Beatles - Long Tall Sally | Live | REACTION 

I've seen The Beatles do that song way better, like on the NME, or the Washington Coliseum. I think you picked the least good one

The Beatles were heavily influenced by the rock music of the 1950s (especially from the black artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Fats Domino). Also know that white America try to keep teenagers from listening to black artists. White artists, example Pat Boone, covered Long tall Sally but slower than Little Richard. That's why when the British invasion came back in the '60s bringing back the rock and roll music of the '50s (rev upped) the white teen / young adults audience loved it.

The Beatles met Little Richard and played the same venue in 1962. Richard pretty much showed Paul how to do his singing style. I suggest you watch Paul McCartney and Rochestra - Lucille (Kampuchea 1979). Bad quality video but the song rocks. Paul is pretty cool in it too.

Can we give some props to John for playing alternating picking on chords, but it sounds like all down strokes. That is epic rhythm guitar playing right there.

I think the Beatles early in their career toured or played with Little Richard as a supporting band, and he taught them how to go "Wooooooooo!"... nothing compares to Little Richard, but the Beatles come up to about 99.9%

The amazing voice of Sir Paul McCartney! Hey big L., there wasn't anything they couldn't do. The Beatles always said that the greatest music while they were growing up in Liverpool, was black, American R&B. Other than Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, and Jerry Lee Lewis, it was mostly black R&B that they loved. They covered the Isley Brothers' "Twist & Shout", Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' "You've Really Got A Hold On Me", The Marvelettes " Please Mr. Postman", and so many more. As a matter of fact, John Lennon once said that "If it wasn't called rock n' roll, it would have been called Chuck Berry!" The Beatles took American R&B, incorporated into their style, and made it their own!

Little Richard claimed to have taken very early Beatles under his wing, like paying for their meals when they couldn’t afford to. They were his opening act in Hamburg Germany and spent valuable time learning from the Architect of Rock n Roll. Paul got his iconic scream from Little Richard. The Beatles were taught by the best

Paul McCartney can belt out a rock n roll song with the best of em. Always loved this song. 🌺✌️

Paul was already doing his Little Richard impression before meeting him. So while it is fair to say he got his scream from Little Richard, it is not true that he taught it to him.

Dude, that looks to be some sort of television show or something but check out this clip of them doing a concert and the audio isn't very loud so you have to turn it up to 100%, but you will get a much much much better idea why people went absolutely nuts when the Beatles covered this Little Richard song with Paul McCartney on lead. You can see the Absolute Energy and they just totally dominated and you get to see Ringo back there totally going off and there's a clip a little ways in looking over John Lennon's left shoulder at Ringo and the two of them are egging each other on with the energy and just totally vibing out. This shit was so new to White audiences at the time it just blew them away. And there is actually quite a bit of history about 2 years before this where they were just a house band in a club in Hamburg Germany where they really got super hard and that's where they picked up Ringo as the drummer and the guy that owned the place or they lived upstairs and played downstairs at night and they had to do speed because they played so many hours night after night month after month but it made them really hard, when they would do this song people would go nuts and throw shit around the room and get in fights and people would get hurt in glass would break. So the guy wrote it into their contract that they could not play it but they knew that he needed them because they were drawing ever and ever bigger crowds and so they would always go ahead and play it anyway as the finale and all the same shit would happen, people would go nuts. In the end that guy ended up nailing down his bar stools into the wooden floor so that they couldn't be hurled across the room, laugh. These guys really were Punk for their time even though it just seems so old and quaint and they decided to abandon the route of being popular greasers where you wear black leather and grease your hair back in terms of just wearing a suit and blow dried and still being bad boys on top of it. You got to check this out, you will totally understand. And believe me, Little Richard is one of my heroes but keep in mind, he was also the primary influence on Paul McCartney who sings lead on this one. And you also get to see a bit of their stage personality and you also get a rare glimpse of George Harrison at that early age going off on a guitar solo Chuck Berry Style m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kxT0DcRR9cQ.html

Live in Australia 1964 is the best early Beatles footage available

George will forever be under rated. Agree or be wrong.

Wow thanks for sharing that I never saw that before it’s amazing

Two guitar solos (John and George) included, on the recorded version at least.

The NME 1964 concert version of this the best. Crazy energy.

you HAVE TO listen to the studio version they did 1964!! It's super intense and rocking! Plus, Ringo does this WALL OF SOUND drumsolo/fill on the outtro that you have to hear. Awesome!

Ringo's the drummer. Lots of BS about him not being a good drummer because he doesn't play 10 minute long boring drum solos, but Ringo is the master of playing to the song. He's the only drummer in history where you can isolate only the drum track, and you immediatly know the song-minus all of the other instruments!!!! You want to hear a great song with both Ringo's drums and Pauls bass that will literally hypnotize you? Check out "Come Together" by the Beatles. Comes right at the end of their career in 1969. What you showed today looks like somewhere in Europe (the MC wasn't speaking in English) which would have placed this in 1963.

People say they like that hard rock Metallica sound, when the bass player uses a pick. Paul McCartney plays bass with a pick. Is Paul, 80+ year old man, who still plays global tours....hard rock?

Have never seen this footage! Where was it from?

There are still idiots who claim that Paul can’t rock - I show them this song. I know about I’m Down, Kansas City and Helter Skelter but when Paul does this live - he rocks better than all of his The Beatles rockers.

Lot of great live versions of this Washington is not bad

loved watching Ringo just rock out

this is not bad, but this is the WORST version I have ever heard the beatles do on this. Just keep that in mind as well. They are normally much better.

Imagine the poor band that had to play after the Beatles on that show.

You good , Brits ruled in the 60's.

Excellent