This was really good. I don't agree with everything, but so what, you went all in and tried to chronicle the whole thing. That alone makes this an amazing effort.
probably the best beatles history videos out there. so in depth, many interesting details. Especially love the inclusion of segments of making the songs, what inspired them, and jokes. Great job, really.
It’s got to be very difficult to produce anything new about the Beatles, but you really hit it out of the park with this one! It’s amongst the best Beatles videos I’ve ever watched. I’m highly looking forward to your next “pot boilers “!
Great video. The White Album has always been my favorite of The Beatles’, so I’m always interested in seeing/reading/hearing new takes on its creation and legacy.
Great work here. A very thorough dissertation. George does play electric guitar on Martha My Dear. A photo of that session appears in this video. Paul and George are photographed, surrounded by a brass section. There is also solid info that it is Paul on the drums on Don't Pass Me By (with Ringo on the Piano-the song is in the key of C after all. Ringo's key of choice on a piano. The overdub session the next day gives more evidence this was the case. EMI was still 4 track at this time. The drumming seems more heavy-handed than the Country & Western music loving Richard Starkey's likely drum approach might've been. IMHO, It is Paul on drums (but not betting the farm). Happy New Year, RNB
@@davidlauter1622 Hey David. I agree on both points. DPMB is in my bottom 5% of favorite Beatles songs. There are a couple reports from people at the session that sat it was indeed Paul on drums. That's all I am attributing to the debate. I don't know what the 50-year Deluxe re-release says about the matter. Though it has been shown that a scant few of these liner notes on these reissues are not completely accurate. The song was finished in only 2 days w/o John or George. My belief is Paul's drum take was supposed to only be a guide drum part (with Ringo on piano, supplying a guide vocal) Paul's drumming would then be replaced by Ringo at a later date. With J & G's return in 2 days, there was never another opportunity to fine tune DPMB and they left it as it was. The crappy rough monotonous noisy mess we have been saddled with all these decades. Cheers, RNB
Highlight of my weekend watching this. I adore the Beatles and the white album is my favorite. Just the engineering and crazy approach to sound makes it interesting. Then add brilliant songs and so much variety Great work! Cheers
You did a great job man!! It was informative enough for newbies but refreshing for the die hards. Great use of video clips i had never seen (John taking about ‘Nam). Also loved the font you used. Kubrick’s Shining? Well done man! Proud of you.
Good catch on the font and style!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it, my goal was to sort of strike that balance between a more casual retelling while also including details not everyone may know
these videos are great - puts several sources I have studied for 30 years in books and films- now with isolated tracks (ai?) - the recording timeline and history is remarkable
thank you so much. My goal from the beginning was to take all these different amazing sources and try to condense them into something that was entertaining and reasonably detailed, without being excruciatingly so!
This has always been my favorite Beatles album, precisely because it's so fragmented. Every song sounds like it was made by a different band, and I can't think of a higher compliment to pay the band and production team. The music business has made it the norm for every band to have its uniform, easily-packaged, easily-marketed sound, so it's a rare thing for a band, especially one of the Beatles' caliber, to have such free rein given to their creativity. To me, the White Album is this magic radio where you change the station after every song and every new song is an absolute revelation; there's no way to anticipate what's coming next.
Very comprehensive!!!! Whilst John Lennon did not participate in "Savoy Truffle" & "Long Long Long" - it must be pointed out that he did not play on MOST of George's songs after 1965!! "For You Blue" was a rare exception.
Great video, really enjoyed the day by day timeline. Always thought it was a shame “Not Guilty” was not put on the album or even side B of a single. Great track the got passed by.
It's incredible to learn this stuff about The Beatles without the use of unnecessary stuff like talking heads like in the recent Beatles 64 documentary. Just raw, unfiltered, and as accurate as possible.
Out of all of their albums I find myself listening to this one the most. Happiness is a warm gun has always been a favorite Lennon Beatles song its got some cool chords in it.
Though The Beatles/The White Album is the perfect name, A Doll's House would've been a good second choice because the album is a bit like a house with lots of different rooms, each completely distinct from the others.
A little mistake there: Don't Pass Me By's original title was This Is Some Friendly and not Some Kind Of Friendly! And its composition began in late 1963 and not in 1962
I was born in The Kings rd in 1961 and lived there until 2001, there was no Apple shop in the Kings rd. My uncle Mike was the manager of The Talk of The Town nightclub in the West End at the time and was a “close friend” of Brian Epstein, being gay in the 60’s had only been decriminalised a few years earlier, so my dear uncle had to keep it all on the down low. When my fantastic uncle Mike died he left me his record collection which included every single Beatles album signed by each Beatle “To Mike love John, Paul, George, Ringo”. My uncle never played them but covered them in clear plastic, pristine. In the 80’s when I had a heroin addiction I sold them all to The Tape and Record Exchange in Notting Hill Gate for about £60. 😭 One of my biggest regrets. The Sgt Pepper Album cover was shot in a studio (Chelsea Manor Studios) about 10ft across an alleyway from my bedroom at the back of our house at 147 Kings rd when I was 6 years old.😮
Martha My Dear was recorded with George Harrison and, very probably, Ringo. There is a photo from that session that you even used in the video with Paul on piano and George on guitar, photographed from above, witg the brass section playing alongside them. Ringo is most probably playing drums in the booth as they play
@ I see your point there. Yes, Lewisohn's book has been my reference for years as well, but that assumption about Paul playing everything on the song has been surpassed in recent years by the photos taken at the session
It's not just this one thing obviously, but Paul's micromanagement and sort of hyper-fixations over his songs probably was tiring. They had done it for pepper and it worked well so I understand where it was coming from, but I always found it strange that Lennon had all these songs already written and most of the Beatles played on all of them this album, but Paul's were scattered or just by himself. Also, they seem to be recorded later throughout the sessions. It's always been a hunch of mine. The lyric, "the walrus was Paul" from glass onion, and' "we all know obla di bl da" from savoy truffle always seemed like nods to the way they were feeling towards Paul. Paul even would play ringo's role. It's truly incredible how he thought he could fill all his bandmate's roles. Paul was absolutely a tour de force and talent, but he really was up his own ass after pepper and maybe his ego had been fractured from the magical mystery tour failure. This work ethic would ironically lead to so many brilliant moments for the Beatles in their later years, but John coping with heroin and Yoko seemed like an act of self-preservation. Sorta rambling but this has been my fave album for a long time.
Also, the acoustic version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps doesn't consist solely of George on voice and guitar. Paul is also on the take playing organ (You can hear it exactly at the point when you say that George is the only Beatle present on the take)
16:23 That particular part, to my surprise, is actually a backwards piano. I always assumed it was backwards strings or maybe accordion, but I ran it backwards and it's piano.
how very dare he... imagine that ..bring your girlfriend to work ....how could he ....? im lost for words ... how could a rich and famous young man do such a disgraceful deed during the the swinging 60s....??? derrrrrrrrr
I think is some ways John used Yoko to initiate a break from the band. He pretended innocence of such, even to himself but, he had to know bringing her in so intimately to the studio without even a courtesy discussion beforehand would cause an uproar. Then when there was one, he blamed the others in an ego enhancing move to "protect Yoko" The reality is he knew bringing her in would cause the uproar, an uproar he wanted to happen so he could distance himself. He was good with words but, not when they became too intimate with others OR when they might bring up sad emotions for himself. She allowed her to take the heat for things while at the same time played the "Protector' Instead of just having a frank, adult discussion ahead of time with the others about seriously wanting something different. You can't blame him because he was messed up at this time and frankly, Yoko took advantage of the situation too. Pushing to get more of John to herself while playing innocent about it all. Oh well, a family always has these messy bits don't they?
Great documentary. Just one tidbit you could have added: the sound of the plane on Back in the USSR is done by Paul with his voice as they could not locate the sound effect from the EMI sound library. This was confirmed in an interview by Paul himself in an interview a few years back. He mentions it in passing (sorry can't help further with the reference)
at 1:13:08 in the review by Robb Barker, last sentence (bottom right hand column) he attributes the vocals to both Why Don't We Do It In the Road, and Helter Skelter to LENNON. LOL
Ever WONDER what SONGs would have been CUT???? What WE never would have heard?? Now, many years later I could easily drop a few but couldn't cut as many as needed for a SINGLE ALBUM.
Thank you for mentioning Francie Schwartz, who has been airbrushed out of history. I have read that his nickname for her was Jude, in affectionate reference to her being Jewish. He wrote Hey Jude, or at least started writing it, when he was seeing her. Considering that he, by his own description of his writing process, jumbles things up into a song (eg. his description of writing Martha My Dear), it is not unreasonable to deduce that he has airbrushed this woman out of the genesis of Hey Jude. I'm sure he finished it with the visit to Julien and then, from then on, through every repeating of the story (the the writing of Hey Jude) he has convinced us and himself that the final coming together of the song is the whole story. If Paul can admit that even Martha My Dear is not ENTIRELY about his sheep dog, it is not unreasonable, considering the timing of the beginning of writing Hey Jude, that this brief intermediary girlfriend has been airbrushed out of Hey Jude, which may have had an origin less straightforward. The story about Julien is a wholesome easy sell, why sully the anecdote with a turgid brief affair that he himself would like to forget. Fair enough. He wrote it. So why can't he write the origin story? Well, because it is also a matter of history, I suppose.
@@JeffreyStock I think you're right - possibly a confused memory of hearing about Paul and Francie painting "[Hey]Jude" across the Apple Boutique windows.
I had read Paul was confronted about the name being a negative remark towards Jews and he was put off by that. He had said it was never was any kind of reference for Jews (nor a Jewish woman). Paul stated he never would have thought anyone would think of Jude meaning Jews as this person clearly had.
Obla-Di Obla-Da - Lush's story of how John transformed it by "smashing the keys with almighty volume, twice the speed of how they'd done it before" is one people love to retell. The thing is, you can hear the early takes (one of them excerpted here) and they are basically the *same speed* So I take this story with a pinch of salt.
Well, you skipped on many important details (Like Paul refusing to let George play solo licks on Hey Jude relegating him on the control room during most of its final recording, as seen on the Music! documentary) and other minor but somewhat important infos (Such as George, Paul and Ringo, but not John, working with Eric Clapton prior to his involvement on While My Guitar Gently Weeps on the recording of Jackie Lomax’s Sour Milk Sea or Nicky Hopkins involvement on Revolution), and there are some incorrect informations here and there, but I think this a well put chronicle of those hectic months during the recording of the White Album. Oh, and you also skipped, apart from a short mention by Paul, the figure of Linda, whom Paul met in the States during the Apple promotional tour, much to John's frustration, and that will move to Paul's London house midway through the recording sessions for the double LP. She is a key figure in this tumultuous sentimental months for Paul as well as Jane and Francie, and in general for The Beatles as Yoko was
Paul has stated that he met Linda at the Bag O' Nails. In fact there's an interview with Paul AND Linda where they talk about. I always thought that was in London. Would love to hear more about this...especially as to how and why this caused John "frustration". Don't leave us hanging!!
@@bouwebear597 I didn't say that Paul first met Linda in the States. It is well known that their first meeting happened in 1967. If you read better what I wrote I didn't said that. I said that the two of them met (A general "met", not "first met") when John and Paul were in New York during Apple's promotional commitments in May 1968. Meaning (It's incredible I have to explain this) they "also" met then. Is it more understandable to you now? If you want to know how this embittered John look up on here the excellent Understanding Lennon And McCartney documentary
I thought the George thing on was only on the beginning of Hey Jude, just short little response licks. Paul didn't like it, who am I to say if he was right or not. I am certainly no Paul or George. But was playing those short little licks all he had to do on that song? And why was playing for a few seconds or not that big of a deal on a 6+ minute song?
@@johnpoole3871 George does actually play some little electric guitar parts midway through the song, in the end. Probably Paul and George came to terms with each other over this situation at a later stage during the recording sessions for the song
It's funny how there is an almost minute by minute documentation of these peoples lives that will be around forever when probably 99 percent of us will disappear having left virtually no trace of ourselves.
OK, I'm posting my list of songs to cut from the White Album along w/ who wrote/sang them. Paul (4) Honey Pie, Martha my dear, I will, Maxwells Hammer / John (5) Good Night, Glass Onion, Buffalo Bill, Julia, Revolution 1 / George (2) Piggies, Savoy Truffle / Alt List (6) Dont pass me by, Ob-la-De, Long, Long, Rocky Raccoon, I’m so Tired, Mother Natures
3:00 I don't know what was going through G. Martin mind, but I feel he was totally out of place. I am so glad that the Beatles did not follow Martin's opinion.
I am as well. I think George Martin for all his great qualities was far more traditional than the Beatles. Songs like ‘Wild Honey Pie’ ‘Why Don’t We Do it in the Road’ and ‘Revolution #9’ probably didn’t strike the right chord with him.
TRY THIS! I just went through the White Album songlist and I easily cut 13 songs from the White Album. I am old and grumpy now so it wasn't hard at all TRY IT!!! If I had to cut a few more, well that would be painful, maybe IMPOSSIBLE!
Watching this, I realize that one of the things I have against Yoko (and I don't hate her or think she broke up The Beatles, or even think she's talentless) is that John was just constantly Yoko this and Yoko that and everything is about Yoko. It's not fair to her because it isn't her fault. John though she was a musical and artistic genius, but she she isn't. She's okay at some things, awful at others. I don't think I will ever understand why John was so enamored with her. He knew what was good and what wasn't... except when it came to her. Anyway, my point is, he made her annoying by constantly talking about her.
John was attracted to strong women. He wanted a mother figure to guide him and to ease his insecurity. His pet name for Yoko was Mother, so there ya go.
How do you come by the idea that John was a heroine addict at the time of recording the white album? That is just not true, as he states at 54:40 "at that time I knew nothing of heroine". His involement with the stuff came much later when the Beatles had broken up.
George Martin was right: they should have scrapped a third of those songs and it would probably be their masterpiece. That's my problem with the White Album: 10 songs always have to be skipped because they are literally fillers. Anyway this is coming from someone who thinks that the Beatles were the greatest band ever.
Perfect album. Couldn't cut a note. Sgt Pepper would be easier to edit. Take that back. Revolution 1 could have ended up on an outtake record and wouldn't have bothered me, but certainly didn't bother me where it was!
I’ve been getting this a lot. In May of 1968 (and you can find this in multiple books) John suffered a mental health episode and called the Beatles for a meeting at Apple. It was there where he told the Beatles he was Jesus.
50:45 And don’t forget Paul _singing_ the bassline in “I Will”! Thank you for this fabulous chronicle.
I Am William, he is tellin us as per Memoirs
@@PaulFormentos I thought he was the Walrus.
This was really good. I don't agree with everything, but so what, you went all in and tried to chronicle the whole thing. That alone makes this an amazing effort.
probably the best beatles history videos out there. so in depth, many interesting details. Especially love the inclusion of segments of making the songs, what inspired them, and jokes. Great job, really.
Thank you so much❤️
It’s got to be very difficult to produce anything new about the Beatles, but you really hit it out of the park with this one! It’s amongst the best Beatles videos I’ve ever watched.
I’m highly looking forward to your next “pot boilers “!
I really appreciate that so much❤️
@@MakingoftheBeatles you’re quite welcome. You truly deserve my comment!
Peace my friend,
DrRick
Great video. The White Album has always been my favorite of The Beatles’, so I’m always interested in seeing/reading/hearing new takes on its creation and legacy.
Great work here. A very thorough dissertation. George does play electric guitar on Martha My Dear. A photo of that session appears in this video. Paul and George are photographed, surrounded by a brass section. There is also solid info that it is Paul on the drums on Don't Pass Me By (with Ringo on the Piano-the song is in the key of C after all. Ringo's key of choice on a piano. The overdub session the next day gives more evidence this was the case. EMI was still 4 track at this time. The drumming seems more heavy-handed than the Country & Western music loving Richard Starkey's likely drum approach might've been. IMHO, It is Paul on drums (but not betting the farm). Happy New Year, RNB
Don't Pass Me By is the worst song ever recorded and McCartney sucks on Drums,he is not a Drummer !
@@davidlauter1622 Hey David. I agree on both points. DPMB is in my bottom 5% of favorite Beatles songs. There are a couple reports from people at the session that sat it was indeed Paul on drums. That's all I am attributing to the debate. I don't know what the 50-year Deluxe re-release says about the matter. Though it has been shown that a scant few of these liner notes on these reissues are not completely accurate. The song was finished in only 2 days w/o John or George. My belief is Paul's drum take was supposed to only be a guide drum part (with Ringo on piano, supplying a guide vocal) Paul's drumming would then be replaced by Ringo at a later date. With J & G's return in 2 days, there was never another opportunity to fine tune DPMB and they left it as it was. The crappy rough monotonous noisy mess we have been saddled with all these decades. Cheers, RNB
@ricknbacker5626 nothing could of saved this shit song !
Bullshit. "Don't Pass Me By" is a fun and excellent song.
@RadicalCaveman It's absolute, total garbage ! And it ruins The White Album !
Thanks so very much for putting this together! 73 now and a Beatles fan since I was 12 and bought Meet the Beatles, I really enjoyed this!!
This was really great and accurate! That was a lot of information to review. Thanks for taking then time to put it all together for us!
Highlight of my weekend watching this. I adore the Beatles and the white album is my favorite. Just the engineering and crazy approach to sound makes it interesting. Then add brilliant songs and so much variety
Great work! Cheers
You did a great job man!! It was informative enough for newbies but refreshing for the die hards. Great use of video clips i had never seen (John taking about ‘Nam). Also loved the font you used. Kubrick’s Shining? Well done man! Proud of you.
Good catch on the font and style!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it, my goal was to sort of strike that balance between a more casual retelling while also including details not everyone may know
these videos are great - puts several sources I have studied for 30 years in books and films- now with isolated tracks (ai?) - the recording timeline and history is remarkable
thank you so much. My goal from the beginning was to take all these different amazing sources and try to condense them into something that was entertaining and reasonably detailed, without being excruciatingly so!
This has always been my favorite Beatles album, precisely because it's so fragmented. Every song sounds like it was made by a different band, and I can't think of a higher compliment to pay the band and production team. The music business has made it the norm for every band to have its uniform, easily-packaged, easily-marketed sound, so it's a rare thing for a band, especially one of the Beatles' caliber, to have such free rein given to their creativity. To me, the White Album is this magic radio where you change the station after every song and every new song is an absolute revelation; there's no way to anticipate what's coming next.
I often wondered...why is music getting worse?
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Excellent documentary. Yes on part 3.
Very comprehensive!!!! Whilst John Lennon did not participate in "Savoy Truffle" & "Long Long Long" - it must be pointed out that he did not play on MOST of George's songs after 1965!! "For You Blue" was a rare exception.
I think John was a bit jealous of George and maybe felt a bit insecure about his own songs compared to George's.
Amazing introduction. Right on point and a good way to pique my interest
Ah, had no idea "Mother Nature's Son" was inspired by "Nature Boy," another favorite song of mine.
It's not according to Memoirs
Very nicely put together my friend. I'm a beatle fanatic and this was informative. Cheers
Great job i love your videos keep up the great work .
Love the shining font! Excellent video….Beatles white album is my favorite. Cheers
GOOD EYE I just had to rip it off it looks so good
Great video, really enjoyed the day by day timeline. Always thought it was a shame “Not Guilty” was not put on the album or even side B of a single. Great track the got passed by.
It's incredible to learn this stuff about The Beatles without the use of unnecessary stuff like talking heads like in the recent Beatles 64 documentary. Just raw, unfiltered, and as accurate as possible.
The White Album is their greatest achievement.
(Agreed)
Fantastic video! Please do more!
Thank you for this very well documented and useful video. Congratulations.
so happy i got the vinyl for christmas, love the white album
The Beatles were such workaholics! 🔥 ❤
Only paul was a workaholic
@@MatthewPinsent-x1q Lennon worked hard on his heroin addiction at these sessions
Out of all of their albums I find myself listening to this one the most. Happiness is a warm gun has always been a favorite Lennon Beatles song its got some cool chords in it.
Though The Beatles/The White Album is the perfect name, A Doll's House would've been a good second choice because the album is a bit like a house with lots of different rooms, each completely distinct from the others.
I’ve always thought the same. Would have been very befitting
A little mistake there: Don't Pass Me By's original title was This Is Some Friendly and not Some Kind Of Friendly! And its composition began in late 1963 and not in 1962
thank you!!
It's the worst song ever written or Recorded !
@@davidlauter1622 You haven't heard much music in the world, then, if you have to write this
@@davidlauter1622 Your opinion is extremely flawed. It's a great song.
I was born in The Kings rd in 1961 and lived there until 2001, there was no Apple shop in the Kings rd. My uncle Mike was the manager of The Talk of The Town nightclub in the West End at the time and was a “close friend” of Brian Epstein, being gay in the 60’s had only been decriminalised a few years earlier, so my dear uncle had to keep it all on the down low. When my fantastic uncle Mike died he left me his record collection which included every single Beatles album signed by each Beatle “To Mike love John, Paul, George, Ringo”. My uncle never played them but covered them in clear plastic, pristine. In the 80’s when I had a heroin addiction I sold them all to The Tape and Record Exchange in Notting Hill Gate for about £60. 😭 One of my biggest regrets.
The Sgt Pepper Album cover was shot in a studio (Chelsea Manor Studios) about 10ft across an alleyway from my bedroom at the back of our house at 147 Kings rd when I was 6 years old.😮
Fascinating. Really sorry about your signed Beatles albums 😢
Life moves on & sounds like your addiction is a thing of the past 👍
Martha My Dear was recorded with George Harrison and, very probably, Ringo.
There is a photo from that session that you even used in the video with Paul on piano and George on guitar, photographed from above, witg the brass section playing alongside them.
Ringo is most probably playing drums in the booth as they play
The book I referenced the most was ‘The Beatles recording sessions’ by Mark Lewisohn. I wonder if it’s a bit out of date on some details
@ I see your point there. Yes, Lewisohn's book has been my reference for years as well, but that assumption about Paul playing everything on the song has been surpassed in recent years by the photos taken at the session
@@Uetti And Mal Evans mentioned Ringo being at the session in a contemporary article he wrote for The Beatles Monthly magazine.
Great video! makes me appreciate the white album a tad more
Awesome video, thank you!
Great video. Beatles forever ❤️
Well done that was excellent.
I felt I was in the studio with the lads during the whole process fussing and fighting with my friends.
It's not just this one thing obviously, but Paul's micromanagement and sort of hyper-fixations over his songs probably was tiring. They had done it for pepper and it worked well so I understand where it was coming from, but I always found it strange that Lennon had all these songs already written and most of the Beatles played on all of them this album, but Paul's were scattered or just by himself. Also, they seem to be recorded later throughout the sessions. It's always been a hunch of mine. The lyric, "the walrus was Paul" from glass onion, and' "we all know obla di bl da" from savoy truffle always seemed like nods to the way they were feeling towards Paul. Paul even would play ringo's role. It's truly incredible how he thought he could fill all his bandmate's roles.
Paul was absolutely a tour de force and talent, but he really was up his own ass after pepper and maybe his ego had been fractured from the magical mystery tour failure. This work ethic would ironically lead to so many brilliant moments for the Beatles in their later years, but John coping with heroin and Yoko seemed like an act of self-preservation. Sorta rambling but this has been my fave album for a long time.
My favorite album as well and I think you worded that pretty brilliantly.
Also, the acoustic version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps doesn't consist solely of George on voice and guitar. Paul is also on the take playing organ (You can hear it exactly at the point when you say that George is the only Beatle present on the take)
That is take two, I didn’t have take one handy!
The Beginning of the End.... but what an Album... Thanks for this GREAT video!!
Nah that began in late 66. RIP Paul
Who's John Linnin? Good job!
He's the guy they got to replace John Lennon of course! RIP John and Paul
16:23 That particular part, to my surprise, is actually a backwards piano. I always assumed it was backwards strings or maybe accordion, but I ran it backwards and it's piano.
that is actually so cool
BTW, the term "superimpositions," is actually known as, "overdubs." Superimposition has not been used since the late 60s. Great work!
I’m such a sucker for anything Beatles lol. To an extent, it has to be a solid effort which these videos are.
"Long, Long Long" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard
so agreeeed
Such an underrated song
And cool reverse "My God Paul Paul is Dead"
Brilliant video thank you ❤
Awesome presentation!
From May 30 1968 until August 1969, Lennon never attended a Beatles session without Ono.
Shocking
how very dare he... imagine that ..bring your girlfriend to work ....how could he ....? im lost for words ... how could a rich and famous young man do such a disgraceful deed during the the swinging 60s....??? derrrrrrrrr
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Brilliant work!
"Mary Jane" reminds me of Syd Barrett. I could totally hear it on 'Madcap Laughs'
Lost myself in this. Thank you.
0:57 John wrote the song .”Sexy Sadie” about the guru…but referred to him as “Sexy Sadie”. Fkn brilliant!!! 😊
Reminds me of Ian Gillan obliquely referring to Ritchie Blackmore on "Smooth Dancer."
I'm happy with Geoff Emerick's engineering skills. It's just difficult to look at pictures of him from later years.
This was awesome. Thanks
I'm so glad the Beatles didn't listen to Martin.
Quite an effort. Good work.
I had no idea they did so many takes on each song. They have always sounded live, first take to me.
I think is some ways John used Yoko to initiate a break from the band. He pretended innocence of such, even to himself but, he had to know bringing her in so intimately to the studio without even a courtesy discussion beforehand would cause an uproar. Then when there was one, he blamed the others in an ego enhancing move to "protect Yoko" The reality is he knew bringing her in would cause the uproar, an uproar he wanted to happen so he could distance himself. He was good with words but, not when they became too intimate with others OR when they might bring up sad emotions for himself. She allowed her to take the heat for things while at the same time played the "Protector' Instead of just having a frank, adult discussion ahead of time with the others about seriously wanting something different. You can't blame him because he was messed up at this time and frankly, Yoko took advantage of the situation too. Pushing to get more of John to herself while playing innocent about it all. Oh well, a family always has these messy bits don't they?
Great documentary. Just one tidbit you could have added: the sound of the plane on Back in the USSR is done by Paul with his voice as they could not locate the sound effect from the EMI sound library. This was confirmed in an interview by Paul himself in an interview a few years back. He mentions it in passing (sorry can't help further with the reference)
Rubbish. It was taken from Volume 17 : Jet and Piston Engine Aeroplane. Sounds like another one of Paul's bullshit stories.
That definitely sounds like an actual plane recording
Where's Part 1?
The Apple Shop was on Baker Street not the Kings Road.
You’re right! It was Apple Tailoring that was on Kings street!
@ minor point, fantastic video .
Been looking forward to this one 😈
That bit of drums from "Dear Prudence" was Ringo's overdub at the end. The first part of the song was Paul's boring drumming.
at 1:13:08 in the review by Robb Barker, last sentence (bottom right hand column) he attributes the vocals to both Why Don't We Do It In the Road, and Helter Skelter to LENNON. LOL
Excellent video’s.
In Black bird there is a guitar and methronome, not a tapping foot. Its written in the albom...and he saied it a few times. Love R
Where is part one?
Edit: i think it has been made unavailable, at least in my country
What?? I haven’t been notified about that but that would stink. It should be the first video on my channel
@@MakingoftheBeatlesYou obviously don't look into your channel very often because there's no part one there!
The year that broke The Beatles
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Ever WONDER what SONGs would have been CUT???? What WE never would have heard?? Now, many years later I could easily drop a few but couldn't cut as many as needed for a SINGLE ALBUM.
Yeah! Long live The Beatles aka The White Album !
Thank you for mentioning Francie Schwartz, who has been airbrushed out of history. I have read that his nickname for her was Jude, in affectionate reference to her being Jewish. He wrote Hey Jude, or at least started writing it, when he was seeing her. Considering that he, by his own description of his writing process, jumbles things up into a song (eg. his description of writing Martha My Dear), it is not unreasonable to deduce that he has airbrushed this woman out of the genesis of Hey Jude. I'm sure he finished it with the visit to Julien and then, from then on, through every repeating of the story (the the writing of Hey Jude) he has convinced us and himself that the final coming together of the song is the whole story.
If Paul can admit that even Martha My Dear is not ENTIRELY about his sheep dog, it is not unreasonable, considering the timing of the beginning of writing Hey Jude, that this brief intermediary girlfriend has been airbrushed out of Hey Jude, which may have had an origin less straightforward. The story about Julien is a wholesome easy sell, why sully the anecdote with a turgid brief affair that he himself would like to forget. Fair enough. He wrote it. So why can't he write the origin story? Well, because it is also a matter of history, I suppose.
I'd love to know where you read or heard those takes on either song, because I have never read it before anywhere. Any references? Thanks.
Where did you read that Paul called Francie Schwarz "Jude"? I'd heard that his nickname for her was Clancy, or Just Frannie. Would appreciate a ref.
@@strathman7501 let’s face it. He just made it up.
@@JeffreyStock I think you're right - possibly a confused memory of hearing about Paul and Francie painting "[Hey]Jude" across the Apple Boutique windows.
I had read Paul was confronted about the name being a negative remark towards Jews and he was put off by that. He had said it was never was any kind of reference for Jews (nor a Jewish woman). Paul stated he never would have thought anyone would think of Jude meaning Jews as this person clearly had.
Obla-Di Obla-Da - Lush's story of how John transformed it by "smashing the keys with almighty volume, twice the speed of how they'd done it before" is one people love to retell. The thing is, you can hear the early takes (one of them excerpted here) and they are basically the *same speed* So I take this story with a pinch of salt.
Maybe add some Sgt. Pepper too!!
@@MakingoftheBeatles 'Tis the season(ing) to be jolly indeed!
Well, you skipped on many important details (Like Paul refusing to let George play solo licks on Hey Jude relegating him on the control room during most of its final recording, as seen on the Music! documentary) and other minor but somewhat important infos (Such as George, Paul and Ringo, but not John, working with Eric Clapton prior to his involvement on While My Guitar Gently Weeps on the recording of Jackie Lomax’s Sour Milk Sea or Nicky Hopkins involvement on Revolution), and there are some incorrect informations here and there, but I think this a well put chronicle of those hectic months during the recording of the White Album.
Oh, and you also skipped, apart from a short mention by Paul, the figure of Linda, whom Paul met in the States during the Apple promotional tour, much to John's frustration, and that will move to Paul's London house midway through the recording sessions for the double LP.
She is a key figure in this tumultuous sentimental months for Paul as well as Jane and Francie, and in general for The Beatles as Yoko was
Linda is a huge presence but I wanted to save that narrative for Part 3 (though it could’ve used more teasing here). Thanks for watching!
Paul has stated that he met Linda at the Bag O' Nails. In fact there's an interview with Paul AND Linda where they talk about. I always thought that was in London. Would love to hear more about this...especially as to how and why this caused John "frustration". Don't leave us hanging!!
@@bouwebear597 I didn't say that Paul first met Linda in the States. It is well known that their first meeting happened in 1967.
If you read better what I wrote I didn't said that.
I said that the two of them met (A general "met", not "first met") when John and Paul were in New York during Apple's promotional commitments in May 1968.
Meaning (It's incredible I have to explain this) they "also" met then. Is it more understandable to you now?
If you want to know how this embittered John look up on here the excellent Understanding Lennon And McCartney documentary
I thought the George thing on was only on the beginning of Hey Jude, just short little response licks. Paul didn't like it, who am I to say if he was right or not. I am certainly no Paul or George. But was playing those short little licks all he had to do on that song? And why was playing for a few seconds or not that big of a deal on a 6+ minute song?
@@johnpoole3871 George does actually play some little electric guitar parts midway through the song, in the end. Probably Paul and George came to terms with each other over this situation at a later stage during the recording sessions for the song
It's funny how there is an almost minute by minute documentation of these peoples lives that will be around forever when probably 99 percent of us will disappear having left virtually no trace of ourselves.
Great video
It's their magnum opus. No doubt
OK, I'm posting my list of songs to cut from the White Album along w/ who wrote/sang them. Paul (4) Honey Pie, Martha my dear, I will, Maxwells Hammer / John (5) Good Night, Glass Onion, Buffalo Bill, Julia, Revolution 1 / George (2) Piggies, Savoy Truffle / Alt List (6) Dont pass me by, Ob-la-De, Long, Long, Rocky Raccoon, I’m so Tired, Mother Natures
gobsmacked. thank you. wow.
3:00 I don't know what was going through G. Martin mind, but I feel he was totally out of place.
I am so glad that the Beatles did not follow Martin's opinion.
I am as well. I think George Martin for all his great qualities was far more traditional than the Beatles. Songs like ‘Wild Honey Pie’ ‘Why Don’t We Do it in the Road’ and ‘Revolution #9’ probably didn’t strike the right chord with him.
The defence industry would not have survived if John had lived....he was the voice
goated channel
Music in A Doll's House by Family is incredible
TRY THIS! I just went through the White Album songlist and I easily cut 13 songs from the White Album. I am old and grumpy now so it wasn't hard at all TRY IT!!! If I had to cut a few more, well that would be painful, maybe IMPOSSIBLE!
22:20 “Clean Up Time”
Révolution 9 is brilliant.
Trying to picture what 'A Cue-Stick Guitar' might liook like. 🤔
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Watching this, I realize that one of the things I have against Yoko (and I don't hate her or think she broke up The Beatles, or even think she's talentless) is that John was just constantly Yoko this and Yoko that and everything is about Yoko. It's not fair to her because it isn't her fault. John though she was a musical and artistic genius, but she she isn't. She's okay at some things, awful at others. I don't think I will ever understand why John was so enamored with her. He knew what was good and what wasn't... except when it came to her. Anyway, my point is, he made her annoying by constantly talking about her.
John was attracted to strong women. He wanted a mother figure to guide him and to ease his insecurity. His pet name for Yoko was Mother, so there ya go.
How do you come by the idea that John was a heroine addict at the time of recording the white album?
That is just not true, as he states at 54:40 "at that time I knew nothing of heroine".
His involement with the stuff came much later when the Beatles had broken up.
George Martin was right: they should have scrapped a third of those songs and it would probably be their masterpiece. That's my problem with the White Album: 10 songs always have to be skipped because they are literally fillers. Anyway this is coming from someone who thinks that the Beatles were the greatest band ever.
According to you they did a lot of inner views.
I don’t think John ever declared that he was Jesus Christ to the other 3 Beatles! Source?
5:13 It’s “Revolution #9” pronounced “Revolution Number Nine”. (Turn me on deadman)
Great video but i heard that the white album was recorded on 8 track tape
Most (or at least half) of it was!
We all thought it was George (my guitar)
Excellent channel .
A small détail, your éléphants in Bungalow Bill are african elephants 🤔
Very good catch thank you! I never would have caught that
Perfect album. Couldn't cut a note. Sgt Pepper would be easier to edit. Take that back. Revolution 1 could have ended up on an outtake record and wouldn't have bothered me, but certainly didn't bother me where it was!
Omg this band wrote so many songs. I wonder how many they threw away
George is not good enough to be in the Beatles on the Get Back movie
Dont put visuals from the Hey Bulldog session on Revolution.
Lazy
Well it is a video. You have to have something there. This is a problem for all sorts of history content in TH-cam.
You make the video then
57:18 ‘Good News’ not ‘Good Time’. 😎👍
I seriously have editing blindness or something lol. Maybe one day I’ll have an assistant
A-kyoos-tic?
47.26 george could of easily done that..he only took clapton to the studio to keep an eye on him..
1:10 John said the Beatles were known to more people at the time, than Jesus
I’ve been getting this a lot. In May of 1968 (and you can find this in multiple books) John suffered a mental health episode and called the Beatles for a meeting at Apple. It was there where he told the Beatles he was Jesus.
John enjoyed playing with words, which also made him so funny and brilliant-- people take it so literally