The Long and Winding Beard That fell off, off my face Will never disappear That hair will find a place It’s always growing here Grows upon my face The wild and windy hair That the blade shaved away Has left a pool of beard Crying for my face Why leave me standing here? Let me know the way
Like a razor blade A Like a razor blade Like the DSC and the AoS And the PBS Zach Galifianakis And Annie Jones Gregg Popovich Shave it, shave it, shave it, Shave it, shave it. shave it, shave it, shave it
Funny! Speaking of the long and winding road I was wondering whether you'd possibly a video explaining why it was written because I'd find it quite fascinating, if you're still going to do videos like that.
Cute, very cute. Please be careful of the ground you are treading. I saw a movie where the protagonist sang/performed things from memory. He didn't alter his past. He stayed true(as best he could) to the original. He breathed new life into an audience hungry for the sounds. He was aware of that ground. He respected the Holly past.
The End was the last song that all 4 of them recorded together in August 1969 a month before john quit. I me mine was recorded but needed overdubs and this was done in January 1970 by Paul George and Ringo as john had already quit so tecnically soekaing The End is the last song they recorded as a band but I me mine was the last song to be finished
louise_xo I agree! I love that song and it is a main memories from the film “Let it Be” when was shown in first run in ‘69. I didn’t realize so many people thought it cool! If memory serves, I think it was the first new Beatles song in the film. For the punters who would say “Don’t Let me Down” isn’t rock and roll, think about this: any ‘50s/‘60s pop song that has only two chords qualifies as, at least, aspiring to “rock and roll” status.
Except they stripped out the women's voices, which the Beatles *specifically* wanted, and got rid of the coda to Get Back. Personally, I think the version of Don't Let Me Down on Naked is far superior to the previous release.
@@silverapples4197 I don't mind stripping out the Phil Spector crap that was added later, but the female voices were specifically added by the Beatles at the original recording session. Spector was such a wrong choice for the Beatles.
Let It Be has always been an underrated album, yet it produced three of the Beatles number one hits: Get Back, Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road.
@xxx xxx: Thank you. I get sick of hearing Spector denigrated for picking up the Beatle's slack and making Let It Be palatable. He, in fact, did exactly what a producer is supposed to do, polishing out rough spots and covering mistakes. Much of it was out of key and the singing flat because of John's being stoned on Junk and Paul high on Cannabis. If the lad's had given a shit they could've been bothered to stick around and finish the project, but like they were apt to do they plunked the un-fun work in someone else's lap and pranced off to the next shiny object.
You know why i love that Channel? Not only it's made with Love, Passion and Beatles... but your voice gives me the chills. I could listen to you talk for hours!
Don't forget yoko was driving everyone crazy..screaming in the background of songs.sitting on amps.putting her two cents in .sleeping on a mattress in the studio.and more. don't forget that ..
It is funny tho how Paul and Ringo are saying how friendly the sessions were and how much fun it was yet John and George always said it was very tense and alot of arguing with John even describing the sessions as 'Utter Hell'
A fantastic album. Dig A Pony, I Me Mine, Across The Universe are standouts for me as well as Dig It. Dig it is one of the most underrated Beatles songs ever, I was sad to see it left out on the naked version but glad we have the full original version in the movie. Don't Let Me Down isn't actually on the album but from the era and that song remains today to be my favourite Beatles song ever!
I remember seeing the "Let it Be" Documentary at the theatre. I didn't know that it was rare. But I remember I was left with a feeling of sadness - in fact, I can still feel it all these years later. Thanks so much for these very informative videos!
At the time, I believe, that Billy Preston was considered the 5th Beatle. Also, don't know if you already have done, but could you do one on Jimmy Nicol?
Thank you so much for this awesome 👏🏻 and informative video! You’re the best -I’ve enjoyed every one of your RU-vid posts! Please keep the great content coming!
Let It Be is my favorite Beatles album, and one of my favorite albums overall. Two of Us is a happy and fun acoustic track, reminiscing on our childhoods. Dig a Pony is a classic, original, rock song, with an amazing riff, solo, and (nonsense) lyrics from John and Yoko. Across the Universe is just beautiful in every way. One of my favorite songs ever. I Me Mine is a great George track that shows the tension and crumbling of the band and their egos. Dig It is fun improvised wordplay that leads into Let It Be. Let It Be is one of the best songs ever recorded. Maggie Mae is a fun reference song to their early days, one of the first songs Julia (Johns mother) taught John. I’ve Got a Feeling is a great collaboration between Lennon and McCartney that is also a classic rocker, like Dig a Pony. One After 909 is also a reference to the early days, as its one of the first songs they recorded as a group, rehashed as a rock song. The Long And Winding Road is an emotional love song that demonstrates heartbreak and loneliness. For You Blue is an admittedly quirky song but still fun wordplay from George. Get Back is a rocky classic that really gets you hyped and singing. Don’t Let Me Down (not on the main album but released as a single and the remake album) is a beautiful love song written by John about Yoko. Overall I absolutely love this album. Many of the tracks refer to the past and the “good time” as John puts it in I’ve Got a Feeling. It was them knowing the band would be over soon, as they were all miserable during those times, but at the same time enjoying their music. There’s one word that represents everything on this record. Every song. Every note. The one word that describes this album perfectly is: Bittersweet. Because it was soon after that the Beatles were over.
Honestly let it be and abbey road were just great albums to end it on bittersweet for sure but at least they seemed to go out on a high note and with bangers overall. Sadly too many bands let the tension and fame eat at them away resulting in mediocre follow ups.
"Let It Be" is my favorite Beatles album of their "official" releases, but I think "Let It Be...Naked" is the better version of those recordings. The only things I didn't like about it were the title and the running order of the songs (as I was use to the running order of the songs on the original album). I have an old bootleg VHS copy of the film "Let It Be" and had been hoping they would release an official DVD of the film. Looking forward to seeing a new version of the documentary.
Criticize Spector if you must but he did a damned fine job considering the mess he was left with. The Beatles walked away and left him to his own devices. I'm impressed with his minimalist approach in light of the fact that he was the father of the Wall Of Sound recording technique.
Let it Be was the last album. No wait, it was actually Abbey Road. Either way it doesn't matter. They're both good IMO. Technically it was Let it Be, because it was the last album that any of them worked on to complete regardless if they were not all involved collectively at the same time and place.
@@MrApplesoggy The lyrics weren't supposed to make sense. John was making fun of all those people trying to find hidden meanings in his lyrics. He gave them something to work on in that song!😆
I love Let It Be, but I wasn't particularly fond of the Naked version. Maybe it's because it's what I'm so used to, but I much prefer the original "over-produced" version. I've seen AHDN and Help! numerous times, and MMT a couple times, but other than a handful of clips, I've never seen the LIB movie. Why is it so rare?
@@badczech8485 Yes, although it's been many years since the last time. Not sure why I forgot to include it. Maybe I have a subconscious fear of Blue Meanies. 😝
@@adamfox9651 LMAO!!! 😆 But, never fear, Adam... as we learned from the film, we can use GLOVE to combat Blue Meanies! 😁 Oops! Wait! Okay, it seems that GLOVE is too much! 🤔 Apparently, *all* you need is *LOVE* !!! 😉
A lot of people dog on this album but most bands would be happy to have a greatest hits album of this caliber. 1967-1970 (Blue Album) contains four songs from Let It Be... two of them being the slightly different single edits/versions... But still four songs included... That’s the same as Abbey Road, Help! and Sgt. Pepper’s and only Rubber Soul has more with six songs on 1962-1966 (Red Album). *Magical Mystery Tour has seven songs included on 1967-70 but it was a US Capitol invention... It’s Okay if people see it differently... I love it but it leaves a huge hole on Past Masters... 1967 isn’t really represented on Past Masters because Magical Mystery Tour was made official Canon with the 1987 CD releases...
Nice work, HollyHobs! The rooftop Beatles performance was just awesome, the people were all looking everywhere to see where the band was coming from! One of their Best performance ever! Always Love u George!
Hello my friend, it is indescribably refreshing to watch the video without having to listen to the mumbo jumbo at the end.. Thanks for sharing this great video as a stand alone piece... Lary
Didn’t Glynn Johns originally produced the album then George Martin came in and ‘saved’ the project? Phil Spector didn’t come into it later? Johns has had a lot to say about that time. Love your vids mate, really do; all the way from Darwin Australia 👍
Spot on... Glyn Johns went through all the tapes compiling what he thought was a good Get Back album. The band nixed it. Enter Phil Spector. The rest is history.
The Beatles did the Let It Be film. Metallica did the Some Kind Of Monster film. It’s interesting when you take one of the biggest bands of Rock music, attempt to film them creating and recording an album together, only to find you’ve actually filmed a band falling apart du to creative differences and conflicting egotistical personalities.
Video is 6 minutes and 36 seconds long... 6 * 6 is 36.... I don't know why those were the thoughts going through my head in the first second of seeing the thumbnail, but whatever... Anyway, I love these videos - keep it up!
To me the last album is “Abbey Road” or at least I want it to be because the song “The End” and it’s final lyrics are such a perfect ending to the best band of all time
Love your videos about The Beatles. Loved them growing up, and to me, I never get tired of listening to them. Keep up these great little insights - even if it is something already known by some, it may not be known by all.
It's a shame that Let It Be is such an anticlimactic end to The Beatles discography. Abbey Road and this should've been released the opposite way round. Also, I Me Mine was the last song The Beatles recorded during the year-long boycott of the band. PS: Considering that Paul, John, and George wanted to leave, I feel that if The Beatles had continued on into the 70s, they would've had as many lineup changes as Fleetwood Mac had with Ringo Starr being the only constant member.
The REAL Fab fours career ended with Revolver. Regarding Beatles with "Billy Shears" and "Fab...fab three", is it that surprising that Lennon, Harrison and Starr didn't get along with the new guy who was nothing like JPM ? No.
I've heard Let it Be described as a "funeral" for the Beatles since it was released and partially recorded after the Beatles had already split up, while Abbey Road was the last act while the Beatles were "still alive"
@@GameyRaccoon I think that if Abbey Road and Let It Be were released the opposite way round. Let It Be would be a miserable album, while Abbey Road would've been a triumphant end to their career
@@GameyRaccoon The real "funeral" was the Sgt Pepper album and the birth of PID. And the first Beatles album with "Billy Shears" as their new bandleader. After that it could only end up in one way (the break up of the band in 1970)
Is the HollyHobs a band or a stage name? Either way love your stuff man! Soothing voice, interesting footage, funny jokes, (Beatles bunch comes to mind), etc, and etc!
Always good to see Sir George Martin again, the TRUE 5th Beatle. Without his guidance at the start, amazing production, even his own musical contributions, the Beatles story would be far different from what it was.
Looking forward to the additional new footage. I hope that on balance, the good and not so good times are included in the new film. Since half the group are gone now and cannot give their approval to the new project, you will risk the change of revisionist history if the negative aspects are not addressed in some fashion.
Billy Preston is hardly talked about. I just think he has a deep and intriguing life story, too. I think he transforms the group musically. I think that no one in history has quite sounded like Billy. In a way, a slight air of magic to his way.
(1) It's my understanding that the person who gave the original tapes to Phil Spector wasn't John or George, but Alan Klein. (2) The main reason a "Let It Be" film was made was because the Beatles had a three-picture contract with United Artists, but after "Help!," the band soured on the idea of making a third film. The animated "Yellow Submarine" was supposed to finish the film contract, but UA executives said that the Beatles had too little participation in the movie to fulfill their commitment. So, Paul thought that a documentary would be the easiest way to finish the contract. (I imagine that the Beatles must have pitched "Magical Mystery Tour" to UA, but if they did, the studio wouldn't have risked backing an unscripted project.)
Do you all know how Baul wrote Let It Be? Well, he was sleeping, y'know, and his mum came to him in the dream and said "Just let it be", y'know? And he woke up and wrote the song, y'know? r/beatlescirclejerk
Can't wait for the new documentary. I wish that there would be a re-release of the original one, though. Maybe something like Blu-ray Director's Cut containing the original film remastered or sumthin
I prefer this album over Abbey Road by a long shot. I love the songs on this album. It has been my favorite album for a long time. I do prefer the White Album, Revolver, and Rubber Soul.
In my opinion, “Let It Be” was their last album. Yes they did record if not most, at least some of the album’s tracks before putting them on the back burner to do “Abbey Road”. I think that maybe some of the tracks they recorded could’ve inspired the sound for “Abbey Road” and the song ideas as well. Or maybe doing “Abbey Road” could’ve inspired what would become the rest of “Let It Be”. Whatever the story may be, “Let It Be” was their last and in my opinion the best album The Beatles ever blessed us with.
I prefer to go with the order of albums as they're presented. So aside from technicalities, *'Let It Be'* is the *'last released album'* by the *Beatles.* *Richard* 🍀
Dammit! Lennon just couldn't be anywhere without his obnoxious girlfriend Yoko Ono! He just had to have this publicity hound in the damned studio! Do you see Maureen, Patti or Linda? George Harrison quit the band on January 10,1969! He had enough of Ono speaking for John at Beatles meetings! It's a miracle The Beatles lasted another year! What miserable sessions!
To my mind it was not a favourable or complete album from them. They shelved it to focus on the more satisfying Abbey Road.... though that lp was guided by Paul - who had become the band's 'principal player' in '69. John's compositions were becoming more and more strange and obtuse, less melodic. George Harrison was peaking, but frustrated with the L & M monopoly. Let it Be was a sign of disharmony, but perhaps 'The Beatles' was the 4 prong fork in the road actually. 'Coming Together' wasn't such an enjoyable or welcome event. Brian was gone, and he absorbed the business side of things. Now it was becoming a shadow over them. Brian took them as a rough band doing rock and roll. Now - they were a juggernaut ...and in danger of losing everything too!!
Technically Let it Be was the last album because it was released in a later date than Abbey Road. But... if you think in terms of the recording projects, Abbey Road is surely the last one. And the definition of the recording projects as organized by Tuomas Eerola (1997) make the most sense for me.
Let It Be, Get Back, The Long And Winding Road.....all hit singles and that's not even considering Don't Let Me Down, Two Of Us and Across The Universe. The Two Of Us faster version should have been released and the let it be naked version of across the universe is cool 😎
I got to see "Let It Be" in a movie theater when it first came out. Totally depressing. Unlike watching "A Hard Day's Night" six years before, where I couldn't hear a note of the music or a word of the dialogue because the screaming in the theater would not stop, when I saw LIB there were 4 people in the theater (counting me). Quiet, like a funeral. But a couple of years later I got to see "Concert for Bangla Desh" and while it isn't all 4 of them it is a fantastic show.
I truly don't understand this last album debate. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it can be discarded and ignored. Let It Be was released as a Beatles album, you can't go fifty years later, "As a fan, I say this album doesn't exist and their last album was not really their last album!". Like, huh? That's how reality works now? Lol
The only problem with the positive take on the new Let It Be film is that it would be at odds with what the 4 Beatles themselves said about their experience. They said it was miserable. Cold. Dark. Dreary. They were at each other's throats and growing apart. While that isn't pleasant to think about it, it is still the truth. And that would mean the old Let It Be film (which I bought a bootleg of in 2003) captures that truth better. But... at the same time... any chance to get new Beatles material is more important!!! So let's get this new documentary out soon!
