The Beatles in the recording studio April 27th 1966 (I'm Only Sleeping) 

Absolutely agree and also wished they had an Abbey Road movie. John with the beard singing Come Together. Would have been a classic moment.

@@antimurphy8212 imagine George singing Something..

@@antimurphy8212 Unfortunately they mostly “phoned in” their contributions for Abbey Road and there wasn’t much joint studio time

Problem is I’d never get anything else done😂

I am honestly just super grateful for the huge amount of photos of them in the studio there are. Don't think there are anywhere near as much photos of other bands in the studio, which makes sense. All these photos will truly be treasured.

Everly Bros. &, later, Beach Boys were heavy influences. Be interesting to know of others...

​@@docwill184 the supremes, probably many other early r&b groups..

So why did he stop caring later?

@@gamechanger3396: John had a hard childhood and was psychologically messed up at an early age anyway. But then he found music as a teenager. The music became all important and John was extremely driven. The Beatles then happened and they made it extremely big. But then drugs came along and really messed up his life, his overall motivation, and his attitude in the middle years of The Beatles. I think his old psychological problems and low feelings of self-worth started creeping back and became a problem again around that period as well. (Actually, they never really seemed to completely leave him.) A combination of finally quitting drugs, getting older and more mature, and (apparently) Yoko’s love (and his son Sean) made him a better man. His amazing talent returned, after a lengthy absence from music, before he was assassinated at age 40. His last album was so excellent. It was typical, magical Lennon…with forever memorable melodies/songs.

Beach Boys, Bee Gees, especially early stuff which is very ‘Beatle like’ . Both had great harmonies that are as good as the Beatles. But the Beatles were the ‘complete package’. Seemingly no weakness’. Even with styles and genres.

Of course. Lennon was one of the best vocalists in the history of rock music.

No doubt!!

Superb is an understatement

@@stephenmartinez9355 True. The one exception is his cover of Stand By Me. It's Awful

He is the best voice u ever heard

As a radio station noted when Anthology 2/3 came out "Sleep or the lack of it seemed to be a common theme in John Lennon's music" This one was on Revolver? And later on White Album he did I'm So Tired.

@@ghramsey1681 John's world weary cynicism. Sleep was escape for him.

​@@NYVoice True. But by this point he was also smoking marijuana for breakfast lunch and dinner too. So surely drug use had some influence here. That said he was surely calling for help a year earlier with the song HELP! . Listen to his original piano version. It was far more melancoly than the final version and was a genuine call and request for help. Though I am no shrink. I think John Lennon showed signs of severe depression in this era. The drugs (marijuana and later LSD) enhanced whichever mood he was in and he was depressed by this point over his life. Not sure how much booze was in there but I'm certain he drank and by all accounts was a mean drunk (ruined Paul's 21st birthday party for example) HIs marriage was rocky to start with, Beatlemania was a nightmare of screaming fans who didn't even care about the music he played or sang anymore. He had two things keeping him going music and sleep. With drug use driving both. So yes. Sleep was his only escape.

@@ghramsey1681 He got thin in 1968 and aged 10 years in two years.

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Didn't he and Yoko also dabble very briefly in heroin? That can sap body weight and muscle. His song Cold Turkey was a product of that experiment. One of the reasons they both kicked it fully was to have a baby after she miscarried. The ultimate result was Sean's birth.

All the time you couldn't miss with Johns early Vocals Killer Sound Miss Him Bad

Mine too! You have consummate taste Sir!

REVOLVER YES the best album

​@@yozzsongs my favorite too!

Revolver !!

Someone here mentioned it was written out backwards and played in real time that way. No way...you can easily hear the backward picking attack plus they'd (George I suppose) never have notated anything much less taken the tedious time.

Yeah, Game changer is a good observation. Everything about this track is dreamy-cool-weird-groovy . . . . you name it!

This used to puzzle me when I was young, trying to figure out how John got that sound - eg, the verses of Eight Days a Week or Hard Days Night

@@lukehauser1182 In the studio version, lower part is all George's voice, though it was omitted in the record.

McCartney is an incredible voice mimic.

Wait so paul is doing the harmonies???

@@Breeze1 Yes he is!

I don't want to spoil the party

Maybe if we had 'International Talk Like a Beatle Day™' . . .

This was recorded after the released version.

@@scottandrewbrass1931 No, 'I'm Only Sleeping' was release on June 20, 1966, two months later

@@Ivartshiva he meant chronologically the version that released was recorded before that version.

and he did it the hard way instead of the easy way out. Gotta love that..

@@blindowlvideos5813 Yes.

Whose idea was it that George has a backwards solo ?

@@danielbouju1688 ?

@@danielbouju1688 I do get the Taxman reference...but I seriously wonder wether the idea of George having backwards guitar riffs was Martins idea, John’s or George’s?

Except it was a recorded jam after the main track. It's not a rehearsal.

Interesting observation! You can certainly hear it in take 1. Ray Davies infamously trashed "Revolver" in a review, but said this was by far the best track on the album.

There’s a Fender Showman head/cab too. And McCartney’s blonde Bassman. I think they also used this gear on Sgt. Pepper’s and the Magical Mystery Tour stuff.

Taxman? Lol. One of the weakest songs by the Beatles.

I love Revolver but it would be much better with Paperback Writer as the first track

@@fitless Easily one of the best.

Cythar?? What are you on about?

Its not a sitar, its the backwards guitar playing sitar style.

What the heck is a ‘cythar?’ And how did you get that word past spell check which turned it into cathartic first and Cynthia second. I think you mean ‘sitar’ but it’s not that either. It’s backwards guitar, my friend.

I have made a video of "In My Life" as well. It is currently blocked and I am working on getting it shown here. Stay tuned.

Yes JOHN and PAUl are one and only one like entangled particles , and love each other of course

In my life’s tune could sound mccartney too. I’ve always listed that and “i will” in same place in my mind.

'She Said She Said' is the best song on Revolver!

I would say it’s a tie between “I’m only sleeping” and “Here, There, and Everywhere”. Both exceptional, just one is John and the other is Paul.

For no one is great too, but i agree i'm only sleeping is the best song of the album

Revolver was definitely a peak.

Studio 3. If you have ever been inside Abbey Road it is the smaller studio upstairs as you enter the building.

I think the final version is optimal. It’s supposed to be sung in a sleepy manner, not really passionately.

I don't have the photos for that date that taxman was recorded. Sorry.

Rubber Soul was in fact the transitional album for bass guitars in the band. The way to tell which is which? Get the EMI Rubber Soul album, put it on your living room stereo, then go sit on the toilet with the bathroom door nearly closed. The ones that shake the walls are the Rick, the ones that don't, the Hofner, which was developing intonation and playability issues.

That's new info that I did not know before. I appreciate all the insight from those watching these videos. Always new things to learn. Thanks for sharing.

They would NOT run the tape back. They were told - engineers - not to erase any take. That’s the “ how “ we’re hearing early takes fifty five years later.

@@jacquescousteau217 Hmm, interesting. I wonder if the vibraphone recording was an exception then.

@@JesperSalama I don’t understand . Everyone I assume has heard that take, it’s been online quite some time. I don’t own the Anthology recordings, is it on there ?

A few of the pics of George Harrison in the "If I Needed Someone" video I have posted were taken of George singing that song at Crosley Field, in 1966. You were there. Kool.

@@blindowlvideos5813 i read both comments and thought this was cool

McCartney began using a Fender Jazz bass during the Revolver and Paperback Writer sessions in 1966.

Te felicito y te congratulo...

. Those are psychedelic lyrics, very typical of their time.. I find them very good, but I am a boomer…

@@christianlacheze3323 - Those lyrics don’t sound psychedelic to me at all. Now, Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Shy With Diamonds, Yellow Submarine, I Am the Walrus, She Said, tomorrow Never Knows, etc, these are psychedelic lyrics. The Beatles could write psychedelic lyrics when they wanted, but “Sleeping” just sounds like a song literally about sleeping,

It isn't psychdelic, it's just raw poetry, probably speaking about being tired or feeling far away from the world.

And we're only used to psychedelic lyrics when refered to LSD but this song seems to be something related to heroin or something

It's George, just not a great photo. A little fuzzy.

No, I have Mark's book and never read that. There were a lot of overdubs on this song especially George working out that guitar solo.

@@blindowlvideos5813 Just asking now, did Paul happen to double George on guitar?

yeah...it is released. I hope it stays released now. Haaa

Did you know this was available on the Anthology soundtrack?

@@alonenjersey Yes but it is edited on the Anthology.