George Harrison - When We Was Fab 

no cgi was used in this video, george could just naturally do that

I love how Ringo is always there to help out with the other lads while they go along with their solo careers. From John's tracks, to Paul's film, to George's music video and live concerts. He's always so chill with the other lads.

George’s love letter to his big brothers. ❤

George Harrison is one celebrity that I generally miss. People don't realize that it was an entire genre of music we lost when we lost him. I would do anything to have him back.

Interviewer: What was the best thing about being in the Beatles? Ringo: Having three brothers.

Ringo in an interview tells the story of visiting George who was dying of lung cancer. He was bedridden, very weak. Ringo visited for a couple of hours and then told George he had to go see a friend who needed him. George looked up and said in a whisper "Do you want me to go with you?" Ringo said he left and once outside he burst into tears. Such an emotional interview. RIP George..you are so missed 😇❤

George was the underrated Beatle. I'll always love him. RIP.

Thank you Jeff Lynne (ELO) for making this reunion possible and for your fabulous contribution in producing the last 2 songs ever by the Beatles. Also thank you for producing and co-writing for the last 3 Beatles individually on their solo albums and the same for so many great Legends including the Traveling Wilburys.

Love that ringo was there

Ringo is the one constant in their careers. God bless him. Rest you, George.

This is a masterclass in songwriting. Absolute perfection.

To me this is basically the best Beatles reunion we ever got. This song is great.... It's a timeless piece for sure.

The fact that Ringo carries both sides of the piano brightens your day

I want a relationship like George's and Ringo's one.

The older I get. The more I realise that George was the best beatle.

My favorite thing is the ending, when George's signature Indian sound takes over, at the same time George parallels a Hindu Deity with many arms, and he finally lifts up his feet in a lotus position and floats in the air. This is just so George, I love it.

When George say "Long time ago when we was fab" with his costume of the Sgt. Pepper cover makes me want to cry

2:00 the fact that John Lennon’s album makes a cameo and George saying “ the microscopes had magnified the tears” makes this even more touching and emotional

This song is very special. I love the darkness and melancholy. It's a new Beatles song...what a talent.

"But it's all over now baby blue". I don't know why, but when I hear George sing this line, it brings me to tears. Again, I have no idea why.

Marvel: "Infinity war is the most abitious crossover event in history" Me: shows them ,video*

George always wrote deep songs.

Jeff Lynne (ELO) +George Harrison=FAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I look at that pic of George standing with his guitar case outside of his house in Liverpool and wonder if he had any clue of the wealth of material he and the others would create. I suspect he thought as he looked out the window of his house that he knew something greater awaited him and it did. Thanks for sharing. George’s music lives on.

This sounds so much like an original Beatles song. Now I realise how much George actually influenced the Beatles and their songs

George was, and still is, fab, and he always will be fab

This song makes me nostalgic for a time before I was born, and a life I never had.

George’s all songs have so much heart and soul in them, it is breathtaking. He was a magnificent artist and very special soul. This song makes me happy and sad at the same time, his power to manipulate and channel emotions with music was insane. He was and always will be fab.

Anyone else notice how chill awesome and goofy Ringo was in this video?

I remember loving this song as a kid, hearing that he used to be in a band and thinking “I should check out his old band.”

The part where Elton John puts coin into the Beatles' jar has me crying every time. How true, how true it is.

Thank you Jeff Lynne (ELO) for reviving George's solo career.

RIP George Harrison. One of the greatest musicians in history. May he live a wonderful life in Heaven.

3:27 George Harrison didn't pass away he merely ascended

Happy 80th birthday George!

This is one of those rare jams that slaps immediately out of the gate without needing to build up. Just launches you right into a ride of your life

John Lennon's cameo: 2:03 - John on the picture ("Imagine" album's back cover). Paul McCartney's cameo: 2:01 - Walrus on left-handed bass (reference to "Glass Onion": ,,The walrus was Paul'') 2:07 - Paul McCartney lookin' right on his old bandmates (this distorted guy).

George Harrisson misses The Beatles for 3 minutes and 57 seconds straight

George was such an underrated song writer, even by John and Paul. He loved them none the less. George was peace, love, laughter, happiness and spirituality personified. RIP George. Jamming with John in the great gig in the sky. You were all, and still are FAB! Rest in Paradise George and John. Jaya Sri Krishna Syam Bhagavan 🙏🏼 🌈 🕉

Good friend Jeff Lynne appearance shouldn’t go unnoticed

This song is sad,happy,psychodelic,nostalgic,epic at the same time

I think this confirms that the Beatles really loved each other as true brothers, having been through both heaven and hell as a unique body. George and Ringo were especially close, but even with Paul's need to be out front and John's mercurial jabs at the Beatles as a group and as individuals, the true bond of love was present. Ringo is just a lovely man, while Paul is the tireless performer. John was the barometer of them all, and George was the quick witted, clear thinker, without a "candy coating". I love the Beatles, and I love Ringo, John, George and Paul as individuals.

Can always count on Ringo to be the guy……he is special and is the coolest of all. As great as this masterpiece truly is, it is just as sad……the Fab Four actually changed the world…..and they are missed, more than anyone can imagine.

The Pepper suit still fits. 😎

Ringo always seems like such a super cool dude to be around and have as a friend. Love that he shows up in songs with George, Paul, and even Tom Petty over the years.

Why do I usually end up in tears when I listen to George's work? I'm listening away happily, then the tears just well up. I feel happy and sad at the same time. Not just this tune. So many others too.

George and all of the Beatles were and always will be ‘FAB’

Harrison was amazingly talented at creating a spiritual/mystical vibe to his music.

One of the catchiest pop songs to have such an unusual chord progression. Love it.

Thank you, Jeff Lynne, for producing George and reviving his career.

Song still gives me chills. Bittersweet but beautiful.

It's been long enough now that this song effects me on two levels... The first level is realizing that for him at this time the FAB days were well behind the Fab Four. The second level is more personal for me and it's realizing I'm way past the point I was in my life when this came out in the 80's. George always put so much meaning behind his lyrics. He is missed.

'Long time ago when we was Fab'... not as long ago then, as this song is to us now. The Beatles were 17 years away from this song, and this song is 38 years away from 2019....

I would have a heart attack if I saw George Harrison playing on the sidewalk

My local radio station had a great weekend playing Beatles songs with solo works too and I had not heard this since I was a youngster, this is a masterful song! Much love to your light, loving soul sweet George Harrison.

Jeff Lynne's ELO sound is all over this underappreciated classic, which isn't a bad thing.

2:03 is the closest we’ve ever got to having all 4 beatles with each other

George was an amazing song writer and musician and his legacy will never fade away

george harrison was the best

I saw Ringo and screamed

I am not ashamed to admit I CRIED LIKE A BABY WHEN GEORGE HARRISON PASSED AWAY......I'M SURE I WAS ONLY ONE OF BILLONS OF PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

This and Free As A Bird gives me chills

Every Beatles fan learns that George was every bit the equal of John and Paul in talent.

Miss you George.

I love the way this songs incorporates all the stylistic riffs of the Beatles, you can hear "I am the Walrus", Eleanor Rigby, and many, many others, "Within you, without you" at the end with the sitar riff.

This song still plays on the radio sometimes, where I work. R.I.P George, we still miss you.

Great George song! Must appreciate the big work of Jeff Lynne here. Background voices (first 7 seconds he is singing, not George), all arranges, sound of Ringo's drums. Jeff is the 6th Beatle. Deep contributions on Anthology. Beatles deserves the Eternal Flame of Glory.

1:03, you can see that George tried to mask a smile there

That is Jeff Lynne on the violin @ 1:44. Jeff Lynne, master of all instruments. The man not only wrote, but produced, sang, and played all of the instruments in many of ELO's biggest hits. He's a legend. Sorry, I'm no taking anything away from George Harrison, a LEGEND in his own right.

One of favorite 80s songs 🎵 what a great decade for entertainment 👏

This was the best song George ever did,IMO. The cello is amazing. Then it turns to his sitar days!

I love when he changes into his Sargent pepper outfit When we was fab

He basically continued the Beatles style

George - the emotional heart ❤‍🩹 and real gentle man of the Beatles

Jeff Lynne took the George Martin sound and progressed it into the 80s/90s perfectly.

This song speaks to me in a literal and spiritual sense

George loved the Sgt´ Pepper´s uniform or something xD

You STILL fab. ♥♥♥♥

holding my newborn and dancing to this in '87, realizing I'm older, that Beatle melancholy feeling going through my mind wishing it was 20yrs earlier. That was 35 yrs ago. MAN, don't blink

Me: *sees Ringo in the video* Holy shi- he got Ringo in the video- Me: *also sees Elton* HOW!?

“When We Was Fab” so eerily recreates a Beatlesque mélange of sounds that you’d swear it was a Magical Mystery Tour outtake. When Harrison decided upon pursuing the track, it helped that he had a kindred spirit in the producer’s chair in Jeff Lynne. “I just had the thought, ‘I’d like to write a song that’s reminiscent of that period of ’67,’” Harrison recalled in an interview from that time. “In my head, I could hear Ringo counting it in, ‘One-two duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-dum-dum.’ And I just started right there writing that song, and then Jeff was around and we got out this piano and we came up with all these little bits like the catchy little piano part that plays the melody on the chorus. And, of course, the start of the song and the original intention was that we should have that kind of sound.” In addition to Starr’s inimitable drum fills, Harrison’s familiar slide and the icy piano part recalling “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “When We Was Fab” also contains quizzical strings and crazed backing vocals a la “I Am The Walrus” and a sitar coda worthy of “Love You To.” That it all holds together without sounding like some Stars On 45 concoction is testament to Lynne’s estimable production skills and Harrison’s charming lyrics, which look back with clear eyes, tongue partially in cheek, and warm heart. Harrison doesn’t get caught up in a blow-by-blow history of The Beatles, instead settling on a more impressionistic take, like memories flashing before his eyes in random order. He quotes Bob Dylan (“But it’s all over now, Baby Blue”) and Smokey Robinson (“And you really got a hold on me”) but only indirectly hints at Beatles’ lyrics: The “take you away” interlude recalls “Magical Mystery Tour,” and his insistence that “Still the life flows on and on” references his own “Within You Without You.” He also gets one more shot in at the taxman for old time sake. Harrison balances out halcyon days of pullovers and green grass with some darker remembrances. “Caresses fleeced you in the morning light/ Casualties at dawn” is not the kind of feel-good couplet you would associate with Beatlemania. And his assertion that “The microscopes have magnified the tears/ Studied warts and all” seems to be a dig at journalists looking to dig up the underbelly of the Fab phenomenon instead of just enjoying the gleaming surface. Ultimately though, the sweet far outweighs the bitter. When Harrison sings “And we did it all,” wonder and gratitude are evident in his voice. The accompanying video added to the feeling with a trove of winks and nods to the Beatle mythos. Maybe “When We Was Fab” isn’t grammatically correct, but it was right on the money for those who were missing the magic of The Beatles and the wisdom of the “quiet” one.

A true talent, powerful and meaningful. My favourite Beatle.

It was the best solo-career move George made by working with Jeff Lynn on his 1987 Cloud Nine album. His solo career went into decline in the late 70s and early 80s probably due to his reluctance to embrace the musical trends at the time like disco and new wave. But Lynns production brought out the best on Georges Cloud Nine album with the music sounding very contemporary for the 1980s.

George was a beautiful soul the world was a little brighter with him in it.

Every time I see George it makes me very happy. He really seemed liked he figured it all out. Yet every time I see George I also feel like crying. Know what I mean?

George was always a Beatle, even when solo. He missed the magic of being Fab more than the other three, even Paul did. GBY George Harrison.

George és Ringo Isteniek! Köszönöm Édesapámnak, hogy erre a Földre tudtam születni, és Ő megmutatta nekem a Beatles Csodáját!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Írva vagyon Édesapám accountjáról, és köszönöm, hogy még így is velem vagy!)

George made a huge comeback in 1988, huge successful solo record, Beatles inducted into the original class of the R & R Hall of Fame and also the Travelling Wilburry's had a few hit songs

This song makes me sad. And who could possibly dislike this???

Always loved this song! Brill Harrison tune with top notch Jeff Lynne production. Sticks in your head for many days.. Beatles memorial this one... Past never to return due the loss of Lennon in 1980. Ton of fun nods to Beatles era here..❤️❤️❤️

it's time to give this video the HD treatment, like it was done for Coming Up! It would be great to see it sharp and clear! Come on Harrison Estate, do it! It deserves it!

0:48 - Ringo nods at the camera 0:58 - Sgt. Pepper 1:04 - One of the extra hands vandalizes the wall, so another hand cuffs it. 1:16 - The cuffed hand is used as a guitar slide. 1:32 - The line “The bus will take you away” is a nod to Magical Mystery Tour 1:43 - Jeff Lynne? 2:00 - The walrus 2:03 - A man holding Imagine is followed by a man with a squiggly effect. This represents John and Mark David Chapman, who has the effect because he had mental issues. 2:21 - Paul Simon? 2:27 - The line “Its all over now baby blue” is probably a nod to the eponymous Bob Dylan song. 2:33 - George bounces the apple on the drum to Ringo. 2:42 - Elton John? 2:50 - Ringo carries both ends of the long keyboard. 3:14 - what how 3:26 - Why is that satisfying?! REPOST

Love the Elton John cameo at 2:41

I think time will prove George to be the greatest of the Beatles.

It's a collaboration of Jeff George and Ringo...very clever and effective ...love it

So much trash on the radio, when we could be listening to this music!

Back then long time ago when grass was green Woke up in a daze Arrived like strangers in the night Long time ago when we was fab (Fab) Back when income tax was all we had Caresses fleeced you in the morning light Casualties at dawn And we did it all Long time ago when we was fab (Fab) In my world you are my only love And while you're in this world The fuzz gonna come and claim you But you mo better wise When the buzz gonna come and take you away Take you away Take you away The microscopes that magnified the tears Studied warts and all Still the life flowed on and on Long time ago when we was fab (Fab) But it's all over now, Baby Blue Long time ago when we was fab (Fab) Like this pullover you sent to me (Fab) And you've really got a hold on me (Fab) Long time ago when we was fab

George truly was a gift to the world

Harrison el mistico.. para mi siempre fue el mejor beatle .. su estilo y sonido eran unicos

0:39 I love how Ringo jumps back to avoid getting gored in the family jewels by the celloist's bow.