How The Beatles got their logo | A Vinyl Rewind special 

The "T" in the logo always reminded me of the top of a shirt collar and tie, that The Beatles had just started wearing.

As a graphic designer and a huge Beatles fan, this video went directly to my favorites folder

A professional drummer & video tech operator on tours. i work with Paul & Ringo, and i never knew this, thanks for the great info keep it up

I"m fairly sure that Ludwig Drum sales skyrocketed thanks to The Beatles.

Just heard that Geoff Emerick passed over, may he rest in peace :(

You think you know everything you need to know about the Beatles and this video comes along. Thank you!

There should be a drummer version of It Might Get Loud. Imagine Ringo, Neal Peart and Dave Grohl in the same room sharing stories and drumming styles!

I needed this video today ✔️

I was 14 years old when I watched them live on The Ed Sullivan Show. My entire high school was talking about this show at school the next day. Our parents on the other hand, had no idea what we were talking about. The following year, the move Hard Day's Night came out and we were all in heaven. I still have all my vinyl records from back then -- actually, my daughter has possession of them with instructions to never sell them. Wonderful times in spite of the Cold War, JFK's assassination and other sad things.

Some albums that I recommend or love to see you review: Who's Next - Tha Who (1971) Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (1966) Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak (1989) The Nightfly - Donald Fagen (1982) Motion Picture Soundtrack to SHAFT - Isaac Hayes (1971) Pink Moon - Nick Drake (1972) ...and so many others. Forgive me if you've covered any of these already. I'm catching up on your videos as quickly as I can. You always look like you're having such a great time. Keep up the great work!

Love the effort you put into your videos 💕

Incredible logo. So glad this video came out

Great work as always mate

Brilliant video. Finally a concise history of the logo.

Great Video ! One of the most Iconic Band logos ever and one of my favorite bands for life.

Very cool. This lifted my spirits. Thanks

That was delightful. Thank you!

Loved this one mate. Always was a fan of the now iconic bass drum logo. Thanks for the interesting tidbits.

Awesome info!

Awesome vids man. Good work

You are a star, always posting entertaining content.

Found your channel a few days ago and loving it!

Simply brilliant.....The best music vlog on the net bar none.

I hope your channel will be big in the future. Thanks for the videos.

Wow, well researched, good job!

Dude if u created this channel with no experience....well it's just amazing....its very professional and legit......great vid

I had NO idea about this - very interesting! Great job, Eric!

Woke up to this today. Pretty cool info thanks!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LENNON!!!

Vinyl Rewind; love your post. All I need to know. Thanks.

just great stuff!!

Very cool. Thank you.

Fun and informative. Thanks!

Very cool. Thx!

Nice job! High quality work-I wish you many views.

Excellent video, Geek. I enjoyed that and also learned something I've often wondered about. Cheers, dude. :)

This was awesome!

EXCELLENT VIDEO. THANKS!!!!

Nice video! I love to see you trying something new.

I just discovered your channel, and I am thoroughly enjoying the videos. I'm really not sure why I haven't come across it before now. There are several things I want to comment on, but some videos are years old so it would probably be moot. Keep up the great work and I'll be keeping an eye out. Great Job!!!

Well presented.

As always, great video. Also R.I.P. Geoff Emerick.

God damn it, man... This channel is so cool!

Very informative and interesting. I've never thought about the logo or the drum kit before now

I really like this channel and I really appreciate all the effort put into it. I just stumbled on this channel today when I chased some Tame Impala down a rabbit hole and I don’t usually leave a lot of RU-vid comments but I’m a firm believer that the world would be a better place if people didn’t keep their mouths shut when they enjoy or appreciate things. We all love to speak up when we have something critical to say but maybe not so much when it’s positive, for whatever reason. There are a lot of channels kind of like this one but I find the stories just a little bit more interesting and researched and I really, really enjoy the host. I don’t get that “music snob” feeling that we are all so familiar with...it just feels like how people actually talk to friends and family about music...like someone who just really enjoys music and wants to share that with people. I’m so happy I found this today, I think you are dope and I learned some stuff too 😊 thanks!!

Excellent. Watching and read everything I can grab Ithem. Good research.

Great work! Now we need a video describing the "Vinyl Rewind" logo - haha. And long live The Beat-les...

Good video mate!

The T always reminded me of the neck of a guitar, you can see half of the top and where it goes to the body

Hi Eric. Russ Lease made my Beatles Ludwig logo for my 1997 Precision/Lawton/Ludwig Oyster Black Kit. 👍🎉🥁

Great video! Would love to see some more solo Beatle stuff on the channel too

Great work and hey, you taught me something about The Beatles I didn’t know 😀

Great video! 😁👍

THAT ANTENNA BUG LOGO IS VERY RARE BUT I JUST HAPPEN TO OWN ONE.

well done and interesting

It was used for the titles of the Let It Be film in 1970, but I don't think it appeared anywhere else during the band's lifetime. Great video!

Very interesting documentary. I was 8 years old when the Beatles made their entrance in America, so I pretty much grew up with them - I couldn't get away from them. They were redundantly "everywhere" during their heyday. But they were probably the best group during the time they were together. Although no one of my generation couldn't go anywhere without seeing "Beatles this" and hearing "Beatles that", the whole world was emotionally distraught when they broke up. It was the end of an era. Then when John bought it in 1983, the last hopes of a reunion died with him.

Slick production about a powerful icon image seared into my mind’s eye when I was a boy.....a long time ago...

Great Logo 😎

Beatles Gear great book on this and guitars used by the Fab Four.

Fantastic. Many thanks for this. American football team owner Jim Irsay has one of the logos, I think, as well as some of George and John's guitars, and that $2M Ringo drum kit.

Good video!

I bought one of the Beatlesuits drumheads for my Ludwig kit. Just have to finish cleaning up the bass drum and it will be installed.

Brilliant ✌🏽

Such a good story. Leaving the Ludwig at the top and the Beatles on the outer skin. Awesome.

This was a good viedo. Thanks, Robbie Rotten.

The Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago did not put the Logo on the product until April 1964. Mr William Ludwig Sr. thought it was not in good taste and felt the front of the drum head was for the placement of the artist name only, however a Ludwig logo decal was placed on the product because Mr Ludwig's son, William Ludwig Jr. felt it would be good for business. It was only after the Ed Sullivan appearance that the company placed their logo on the front of their new drum sets. I talked with Mr Ludwig Sr. about that in early 1973 when I visited the factory. The hardware on the sets also became much thinner by mid 1964. The quality of these drum sets were amazing up to April of 1964. As part of a deal with Ringo Starr and the promotions of the Ludwig product , Ringo was invited to the factory in early September 1964 and presented with a top of the line Ludwig Snare. Sales took off for Ludwig and their small operation grew from forty people to couple of hundred to keep up with sales. Everyone that aspired to become a drummer wanted the black oyster finish. Things were good until they found out you needed to have expensive lessons to learn how to read music and hundreds of hours of practice to play them properly lol. Great video guys.

Good video. 🥁👍

Never even thought about the Beatles logo before but yes it is iconic.

Yay another Beatles video remember me from the live stream I asked you to sing yellow Submarine

Hey there, new to the channel but can't help but notice you haven't done reviews for the wall, tommy, quadrophenia, a night at the opera as well as many more iconic concept albums. One band to keep an eye out for is wax fang, they became popular from an episode of american dad, with only 4 studio albums in limited print it may be hard to come across them but they don't have anywhere near the following they deserve and maybe your show could shine some light on them. Keep up the amazing work!

To me the “T” was to represent the suits with ties they now wear and emphasize their clean cut appearance and the Mersey Beat

Great job!!!!! On a related story to this, how about doing the drum logo for the original 1977 Broadway Beatlemania drum set. I believe the original was based on The Beatles but was changed during the run of the show. Also the Broadway show used the updated Lugwig logo in the early run as well.

Hey man I love your videos. I have seen in some of them that you have RHCP records behind you occasionally and would love to see you do a video on any Red Hot Chili Peppers album!

Love it By the way I was Born September 6,1958 One Month before John and Paul met at a Church Social. My Name John-Paul George Nagel And Oh yes My Dog I had in the Seventies What to Name Him? What else, “ Ringo!”

We're back on track babayyy

That was interesting. I've been guitar centric all my life but this is fun to know.

Nice vid, and I love Russ's site too - he's a real enthusiast. What I want to know is.... who painted the 'Walrus', 'All You Need is Love' red 'Love' drumhead, and where is it now?

nice video ☺

I always wondered where the logo came from, being a graphic design geek and Beatles fan of course. Hell, I always make sure to download the custom font on design programs just for the hell of it.

A video on how the Rolling Stones got their logo would be cool.

There's something so iconic about the Beatles logo. The T almost reminds me of a cross, as in they truly are the Gods of music. It's just so distinct and has a bit of a royal feel to it as well. Simple but powerful. However I mostly associate it with the pre 1966 Beatles when they were still performing live and you would see it at the front of Ringo's drum kit. Don't believe Pete Best had anything at the front of his drum kit but I have seen some pictures of an old logo they used pre Ringo but it looked a bit mod-ish. I think they used to hang it up on the wall of the cavern behind them before playing. www.beatlesbible.com/wp/media/620405-beatles-cavern_01.jpg

With the Beatles vs Meet the Beatles PLEASE

Very cool info. I always figured they were hand painted because of the different thicknesses, but surprised there wasn't a master silk screen for it at any point. I prefer the thinner versions.

Nice set design. What cameras did you use, for both the video recording (or which digital effect) and the still image at the “subscribe” ending?

Nice channel

Eddie Stokes should have a book about him. There seems to be very little out there about him but we've ALL seen his lettering. Word is he came in on his spare or lunch time to paint logos for Ivor so this was just another logo. He did promo Beatle drum heads as well which aren't mentioned here or by the referenced Mr Expert-pants. Eddie also did Keith's double bass drum set THE ~ WHO, and he did Ginger Baker's 'Ginger ~ Baker' double set and others as well and you can see the stylistic similarities in the serifs and thickness of the type style. 🥁

Their Haircuts next please! Who What Where. George's hair was not easy to create with their 'Moptop' early style. From the back it was a right dog's dinner. Paul had the best, not that long at all until '69. Every hair on their bonce was quite literally tweeked & teased. Yup, more on Haircuts please

The Beatles was meant to be big! Everything just fell into place. Like the logo is just so perfect! And just how the hell the old days did all the graphic without computers so perfectly?! Nothing but admire for those art designers in the old days.

Yeah Good One.

Kiss logo is another intersting story.

How do you give that look to your videos? Is it any kind of filter?

Hi. Awesome videos! Review Dan Auerbach’s “Waiting on a Song?” I’m curious if anyone shares the same enthusiasm about this album as I do. Thanks again!

Interesting

Is that guy u mentioned the Vancouver museum dude?

With Ringo and Charlie Watts, I am always amazed how small their kit is considering how much great music they made.

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Fab Fourish VR!

please: Small Faces, Steve Marriott Kinks The Move

To Michael Wilson (below): what a fantastic idea! Is there any possibility to make this a reality?