit to something larger than them. that time was, as you might say, FIRE. it was, i believe, a prelude to what is coming. and what that is, i cannot say, but it will feel like the Beatles music towards the end, at least in part. maybe their music will finally be revealed in full. i know, i sound crazy. but talk to people about then. age of aquarius? yes. but more like the overture to the age of aquarius. which is still on its way right now.
Lennon wrote and sang the first and last part. McCartney wrote and sang the middle part. Each brought a 'partial' song to the table and they stitched them together. The music was done in 1966 and they were bringing in very experimental music.
Ah, the lads. One of the great blessings of my life, to have had their music as the soundtrack to my early life. Doesn't get much better....
You've got Lennon beginning the song "I read the news today....." up to the first operatic crescendo, then the melody changes slightly, with the repetitive piano chords (which actually start going into the crescendo), and Paul takes over vocals, "woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head......" Lennon chanting dreamily leading into the second operatic crescendo, then back to John, basically keeping the newly adopted tempo " I read the news today, oh boy, 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire........." Only these guys can make reading the paper about car wrecks, running late for work, hurrying to the bus, and potholes in the town of Blackburn into such an epic masterpiece! And, oh yeah, "I'd love to turn you on........" If you've ever done LSD, this stuff makes a lot more sense! "Penny Lane" is another good example, a walk by Paul, down Penny Lane and what he sees. The Barber, Banker, Policeman, the pretty nurse selling poppies........Brilliance! We are so fortunate!
Great reaction to a great song by a great band❤️❤️❤️
Awwwe... PLEASE check out more Beatles music! They seriously matured and got epic after halfway into the 60s.
Seven pianos were simultaneously played at the same time to make the ending to that song.
John sings the first and last part and Paul sings in the middle. This is one of the most classic songs of all time. It can out in 1967 the last track on the Sgt Pepper Album 54 years ago and is still as strong and evocative today. The Beatles music will continue to go on and on down the generations as it is so good .
this is the song that got me into The Beatles...it's still my favourite of theirs
This album was so different from anything else on the radio at the time, the musical possibilities it opened were awe-inspiring. ...by the way, that fade out at the end? It doesn't fade! They kept turning up the volume as the piano chord died down, so that it seemed to go on forever.
The line "he blew his mind out in a car" is actually about John being too high and "he didn't notice that the lights had changed"
In my opinion what makes a great song is: you need all parts, all instruments and all melodies to be great apart but feel like something is missing without each other.
The last original Beatles single was released in 1971, I believe. So it’s been 50 years. Amazing how they have remained so musically relevant to this day. Check out some of their early album cuts that weren’t released as singles. A good place to start might be their album Rubber Soul, which is chocked full of some real gems.
54 years later this song still gives me chills...
The Beatles were just amazing! And their producer done some special magic! Great music is timeless!
Listen to Maybe I'm Amazed, by Paul McCartney, one of The Beatles. He pays every instrument on the track by himself, it's a masterpiece.
You should try Tomorrow Never Knows.
Brought psychedelic music into the mainstream.
John's voice through a speaker, tape loops and Indian whoops and at the end --- ragtime piano!!!
And of course, Ringo, again!!!
Hi...John sings the main verses and Paul does the middle "woke up...fell out of bed...". The first time I listened to this song, I was dumbfounded, mouth hanging open, totally unconscious of my reactions till a few minutes later...I declared that I wanted this song to be played at my funeral...lol...in '67, I was 15 yrs old
This is still my favorite Beatles album. Innovative and insightful songs. A bunch of them.
This decade is the 60th anniversary of all their albums starting next year. 2019 was the 50th anniversary of their final album Abbey Road, the album that was the template for 1970s rock.
If you crank up the end of this song and just let it play that chord rings for a very long time and you can hear other musicians packing up instruments and music to leave the studio. Then if you let it play even longer into silence you'll eventually hear a very odd "coda" to the song.
Do you know that for the longest time I did not know that the coda even existed because I had an automatic turntable that would pick up the needle before that last part came on. I was shocked when I first got to hear the whole thing.
This album came out about the same time as LSD began to hit on the West Coast. Both--this album and LSD--were revolutionary.
And This album on LSD...:)
@@adams9586 one of the best experiences
And LSD is completely unnecessary to consider or appreciate this work of art. In fact, I get it just fine sober.
@@seanculver8876 yeah but you could get it even more high
If you consider that the beatles were writing for about 8 years (1962 - 1970) Thats 416 weeks. They wrote 229 songs - That's about one masterpiece every two weeks!!!!!
Thanks for the Beatles! Ride the train as long as you can. This is my favorite along with While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Exactly, you have to listen to ALL of their music many times! For a lifetime!
John singing the lead and Paul on the bridge of the song singing about catching his bus!!!
"I'd love to turn you on"
And all that "Beatle Noise" concocted by Beatles and producer George Martin"!!!
The Beatles changed the direction of rock and pop music in such dramatic fashion, no other band has ever had that kind of influence that led to multiple sub genres of rock. And as an old Hippie rock and roller myself, who grew up and toured during the Beatles Era, it just warms my heart to see young people like you getting into the Fab Four and digging on how talented and deep they were as songwriters, musicians, and really spiritual mentors that left behind a legacy of music that is timeless in its meaning.
Amen to a. The Beatles were a true miracle! Even the quite unknown songs were so miraculous!
Can we just appreciate how much more meaning this song has compared to today’s song lyrics.
Don't ditch your headphones - you missed the finale.
Thanks for yr obseervation! Only the good belovers of this music note the final piano (several pianos...) 15 seconds...You need to listen this aparent silence to understand completely the music.
Great reaction! The greatest band ever!
I love seeing people experience a Beatles song for the first time. I've been a fan for almost 30 years now and I gotta tell you my top 3 - While my Guitar Gently Weeps, I am the Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever. With Gently Weeps, you get to experience George Harrison taking the lead and with the other two you experience more Lennon surrealism. My favorite Paul cut is a deep one, The Night Before - a solid mid 60s rocker from their movie, Help!
Can't believe I found someone reacting to beatles music. Thanks
I’m now, three videos into your channel. I’ve been into The Beatles for most of my life! Especially in the 90s as a much later generation fan!🤣😎
George Martin's orchestral arrangements could be downright scary.
Pepperland seems like a song from Zelda a couple of decades ahead of time.
Note that the idea for those crescendi came from John and Paul, who'd planned them into the arrangement before starting recording. They wanted a cacophany "like the end of the world". George Martin was initially reluctant to hire a full orchestra for it but was persuaded. The random climb from lowest note to highest was Paul's idea.
This song is like a psychelic anthem - threw us all off when it was released and I was living near London, going to school there. You keep time well, going right along with Ringo's solid beat.
The Beatles are TIMELESS!!! John singing with Paul singing the middle part ("Woke up fell out of bed.....)
You want the Beatles to make you feel sad? “She’s Leaving Home”
I don’t have the words in my vocabulary to describe how incredible they were.
Great reaction to a complicated and truly great song. The Beatles rabbit hole runs deep. I'd suggest Tomorrow Never Knows as a song that continues to be ahead of its time.
Great reaction! The Brits, in general, can spoon out a dollop of melancholy so sincerely, so effortlessly. It's really quite a talent that I'm sure there are university courses about how and why somewhere out there.
u should listen to george's biggest beatles songs, or even his solo stuff, because he was really incredible! my fav beatle for sure, rip george
Back in the day we listened to the whole album, not single cuts. You can order the CD version of all their albums, they go for less than ten bucks and you own them forever. You are missing out by listening to a few numbers and leaving it at that. You are a great guy and I enjoy your reactions. Please react to Ray Charles "Hit the Road Jack" live SNL 1996 thanks.
Dude, these songs are 50 plus years old!! Glad to see u like em! Welcome to the club my man!! I'm 70 yrs old and was there when all this happened!!!
Yeah, that is great song! Hey, if you like the Beatles, please react to "And I Love Her," its one of the prettiest love songs ever written. Also "Something" by George Harrison. Thanks for the great music and reactions!
awesome reaction bruh would love to see "Blackbird" or "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" next
The best band Ever! Cheers from France!
Next;
Come together
I feel fine
A day in the life, is considered a masterpiece considering it was the late 60s technology!
John and Paul both sang main parts on this song. One of my favourites is an early one called, "If I Fell". I recommend it for reaction video if only for the voice harmonization.
That last note went on for 42 seconds unheard of for a radio station to play a song that long plus 42 seconds at the end for one note shows you how good the Beatles were
This was John Lennon singing with a little bit of Paul in the middle section 👍
It's Paul
@@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025 Jason Turner got it correct. John at beginning and end. Paul in the middle.
@@ktcarl I thought he was identifying the aahs - that old debate
The Walrus was Paul lol
I know my Beatles🇬🇧
Woke up fell out of bed etc middle section was written by Paul.
BTW The Ahhs were John Lennon!
A life without the Beatles is a life infinitely worse 🙏 thank god for John, paul, George and ringo
A day in the Life and Tomorrow Never Knows we’re and still are groundbreaking.
Ringo's drumming is out of this world.......
You don’t fully understand this album until you trip balls while listening. That’s why everyone was so shocked. It created a real life dream.
LEGALIZE SHROOMS AND LSD.
I LIKE YOU BRO LEGALIZATION
Yeah sounds like a good plan, could be the way forward!!.
Across the universe
You do yourself an injustice if you cherry-pick this album. This is a whole-album experience.
THIS
Years ago the opening track "Sgt. Pepper's" came on my car radio and my first thought was, "Oh crap. Now I gotta hear the whole album."
Agreed! LOL.
Play every album from start to finish, then the miracle becomes soooo obvious!
A true master piece in rock history...musical genius....