Amazing to see these four young men enjoying playing together for the last time. They changed the world in many ways with their music and personalities.
What a stunning performance from the 5 amazing musicians.. Nowadays the "Let it Be" album is increasingly seen as a brilliant one and thats just incredible. No wonder the Fabs are rated as highly as they are. Just like Paul's Ram album is now given it's due respect..Shows how ahead of their time they were.
The "Let it Be" LP is still seen as one of their lesser efforts. That's why they farmed it out to Phil Spector to deal with the mess and moved on to "Abbey Road," recorded as they'd recorded before "Let it Be".
@@relevantbrother8964 There is a flood of uncritical/credulous "Beatle" fans who consistently overlook the fact that they were humans with flaws in order to oversell. And most of them have never played an instrument so see things are tedious repetitions for those who do as somehow "amazing!" There is no objectivity to any of that. And that is how much your "evaluation" is worth. Have you actually LOOKED at the lyric to this song as to SUBSTANCE? The only thing interesting in it are Lennon's part in them.
@@jnagarya519 No idea what you're smoking but save me some. Yes Let It Be was seen as one of their lesser efforts, I agree, and so did they, but the writing and musicianship is still quite something. Some lyrics have more meaning than others in their songs, to be expected. Some are more about the groove and the feel of the music, as in this case. It doesn't mean it's worth less. Lennon's parts in the song are as meaningless as McCartney's. And yes, I have played an instrument. I play many instruments. The Beatles were phenomenal, as seen here.
The Beatles were the largest selling live show on the planet back when they took over the world in 1964-66. They were the first band to ever play live in a sports stadium - when they performed at Shea Stadium in New York City to almost 56,000 fans on August 15th, 1965. The girls at these concerts would scream and yell so loud - that the band couldn't even hear themselves play. The Beatles eventually got tired of all the craziness of these live shows - and when they finished their 1966 US tour... they decided they didn't want to do it any more. So they quit performing live - with their last show being on August 29th, 1966. In January of 1969 - they had decided to try and play live again... but they didn't want to go through all the craziness that they had in the mid 60s. So they eventually decided to just go up on the roof of their building - and play live up there. This was on January 30th, 1969... and it was cold up on the roof - but they brushed that aside and delivered an awesome live performance. No one knew it at the time... but it would be the last time they ever played a live performance together. After the rooftop performance... they got back together and recorded the "Abbey Road" album (many see it as one of the best albums ever made). They finished the album in August of 1969 and about a month later - John Lennon told the others that he was quitting the group - and that was it for the group. The first record they put out was recorded in September of 1962... and they finished their final record in August of 1969 - so they recorded for just a seven year period. There is an entire world of great songs which they recorded in that seven year period - with amazing music and wonderful vocal performances by The Beatles - and any fan of music would be doing themselves a huge favor to check out every album and single they released. A good place to start... would be their Red Album (1962-66) and their Blue Album (1967-70) which contains a good sampling of their songs over the entire history of the group.
Many Beatles songs give me huge emotion while I'm hearing them, but this song is so full of fantastic melody, gritty rock, harmony, and the FEELING he's got, it makes me teary because of the amazingness of it all. The Beatles really pulled together here, despite some difficulties leading to this point.
Very cool reaction! Thank you 🙂. The Beatles are as great a rock band as you'll find! This was actually their last public performance. They were together as a band only 7 or 8 short years, but managed to change modern music forever, because they evolved with each album. You should check out some of their earlier stuff, too. They were always BRILLIANT!
So to answer your question from our conversation the other day, it is coming back to me now. I was absolutely compelled by your Beatles reactions. This will be a tremendous one to re-watch. The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 for many reasons, and became a studio-only band. So, given their disappearance from live performance, it's stunning to watch them just organically decide to go on the roof of their Apple business office and recorde a live performance of them up on the roof, right in the downtown business district of London. You can only imagine what kind of attention a spectacle like that caused. You do see in the film the cops coming to the Apple business office to enforce a complaint of disturbance of the peace.
What a fantastic program you recorded here Philip! A live performance watching Lennon and McCartney co-front the Beatles, with little George on the guitar in the background with Ringo doing his thing on the drums, and Billy Preston on keyboards playing a flaming piano line on this song. His piano playing fits perfectly with the Beatles guitar work in this song.
At the end of the concert, the street in front of the Apple building was of course full of people. Unfortunately, the fifth Beatle sits so hidden in the background on his keyboard (Billy Preston). After that, only the Abbey Road stuff came and then it was over. That was also masterful to separate at the right time, so the Beatles remained young and fresh as a group.
It's true Paul would always be the one to take the lead when a soft and sentimental song was required - even back in their early days they'd break up their mostly hard rocking 7 or 8 hour shifts as house band in clubs in Hamburg's red light district by throwing in a sentimental ballad or show tune, to keep the audience interested. And he wrote some of the most beautiful pop love songs, like And I Love Her, and Here, There and Everywhere, and later, post-Beatles, Maybe I'm Amazed (which gets rockier as it progresses). But Paul, like John, was always a rock and roller at heart - that was always the bedrock of their music and a genre they returned to in the Get Back/Let it Be sessions, late in their career as a band. And Paul arguably had the better voice for the really loud screaming, Little Richard style. I'd strongly recommend you check out this video, from the end of a live performance for Swedish TV, right back at the beginning of their recording career when they were still relatively unknown in continental Europe, let alone the US. It's a wonderful show to watch because you see them as they would normally play, right up close with their audience - something that within months of this session would be impossible since they'd have been torn apart by their adoring fans, as the madness that was 'Beatlemania' took hold of the world.. The sound is primitive to say the least and the balance between Paul's and John's mics seems off, making their harmonies not quite gel on I Saw Her Standing There... but wait until you hear Paul's encore; you'll see what he could do with a Little Richard number. It's a joy. th-cam.com/video/HFC36Qs9SZw/w-d-xo.html
This is so much fun returning to this program, Philip. These Beatles programs are what got my attention from your channel. I was blown away by how quickly you picked up that you had something special with this iconic live performance, the last ever live performance by the Beatles in January '69.
Funkified, grooved, on-the-one: the Beatles earn their legendary status with such funkified panache in their now iconic rooftop performance. It is the epitome of cool: "Hey! Let's jam on the roof in the middle of a chilly London day, cuz, you know, that would be kinda cool." And can we PLEASE give a shout-out to soul-rocker Billy Preston on keyboards? BILLY is AWESOME in these sessions--he would become a major funk-rock-R&B star in his own right in America during the 1970s after the Beatles had broken up--and he fits so perfectly, so in-synch and sympatico in these sessions (MISTAH Preston had been a long-time brah of the band, having met and played with them during their Hamburg, Germany gigs way back when they were all unknown kids).
Thank you to the Bobbies whoever was at the helm knew he was in a precarious situation and if they chose to just move in and take them out we would not see or hear this today thank you sir whoever you were that did not go and just pull them off the roof
There were complaints at the noise from the office managers and city suits. The fuzz tried to investigate but they were stalled by staff of the Apple Corps (Beatles’ offices). Eventually the policemen were let in, but were stalled again. That gave time for guys to do their illegal, impromptu show. Finally several coppers managed to get access to the rooftop to tell them not to be such loud and naughty boys, but they were finished by then… and forever, in terms of live shows.
They had not played live for over two years i believe, and were discussing endlessly where and when they should take the plunge again. All sorts of crazy venues were discussed The pyramids in Egypt was one I heard, After all the arguments why and why not, somebody said, to hell with it, we just get up on the roof here and play to break the ice.. Sadly their last live performance, ,:-(
this is from later in their career... try something from the early days when the girls would go crazy... try "Twist and Shout" from the Ed Sullivan Show, or "She Loves You" from the ABC Theatre in Manchester UK in 1963
And don't forget George Harrison and his green pants. Yeah they hadn't toured in a few years and what was so crazy about this but really pretty hip in a way, is that they decided to do this rooftop concert and they did it unannounced. It was just amazing as the crowd built below and then the word quickly got around that it was the Beatles performing for the first time live in quite a while. And it was really cold, and if you've ever tried to play an instrument or sing in the cold it's pretty rough after a while. Your fingers don't move as fast and your voice isn't as agile and so forth. You can see their noses are red and their breath in the air. Great moment. And that's what I love about Paul mccartney, he can do Michelle My Bell and then turn around and do their infamous version of Long Tall Sally where he emulates Little Richard and just goes nuts. But he did it all the way through the Beatles and well into his solo career with Paul McCartney and wings. Many many examples. He's got a great voice for just going off. Long Tall Sally, why don't we do it in the road, oh darling, you say it's your birthday, helter skelter, the latter portion of Hey Jude once it really starts taking off, the list goes on and on and on. Definitely check some of these out, they are so fun! And I would also throw in there, Maybe I'm Amazed off the first Paul McCartney solo album. It is a love song but man does he go off.
You should at least thank John for inviting Paul to join his band. And cease overlooking the fact that John DOMINATED the song writing for the first half of their career. And the flop "Magical Mystery Tour" of the second half was Paul's project.
@@jnagarya519 What irrelevance does John have to this conversation, assuming you're talking about the discussion of he was originally under the impression that McCartney mostly did the softer stuff vocally and John did the more harsh and rocking stuff. That is an extreme misconception and I offered examples to help him around out his perception of Paul's singing abilities. I love John and I love all of them. They were all at the right place in the right time and thank God for that. I'm not sure why you would have a chip on your shoulder about that.
@@stevedahlberg8680 The "chip" on my shoulder, if such exists, is FACTS necessary to BALANCE. Yeah, you love Paul, and have "nice" things to say about the others. The FACT is that JOHN DOMINATED the songwriting -- but let's kiss Paul's ass as a songwriter -- for the first half of their recording career, and "Magical Mystery Tour," a repackaging of "Sgt. Pepper's," was Paul's project and a FLOP. It is easy to determine who wrote what, whether part of or whole songs. Who sang lead on "This Boy"? John -- which means, of course, that it was PAUL who did all the "softer" singing.
@@jnagarya519 wow you are clueless. But at any rate you seem to be missing the entire point of the conversation. It is not about which one is better, it is not about anything at all except offering some examples of Paul singing energetically and showing off that high range which by the way was much higher than John's. The reason the Beatles were so great is because they had these four talents. Why do you insist on bizarrely dividing them up with animosity? They're all good and they're all contributed to this amazing overall sound. If you can't listen to the examples I listed for Paul McCartney singing just to talk about singing only nothing else, and not realize what he's doing there is pretty amazing? There's no hope for you. That was the point of the comment was I was directly responding to Phil because he had never really heard Paul McCartney seem like that that he recalled and so I wanted to point out other examples where Paul McCartney sang like that.
Phil, you haven't heard ENOUGH of PAUL McCARTNEY both with the Beatles, and then in all his solo music, to appreciate that PAUL'S VOICE was VERY VERSATILE, and had the widest octave range vocally of the Beatles. If you want to hear more songs where he is NOT singing in a "soft" sweet voice, check out "HELTER SKELTER," "OH DARLING," "LONG TALL SALLY," "I'M DOWN," "LADY MADONNNA," "SHE'S A WOMAN," and more (these are all while he was in the Beatles) THEN go to his solo career and check out "MAYBE I'M A AMAZED," (especially the live version video from his 1976 WINGS OVER AMERICA tour), "MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT" where he is TOTALLY SHREDDING his vocal chords" from his "RAM" album, and many many more. These are ALL on you tube so you should be able to find them. I HOPE you will react to them. Seriously, if you listen to Paul singing "HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE," and then right after it, listen to Paul singing "HELTER SKELTER," if you didn't already know that they were both sung by PAUL, you would think that these were sung by 2 different guys. Paul can change his voice to suit whatever type of song he is singing. PAUL'S "VOCAL CALISTHENICS" are quite amazing then!!
Hey bro good video good work, I was 14 YO when these free mini-concert/great performances happened I believe it was on December 1969 the temperature was that time there in London i believe 26 degrees Fahrenheit and windy, they play about 7 or 8 songs they wrote for their next album, that was a business zone and hundreds of people came out of offices and stores to the sound of the Beatles until even though the police didn't want too but the police had no choice to go up to the roof and asked them to stop, which they did, the rest is history, no band or solo artist(s) have done that before and/or after to this day. In my opinion and that of MANY they were 4 musical and lyricists geniuses and cultural phenomena ahead of their time, that God put together for a reason in those particular times, and for their music to be timeless.
Love this program so far. It's great. You get intuitively a great live performance. If you have a Patreon where I get to suggest content, I'd be really interested in sending you some great live performance material. And, no, I'm not concerned this may take away from the Beatles in any respect-that's absolutely impossible to do anyway. Many argue this is the greatest performing musical band of all time, and it's pretty hard to argue otherwise! This is a great program for me, "I've Got a Feeling", which, in the past, I always treated the song like filler. But your program allowed me to look with new eyes and hear with new ears that this is, in fact, a legendary performance in the iconic setting of going up on the roof when they realized they had run out of time for the final performance which was to close the documentary of them recording an albums of songs and giving a live performance at the end. Originally the project was called "Get Back" with the idea of the Beatles getting back to their roots, as tensions broke the band in September 1969, this album was put on the shelf until Phil Spector took over as producer and rather radically changed the album, which really angered Paul McCartney. Peter Jackson re-did the entire film using technology to clean up the sound-which is the very footage from Peter Jackson we have just reacted to. You do important work, my friend. I will be coming to these reactions to check out your Beatles. Your programs have both been awesome! Let me know if you have a Patreon, and let me know if I can select material for you to react to.
Thanks Phil for reacting to The Beatles. Unfortunately, this was their last public performance, on the rooftop of Abbey Road studios. The cops were there waiting for them to finish up,case business people had earlier complained about the "noise" and " disruption". WTF!
Time for you to begin at the beginning so you begin to comprehend their evolution with EVERY record release. Check out "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party".
The thing with Beatles reaction videos is a high percentage of them get blocked. Good to have a Patreon or an Odyssee or other such type of alternative channel where you can react to them and for someone signed up for that channel, it can be shown. It's not blocked. The Beatles recorded and released just over 250 songs in a little more than a seven year period that they were a recording band in the studio. Tons of amazing things to show you from their music, but it will do no one any good if they get blocked.
After arguing for weeks on whether to do a concert in Rome at the Coliseum, In front of the great Pyramid, Mt. Everest, ...they quickly decided to just do their last show on the roof of the studio. John and Paul were hoping for some publicity and planned to get the police to arrest them for disturbing the peace. Many businesses nearby called the police to complain, but mostly people went into the streets trying to find out what was going on. Not many people could actually see them.
Check out "Come Together", "Here, There And Everywhere", "In My Life", "Oh, Darling", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "Here Comes The Sun". All excellent examples of The Beatles' magic. You will only want to go further after that.
If nobody has told you, you should watch the "Get Back" documentary. It's great! It covers the studio sessions leading up to this performance. Thanks, enjoyed this!
@@vitamindeeznutz4102 I disagree, but I can come up with a top 25 Beatles songs without any of those you mention or I've Got a Feeling easily. 25 is just scratching the surface.
It wasn't fashion sense, it was freezing cold January on a windy rooftop. They borrowed their wives' coats to try and stay warm. Their fingers were freezing up and the guitars were going out of tune. After half an hour they were so cold they couldn't play properly any more.
Hi, if you haven't done a vid reaction about their final hit song #-1 that they recorded together before they broke up in 1970 listen to the song and album title 'Let It Be' where it has always been some controversy about that when Paul starts saying that Mother Mary comes or came to him, obviously in a dream saying like don't worry just Let It Be, it would be alright, he wrote/composed the Let It Be(the song) the next day, anyway the controversy is if in the song the Mary in his dream speaking words of Wisdom, was & is Mother Mary the mother of Jesus Christ or Paul's own dead mother which her name was also Mary, I'd be interested in what you think about this, and about the song in general.
Okay, this was a very unusual concert. It was on the roof of their companies building Apple; which was very modernly desiged and decorated in a very old upper crust British neighborhood; and the neighbors did not like it. They were trying to get them out of the neighborhood. This concert was completely impromptu; because the company was closing down and the Beatles were parting ways. They did the concert to piss off thei neighbors. Not only was it on the roof - it was completely impromptu.
The idea of the rooftop performance in a town was later copied e.g. by U2 for the official video for the hit Where The Sreets Have No Name; see it or react to it; U2 let all the LA police problems in the video: you will be able to laugh about it or shake your head.
The Jefferson Airplane played on a rooftop in Manhattan a month before the Beatles. Of course, the Beatles' rooftop concert became much more famous, yes, one could say, legendary.
@@braudabo Thanks for this information. When I was 10 I had to fight with my most frightened parents with my hard-earned pocket money to buy ob-la-di-ob-la-da. A neighbor told my mum this was a harmless text (not like Lucy Sky Diamonds + Strawberry + Walrus). I was shocked as they broke up. Someboy To Love and the less commercial White Rabbit I heard on the radio request concerts. As a student and temporary worker, I worked in a record shop on Friday evenings and Saturdays and sold e.g. Surrealistic Pillow or Volunteers, later the single film hit of Jefferson Starship, More commercial popular was of course Fleedwod Mac, which I visited 1979 in Zürich and a few days later Bob Marley: what musical happenings. All the best for you!
This song alone, with little to no warm up, done live, with all the accompanying nerves, on a roof top, proves Paul McCartney should have been higher on that damned Rolling Stone top 200 singers. He could do it all, had a fabulous range, could do these rockers, and sounded lovely on ballads. But typical rolling Stone never has given McCartney enough credit.
This style of singing? Think: Little Richard. The Beatles adored Mr. Pennington and Paul really is "Son of Little Richard" when he performs vocals like this.
Paul McCartney is SCREAMING in B!!! He had a five + octave range and the strongest voice of all The Beatles!!! He had two voices: 1). His “Raving” voice and; 2). His Ballad voice; That being said, if McCartney was at a piano singing a ballad in B… that’s hard to do… Here, he is full throttle singing in B, in January, LIVE, in January, on a roof, with a strong wind 😳😳😳!!!!… Please find a singer or band today who could do this live… Good luck: they don’t exist!
Should have reacted to this video of the performance instead, "The Beatles - I've Got A Feeling (Take 1) | Rooftop Concert" It focuses more camera work on the Beatles themselves while performing and doesn't have all that multiple screens nonsense which is just distracting. Here's the link if you like th-cam.com/video/dqX0vN10Qbk/w-d-xo.html
All those wearing ridiculous hats and thinking how big shots they become in the financing districts where this concert was taking place, miraculously they say today that they were seen the Beatles life, actually bragging about it.
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and don't forget: in these years live actually meant live!
This was their last goodbye! The roof of Apple records.
You can see how much they were really enjoying performing. A bit of their mischievous side, I think. ❤️✌️
Amazing to see these four young men enjoying playing together for the last time. They changed the world in many ways with their music and personalities.
McCartney and Lennon singing together is fantastic.
No ... Its f-ing magic, Jimmy my friend!
What a stunning performance from the 5 amazing musicians.. Nowadays the "Let it Be" album is increasingly seen as a brilliant one and thats just incredible. No wonder the Fabs are rated as highly as they are. Just like Paul's Ram album is now given it's due respect..Shows how ahead of their time they were.
The "Let it Be" LP is still seen as one of their lesser efforts. That's why they farmed it out to Phil Spector to deal with the mess and moved on to "Abbey Road," recorded as they'd recorded before "Let it Be".
@@jnagarya519 its the calculus tho or rate of change..the album is increasingly being appreciated as time wears on...thats the point.
@@relevantbrother8964 There is a flood of uncritical/credulous "Beatle" fans who consistently overlook the fact that they were humans with flaws in order to oversell. And most of them have never played an instrument so see things are tedious repetitions for those who do as somehow "amazing!" There is no objectivity to any of that.
And that is how much your "evaluation" is worth.
Have you actually LOOKED at the lyric to this song as to SUBSTANCE? The only thing interesting in it are Lennon's part in them.
@@relevantbrother8964 yes Sir
@@jnagarya519 No idea what you're smoking but save me some. Yes Let It Be was seen as one of their lesser efforts, I agree, and so did they, but the writing and musicianship is still quite something. Some lyrics have more meaning than others in their songs, to be expected. Some are more about the groove and the feel of the music, as in this case. It doesn't mean it's worth less. Lennon's parts in the song are as meaningless as McCartney's. And yes, I have played an instrument. I play many instruments. The Beatles were phenomenal, as seen here.
Crazy talented amazing
A pity that this was their last live public performance together. It looked like they were having fun doing what they loved.
Best Ever
I love the Beatles when they sound raw like this. Amazing guys.
Those dudes kicked ass!
One of my favorite Beatles songs
SOUL!
MORE BEATLES LOVE MY BEATLES!
THE BEATLES ARE THE BEST !
ROCKER!!!!!!!
The Beatles were the largest selling live show on the planet back when they took over the world in 1964-66. They were the first band to ever play live in a sports stadium - when they performed at Shea Stadium in New York City to almost 56,000 fans on August 15th, 1965. The girls at these concerts would scream and yell so loud - that the band couldn't even hear themselves play. The Beatles eventually got tired of all the craziness of these live shows - and when they finished their 1966 US tour... they decided they didn't want to do it any more. So they quit performing live - with their last show being on August 29th, 1966. In January of 1969 - they had decided to try and play live again... but they didn't want to go through all the craziness that they had in the mid 60s. So they eventually decided to just go up on the roof of their building - and play live up there. This was on January 30th, 1969... and it was cold up on the roof - but they brushed that aside and delivered an awesome live performance. No one knew it at the time... but it would be the last time they ever played a live performance together.
After the rooftop performance... they got back together and recorded the "Abbey Road" album (many see it as one of the best albums ever made). They finished the album in August of 1969 and about a month later - John Lennon told the others that he was quitting the group - and that was it for the group. The first record they put out was recorded in September of 1962... and they finished their final record in August of 1969 - so they recorded for just a seven year period. There is an entire world of great songs which they recorded in that seven year period - with amazing music and wonderful vocal performances by The Beatles - and any fan of music would be doing themselves a huge favor to check out every album and single they released.
A good place to start... would be their Red Album (1962-66) and their Blue Album (1967-70) which contains a good sampling of their songs over the entire history of the group.
I've got the 2009 remasters in mono and stereo. I think it came out great as opposed to re-mixes which change the originals too much.
Paul was magnificent on this track!
I love all the beatles but this is all Paul for me to be honest.
this rocks love your reaction. 5th Beatle Billy plays...
just brilliant
I put the headphones on, and got Rock n Roll chills.😎😎
Many Beatles songs give me huge emotion while I'm hearing them, but this song is so full of fantastic melody, gritty rock, harmony, and the FEELING he's got, it makes me teary because of the amazingness of it all. The Beatles really pulled together here, despite some difficulties leading to this point.
One After 909 is another rooftop song which is brill
One of my favorites…don’t know why this song gets slagged from some people
Very cool reaction! Thank you 🙂. The Beatles are as great a rock band as you'll find! This was actually their last public performance. They were together as a band only 7 or 8 short years, but managed to change modern music forever, because they evolved with each album. You should check out some of their earlier stuff, too. They were always BRILLIANT!
So to answer your question from our conversation the other day, it is coming back to me now. I was absolutely compelled by your Beatles reactions. This will be a tremendous one to re-watch. The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 for many reasons, and became a studio-only band. So, given their disappearance from live performance, it's stunning to watch them just organically decide to go on the roof of their Apple business office and recorde a live performance of them up on the roof, right in the downtown business district of London. You can only imagine what kind of attention a spectacle like that caused. You do see in the film the cops coming to the Apple business office to enforce a complaint of disturbance of the peace.
Because the Beatles were rocking their asses off
What a fantastic program you recorded here Philip! A live performance watching Lennon and McCartney co-front the Beatles, with little George on the guitar in the background with Ringo doing his thing on the drums, and Billy Preston on keyboards playing a flaming piano line on this song. His piano playing fits perfectly with the Beatles guitar work in this song.
Gotta love the smiles at 4:50
The last time they performed together
It just doesn't get any cooler than a live performance on a roof top!
This was the Beatles last performance together live the rooftop concert was the last time they played together live
George all decked out in Xmas colors
It was the end of January.
@@jnagarya519 I’m aware, that was my poor excuse at a joke
And the Bobby don't know what they should do
At the end of the concert, the street in front of the Apple building was of course full of people. Unfortunately, the fifth Beatle sits so hidden in the background on his keyboard (Billy Preston). After that, only the Abbey Road stuff came and then it was over. That was also masterful to separate at the right time, so the Beatles remained young and fresh as a group.
Preston was not THE 5th Beatle, he was one of the maybe 10-15 5th Beatle...
The let it be remixed album is incredible it was like getting a new album
It's true Paul would always be the one to take the lead when a soft and sentimental song was required - even back in their early days they'd break up their mostly hard rocking 7 or 8 hour shifts as house band in clubs in Hamburg's red light district by throwing in a sentimental ballad or show tune, to keep the audience interested. And he wrote some of the most beautiful pop love songs, like And I Love Her, and Here, There and Everywhere, and later, post-Beatles, Maybe I'm Amazed (which gets rockier as it progresses).
But Paul, like John, was always a rock and roller at heart - that was always the bedrock of their music and a genre they returned to in the Get Back/Let it Be sessions, late in their career as a band. And Paul arguably had the better voice for the really loud screaming, Little Richard style.
I'd strongly recommend you check out this video, from the end of a live performance for Swedish TV, right back at the beginning of their recording career when they were still relatively unknown in continental Europe, let alone the US. It's a wonderful show to watch because you see them as they would normally play, right up close with their audience - something that within months of this session would be impossible since they'd have been torn apart by their adoring fans, as the madness that was 'Beatlemania' took hold of the world..
The sound is primitive to say the least and the balance between Paul's and John's mics seems off, making their harmonies not quite gel on I Saw Her Standing There... but wait until you hear Paul's encore; you'll see what he could do with a Little Richard number. It's a joy.
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This is so much fun returning to this program, Philip. These Beatles programs are what got my attention from your channel. I was blown away by how quickly you picked up that you had something special with this iconic live performance, the last ever live performance by the Beatles in January '69.
Short lived but you can tell they had fun
Funkified, grooved, on-the-one: the Beatles earn their legendary status with such funkified panache in their now iconic rooftop performance. It is the epitome of cool: "Hey! Let's jam on the roof in the middle of a chilly London day, cuz, you know, that would be kinda cool."
And can we PLEASE give a shout-out to soul-rocker Billy Preston on keyboards?
BILLY is AWESOME in these sessions--he would become a major funk-rock-R&B star in his own right in America during the 1970s after the Beatles had broken up--and he fits so perfectly, so in-synch and sympatico in these sessions (MISTAH Preston had been a long-time brah of the band, having met and played with them during their Hamburg, Germany gigs way back when they were all unknown kids).
If you want to hear another aggressive Paul song......check out Helter Skelter! Many say it's the first heavy metal song. 😽💋🎶
DOPE!
Billy Preston rocking the Fender Rhoads Piano.
Thank you to the Bobbies whoever was at the helm knew he was in a precarious situation and if they chose to just move in and take them out we would not see or hear this today thank you sir whoever you were that did not go and just pull them off the roof
There were complaints at the noise from the office managers and city suits.
The fuzz tried to investigate but they were stalled by staff of the Apple Corps (Beatles’ offices). Eventually the policemen were let in, but were stalled again. That gave time for guys to do their illegal, impromptu show.
Finally several coppers managed to get access to the rooftop to tell them not to be such loud and naughty boys, but they were finished by then… and forever, in terms of live shows.
Dear Phil. On Paul and his contributions to The Beatles. You should react to their song “Helter Skelter” from the White Album. It’s fantastic 👍🏻😁
It's really cool to encounter the very same programs that got my attention in the first place. These programs are very enjoyable.
McCartney going ham on vocals at 3:20 was 😮😮😮
The greatest!!!
Billy Preston on keyboards made big contributions to this rooftop concert.
They had not played live for over two years i believe, and were discussing endlessly where and when they should take the plunge again. All sorts of crazy venues were discussed The pyramids in Egypt was one I heard, After all the arguments why and why not, somebody said, to hell with it, we just get up on the roof here and play to break the ice.. Sadly their last live performance, ,:-(
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this is from later in their career... try something from the early days when the girls would go crazy... try "Twist and Shout" from the Ed Sullivan Show, or "She Loves You" from the ABC Theatre in Manchester UK in 1963
And don't forget George Harrison and his green pants. Yeah they hadn't toured in a few years and what was so crazy about this but really pretty hip in a way, is that they decided to do this rooftop concert and they did it unannounced. It was just amazing as the crowd built below and then the word quickly got around that it was the Beatles performing for the first time live in quite a while. And it was really cold, and if you've ever tried to play an instrument or sing in the cold it's pretty rough after a while. Your fingers don't move as fast and your voice isn't as agile and so forth. You can see their noses are red and their breath in the air. Great moment.
And that's what I love about Paul mccartney, he can do Michelle My Bell and then turn around and do their infamous version of Long Tall Sally where he emulates Little Richard and just goes nuts. But he did it all the way through the Beatles and well into his solo career with Paul McCartney and wings. Many many examples. He's got a great voice for just going off.
Long Tall Sally, why don't we do it in the road, oh darling, you say it's your birthday, helter skelter, the latter portion of Hey Jude once it really starts taking off, the list goes on and on and on. Definitely check some of these out, they are so fun! And I would also throw in there, Maybe I'm Amazed off the first Paul McCartney solo album. It is a love song but man does he go off.
You should at least thank John for inviting Paul to join his band. And cease overlooking the fact that John DOMINATED the song writing for the first half of their career. And the flop "Magical Mystery Tour" of the second half was Paul's project.
@@jnagarya519 What irrelevance does John have to this conversation, assuming you're talking about the discussion of he was originally under the impression that McCartney mostly did the softer stuff vocally and John did the more harsh and rocking stuff. That is an extreme misconception and I offered examples to help him around out his perception of Paul's singing abilities. I love John and I love all of them. They were all at the right place in the right time and thank God for that. I'm not sure why you would have a chip on your shoulder about that.
@@stevedahlberg8680 The "chip" on my shoulder, if such exists, is FACTS necessary to BALANCE.
Yeah, you love Paul, and have "nice" things to say about the others.
The FACT is that JOHN DOMINATED the songwriting -- but let's kiss Paul's ass as a songwriter -- for the first half of their recording career, and "Magical Mystery Tour," a repackaging of "Sgt. Pepper's," was Paul's project and a FLOP.
It is easy to determine who wrote what, whether part of or whole songs. Who sang lead on "This Boy"? John -- which means, of course, that it was PAUL who did all the "softer" singing.
@@jnagarya519 wow you are clueless. But at any rate you seem to be missing the entire point of the conversation. It is not about which one is better, it is not about anything at all except offering some examples of Paul singing energetically and showing off that high range which by the way was much higher than John's. The reason the Beatles were so great is because they had these four talents. Why do you insist on bizarrely dividing them up with animosity? They're all good and they're all contributed to this amazing overall sound. If you can't listen to the examples I listed for Paul McCartney singing just to talk about singing only nothing else, and not realize what he's doing there is pretty amazing? There's no hope for you. That was the point of the comment was I was directly responding to Phil because he had never really heard Paul McCartney seem like that that he recalled and so I wanted to point out other examples where Paul McCartney sang like that.
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Do "Helter Skelter" it will blow you away! PJ
Phil, you haven't heard ENOUGH of PAUL McCARTNEY both with the Beatles, and then in all his solo music, to appreciate that PAUL'S VOICE was VERY VERSATILE, and had the widest octave range vocally of the Beatles. If you want to hear more songs where he is NOT singing in a "soft" sweet voice, check out "HELTER SKELTER," "OH DARLING," "LONG TALL SALLY," "I'M DOWN," "LADY MADONNNA," "SHE'S A WOMAN," and more (these are all while he was in the Beatles) THEN go to his solo career and check out "MAYBE I'M A AMAZED," (especially the live version video from his 1976 WINGS OVER AMERICA tour), "MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT" where he is TOTALLY SHREDDING his vocal chords" from his "RAM" album, and many many more. These are ALL on you tube so you should be able to find them. I HOPE you will react to them. Seriously, if you listen to Paul singing "HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE," and then right after it, listen to Paul singing "HELTER SKELTER," if you didn't already know that they were both sung by PAUL, you would think that these were sung by 2 different guys. Paul can change his voice to suit whatever type of song he is singing. PAUL'S "VOCAL CALISTHENICS" are quite amazing then!!
When they showed Yoko, i wondered if she was thinking " eh... It would sound much better if i squealed like a cat in a dryer throughout "
Hey bro good video good work, I was 14 YO when these free mini-concert/great performances happened I believe it was on December 1969 the temperature was that time there in London i believe 26 degrees Fahrenheit and windy, they play about 7 or 8 songs they wrote for their next album, that was a business zone and hundreds of people came out of offices and stores to the sound of the Beatles until even though the police didn't want too but the police had no choice to go up to the roof and asked them to stop, which they did, the rest is history, no band or solo artist(s) have done that before and/or after to this day. In my opinion and that of MANY they were 4 musical and lyricists geniuses and cultural phenomena ahead of their time, that God put together for a reason in those particular times, and for their music to be timeless.
Great reaction👍
Try Let it Be from the same album. Try Revolution, Come Together, While my Guitar Gently Weeps for starters.
"Long, Long, Long" is superior to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Even though the mediocre Clapton didn't play on it.
I always say I’m going going to check out the Beatles myself and I forget lol So thank you for this 😎😌
Another great rooftop live song, is "The One After 909"!
George Harrison solo beautiful ❤🤘
Love em
Oh yeah!
You'd have to watch the whole movie to know who came up with the idea.
You ought to try Paul blasting out Long Tall Sally
I remember this being on the news, Beatles stop traffic😂😂😂🎶🎶🎶🎶💕
Love this program so far. It's great. You get intuitively a great live performance. If you have a Patreon where I get to suggest content, I'd be really interested in sending you some great live performance material. And, no, I'm not concerned this may take away from the Beatles in any respect-that's absolutely impossible to do anyway. Many argue this is the greatest performing musical band of all time, and it's pretty hard to argue otherwise! This is a great program for me, "I've Got a Feeling", which, in the past, I always treated the song like filler. But your program allowed me to look with new eyes and hear with new ears that this is, in fact, a legendary performance in the iconic setting of going up on the roof when they realized they had run out of time for the final performance which was to close the documentary of them recording an albums of songs and giving a live performance at the end. Originally the project was called "Get Back" with the idea of the Beatles getting back to their roots, as tensions broke the band in September 1969, this album was put on the shelf until Phil Spector took over as producer and rather radically changed the album, which really angered Paul McCartney. Peter Jackson re-did the entire film using technology to clean up the sound-which is the very footage from Peter Jackson we have just reacted to. You do important work, my friend. I will be coming to these reactions to check out your Beatles. Your programs have both been awesome!
Let me know if you have a Patreon, and let me know if I can select material for you to react to.
Wow,
Thanks Phil for reacting to The Beatles. Unfortunately, this was their last public performance, on the rooftop of Abbey Road studios. The cops were there waiting for them to finish up,case business people had earlier complained about the "noise" and " disruption". WTF!
It was not the Abbey Road Studio, it's on their Apple Studio at 3 Savile Row.
@@braudabo yes you're right!
My friend time for Hey Jude live to truly feel their magic
Time for you to begin at the beginning so you begin to comprehend their evolution with EVERY record release. Check out "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party".
They are performing on roof of Abbey Road studio & it literally stopped traffic in London, hence police presence. This was their last live concert.
it was on top of apple studios lol
The thing with Beatles reaction videos is a high percentage of them get blocked. Good to have a Patreon or an Odyssee or other such type of alternative channel where you can react to them and for someone signed up for that channel, it can be shown. It's not blocked.
The Beatles recorded and released just over 250 songs in a little more than a seven year period that they were a recording band in the studio. Tons of amazing things to show you from their music, but it will do no one any good if they get blocked.
Oh Danny Boy!!!!
Paul McCartney WOW 😲 No one comes close IMO head and shoulders above the rest.
The music was written downstairs & then moved to the roof to be preformed
After arguing for weeks on whether to do a concert in Rome at the Coliseum, In front of the great Pyramid, Mt. Everest, ...they quickly decided to just do their last show on the roof of the studio. John and Paul were hoping for some publicity and planned to get the police to arrest them for disturbing the peace. Many businesses nearby called the police to complain, but mostly people went into the streets trying to find out what was going on. Not many people could actually see them.
Thank goodness they remixed the let it be to how should've sounred
This was The Beatles' last performance.
Check out "Come Together", "Here, There And Everywhere", "In My Life", "Oh, Darling", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "Here Comes The Sun". All excellent examples of The Beatles' magic. You will only want to go further after that.
As it's Christmas, please react to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, " Happy Christmas (War is Over). The ultimate Christmas song. Thanks
If nobody has told you, you should watch the "Get Back" documentary. It's great! It covers the studio sessions leading up to this performance. Thanks, enjoyed this!
I'll check it out!
This might be in their top 50 songs, but not in the top 25. Their output was deep and vast.
This is definitely in their top 25 it’s better than Hey Jude, Yellow Submarine, She Loves You, Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da, I Want To Hold Your Hand
@@vitamindeeznutz4102 Agreed that it's better than those, except for "Hey Jude," which is one of the greatest rock anthems.
Agreed.
@@vitamindeeznutz4102 I disagree, but I can come up with a top 25 Beatles songs without any of those you mention or I've Got a Feeling easily. 25 is just scratching the surface.
@@lipbyHey Jude is so mid bro
Also, you may wish to react to, Band Aid, Do they know it's Christmas.
This was the start of Live Aid, 1984. Sir Bob Geldof, creator of Live Aid
Paul McCartney es un tsunami ❤
Check out the song called by Ringo Tomorrow never knows it's the bomb
It wasn't fashion sense, it was freezing cold January on a windy rooftop. They borrowed their wives' coats to try and stay warm. Their fingers were freezing up and the guitars were going out of tune. After half an hour they were so cold they couldn't play properly any more.
Beatles, what U expect ?
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Hi, if you haven't done a vid reaction about their final hit song #-1 that they recorded together before they broke up in 1970 listen to the song and album title 'Let It Be' where it has always been some controversy about that when Paul starts saying that Mother Mary comes or came to him, obviously in a dream saying like don't worry just Let It Be, it would be alright, he wrote/composed the Let It Be(the song) the next day, anyway the controversy is if in the song the Mary in his dream speaking words of Wisdom, was & is Mother Mary the mother of Jesus Christ or Paul's own dead mother which her name was also Mary, I'd be interested in what you think about this, and about the song in general.
There were the Beatles …..then everyone else . The Beatles…that’s it .
Okay, this was a very unusual concert. It was on the roof of their companies building Apple; which was very modernly desiged and decorated in a very old upper crust British neighborhood; and the neighbors did not like it. They were trying to get them out of the neighborhood. This concert was completely impromptu; because the company was closing down and the Beatles were parting ways. They did the concert to piss off thei neighbors. Not only was it on the roof - it was completely impromptu.
The idea of the rooftop performance in a town was later copied e.g. by U2 for the official video for the hit Where The Sreets Have No Name; see it or react to it; U2 let all the LA police problems in the video: you will be able to laugh about it or shake your head.
The Jefferson Airplane played on a rooftop in Manhattan a month before the Beatles. Of course, the Beatles' rooftop concert became much more famous, yes, one could say, legendary.
@@braudabo Thanks for this information. When I was 10 I had to fight with my most frightened parents with my hard-earned pocket money to buy ob-la-di-ob-la-da. A neighbor told my mum this was a harmless text (not like Lucy Sky Diamonds + Strawberry + Walrus). I was shocked as they broke up.
Someboy To Love and the less commercial White Rabbit I heard on the radio request concerts. As a student and temporary worker, I worked in a record shop on Friday evenings and Saturdays and sold e.g. Surrealistic Pillow or Volunteers, later the single film hit of Jefferson Starship, More commercial popular was of course Fleedwod Mac, which I visited 1979 in Zürich and a few days later Bob Marley: what musical happenings. All the best for you!
John borrowed the coat from Yoko and Ringo borrowed his from Maureen I believe
This song alone, with little to no warm up, done live, with all the accompanying nerves, on a roof top, proves Paul McCartney should have been higher on that damned Rolling Stone top 200 singers. He could do it all, had a fabulous range, could do these rockers, and sounded lovely on ballads. But typical rolling Stone never has given McCartney enough credit.
This style of singing? Think: Little Richard. The Beatles adored Mr. Pennington and Paul really is "Son of Little Richard" when he performs vocals like this.
30 January 1969.
Paul McCartney is SCREAMING in B!!!
He had a five + octave range and the strongest voice of all The Beatles!!!
He had two voices:
1). His “Raving” voice and;
2). His Ballad voice;
That being said, if McCartney was at a piano singing a ballad in B… that’s hard to do…
Here, he is full throttle singing in B, in January, LIVE, in January, on a roof, with a strong wind 😳😳😳!!!!…
Please find a singer or band today who could do this live…
Good luck: they don’t exist!
Should have reacted to this video of the performance instead, "The Beatles - I've Got A Feeling (Take 1) | Rooftop Concert" It focuses more camera work on the Beatles themselves while performing and doesn't have all that multiple screens nonsense which is just distracting. Here's the link if you like th-cam.com/video/dqX0vN10Qbk/w-d-xo.html
All those wearing ridiculous hats and thinking how big shots they become in the financing districts where this concert was taking place, miraculously they say today that they were seen the Beatles life, actually bragging about it.