hearing this for the first handful of times as a teenage in the early 90's I was blown away at how beautiful and earnest this song was. It's also that age when getting into girls and your first crushes could be sooo emotional you didn't know what to do with it. Hearing a song about two people wanting and needing each other so much was so powerful. So beautiful. (and don't believe them kids that when you grow up you'll finally experience true love... that shit you feel as a teenager for your first loves is as powerful or often times more so than when you grow up. It's so intense. And there's an innocence that's inevitably lost.. cherish it)
Martin said the record sleeves had already been printed for Lady Madonna? Maybe he said labels because there was no special sleeve for that song in England.
John Lennon changed his mind about things all the time. There’s an interview somewhere with George Harrison where the interviewer says something like “if you don’t like what John Lennon says, wait 5 minutes”. George got a kick out of that.
If they had got back together say 1975 i think it would have been a disaster. That was too soon for them. They needed to go their on way. I think Lennon and the others were changing thir minds. If Lennon had lived they would have come together in 1980s at live aid, rock n roll hall of fame or when all the 60s groups started doing reunions in 1989. It would have been the greatest rock and roll tour of all time. Since lennon died. It had to go to the Stones as rocks greatest tour performers. Yes led zepplin and wbo are great, but stones come first.
I believe Paul. The work that Peter Jackson did to uncover the truth around the time of the Let It Be sessions gave both Ringo and Paul a blast of clarity and confirmation that they were in fact, even during the toughest bits, still insanely creative together. Friendly. Full of energy. And that those things co-existed right alongside frustrations, growing pains, and a desire for independence. To develop their own personas and lives outside of The Beatles. After the breakup, I believe that Paul and John were in their heads a lot about it all. If they had just gotten together even a few times, it very well could have been enough to clear the air. We already know that the phone calls were having that effect. And that in the end, they all still loved each other immensely. Like a family. There's something really beautiful about that amidst all the tragedy that would happen later.
I'm not sure how true this is but I'm glad it didn't happen. It's part of the reason we still love them so much is that they went out on top.They didn't overstay their welcome like the Rolling Stones and the Who . They're embarrassing now .
Yea its very obvious that John wrote "If I Fell" entirely on his own. I dont know why Paul feels the need to try and usurp the credit for it as they both got credit for all of their songs anyway and Paul had lots of songs to do him credit on his own. 😮
That is not what I've always read. John was finished with the Beatles. And I believe he was. What really matters is that they got together in the first place. And made all that wonderful music.
John knew how much the Beatles relied on Brian and respected him. Lennon was always open minded intellectually curious person. I’m sure they didn’t do anything physical.
Geoff Emerick could be a real prick about George Harrison. In his book he really made George out to be a hack. George never forgave Emerick for the things he said.
The guys would have gotten back to some extent even if it was at a live gig or everyone adding songs to an LP or EP. I think they needed to branch out and put time into family and solo careers. ❤❤❤❤John & George are in my heart.
One of my earliest musical memories. I would hear this song on my older sister's AM radio when it was released. I was just four years old at the time, but remember listening to it many times clearly and knowing the whole song. Same with Eleanor Rigby which was released around the same time.
What Macca says at 22.54 has been debunked-the contracts had already been signed for the Ed Sullivan show etc long before they had the first US number one-but he carries on with the story regardless.
ANYONE WHO CAN GET ABSOLUTELY MONUMENTALLY DUPED BY A WOMAN WITH A WOODEN LEG AND LOSE HALF HIS FORTUNE TO HER - HAS GOTTA BE SUSPECT IN THE JUDGMENT DEPARTMENT ON ANYTHING.
There is a problem with us all. "Beatle belief syndrome". If a Beatle says it, we'll believe it. I always knew once the last Beatle is standing, he could rewrite history in his image and we would scramble to believe every single detail as "fascinating new information". I'm not calling Paul a liar, because I like being alive, but when Paul says something that happened between John and him and no once else was there, we really can't prove it. Plus memories become subjective as you get older. Even when George was alive, he might have gotten wind of this claim from Paula when it happened. Or a witness. Something. We have nothing to corroborate it. It's all on faith.
This isn't really news. A number of Beatles books over the years have made reference to the fact that John was making plans to reunite the Beatles. Some say it was some time in the mid-70s and others say that it was in the months before he was killed. It's not surprising. He had stormed out of the group in 1969 and tried to forge his own solo career in New York with Yoko, but their marriage had pretty much collapsed by 1973 and his solo career had ran aground as well. Walls and Bridges and Mind games would be blemishes on anyone's discography, but for the man who wrote Strawberry Fields Forever and In My Life, these represented a major artistic decline. He probably admitted to himself that he needed Paul and the Beatles as much as they needed him, but it was probably for the best that they never reunited. The Beatles never destroyed their legacy.
