FIRST Listen to The BEATLES aka The White Album Pt. 1 

Οh yeah in the early 60s he was one of Rory Storm's hurricanes, right?

He was in a very popular Liverpool band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes when John and Paul asked him to join The Beatles after they sacked Pete Best. Incidentally, I knew Pete Best very well, a lovely man and no bitterness at all.

Are you guys talking about Richard Starkey?? The drummer from Rory and the Hurricanes...??

Who is this Ringo Starr of whom you speak?

@@amr180671 Pete Best made quite a few quid after the release of Anthology 1 (I think he featured on 10 songs). I'm very pleased for him

granted she might know that one from offspring's why dont you get a job. she probably grew up around that song

He did it so well with yesterday that even he thought he already knew it from somewhere

@@pandanurseeven he did

YES

That’s how predictable and un-inventive they are lmao

Only Buddy Holly came close with a catalogue of classics in such a short space of time

I'll see your Buddy Holly and raise you Guided By Voices ( especially the incredibly prolific 91 - 96 perood). He's also still releasing at least 2 new GBV albums a year. But the quality in the early 90s was off the dial

@@amr180671 PLEASE. Even Holly himself rejoiced in how simple his songs were to listen to and play. 4 chords at most.

I would put Eagles up there. They recorded their classic catalog in only 7 years. They didn't change the course of music like the Beatles did, but they were pop craftsmen of the same ilk.

I think they had the benefit of being around at a time of great artistic inspiration all around them. That and the fact that less ideas had been taken then, as opposed to if you tried to write an original song today, its impossible because everythings been taken already.

It's a great year to be a Beatles fan!

are you saying "I've Got a Feeling"?

@@crumblefest A feeling he can't hide, oh yeah!

@@PeterBuwen everybody had a wet dream

@@raghuvansh1293 Everybody pulls the socks off.

I've seen a few people in the comments saying that Piggies is intended to refer to the slang term for police but I don't know of any evidence for this. It is denied in the Wikipedia article on the song.

@@sphericalharmony1603 no, it says that Harrison denied it. The article itself doesn't deny it. Either way, that seems like an odd quibble. The song is very anti-authority. And the Beatles definitely didn't like the police. And there's no way George wasn't aware of the connotation, seeing as this is right when it became popular slang.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps features Eric Clapton on lead guitar

I've always seen Piggies as being about how the rich over consume. But then there are the "little" piggies who aren't so lucky.

Lennon was probably going for shock value when he said it, but he was quoted more than once suggesting that "Julia" _was_ a traditional love song...

It definitely got my attention! haha

I think Ringo or George said the White Album should have been shrunk down to one disk. Whichever one said it, he made a good point. I respect The Beatles but there’s a fair amount of crappy material on the White Album.

I particularly like how random and chaotic it is. That's what makes this album unique. I wouldn't change much of anything, except switching "Revolution 1" for the hard rock single version, and adding 2 more songs which were recorded in the sessions and were cut from it: McCartney's "Junk" and Harrison's "Not Guilty" - they are bangers.

@@frederickbuchanan9438 "It was great, it sold, it's bloody the beatles white album, shut up". Paul Mccartney

​@@frederickbuchanan9438 yes agreec

How he stripped it down was amazing

I concur

It's hauntingly beautiful

Julia was written for John's mother. She died while was a teen. I know that Paul met her. Paul's mother died of breast cancer, as did Paul's wife just short of 30 years together. Paul's lucky that he had a loving and strong dad who got the family through their loss. Lennon didn't have that kind of support. Julia is hauntingly beautiful. The story is that she hit while crossing a street. He lost her very suddenly and never found closure.

@@angelseari4 Alcoholic? I think I read most of the books about the Beatles but I never saw anywhere mentioned that she was an alcoholic. Sounds like slander to me because she was such an unconventional woman. Any sources?

It was written as a children's song, so there's a chance she has heard a version of that song as a child and has forgotten.

That was true of the Beatles, as well. When Paul came up with the melody for "Yesterday" in his sleep, it was so familiar he thought someone else had already written it.

If you’ve lived on this earth you’ve heard Ob-la-di in your life (unless you don’t own a radio and have never been in a supermarket or watched TV). Beatles’ songs are like Christmas songs in December. There’s no way to have not heard them (Unless maybe you’re in a religious sect the bans music?) I believe she may not have “consciously” heard it, but she’s heard it. That’s the main reason it’s familiar.

@@atroyz either that or she's heard the Offspring's "why don't you get a job"

@@falchoon That's so funny. "why don't you get a job" came out when I was in the 6th grade -I was all about Beatles since the 1st grade but that had faded by then - When I heard "why don't you get a job" it sent me through a couple of years of loving Offspring. Years later I realized the only reason I ever liked Offspring back then was purely because of that one song, which was really a Beatle song with "parental guidance" lyrics. How did they avoid a lawsuit on that one?

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in strange way the "back to back" of #9 & "Good Night" is awesome.

Ditto

@@cdog9559 The chaos of #9 is the perfect segue into Good Night. John knew exactly what he was doing when he sequenced them.

Love Piggies as it applies to children of today. "In there lives there's something lacking, what they need a damn good wacking!"

I'm particularly fond of John's songs and I agree.

John's songs on Revolver are the best too.

I think John was at his best during the White Album days!

The bass on Dear Prudence is beautifully simple... just perfect...

Truth

Side 4 😬

@@nbkarki side nine?

I thought it was a metronome?

@@Artic69 That's what I have heard also, but I've seen the film, and it does seem to be his foot tapping. It certainly always sounded like a foot tapping, to me.

@@ChrisMaxfieldActs in my opinion it sounds very accurate to the tempo so I personally think it’s a metronome but it’s also equally as likely to be his foot tapping.

me neither

Can't argue with that. Such a diversity of songs. Abbey Road still my #1.

Same here.

I was searing for this reply so I didn't repeat anything.

In fact, "Martha My Dear" was not about Paul's dog, but rather about his ex-girlfriend Jane Asher. Look at the lyrics more closely. Paul is hurt by her leaving him and says she will be sorry. But as usual with Paul's lyrics from this point on he uses the double meaning here and there.

I just read an interview with Prudence and she denies there was anything wrong with her. She laughed about how everyone (especially John, who probably just had the hots for her and wanted to spend more time with her and less with his wife Cynthia) was freaking out about her spending all her time meditating but her point was they went to India to learn to meditate so she was just using her time to accomplish what she was there to do. Other people would rather go entertain themselves, play guitars, smoke and have a drink.

Dear Prudence is my fav Beatles song... in fact, its on my top 10 songs of all time!

Donavon taught John how to Travis pick while in India, and from this you get the picking in Dear Prudence and Julia. The other thing that adds to the sound (atmosphere) in Dear Prudence is the drop d tuning. It's the first time I'd heard drop d tuning in a song, and thanks to this song I learnt how to Travis pick and use drop d tuning ! It's a great song lyrically too of course.

number 9 number 9 number 9

I bet Honey Pie didn't sound like the future in '68.

agree, especially Helter Skelter...I still think that's the first Heavy Metal song ever.

Like a lot of the Beatles music it sounds like then and now. I listen to the Beatles all the time and never get tired of it. And if you listen sometimes you are in the room with them.

I'm a "Baby Boomer" ( born in the 1950's ). Given that perspective, who is Adele or Ed Sheeran or One Direction ? And how could and why should they be compared to The Beatles ? There is no comparison. There's the Beatles - a light year gap of distance - and then the rest, struggling to be relevant. I haven't noticed ANY of the artists of the contemporary music era come close to the quality the Beatles had over FIFTY YEARS ago !

Thanks for sharing, the lead vocals sounded Elvis inspired to me but isee what you mean about the arrangement and general 'sound' of the song :)

@@CallMeCaroline oh my, I am thrilled to have your reply as I really think you stand out among many who comment of artists and songs as your ability to offer a professional and personal analysis that is at times disarming i.e. "while my guitar gently weeps" or enchanted i.e. "Blackbird", "ask me why" is so refreshing to watch. Hopefully you'll continue with the program onto other artist with whom you are unfamiliar. Beatles main rivals the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Dave Clark Five or even Bob Dylan could be interesting - there are others but not with as large a catalog other than the Stones and Dylan. If not familiar with David Bowie or Crosby Still Nash and Young songs that might worth pivoting to. Although not as revolutionary as the Beatles, David Bowie was really the next artist to be as novel and unique as the Beatles. Start with "Hunky Dory" then "Ziggy Stardust". Still hope you you'll give "This Boy" another listen for the vocal complexity - but really everyone has their favorites!

Back in the U..S.S.R. is a take-off of Chuck Berry's song Back in the U.S.A. There's a part of the song where Paul surreptitiously actually stops and sings 'Back in the U.S., Back in the U.S., Back in the U..S.S. R!' The Beach Boys famously 'stole' Surfin' USA from Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen, so there's another U.S.A. connection there. :)

@@gabriel38g absolutely and Paul and John were not shy about acknowledging that they'd "sampling" or "steal" > lots of Everly Brothers as well on other songs - a touch of Elvis in Paul's attitude but obviously all beach boys in chorus > Mike Love was with the Beatles in India while much of the white album was inspired _ Think Paul viewed Brian Wilson as a creative peer due to melodies and harmony arrangements with John a little more looking at Dylan as a force to be reckoned with.

@@CallMeCaroline The Beatles had gone to India and Mike Love of the Beach Boys was there and they talked about a re-write of Back in the USA (chuck berry) and California Girls by the Beach Boys some say its a homage some say its a mickey take (high background vocals etc) either way I love it and it's a great opener to the Album

Totally agree...it is a masterpiece of compositon!

Who’s responsible for making John’s songs so creative though. It was more Paul as he experimented a lot on John’s songs and John even said Paul ruined his songs like Strawberry Fields Forever with his experimentation. Paul did the tape loops for Tomorrow Never Knows and helped with the innovative drumming, the mellotron and other arrangement ideas in Strawberry Fields, the organ and vocal ideas for Lucy in the Sky, turned Come Together into a swamp groove from the 50s rock and roll style song John brought in, did many of the experimental things on A Day in the Life, etc.

That is a FANTASTIC remembrance. I got chills reading it.

You're 60?

@@lcommander631 I am. I turned 60 in March. My brother is 5 years older and sister is 3 years older so they were buying records by the time I turned 5. The first "new" album I remember my brother bringing home was Sgt Pepper and next was the White Album.

@@mst3ktemple421 that must have been such an experience.. sgt peppers was super different I unfortunately discovered the Beatles between 2020 and 2021. I always knew about them but never listened them. And then curiosity set in and i was obsessed. I thought they were overrated before, but now i think they are underrated lol

@@lcommander631 Its fortunate whenever someone gets to experience the Beatles. At any age in any year. I consider myself extremely fortunate that I got to enjoy them in real time. Having an older brother and sister helped because they were allowed to buy the records and share them with me. The first album I ever bought for myself was Let it Be.

I'm still waiting for her to say how shocking their growth is over a short period of time. I don't think she appreciates that fact.

it's almost like going from discovering fire to landing on the moon.

@@stanbrekston Good analogy. I agree!

@@analogblues And when you take a listen to what everyone else was doing at the same time each of these was released. They were really just blowing music wide open in every possible way.

@@analogblues she's still so young and I think that might be one of those things you grow to understand - once you have the perspective to really appreciate just how quickly time passes. it didn't properly sink in for me until i hit 30

Oh Cleon I'm so glad the video made you feel better!

followed by martha my dear, I'm so tired and blackbird the best 5 song segue in their career - IMO

Those posters! They moved with me many times.

@@J2HATMgoo Beatlesque is kind of a genre

@Robert The Beatles and the Rolling Stones sounded kind of the same. They both sang the same songs (I Wanna Be Your Man, Money) and their album covers were very similar (Sgt Pepper, Satanic Majesties), (White Album, Beggar's Banquet), (Rubber Souk, Between the Buttons)

@@bluepeng8895 Not really. The only real comparison is PEPPER and SATANIC MAJESTIES, but the former led directly to the latter, and psychedelic rock was a short phase for popular music, in general.

@Robert Both Badfinger and the Rutles sound like the Beatles. Of course the Rutles were trying to sound like them and Badfinger was on Apple Records and had various Beatles playing on, producing or writing songs on their records.

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Glass Onion, Wild Honey Pie and Don't Pass me By were not among the best to me, I Will was a sort of cuban bolero and Julia so sad

Yes Julia is sad cause it was a song written to/for John's Mom...Julia, who was killed by a drunk off duty policeman when Lennon was only 17.

You mean like the 5/4 in "Don't Let Me Down"?

@@d.harrison1570 That's a good example, though they have plenty of more experimental ones, such as the 11/8+4/4+7/8 or simply 26/8 section in Here Comes The Sun.

You have made an excellent, great point. It is so enjoyable the way they played with time signatures. I believe I read a comment from John Lennon where he said Happiness is a Warm Gun was his most complex song because of the many changes in the time signature. By the way, with that same comment, he recognized and thank Ringo for his job in this song, keeping with all those changes.

I think the most notable moment of this for me was in we can work it out, that song really opened my eyes about the beatles

@@joeygalateo5246 It does change to 3/4 from 4/4 briefly during the Bridge but that's about it. Not really much of an meter experiment.

Sadly, I note that Caroline didn't find a box of scrunchies in her stocking.

BOAC is now British Airways.

The kanji translation of Yōko (洋子) means "ocean child". - Wiki

@@michaelselfe5320 Yes, that is a brief reference to Yoko. I think he was establishing a connection from his natural mother to the new woman in his life (who he actually nicknamed "mother").

The specifics of how she died are even more horrific. It wasn't just a car accident - she was run over in the street. She was walking across the street from her house and John was home and he heard the screeching tires. Very traumatic for him at such a young age.

@@joe6096 by a drunk off-duty police officer 😞

I live 2 minutes from the bus stop Julia was killed at. Flowers are regularly left in her memory

It’s such an awesome song!!!

They're tripping 100%. It's a top 5 song of this album. I can see people thinking the beginning is too silly but it melts into the loveliest tune and redemption story. Forget 'em!

Love Rocky!

Who the hell doesnt like rocky? Morons

It did not mark the end of their collaborative work! Watch 'Get back". But it is true that all of them four became more individualistic at this time. That must not have been the end of the Beatles; the main reason for the breakup in 1969/70 was Allan Klein.

She should have reacted to the whole album Yellow Submarine before. They are like outtakes of Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour.

@@ricardo_miguel13 Yellow Submarine album came out after White and before the Get Back sessions.

@@JStarStar00 Yeah, but all the tracks are recorded in 1966/67/early 68.

@@JStarStar00 I know. But everyone wants to order Let It Be before Abbey Road too. The movie Yellow Submarine was made in between 1967 and 1968, you see it on their psychedelic clothes they were wearing at that time. So was the album. Only A Northern Song, All Together Now and It's All Too Much are from 1967, Hey Bulldog like Lady Madonna, The Inner Light and Across The Universe from early 1968. All recorded before the White Album.

I agree. She has a lot of positive energy! Certainly cheers me up when I watch.

I'm so glad these videos cheer you up! :) Thanks for watching and commenting

I particularly like how "Helter Skelter", the noisiest and loudest of all Beatles songs, is immediately followed by "Long, Long, Long", the quietest and most delicate of all Beatles songs in their whole discography. I also like how "Revolution 9", the most experimental of all of their tracks, is followed by "Good Night", which is possibly the most old fashioned and traditional of all of their songs, almost a Disney or a Bing Crosby song.

George Martin didn't sequence the album. It was John and Paul in one continuous 24 hour session.

Completely agree. In mono, Pepper is other worldly.

@@steveandrews5716 Mono ??? Ugh ! How could one audio channel be better or more expansive than stereo ? Technically it can't be. That's why the switch was made.

​​ @Graham Taylor It depend how you make the mixs... You have to remember that in the 60s, having a stereo music equipment was a kind of luxury, more for audiophiles listening at classical music and ready to speng enough money to have it... But the audience of the Beatles or other pop/rock bands was a huge part popular or young peoples who often didn't even had the money for a lp equipment, they listened music through radios who only played in mono, 45 rpm through juke-boxes or small 45rpm equipment that they could buy but that played only in mono, or the lp equipment of parents or friends who was not always stereo equipment... So even if they had an interest in stereo, the Beatles knew that the most widespread version of their music was the mono version, that's why it was the only mix that really interested them... Singles were only released in mono with stereo created after often for EP or LP compilations. For the LP's and singles, the Beatley participated only in the creation of mono mixes : in the case of Sergent Pepper, the mono mix is days of creation with the Beatles involved, and the stereo mix was just created after in few hours just by sounds engineers and the Beatles didn't quite care about it... They switched to stereo only in 1969 with Abbey Road, when stereo equipment began to be more widely used, but in fact even if the LP and its singles were mixed and released only in stereo, lot of listeners could only listen to the stereo mix in mono through radio or a non stereo equipment...

@@steveandrews5716 Hey Steve, So, you can obtain SP and MMT in Mono? Where can I get those LPs? To affirm, Mono LPs can be played on Stereo equipment and Stereo Speakers or do I need Studio Monitor Speakers? I have a couple of Mono Albums in my Stash (The Kinks Greatest Hits from the 60s as an example [I'm 70 yo}. I do have the Remastered CDs for Abbey Road, The White Album, and now Let It Be - they sound Fantastic !!

@@Flynn-dy5zv Thankyou for that detailed explanation Flynn ! Interesting.

Prince's performance was amazing!

Heavy metal..define.

@@gavinreid2741 IVE GOT BLISTERS ON MA FINGHERS!!!

@@gavinreid2741 I would think “Helter Skelter” would fall within the definition

Thing is, music hall and heavy metal aren't even the two extremes on this album.

@@SM-dt1pr Yes - need to add country and avant-garde as well.

Double albums count in the all time sale chart as two albums , so in reality albums such as the White Album and Pink Floyd's The Wall have only done half as well as they appear to have.

Isn't their best selling Sgt Pepper's?

@@cae2525 in the UK their best selling album is Sgt Peppers, in America it is The White Album. In the USA the compilation 1967-70 has also sold more than Sgt Peppers.

I love the idea that the White Album is the anti Sgt. Pepper. While Sgt. Pepper has a unifying concept and hasall the songs fitting together musically, the White Album is one of the most eclectic, varied albums you could imagine. Even the album covers are opposite: Sgt. Pepper has a bright colorful cover packed with people and details, but the White Album's cover is almost completely white. For various reasons, I think of Sgt. Pepper as happy and the White Album as angry (though in both cases there are different songs with different moods).

Sounds amazing, didn’t realise the base was vocal for a long time and I must’ve heard it 100s of times before I realised.

Somebody wrote once that I Will is a melodic remake of I'll Follow The Sun.

One of the night-night songs that I sang to my daughters at bedtime when they were growing up.

I Will has been my wife’s and my song for 35 years. The White Album is my go to album. The Esther tapes are awesome

Esher Tapes. Damn autocorrect

I have the feeling that Paul felt the urgence for standing out on John's and George's songs (suddenly George had become the third genius in the band), giving place to those iconic bass lines.

cool. yeah, an often overlooked one. :)

Souxie and the Banshees did a great cover

John contributed no harmonies, it’s just George and Paul. John only contributed organ, and maybe an electric 12-string that doubles the bass part during the bridges.

Eric didn't want to do it, another guitar player on a Beatles song BLASPHOMY, but George talked him into it. He said he tried to make it sound like a Beatles guitar solo. I was into him at the time from his Mayhall days and into Cream and his solo stuff and picked him out on first listen.

Should have kept the vinyl sealed. ^^

I was first waiting for Rubber Soul, and then Revolver, but I really want to hear her take on Abbey Road.

@@imkluu really all of their masterpiece albums tbh

I wonder what she’ll think of Yellow Submarine

The Beatles white album is my favorite

Like you, Abbey Road may be my sentimental favorite, but this album is the Beatles at their most creative.

Or put another way, if they weren't by John Lennon on a Beatles album they would never have been pressed. He was mostly phoning it in at this point, with the added drag factor of Ono feeding his ego rather than giving constructive criticism as the other Beatles did.

@@alanbeaumont4848 She was so irritating in the Get Back series. She was in every working session and was just a parasite on the set. Didn't she have some shopping or screaming to do somewhere else?

@@peterblood50 I can’t really put all the blame on her. John enabled her by letting her be there. He didn’t seem to give a damn about anything at that point, the world revolved around him and Yoko.

@@thesilvershining I agree with your assessment. It's kind of sad to see those two connected at the wrist and ankles like a couple of teenagers.

He what?….

I head into a sonic dream when I listen to this album. My favourite Beatles album….

Fair enough. But, IMO, you still need to take out Rev. #9, Wild Honey Pie and Don't Pass Me By. There's 13 minutes right there, roughly a single side. And you could prob. throw in Ob La Di etc., which would def. mean you're down to 3 sides only. So what to do? Look for more contenders to cut in order to make a long but fantastic single LP, or reinstate all the above to make it what is was, a great but deeply flawed album??? Just saying.....

@@thatsmrfuckwit The Beatles' (and G. Martin's) sequencing was impeccable from Sgt. Pepper right through to Abbey Road. I see the white album as the pinnacle of all that. It diminishes the experience to take individual tracks out of context Moreso here than any of the other albums, really. Sides 2+4 tend to come off as B-side material by design.

Don't forget Ringo's first solo album Sentimental Journey, so jazzy

We need this

... i always liked "ram" better than "mccartney." and i like "imagine" better than "plastic ono band." "julia" and "oh my love," i believe, are two of the best ballads ever written. to my ear they're very similar.

oh, and i always liked "apple jam." the "free" third album from "all things must pass." after all - its johnny's birthday!

@@cjmacq-vg8um I was referring to their very first solo albums cause at that time they were a great success among critics, audience and music papers, with positive feedback for all of them. The other album ones, mmm, more difficult to say the same, sometimes there was a good audience response only or a good critics response only and in other cases so and so. With their very first solo albums I was quite sure to go for a safe road in listening to them.

It wasn't the first double pop album. Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde was released in 1966, and a week later the Mothers of Invention's album Freak Out! was released. There were a couple of double Jazz albums released before this in the late 40's and in the 50's.

@@imkluu True. Even in 1968, Cream's Wheels Of Fire and Hendrix's Electric Ladyland preceeded The White Album. All three double albums went to #1 on the charts, I believe.

Probably this is 'the' album to listen to till its end without a break.

I’ve heard The White Album described as the first post-modern album of the rock era.

@@imkluu and there was a Brezhnev's party speech double album as well

She didn't compare it to Prog Rock influencers, she compared it to the music of the 80s.

This is also considered to be one of the top ten best Beatles songs by most critics.

It is so difficult to vote one song of this album at the best one. I like so many of them.

@@PeterBuwen My two favorites are Rocky Racoon and Long, Long, Long. But every song on this double album is good, except for Revolution #9.

@@michaelbailey6980 Yeah, I would say that it could do without Rev 9 as well as Honey Pie.

@@michaelbailey6980 if you would legally oblige me today to call one song the best on this album I would name 'Blackbird'. But I can't guarantee that I name a different song tomorrow.

It is too bad Paul has yet to release the experimental, avant-garde "Carnival of Light" that he made with them about a year before the White Album sessions. It was near 14 minutes long, and supposedly pretty crazy. It isn't found on bootlegs, and Paul tried to get it on the Anthology 2 album, but the other Beatles outvoted him, and so it has never been released. As of at least 2008, Paul has said he owned a tape of it, and has considering releasing it. He is proud of it because it shows his interest in the avant-garde before John's getting into it.

Or Wild Honey Pie

Don't laugh! I like Revolution 9 today after having overlooked it for years. On anthology 3 you can see why it is called 'Revolution' like the other track. It was iriginally the ending of the song.

Revolution #9 is the greatest dance song in my lifetime! Wild Honey Pie is the greatest love song ballad in my lifetime. Also, can I interest you in some swamp land I have for sale? Great price!

@@BladderProductions Depends on the price

'This is the bloody white album of the Beatles' as Paul McCartney once said.

Ambika, as an old Beatle Fan at 70 yo, and now like so many others , I have Resurged my interest into The Beatles (Get Back Movie and also Ron Howard's Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years), I have come to realize that Paul and John wrote different songs, However, as exemplified in Get Back, if either one of them made a single Musical Note or a single word contribution, they always published the songs as Lennon/McCartney and sometimes Harrison and Ringo. It seems that whoever sang the Lead , it was he who wrote the Majority of the song.

Totally agree with your point about their individual styles coming to the fore in this album. I've heard The Beatles characterized as four solo albums assembled into one (or maybe three-and-a-half solo albums if we're objective about Ringo's songs?).

Go on then, where exactly is John's sarcasm?

@@billythedog-309 John made fun of people in his songs.

@@ambikawolf664 Such as er..er and ..um. And if he did make fun of people that is hardly sarcasm, is it?

You're forgetting The Kinks, who carried a much deeper and stronger English Music Hall tradition well into the '80s.

Paul's father played trumpet, cornet, and piano. He was also the leader of a swing band, so Paul was also exposed to a large library of standards and show tunes growing up.

There's a lovely little comic aside about their eclecticism in the Howard Goodall documentary. Talking about Eleanor Rigby he says "this type of cadence is very common...in the 14th century!" (or words to that effect).

@@brianparker663 All I can say is "Amen" to that.

More than rock they be promoted love. Sounds cheesy but who doesn't love cheese? Love isn't silly, love isn't silly at all. Happy New Year people. I love all of you right now. Tomorrow? Who knows?

While My Guitar Gently Weeps was the B-side to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da in many parts of the world. But not England or the U.S.

Harrison had a hard time convincing the others to not only record his song, but to take it seriously. It took him bringing in Clapton for the guitar solos for them to really invest energy into the song, making it the timeless classic it is... The "demo" version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is also stunning. Just George on acoustic guitar, vocals, and minimal organ, plus an extra set of lyrics not found on the album release.

To me, it's the bassline that makes the song. All the other parts are great, too.

@@reinpost not to forget Paul's piano. Paul was always great in piano like he did in I Want To Tell You and Sexy Sadie (and also his mellotrone in Strawberry Fields Forever and lowrey organ in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)

@@kurniadi9829 You’re right, I can’t imagine any of those songs without the pianos/organ.

Martin still said that in his later years, I think to his death he thought "We could've made a VERY GOOD single album, rather than a double one..."

In fact there was an interview with John & Paul in early 65 and they comment on the fact George is starting to write songs. The interviewer Asks off hand if they think Ringo will write any songs. They jokingly say, "oh yeah, he's been working on one for years." "Isn't that right, Richie?" they yell across the room to Ringo who apparently wasn't paying attention. "Oh yeah," Ringo says. "Don't pass me by, don't make me cry," and they all laugh and say, "it needs more work."

Actually, it went back even further than that!! Starr mentions it in a 1964 interview (when asked if he'd written any songs) and biographer Mark Lewisohn says that Ringo first premiered it for the group right after he joined them, in August 1962!

Imagine working on a song that mid for 3 years

@@petterv6604 Yeah! Lol

And as Family Guy put it ' That's very nice Ringo. We'll put it up here on the fridge where everyone can see it'

Piggies are The Pigs, ie: Cops

@@danwall6662 that wouldn't make any sense. Pigs represent people with the "bigger piggies" being first class and the "little biggies" being lower/working class. Cops have nothing to do with it

@@danwall6662 Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts? You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt, I agree with you

@@TAJMofficial yes there is the Orwellian pigs who became the new overlords, replacing humans ( after the revolution in Orwells Animal Farm). Also, remember the Beatles were having awful trouble with a particular corrupt pig/police officer Sgt Pilcher, who was planting drugs on George, John and Yoko , Mick Jagger Brian Jones etc etc. That piggy Pilcher ended up in jail.

Caroline is the 5th Beatle n everybody knows its true...

I'm guessing because she likes the orchestration she won't like the White Album as well as the last two. It will be interesting to see what she thinks of Phil Spector's treatment of Let it Be and if she compares it to the Stripped Down remake....

I wonder what she'll think of Yellow Submarine

Looking at their abilities the Beatles became better and better with every album. 'Abbey Road', their last, was technically their best. The rest depends only on the personal taste of the public listeners. I wonder where they would have gone if they have not broken up. What for example would have the Beatles put aside 'The dark side of the moon'. I mean their voyage would have gone further.

That here is literally her "take on The White Album".

@@harrylazard805 Listening to this reminds me that there was still a lot of orchestration on the White Album. But that's not what Caroline is reacting to. At the end of this vid she seems clearly overcome at the sheer quantity of quality music. White Album really was their best.

You know what's weird? The first time I heard blackbird was years ago and I never noticed the click( tapping shoes, I didn't know!) ! haha which is why I pointed it out lol It's funny what we hear and what we miss sometimes.