TBH, I've never seen a content creator put soo much effort and dedication in the work that they're doing. I hope you'll get to more and more subscribers and I hope gives the best for you!
@Yitzhak Finnegan I didn't know that it was Eric Clapton playing the lead for a long time until my dad told me it was him. He actually turned George Harrison down sever several times when George Asked him to collaborate. Eric Clapton said he couldn't do it cuz it was the Beatle's and he didn't want to interfere and he felt like he couldn't do justice to the song. But George persuaded him. And I'm glad he did
I read in magazine interview of Ringo where he said the favorite session ever for him was one where in recording this album one day they were waiting for George and he was going to be late or maybe not going to show up and John just got in the mood and started jamming playing blues and Ringo started jamming and that’s when they recorded Yer Blues. Something John was champion at but you almost never heard him play. Another place you can hear him play blues is on a video of Frank Zappa concert where Frank wanted him to come and play with them and he did but he brought Yoko along ( of course ) and he did a ‘ Stray Cat ‘ kind of blues with Yoko making horrendous cat sounds. It might have been an awesome recording but Yoko wrecked it. Frank Zappa’s band started making fun of her and John got all pissed off. Frank was pissed too because he wanted to jam with John Lennon not his icky sidekick that nobody liked. She sure wrecked a lot of things, I don’t think anybody liked her except John
I've always had a special place in my heart for Ringo. The guy just wanted to belong and to be part of something special. He didn't seem to have a huge ego or any agenda besides being an essential part of the team. That's never a bad thing.
@@skysmindgarden That's fine. I never was a fan of the four individually when they split up. Some of their stuff was fine, but they were never as good as they were together, harmonizing and playing off of each other's craziness.
Oh my goodness, such a false narrative, did you know that Ringo doesn’t DO shaking hands with the fans, be just does elbows, as does the once admired but not anymore by me, when we paid extra for
@@elliepond5984 I guess you didn't know that Ringo is susceptible to grave illnesses and has nearly died several times in his life. He also has terrible allergies, and it's probably a good thing that he doesn't shake hands. A man I admired named Paul Harvey (he's dead now) used to say that shaking hands was a bad idea, he didn't do it, but rather saluted or bumped elbows, because such contact spread sicknesses. So, maybe you should cut the guy some slack.
Don’t get me wrong.. The Beatles were fantastic. However, the white album was virtually garbage. . It should have been released as just one disk and even then some 50% of that should have been put in the rubbish bin... What a far cry from Revolver.
@@Sidtheoldiesman1 I rate white album. I like Cry Baby Cry too. John was quoted saying he was embarrassed to have even written it. He discounted a lot of his Beatles songs. Art changes. But I liked them.
i'm 30 years of age at the moment & i can absolutely say i had the same feeling the first time i dropped the needle on that album. it is an absolute gem
@@timhuggins7069 And EVERY generation is born knowing nothing and must learn everything anew. How about those FAKE EWES who proclaimed Trump chosen by God in 2016? Verily, they are ravenous wolves.
The White Album might be called the greatest record ever made, not only in terms of its innovation but also because of its place in the Beatles’ career and its role as an aesthetic keystone for nearly all the rock-and-roll recordings that have followed.
The fact that it is so sprawling and goes in so many different directions musically means that it's influenced a lot of different people, proto-metal, gentle folk, country, music hall, ska, blues, musicals. They had a go at anything they wanted to do musically in one of the best studios in the world that they had the run of with no time pressures. After Pepper they were in a position where they had the clout to do whatever the ***k they wanted and the White Album was the sound of that freedom.
Whoa Darryl! What have you been smoking? It’s a good album, but an incoherent hodgepodge of ideas and styles. Led Zeppelin IV is the greatest record ever made. Even if half the songs were “covers”. Zeppelin III is also a better than the White Album.
Switch Rubber Soul to 3, Abby Road to 4 and Sgt Pepper to 5 and that's more like it. Don't get me wrong, every song on Sgt Pepper plays and I'm gonna say "oh ya that's one of my favs" but in reality, when you're a true super fan I think every song ends up being one of our favorites. The White Album is absolutely #1. I still feel it in my bones when I listen to that album, like I'm 14 years old again wearing headphones playing that CD in my back yard!
Idk...i love all of those but something about magical mystery tour makes me reallllllly happy. i know it’s not as popular because it’s all silly songs but they are sooooo good
I saw him at the Winterland in ‘68 doing the Gift From a Flower to a Garden album. It was sublime. Then I saw him 40 years later doing his Beat Cafe album. Charming and special as ever. He opened me to Celtic music which became a passion .
Even though I feel 'Revolver' is their best album as well as the best of all time, if I put on a Beatles' album, it will be 'The White Album'. It feels like a journey as it goes from a relatively benign feel and becomes more ominous along the way and ends up in 'Revolution 9'. Having lived through the Manson killings and experienced the Beatles' influence back them, I can almost see how a kook like Manson could interpret the album as he did. When you still have people running around convinced that Paul is dead based on album clues, you get an idea of how rooted the band was and still is in modern mythology.
Poor little Ringo saved the band! ... for a little bit. It’s so cool that his actions made everyone check their own egos and then come to a resolution.
I clicked on this video instantly. The White Album is my favourite Beatles album! I got the 50th anniversary CD for Christmas, I love the use of that fender VI bass used on tracks like Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently weeps. Fantastic video!
My brother gave me The White Album for Christmas the year it came out. I wore it out, memorized it, loved it. It's so diverse. Rocky Raccoon to Helter Skelter to Rev 9 to....
For all the tension, this was my favorite Beatles album. So many great songs, wonderfully individualized. This blew me away as a kid and I still love it to this day.
I am so happy to have found a channel that is so passionate about the Beatles and so many other groups and music. I’m so excited to watch your videos and learn so many new facts about songs I like! Thank you! 💖🎸
Great video! The part about Ringo leaving and subsequently being wooed back to the band was especially bittersweet with the hindsight of knowing how everything was going to end up.
The third of the Beatles astonishing trilogy. Revolver, Sgt Peppers and then the White Album. They still reverberate to this day. Thanks for the great upload:))
Great video as usual BUT I need to clear something up. When you say that this is their best selling album, it's a misleading statement because you're leaving out a BIG detail. The RIAA counts two disc albums as double the sale of a single album. So if The White Album sells 10 million copies, it's officially counted as 20 million. So really, it's not their biggest seller in terms of individual packages.
I felt so bad for Ringo, he was the glue holding them together and not wanting to be part of the fights Paul and John had... What a great vid I subscribed
To call him ‘the glue holding them together’ is a major exaggeration. He was the member who was the least invested in the group and first to quit. He wanted to work and they weren’t working with him. I sympathize with him but he wasn’t holding them together at all.
I think the white album contained John's finest songwriting ever. I would go so far as to call it his album. Abbey Road was Paul's shining glory, but the white album was John's.
Deaky The invisible man My children 33 and 30 remember me putting the album on every Sunday morning as they were growing up ,they now know every song word for word and its etched in their hearts
To me Martha My Dear is the saddest and happiest song I’ve ever heard. It brings tears to my eyes when I think how much I love my girl dog, and how to her, I am her entire world. It’s a true song about unconditional love and it makes me reflect on my life and hers.
The White Album came out 8 days after l was born and for my 19th birthday my folks gave me a re-issue of it It was a very cold winter here in San Antonio and l was living in a garage using a dryer for heat and nursing a broken heart I listened to it over and over for days when l came up with the words for a prose I LOVE THEE THREE I was off like a rocket writing everyday and have not stop The Beatles reached out across time once more
I am listening to your album now. It's fantastic! Your RU-vid Channel is one of the best resources for Beatles fans on the internet! Keep up the great work!!!
@FBI Alypstick It was recorded during the White Album sessions, and released as a stand alone single during the summer of '68. Almost mind boogling one of the most popular and powerful singles in their entire catalog was not included on the double album.
I played this over and over for a year, maybe more, before I went on to over play Rubber Soul! Sexy Sadie, was incredible and happiness is a warm gun is still my #1 Beatles song of all time. I think that may actually be more about me being in long term recovery of over 12 years. I def can connect. Thanks for the video, it's cool to see someone else with tons of Beatles knowledge!
The White Album has always been my favorite. It's the first Beatles album I ever heard and I listened to it with my Dad. This is a great video worthy of The Beatles. I enjoyed it. Thank you.
I just came across your channel today, and it’s excellent material. I’m a huge Beatles fan and am glad to have found this. Thank you and keep up the great work!
I had a very different image of you in my head from your voice. Thank you for making these videos! I’m obsessed with this band and I idolize them and I consider myself an expert on all Beatles facts and stuff but I have to say I’ve learned some stuff I didn’t know from your videos. Keep them coming!
I recently listened to The Beatles catalogue, and I have to say, although I really enjoy the White Album, and it has some of my favorite songs on it, many of them I play myself on the guitar, it sounds very disjointed to me when you listen to it from beginning to end. You can really hear that they are not playing together. Not to say that's anything new in their catalogue. You know that "Yesterday" is a McCartney song, and "In My Life" is a Lennon song. It's just when you spread it across two albums, it comes to the forefront. I agree with Martin's assessment, a single album may have been a better . But it's still a fantastic in many ways.
@@bookashkin It's good start though! I think next it would be Good Night. That makes it 11 minutes, roughly. Savoy Truffle for 13. Long, Long, Long for 16. I'll stop there for now.
No mention of George cruising over to Clapton's to grab him and coerce him in to play lead on While My Guitar Gently Weeps? That's my favorite fact about that song.
This is one of my very favorite Beatles albums and contains among my very favorite John songs ever - really, other than Revolution 9, ALL of his contributions are absolutely top notch - hands down some of his best work. I particularly love Happiness is a Warm Gun (that haunting "she's not a girl who misses much" makes my hair stand on end to this day); Cry Baby Cry (that accordion sound, which was apparently a harmonium, the tea sound effects); Glass Onion (that sarcastic mocking message for the "Paul is dead" crowd is just amazing and so John); Bungalow Bill (the wonderful humor ("in case of accident he always took his mum" and "if looks could kill it woulda been us instead of him", and the little Spanish accent on "all the children sing!") Julia is positively haunting - you needn't know the back story to sense that this is about a dead girl. Even as a kid I found the line "when I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind" just heartbreaking - he was always speaking his mind and increasingly getting into trouble for it. Of course, the dig at the Maharishi, Sexy Sadie ("we gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table"). And who doesn't love that joyous screamer, Everybody's Got Something to Hide, cowbell and all. I have been known to speed down the highway playing it at top volume (singing/screaming along) with the windows down. Dear Prudence is just gorgeous - every note of it. The slow, bluesy Revolution is fantastic. Is there another Beatles song that had two completely different official releases, other than maybe the German language versions of I Wanna Hold Your Hand/She Loves You? And to boot they did a video. Yer Blues is another Lennon classic. Love the story that he wanted the band to release it as a single - a song about heroin withdrawal containing the lines "the eagle picks my eye, the worm he licks my bone", followed by a line about suicide and a reference to Mr Jones. This is as cutting edge Lennon as you will get. .
Speaking of the Revolution video, this is AGAIN somewhat different, cause here we have the Rock version fitted with the vocal stuff of the Blues version (shoo bee doo wop, oww, shoo bee doo wop).
My favourite album of theirs, I tend to like the real raw brutal truth in music and I think the White Album is who The Beatles really were, whether we like it or not, particularly at the time. The good, the bad and the ugly, its all laid bare for us to witness with little filter or airbrushing. It might have had tension and division but it also had them playing together as a rock n roll band again after so much studio overdubs on previous albums. It's still surprising that such a huge band had the balls to release an album that had about 100 different genres slapped together. What a rollercoaster it is.
You've hit the nail square on the head Hydra. The White Album was all that you described: raw, sentimental, whimsical, and even somewhat humorous. You have given us an excellent analysis, and the dichotomy of it. Well done mate.
It may sound crazy and all but I really really get ringo And maybe not only me I think every one of us feels left out once in a while and it's good to have someone like these thee I just love them
I agree with Ringo on how great this album is. My favorite album, period. There are so many songs on here that I love, including Mother Nature's Son, Rocky Raccoon, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Long, Long, Long, Martha My Dear, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, and Dear Prudence Yes, there's a lot.
"Long, Long, Long" in my opinion, is such a beautiful song that doesn't get enough recognition. George's songs really had a way of piercing your heart.
Great video. The one thing I would add is that the Peter Jackson movie exposed the error of believing that the presence of Yoko Ono was "a distraction" or "off putting".
Helen of Troy is said to have had the face that launched 1000 ships. Helter Skelter had the chords and rhythm that launched Heavy Metal. Without that classic, we would never have had Black Sabbath, Zeppelin nor Purple. Thank you, guys. Long Live Paul and Ringo!
I really appreciate your work and channel here. I was 2 years old when they arrived in the US, so you could say that I've enjoyed their music from the get go. Interesting stuff to learn after so many years of listening to their music. Glad that you've decided to put this info into a comprehensive format. Thanks and keep up the good work. -VG
And thank you, you always take me down memory lane but you add things about the Beatles and I thought I knew all about seeing how I grew up with them as a teenager in Ferndale Michigan,Used to fall asleep at night listening to their music
Diese Platte gehört zu meinen 10 all-time favorites - und ich habe in meinem Leben eine Menge Musik gehört. Ein bunter Strauß an Musik verschiedenster Stilrichtungen von belanglos bis Avantgarde. Danke dafür und für die interessanten Fakten rund um dieses Album!
And you become naked. That's the only good thing she ever contributed to the Beatles; the rest was tedious or destructive, or both. Who never lost a friend, man or woman, to some spider?
Good video. You have a good voice. After a while, I almost thought I heard a little Casey Kasem in your voice, which is a good thing. He had such a great way of speaking. Good Luck.
I am eating McVitties while watching Great video by the way I really like The White Album it's such a great and crazy album so many different things and the boy's creativity was on full display here without the psychedelic experimentation they had on Revolver and Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band
I'm not sure but maybe the reason Paul wanted to work by himself was because he didn't want to work with Yoko and because of the tension. He'd rather just do it himself.
When I finally broke down and bought a CD player in 1989, I bought 3 CDs the next day. Duke by Genesis, Permanent Waves by Rush and The White Album. It’s a masterpiece.
I love the diversity of sounds on "The Beatles." That's why it tops Beatles sales. Only a couple songs sound like each other, e.g. "Blackbird" and "Mother Nature's Son." Side 4 is an awesome example, starting with Doo Wop pastiche, winding through Cry Baby Cry and ending with Revolution 9 and Goodnight. Side 1 is also amazing, starting with Back in the USSR and ending with Happiness is a Warm Gun. "So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise", but the White Album is out of sight.
Thank you for the mention of Family. That band was just fantastic! Fearless and Bandstand are just the best. Sorry, didn't mean to hijack. I bought the White Album the day it came out. Love how the raised cover text discolored over time.
Thank you again for such a delightful video. I always enjoy your videos and share them with friends. Hopefully they will subscribe and also support you. You’re the best!
White Album has aged better than any other Beatles album. Mostly because of the weird bells and whistles found all over the album, the simplicity of the songs and the variety of styles. White Album also strays from the pack the most in terms of songwriting trends of that time. These elements all make for an album that doesn't scream "I'm from the 60s" and could have been released somewhere within the past 25 years but with modern recording quality.
The White Album is something else. It's has a little bit of everything.... The songs are all good but my favorite songs on the album are: I WILL I'M SO TIRED HAPPINESS IS A WARMS GUN
I like the White Album. It's eerie, melancholy, elliptic and very free in its delivery. Some of the songs are mesmerizing. It's not everyone's cup of tea and it's not exactly what I would call pop du jour, but it's good listening.
LSD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE I FIRST HEARD THE ENTIRE ALBUM ON ACID I WAS TRIPPING HARD FROM GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS TO YER BLUES TO JULIA WHAT A MASTER PIECE
