I've binged your entire channel in 3 days lol. Fantastic content, very thoroughly researched and presented. Cannot wait for the Beatles For Sale video.
Great upload! I always listened to "Don't Bother Me" and heard another John & Paul tune. Funny how George never saw its value. It has great lyrics, a great melody, great structure... the other Beatles wouldn't have put the song on the record if it didn't hold up. Lots of fans love it as a top ten tune of the era!
One of the early Beatles books that I read set the Beatles were like an incredible sports team that just came in and dominated all the other teams in every way and there was nothing anyone could do about it. They took over as soon as they appeared and they have never left the number one spot.
Dam look at all these early pictures of John he seems so much more intense. I can see why he was considered the leader and why everyone was scared of him lol. This is probably the closest to John’s true personality before all the fame, drugs, and adoration etc.
He wasn't "considered" the leader...he WAS the leader. He formed the band and let whom he wanted in the band. It was his band since 1956 when he formed The Quarrymen.
@@ktcarl I am sure that's true. But it's a very good thing for all Beatles fans that Paul stepped up and became the leader from Pepper on. Without his leadership, their last album might have been Pepper, or at the most, The White Album.
@christopher Maybe even Rubber Soul. Apparently Paul had to drag John out of bed at noon everyday just to get him to show up for the Revolver sessions. Full powered John was a unique force, but by ‘66 he was starting to slow down. I agree without Paul the Beatles don’t exist in the late 60’s and we lose some of their best work
Another great detail packed video. Look forward to your work. Your video filled with facts and good video and pictures. Luv your work. Learn many things about how The Beatles work when making a record.
thanks for showing the swan label of she loves you. capital in the us didnt want the beatles, and let a small chicago label vj, and their smaller label, swan release it. then it blew up. emi who owned capital took the rights back. those swan 45's are rare...
21:24 What were they thinking? Hold Me Tight is a good solid song -- all of the sections are good, verse, bridge, chorus, second bridge... it was better than all of their covers, and definitely better than I Wanna Be You Man, and even Till There Was You (though that song was their most sophisticated to date, their 'technical proficiency' show piece). I would say that Hold Me Tight was their 'blue collar' song -- revealing them at their most work-a-day, and it was good...
There is one other channel I do think he should collaborate with though, called “You Can’t Unhear This”. His channel is a bigger one but it would still probably benefit both if they collab on a video or two, because that “Unhear This” dude’s narrative voice isn’t nearly as cool as Film Retrospective’s lol
Great video: well done! This was the first record I ever bought, as an 11yo in Feb 1964 in Santa Barbara, California. Lots of memories made even better by your awesome research. One note at 15:05 the Beatles didn't lower "Roll Over, Beethoven" an octave, but by a whole tone (from E to D). Keep up your excellent work!
It's amazing how everyone says that Hold Me Tight is the worst song in the album when Little Child, a way worse song is right there In another note, I really like how you put the background track when talking about an specific song. Great vid as always
The spectrally extracted instrumental for She Loves You sounds great I assume you used the best source which is the 1992 'Million Sellers' CD EP which is radically superior to what they used on Past Masters, Beatles 1 and the new Red CD.
While I'm listening to this I'm experimenting floating a guitar pickup beneath the bass strings and controlling its position, hint......hint. Hmmm, compressing like I do optically. Have one Yam MTX1 and awaiting second broken one to fix, in mail. I invented the kinetic LED display that is in sync with audio. Mind blowing.
***The Beatles composed their third single in a New York Hotel Room in 1963 ?? 3'20" The Beatles (John and Paul) didn't get to the U.S until 1964 !!! Surely this is an error !
Norman mixed the mono of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" very well. It's the common stereo mix done in 1966 for the OLDIES compilation that is rubbish, and the recent new mix is nothing great either.
For the record, “Little Child” is objectively THE WORST song on the album, while “Hold Me Tight” has aged beautifully and is pretty extensively covered these days on YT. 🤷🏼♂️
I love the scene from Night Of The Living Dead while the narrator talks about barricading the doors, like the female fans are rabid zombies or something lol
I was always under the impression that EMI didn't go 4 track till the fall of '66;and the Pepper sessions.At least as far as the rock bands were concerned.Be interested to know for sure
I Want to Hold Your Hand is the first 4-track recording. You can easily tell from the existing stereo mixes. There is an overdubbed guitar line after the second bit in the three-sectiion lines of verse ("And please / say to me / [ascending guitar] you let me hold your hand //") which is not on the original two tracks. That's why the position of vocals, instruments, and overdubs varies in the first and second stereo mix. Some say Money was the first 4-track recording but that was an effect created by the stereo mix for the album when parts of the original 2-track recording were doubled. The next album, A Hard Day's Night, is 4 tracks throughout. Consequently, it has the best stereo mix of the first three albums.
@@randybackgammon890 Basically, yes. But then they would have had to use the two twintrack recorders for the different mixes (which were not made at the same time). Not very practical, is it? But the use of 4-track machines is independently documented anyway in the EMI files that, for instance, Mark Lewisohn used for his Complete Chronicle and the sessions books. They used two two-track machines on some of the older recordings such as overdubs on A Taste of Honey.
@@aureliande2659 Probably.I know Olympic was 8 track by late '66.So yes probably.Though the general concensess has always been that EMI was somewhat behind the curve even for British studios in the mid sixties
@@rhinohoudini3320 oh it was on the please please me album. see the english set up was different from americas line up. to us meet the beatles was first with i saw her standing there
no way, have u ever listened to the revolver album? that is pure rock and psychedelic rock, they were wayyyy beyond pop, but indeed they made some pop records, none of them was garbage also
Bubblegum pop did not arrive till the late sixties with bands like The Archie’s. By that time The Beatles had recorded The White album. Please stop embarrassing yourself online and seek help.
