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Geniuses. Way ahead of their time. Music still holds up 50+ years later. I grew up on them and I’m so grateful. They are part of the best memories in my life. Thanks for doing this. And yes, they were HUGE.
They will Always be the Best. 🌴🪴🐴🌄
More huge than any can imagine or see today,, Such universal and world acclaim does not happen as they opened the doors,,
The video is from 1964's A Hard Days Night movie. This song is actually from the White Album in 1968. The lead guitar is played by Eric Clapton (not a Beatle). The Beatles were not only the best group out there during the 60's, but are still considered the best ever by most. As someone who grew up in the 1960's, it's almost impossible for me to truly convey how the Beatles changed everything.... musically and beyond.
Besides how different their music was compared to what we had been listening to, they also changed hairstyles, fashion, culture, everything. I know because I LIVED through it, being 17 in 1964. I saw them live in concert in 1964 and 1966. They are the soundtrack of my life, and at 75 I am STILL a "die hard" Beatles fan and ALSO of their SOLO careers, after they broke up as a band.
@@patticrichton1135 I was 10 when the Beatles hit the USA. Like you, they were the soundtrack of my pre-teen and teenage years... and beyond. I agree with your post 100%.
This is a cover version, pretty good though
Bullshit! The Rutles were bigger!
@@animallovers341 Who? 😂
Eric Clapton played the lead on this song George and Eric were close friends. It goes without saying you need to check out the tribute to George version of this song with Tom Petty , Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, and Prince . Prince does a lead at the end that brings down the house ✌🤘♥️
Also the original tribute concert for George where Eric Clapton sings this and plays the guitar - it’s incredible too.
Dhani Harrison has said in an interview that the other musicians were not too pleased with Prince coming on stage. Everybody was there for George H, humbly playing together and Prince, although a great performance, made it about himself…..ego much?
Prince played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. The Concert for George was at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and Eric played lead on that one.
@@margaretmcbride1950 I prefer this one too from "THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE" that held on Nov. 29, 2002 which was the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of George's death. The one with Prince was for George's Induction into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL Of FAME, and to me, it was Prince "showing off" and took away from what it was really for. Most people watching it don't even know what the event was for and why they were playing it. I prefer seeing CLAPTON playing it AS HE DID on the BEATLES WHITE ALBUM.
@@inekebaalman3320 THANK YOU!! FINALLY, someone ELSE who feels like I do, I felt like it was Prince, just SHOWING OFF, and it took away from the whole reason it was played, for George's INDUCTION as a solo artist in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. The second time he was inducted.....first time was as one of the BEATLES.
The Beatles were huge. Girls would faint from excitement and screaming.
Yes, they as a group were the biggest splash ever. John, Paul and George were performing together since 1958 when George was barely 15. After some years of constantly playing covers of Fifties rock in clubs, they started writing their own material. Between that, and picking up new drummer Ringo, and getting a makeover in their appearance by their manager, they started making a big splash in England and Germany in 1962-63. They hit the U.S. at the beginning of 1964. For a while, they had one song after another at Billboard Number 1, with no room for anyone else, and were selling two out of every three records sold. Between them and a bunch of other "British Invasion" groups with a similar look and sound, they transformed music and actually transformed society.
Between his work with The Beatles, Wings, and solo work, Paul McCartney is the best-selling artist of all time.
Those video clips are from the 1964 movie A Hard Day's Night. The song While My Guitar Gently Weeps is from the 1968 "White Album." George wrote it, and sings lead. Eric Clapton is credited as a guest artist on that album. The original liner notes didn't specifically say which songs he played on. But it's fairly common knowledge that he did the lead on this track. George was very good. But there are only so many Claptons.
Great comment but in terms of being up there with greatness, it's gotten to be mentioned that the Rolling Stones were also absolutely amazing, too.🙂
The Stones were great...but The Beatles had over 300 songs plus so many were hits & the songs were all so different, they stunned the world. And then the all had successfull careers afterwards. No one comes close.
There has been no one before or after quite like the Beatles, they are unique, they wrote so many song's with so many different styles.
They invented most genres...
I first saw the Beatles at the Cavern club in 1962, just before they became to be one of the most famous groups ever, wonderful memories.
A young man who had just come back from time served in the RAF in Hamburg in Germany told me of this band that had so impressed him, called the Silver Beatles. In my crass ignorance ,I`m ashamed to admit that my reply was " With a stupid name like that they won`t get anywhere"
They weren't just the biggest group back in the day. They're the biggest act in the history of music! Lennon and McCartney are widely regarded as the greatest songwriters of the modern era and George Harrison is right up there with them. The fact that all 3 were in the same band is just insane! They are also the most innovative and by FAR the most influential act of all-time! As leaders of the counter-culture, their influence on the wider world, beyond music, is unmatched too! They changed both music and society forever! The Beatles are THE goats! :)
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart (15), most number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (20), and most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million).
Worldwide, an estimated 2.5 billion!
The Beatles were huge,they were so talented and ahead of their time ❤
Always Will 🪴🌄🕊️
They were the first. It was called the Btritish invasion. George Harrison is playing guitar here. There were a lot of bands that came about 67-72. Great music. But the Beatles, yes, were considered the greatest. But I don't think you should ever comprar bands or musicians. It's all style in which each is different. Doesn't mean one is better than the other. But as far as being recognized. The Beatles name, songs, Band memberd, even their girlfriends. They were the most recognized. All over the world.
The Beatles were the background music to my teenage years!
My favorite Beatles song. Eric Clapton was invited in to play guitar for this.
And after he had started an affair with George's wife.
It was George that invited him.
A different class of people, well, for George.
They were so huge there was a thing as Beatlemania!!! They couldn't go anywhere without being chased by a tonne of fans. This band was my first introduction to popular music, at age 3. 57 years later they are inbred in my soul
SNAP!! Totally the same, I love them as I breathe.
Yes but sadly, beatlemania was why they had to quit turning. It became an honest and true situation where their lives were at risk!
@@allisonoconnor8055 oh yeah I realise this. I was just providing some information for the reactor
Most influential band ever and to think they disbanded in 1970. They still hold the record for most album sales...a total of 800 million!!!
Yeah but they lost the record of most consecutive number one singles to... The Spice Girls of all people. 😋
@@Erulin68 oh what? That's freaking crazy! The Spice girls? 🤮
@Erulin68 the Spice girls had 9 number 1s in total. The Beatles had 11 in a row, then after Strawberry Fields/ Penny Lane reached no 2. Then they had 6 more no 1s.
@@keithharris6442 That depends on which chart. You are using the British charts. In the Billboard Hot 100 their record was 3. In 1964.
@@Erulin68 you mean in 1 year ? Or a career
The Beatles were phenomenal and their music was expansive.
Geniuses. Way ahead of their time. Music still holds up 50+ years later. I grew up on them and I’m so grateful. They are part of the best memories in my life. Thanks for doing this. And yes, the were HUGE. George Harrison , who wrote this song, was on guitar, Ringo the drummer, Paul McCartney on base and keyboards, John Lennon on guitar. Eric Clapton from Cream later laid down the lead guitar. It was also their first recording done on 8 track equipment.
They were THEE biggest and most successful band ever. The footage is from the movie Hard Day's Night which was several years before thos song. The Beatles took music and the Western Culture itself and turned it on his ear. It was actually George Harrison's friend the legendary Eric Clapton playing the guitar as a rare guest musician.
Yes, absolutely #1 in their day, mid-late to late 1960. Nobody else was close. If you remember Michael Jackson's dominance in the 1980s, The Beatles far exceeded that.
it's not that each of their songs was a blockbuster. Some were but each of them added to The Beatles' mountain of greatness. They simply didn't fail us. Here's an example: I recently saw another reactor say that their music would fit in with today's music. That simply is backwards: The Beatles had such a profound effect on popular music that their influence still affects today's music more than a half-century later.
It's absolutely true. I first saw them on Ed Sullivan in 1964. The Beatles were a huge part of my life growing up. This song was written by George Harrison and his guitar playing is legendary. He had a solo career after the band split (as did the others). Please listen to George's song "All Things Must Pass" from his album of the same title. It's beautiful. R.I.P. George and John
I almost saw them on Ed Sullivan but my older sisters were all jumping up and down in front of the TV screaming. I couldn't even hear them over their shrieking.
@@AmericanMadeMud That's funny. Sorry you couldn't see the screen. I'm sure you saw them so after that on TV.
Hello..that's Eric Clapton on lead..! George's best friend..
@@warrenhughes911 That's right!
Euh... sorry but you do realize that the lead guitar isn't George Harrison on this, right ? That's 'God' playing. That's Eric Clapton.
Beatlemania was a tidal wave. I was swept away by them. I believe that was George Harrison playing the chords you're talking about. Ringo on drums. The video clips were early Beatles, some from their movie "A Hard Day's Night". The song wasn't in the early Beatles catalog.
without a doubt they are the best band they were geniuses ahead of their time and their music doesn't sound old at all it's super good also that all their music is on CZcams they have changed the way of doing rock and pop today even their first songs are good they were always at a high level
Composed and sung by the wonderful George Harrison. A spiritually gifted man. Guitar solo by Eric Clapton.
Precisely!
TRUE!! That's Eric Clapton on guitar solo.
The Beatles were the best band of their day. The Beatles still outsell every other band to this day. They are the GOAT!
They had 21 Number #1 Songs on the Billboard Charts. 34 more Beatles songs made it in the Top 10! And get this, 71 made it into the Top 40 in radio rotation. In one month in 1964, the Beatles songs held the top 5 on the charts in the same week! No other band has ever reached such heights. They were masters at marketing their music, too. They put out a single 45 record with two songs every 3 months and at least one, sometimes 2 albums per year. These guys knew how to write hit songs! They even gave songs to good bands who were having trouble getting noticed. The Rolling Stones, who were The Beatles biggest rival in the 60’s, were given their first number #1 song written by The Beatles and they are still recording and touring today!
I’m in my late sixties and it’s kind of hard to explain the impact the Beatles had on our generation. I was 10 years old when the appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and even at that tender age, you just intuitively knew that things had changed in a big way. It was like a door had been kicked wide open and there was somehow a feeling of hope for the future. Weird I know but those of my vintage probably know what I mean. Unfortunately, that optimism has not panned out as well as I had hoped.
Well said.
74 years old here I was a teen when the Beatles hit They were #1 then @1 now and #1 forever That was Eric Clapton on guitar.He and George were close friends. George retuned the favor playing guitar on Creams Badge They were so close that Eric stole Georges wife from him yet they remained friends I think George was happy she left him as he was a real womanizer :)
The Beatles were, and are, the most influential group in Rock and Roll. They grew and changed and brought the world with them. I've been a fan since 1964, and brought my kids up on them. On this song, George Harrison wrote it and sang vocals. His friend, Eric Clapton sat in on lead guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums (nice to see you noticed his talent).
The Beatles were the first Supergroup. Everything about them was different. They dressed funny, they had long hair, they talked funny, they cracked jokes during interviews, and mostly, their music was very different from mainstream music at the time. They were just teenagers, but, they resonated with American and British teenagers of the day. My generation was around their age and we grew up with The Beatles as they grew up. They started with teenage love songs, then drug assisted dreams, to political messages in their songs and we all felt the same way as we matured from the simple 60’s to the hippie era through the Vietnam war, and the Cold War. And all through it, The Beatles reacted as we did. Individually, they all talented enough to make it on their own, but, when together, something magical happened with their music!!!
I don't know why you said they "dressed FUNNY"? They were wearing suits and ties on stage in 1963- 1966 during their touring years (men were wearing the same thing then) It was their HAIR that "shocked" the adults and considered it LONG! It didn't take long before boys were wearing growing out their crew/buzz, flat top hair styles or washing the grease out of their long combed back hair ( like Elvis Presley) and combing it forward. The "funny talk" was their accents, being from Liverpool, England.
@@patticrichton1135 they started the long hair....
The Beatles were #1! They still hold the record for most successful band ever. George played lead guitar & Ringo drums. Each Beatle could play more than just the instrument we see them play. Everyone had a favorite Beatle & a favorite album & us old folks remember watching them appear on American tv for the first time on Feb. 9, 1964 on the Ed Sullivan show. There are parts some piece of it & other performances on YT.
Every album they put out was years ahead it's time. Their work inspired the technical advancement from 4 track to 16 track
From their fifth Album 'Help!' they started to change and from Rubber Soul (their sixth album)on they became who they were ment to be. It's Rubber Soul that marked them as Masters years ahead of their time. Prior to 'Help!' they were just a very succesfull rock and roll act. I mean, can one truly compare 'Can't Buy me Love' to something like 'Michelle' or 'I've just seen a face' or anything after ?
This song was written and recorded about 6-7 years after these film clips.
No, only 4 years, the film clips are from their first movie "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT in 1964, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is from 1968, "6-7 years after these film clips" they had broken up as a band.
I’m so glad you finally got some Beatles up. There are just so many songs you would never be able to listen to them all for a very ✌️🇨🇦long time.
They did so much, no album is the same direction for the most part as what ever the last album was. Lots of experimentation, great lyrics. It ends up at the end of it all with a huge directory of music together and individually. So much great music.
When people say the Beatles are overrated, they just plain don't understand. They were before my time, and I don't know nearly all their songs, but the sheer volume and growth in the few years together is astounding. There's never been a band like them.
Spot on Ruth, when The Beatles started recording there were a number of bands that were just as good if not better than The Beatles, but the pure hard work and intelligence that all 4 of them put into their craft meant that by 1965 there was no band that could touch them and they continued to develop, travelling the world to develop new sounds, they would spend weeks with their equally talented producer George Martin and engineers to produce ever more groundbreaking music, the problem was they would be unable to reproduce this live, as the technology was just not available, so they stopped touring and I think this helped to cause issues with the band as all they ever did was write songs and record songs and I think the pressure and monotony took its toll.
@@simply_psi I can't agree that they broke up because of the monotony of studio work and "just" writing songs. Touring can also be monotonous and pressure filled. They broke up because it was their destiny to continue to expand their own horizons musically. And they've done exactly that. It wasn't easy for us to lose the band but it was more than made up for by their continued individual contributions.
@@ejb5034 I did not say it was the cause of the break up, but it did cause issues, Paul liked to tour and after he left he probably did more touring than all the others put together, either on his own or with Wings. There were many other factors why they split including George Harrison not being happy with only one of his songs per album, he was able to fill his first 2 albums with songs written as a Beatle, then the ever conflicting ego's of John and Paul. Yes touring is also monotonous if that is all your doing, but so is the recording and writing of songs, so most bands do a mix of all 3 as well as having time to spend the bucket loads of cash they make.
Not to get into a spat, but it's got to be said that the Rolling Stones with their magnificent catalog of music were way up there too during that time long ago. 💥🗯💥🗯👍
October 19, 2022
@@michaelmelling9333 The Rolling Stones are a great band and their longevity is something very special. However even they owe a lot of their success to The Beatles as along with their manager Lennon and McCartney encouraged Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to start writing their own songs, they started in 1963 but did not really push their songs, however following a gurther meeting with Lennon and McCartney in 1964 where they were "selling" I Wanna Be Your Man, to The Stones, The Stones recorded the song and Mick Jagger realised the commercial potential in writing their own material and in 1965 they recorded Satisfaction and the rest as they say is history.
First, they were the first band, generally speaking, to write their own songs. No band was simultaneously the most popular, the most creative, the best singers, and at the forefront of leading popular culture. They were insanely popular. At one point in 1964, they had six of the top ten hits on the music charts and held the first five positions.
On April 4, 1964 was when they held the TOP 5 songs on BIllboard's Hot 100, plus 7 other songs on that same list the same day...so they had 12 songs total on that list on April 4, 1964
Oh man, the guitar was actually crying ! I never know how did the people in the time of 1968 hear this song like I hear this in 2023 ? Unbelievable that was blowing up my mind. Thanks to the Beatles, for songs you're singing and for the joy you're bringing.
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were neck and neck for first place.
But they were in different races.
I wish I knew you in real life! You seem so fun and genuine.
BEATLES, "MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS". George Harrison sang lead on this one. The Beatles from 1962 - 1970. Had 20 number one hit songs. HEY JUDE was on charts for 19 weeks. 34 top ten hits
You can't possibly imagine how popular they were. Unbelievably popular. They couldn't go outside without being completely immersed by fans. John Lennon was shot and killed. The guy who did it is still in prison. 😭
December 8, 1980. John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were just returning to their apartment building in NYC a little before 11pm when he was shot and killed by a mentally ill Beatles fan. Lennon was forty years old.
His death put an end to a decade long hope that The Beatles would one day get back together.
@@terri2494 and he did it to get noticed by Jodie Foster. 🥴
@@lindakessler8768 Actually that was John Hinckley Jr, who shot President Reagan almost four months later on March 30, 1981. I just looked it up to make sure it was Hinckley and not Chapman. It’s weird. He was also mentally ill, did the shooting in front of the hotel where Reagan was staying, and actually thought Reagan would be a good president. Thankfully he didn’t succeed in killing him. Tragic about James Brady though.
Yes 100’s number 1 songs they will never die. Only Elvis before.
The Beatles were beyond big. They were a worldwide phenomenon and nobody has ever been as famous or as popular with the possible exception of the Rolling Stones. And they changed music more than any band before or since.
If you liked that, you MUST check out this version, "2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood'... true to the original, but SO MUCH MORE! Prince's guitar solo at the end steals the show. Don't miss it!
The video looks like it’s from their first movie “A Hard Days Night”. The song is one I’ve never heard before.
I forgot to say that they were very successful back then. They were the beginning of all the British bands and singers that came out after them.
They were absolutely the biggest and greatest band of the era. And many still consider them the greatest band of all time.
Have you reacted to the version with Prince, Tom Petty, and George Harrison's son Dhani? It is epic!!!
Yes!!!!❤❤❤
This is interesting, this is not the version that made it onto the album, it's a bit stripped down. And yet, the footage you are watching is not what you are hearing. They are all playing acoustic guitars. But we are hearing electric guitar. They were the number one group, there was no one ahead of them while they were still together. Not that other groups didn't catch up and surpass them. The Rolling Stones caught up quickly. Their sound, as dated as it sounds now, was so fresh, they were such a huge, instant hit that producers couldn't control them as they did their other performers. The Beatles were the beginning of the huge wave of singer/songwriters, performers who also wrote their own music. Before the Beatles, producers signed artists to contracts that controlled the music they would perform. Very few wrote their own songs. The producers decided what songs an artist would sing and what musicians would accompany them. It was the Beatles that forced that change.
It's not the Beatles. a clever forgery.
The Footage is from the BEATLES FIRST THEATRICAL release movie "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT" from 1964, "WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS " was from 1968. It doesn't seem "stripped down" to me. No one "surpassed" them when they were still together, and there SOUND does NOT sound "Dated" If it did, WHY do their records STILL SELL TODAY??? AND usually bought by young people who weren't even born back then, because most of us who WERE fans back then (like me, I was 17 in 1964) already HAVE all their recordings. There music STILL sounds like it could be released today and still sounds BETTER than a lot of music that is current today.
I agree this sounds like either a different take or different mix or an incredibly outstanding forgery. Not sure but it's different.
Eric Clapton on Lead Guitar. The Beatles Enough Said 🇺🇸🇬🇧🪴
Yup, as one of the other commentators mentioned, Eric Clapton played lead. As you may know Clapton was in the Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and he played with Delany & Bonnie and so did George Harrison as a matter of fact.
I was 6 years old and watching the Ed Sullivan show! At such a young age I was immediately sold! This next part is info from the History website! "It is estimated that 73 million Americans were watching that night as the Beatles made their live U.S. television debut. Roughly eight minutes before Fred Kaps took the stage, Sullivan gave his now-famous intro, “Ladies and gentlemen…the Beatles!” and after a few seconds of rapturous cheering from the audience, the band kicked into “All My Lovin’.” Fifty seconds in, the first audience-reaction shot of the performance shows a teenage girl beaming and possibly hyperventilating. Two minutes later, Paul is singing another pretty, mid-tempo number: “Til There Was You,” from the Broadway musical Music Man. There’s screaming at the end of every phrase in the lyrics, of course, but to view the broadcast today, it seems driven more by anticipation than by the relatively low-key performance itself. And then came “She Loves You,” and the place seems to explode. What followed was perhaps the most important two minutes and 16 seconds of music ever broadcast on American television-a sequence that still sends chills down the spine almost half a century later". I really like the Abbey Road Medley. It is also profound because the very last line, "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" and was the last line of the last song the ever recorded together! This one is safe, but a bit long! It's had 10,242,224 views since Aug 21, 2019. czcams.com/video/dcv1EFoaX-8/video.html
They were prob the biggest band ever! Part of their success was due to their evolution of styles from the early 60's until they broke up in 1970, but they continued on, each with their own individual careers.
Their style changed constantly, their catalog is huuuuuge!
No 'probably' about it. The Beatles are not only the biggest group of all-time, by a mile, they're the biggest act in the history of music! :)
Beatles released this song around 1968.
G O A Ts - and George has always been my personal No. 1. All four of them are nothing short of bein' geniuses
I can't imagine another musical act with the transformational impact on pop/rock music as the Beatles had coming along, EVER!
Many, including myself, feel that if it were not for the Beatles coming along there would not have been the explosion of basically experimental music that has followed and still has influence today over anyone with the curiosity to delve into the history of modern music.
i m 66 years old ! in my teen years yes they was the greatest band and still loved by all ! Rest in Peace John
And rest in peace, George.
You were either a Beatles fan or a Rowling Stones fan in the sixties. I was definitely Beatles and my school friend was stones. The Beatles changed the course of music entirely, without them we wouldn’t have the music we have today.
One of a few bands that all four members had hit songs they wrote and performed in.
Elvis was The King before The Beatles came along, landing in the U.S. February of 1964, a very good year of the dragon, I came to this life later that same year. There is a docu-series, "3-2-1 McCartney" that has interviews with Sir Paul about writing with his bandmates & breaking down various songs with a sound engineer.
The Beatles are the greatest groups period. They were the forerunners of so many bands. While the groups of the day were trying to keep up with their previous innovations and sounds, the Beatles would raise the bar again with a new album.
i'm listenning beatles since i was4 and i m 48...Never bored, always in love with their music, best band ever
You have barely scratched the surface with the Beatles. They have a HUGE catalog...of stunning genius!
They were the biggest band in the world for 9 years. In many ways they still are and always will be. That's right, 9 years. No one came close.
There's a reason 50 years later all their songs are still played on radio non stop
There was absolutely no one bigger than the Beatles in the 1960’s; there has never been anyone - before or since - bigger than the Fab Four. The Beatles were the 1960’s! No one - not even Elvis - has ever sold more records than the Fab Four. They were pop geniuses, innovators, culture changers, as popular with the critics as they were with the fans, and remain extremely popular to this day. They are quite simply the greatest musical act of the 20th century. The lead guitarist was guest musician, Eric Clapton, with songwriter, George Harrison on vocals & acoustic guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums; off the White Album.
Beatles were a PHENOMENON
I was 4 and a half when "Love Me Do", their first hit single, was released in the UK in November '62 and got to 17 in the UK charts. By Summer '63 when I was in Infant's school their 1,000,000 UK sales (in 3 months) hit "She Loves You" was a song I sang to my teacher in in afternoon free time and The Beatles were the most exciting thing going on in the country. If you want to see the effect of Beatlemania view the opening scenes of their 1964 comedy film 'A Hard Days Night' with the young extras chasing them and look at the real enthusiasm displayed and then towards the end of the film with audience (including then schoolboy Phil Collins) reactions to a live set. The film will also show how grim post war Britain was, even by the early 60s. With the Beatles we went full colour again!
If you want a follow up song from this period try "I Should Have Known Better" ( In the film: czcams.com/video/68cqDJvzJao/video.html ) , where the blonde schoolgirl extra is Patti Boyd (model), who made such an impression on George Harrison that he married her!
If you want to understand why the Beatles are still considered the most important band of all time go through their music in order of release and you will see an astonishing progression in ambition and achievement. They also managed to break up before they jumped the shark; the fate of other bands, such as REM and U2.
PS. If you want to hear an awesome cover of "While my guitar..." there is one on the closing credits of the animation film 'Kubo and the Two Strings' but do yourself a favour and watch the film through to get the full effect. You won't be sorry.
They did something no one else has ever done before or since: they had the top 5 spots on the Billboard top 100, at the SAME time! For weeks!
Also, at the present time ( because their music continues to sell) they have sold more than 500,000,000,000 albums!
500,000,000.
@@kentclark6420 I have seen that number somewhere. Google has 1.6 billion singles sold in U.S. and 600 million album sales worldwide.
Actually only 2 current superstars ave equalled the beatles on the Billboard and they are drake and Taylor swift
185 million albums was sold in the U.S alone!
All their gold n silver just goes on page after page after page
You can't imagine. The Beatles turned America upside down! The HAIR - the clothes - the music. I loved every minute of it.
Yeah the Beatles were the real deal, the biggest most transformative band A perfect storm of talent being young and silly enough to pull it off. They experimented with the sound and writing songs , using different instruments. Pushing the envelope of music ** And Ringo was a really good drummer Those who understands drumming know that. **. Thanks
The Beatles were far and ahead of the rest of the pack back in the mid 60s to 1970. They were more than just the biggest group. They shaped the psyche of a whole generation- in 6 years!
I am in Vietnam at the moment and met a great guitar player that had never heard of the BETLES. I downloaded to entire Beatles album collection for him today. I will check back with him in a week or so,I know he will be totally blown away. He is just a young kid 23 but great guitar player.
The film clips you are watching are scenes from the BEATLES FIRST theatrical MOVIE "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT" from 1964. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was from 4 years LATER in 1968. YES they were HUGE, they changed EVERY THING. I was 17 in 1964 so I lived through it all. It is hard to describe and explain what it was like when they arrived here in the U.S. on Feb 7, 1964 and their first appearance on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW on Feb. 9th, 1964 (PLUS 2 more times on Feb 16th and Feb. 23rd's Ed Sullivan Show, before returning home to England. They also played their first U.S. concert on Feb. 11, 1964 at the Washington Coliseum in Washington D.C., which was filmed and you can see the entire concert plus MANY other concert performances, promo films (videos) as they were called back then, here on You tube. I don't understand why some reactors have NO PROBLEMS playing and reacting to BEATLES VIDEOS or just their MUSIC, and are NOT BLOCKED. Some have trouble, so it's weird to me that some have no problem and others do.
They WERE the biggest band in their day, and STILL considered the most influential rock band ever! In the relatively short time they recorded albums ('62-'70...8 short years) they revolutionized rock. With every album, they evolved, grew creatively, experimented and changed the entire culture of the 60's as well! John, Paul and George met in their teens, Ringo joined in '62. It blows my mind that these 4 incredible talents from the same town met up, became friends, and changed the whole rock scene together in 8 years!! Lightning in a bottle!
The video you're watching is from their first movie "A Hard Days Night". While My Guitar Gently Weeps was written by George Harrison years later. Yes, the Beatles were and still are the best band ever. They have influenced musicians to this day.
Beatles were way before my time, but I love their music. It must've been crazy to hear in the 60's
Lead guitar on the studio version of While my guitar gently weeps was courtesy of Eric Clapton, though he was never credited for it on the album covers
It is very true. My foster parents told me stories that they took their kids to see the Beatles. You could not hear them sing because the screams from the girls. They were fainting and everything. I love the Beatles. Love this song too. If you can't react to them for us, Just watch a few videos of them.
It's absolutely true about the screams. I saw them in person and still have my ticket and a few pictures left of them that I took at the show. I was very close to the stage, the cops were holding their ears the screams were so deafening. But I'll never forget it. What a story that was from getting the tickets to watching them play in person. That was back in 1964 in Philly Pa.
The video is from their 1964 days. This song came out at the end of their career as a group where they looked very different.
To lighten the mood a bit, Harrison asked his friend Clapton to play on his new song, which he felt was being unfairly overshadowed by John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's new songs anyway. Clapton originally wasn't all that into the idea, saying, "Nobody ever plays on the Beatles' records." "So what?" Harrison said.
No group can ever and will never top the Beatles!!!
Yes, The Beatles we're the best of their time, and all time. Period, nothing and nobody exploded on to the world, in every way, like The Beatles. If you only knew how they not only changed music, everything about the way we saw it, but history. Everyone had to dress like them, wear their hair long like them, and their message was peace, love, and tolerance. Big brother hated the Beatles, they taught us to think for ourselves, and of others future, and to think for yourself. Government did not appreciate them, lol. They were different, and still are. Their music will never become stale or out of style, they were the style makers. We love that you give our older music a listen, good job. 👍
After Elvis in the 50's the Beatles totally changed Rock and Roll. Starting off with pop music, then transforming into rock, psycadleic rock...moving along with the decade. They influenced every musican from the 60's - 90's , ( including me), and probably beyond. Eric Clapton, one of the greatest slow hand blues players of all time, played the lead/solo for this song. He and George Harrison where great friends
The Beatles were just the best in so many ways. They did so much amazing original music and also did really goo respectful covers of early blues and rock. Please check it out.
The older I get the more I realize just how amazing they were.
yes its from a hard days night their 1st one in 1964. great movie even greater songs
George Harrison wrote this and Eric Clapton played the lead guitar in the recording session. What a song. Your reaction is spot on, and I promise you, and I'm not a liar, that you will enjoy exploring their music. Keep on, young Gentleman.
Not just back in the day !!. There is no one who has ever come close to matching their popularity , output , influence , variety and inventiveness . Their hugely successful solo careers also lasted decades and Ringo and Paul are still performing today at 82 and 80 years old respectively.
Many people, including me, consider The Beatles THE greatest rock band of all time. Eric Clapton, George Harrison's good friend, was playing lead guitar on this song that George wrote and sang the lead to. Normally, George Harrison plays most of the leads on the Beatles' songs but sometimes John or Paul play the lead guitar on some of the recordings. However, this time they got someone who was not part of the group to play the lead.
In early 1963 my friend’s neighbor was housing an exchange student from England who brought a Beatles Album with him. We listened and became fans months before the rest of America had heard. For the next 7 years, each album got better and more anticipated than the last one. IMHO, their best album is a toss up between “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road”. Followed closely is “Beatles”, aka, The White Album, a double disk set, and “Let It Be”…..in the early days it was a rock-a-billy sound, then rock with a little r & b, then rock with psychedelics, then their own category for the last 5 or 6 albums.
Once the Beatles broke in America, in Feb. 1964, they ruled the musical landscape with every song and album released. They were the group that made the British Invasion possible. Every group or singer owes some part of their success to the Beatles. For image, notice the groups copied their fashion and hairstyle. The fact that they wrote their own material became crucial to those that followed. And after they stopped touring and became studio wizards of innovation made the second half of their career even more indelible. For more to watch try these amazing songs,
ELEANOR RIGBY,
PAPERBACK WRITER,
REVOLUTION,
LET IT BE,
& TAXMAN.
You can't go wrong with the Beatles. Enjoy.
They will forever be the biggest, the best in the world EVER!!!!!
No one was, or will ever be, in front of The Beatles. They are the greatest band of all time.
Music was never the same after the Beatles, they were as they say game changers. No other band even comes close to compiling such a huge catalogue of timeless masterpieces
The Beatles were indeed VERY big! But do know that the Rolling Stones were up there, too! (Checkout their early catalog!)
October 19, 2022
The bass line was amazing as well.
From The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album to their final recording, "Abbey Road," they had the most innovative and prolific run of any music act in the modern era (7 flawless, classic albums in under 5 years). All four guys were at the height of their musical powers... and it's no wonder that they became the top-selling band of all time. They pretty much forged the ground that the next 20+ years of rock musicians walked... and did so timelessly. Unlike most of their peers, their songs haven't become dated.
Great to see that the Beatles music is still appreciated today even amongst the very young. They were true trailblazers, and massive at the time.
The guitar solo was Eric Clapton who was invited to the session by George.
Yes the Beatles were the biggest band of all times. No one was ever in front of them no one will ever be in front of them. It's insane how good they were!! They released $250 smash hits, every one of them.
The version you did with prince, the young lad in back is one of their son's. They became the biggest pop band in history & used it to change music history & become the greatest band of all time!! X
At one time they had the number one, two, three, and four spots on the Billboard charts.
They actually had the TOP 5 on the April 4, 1964 Billboard charts, plus 7 other songs on that same chart, so a total of 12 songs on April 4, 1964