George Harrison Responds to Ray Davies' Review of "Revolver" by The Beatles (1966) 

ego and jealousy, pure and simple.

The elephant swats the fly! 😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧

@@pse888 Exactly. Nostalgic cognitive dissonance is very real

He kind of sounds like Pete Townshend. Criticize everyone who has eclipsed you in popularity, influence and audience

@@jameshancock6455 Yeah agree, musicians like Townsend and Davies are great in their own right but always ruin it with their criticism & jealousy of other contemporaries.

Right on !!❤️

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream 🧖🏻‍♂️

It was a life changing album for me too in 1997 ! (ish)

My father loved revolver and that was in the late sixties he didn’t like rock n roll but them two Beatles albums revolver and soul he liked

Revolver was great..but.there was a ton of incredible stuff out there..

I have the pleasure of enjoying his whole career, for me, alongside Neil Young, the most prolific ever in Rock. There has never been somebody who can stay at his best forever

Eric's a wanker. Beck the better guitarist and most folks wouldn't stoop to make money off their dead kid by releasing tears in heaven. The tears in heaven were from laughter that who would leave a window open in a highrise with a toddler.?

@@wildman9922 you're the kind of person who would find Jeselnik's joke actually funny.

About 50 years ago!

The only thing that I have cared about Clapton is Cream. Besides that I never really cared about him and I guess I do care about Cream since it also has the great musicians Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker without whom Cream would be a much less interesting and enjoyable entity. He is a sort of "god" for the US "classic rock" format but after 1969 I tend to skip directly to the late 70s new wave and post punk scene and so I am well outside the tastes that appreciate his solo career. I also heard that at some point in the 70s he was supporting racist and xenophobic bullshit, that recently he released an anti-vaccine rant song and that he sued someone for owning a bootleg of his music. Terrible stuff. Makes me care even less about his music

DFB Well done mate. At least you haven't missed out on some truly great music. It's sad that many people will never listen to a Beatles album. They're missing so much but each generation to their own.

1992 here, I first heard "A Hard Day's Night" on the radio at about 6 or maybe 8 years old and asked my parents for a Beatles CD. Eventually got the "1" record. My first grown-up (not The Smurfs etc) CD, life-changing.

Same bro! Also born in 88 and fell in love with them at 15

@Home, Virgil, etc.. Welcome to the Club....

Dude! I was born in 87! And it was very similar for me. I was 14 and the first Beatles CD I bought was abbey road. And from there I couldn’t stop. It made me feel so good. And with every album I bought after (even With the Beatles and Beatles for Sale) I just fell deeper and deeper in love.

I credit Lennon for that ..

I agree that the overall sound of 'Rubber Soul' seems to be acoustic, but there are a fair amount of electric instruments used on there, too. And in terms off conventional instruments, don't forget that George's sitar made its appearance on 'Norwegian Wood', on 'Rubber Soul'. I do basically agree with you, though.

@@drutgat2 dident Georges sitar make an appearance on revolver. Love u too

Another growth spurt. Instead of remaining "one" sound, the Beatles "evolved" by experimenting/creating/exploring new sounds. Rubber Soul graduated into Revolver which, in turn, graduated into their careers of masters of their time!

More so than John it was Paul who was the experimenter for REVOVER. George saved John's song, SHE SAID SHE SAID by coming up with the electric guitar riffs when he walked in during John attempting to get the right form and sound for this song. George should have been credited as co-writer. John became more experimental after Revolver.

Thanks!

Newspaper archives are good.

Hear Hear!!

They're so good

Hell yes! To much its great sh'...t. } :)-√ )~

Phil Collins's version is far better.

Always thought hendrix should have covered that song

@@crusadeagainstgreedyentert4865 + Oh please, you voted for Brexit, didn't you?

WTF! You've never heard the 801 Live version?

David lee Roth also covered it, calling it "That beatles song" a number of years back, I never heard his cover and i can hardly imagine what he did to it. maybe it's weirder then She trinity's cover of yellow submarine.

I did and I still dig corduroy n velvet colors Mods are still alive and well. The 60's was best for sure

Yes the sixties had more in common the the 1920's than the 2020's. I found the 1980's to be my 1960's. Not for all the commercial music but the underground scene with the evolution, of punk, metal, hip hop, etc. It also depends on your age at the time. Like Eric Clapton said about the peak years. Although I thought 27 was the peak.

@@kabiam Yeah and the nineties were more like the Seventies.

A@@kabiam that's a choice you make for yourself every year just gets better with me

@@michaelsena7445 Including the last couple years? Can't say it's been the best time ever.

Yes. I've always said Dylan could sing the phone book. Lennon and McCartney could do it too, though maybe more like the newspaper, being for the benefit of Mr. Kite.

Yes, they were also correct about Yellow Submarine, I was at primary school in the early 70s and we were already singing it along with a piano. It has since continued to be sung by children around the world as one of the first singalong songs they ever learn. That is an incredible thing for a rock band to achieve. It is part of the reason The Beatles are a part of the DNA of everyone that loves music.

Dammit! Now I've got that song in my head! "We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow subm..."

​@@Rugmunchersauce3 the circus called, said they want you back

Black Lace though!

Probably a bit of artistic or personal insecurity at play on Ray's part. He was what, 22 at the time? I'm sure he feels differently now

@@anthonycrawford9873 He is still insecure with an overinflated ego.

Classy! I think Harrison is being snarky here, and not for the first time! He was obviously ticked that Ray Davies was critical of some of the tracks on Revolver, and yet he was critical of the Hollies version of his own If I Needed Someone. If your'e going to throw bricks George, you must expect some back!

I don't know why he said that. You really got me😁

@@archiefury You might be right in your thoughts but I cant detect him being snarky in what was read out. George sounded respectful of Ray's views and concilliatory to me.

I think Rev and Rub Soul are the Beatles best 2 albums. One would struggle to change my mind. Pepper was disappointing after all the hype, Abbey Road a bit dirgy and Let it Be was meh, White album was generally all over the place with one or two [not enough] good ones.

REVOLVER wins. Rubber Soul 2nd

@@octavius8562 Cos the Beatles gave value 4 money they did not have many singles as album tracks. I was expecting the Pepper tracks to be up there with PennyLane/Strawb Field. I confess I can't recall the tracks much on Let it Be. Need to revisit to be objective. Used to love Abbey but it don't rock me much now. White has a few/not enuff gooduns.

Love the Beatles (Revolver, Rubber Soul, SPLHCB, White Album) but I’d take the Kinks any day if it was one or the other. Kinks Kontroversy, Something Else, TKATVGPS, and Arthur easily stand side by side with the best the Beatles had to offer. Both were insanely influential on the future of music. Ray Davies was just as good of a songwriter as John and Paul. He just didn’t get the notoriety and respect back then. Dave Davies was an amazing guitarist who could hold his ground with George any day. I have intense love and respect for the Beatles, but the Kinks deserved better. They were absolutely unfairly cut out from the mainstream success that the Beatles enjoyed and still managed to put out of some the most important, timeless music to ever be released. Absolute champions and I stand by that. The Kinks will always have a special place in my heart and that’s why I choose them over the Beatles, even though I love the Beatles as well and recognize their importance/accomplishments.

​@@allbottledup9513 nah. Only Village green is really a good album

I know Aretha Franklin released covers of Eleanor Rigby and Let It Be on "This Girl's In Love With You" (1/15/1970) and Barbra Streisand released covers of A Little Help from My Friends, Honey Pie and Goodnight on "What About Today" (7/1969)...

Ya, but trying to beat the Beatles release to be first to hit the airwaves is just wrong on many levels! I didn’t know they were covered like that! It’s one thing a couple years later someone liked a song and put their own spin on it to waiting and panting for John and Paul to let scraps fall off the table so the dogs could lick it up. Wow!

in Shakespeare's day people would go into the plays and literally remember as many of the lines as they could and then come out and write out the play to publish it as a "Quarto" edition--quarto meaning that the page had been folded into four and would be relatively small (and cheaper to produce). Hamlet had 2 separate quartos published that are very different from each other. Shakespeare never published his plays in his life time, but members of the acting company did 7 yrs after his death--to set the record straight. The Beatles, it seems, were the Shakespeare of their times.

@terrythekittie "Yesterday" was the song with the most covers ever in the mid 1970s. It's still true today.

@@AC-gw4qu They certainly were. Shakespeare's work is still being performed 400 years later. If the human race survives, I expect the same will be true for the Beatles. Who will remember most of those other bands who copied them?

Haha. Yeah. Off by at least four decades.

Yes, there's no need to stop once the mojo calms down. There are other avenues, such as heroin addiction, alcoholism, and even clean and sober.

@@OuterGalaxyLounge haters will hate... Due to their own personal lack

@@OuterGalaxyLounge I would love to see the summary of your accomplishments when you turn 70. But it is much easier getting old if one never accomplished anything in the first place.

Exactly.

He should have packed it in before 461 Ocean Boulevard.

@@geneobrien8907 Before Blind Faith.

@@389383 I liked BF

Thanks God, we have been able to enjoy one of the largest and best musical careers in rock, from somebody who has been a pioneer musician, a introductor of the blues for many people, then an - excelent- singer, then a more than good composer, a band leader, a musician who almost never gave up touring extensively, who was involved in different bands and proyects, and always in his band surrounded by THE BEST MUSICIANS in the world

All great in different ways, but my favorite combo is probably And Your Bird Can Sing followed by For Noone.

I think it's one of those cases of 'apples and oranges'. The Beatles just kept growing and getting better during their time on the planet. I think everything up to and including the white album were wonderful.

It is one of my favorites. My two faves are Help and Revolver.

In fact every single song on side 1 of Revolver was the best or well-known song of The Beatles, this is just...LEGEND!

The most ground breaking,

"Face to Face" is one of my all-time favourite albums.

bands like three dog night became huge by covering other people's material

It was standard practice in the US back in the thirties and forties for multiple versions of the same song to chart at once. Never realized it happened in the sixties in the UK.

The same thing happened with Something.

@@brianthomas2434 happened in the states too. with rock and roll, it was usually white acts covering songs put out by black artists.

@@thewkovacs316 and in the 50's I think some of these white artists' covers outsold the black originals even though they were pale copies. Pat Boone covering Little Richard comes to mind

Thanks!

@@theyrekrnations8990 Acid is groovy, kill the pigs.

The lead guitar on Taxman was McCartney...

@@michaelmakes1225 yeah, George apparently wasnt too happy about that, but he was taking too long to come up with his lead part so McCartney quickly did it on the behest of G Martin, their producer. McCartney was also the original lead guitarist for the Beatles until bassist Stu Sutcliffe's untimely death.

Far out

@@weeooh1 Not 100% accurate there on the Taxman solo (and fade-out); It was the same solo George was playing, but he simply wasn't playing it well that day. He told Geoff Emerick he would come back and do it the next day. After everyone had left, Paul asked Emerick if he could stay while he (Paul) had a crack at it. Paul nailed the solo in one take. Just FYI, George Martin wasn't even in that day. (from Geoff Emerick's book "Here, There, and Everywhere").

This was totally a backhanded swipe-- Davies had definitely met the Beatles by then, but George is saying he doesn't remember him.

@@garrettramirez428 I don't see it that way. I think he really meant it, and by "know them" he meant at a personal level. Because they all obviously know each other, Beatles and Kinks played together more than once in the early days.

I just don't think Davies wrote enough great songs to be comparable to Lennon and McCartney.

@@adammartin7007 Well, I actually think Ray's very underrated. I don't say It's your case, but a lot of people who think that, don't even listen more that the Kinks' hits, and It's like judging The Beatles by listening Yellow Submarine.

@@adammartin7007 How many is enough.... He definitely wrote as many great songs but they did not become as well known. In my mind at least, he is on par and I prefer his body of work over that of the Lennon and McCartney, though I know it is just a matter of personal opinion. I also to an extent think his songs are not so overplayed and that is a factor too.

...and Option B is to just play their recordings - ain't nothing better ever been made.

Well.......I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsey, but I changed my mind.

I grew up in the 60s in continental Europe and never heard about these covers. So no need to be a self-deprecating American. I assume these covers were strictly British phenomenon. I never heard about these performers either. I don’t think I missed much.

The Helio Sequence did a great cover of that song. Superb band from Oregon, US.

Soaromor.....yes they did 😊😊

Phil Collins did a version on Face Value

Chemical Brothers based their whole career on TNK, and covered it in concert.

Junior Parker did a killer cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows," which the Chemical Brothers used to play as the intro music at their concerts.

Thank you, glad you liked it!

I liked the comment about the pensioners going for it. My father, who was born in 1925, though no pensioner at the time, didn't much notice pop music by that time, but he asked for it for his birthday and my mother was horrified when she heard it. They both liked "Elenor Rigby", however.

yellow submarine is a sub level garbage beatles song so Ray Davies was correct on that one. IMO

I agree, people read too much into what he said. He was mainly puzzled about what their audience was now because of the varying styles, it would have been hard to workout the identity/style of the group now. Some of that is because of the divergent paths of the songwriters.

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles is bad enough. That girl group singing it? Horrendous! Ray Davies was spot on. It's rubbish.

Tin Solider Man is just as trite as Yellow Submarine and not nearly as good of a song.

You might be right.

Clapton got obsessed with JJ Cale

@@aisle_of_view I never heard that. It was funny how Clapton could write a few good songs but couldn't do it consistently. Layla and Bell Bottom Blues were exceptional. Tears in Heaven and Wonderful Tonight were pretty sappy and banal.

Thank you very much! Really appreciate your words. Happy New Year!

@@YesterdaysPapers I agree. Congrats and we want more! Thanks for the effort

@@pabloperez4063 Thank you, Pablo!

Sadly not. Like most pop musicians, he carried on way past his peak, getting worse and worse and worse :)

@@blackmore4 Tbf he made an honest attempt at ODing in his late 20s

And, I'm glad that he didn't, or I wouldn't have got the opportunity to see him live. He kicks ass in concert!! Saw him as a solo artist after Journeyman, the Cream reunion in 2005 in NYC, and with Winwood in 2009, for a sort of Blind Faith regrouping. Each of these three shows were pure magic. I don't give a flying f*** what Clapton said back in the '60s. I was too young to follow that stuff back then, anyway. I'm just eternally grateful that he didn't 'pack it in'. I don't get all the negativity. He's awesome!

Not even close

Yes this is the coolest channel on the internet. I feel like I'm in a time machine every time I check it out!!

I actually heard it a couple of days ago when I was making this video and I agree, it's a brilliant cover. I read that even Paul McCartney said it was one of his favourite Beatles covers.

@@YesterdaysPapers It was released in the UK on the Warner Bros label but sank without trace and is very hard to find. I have a very good friend who's a lot older than me and has an original UK copy. He's bequeathed me his record collection when his time comes - but please don't think I'm willing his demise!

Face To Face is a masterpiece.

67-8 The Kinks were a genuine rival.

The Kinks released 'The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society' on the very same day that the Beatles released the self-titled 'White Album', and while I love the White album to bits, Village Green is just super-special to me -- I even had Ray Davies sign my vinyl copy when I saw him live in 1995. If I was forced to keep just one of the two albums, it'd be the Village Green every time. Then there's 'Arthur', 'Face to Face', 'Lola vs Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt 1', 'Muswell Hillbillies'... even 'Something Else' is always better than you remember it. The Kinks were a great album band too. Of course they couldn't ultimately compete with the Beatles, nobody could, but Ray Davies handled virtually all of the writing duties by himself. The Beatles had three writers.

The kinks are England and the Beatles are the world

@@NewFalconerRecords what does Australia have in common with the UK? That was colonialism at its best.

.. for a good reason.

Clapton = God = Green? Or...Clapton is Green?

Hahaha! It's funny you mention that because I instantly thought about The Shaggs when I heard the She Trinity's cover for the first time.

sounded pretty good to me

@Outer Galaxy Lounge: If the She Trinity were teasing then The Shaggs would have been full-on perverted, and you know it! 😄

The 2014 mono sounds great too

"Rain" is my fav. Beatles song

@@mattiassvanberg8292 Mine too.

Totally I agree about Rain. Sadly the British record industry in the sixties kept singles and albums separate. I find this irritating since Rain is my favorite Beatles song (Ringo's favorite as far as his drumming is concerned) but the only way I can own it is by buying the single or a greatest hits compilation, neither of which I buy. Rain belongs on the Revolver album, it is very similar to Lennon's other songs of the period. At least, EMI could have included it as a bonus track on the CD version.

@@markhunter8554 Yeah. It's irritating. Because of that I wasn't even aware of "Rain" my first years as a Beatles fan, since I only heard the albums, and this was late 90's, early 00's, right before you could hear and look up about everything on the internet.

He's still "packing in" 20,000 fans into arenas...speaks well for him don't you think? ;)

Clapton is his own biggest fan

@@gmb858 I´d say that does not speak well for humanity.

@@hv1225 Nice.

@@hv1225 why...because he has the stones to voice his opinion despite woke snowflakes trying to cancel him?

The voice over is 🤢🤢🤢

George had the patience of a saint. Bless him.

It wouldn't be too much later that George got the last laugh, as All Things Must Pass, was better received than McCartney.

@@waynej2608 10 times. "All things..." and "Bangladesh..." were George, s revenge... The most epic revenge in rock history

@@pabloperez4063 and yeah those who shit on George's guitar playing listen to the guitar duel between Clapton and Harrison at the end of While my guitar gently weeps at the Concert for Bangladesh. Clapton was stoned as fuck so it fell unto George to carry it and he did it beautifully

Oh give their momentary working "beefs" a rest...Paul & George were mates since grade school. The love & friendship they had superseded any pettiness and animosity they had in the studio

Get Geoff Emerick's book, Here, There and Everywhere. He was the Engineer for many of the Beatles recordings. From what I gathered from the book, Emerick was not very impressed with George Harrison as a Lead Guitarist. I think he referred to his playing as "Ham Fisted" on occasion. On the other hand, Paul McCartney was starting to play more of the Leads on his songs, as well as John's, by the time they were recording Revolver. Paul's took the Solo on Taxman because George was having too much trouble coming up with something to play. I believe Paul also came up with the Solo for And Your Bird Can Sing. He was becoming a much better Guitar Player than George, largely because George was more interested in Eastern Music than Western and also because George didn't "Work" at his craft, meaning he didn't practice his Guitar playing. There is no doubt that Paul McCartney was a more gifted Musician than both John and George and probably why he started to "Take Over" the studio sessions from Pepper onward.

​@@carlweaver3243 I've read Geoff Emrick's book and agree with 100% on everything you said. Add to that John Lennon had taken some pretty hard licks from the media and the backlash over his off-hand statement of being more popular that Christ. I think when he made that comment that he saw something out of kilter in British culture that wasn't necessarily good. But, that interpretation didn't resonate and John didn't have the fortitude to explain himself fully which I think bothered him immensely. What it did was kill his interest in the Beatles and being a "pop star." He wasn't happy in his marriage, may not have been mature enough or emotionally equipped to be a father and longed for a more bohemian existence. He found it in Yoko. Lennon's dive into LSD left him intoxicated on psychedelics. When he took his eye off the ball and abandoned his leadership role with the Beatles, Paul, with the stronger talents and drive to continue, filled the vacuum. Reviewing the first 4 albums by the Beatles, they belong to John Lennon. You can see the driving force at play. The cross over probably occurred with "Tomorrow Never Knows." From that point forward, the tone of the Beatles' songs flowed eventually into the Wings catalog after the breakup. It's been said that George Martin signed the Beatles because of Paul McCartney's potential. Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records said he signed Cream because "I got Eric Clapton." I'm not saying the two music men had the same motives or that Martin's assessment was as clear Ertegun's in his instance. But, on the surface, Paul had more lyrical experience under the influence of his father and could play a wider range of instruments than John did. And, it appears that George Martin and Paul had the same thought pattern and had a natural inclination to collaborate with each other. In a nutshell, the two got along better and liked each other. I saw a video clip of Ringo saying that Paul had the work ethic. He related that he was at John's house one day when the phone rang. It was Paul telling the guys that it was time to get back to work. "I don't think we would have put out any of the later stuff if Paul hadn't pushed us," Ringo said in effect. George was never an "entertainer." John had the spark doused by the Jesus comment. Paul WANTED to be an entertainer. He was a show-off that wanted to be a showman... and he did it in spades. The motivation, the drive, was either not in character with George or, like John, got lost in the LSD trips and the constant haze of smoke from expensive weed. Either way, McCartney's influence turned into McCartney's dominance. It turned off the others completely to the point of hatred. Yet, John is said to have been talking about the next record after Abbey Road when the split between Allen Klein and Paul's father in law Lee Eastman occurred. The last resort was Paul going to court to negate the contract that Klein had negotiated, and in the process, broke up the Beatles. McCartney's influence will be felt and talked about more simply from the volume of work and his longevity. John Lennon will always be feted as the patron saint of Rock & Roll. Emblematic of his generation, his life was cut short from misunderstanding and from a form of madness. That mark may have more cultural impact than his work could say on its own. We'll have to leave that to future generations to decide although the Beatles are slipping from contemporary culture into the history books every year.

Incredible not incredulous.

I would say incredulous was a fair word to use. If you listened to Tomorrow Never Knows for the first time, at the time it was released, you would have a feeling of incredulity listening to John Lennon recite part of the Tibetan Book of the Dead through a megaphone when just 3 years earlier they were a boy band. Incredible is also a good word, though.

@@garethjenkins6273 It's the wrong word. The fact that you used a paragraph doesn't make it correct.

@sirharryflash82 I think I am using the correct words to describe you - condescending, pedantic that.

Haha, predictive text - twat, not that.

It’s tempting to mock him yeah. Or to call Pete Townshend a hypocrite for saying “Hope I die before I get old”, but people change don’t they? When they said those things, they were riding the wave of youthful arrogance. So I can’t say I blame them.

Maybe he didn't sense it. Most people did, though.

@@daviddechamplain5718 haters did. People who can't understand music

And why should he? Many people still love what he does and buy his stuff to this day. They enjoy it and would be glad he didn't quit as he got older. Anyone who thinks he should have quit don't have to listen to him, do they?

My two favorite. Both miles better than Pepper imao.

@@markhunter8554 I agree with both of you. I also rate the White Album and Abbey Road higher than Pepper. But I think Pepper is vaunted because of a) the effect it had at the time; and b) the musical and production techniques, which were technically masterful.

801 with Brian Eno covered Tomorrow Never Knows in the 1970's Has a jazzed out funk feel, not the fierce magic of the original.

It’s on my list to checkout too!

The Mirage did some amazing tunes of their own, check out "The Wedding Of Ramona Blair" for one. Dee Murray (Elton John band) really to the fore on the vibrato bass.

At the risk of sounding smug, I could've told you so. Call me crazy, but I Always prefer The Beatles, to do The Beatles. I'm ok, with a few covers, i.e. Ray Charles, Joe Cocker et al, but at the end of the day, you can't go wrong with the originals, esp the more John Lennon ones, like Tomorrow Never Knows. Cheers.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Happy New Year!

He wasn't down on The Beatles in his book.

It is kinda creepy.

Yep. They turned a dreadful Beatles song into an even more dreadful Beatles cover version.

Happy New Year, Kat!

@@YesterdaysPapers 🤗🤗🤗

And coming from a friend

@@pabloperez4063 OH, YES! Eric, George, and Patty were very close friends.

You can spot soy boys nowadays even more easily than before: they love Clapton bashing even more than they do cuck porn

Codswalop. Great word.

@@lightningstrikes7314 I'd rather bash you if you know what I mean ?

No, it was rated highly in the U.S. in the '60s.

"I hope I die before I get old." The foolishness of youth.

@@JonFrumTheFirst I say it now that I am 55

Exactly, it's all about the context. Not sure why tf, there's all this Clapton bashing. I, for one, am thrilled that he, and other similar rock artists, have stayed around, to enjoy all these years. After all, 'tomorrow never knows'.

When Eric "came back" in 1974 with 461 Ocean Boulevard and extensive touring, #1 and sold out arenas, R Stigwood said "I think he has got power to keep on making music for at least 5 years"... 5 years was from 65 still yard birds to Layla. Quite a long time!! Years happened very slooowly in the 60,s (as when you are at school, and every year is a big piece of life). Nobody could ever imagine in those years that those musicians could be playing 10 or 15 years later... Let alone 55, as in Eric, s case, who must be rehearsing now for his upcoming European tour (if pandemonium allows... 😔

Reminds me of my parents not letting me buy jeans in the 60’s because they were certain it was just a fad. 😂🤣😂

I agree with Clapton the most prolific period is when the bands are fresh and young. It would be hard to experience good success and fame and then just quit though. Anyway music can be played at all ages

You must understand the the rally cry in the 1960's was "don't trust anyone over 30." There was a distinct "gulf" between the 1950's "greasers" and the "greatest generation" that fought WWII who were our parents, and teenagers in the 1960's. People over 30 wore business suits, designed elaborate plans for fighting in Vietnam which kids born after WWII were sent to fight. They drafted us, cut our hair off and put us under the tyranny of a profane drill instructor. So, for all intents and purposes, you could no longer be "cool" after you turned 30. You became "one of them." Childish? moronic? Yes and yes... and more... but as Cheech and Chong relayed to us, "only dopes use dope." Weed drove a lot of perception in the 1960's.

@@conssuckballs Well, after Marmalade’s version already reached the charts, the Beatles probably had no reason too release the single.

And the new Get Back documentary shows this, scenes where Paul is directing Ringo as to how the drumming could be done. A lot of people hate McCartney for that, but to me it comes across as him just giving his 100% input to try to make the songs as good as can be. It wasn't Paul being too bossy imo, but the others being too laid back about the recordings

As far as I know, Ringo made up all his own drum parts. He said "I just tried to be as creative as I could." Paul was never "You must play THIS like THIS" unless he had a certain thing in mind for one of his own songs. Like for "Hey Jude" he did not want the guitar to come in until later, and George didn't like that. The song does work better that way--Paul knew what he was doing. Ringo said years later in an interview that (at the time) it annoyed them all how knowledgeable Paul was and how pushy he could be, but then he said "it usually always turned out Paul was right."

Well, jeez, with a mammoth talent like Macca doing everything, I don't know why they even bothered to keep Lennon around! /s

Thank you, Bryan! Glad you liked it. Enjoy those recordings by She Trinity. I think they actually had a couple of minor hits back then.

@@YesterdaysPapers The original members of She Trinity, Robyn Yorke, Shelley Gillespie and Sue Kirby, were Canadians who came to England around 1965. way to go Canada

You can always spot the soy boys nowadays even more easily than before: they love Clapton bashing even more than they do cuck porn

Paul didn't tell George what to play, just when not to, if it was his song. George played what he wanted, unless there was a specific idea he wanted to get across. You can listen to hours of audio of them doing demos, and I never hear Paul tell George how to play something.

1966 was the first great year of Rock albums.