THIS MESSED ME UP!! First Time Reacting To The Beatles - 'A Day In The Life'
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Now you're into some great Beatles stuff...1967 was true a magical year for rock music.
Then Led Zeppelin realigned everything
And it didn't hurt that most people were tripping...to the perfect album for the occasion.
The same year The Zombies released the Odyssey and Oracal Album in the UK. It did nothing, and yet today it sells more and more copies year by year. 🎶✌️👉🇨🇦🎶
In fact, 1967 was the very best year for music.
Yep! Jimi Hendrix released his first album, a formation was formed from which Deep Purple emerged the next year, the Beatles made their 3rd film, Pink Floyd released their first album and pop music split into rock and pop. A truly exciting year for the music world...
That's not a pop song; it's a work of art.
I’ve been listening to the Beatles for 50 years and it still shocks me that Lennon was 26 and McCartney 25 when this album came out.
Wow, amazing
@DJ-bj8ku and that just 3 o 4 years before they made "love me do". A miracolous growth.
Just think of all the other songs this particular song influenced. Without this song there would be no Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, or Metallica's One!
Suspend your disbelief, for just a moment, and hear me out.. It's called The Industry, for a reason. Welcome to the Machine and Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd are very telling, lyrically.
Crowley, and occultism, is very prevalent in the British Invasion and counter-culture movements. I have images that would blow your mind.
Once you examine the narrative behind the creation of Rubber Soul with a little scrutiny, and logic, you can see there was much more at play here. These weren't four working-class lads from Liverpool, that on genius alone, became an inspirational rags-to-riches story.
I'm not a hater, I went through a Beatles phase, like any Rock purist would.
Zeppelin was the next torch-bearer of the movement, passed from the Beatles, and ending eight years of Beatles dominance. It was all by design.
If you've been a Beatlemaniac for 50 years, then you are well aware that George Martin thought they were "rubbish," in the beginning.
I'm going to leave it there, because I already know the "blasphemy" you probably think I'm speaking. It's important to first divorce yourself from the idea that this was truly the "Fab Four" before proceeding, if you dare.
If you are up to the challenge, Mike Williams of the YT channel Sage of Quay Radio has spent several years decoding this information, and I'd ease into it with the Rubber Soul narrative.
In what way? I mean, most pop and rock stars make it big (if they’re going to at all) somewhere in in their 20’s. Why does it surprise you?
McCartney's bass playing is amazing.
There is a lot to unpack in this song. Most of the lyrics came about from bits of news stories of the time. "He blew his mind out in a car" is Tara Browne, son of British Peer and heir to the Guinness fortune and friend of the Beatles, who died from injuries sustained in a car crash. "I saw a film today, oh boy. The English Army had just won the war. A crowd of people turned away" is about the movie How I Won the War, which John Lennon had a small part in. It got really bad reviews, hence the "crowd" who "turned away". The "woke up, fell out of bed" part was a bit of song Paul McCartney had that he hadn't been able to do anything with, so he and John worked it into this. The "four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" section was about the bad streets in Blackburn that were full of potholes. The story was the authorities had to count them all and the comment was made that there were so many holes, "they (the holes) could fill the Albert Hall" (a bit of hyperbole here, perhaps even added by John). For the orchestra build-up, they told an orchestra to go from their lowest note of their respective instruments to their highest and they were allowed to improvise their way through it. The orchestra thought they were crazy, but they did it. The result was an avant-garde piece that was multi-tracked into the crescendo you heard. The end note was the E major chord played simultaneously on 3 different pianos and a harmonium. It would become one of the most famous end chords in music history. In addition, they also added a high-pitched note that only dogs could hear. This final chord inspired George Lucas (of Star Wars fame) to use a similar chord as part of his THX logo. The BBC banned this song for a long time due to the drug reference of "I want to turn you on". The Beatles were the first to truly turn pop music into an art experience.
Henrietta you're spot on, well done and congrats on taking the time to illuminate those who missed it's debut on AM radio
The «woke up, fell out of bed» is about Paul waking up too late to catch the bus, but he made it, and goes upstairs in the double deck bus, and smoking weed and get high, or something, hence the «went into a dream» and the «aaaah’s» is hus dream.
But once again , it seems George Martin is left out of the narrative. The songs are tremendous. But without George we would all be listening to a different and much lesser album. His skills were vital.
Nice summary. This is consistent with Geoffrey Emerick's recollection in his lovely book.
Henrietta, that was great. Thank you
Over 50 years I knew so little behind the lyrics.
Appreciate you breaking it down like that.
Ringo's playing in this song is absolute genius.
Paul's bass.....wow!
every fill so tasty, and swingin' all the way.
My favorite drummers of all-time are Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Keith Moon and Mitch Mitchell. I started out on drums, inspired by Ringo and Charlie , later Keith and Mitch. They helped me get the best out of my drumming. They showed me how to play for each song rather than a by-rote style.
This song presents Ringo as a master drummer - his fills are absolutely perfect for the song. More epicness from the lads 😊
John famously said Ringo was the best friend a song ever had
Ringo's additions to this song are a masterclass in drum fills.
If you don't have the "swing" you don't have a "thing" & Ringo "swing's" here big time!
Yes it wouldn’t be as magnificent without him
Geoff Emerick's production work on Ringo's drum was fantastic and innovated. Still sounds fresh over 50 years later.
the most important thing, is that you are understanding why after all these years, the beatles are still so important
I was 9 years old when John Lennon was killed and it remains one of my most vivid childhood memories because it was the first time I saw my father cry.
40+ years later and I still haven’t come to terms with it all but the music soothes the soul, to be sure.
The song is 57 years old and still blows my mind utter genius
You should start from the beginning. Go from their first album to the last in chronological order. That way, you can experience the growth of the band the way we did when we were kids.
Cheers! 😊
Yes!
Definitely Definitely. Only way to truly appreciate them 💙
I couldn’t agree more. It’s the only way to understand how rapidly they developed over a relatively short period of time (8 years).
These guys put out 13 albums, a bunch of non-album singles, five films, and had toured all over the world, in seven years. Not a one of them was even 30 years old for their last album together. They're the best selling act ever... On just seven years' worth of work. They're also more critically beloved than any act, and advanced the artistry of popular music more than anyone before or since. They defied genre and did basically whatever they wanted musically, and outsold everyone doing it - no one was ever more popular during their time. And they did it all, and I really cannot stress this enough, in *seven years* and all *under age 30*. It doesn't actually seem possible, and I would say it wasn't possible except that they actually did it.
"I Am the Walrus" is a great Beatles song....
...like 80% of the songs they made.
This album changed everything. This is the Summer of Love, 1967. The album, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band was number 1 in the UK album chart for 27 weeks and 15 weeks in the US Hot 100. It marks a sea change in cultural thinking.
Woot, woot!!!! The Beatles! …..NEVER over-rated, but often over-HATED!!!
I love hearing people tell me how irrelevant they were lol. Thats when I usually when I turn way and start counting holes in Blackburn Lancashire
@@glenchapman3899How many do you find?
@jean-pierreyot5871 well they were rather small, but I think there was enough to fill the Albert Hall
@@glenchapman3899 Dang! I’ve seen the Royal Albert Hall … that must be a hell of a lot of holes.
How does it feel to make stupid statements on YT. How lame do you have to be to hate one of the greatest bands in history?
Love when a new generation embraces Beatles music. 🙌
By the way, Ringo is the perfect drummer for the Beatles. He gets overlooked because he didn’t do fancy, heavy drum solos. He is really quite good….listen to him
Agreed! He enhanced a song and never hurt a song. That is the perfect recipe for perfect music.
Exactly, Ringo was great.
Yes he wasn’t a Keith Moon ,John Bonham or Neal Peart That a big duhhhh. What he was is a great drummer who filled each song with the right beats & fills.
If you’re a drummer it’s a no brainer. 💪🏼
Hr was perfect for the Beatles .very steady. On hey Jude he was on toilet when Paul started the song. And went in at a perfect place. He didnt know they had started.
He played his part in producing masterpieces as opposed to hamming it up in drum solos to jazz up songs that were no masterpieces. A lot of "greatest guitarists" and "greatest drummers" never played in masterpieces because they were not in bands with three of the greatest songwriters of all time or even in bands with one of the greatest songwriters. You end up with virtuosity wasted on so so songs. Ringo did a great job in many of the best songs ever written.
Yep. I have a buddy who one of the top drummers in contemporary music (Rolling Stone Mag) but played in a so so song writing band All the musicians were top shelf but no major hits.
You must know that the engineer, producer and sound designer George Martin was called the 5th Beatle. He was a GREAT part of their success...
The Beatles audio engineer was Geoff Emerick not Martin
@@subg8858 Yes, but Martin was the one to do the string arrangements, keyboard arrangements, and other things on their records. He also played on certain tracks. He was able to translate whatever they were thinking (and that was sometimes a very tricky endeavor) into physical musical form. He really was the 5th Beatle.
@@MsAppassionata Ähm... Of course he wasn't! This title was already taken years before the boys met Martin. Small excerpt from the band's vita...
"At the beginning of 1960, the group now consisted of the four permanent members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe as well as rotating drummers. On stage they mainly wore dark clothing or leather suits. Stuart Sutcliffe also wore dark sunglasses. On August 17, 1960, the group gave their first concert under the name The Beatles in Hamburg's red light district St. Pauli with their new drummer Pete Best. From then on they played every day at Indra, a strip club on the infamous Große Freiheit. Because the Indra- When the club had to be closed due to disturbing the peace, the Beatles moved to the Kaiserkeller on October 4, 1960. During their stay in Hamburg, Stuart Sutcliffe met the student Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he became engaged in November 1960.
On November 30th, the Beatles had their last appearance in the Kaiserkeller and then returned to Liverpool. Sutcliffe decided to stay in Hamburg with his girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr after McCartney and Best were deported a week after the last performance in the Kaiserkeller, the Hamburg police banned Lennon and Sutcliffe from working and Lennon returned to England. He himself was suspected of setting Bruno Koschmider's cinema on fire.
At the end of 1961, after he had often suffered from severe headaches, Stuart Sutcliffe collapsed for the first time in college, and he had another collapse in February 1962. On April 10, 1962, Sutcliffe died in an ambulance on the way to hospital a cerebral hemorrhage. Astrid Kirchherr was sitting next to him when he died.
John Lennon said on the death of Stuart Sutcliffe:
“I looked up to Stu. I relied on his opinion. If he said something was good, I believed him.”
End of the story...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844Wikipedia: Early Beatles sessions, 1962
Though Martin later called the 6 June 1962 session at EMI's studio two an "audition", as he had never seen the band play before,[119] the session was actually intended to record material for the first Beatles single.[120] Ron Richards and his engineer Norman Smith recorded four songs-"Besame Mucho", "Love Me Do", "Ask Me Why", and "P.S. I Love You". Read more there...
So he was involved in the musical process since 1962...
@@subg8858He was since 1966...
Wikipedia: Geoffrey Ernest Emerick (5 December 1945 - 2 October 2018) was an English sound engineer and record producer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969).[1] Beatles producer George Martin credited him with bringing "a new kind of mind to the recordings, always suggesting sonic ideas, different kinds of reverb, what we could do with the voices"
Check out "I want you" (She's So Heavy) or "Oh Darling"
Oh Darling is one of Paul's best. It shows his voice so good.
You Never Give Me Your Money too
I'd say BOTH, just for comparison's sake!
How invigorating it is to see young people still exploring and loving the Beatles
The last verse was about an article John Lennon read in the paper about how many potholes were to be found in the town of Blackburn Lancashire and the amount of asphalt estimated to fill them all would fill the Royal Albert Hall. He turned it into a great lyric.
I believe the Albert Hall line came from Mal.
It was an intentional joke: how many (ass)holes to fill the Albert Hall 😊
John also took Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite from poster advertisement for a circus.
One of John and Paul's absolute masterpieces. I've always said that when you hear this for the first time it raises your IQ a couple of points. Something that is said so frequently about this band is 'No one had ever heard anything like this before'. Very true here. This is from their 'psychedelic' period. However, I never felt like this was their original intention. Having quit touring, they had many months to work on the album. They intended to put out an album that didn't sound like them. It as definitely a departure from expectations. Of course the Beatles were really masters at departing from expectations. They had that habit. But this album left everyone in the dust and even ended some careers.
As has been noted in other comments, John had a song but was looking for something to add to it. Who better to seek this from than his old writing partner, Paul? Just so happens Paul had a little ditty he didn't know what to do with. So they merged them. While doing so they added a little avant-garde cacophony. Many people interpret the building of instruments as the rush one receives taking certain drugs. Paul has addressed in interviews. Paul said that he and John looked at each thinking this was likely going to to be interpreted that way anyway. So, they added the 24 bar orchestral build to connect the parts. You were talking about listening to this....if you listen real closely you can hear Mal Evans counting out the 24 bars so they knew when to move to the next part.
Q: How about Tomorrow Never Knows. A Prequel several years before??
They took so long putting this album together, people thought they'd quit music, and nothing else in them. Joke was on them!
Really impressed young man, how you quickly boiled this down to some of it’s great elements, John’s vocal, Ringo’s drumming etc.. You are in for a treat as you dive into their catalog. No suggestions for you, it’s all great!
I was just scrolling to see who's listening to The Beatles and your reaction is great. Congratulations on listening to probably one of the most perfect albums ever
my compliments to you, young dude.... you listen carefully and you are very astute in your observations.
Yeah this boy here does his homework
I appreciate that!💙
The Beatles, ever the game changers from the first time they burst on the scene in 1963, changed EVERYTHING again, with this album.
Across The Universe is a beautiful song to react to.
That is one of my favourite songs. It actually got me to watch the movie Across The Universe which had the actors singing Beatles music. It wasn't the greatest movie although I liked it and the weaving of the Beatles into it was magical
Anthology 3 version is my favorite, but all versions of it are great!
My favorite Beatles song
For those not experienced, this gives you a tiny sliver of what a trip can be like.
Great description! lol
I’m experienced, and 👍
The gorgeous voice of John Lennon
The incredible drumming of Ringo Starr
The greatest band of all time. Good man
Yessir..
Great reaction..
Beatles are the greatest..
Keep digging..
John and Paul each had a piece of a song so George Martin decided to put the two parts together and make one song! A MASTERPIECE was the result! John sang the first and third parts with Paul singing the middle!
Lennon had more than a piece of a song here. Come on now
John and Paul decided to put them together, George Martin did produce it though
A rich young man, member of the House of Lords, rather well known and also a friend of Lennon, dies in a car crash close to Marble Arch in central London. It´s in the papers next day, and the I of the song reads it - it´s the start of just another day in your life. And it really happened. What´s really keeping this song together is Ringo´s drumming - exellent!
Really? A member of the House of Lords, was friends with Lennon? Otherwise he would only have contempt for those stiff lips...
His name was Tara Browne. @@melchiorvonsternberg844
The guy it was based on was Tara Browne, (it was actually his father that was a Lord) and he would have inherited a fortune from his father and the Guinness beer business had he lived. Lennon may possibly have seen him at parties, but Browne was more well known to Paul McCartney, and it was in December 1965 at Tara's London home where Paul first tried LSD. Tragically the following December Tara was driving through London in the very early hours of the morning, he swerved to avoid someone pulling out of a side street and he ploughed his Lotus Elan sports car into a parked van. His passenger was a model called Suki Potier and she escaped with only shock and bruising. Suki went on to become a girlfriend of Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. In 1981 she too died in a car accident. John read about the accident in the newspaper, and initially Paul didn't realise the inspiration was Tara, he assumed the song's character was a politician.
Good info. Thanks!@@MrDiddyDee
The weird bit at the very end is a hangover from the vinyl record. The groove on the record at the end went into a continuous loop, so those few seconds just played over and over until you got up and lifted the stylus.
I have to add, the more I hear this song, the more I appreciate Ringo's drumming.
One of the less well known Beatles songs is "Cry Baby Cry", John Lennon through and through, one of my favourites.
This song is amazing, the bass line, the drumming, everything about it
There is no live version of Come Together. The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 in order to focus more on their music in the studio. The artist on the organ is Billy Preston, the only artist ever to share label credits with the Beatles on the #1 single called Get Back😮! Listed as the Beatles with Billy Preston. Billy would hit the charts himself in the early 70's and became the first artist of color to hit #1 with an instrumental and later, hit #1 with a vocal😮! Billy Preston/Will It Go Round In Circles😊
the first???? don't think so
John Lennon performed "Come Together" in 1972 at Madison Square Garden. There is a video on CZcams. It is also on the compilation album "Gimme Some Truth"
That last note though❤️🤘goes on forever in a beatles fans head
E major
the Beatles broke up in 70. way before the video craze. it's rare to see a video of them. Come Together, the concert on the roof, not too many. But the music is so good. they and the Eagles are really strict about copyright, though.
There's tons of Beatles material. Official music videos are Paperback writer, Rain, Strawberry Fields forever, Penny Lane, A day in the Life, All you need is love, Hey Jude, Hey Bulldog, The Ballad of John&Yoko, Revolution, many songs from the films A hard day's night , Help, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let it be (Get back) and tons of material from concerts and TV shows.
Come together was visualized for the official opening of the Beatles website in 2000, as was Here Comes the Sun for the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road.
The finish was renowned to be the longest sustained piano chord ever recorded (so I've heard).
Paul's part of the chimaera that is this song is him reminiscing about rushing to college on the bus, having skipped breakfast. He has a quick cigarette on the upstairs of the bus (which you could do in those days) and dozes off again. In the late 50s they weren't smoking anything more exotic on public transport! John's song was mostly inspired by various news headlines in the newspaper, in a similar that 'For the Benefit of Mr. Kite' was by a Victorian circus poster found in an antiques shop.
There is a brilliant home movie style video to accompany this (shot mostly by Paul I think) where you see the orchestra in preparation and other famous acts of the time dropping in on the recording session.
Paul didn't go to college.
@@davisworth5114 Good point, but Lennon did (Liverpool College of Art) before he was expelled and given that Paul joined the Quarrymen when Lennon was only 15 it is not inconceivable that he was hanging out with him there before Lennon was expelled when they went touring, aged 19. [Pretty sure I read or heard this somewhere, but at nearly 66 I've lost it in the mists of time. PS. We were singing Beatles' songs aged 5 in my first school.]
EDIT: By complete coincidence today (23 March) I came across in a charity (thrift) shop a copy of the book 'THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY' (2000. Chronicle Books), which opens with mini bios of the lads prior to the formation of the group. John did indeed hold sessions at the Art College which involved Paul. Although cheap it is a hardback and the size of a small coffee table so I passed on buying it, but it is a gold mine of information.
@@davisworth5114 Nor was he at any point a raccoon.
I’ve been a Beatles since I was 16, when I first heard them at the end of 1963. I never tire of listening to their music.
From what I've heard in the past, John didn't have a good middle section for his song "A Day in the Life", and Paul just happened to be working on a random tune that was going nowhere. So John and Paul decided to see what would happen if they combined their two distinct pieces. And it worked! An amazing, histotic achievement in music composition, which they would return to on their finale (farewell-to-fans) album, "Abbey Road".
"I'd love to turn you on" just before both orchestral surges is all you need to know. Turn on, tune in and drop out as the acid generation put it. I love this period of Lennon's writing especially. Try Tomorrow Never Knows or Strawberry Fields Forever for a bit more psychedelic mind-bending
Right on, brother...All Power to the People...
And if you listen, one of the times they sing I'd love to turn you on, someone immediately replies 'off'.
Got to be strawberryfields forever next....what a song
@@t.j.payeur5331 Lol. That’s a Black Panther Party expression.
@@MsAppassionataFree Mumia. 40 years is 40 years too long.
Ringo’s drums are epic, almost jazz. John’s voice is haunting. Paul’s bass is playing countermelody through the song (in the style JS Bach) but especially in John’s “ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh” part. and then the acoustic strumming of both John and George, phenomenal….and then the final E chord!
The first line about the man who "made the grade" is a newspaper story about a fatal car accident that involved the heir to the Guinness beer fortune. 'He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed" Many people at the time thought those lines were actually proof of the rumor the Paul had died in a car accident and was replaced and that's not true. The 4,000 holes mentioned, were potholes in a road which John also read about in a newspaper and was amused by the fact that ...Did somebody COUNT them ? How can they say exactly 4,000 holes ? LOL The middle part of the song when Paul sings "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head' (He didn't say he read the news) was a piece of song that Paul had written and didn't know what to do with. So they decided to put it in the middle of this. Welcome to THE BEATLES.....Enjoy !!! 😀
Thank you for explaining it with more detail than I did!!
@@labangs65 You are most welcome 😁
His name was Tara Bowne, and he was only 21 when he was killed. He also has two children. His girlfriend, model Suki Potier, was in the car at the time, but she survived. But 15 years later, she and her husband both died in a car crash on holiday in Portugal. Very strange, no? I guess she cheated death in Tara's fatal accident, so it came after her 15 years later. She was 33.
Paul had a bike accident, probably where he got the idea of Paul is Dead theory.
No that rumor was started in the 60's and it was started as a joke phone call to a radio station. Many people believed it and started looking for clues. The Beatles themselves had fun with it and put fake clues out such as the flowers in the shape of a bass guitar on the Sargent Pepper album and many other "Clues" on the same album cover. Some were really so convinced by all the clues, they still believe that the real Paul died and was replaced by a look-a-like. It was a joke, a great hoax but not true.
This is e must listen too album start to finish.
That last piano note sustained for 45 seconds on the original recording It's an E Major chord played by the boys and George Martin and assistant Mal Evans simultaneously on multiple pianos...Back in the day; it was so cool to listen to it fade away...~sigh~
Sgt peppers Lonely hearts club
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
Same album ✌🏼
You need to check out that movie!!
Don’t Let Me Down, live rooftop performance!!! Fantastic ❤️🎶
The first verse is about a wealthy London society heir, a friend of Lennon's who was killed in a car crash, indeed by blowing through a red light.
"Made the grade" usually does refer to success -- passing a test, being found worthy -- but Lennon's using it ironically to refer to his friend dying. Very often, Beatles songs credited to Lennon and McCartney were mash-ups. The would both take separate songs they were working on, and combine them, usually making a verse from one into a bridge for the other. In this case, Lennon's song was about the stuff you encounter in day-to-day life: reading the newspaper, watching a movie. The movie he mentions is actually one he acted in, "How I Won the War." Paul had the beginning of a song about his youth, waking up, taking the bus to school, sneaking out for a smoke, etc, which he contributed to John's daily-life song.
The Beatles were accompanied by an actual orchestra, but in the parts where the music rises higher and higher, there was no printed music. The musicians were instructed to just "wing it" climbing up the scales.
The final piano chord was played on three pianos simultaneously.
The last weird little bit of gobbledygook was a practical joke by the band. "A Day in the Life" was the final song on the "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. In the days of vinyl records, the spiral groove that the needle travels in to make the music ended in a loop near the center of the record, which would just play over and over until you lifted up the needle. So the Beatles had the producers just cut up a few feet of tape with scissors, then randomly splice together a few seconds to put in that inner loop -- along with a few seconds of a hypersonic tone, too high for humans to hear, just to make dogs bark!
Our family cat always reacted to that tone. That’s how we discovered that it was in there.
I think the irony of the car crash guy is that John calls him “a lucky man who made the grade” but he’s really only a rich trust fund kid. By this point in their careers, the only other young rich people the Beatles could hang out with were these types of society playboys and rich girls. They were never totally comfortable with it.
For the change between Paul's and John's parts, they had an orchestra play scales over and over, and then they sped it up. Very interesting and groundbreaking. George Martin, their producer, played that piano note at the end.
Nearly correct, the orchestra were given the bottom and top notes and the time to transition. The final note is a composite of instruments
Well, you're 1/5th right, ...: )....It was actually way cooler than that; 22 February 1967, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the Beatles’ assistant Mal Evans sat at three different pianos, and George Martin sat at a harmonium, and they all played an E major chord simultaneously...Mashing down their palms on the Chord for effect.
@MardyGit you're nearly correct that end is a combination of 3 different pianos and a harmonium all playing E major
And no computers were used in the making of this masterpiece. This is analog.
@@godbluffvdgg it took several tries to get everyone sync'd up so they hit their keyboard at the same time
The "blew his mind out in a car" referred to an actual prominent guy, maybe a member of Lords, who did LSD while driving, and ran a red light. Considering the limitations of recording technology at the time, this song was revolutionary, and still stands up well. It, Janis' Monterey Festival Ball and Chain, and the Stones' Gimme Shelter still give me goosebumps 55 years later.
This is my first encounter with your channel, and I like what I hear. Looks like you're off to a strong start. Keep at it. I subscribed, and will return.
As far as further dives into the Beatles, you wouldn't regret Hey Bulldog.
He was an heir to the Guinness fortune. He died in a car crash
Sorry, my man. The man in question is Guinness heir Tara Browne, friend to the Beatles and most everyone of importance in the Swinging Sixties of Londontown. Definitely NOT from the House of Lords (or the U.S. Senate, for that matter ;) It was Tara's father that was in the HoL. There's no information that I have read that Tara was actually tripping.... And yes BALL & CHAIN from the 1967 International Pop Festival was THE BOMB!!! I didn't really understand Janis until I saw this movie back in the early 1980s. I was very young (once) and was watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the one with Gene Wilder) and then I SNUCK into the next theatre and watched GIMME SHELTER as an 8 year-old!!! LOVED IT!!!
Bits actually two songs fused together...John had a part finished song and played it for Paul in the studio. Paul said I have a part finished song too. So they melded them together...made the Great is an English saying. I guess in America you would say ' he has made the big time
Blew his mind out in a car, meaning he was tripping on a hallucinogenic and was unable to pay attention to the traffic. The whole song is references to being under the influence, but the events mentioned were actual things in the news - a good friend of theirs, a very wealthy young person, had died in a car crash, books, movies, potholes, all related with the dreamlike perspective of tripping. When this album was released in 1967, music critics and classical musicians likened this song to pieces by the great classical composers.
HEY BULLDOG (by John) and IT'S ALL TOO MUCH (by George, about his wife Pattie Boyd-Harrison-Clapton, also SOMETHING, LAYLA and WONDERFUL TONIGHT - all for the very same girl! You can see her in the movie A HARD DAYS NIGHT, where George met the model/actress... she's the blonde who sits down at the end of the train with her girlfriend near the beginning of the movie.)
These two songs are from YELLOW SUBMARINE (although Hey Bulldog was cut from the original release in 1968), but the songs were recorded a year earlier, in 1967, so it matches up nicely with SGT. PEPPER (I, personally, never say Sgt. Pepper's, possessive, unless I say the whole album title) and MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR... which along with RUBBER SOUL, and REVOLVER is the very pinnacle of Beatles output (in basically just 2 years, 1966-67).
The Beatles REINVENTED themselves right after this period... when, in 1968, they went to India to see the Maharishi and learn transcendental meditation (only 20 minute meditation... twice daily!), and then got pissed at him (aka Sexy Sadie on the White Album) because, apparently, he was flirting with the beautiful women (like Pattie and Mia Farrow while she was still married to Frank Sinatra - very young (she was 21, Sinatra was 50) and very beautiful too, see the recent videos of their trip, THE BEATLES IN INDIA).
They returned and wrote HEY JUDE ("Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song, and make it better" - Jude originally Julian Lennon, John's first son by his first wife) b/w REVOLUTION ("You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world.") AND THEN came what is now called THE WHITE ALBUM... and you'd hardly recognize this was the same band that brought you this A DAY IN THE LIFE!!!
Re: the lyrics to this song... it's well documented how it came about. John was at home, at the piano, reading the paper, as he has ALWAYS done (he's a reader, that one!), and the news that he read was a real story, that car crash, and, get this, the guy who "blew his mind out in a car," was none other than a friend of the Beatles (and all the cool people of the Swinging Sixties scene in London that year) named Tara Browne... the heir to the Guinness alcohol fortune. Tara was not in the House of Lords, but his dad was.
The movie John "saw" was his own! He had a part in a Dick Lester (who did A HARD DAYS NIGHT) movie called HOW I WON THE WAR. Apparently, it wasn't a very good movie, as "a crowd of people turned away," but of course, John HAD to look, he was IN THE MOVIE!!!
Paul's "Woke up, fell out of bed..." was just one of his ditties that he had lying around and thought it would go well here. Paul also pretty much came up with the orchestra swell idea, primarily because he "was a man about town" and discovering music by STOCKHAUSEN, while John languished at home with his wife and kid.
Finally - those 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire? POTHOLES, all of them! Someone had to go and fill them all in!!! So far as I can tell, The Albert Hall is STILL being filled with holes ;)
4:05 it was a symphony orchestra in studio. They were used to playing music written on paper, which none of the Beatles knew how to do. Producer George Martin was the one who made this happen. A few members of the orchestra walked out of the session when they found out they were expected to follow musical direction from John and Paul. The big musical swell was told to them as "everybody start on a low note and slowly climb the scale to the highest note on your instrument". The final chord was added by every band member, as well as others in the studio, hitting the same chord on different pianos (8 or 9 in total) ɓecause at the time only 4 tracks were available to record on tape. Its amazing if you think about what they produced in 1967.
The idea was most likely Paul's, because while John was stuck out in the stockbroker belt with his family, and tripping nearly daily, by his own admission, Paul was about Londontown with his girl, Jane Asher, and getting CULTURALLY EDUCATED - in particular, he saw then controversial German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen... Had not Paul heard Stockhausen, I doubt very much you (or any of us) would have heard the orchestra swells.
Have to give you your props, that was a really thoughtful honest reaction. A couple of points regarding this song, first it was actually two seperate songs, one by Lennon and the other by McCartney, that for whatever reason decided to merge (the first mashup). The second point is that producer George Martin probably should have gotten songwriting credits because he created that mashup. The Beatles would basically tell Martin "this is what we hear in our head, can you lay it down on vinyl?" and he would make it happen
See the video of Paul in his childhood home and you will hear him talking about this waking up, getting a cup, heading out to the bus. John read the paper.
I've been a Beatles Freak since I was 4 and they made their 1st American TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. My advice, is that to stay accurate on release dates go with the British dates especially with the early stuff. The American record companies repackaged them repeatedly. My best tool, when I was a teenager and began to build my own library was a book called The Beatles, an Illustrated Record. It came out originally at the perfect time for me. It was a bestseller and has been updated 3 or 4 times.
I also always advise newbies that they should watch 1964s A Hard Days Night, the first of a three movie deal they made. It's critically acclaimed to this day. But mostly it's fun and a great way to identify who is who ( less hair blocking their features than later). Along with the voices , as well as a good platform for some of their earlier hits which were all ready numerous.
Have fun.
When I first heard this song as a teen in Canada in the 60's, listening over my old short wave radio to get the BBC, I thought the orchestral parts were just losing the signal! I didn't know what was going on and kept trying to tune it in! I'm sure you're not the only one missing something. 😁
The first part was said to relate to a real politician who did commit suicide. Of course "blew his mind out" could also refer to an LSD trip. Both John and Paul had bits of 2 different songs already and stitched them together. Their composing styles obviously differ. They complimented each other early on, yin and yang, John's acerbic down to earth style and Paul's lighter melodic stuff balanced out but later it became a bone of contention that helped them split up over creative differences.
He blew his mind out in a car refers to a fatal car accident with Guinness heir Tara Browne ...not a suicide.
@@dannygriffith6185 - OK. I knew it had some basis in truth. Stories get pretty warped over the years. Thank you for correcting me.
I have this album up in my attic along with all of the other Beatles albums released. Their music defines my generation.
"I saw a film today...." verse/lyrics refer to the movie (How I Won the War - 1967) that John had a small role in. The crowd turning away refers to the fact that the film was not well received. "He" has to look, (watch the film), having read the book/the script.
This album and this group changed contemporary music forever. Remember in 1967..nothing like this had ever been done. These giants of music inventiveness and originality provided the foundation for just about every other group since......thank you for this....great memories.......do yourself a huge favor and read some of the background history that will also blow you away. A masterpiece indeed. This was a group whose albums were listened to from cover to cover....every album.....hit after hit after hit....and at one time in the USA they had the first five spots....This album was number one for months and months...,..
Always remember listening to this in the early 70s while stoned. The two sections where the music rose and rose and rose, I physically went with it. Was relieved when it stopped. When it went back to the bouncy music I laughed with relief. A great song.
In an interview Paul said the final piano chord in the song was to show how long a single chord note would last.
It is an orchestra - the London Symphony Orchestra. John wanted to end the song with “a sound like the end of the world”. Paul encouraged the musicians to start at the very lowest note of their instruments and go all the way up to the highest note, not something classical musicians were accustomed to doing. It was so effective they used it to also join up the two parts of the song. I hope the poster does some research into the song. Among other things, he’ll learn that it was banned by the BBC for the lyric, “I’d love to turn you on.” A lot to unpack, indeed.
Your expression is a trip, lol! AND SO ARE THE BEATLES!
Eleanor Rigby
Part of the epicness of this track is the context in which it was released. People fall in love with the rock-and-roll Beatlemania Beatles of 1963-64, and thereafter, album by album, the Beatles continually re-surprise everyone as they change the rules of music forever amid a backdrop of a rapidly changing society in the 1960s 🎸
If you want to take your audience on an album-length abridged Beatles adventure, I might recommend:
• 1962: Love Me Do
• 1963: Please Please Me
• 1963: I Want to Hold Your Hand
• 1964: A Hard Day’s Night
• 1965: Help!
• 1965: Yesterday
• 1965: Day Tripper
• 1965: In My Life
• 1966: Eleanor Rigby
• 1967: Strawberry Fields Forever
• 1967: I Am the Walrus
• 1968: Hey Jude
• 1968: Revolution
• 1969 recorded, 1970 released: Let it Be
• 1969: Here Comes the Sun
Or if you're real ambitious, you could go on the entire 200-track epic adventure (advice: don't miss the singles! those were oftentimes not included on albums) 🎙🎸🥁☮
😂 he’s got a lot of homework to do doesn’t he?-it’s crazy how the Beatles has a great history.🎶🎵👏🏼👏🏼
Yes, that was about a 40 piece orchestra. It was a party atmosphere in the studio and there are CZcams clips of it. This was the way the Sgt. Pepper album ended. At the end, it was all 4 Beatles plus their producer George Martin, playing that final piano chord. And then, there was indeed a very brief 15k dog whistle, suggested by Lennon to annoy the dogs in the room. And then the very brief 2 second sound montage was a "hidden" track on the vinyl LP, now referred to unofficially as "The Inner Groove". With LP's on a turntable, once the needle goes all the way to the very inner part of the record just outside the label, unless an automatic repositioning of the arm is enabled, the record just turns and turns endlessly on that inner run-out groove until the listener gets up and manually takes the needle off. So on this album, that 2 second clip played as a non-stop loop. It was one of the few times that they intentionally did a "turn on" song, other times were simply inspired in that direction.
ringo's amazing roll and shuffle beats, underated drumming genius.
All you need is love live from 1967 when the first satellites went up. And Get Back live from their last public appearance on the roof top of Abbey road studios❤😊
Paul told the orchestra, start on this note, end on this note, and just crescendo as you go up in pitch. They were hoping for more exacting notation, but the Beatles don't read music. The ending chord is played on 4 pianos simultaneously, and looped to extend it;s play time.
John wrote this reading the morning paper the day of recording this. It is almost word for word from the newspaper stories. Paul had a snipet of a song left over in his note books, that fit in the middle nicely.
The ending note was not looped. It took 9 takes to get one where everyone hit their respective keyboards at the same time, they held down the sustain pedal on the pianos and hit the chord as hard as possible. George Martin used heavy compression to maximise the levels and keep it going as long as possible by very gradually pushed up the volume faders to maximum. So much so that when it was remastered for CD release, with headphones and a decerning ear, a rustle of paper and a squeaky chair can be heard towards the end.
Very short story of this song, John's lyrics came from stories of the morning newspaper and Paul's contribution was him getting ready for and going to work. I am impressed with you young man you are correct the last story was about potholes in the road.
Check out "I Want You (she's so heavy)" "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" " Helter Skelter". ✌️
I concur with those choices! 👍
Maybe add "Because" to that list, because the vocal harmonies are so amazing--unlike perhaps _any_ other popular song before or since!
Great reaction to one of so many iconic Beatles songs.
So good to see that since you first tumbled into the Beatles rabbit hole, we see you exploring the curves & new discoveries finding new treasures in that rabbit warren. Keep going! It's lovely at every turn.
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Linda.
He "blew his mind". He was on drugs which is why he hadn't noticed the lights had changed.
We tried to figure out the lyrics back then too. That was part of the fun.
"I'd love to turn you on" is another clue that this is an LSD song
That huge buildup at the end is really interesting. Lennon gave the players in the orchestra the first and last notes, and the time involved, and then told them to get from A to Z in their own way. So the whole thing is essentially improvised, an entire orchestra just winging it!
It was Macca, not Lennon
In the Paul McCartney death conspiracy, John starts out singing about Pauls death in a car crash, people recognizing something familiar about him... His replacement, Billy Spears, sings about waking up, an average Joe, heads off to work, where someone speaks, (about joining the Beatles) and he falls into the dream of becoming a Beatle... Everybody signed NDA's but John expressed wishing he could "turn us on" to the truth... Under the letters LES on the grave on the album cover are the white flowers making the shape of Pauls left handed guitar. I was a young teen when all this stuff came out, it was creepy with loads of clues on the Magical Mystery Tour and the White album. Strange Days...
On the cover of Abbey Road they're all crossing the street in single file as if in a funeral procession. Paul is the only one barefoot signifying he's dead... it wasn't unusual for the dead to be buried without shoes and socks. They supposedly used a look-alike to portray Paul who apparently tragically died in a car crash.
"He blew his mind out in a car, he hadn't noticed that the lights had changed" there are dozens of more clues.
RIP Paul 😏
No figuring out this song, they were high. 🤣😂
Transcendently high.
My favourite Beatles song, great reaction, I love your analysis of songs
The piano chord at the end kept a record for the longest played for a long time.
it was overdubbed
@@paulpennell2115The story is they all played the chord on 3 grand pianos and the engineer pushed up the faders to keep it going.
You got to understand that most music up to this time had a beginning chorus and an end. This was one of the first musical pieces that in my opinion embrace the chaotic change that was going on in the 60s...
I'm glad you heard the whistle. It's so high that my old ears can't hear it any longer. The whistle is in the 'lead out' track on the vinyl and the noise at the end is in the centre groove of the record where it just goes on, and on, and on until you lifted the stylus off. It's a kind of mantra.
Have a listen to the previous album (Revolver), in particular the last track...
Strawberry Fields Forever.
"I Buried Paul"
It reminds me of the first time I heard this song in high school 1983. Making sense of it. But it was a literal day in the life. The movie referred to was an experimental film John was in. How i Won the War. Everyone hated it. But he "read the script." Then Paul writing about a typical dude going to work and daydreaming of something better. These were two separately written songs. They both agreed they could put them together since they had the same theme. Paul composed music to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra to divide the two songs. Just brilliant. They were into the Avant Garde art movement of the 60s and that dissonant scale rise is indicative of that sound.
IMHO, this is the Beatles' best album. And 'A Day In The Life' is my second-favorite song on the album. My favorite is 'Within You, Without You.' It's both a mind trip, and a message song. Check it out.
Thanks for letting that final chord play out to full conclusion!
As a DJ said one night on WRNO FM radio New Orleans."For they will never be again" I will never forget the DJ saying that. Brilliant! Wish I could claim it. If you haven't seen the Documentary on Apple TV on the Beatles. It's worth every minute of the 8 hour Doc.
The Fab Four changed the course of pop and rock music forever! Thank God! I grew up with their music from their first LP in America "Introducing The Beatles", which I still have 62 years later along with most of their music.
Helter Skelter is a very differente song from them that I think you would like to hear
Ole Charlie would concur
What I always took from this song was that it was "A Day in the Life." So, it's everyday news about possibly famous people that the public shares and comments on (like social media today) but ultimately doesn't really care about, no matter if it is horrible or not. The more dramatic the better. Then a guy going through his everyday routine. Then back to the news. The "4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" I took as the other extreme of news, of boring details blown up out of proportion ("although the holes were small, they had to count them all.") I took the "I'd love to turn you on" to means (rather than a drug reference) to get people's attention and hypnotize them with the news. It now seems an incredibly current and pertinent song!
Imagine being a fan age 9 since Ed Sullivan in 1964, growing up with The Beatles, buying this album and listening to it all in your bedroom on your record player and hearing that sustained piano chord at the end... and running downstairs to play on your parents console stereo because they were beyond record player quality! Beatles 4 ever! And they composed it all! PS. I also have the 45 record
The song still gives me chills. So different and genius.
I have been listening to The Beatles for 61 years, and every time I hear this song, it tells that every event is happening in a day at once; life, death, birth, war, suicide, celebration, success, etc. Everything is at the same time at once occurring. btw
Damn.they so good..
Every song great..yet Every song different!!!
If I can give you any humble advice as to how to approach these old songs from my generation, it's this:
Some songwriters of the time dealt with very identifiable subjects. Others would delve into more "stream of thought" compositions. Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison (and many others) experimented with both. Psychedelic drugs back in the 60's were certainly an influence on popular music, but not as much as some people would have you believe. For most serious musicians, it was still the poetry and the musical composition itself that really counted.
Back then, we didn't really divide music into the "genres" that everyone seems to be so obsessed with these days. There was so much improvisation going on that melded blues, rock, country, classical, folk, R&B, Jazz, etc... Basically, if the song had a good groove, then everybody jumped on it. Our generation was exposed to all these diverse influences, not shut out from them .
There are still amazingly talented musicians like this out there right now. Unfortunately, the current mainstream music industry will be damned if they let you get to hear them.
Aye I’m a 23 year old my guy been listening to them my whole life they are the goats to me, hard to get their whole like cadence from certain tracks, a lot of their songs changed the game on god if you listen to songs before or even during their time bro it’s the same dated sound but, they are the start of modern rock and pop, don’t look too much into the lyrics John made some songs to mess with people who look too deeply, no one was doing what they were doing on the latter half of their career, I’d say react to something 2019 mix, in my life 2023 mix, while my guitar gently weeps 2018 mix, or Help music video version, it’s a good mix songs to get into, just remember the Beatles have a early, mid, and late period so ealry stuff can be more love filled appealing to the label with covers and stuff, and later is all their work with inspirations from their own life experiences if you stick to a era you’ll appreciate early stuff more or vice versa, love me do in 1962 was there first single and it’s the most basic they will sound a few months later they made she loves you a year after and I love her a year after yesterday and it just kept getting better, just enjoy it fr fr and maybe after the songs over or before you start the reaction read up on the song, like who wrote what and get it from the Beatles mouths themselves, so you don’t have to get a lot of info in the comments, good luck they have tons of bangers and hidden gems, like dead ass their singles aren’t on most of their albums and those are the number 1s they usually got so look into their back catalogue album called past masters if you wanna hear all their singles separate from the albums especially middle period like 65 with we can work it out and day tripper you won’t regret it