George Martin was instrumental in guiding the Beatles creativity. His suggestion of a string quartet for " Yesterday, " his piano solo on " In My Life, " arrangements for many songs, " Eleanor Rigby, " " I am the Walrus, " etc. A genteel, musical man! God bless him!
It has been 55 years since Beatles hit it big, and nothing remotely close has happened. As I have said many times: never happened before, will never happen again. It was lightening in a bottle.
And I've Always said, that as far as the US hysteria is concerned, it was greatly enhanced by the murder of their President, only 4 months before. National greif and mass depression, suddenly gave way, for a sunami of joy. Just what the doctor ordered. as they say.
I really don’t think anything will happen that’s as talented as Mccartney. I always se him as mr music. Lennon was very talented but didn’t have the drive that Mccartney had.
...George "something big will happen!".... Sorry to disappoint you George, but through the 90's and 00's the Beatles were and are in Peppers 50th year, still the bench mark!
@@jamesdunn9714 maybe in 16,000 years after a few cataclysms and aeon’s have rearranged the face of the earth and the beatles souls are recycled back into this ether
I was fortunate enough to meet Both Sir George Martin and Sir Terry Wogan professionally. Two finer, more well mannered gentlemen you couldn't hope to meet. However I will say George was profoundly deaf when I met him some years after this interview, and I had to repeat each question three of four times before he heard me! I think he is lip reading here - he always looks very intently at the person speaking. I believe it was all those years at Abbey Road that did for his ear drums, God love him! I would have liked a question about John Lennon, who was always the most intriguing Beatle by a million miles.
....this channel had 200 videos on originally ...but after repeated copyright warnings - and two 'strikes' ...due to 'Reeling in the years' apparently now 'owning' many Beatles film clips...I decided to delete them all and start again. I have lots more stuff to upload, to get back...er sorry...Get Back to 200 videos again...but Google threatened to close my entire account - incl.Gmail last time !
What most need to remember is what the Beatles did to American youth on that famous Sunday evening. I was there watching with my Mom and Dad and my 2 sisters. I was 7 1/2 years old and totally went greaseless with my hair the next Monday morning at school. I was NOT alone with that. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah rolled off your tongue. Yes, it was who they were and their music, what it did to us in the US and the whole world. The girls still screamed a day later, and I never did get that. Rock ON!
Nice post. Here in Britain the same instant wind of change was a year or so earlier and even straights calked them the Fabs as it was all Iunprecedented and in some ways us bigger than ever
The amount of boasting this man has the right to do insane. And yet never a peep about him saying how it was his idea to do this in a song, even tho he made so many marvelous contributions to some of the greatest songs recorded .
It's not about "outselling." It's the universal impact. The Whopper can outsell the Big Mac one year, and vice versa the next year. Through the years, that has no universal impact. The Beatles' ingenuity did and does.
Even 30 years on from this interview, Madonna has sold 300m which is amazing but its nowhere near a billion. The Beatles were only recording music from 1963-69
George Martin produced an album for Ultravox in the early 80's and was very impressed with the group and their leader, Midge Ure. They became very good friends.
Rumor has it that George had a little affair with Madonna while his film company was making Shanghai Surprise. IDK if that's true, but if it is, good for her I guess.
The decade of the 60's was full of good groups and wonderfull musicians the young guy in the show should know but the Beatles had a very complex music , they were ahead all along the decade . Sorry to say that Madona will be soon forgotten and her music never studied
Jagger. You are right. There are but few modern musicians that will be remembered. The Beatles, and Bowie are the two that really stand out in my mind as being culturally important and really being artists. Madonna doesn't even come close.
@@32mybelle The Beatles will be remembered, that is a certainty. They changed music and society. I don't think Bowie's impact was that great. Madonna is already inconsequential.
@@jamesdunn9714 Bowie helped change the world as far as sexual fluidity. His music was innovative in many respects, especially his work with electronic music in the late 70's, that shaped music for the 80's and onward. His fashion styles have always been on point and his ability to sense and shape trends was amazing!
Lets ask the expert Midge urr about what will be the next Beatles, what he should have said is there will NEVER be another, glad I was there from the start and took the ride
George Martin being the beatles. Smiliar to Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson. MJ was massive for those 3 albums that Jones produced then then good times were over.
Brian Epstein, John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin and Geoff Emerick. The Beatles inner circle are inexorably exiting the stage. Then there is Billy Preston, Linda McCartney, Maureen Starkey, and much earlier Stu Sutcliff. I am certain I missed some. All gone now.
i am still listening to the beatles today (2018) however the last time i heard madonna was ........... uh cant remember and further more i dont want to remember.as far as mr ure goes his career was not as big as ringos career .
IT WAS INCREDIBLE (SOME WOULD SAY ,SPOOKY) THE WAY ALL THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS CAME TOGETHER, AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND TIME. ---BRIAN EPSTEIN, HAD NO EXPERIENCE OF MANAGING, LET ALONE A ROCK MUSIC BAND, HAVING BY CHANCE, SEEN THEM PERFORM IN THE CAVERN, BECAME THEIR MANAGER, TOOK THEM TO LONDON SMARTENED UP, INTRUDUCED TO GEORGE MARTIN, RINGO WAS BROUGHT INTO THE BAND. AND THEY ACHEIVED THEIR FIRST EMI SINGLE HIT; BINGO!
Madonna, to her credit, was an 80s phenom with a very compelling story AND talent. Am shocked she has sold so many albums but it is nowhere near Beatle sales, talent, or impact The Fab Four are still #1 and will probably remain there for eternity. YEAH YEAH YEAH!!
I'm sorry, even though I grew up in the 80's and probably would have thought Madonna was comprable back then with the Beatles, to me she is a mere footnote now. If you are looking for women singers that culturally and artistically made an impact, I would say Joni Mitchell is much more relevant. Joni writes her own music, and paints her own album covers in some cases. Madonna shouldn't even be in this conversation.
It's hard for me to believe that these 80s interviews took place less than 20 years after the Beatles split up. Think about it: for them, reminiscing about Sgt Pepper was like us reminiscing about Amy Winehouse's first album, or Jay Z's The Black Album 🤯
The Beatles have sold well over one billion records, probably around one and one half billion, Elvis is the next biggest seller, Madonna is way, way behind that figure, behind Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. Madonna at best has sold about one third of what The Beatles have.
From 1st June 1987. Amusingly he thought that this was as far as the Beatle obsession would go and in 20 years (2007) they'll all be mostly forgotten. But in fact it has just grown and grown with more and more pouring over the story. And sales too. That was un-predictable, but as the world opened up from the 90s onwards, open borders, trade, China etc, though the Beatles were a niche interest people in places like Korea followed them and bought the back catalogue and films etc, and out of those 2bn new emerging consumers, even though only a couple percent of them are interested enough to pay for Beatles stash, that still translates into huge revenues for the individual Beatle estates and Apple.
Its strange listening to this interview now, 34 years later. The significance of Midge Ure and Madonna as far as their footprint on the history of rock music and recorded sound is concerned is quite obvious. But this George Martin chap, and the beedles???? Who were they?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
All about balls - Who would have put this innovative compositional stuff on vinyl? George was the MAN who decided these guys were open to his input - this other guy is a great fairy
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A very humble and very talented man..who played a big part in the Beatles success story.
Deserved his nickname the 5th Beatle
What a lovely, lovely man George was.
It can't be overstated the impact that George Martin had on the Beatles and, in the bigger picture, the history of music. A true great!
George Martin was instrumental in guiding the Beatles creativity. His suggestion of a string quartet for " Yesterday, " his piano solo on " In My Life, " arrangements for many songs, " Eleanor Rigby, " " I am the Walrus, " etc. A genteel, musical man! God bless him!
George was a really handsome elegant man,charming.
2:03 "I think we're going to see the end of the hype now" HA WRONG We're just as obsessed now as ever
you wrote that 5 years ago.... still true in 2024!
George says in 20 years you would have to dig him up. But he actually lived another 29 years. Legend
well didya? dig 'im up ?
and Terry Wogan, despite being much younger died before him but it was in the same year (2016) and only a matter of a few weeks.
It has been 55 years since Beatles hit it big, and nothing remotely close has happened. As I have said many times: never happened before, will never happen again. It was lightening in a bottle.
Lightning.
I could not agree more.
And I've Always said, that as far as the US hysteria is concerned, it was greatly enhanced by the murder of their President, only 4 months before. National greif and mass depression, suddenly gave way, for a sunami of joy. Just what the doctor ordered. as they say.
Oh, I wouldn't go that far, a lot of good music came along after that.
I really don’t think anything will happen that’s as talented as Mccartney. I always se him as mr music. Lennon was very talented but didn’t have the drive that Mccartney had.
Such a gentleman and artist, thank Sir George Martin rest in heaven
Exceptional man and artist in his own right.
...George "something big will happen!"....
Sorry to disappoint you George, but through the 90's and 00's the Beatles were and are in Peppers 50th year, still the bench mark!
Mickey. It will never happen again, not now or soon or in a couple of hundred years.
@@jamesdunn9714 maybe in 16,000 years after a few cataclysms and aeon’s have rearranged the face of the earth and the beatles souls are recycled back into this ether
Martin is one of the most important people in music!
I was fortunate enough to meet Both Sir George Martin and Sir Terry Wogan professionally. Two finer, more well mannered gentlemen you couldn't hope to meet. However I will say George was profoundly deaf when I met him some years after this interview, and I had to repeat each question three of four times before he heard me! I think he is lip reading here - he always looks very intently at the person speaking. I believe it was all those years at Abbey Road that did for his ear drums, God love him! I would have liked a question about John Lennon, who was always the most intriguing Beatle by a million miles.
Fantastic stuff! Thank you for preserving the tapes and digitizing them for delight!
....this channel had 200 videos on originally ...but after repeated copyright warnings - and two 'strikes' ...due to 'Reeling in the years' apparently now 'owning' many Beatles film clips...I decided to delete them all and start again. I have lots more stuff to upload, to get back...er sorry...Get Back to 200 videos again...but Google threatened to close my entire account - incl.Gmail last time !
What most need to remember is what the Beatles did to American youth on that famous Sunday evening. I was there watching with my Mom and Dad and my 2 sisters. I was 7 1/2 years old and totally went greaseless with my hair the next Monday morning at school. I was NOT alone with that. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah rolled off your tongue. Yes, it was who they were and their music, what it did to us in the US and the whole world. The girls still screamed a day later, and I never did get that. Rock ON!
Nice post. Here in Britain the same instant wind of change was a year or so earlier and even straights calked them the Fabs as it was all Iunprecedented and in some ways us bigger than ever
Totally love George's humility here. That '5th Beatle' barely.said a word about himself. Great man.
The amount of boasting this man has the right to do insane. And yet never a peep about him saying how it was his idea to do this in a song, even tho he made so many marvelous contributions to some of the greatest songs recorded .
I like yhe way george pays attention to the other guest when they speak
I didn't think about that. Truly dignified and a hint of his stupendous knowledge.
Was Midge on drugs during this interview? Madonna never came close to outselling the Beatles.
It's not about "outselling." It's the universal impact. The Whopper can outsell the Big Mac one year, and vice versa the next year. Through the years, that has no universal impact. The Beatles' ingenuity did and does.
Even 30 years on from this interview, Madonna has sold 300m which is amazing but its nowhere near a billion. The Beatles were only recording music from 1963-69
George Martin produced an album for Ultravox in the early 80's and was very impressed with the group and their leader, Midge Ure. They became very good friends.
I'm replying after 7 years haha. Yes the Quartet album. my fave Ultravox album.😀
Beatles & Madonna in the same sentence pfftt
Rumor has it that George had a little affair with Madonna while his film company was making Shanghai Surprise. IDK if that's true, but if it is, good for her I guess.
Karen Elizabeth crikes! 🤭 new one on me!
George Martin and Madonna?! Wow!
@@scottandrewbrass1931 lol
Like chalk and cheese.........
The decade of the 60's was full of good groups and wonderfull musicians the young guy in the show should know but the Beatles had a very complex music , they were ahead all along the decade . Sorry to say that Madona will be soon forgotten and her music never studied
Jagger. You are right. There are but few modern musicians that will be remembered. The Beatles, and Bowie are the two that really stand out in my mind as being culturally important and really being artists. Madonna doesn't even come close.
@@32mybelle The Beatles will be remembered, that is a certainty. They changed music and society. I don't think Bowie's impact was that great. Madonna is already inconsequential.
@@jamesdunn9714 Bowie helped change the world as far as sexual fluidity. His music was innovative in many respects, especially his work with electronic music in the late 70's, that shaped music for the 80's and onward. His fashion styles have always been on point and his ability to sense and shape trends was amazing!
@@32mybelle Brian Wilson. Paul's favorite song is "God Only Knows"
@@Mozart1220 That is a great song and Pet Sounds is a classic album.
I first heard U2 in 84. They became my 2nd most important band. They take over where The Beatles left off
...oops - yes, the audio is slightly out....!
The Gentleman of English Pop Music.
George...a true English gentleman......
Lets ask the expert Midge urr about what will be the next Beatles, what he should have said is there will NEVER be another, glad I was there from the start and took the ride
Me too........
The fifth beatle say no more
I agree. I don't know how anyone can pick anyone else.
It's wonderful to be here, it's certainly a thrill ..🎼🎼🎵
so lovely thanks for sharing
I'd never heard of him until he was pointed out to me in 1999 on the Island of Alderney for the total eclipse
George Martin being the beatles.
Smiliar to Quincy Jones with Michael Jackson.
MJ was massive for those 3 albums that Jones produced then then good times were over.
Brian Epstein, John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin and Geoff Emerick. The Beatles inner circle are inexorably exiting the stage. Then there is Billy Preston, Linda McCartney, Maureen Starkey, and much earlier Stu Sutcliff. I am certain I missed some. All gone now.
i am still listening to the beatles today (2018) however the last time i heard madonna was ........... uh cant remember and further more i dont want to remember.as far as mr ure goes his career was not as big as ringos career .
Great comment!
RIP George Martin.
A real Gentleman
IT WAS INCREDIBLE (SOME WOULD SAY ,SPOOKY) THE WAY ALL THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS CAME TOGETHER, AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND TIME. ---BRIAN EPSTEIN, HAD NO EXPERIENCE OF MANAGING, LET ALONE A ROCK MUSIC BAND, HAVING BY CHANCE, SEEN THEM PERFORM IN THE CAVERN, BECAME THEIR MANAGER, TOOK THEM TO LONDON SMARTENED UP, INTRUDUCED TO GEORGE MARTIN, RINGO WAS BROUGHT INTO THE BAND. AND THEY ACHEIVED THEIR FIRST EMI SINGLE HIT; BINGO!
Madonna, to her credit, was an 80s phenom with a very compelling story AND talent. Am shocked she has sold so many albums but it is nowhere near Beatle sales, talent, or impact The Fab Four are still #1 and will probably remain there for eternity. YEAH YEAH YEAH!!
And a footnote, Long Live The KING!. Elvis remains #1 for best single act of all time in record sales.
MirkPurr exactly, Madonna never wrote her own shit so she doesn't belong in the same class
I'm sorry, even though I grew up in the 80's and probably would have thought Madonna was comprable back then with the Beatles, to me she is a mere footnote now. If you are looking for women singers that culturally and artistically made an impact, I would say Joni Mitchell is much more relevant. Joni writes her own music, and paints her own album covers in some cases. Madonna shouldn't even be in this conversation.
& The Beatles did all that in 8 years....unbelievable !!
@@MirkPurr just too bad he didn’t write a single song
Cool interview. However, you should definitely tell us in the info below the video WHEN that was broadcast .
It's hard for me to believe that these 80s interviews took place less than 20 years after the Beatles split up. Think about it: for them, reminiscing about Sgt Pepper was like us reminiscing about Amy Winehouse's first album, or Jay Z's The Black Album 🤯
RIP Terry and George.
Madonna has not sold anywhere near the records that the Beatles have sold, Midge....nowhere near
The Beatles have sold well over one billion records, probably around one and one half billion, Elvis is the next biggest seller, Madonna is way, way behind that figure, behind Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd. Madonna at best has sold about one third of what The Beatles have.
From 1st June 1987. Amusingly he thought that this was as far as the Beatle obsession would go and in 20 years (2007) they'll all be mostly forgotten. But in fact it has just grown and grown with more and more pouring over the story. And sales too. That was un-predictable, but as the world opened up from the 90s onwards, open borders, trade, China etc, though the Beatles were a niche interest people in places like Korea followed them and bought the back catalogue and films etc, and out of those 2bn new emerging consumers, even though only a couple percent of them are interested enough to pay for Beatles stash, that still translates into huge revenues for the individual Beatle estates and Apple.
Sorry Midge, but Madonna outsold the Beatles.by 1987 ??? Don't think so bud
Midge another self appointed expert. Idiot.
Why did Wogan mention Billy Shears?
I always knew Limmy could be a bit random, but he's outdone himself here!
Wogan looks like a priest
It’s George Martin’s interview and the other guest is talking and bragging for 5 minutes
Its strange listening to this interview now, 34 years later. The significance of Midge Ure and Madonna as far as their footprint on the history of rock music and recorded sound is concerned is quite obvious. But this George Martin chap, and the beedles???? Who were they?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
All about balls - Who would have put this innovative compositional stuff on vinyl? George was the MAN who decided these guys were open to his input - this other guy is a great fairy
What's the point in knocking the other guy?
I disagree w George Martin, no, there will never be another phenomenon like
the Beatles. People will be studying them for the next 500 years.
Gawd. That nicotine stained, M.U. only, intro performed by old time servers...
Who was the other guy in black and why was he there ?
Midge Ure, lead singer of Ultravox, a pretty big band in the 80s
George Martin was definitely not around to see it
ahh...the true 5th Beatle.
7:50 This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Madonna has never been close to The Beatles in record sales.
Midge Ure is the other guest.
Last day of the hype! In 1984. Cmon George. Modesty quite unnecessary here.
Wogan shouldn't be able to be part of this genius !
2024
nice intaview the scottish bloke seemed a little smug thou seems Gorge is more well known none then this bloke.
great interview but I didn't like his tie ;-)
Midge Ure is so far off the subject
The guy who ruined the Beatles . Control freak 😎