The Beatles - Reunion at Friar Park, June 23rd 1994 [Complete] 

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Yes, the vulnerability. I think, to this day Ringo can't believe he fell into the #1 musical act in history. Ringo the everyman. Paul the hyperstar reaches out and, effectively, pats him on the head. On the bother hand, Ringo married Barbara Bach.

I liked hanging out with you guys. I remember picnic in a park. George's flower car I remember😂 riding around with Eric Clapton. Falling asleep and Eric carrying me in.😊😊

​@user-gp6cy2co4v oh yes ringo was also narrator from thomas and friends

I always found that very moving.

Me too, so sad. It really is.

Yeah so true. But they all played hard in their youth.

George underwent surgery for a collapsed lung and stab wounds to his chest in 1999. His cancer a few years later could've been a consequence of that trauma rather than what happened 30 years ago. Paul and Ringo are in their 80s, and the other two could've reached that age if it wasn't for those monster fans. @@prudencehorvath8466

Sure wish John could have had a lot more years.

Me too.

Same with "Ain't She Sweet".

indeed!@@JCFRFutterman

Billy/William, not Paul.

Ringo is a great drummer ,he did and does what most drummers wish they could do . Plays for the song Hello Drummers !!!! It's called gd timing and not over playing ! Take some lessons idiots !

I’m a deep Beatles lover, but a Kentuckian first and I just wasn’t vibing with it. It’s really cool to see that’s one of the songs they chose tho.

I was thinking that George looked like he aged the best of the 3. His hair looks great, thick and luscious. He looks more handsome than he did when he was young and his voice was great (arguably better as he got older). And he didn't have a pound of fat on him. But that's cancer for you.

George was a bit heavier and it looked good

Creating and making music is just so much a part of his soul and being.

He was referring to the two songs they released during the Anthology event. Yoko Ono provided the surviving members a tape of John Lennon, recording 3 incomplete demos in 1977. The first two of the 3, "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" were successfully finished by Paul, George, and Ringo, and their subsequent music videos played at the end of the first 2 nights of a 3 night televised event. The third song unfortunately had Lennon's vocals drowned out by his piano, and even though the remaining 3 members did in fact attempt to work on it, the technology available in 1994 didn't allow for the song to be remastered clear enough for a proper release. It was subsequently shelved for almost another 30 years....until LAST MONTH! Yes...The song I'm referring to is "Now and Then". Director Peter Jackson and his team, while working on the Get Back documentary, developed isolation technology which was able to separate Lennon's vocals from the piano that was previously drowning him out. Since they made a sincere attempt to complete this song like the other 2, back in 1994, they still had Harrison's guitar work on file. So "Now and Then". Is truly, and most likely, the last Beatles song featuring all four members.

William, not Paul.

Billy/William, not Paul.

​@@thelegendinhisownmind7038Thanks for the detailed background on those songs. For me they are excellent additions to the Beatles songbook, but their origin story makes them especially poignant.

You don't know unless you know them. All of the famous names I've known were a big let down. Some worse than others. Louis Walsh was the only exception. The rest of them had a "me me me" thing going on and it's always insufferable. I actually ran into Ringo on Christmas day 1995 in Chelsea and he was , "how ah yah lads", then he was gone into meet people. I never really see him as the guy I met on Christmas day. He was totally down to earth inside. No "me me me" at all, even though there was a fair bit of "you you you" going on. I didn't actually "meet" Ringo. I decide not to, even though I really wanted to. Mary Holland was there as well and she was insufferable. I had to get away from her!!

@@bowwowrapha7790 "I me mine" - great George song.

People and the world were entirely different in 1995. Unlike the greedy cesspool that everything is now. Especially musicians.

Don't you get tired of hearing William lie about Paul McCartney's history?

@@NaaHvaI do get tired of people talking about Paul “dying”

@@JJStale Yeah. RIP McCartney.

@@WiccanAtheoPagan I feel sorry for you

Me too ❤

Aren't they so? Decent ...

...even MORE sad that John wasn't there with them! 😔

Very jealous and mean.

​@@GenericNintendoKidThey were like brothers, they were the first Beatles to ever met. There is no such jealousy or that stuff you are saying actually.

@@qasanoba if he wasn’t a jealous, bitter fool, why did he sleep with his best friend’s wife?

didnt clapton do hat not george?@@GenericNintendoKid

@@kurtmoses5583 guy is lost in his fun facts

🎶Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four🎶

@@mrdrumz2132…came here to check if someone already had made the proper reply. Not disappointed:)

He is one of the most tasteful drummers always playing the right thing not the fanciest or flashiest. He's got a little swing and his fills are quirky and subtle.

Absolutely brilliant drummer. Check out the folks who are uploading Beatles records with just bass and drums, and you can really hear Ringo’s work. Both of them just absolute geniuses together.

Ringo is an elegant drummer. Real style

I think it's more of a running gag amongs the people who never actually listen to the Beatles or have any understanding of music. Because the other three were so prolific as solo artists and Ringo seems so 'normal' amongst these frontmen. But everyone who knows a thing or two about music know what he is about.

Yep, closely followed by Pink Floyd, then Queen!

Met him for all of ten seconds in the late 90s. Much like his description of meeting Elvis, like walking up to Vishnu. Shook his hand and said how are you, to which he replied in Liverpudlian "fine, thank you".

*Just gave it an extra like for ya!

He is just not dumb. They never were…..

@@Roger-nr8ty Shakespeare that is.

@@Roger-nr8tyNo, el que habla es Paul que dice "Hello Neil". Esa ni es la voz de George

@@Roger-nr8ty por favor cállate, solo repites esas cosas sin base, Billy Shears es un personaje creado para Ringo. Paul no está muerto, sigue vivo y con nosotros. Hay cantidad de evidencia que desmiente todo esta estupidez del falso Paul. Deja de creer todo lo que ves en internet.

@@Roger-nr8ty Perdoname, pero claramente no conoces el ingles, porqué el que habla dice claramente "Hello Neil", porqué Neil Aspinall está alla, y esa es claramente la voz de Paul. Lo siento pero estas equivocado, y como ya te dicieron repites cosas que otra gente equivocada ha escuchado

Ringo acts naturally. 🥰😂

Yes. Such decent, talented men. What a lovely video 🩷

VERY VERY RIGHT U R

As I recall, I was quite happy in those days...until Hey Jude was played on my AM radio every 30 minutes. I grew to despise their music post-1965. Still do.

You have to remember they spent a very intense 10/11 years living in each others pockets.

@@woowah32 you nailed it perfectly. And a good portion of those years it was 24/7.

I miss him too!

WE ALL MISS, GEORGE!!! M.O'B

First few notes are "Duel of the Fates" from Star Wars, lol.

Fantastic SONG drummer...as opposed to...?

@@CB-xr1eg as opposed to more technical/virtuoso types of drummers.

Not really. He's like a kitchenhand in a 5 star restaurant. Necessary but replaceable, and the food will still taste just as good.

@@terri6854 your lack of wisdom is showing.

​@@dannomusic47 I mean, he’s not wrong. You could argue that he was irreplaceable due to his personality and friendship with the others, and that's no small thing, but his playing wouldn't be challenging for an average drummer to replicate.

Today's pop music is pathetic compared to that, today's keyboard players can't tell the difference between a staccato and a normally played note.

No need to reunite. Bands aren`t supposed to last a lifetime but the music is. Seems to be an intolerable thirst for every band ever to carry on or reunite years after what was their heyday. No need !

@@ponyboycurtis9345 logically maybe not. Emotionally yes,definitely so. And their fans ,in their multitudes ,who had made the Beatles huge were still a young fan base,some still in their 20s ,having grown up as kids with the music. Would have been a historically enormous event. The fact that they did come back post John years later or in his shadow suggests that it was always a possibility.

@@relevantbrother8964 Hmm , would have taken the shine off The Beatles methinks

@@relevantbrother8964 More of a nostalgia meet I thought showing they`ve all moved on with the money/squabbles thing I . Bad for the Beatle brand and they were all still being paid in some form for being in the best band in the world ever !

Supposedly John was about to take a trip to visit Paul (without Yoko), to discuss making new music together. He had heard ‘Coming Up’ on the radio and it made a big impression on him at the time (it caused him to get excited to make Double Fantasy). Or so the story goes. Only Yoko and Paul know the real story.

It's sad it was a Marlboro ad on the racecar. Smoking is what killed George...

​@@juliapp5051I'm sure that raving looney that stabbed him didn't help non either

Elvis was larger than life.

​@@allenf.5907he had to he because his music sure wasn't

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek His music was life. He started it all - for R & R to go mainstream.

And Paul's, and Ringo's.

It's funny how Paul and George start kinda talking over him like "very lovely, very nice, beautiful" and you can tell they're kinda doing it because they get a little uncomfortable with the emotional vulnerability. Kinda like old English aunties when you have to leave. They can't really bring themselves to say how much they have missed you but you know. I dunno, it's adorable.

I don’t think it was ever the ‘style’ of The Beatles to do that kind of thing. Too obvious. Too staged. Too performative. No one needs an empty chair to realise that John was missing.

I saw him this year.

not even necessary, as it is even Paul's belief that John turned up spiritually that day in the form of a rare albino bird, there is a photo of the moment actually, the bird came and posed in perfectly with the band. Wouldn't be the first or last strange thing that has happened to John Lennon's friends in his "absence." A very strange and rare individual whom the world will forever be aware of his presence. Love and Peace to Lennon

I was at that same show! It’s amazing just how well Ringo could perform even into his 80s. One of my most cherished memories getting to see him play live in person.

@@Red-Mush Me too. I also loved the Men at Work material. I saw Edgar in 1974 in Portland, OR, w/ Derringer. I was also at the Clapton show in Columbus 2 days earlier, Two big Icons in 2 days, I was stoked.

I think Peter Jackson said something that implies that he is doing that

​@@dustmakrWhat did he say ?

@@paulbakker6765 I cant remember anything specific, but he said he was working on another Beatles project, and a new version of anthology would make alot of sense

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Better still a Peter Jackson reboot

They were great as soloists.

Even if he´s now wealthy, there was a time when he's family was poor. So i think he knows what is like.

Things might have been even greater, had John stuck with Cynthia, and not met that HORROR called Yoko, who got John into Heroin, and was such a disruptive distraction to the rest of the band, insisting on sitting in on recording sessions etc, and giving her two penneth on the direction SHE thought the band should take. I mean, who TF was SHE? Love the video when John was Jamming with Chuck Berry, and Yoko, or should I say "The Babadook" decided to let out an UNGODLY wail! Chuck's face was an absolute picture, as if to say "wot da actual Fu*K was dat?" Then Chuck instructed the sound engineer to silence her mic, and she tried again, but of course, she could not be heard. That was Hilarious.

@@hermanmunster3358. Thanks for your comment - interesting.

Right on..I was 15 when it came out,I don't remember any interviews like this etc lol,jist remember the mentioned new songs and all the songs for the Anthology at said time..I respect all the early stuff, later/psychedelic era was the 1 that caught me lol..magical mystery, savoy truffle,strawberry..u know where I'm going lol..im my 20s had a long relationship with a chick for 8yrs, she was a bigger Beatles fan..so I got to hear more..😁✌️🍻

You must be fun at parties 😂

Well I'd dig the anecdote at a party. If it were the 3 of us as in this thread I guess that would make.... You, the boring one ?​@@sub-jec-tiv

Chatting Wham? I didn't hear them mention Wham

@@CB-xr1eg Chatting wham, talking shit, shooting the shit, whatever phrase you wanna use

@@MrXenon1994 Seems like it's you that's talking shit!

@@CB-xr1eg lmao alright guy

@@MrXenon1994 Who says I'm a guy??

According to interviews with Paul they did. He says they'd go over to George's house and he would pass around ukulele just like in this segment and play. Good times.

@@JCFRFutterman That's great to know, thanks!

I know that they did meet the three of them not too long before George passed away, and there were no cameras for that meeting. We don't know many details, but it was big on reminiscing and rather feel-good given the circumstances. George also saw both of them separately only days before. They both mentioned it in their interviews. There is one where Paul talks about holding holding hands with George, including the soft thumb stroking and demonstrates on Ringo (they are interviewed together). He talks about how being soft with your male friends or telling them you loved them wasn't a thing back in the days when they were young, which in my eyes makes that moment even more poignant. Being able to farewell George was one of the consolations of his passing (which was something denied them with John's sudden death). And I am glad they found peace in their friendship in the end after many turbulent years. I mean, Paul and George knew each other first. But Ringo and George had a strong and less complicated friendship for many years and collaborated many times, so maybe that's where the loss was most felt? Ringo has a tribute song for George, but I don't think Paul recorded one? So it seems that the closure allowed for Paul and George was enough for Paul to 'Let it be'. He always sounds fond when mentioning George, but it seems that John is the loss he can not get over. But maybe it seems that way because he tends to be asked about John continuously and frequently so we get more soundbites.

@@LusiaEyre Glad to know they got some private time. That makes me happy. In regards to Paul's loss of George vs John, I would imagine it would be much harder to deal with John's loss....guy was taken away unexpectedly for one thing. For another, they hadn't really kissed and made up all that well at that point (I think, I'm not an expert, but that's what I seem to recall). Whereas with George, they had some time to heal wounds, plus George's death wasn't totally out of the blue. Of course, I am purely speculating. Interesting to think about though.

Vegas was for the spectacle not the music fans. If you like tigers Vegas had a show with them but they were sad and angry and ate the showman.

I think that was his best song.