Long story but an important one and a story that gets overlooked a lot. The first time the Beatles came to America, they played Ed Sullivan in NY. Then they played Washington DC. Then they were going to play the south. They were told their first stop in the south was Jacksonville Florida. They were then told that the shows in the south were segregated. The actual Beatles (not their management) said we will NOT play any of these shows that are segregated. Call each of the Venues and tell them we're not coming. All of these venues gave in and desegregated the shows. Because of that, other bands demanded the same thing. They had guts back then to stand up and say, we will not play to segrigated audiences. First group to do that!!!!!!
It's so good to see the pleasure you feel listening to this song. I was a kid in England, watching this for the first time ever on tv, in black and white. The Beatles still wipe out their own hype with sheer genius music.
Who are they? They are The Beatles, and they are the greatest pop group there has ever been in the world. Their music transcends generations, appealing to young and old. Simply the greatest. I was privileged to grow up with their music.
The Beatles were on tour in 65 and were told they would be playing to a segregated audience in some stadiums. They refused to do so and only agreed to play to an integrated audience…stadiums had no choice but to oblige as they were the biggest thing on in the world….hence from then on there were no more segregated audiences and the Beatles are to thank for that
Wow, that's so amazing seeing a new generation discover The Beatles and hear Hey Jude... and I discovered them after they broke up too (but back in 1977...). They inspired me to learn guitar.
As someone who grew up with them, the Beatles were all about optimism, goodwill, equality, love, and progress. They sang about it in their songs, and lived it by requiring their concerts in the Ameican south to be desegregated, and refusing to play locations that weren't. They grew up loving and playing American soul, blues, R&B, country, etc, and were naturally unbiased and inclusive--you can hear that depth in their music. Cultural and musical inclusion made them what they are. They started out as a awesomely popular boy band, and grew to be leaders of musical innovation, style, production, composition and performance, changing and creating styles, creating classic records in each one. Paul McCartney is a master of singing, composition, and playing. Listen to that pure, steady controlled tone, live, no autotune. All the best!
Jude in this song is actually John Lennon's son Julian. The original words were "Hey Jules", but it didn't work musically, so Paul McCartney changed it to "Hey Jude". Julian was a young child when his parents, John and Cynthia, were going through a divorce. Paul wrote this as a song of comfort for Julian.
Ladies and gentlemen, the G.O.A.T. That's exactly what the Beatles were. They refused to play any venue where audiences were segregated. Those venues that normally would put the Black audience in the back or in the balconies had to change or lose a lot of money. They always agreed to the Beatles terms.
This song was written by "Uncle" Paul for John's first son, Julian, to console him, in the aftermath of John leaving his mother Cynthia for Yoko Ono. Julian was only about 5 at the time and was struggling. Coincidentally that was the same age that Sean Lennon was when John was murdered. This song started out as Hey Jules, but Paul ultimately ended up with Hey Jude. At one point when he was writing it, he had some place-holder lyrics that he wasn't happy with. One in particular, "The movement you need is on your shoulder" especially bothered him, and he said to John in the studio, don't worry he'd fix that line. John replied to him, you will not, that's the best line in the song. So even later in the group's career, although John and Paul no longer sat down together to write songs, they still helped each other out at times when the other was struggling.
Perfectly put with all the details required to show and tell them what the song is actually about. In Britain, this is classed as the Greatest Ever Beatles song of all time and you an see why too! At the end it's like a heavenly choir has come together, it's just so Melodic. They decided to change the title from 'Hey Jules' to 'Hey Jude' so that Julian wouldn't always be associated with the song nor would he necessarily be constantly reminded about his father's infidelity and the fact him and his mum had been dumped by John. Yet sadly he has apparently said he hates the song now for what it represented to him, the break up of his family, including that of the Beatles too in a way. But Paul was just trying to tell Julian it will all be OK in the end as he would always be be there for him, even if his own father isn't going to be! ❤ I am so glad you both liked this classic piece of Rock history! ❤
And did you know each time Paul McCartney sings that line about "...the movement you need is on your shoulders," live it chokes him up because of John's compliment😢
It's funny how many people that don't really know The Beatles' sense of humor, that watch this video for the first time, don't realize the Beatles were clowning around before getting serious. they were deliberately trying to sound bad as a joke. they were known for their silly, dry humor.
@@patticrichton1135 yes, I know. That is why David Frost said: "Perfect rendition" and then said to his audience that they were "The Greatest Tea Room Orchestras in the world." I didn't give that detail but, as I said, they were still clowning around by doing that to playfully tease David Frost. And John Lennon did a silly vocal run: Buba dee do da .... at the end of it. Just as they did a silly short version of Elvis' . . . "It's Now Or Never", as well. All in good fun. My point was many people don't get what they were doing if they don't really know the Beatles very much or get their silly sense of humor.
Agreed! I often see people trying to trash Ringo as a drummer quote John as saying "he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles." They just don't get that sort of messing-around-with-your-mates sort of humor.
In the 1960's, almost all songs played on the radio were under four minutes. When The Beatles producers heard that "Hey Jude" was seven minutes long, they said the radio stations will never play it. John Lennon answered, "Sure they will!" When asked why, he said, "Because we're The Beatles". He was right. This song went to #1 and stayed there for four months.
I’m a Yank…an old fart (67)… But I hope you’ve learned to understand how much The Beatles hit us like an atomic bomb and totally changed all perceptions of rock and pop music in the states. Actually, all over the world. British performers are proportionally the greatest musical performers on earth by far, based on population, but The Beatles? Man, they brought it to a different level.
That audience was so lucky..the split was coming, for all they knew it was the last time they'd get to see them together. They were Britain's pride and joy, and they returned the love whenever they played, including their last show.. a free impromptu roof concert in the middle of downtown London, tied traffic up and stopped business while office people went to the roofs to watch. Other great tunes by them: "Taxman" " Paperback Writer"
1968. A year of massive events around the world. Martin Luther King assassinated. Bobby Kennedy assassinated. The Viet Cong Tet offensive in Vietnam and mass protests against the war in the US, the UK and other countries. The landmark Civil Rights Act. The May uprising in Paris. The Prague Spring and the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nixon becomes president. And, of course, some absolutely fantastic music from the Beatles. What a year to be 17, as I was. So good to see you listening to and appreciating the Beatles, their music and the influence they had on attitudes. Don't stop! There's something new with every song.
Civil rights act was '65 Yes, Nixon won in 68, with his dirty tricks & rat fucking. My white Jewish father ran against him though, as a VP candidate running with Eldridge Cleaver of The Black Panthers!
The Beatles had 20 number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The band’s career, from their formation to their breakup, spanned roughly a decade, from 1960 to 1970
At the time of "Hey Jude", the Beatles were at the tip of the spear of a revolution in music, fashion, youth culture and politics. Of course, "Hey Jude" was released as a single, and the flip side was "Revolution"... you should try reacting to that one, as well.
One of the many great songs by The Beatles. I enjoyed watching that performance, and both of you did a great reaction. In regards to what you saying, The Beatles had a profound influence on rock music, culture, and values. I watch The Cartier Family almost everyday, and I hope I get to see you interact with them. More old songs.
The man who "presents" the Beatles was David Frost, and the first bit the Beatles perform before launching into "Hey Jude" proper was the theme of Frost's talk show at the time, which he rates "A perfect rendition!" Then their saying "It's now or never..." was parodying a recent TV concert by Elvis Presley.
No autotune,no electronic trickery.........just.....talent....pure & simple. If you're brave enough to research their career from 1963-1970 as a group & beyond as single acts the changes & speed if those changes to their music is astonishing. The Beatles changed the music world.Simple to say that but they shifted it seismically. I was lucky,I lived through it. Sadly,to some people who don't understand I can only say "you had to be there". The Beatles were HUGE everywhere on the planet. To think it was before the internet,mobile phone networks,Twitter & all the other media platforms is utterly astounding. I truly doubt there will be another group of 4 men like them ever again.
At the time, The Beatles hadn't played live since 1966 and Elvis hadn't performed live for over a decade, but his 1962 hit was 'It's Now or Never', so to the audience it was funny on more than one level when John belted out those lyrics, as was Paul's ad lib "Judy Judy Judy" which was a well known humorous way impressionists imitated the famous actor Cary Grant (although he never actually said Judy Judy Judy, and he joked about that common misconception). My favorite lyric is "Well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder", both wise and very clever wordplay, with multiple interpretions of the variant figurative usages of 'cool' and 'cold' in one 'homily'.
With you mentioning the diversity of the people, this was down to The Beatles and their influence. They were definitely revolutionary and more than simply another group, at the time they were a movement, one for LOVE in its proper sense. They bowled me over in the early '60s, when I was 6 yrs old, their influence is still very much with me.
I got to see Paul McCartney and his band on my 60th birthday with my oldest daughter in San Francisco! It was amazing we got to see them perform Beatle songs,songs from his group Wings and solo career! Over 3 hours of great music with me,my daughter and over 40 thousand of our closest friends!
Back in the USSR was the Beatles showing appreciation of the American group Beach Boys. A lot of their earlier songs were coveres of black singers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry. They introduced orchestral music into rock and roll. The originated concept albums. They started as pop singers and changed to hard rock, psychedelic music, protest songs, and songs longer the 3 minutes. The world is a better place because of them
I think a lot of us definitely myself felt like this song was like a perfect message to the world when it came out like somehow this was the truth we all needed to hear. It was very strange and fact it was an alchemical transformation where things that happen to us personally seem to also be things that were happening on the largest stage like across civilization. So these aren’t just incredible songs that they wrote, but they’re artifacts, frozen, inAmber something that was happening, that all of us were part of. and it feels like we’re still living in those apostolic times just waiting for the final chord to sound
I love it when younger generations understand music like this. It gives me hope that good songwriting, singing and playing of music isn’t totally lost. I just don’t hear much of it anymore.
"Black Bird" ,by The Beatles, is the next one you should listen to. It's based on a black and white segregated audience that Paul McCartney witnessed during a Beatles gig. It was recently covered by Beyonce!
If you can see, in front of Beatles scene, the most famous audience.....MICK Jagger of Rolling Stones!!!! Look the admiration of Mick to realise the GREATNEES of Beatles!!!!
The Beatles the biggest band ever who influenced so many things, from music, to fashion to every band ever, they are complete talent no auto tune but pure talent , played own music , wrote own music , sang own music all 4 of them incredible talent, it had to be something to be at a concert they gave,even have movies with them in it.
The live video is awesome because of the diversity of the audience, and really, just seeing the Beatles live performing the song, but the studio recording is better because the "Na Na Na Na" end part, although as long, doesn't seem as long because of Paul's improvising on top of it. You should really check that out at some point too. I think you'll like it better. Peace
The Beatles definitely took pop to another level on many levels. And they indeed used their influence to bring people together, As a trivia side note, most of this wasn't live, just vocals, and maybe Paul playing piano, the instruments miming to the studio recording. That's what was often done on TV back then. Often musicians would take the piss, doing things that weren't anything like what they would be playing.
Simply the biggest hit single in my lifetime. This song raced to the top of the pop charts and stayed at #1 for the better part of 4 months! That was unheard of then, and it's unheard of today. By far the #1 song of 1968. It was so dominant, I don't even remember what was #2 for the year.
George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon had been singing together since 1957 first as the Quarrymen and later on around 1960 as the Beetles/ Silver Beetles/ Beatles. Originally a five piece band with Pest Best drums and Stuart Sutcliffe bass guitar. They started off as rock and rollers and blending this with blues, soul then Motown. After becoming big in Liverpool they moved to Hamburg giving up there jobs and education to earn good money. They had to perform 12 hour alternating shifts, each hour and sang the rock and roll hits of the day. After running out of songs to sing as other performers were singing the same songs, they then started writing there own. Pretty much unheard of back in the fifties. Performing so many times together they perfected there harmonies together and went back to Liverpool a much tighter band. Eventually they then hit the big time in England and the rest of Europe with the help of their manager, Brian Epstein. Sadly Stuart Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg and Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr. The rest as they say is history. Supposedly the first time a Motown song was performed on TV, was the Beatles singing the Marvelettes Mr. Postman in 1962. Watch the Beatles performing their version 'Rock and Roll music' Classic
1984 I was visiting a friend at a UK university. On the Saturday evening, there were several bands, well-known ones and local ones, playing in different parts of the student union building. The final band was Beatles tribute band The Bootleg Beatles. They ended with Hey Jude. As the venue emptied, hundreds of people left the campus in all directions, many continuing to sing the "Na na na nana na na" as they melted away into the night.
BTW, this is a different version then you would hear in the '60's (OR today); the one you will always here is very similar to this in the 1st half, but differs a lot when it comes to Paul's "extra-cirricular vocals (the various 'screams", ad-libbed lines, etc. Most of those are gone from the recording) It has very little of these. a few, not much. This is a not-often heard version, and it actually gives more of a "live performance" vibe then the released version does.
Paul's Hey Jude scream (official version) is apparently one of the highest rock screams ever, also iconic hitting just as the song switches over to the Na Na Na Na's. Love it ❤ You need to see it live and the audience response. Eg live in Hyde Park.
Interesting that Princess and her friend's take on Hey Jude is unity. I always viewed it mainly as a song about taking a chance on romance. The Beatles were outspoken leaders for the peace movement. The Vietnam War was going on. They also were aghast at racism in the US. England didn't have the same magnitude of the problem. They were friends with all kinds of black musicians, highly admired and emulated them (including the great Little Richard and trailblazing Chuck Berry), and couldn't quite understand the nastiness of it in the US. Paul McCartney wrote the song "Blackbird" about US African Americans. One of his greatest compositions. The Beatles were revolutionary in just about every sense of the word. Definitely the G.O.A.T.
The Beatles were so big, so powerful, that actually, they *did* end segregation at a venue in Florida. They'd been booked to play, there, but, when they realized it was "restricted", they refused to pay. When the venue threatened to sue, the Beatles laughed. At this point, they had more money than God, and more power, too. The venue backed down, and a good time was had by all. :)
"Jude" was band mate John Lennon's son Julian, who was upset over the breakup of his mom and dad. Paul McCartney (lead singer on this song) wrote Hey Jude to help soothe Julian's concerns. The song became iconic -- truly an anthem for an entire generation of the world's young people. There has not been another song in my lifetime that so totally captivated the entire world of popular music listeners quite like Hey Jude.
To you guys points about the "na na na" refrain just going on and on. . .in the '60's there was no social media. To get your song out there, you had to get radio airplay. And the types of songs that were being played at that time in 1968, when this song was released, typical songs had to be between 3-4 minutes length. This song comes in somewhere around 7 minutes in length. The Beatles producer George Martin pointed this out to the Beatles that no radio station was going to play a song 7 minutes long, to which John Lennon, with his trademark quick wit replied "they will if it's us!".
We will show up to watch you react to any Beatle material that you come across. All 200 songs maybe 210 with the covers they did early in their careers.
You can hear another excellent example of them trying to bring people together on the song "Revolution," on the "White Album." John's lyrics are sort of a precursor of his song "Imagine."
aye Princess, lovely to see you with your bro - you look like sweet siblings! 👫 Paul wrote this song one day, when he was on his way to visit John, who was at the time in the process of divorcing his first wife Cynthia, and they did have a boy together, who had to go through seeing his parents split... so it started with Paul inwardly talking to Jules (or: Julian - the boy) like: hey Jules, don't take it bad... and so evolved the story of the song. Eventually he changed it to 'Hey Jude', probably also to not put Jules too much on the spot. John later said, that for him this was the best song, Paul ever wrote... 👨👩👦 ...I've now just today watched 6 of your Beatles reactions, really had a ball with it, and can now make a few suggestions, assuming you're still completing 'Abbey Road' as we speak... 01 Norwegian Wood 02 Eight days a week 03 Drive my Car 04 Elanor Rigby 05 A Day in a Life 06 I'm the Walrus 07 Fool on the Hill 08 For the Benefit of Mr Kite 09 The long and winding Road 10 Get Back ...this could keep you busy for a while... ENJOY!!! 🧡💛💚💙
The Beatles were the greatest band ever. They played so many different styles at such a high level. If you don't like one of their songs, try another one. Every album was different, and every album they got better.
It's a thrill for me to see younger people appreciate the music nearer my era (I'm 57) check out Kate Bush 'Man with a Cild in his Eyes' also, Wuthering Heights, there's no one like her... Stay beautiful. 🤗❤
Paul on a roll in the late 60s. The generational hits were sliding right off his guitar threads. He was in a zone. This live version is delightful, but the studio version captures the harmonies.
LAST THING: "Jude" is John's son, Julian who was affectionately called, 'Jude' by Paul. It was written for Julian (who would have been 4 years old at the time "Hey, Jude" was written and came out), to comfort him as he virtually never got to see his father John, and on the rare times he DID, John was dismissive and disregarding of him and seemed to regard his son as a nuisance that he didn't want to deal with, and was pretty rude to him. Paul had sympathy for 4-year-old "Jude", and wrote this to him to tell him, "It's O.K.. You are loved. John cares about you, in his own way, and we're all supportive of you ("Take a sad song, and make it better")".
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Long story but an important one and a story that gets overlooked a lot. The first time the Beatles came to America, they played Ed Sullivan in NY. Then they played Washington DC. Then they were going to play the south. They were told their first stop in the south was Jacksonville Florida. They were then told that the shows in the south were segregated. The actual Beatles (not their management) said we will NOT play any of these shows that are segregated. Call each of the Venues and tell them we're not coming. All of these venues gave in and desegregated the shows. Because of that, other bands demanded the same thing. They had guts back then to stand up and say, we will not play to segrigated audiences. First group to do that!!!!!!
Wow! Never knew that!
Facts 💯 Much respect 🙏
@@robertmarriott6767 thanks my friend
So!
@@casepatts9322 So? I’m sure doing that was braver than anything you’ve ever done. That’s so
It's so good to see the pleasure you feel listening to this song. I was a kid in England, watching this for the first time ever on tv, in black and white. The Beatles still wipe out their own hype with sheer genius music.
"it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder".... classic line
Every artist that takes the stage owes something to the Beatles. They were revolutionary and changed the face of music! Great reaction! Thank you!
I love the Beatles, they have a song for every mood you're in. They were a very innovative, creative band.
You know, no autotune, just pure talent. Good music never die❤
Autotune, the DUSASTER of REAL Music!!!
Who are they? They are The Beatles, and they are the greatest pop group there has ever been in the world. Their music transcends generations, appealing to young and old. Simply the greatest. I was privileged to grow up with their music.
Hey Jude was Number 1 on the US Billboard charts for 9 straight weeks in 1968, the most successful single of their entire career.
The Beatles were on tour in 65 and were told they would be playing to a segregated audience in some stadiums. They refused to do so and only agreed to play to an integrated audience…stadiums had no choice but to oblige as they were the biggest thing on in the world….hence from then on there were no more segregated audiences and the Beatles are to thank for that
If there ever was a band that changed the world, The Beatles were it. This is just one example of that.
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That was Jacksonville Florida
Wow, that's so amazing seeing a new generation discover The Beatles and hear Hey Jude... and I discovered them after they broke up too (but back in 1977...). They inspired me to learn guitar.
As someone who grew up with them, the Beatles were all about optimism, goodwill, equality, love, and progress. They sang about it in their songs, and lived it by requiring their concerts in the Ameican south to be desegregated, and refusing to play locations that weren't. They grew up loving and playing American soul, blues, R&B, country, etc, and were naturally unbiased and inclusive--you can hear that depth in their music. Cultural and musical inclusion made them what they are.
They started out as a awesomely popular boy band, and grew to be leaders of musical innovation, style, production, composition and performance, changing and creating styles, creating classic records in each one. Paul McCartney is a master of singing, composition, and playing. Listen to that pure, steady controlled tone, live, no autotune. All the best!
The Beatles had amazing 3-part harmonising, this is a feature throughout most of their career. Hey Jude is an anthem.
The Beatles loved goofing around whenever they had a chance as you can tell from the goofy intro. They were messin' with everybody.
It's David Frost's theme song for his TV show "THE DAVID FROST SHOW" which is where this performance took place. That's David Frost introducing them.
@@patticrichton1135 the one who interviewed Nixon also!!!
Jude in this song is actually John Lennon's son Julian. The original words were "Hey Jules", but it didn't work musically, so Paul McCartney changed it to "Hey Jude". Julian was a young child when his parents, John and Cynthia, were going through a divorce. Paul wrote this as a song of comfort for Julian.
John basically abandoned his son Julian. Paul stepped in to be a father figure for Julian
Everyone already knows the story behind the song.at this point.
thanks wikipedia
Ladies and gentlemen, the G.O.A.T.
That's exactly what the Beatles were. They refused to play any venue where audiences were segregated. Those venues that normally would put the Black audience in the back or in the balconies had to change or lose a lot of money. They always agreed to the Beatles terms.
Spot on.
They were among the greatest influencers of the day. You do as they want or you don’t host them.
others, like Joan Baez put their lives on the line, marching with. MLK.
the beatles are just another level. all of them on their own were great, together amazing.
This song was written by "Uncle" Paul for John's first son, Julian, to console him, in the aftermath of John leaving his mother Cynthia for Yoko Ono. Julian was only about 5 at the time and was struggling. Coincidentally that was the same age that Sean Lennon was when John was murdered. This song started out as Hey Jules, but Paul ultimately ended up with Hey Jude. At one point when he was writing it, he had some place-holder lyrics that he wasn't happy with. One in particular, "The movement you need is on your shoulder" especially bothered him, and he said to John in the studio, don't worry he'd fix that line. John replied to him, you will not, that's the best line in the song. So even later in the group's career, although John and Paul no longer sat down together to write songs, they still helped each other out at times when the other was struggling.
Perfectly put with all the details required to show and tell them what the song is actually about. In Britain, this is classed as the Greatest Ever Beatles song of all time and you an see why too! At the end it's like a heavenly choir has come together, it's just so Melodic. They decided to change the title from 'Hey Jules' to 'Hey Jude' so that Julian wouldn't always be associated with the song nor would he necessarily be constantly reminded about his father's infidelity and the fact him and his mum had been dumped by John. Yet sadly he has apparently said he hates the song now for what it represented to him, the break up of his family, including that of the Beatles too in a way. But Paul was just trying to tell Julian it will all be OK in the end as he would always be be there for him, even if his own father isn't going to be! ❤ I am so glad you both liked this classic piece of Rock history! ❤
And did you know each time Paul McCartney sings that line about "...the movement you need is on your shoulders," live it chokes him up because of John's compliment😢
spot on my friend - came here to look for or write this comment, but you wrote it much better than I could ....
The Beatles ...............THE G.O.A.T.S .. Quite simply ..Nice to have you aboard .
It's funny how many people that don't really know The Beatles' sense of humor, that watch this video for the first time, don't realize the Beatles were clowning around before getting serious. they were deliberately trying to sound bad as a joke. they were known for their silly, dry humor.
They were actually playing David Frost's (the man who introduced him) THEME SONG to his show which they were appearing on here.
@@patticrichton1135 yes, I know. That is why David Frost said: "Perfect rendition" and then said to his audience that they were "The Greatest Tea Room Orchestras in the world." I didn't give that detail but, as I said, they were still clowning around by doing that to playfully tease David Frost. And John Lennon did a silly vocal run: Buba dee do da .... at the end of it. Just as they did a silly short version of Elvis' . . . "It's Now Or Never", as well. All in good fun. My point was many people don't get what they were doing if they don't really know the Beatles very much or get their silly sense of humor.
Agreed! I often see people trying to trash Ringo as a drummer quote John as saying "he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles." They just don't get that sort of messing-around-with-your-mates sort of humor.
@@Beaver1224John actually never said that. A comedian said it and it somehow got attributed to John.
In the 1960's, almost all songs played on the radio were under four minutes. When The Beatles producers heard that "Hey Jude" was seven minutes long, they said the radio stations will never play it. John Lennon answered, "Sure they will!" When asked why, he said, "Because we're The Beatles". He was right. This song went to #1 and stayed there for four months.
I’m a Yank…an old fart (67)…
But I hope you’ve learned to understand how much The Beatles hit us like an atomic bomb and totally changed all perceptions of rock and pop music in the states. Actually, all over the world.
British performers are proportionally the greatest musical performers on earth by far, based on population, but The Beatles?
Man, they brought it to a different level.
Me too, haha! We were so lucky to have grown up with the Beatles!
That audience was so lucky..the split was coming, for all they knew it was the last time they'd get to see them together. They were Britain's pride and joy, and they returned the love whenever they played, including their last show.. a free impromptu roof concert in the middle of downtown London, tied traffic up and stopped business while office people went to the roofs to watch. Other great tunes by them: "Taxman" " Paperback Writer"
1968. A year of massive events around the world. Martin Luther King assassinated. Bobby Kennedy assassinated. The Viet Cong Tet offensive in Vietnam and mass protests against the war in the US, the UK and other countries. The landmark Civil Rights Act. The May uprising in Paris. The Prague Spring and the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nixon becomes president. And, of course, some absolutely fantastic music from the Beatles. What a year to be 17, as I was.
So good to see you listening to and appreciating the Beatles, their music and the influence they had on attitudes. Don't stop! There's something new with every song.
It was my tenth birthday that year. What a year!
Civil rights act was '65
Yes, Nixon won in 68, with his dirty tricks & rat fucking.
My white Jewish father ran against him though, as a VP candidate running with Eldridge Cleaver of The Black Panthers!
One of the greatest Beatles song ever. In top ten for sure!
The best band the world has ever seen or heard. I am so glad I grew up with them.
I just LOVED the startled look on their faces at the beginning...., when they thought that THIS was the song..., and tried to be positive... :D
The most known band in the world ! You must dig into this band !
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you THE BEATLES!! Still getting people to sing along to their songs half a century later!! #beatlesforever
Six minutes of " na na na na" and you would still go on........They are the Beatles!!!!!!!!!!
It's great you kids are going and discovering groups like the Beatles!
Keep it up! You're tirning your fams on to some good stuff!
Blackbird was specifically written in response to segregation in the American South in the 1960s. Glad you liked this!
Wowww
Yeah, Beyoncé did a great cover of "Blackbird" on her new album.
@@makeadifference4allUsing Paul's original guitar track from the original recording i believe!
That is what the Beatles were and the 70’s after were all about togetherness! We have lost our way.
The Beatles had 20 number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The band’s career, from their formation to their breakup, spanned roughly a decade, from 1960 to 1970
At the time of "Hey Jude", the Beatles were at the tip of the spear of a revolution in music, fashion, youth culture and politics. Of course, "Hey Jude" was released as a single, and the flip side was "Revolution"... you should try reacting to that one, as well.
They recorded the videos for Hey Jude and Revolution the same day. You can see that John and Paul traded shirts between the videos.
You Kid's dont know what you got yourself too! Hold on your going into a MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR...👍👍
This song was written for John Lennon‘s son Julian. Paul decided to use the name Jude instead of Hey Jules.
Uplifting song to the fullest!! Against depression and feeling low The Beatles tell you to be positive and stand up against adversity!! ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
It never gets old, unlike us, the fans! 😋
One of the many great songs by The Beatles. I enjoyed watching that performance, and both of you did a great reaction. In regards to what you saying, The Beatles had a profound influence on rock music, culture, and values. I watch The Cartier Family almost everyday, and I hope I get to see you interact with them. More old songs.
The man who "presents" the Beatles was David Frost, and the first bit the Beatles perform before launching into "Hey Jude" proper was the theme of Frost's talk show at the time, which he rates "A perfect rendition!" Then their saying "It's now or never..." was parodying a recent TV concert by Elvis Presley.
No autotune,no electronic trickery.........just.....talent....pure & simple. If you're brave enough to research their career from 1963-1970 as a group & beyond as single acts the changes & speed if those changes to their music is astonishing. The Beatles changed the music world.Simple to say that but they shifted it seismically. I was lucky,I lived through it. Sadly,to some people who don't understand I can only say "you had to be there". The Beatles were HUGE everywhere on the planet. To think it was before the internet,mobile phone networks,Twitter & all the other media platforms is utterly astounding. I truly doubt there will be another group of 4 men like them ever again.
At the time, The Beatles hadn't played live since 1966 and Elvis hadn't performed live for over a decade, but his 1962 hit was 'It's Now or Never', so to the audience it was funny on more than one level when John belted out those lyrics, as was Paul's ad lib "Judy Judy Judy" which was a well known humorous way impressionists imitated the famous actor Cary Grant (although he never actually said Judy Judy Judy, and he joked about that common misconception). My favorite lyric is "Well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder", both wise and very clever wordplay, with multiple interpretions of the variant figurative usages of 'cool' and 'cold' in one 'homily'.
Greatest legendary band ever... Beatlemania forever 🙏🙏🙏
Loved your reactions! Gave me goosebumbs. Hugs from Brazil!
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What a classic! Thanks for having me my lovely adopted sis!
Jflex, about your sis, lovely is an understatement!!!
Yes, they were changers and peace makers - you are absolutely right!
i thank god i am old enough to have seen them live
The most legend Band in the World, their songs still there until now and then.....❤ I love the Beatles very much...
One of the best Beatles songs ever. 😎
Baby Girl, digging the red hair. I'm an auburn! ❤
Just found you both today separately and didn't realize you were siblings! How cool!
With you mentioning the diversity of the people, this was down to The Beatles and their influence. They were definitely revolutionary and more than simply another group, at the time they were a movement, one for LOVE in its proper sense. They bowled me over in the early '60s, when I was 6 yrs old, their influence is still very much with me.
I got to see Paul McCartney and his band on my 60th birthday with my oldest daughter in San Francisco! It was amazing we got to see them perform Beatle songs,songs from his group Wings and solo career! Over 3 hours of great music with me,my daughter and over 40 thousand of our closest friends!
Got to see Paul in Berkeley. I'd he's still touring, find a way to get to the show
Back in the USSR was the Beatles showing appreciation of the American group Beach Boys. A lot of their earlier songs were coveres of black singers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry. They introduced orchestral music into rock and roll. The originated concept albums. They started as pop singers and changed to hard rock, psychedelic music, protest songs, and songs longer the 3 minutes. The world is a better place because of them
I think a lot of us definitely myself felt like this song was like a perfect message to the world when it came out like somehow this was the truth we all needed to hear. It was very strange and fact it was an alchemical transformation where things that happen to us personally seem to also be things that were happening on the largest stage like across civilization. So these aren’t just incredible songs that they wrote, but they’re artifacts, frozen, inAmber something that was happening, that all of us were part of. and it feels like we’re still living in those apostolic times just waiting for the final chord to sound
I love it when younger generations understand music like this. It gives me hope that good songwriting, singing and playing of music isn’t totally lost. I just don’t hear much of it anymore.
They are on the David Frost (introducing them) show and that first piece of music was the theme music for the show.
"Black Bird" ,by The Beatles, is the next one you should listen to. It's based on a black and white segregated audience that Paul McCartney witnessed during a Beatles gig. It was recently covered by Beyonce!
Your reactions were charming, wonderful and honest. Ian
Glad you enjoyed it
If you can see, in front of Beatles scene, the most famous audience.....MICK Jagger of Rolling Stones!!!!
Look the admiration of Mick to realise the GREATNEES of Beatles!!!!
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles…they or god’s of Rock…and defined the 60’s and 70’s! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Holy crap! You guys know each other? I love it. Watch you both separately and did not know this.
Brother and sister 🤍
The Beatles the biggest band ever who influenced so many things, from music, to fashion to every band ever, they are complete talent no auto tune but pure talent , played own music , wrote own music , sang own music all 4 of them incredible talent, it had to be something to be at a concert they gave,even have movies with them in it.
Even spiritually, remember when George went introspective and dragged the Beatles into that realm
The live video is awesome because of the diversity of the audience, and really, just seeing the Beatles live performing the song, but the studio recording is better because the "Na Na Na Na" end part, although as long, doesn't seem as long because of Paul's improvising on top of it. You should really check that out at some point too. I think you'll like it better.
Peace
Go back and watch it again. See how long it is before you hear any melody repeating. Proper songwriters.
You're going to love this journey!
The Beatles definitely took pop to another level on many levels. And they indeed used their influence to bring people together, As a trivia side note, most of this wasn't live, just vocals, and maybe Paul playing piano, the instruments miming to the studio recording. That's what was often done on TV back then. Often musicians would take the piss, doing things that weren't anything like what they would be playing.
Simply the biggest hit single in my lifetime. This song raced to the top of the pop charts and stayed at #1 for the better part of 4 months! That was unheard of then, and it's unheard of today. By far the #1 song of 1968. It was so dominant, I don't even remember what was #2 for the year.
George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon had been singing together since 1957 first as the Quarrymen and later on around 1960 as the Beetles/ Silver Beetles/ Beatles. Originally a five piece band with Pest Best drums and Stuart Sutcliffe bass guitar.
They started off as rock and rollers and blending this with blues, soul then Motown. After becoming big in Liverpool they moved to Hamburg giving up there jobs and education to earn good money. They had to perform 12 hour alternating shifts, each hour and sang the rock and roll hits of the day. After running out of songs to sing as other performers were singing the same songs, they then started writing there own. Pretty much unheard of back in the fifties.
Performing so many times together they perfected there harmonies together and went back to Liverpool a much tighter band. Eventually they then hit the big time in England and the rest of Europe with the help of their manager, Brian Epstein.
Sadly Stuart Sutcliffe died of a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg and Pete Best was replaced by Ringo Starr. The rest as they say is history. Supposedly the first time a Motown song was performed on TV, was the Beatles singing the Marvelettes Mr. Postman in 1962. Watch the Beatles performing their version 'Rock and Roll music' Classic
You're asking who Jude is - it was John's son Julian that the song was written for.
The beautiful voice and the genius of Paul McCartney.
Watch the movie A Hard Day's Night (1964) if you want to know a little something about The Beatles.
1984 I was visiting a friend at a UK university. On the Saturday evening, there were several bands, well-known ones and local ones, playing in different parts of the student union building. The final band was Beatles tribute band The Bootleg Beatles. They ended with Hey Jude. As the venue emptied, hundreds of people left the campus in all directions, many continuing to sing the "Na na na nana na na" as they melted away into the night.
The Beatles refused to play in The Southern States of The USA until they allowed NON segregated and diverse audiences.
Thus depriving the majority of kids in the south who weren't bioted.
If you go down the Beatles rabbit hole youll be there a long time 😂😂😂
BTW, this is a different version then you would hear in the '60's (OR today); the one you will always here is very similar to this in the 1st half, but differs a lot when it comes to Paul's "extra-cirricular vocals (the various 'screams", ad-libbed lines, etc. Most of those are gone from the recording) It has very little of these. a few, not much. This is a not-often heard version, and it actually gives more of a "live performance" vibe then the released version does.
Paul's Hey Jude scream (official version) is apparently one of the highest rock screams ever, also iconic hitting just as the song switches over to the Na Na Na Na's. Love it ❤
You need to see it live and the audience response. Eg live in Hyde Park.
great reaction, guys, thanks1
Wilson Pickett pulled off a cover of this. If I recall correctly, Duane Allman featured on guitar for Pickett.
Interesting that Princess and her friend's take on Hey Jude is unity. I always viewed it mainly as a song about taking a chance on romance. The Beatles were outspoken leaders for the peace movement. The Vietnam War was going on. They also were aghast at racism in the US. England didn't have the same magnitude of the problem. They were friends with all kinds of black musicians, highly admired and emulated them (including the great Little Richard and trailblazing Chuck Berry), and couldn't quite understand the nastiness of it in the US. Paul McCartney wrote the song "Blackbird" about US African Americans. One of his greatest compositions. The Beatles were revolutionary in just about every sense of the word. Definitely the G.O.A.T.
A must watch (Imagine) Heart wrenching music .Cheers
No other band is in the same sport never mind the same ball park
The Beatles played those rough clubs in Hamburg before they became famous. They played an eight hour set a night.
For well you know that it's a fool
Who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder very true
The Beatles were so big, so powerful, that actually, they *did* end segregation at a venue in Florida.
They'd been booked to play, there, but, when they realized it was "restricted", they refused to pay. When the venue threatened to sue, the Beatles laughed. At this point, they had more money than God, and more power, too. The venue backed down, and a good time was had by all. :)
"Jude" was band mate John Lennon's son Julian, who was upset over the breakup of his mom and dad. Paul McCartney (lead singer on this song) wrote Hey Jude to help soothe Julian's concerns. The song became iconic -- truly an anthem for an entire generation of the world's young people. There has not been another song in my lifetime that so totally captivated the entire world of popular music listeners quite like Hey Jude.
To you guys points about the "na na na" refrain just going on and on. . .in the '60's there was no social media. To get your song out there, you had to get radio airplay. And the types of songs that were being played at that time in 1968, when this song was released, typical songs had to be between 3-4 minutes length. This song comes in somewhere around 7 minutes in length. The Beatles producer George Martin pointed this out to the Beatles that no radio station was going to play a song 7 minutes long, to which John Lennon, with his trademark quick wit replied "they will if it's us!".
We will show up to watch you react to any Beatle material that you come across. All 200 songs maybe 210 with the covers they did early in their careers.
Sang live in a BBC studio on Top of the Pops where the whole audience joined in at the final chorus. Trouble was, they didn't;t know how to stop
You can hear another excellent example of them trying to bring people together on the song "Revolution," on the "White Album." John's lyrics are sort of a precursor of his song "Imagine."
aye Princess, lovely to see you with your bro - you look like sweet siblings! 👫
Paul wrote this song one day, when he was on his way to visit John, who was at the time in the process of divorcing his first wife Cynthia, and they did have a boy together, who had to go through seeing his parents split... so it started with Paul inwardly talking to Jules (or: Julian - the boy) like: hey Jules, don't take it bad... and so evolved the story of the song. Eventually he changed it to 'Hey Jude', probably also to not put Jules too much on the spot. John later said, that for him this was the best song, Paul ever wrote... 👨👩👦
...I've now just today watched 6 of your Beatles reactions, really had a ball with it, and can now make a few suggestions, assuming you're still completing 'Abbey Road' as we speak...
01 Norwegian Wood
02 Eight days a week
03 Drive my Car
04 Elanor Rigby
05 A Day in a Life
06 I'm the Walrus
07 Fool on the Hill
08 For the Benefit of Mr Kite
09 The long and winding Road
10 Get Back
...this could keep you busy for a while... ENJOY!!!
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The Beatles were the greatest band ever. They played so many different styles at such a high level. If you don't like one of their songs, try another one. Every album was different, and every album they got better.
It's a thrill for me to see younger people appreciate the music nearer my era (I'm 57) check out Kate Bush 'Man with a Cild in his Eyes' also, Wuthering Heights, there's no one like her... Stay beautiful. 🤗❤
The most important band of all time. Without them there would not be music.
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Paul on a roll in the late 60s. The generational hits were sliding right off his guitar threads. He was in a zone. This live version is delightful, but the studio version captures the harmonies.
direct to ' Helter skelter' or. ' come togeather'
For fun, you should have a look at the silly but fun movie "yesterday" to see what Ed Sheeran does to this song.
LAST THING: "Jude" is John's son, Julian who was affectionately called, 'Jude' by Paul. It was written for Julian (who would have been 4 years old at the time "Hey, Jude" was written and came out), to comfort him as he virtually never got to see his father John, and on the rare times he DID, John was dismissive and disregarding of him and seemed to regard his son as a nuisance that he didn't want to deal with, and was pretty rude to him. Paul had sympathy for 4-year-old "Jude", and wrote this to him to tell him, "It's O.K.. You are loved. John cares about you, in his own way, and we're all supportive of you ("Take a sad song, and make it better")".
Love your hair so cool!
Gotta sing along with this.