The world will never see another Beatles nor another Bee Gees.Both were gifted, prolific and very unique. I'm sure both of them made the world a better place at least for me.
The Beatles , the Bee Gees , Sgt .peppers album and movie are ICONIC individually as well IMHO : loved the album & the movie ; grew up with Beatles and the Gees ; cannot get more iconic then that
You kinda have to admire them for having the balls to do all these Beatles classics. You don't have to like them, but really, name one other band to stand up and say "We're worthy; we're gonna take all these beloved masterpieces and make 'em our own way."
Ben Culture Actually the Brothers Gibb didn't have a choice since their then boss and record label head Robert Stigwood had asked them to do it. Back in 1974, Robert Stigwood, then president and CEO of RSO Records signed The Bee Gees to RSO Records and was the main person who allowed the Brothers Gib to reinvent themselves away from their Atlantic Records days of the 1960's. The Brothers Gibb would later pay the price for this reinvention at the beginning of the 1980's when the disco sucks movement happened and lead to the Brothers Gibb going into hiding in a Miami recording studio through out most of the 1980's writing songs for other artists and producing other artists' material. Originally, the Brothers were hesitant to do both a movie project and an album full of Beatles covers and Barry Gibb has gone on record saying so many times including on an episode of VH-1's Behind The Music, but Robert Stigwood convinced them that the project would sell both movie tickets and albums big time and make them all rich. Initially the idea was working when the soundtrack was release, however, things began to fall apart after the movie was released and newspaper critics tore it up the way that they did. The main reason why Robert Stigwood had asked the Brothers Gibb to do the projects was because he had purchased the rights to use 24 Beatles songs, known in the industry as a mechanical license, and he was determined to use them since he had paid a lot of money for the rights.
Robbie Stewart Thanks, I didn't know that, and Wikipedia pretty much backs you up. But I have to say, I wouldn't consider the Bee Gees a failure, and it sounds like this album was a success that got dragged down by the terrible movie it was attached to. They should have just left the movie up to the public's imagination. Since it was the LP age, they could have done a lavish booklet of still photographs from the movie (for all I know, they probably did), only they shouldn't have _actually released the movie!_ The album and its four singles are the only part of the project that made a profit. Personally, I hate rockism, the "disco sucks" movement, and the same mentality that destroyed New Wave and synthpop. I rarely listen to anything that has no keyboards, even if it's just an acoustic piano. I find most all-guitar bands boring.
Ben Culture Thanks. BTW, Wikipedia isn't the only thing that backs me up. I've been around the music industry since birth because I am the product of two parents who both worked in the entertainment industry. My late father was a professional musician and entertainer for 50 + years and my mom was a bar tender in many nightclubs where my father played gigs at. My father also used to back up many popular artists of the 1960's and 1970's as a guitarist in their bands, so I spent most of my childhood touring on the road and serving as both my father's roadie and electronics technician at a very early age. I am also a fan of VH-1's show "Behind The Music." This program profiles the history of many artists and it is one that I highly recommend watching if you want to learn the history of musicians. There are many episodes of "Behind The Music" on here also. Also, BTW, I never said that the Brothers Gibb were a failure as a music group and I'm sorry if you implied that from my posting. Most importantly, they were great musicians who also happened to also write many great songs that were recorded by many great artists and that's the one advantage that they did have in the 1980's when everyone was listening to the Disco Sucks movement, as they were able to retreat to a Miami recording studio writing songs and producing other artists, including a duet between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton called "Islands in the Stream. I'm not sure, but I think that there is an episode of VH-1's "Behind The Music" on here also which profiles "The Bee Gees" also. I remember watching it on VH-1 around 1997, so that's also where a lot of my information comes from. Plus, I'm very familiar with Robert Stigwood as a label owner of RSO Records. RSO was also the original record label that issued the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and both RSO and Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records were the two record labels most responsible for releasing most of the disco material back in the 1970's and that was one of the primary reasons why both labels folded in the 1980's also. There is also an episode of VH-1's Behind The Music on Neil Bogart on here. So go watch it. Take care and God bless.
Robbie Stewart Ironically, I just discovered that the VH1 "Behind the Music" episode about Styx has been taken down due to copyright violations, but I'll have a look and see if the Bee Gees episode is still up.
The Bee Gees were never hyped; they got to where they got to on pure talent. They have so many beautiful hits because they were together for about 40 years.
The bee gees se aproxima a the beatles tienen similitud armonías tienen sus historias aparecidas no triunfaron en Inglaterra the beatles surgieron en Alemania y the bee gees en Australia decían q the beatles eran alemanes dos inolvidables bandas q no pasaran de moda
All but one of the Gibb brothers are singing angels in heaven waiting for the last brother Barry to join them. I have grown up with their beautiful music and will always be in awe of their talent. Legendary music for all time.
Excelentes recuerdos de mi infancia ❤😢, hermosos tiempos que no volverán , este LP estaba en mi casa y siempre después de clases lo colocaba para escucharlo completo.
I loved this movie despite its shortcomings. Music was the real draw. Never liked the Beatles much until I saw this movie and heard the music in a context. This number was also very faithful to the original arrangement. Yes I teared up during Golden Slumbers.
That funeral section just about killed me when I saw it in theaters. I own it on DVD now, but I'd better be in the right mood/strong enough to watch it all the way thru. And where the smeg is their version of "Nowhere Man"?
I saw this in the theater when I was a little girl. Got the Sgt Pepper’s album as an adult and had to find the soundtrack. It didn’t work for me, without Billy Preston, Aerosmith, etc. LOL!
I was the same i knew of Beatles but this turned me into a big fan i also loved the movie across the universe writer did A good job on the story wrapped around Beatles song
I actually remember seeing it on the shelf at Blockbuster and thinking it was such a weird title. This was before "ONE" was released (remember when CDs were advertised on TV?) and I was turned on to the Beatles
If anybody was going to do it it had to be the Bee Gees. This is a really sensitive tribute to the music of the Beatles. Almost as good as the original.
Barry Gibb beautifully covers 'A Day in a Life'. This is a great soundtrack! The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton covering the Beatles. Love it! Aerosmith covering 'Come Together' is also outstanding. Thanks for posting this.
loved this movie when i was a kid (watched it every time it was on the movie channel back in the day) and dare i say i prefer this soundtrack to the original....the bee gees and frampton nailed it....completely underrated....
This song that was sung by the Bee Gees was simply fantastic. I really enjoyed every minute of it. This music has has really been under rated and over looked . I loved it !!!!
Saw the Bee Gees on the steel pier in Atlantic City back in the late 60s early 70s. They were just starting out, and let me tell you, They were fantastic then, and they only got better with time. This is my favorite movie and my favorite album I like the Beatles, I really do, but nothing compares to these guys. All for boys together and separately carry their own. Thank you guys. It must’ve been very difficult to step up and sing these Beatles songs
The vocals to this cover are pretty good, especially during the bridge leading to the third verse, but the music itself sounds thin like a cheaply recorded karaoke version
When the Sgt. Pepper's movie first came out in '78, I was in 7th grade. My older sister bought the album and I had the Beatles Blue album. I made my own mix on cassette where the first half of the song was the Beatles and the 2nd half was the Bee Gees and right after that I reversed it with the Bee Gees being the first half and the Beatles the second half. I remember they fit together perfectly. I loved doing stuff like that!
To Ben Culture... How do you not like the Bee Gees. One of the all time greats from the 60s along with the Beatles, Stones, Cream, Grand Funk, Chicago and the list goes on and on. Maybe not the same genre but great just the same. What voices...
jack duffy you would be surprised but there are still people that hate disco!!! I think it's stupid!! newer music is deplorable!! most of it!! I love their sound!! Bruno Mars seems to be the only one trying to keep the old school sound around!!! And trying to keep the funk
Pre-disco Bee Gees is actually good you know To Love Somebody, Massachusetts, and I Started A Joke, as i'd like to think of it, is a masterpieces And the New York Mining Disaster is good too you know
This is a nice cover by Barry Gibb. We're so used to the Bee Gees performing their own original masterpieces that it is quite interesting hearing them sing the work of other great songwriters. What would have made this better is to have followed the Beatle's model more closely, using the contrast of John and Paul's voices in the different sections of the song to great effect. Including Robin's distinctive voice in this cover would have been magnificent.
chookiechooks The Beatles long time producer, Sir George Martin, who produced both their 1968 Sgt. Peppers album and Abby Road, also produced this soundtrack in 1978.
If they had done this as just an album, and not done a film of it, and done it before they recorded "Saturday Night Fever," it might have done a lot better. It just came at entirely the wrong time, not to mention the reaction to it fed right into their sensitivity about being considered Beatles knock-offs. They'd been labeled that way for their entire early career, and now they have something someone can point to and say "Told ya so?" I think that was why they went after Robert Stigwood with such venom, since he talked them into it.
@Bill Pao No one said the script was good, the Bee Gees didn't want to do it, it still don't change the fact the Brothers Gibb are far superior vocalists than the Beatles & blow them out of the water at the climax of this song at 2:51 seconds into the song, it should of made the Beatles gringe ! lol
@@spudjohnsonn8122 My wife would agree with you. Robin made a somewhat controversial comment that their versions of the Beatles songs would make fans forget the Beatles ever existed but unfortunately the movie flopped. I do believe they were better vocalist on some of the original Beatles songs but his comments didn't go down well. I also think they should've recruited their brother Andy instead of Frampton sinced he basically mimicked Andy. Now that would've been epic.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 Exactly.I don't think there are other artists with that complex melodies and vocal arrangements. Alby Galuten said when Barry multitracked he didn't even use a backing track to harmonize over his vocals like an onion layer but when all his vocals are layered up its 100% perfection. So accurate were they.
@@meninpapin Pure talent my Friend, they could reproduce their sound live. the only other band I would acknowledge as great vocalists in the top 3 would be "The Association" but there is 6 of them.
@@wayneschweinfurth5497 You get out of town, lowlife ! Lennon got 5 bullets in his back because he thought they were more popular than Christ, lol Karma's a bitch. Barry Gibb's vocals blow the Satanic Beatles away at there own song ! Lennon sounds like he's on Quaalude's during the climax at 2:51.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 that's why more people know the names Lennon/McCartney rather than Gibb. The Bee Gees are alright, Gibbs voice is definitely unique but The Beatles are head and shoulders above Bee Gees and it's not even close. The amount of good songs The Beatles have are well over 100. They have a back catalog of songs that people can only dream of creating. The music is one thing but then you add the insane amount of influence The Beatles gave to pop culture as well as other musicians makes them greatest band of all time and no other band comes close really. Without The Beatles the Bee Gees wouldn't exist.
@@wayneschweinfurth5497 The Bee Gees were playing music before the Beatles even thought of it, where did you get your information from ? the Bee Gees could play & sing Pop, Rock, Folk, Gospel, & R&B. the Beatles attracted mostly White people, the Gibbs crossed racial barriers. the Gibbs were far superior vocalists by far, you don't have to be intelligent to know that. the Bee Gees wrote 2,500 hundred songs, had the Bee Gees ended up in England 1st, they would of been recognized 1st, I'm sure of it, the Beatles were a bunch of arrogant punks & the Bee Gees a bunch of humble lads. the Brothers were young teenagers here . th-cam.com/video/sCcuKkaaiaU/w-d-xo.html
This is my favorite Beatles song. I remember this song playing on the TV a day or so after John Lennon was murdered. It was a sad time in that early December so long ago...
I feel the same way, that this version feels like it has more heart to it compared to the slightly eerie way John did it. Even George Martin said that John's performance was very spine-chilling.
The original was much better recorded but I will say that the Beatles version would've been better served if they did what this one did and double or triple up on the vocals 'Because'-style during the interlude to the third verse
rockhero2274 Sorry, that I exaggerated. I mean: not bad remake. Original version is quite chaotic, this version is psychodelic... is little more modern... I enjoy it
A great memory for me. A great cover of a truly fav song. But come on! The Bee Gees doing A Day In The Life and no one has commented?? Ugh...! It is faithful to the Beatles classic though.
I was blown away when I first saw this movie in the theater I seen it in had such and awesome sound system speakers about as big as my bedroom door al around the theater I was in heaven
This was a movie and an album that each deserved about 2,000 times the recognition they got. They were panned hard. But, one thing that was amusing is where I was, theaters and stores were giving discount prices because of how much people were not into them. And, that was great for all of us that loved, loved, loved them both. We had a family album and some of us had a private one, too Saw the movie many times over a year or so, as the theater owner tried to get their money back. It went "straight to cable" and we watched it there, too. And, all this time later, as an old lady instead of a little girl, I still watch it when I get the chance. It's an awesome movie!
I got up this morning and as I read the online newspapers, I see that two very bad things happened in a city where I spent most of my teenage years at. First, with three high school football players being injured in a car wreck. Second, a member of someone's family, who I knew from a long time ago is now facing some very serious legal charges in another car wreck that killed one person and injured several others that happened on July 4th. While I am in prayer for the victim's family that lost their loved one for all of those that were injured, I am also preying for the person's family whose family member is now charged in all of this, because they are fixing to go through a legal nightmare and I will stand by them and be there for them in anyway that I can. Mainly because a member of that family just happens to be someone that I loved and cared about a long time ago and still do to this day. Anyway, when I read all of this news this morning, it made me think of this particular version of a song originally written by two members of The Beatles and was originally recorded and released by them on the Sgt. Peppers album back in 1967. But I like Barry Gibb's 1978 rendition better, simply because it was the version I grew up listening to.
I think that the “Sgt. Pepper” soundtrack was the only album they didn’t get the master tapes for when they got their catalog back, and somehow I don’t think they fought too hard for it. To be fair, this and Mo’s take on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” were probably the best work they did for this album.
The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after the Beatles and the Supreme s", selling more records don't mean your better !
@@spudjohnsonn8122 first of all they were very talented, and second of all you're topic is about success and selling records. As far as bands, ABBA and Queen are right behind the Beatles in records sold, and as far as artists, only Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson are ahead as well. But that's world wide, if you're talking US , then you are correct, Neither Queen nor ABBA did as well in the US as they did everywhere else.
@@kurtmorris454 Who cares about ABBA ? they or the Beatles weren't as versatile as the Bee Gees, who could sing R&B, Rock, Folk, Country, Pop & Gospel.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 Once again that is irrelevant o the topic which you posted. You posted which bands sold more then the Bee Gees, I simply told you about 2 others that did as well. What you think about their talent doesn't have anything to do with anything.
This version is nice, due to it being the Bee Gees. But the original is one that nobody can hold a candle to. Thinking back, it seems like John had a higher pitched voice in those days.
I challenge you to listen to the All This and WW2 version of this, set to The Longest Day by the way, so D-Day. That makes it more astonishing. I think Frankie Valli sang that one.
L L The soundtrack was re-released as a double CD a few years ago. I'm not sure if it's still available or if its now out of print. I sent you a PM though YT's messaging system with instructions on how to get it.
The vocals are honestly very good on this version, especially the bridge leading to the third verse... but the backing track specifically the drums and the bass and the piano weren't recorded nearly as well as the original and sound like a cheap karaoke rendition
Imagine if the Sgt. Pepper weathervane never came to life... Billy would have succeeded in his suicide attempt. The ending of this version of the song made me think of that.
A flop of a flick. Disco tainted dispite noteworthy performance by Cooper and Aerosmith. (Earth Wind and Fire damn near steal the show) Then at the end the Bee Gees save the day with a truly wonderful rendition. It literally saves the movie.
Backmasking: Demonic Subliminal Messages in Music, A Sundial Curated Playlist, Backmasking: Demonic Subliminal Messages in Music, A Sundial Curated Playlist Motörhead - “Nightmare/The Dreamtime” Many people have associated Motörhead’s music with the devil and selling your soul. At first, it is quite a laugh because it is simply music, but when this song is played in reverse you might second guess yourself. Played forwards it sounds like an angered growl but reversed it says, “Now tell me about your miserable little lives. I do not subscribe to your superstitious, narrow-minded flights of paranoia. I and people like me will always prevail! You will never stifle our free speech in any country in the world, ’cause we will fight forever.” When the song was released, Motörhead was going through an intense legal battle with their record company and this was supposedly their message to riot ! The Beatles - “I’m So Tired” Perhaps one of the most well-known backmasking conspiracy in music history, towards the end of “I’m So Tired” John Lennon is heard speaking some sort of gibberish. But when flipped, some might hear “Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him, miss him.” This ties into the infamous “Paul is dead” conspiracy. It was theorized that back in 1966 Paul McCartney died in a horrific car crash and the music industry replaced him with a double. Believers of this theory state that the rest of The Beatles snuck clues into their music to tell fans what really happened to McCartney. The Eagles - “Hotel California” A ’70s classic that pays homage to the twisted side of Hollywood, it is said that this hit might hold a deeper and darker meaning. If you take the time to listen to the opening verse backwards you will hear the words, “Yes, Satan organized his own religion,” or “Satan, he hears this. He had me believe in him.” It might be silly to believe these hidden messages when the band themselves deny these claims, but strangely, you can make out those spooky messages. How could it be unintentional ? Led Zeppelin - “Stairway to Heaven” The accusations of this timeless classic being a tune dedicated to Satan stems from other things the band has done. For example, guitarist Jimmy Page bought a mansion from the famed Satanist Aleister Crowley, and allegedly, he sold his soul to be successful and achieve fame. If this beloved classic rock track is played backwards you will hear, “Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He will give those with him 666. There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.” Once the band heard this conspiracy they were not amused, because “Stairway to Heaven” was made from their hearts. Page also stated in an interview that he believes slipping hidden messages backwards is not the way to make true music. Enjoy Satan, he's likes destroying us more than we are already, the Bee Gees are a clean Christian group ! Good luck.
Love the Bee Gee's but this version while it's nice doesn't out do the Beatles. The movie sucked and alot of substandard covers on the soundtrack. Aerosmith and Earth, Wind and Fire covers were so good they were hit singles. Poor Frampton his career faded fast because of this movie and his record label demanding a rushed follow up to Comes Alive.
I just commented before that the singing and vocals are very very good... however, the backing instruments weren't recorded nearly as well as the first version. That final piano chord needed to be much more powerful
It is unreal that people don’t hear the genius in this soundtrack. It is so beautiful
The world will never see another Beatles nor another Bee Gees.Both were gifted, prolific and very unique. I'm sure both of them made the world a better place at least for me.
Very well said! I can agree with you too. ❤
totally agree with you
The Beatles , the Bee Gees , Sgt .peppers album and movie are ICONIC individually as well IMHO : loved the album & the movie ; grew up with Beatles and the Gees ; cannot get more iconic then that
What about Peter Gabriel?
i agree, it always makes me sad thinking how we'll never get that sound or authenticity back :(
I played on this session, as did the whole of my orchestra. A great thrill to play at Abbey Road under the baton of Sir George Martin!
a brilliant tribute - thank you Bee Gees, thank you Sir George Martin
You kinda have to admire them for having the balls to do all these Beatles classics. You don't have to like them, but really, name one other band to stand up and say "We're worthy; we're gonna take all these beloved masterpieces and make 'em our own way."
Ben Culture Actually the Brothers Gibb didn't have a choice since their then boss and record label head Robert Stigwood had asked them to do it. Back in 1974, Robert Stigwood, then president and CEO of RSO Records signed The Bee Gees to RSO Records and was the main person who allowed the Brothers Gib to reinvent themselves away from their Atlantic Records days of the 1960's. The Brothers Gibb would later pay the price for this reinvention at the beginning of the 1980's when the disco sucks movement happened and lead to the Brothers Gibb going into hiding in a Miami recording studio through out most of the 1980's writing songs for other artists and producing other artists' material. Originally, the Brothers were hesitant to do both a movie project and an album full of Beatles covers and Barry Gibb has gone on record saying so many times including on an episode of VH-1's Behind The Music, but Robert Stigwood convinced them that the project would sell both movie tickets and albums big time and make them all rich. Initially the idea was working when the soundtrack was release, however, things began to fall apart after the movie was released and newspaper critics tore it up the way that they did. The main reason why Robert Stigwood had asked the Brothers Gibb to do the projects was because he had purchased the rights to use 24 Beatles songs, known in the industry as a mechanical license, and he was determined to use them since he had paid a lot of money for the rights.
Robbie Stewart Thanks, I didn't know that, and Wikipedia pretty much backs you up. But I have to say, I wouldn't consider the Bee Gees a failure, and it sounds like this album was a success that got dragged down by the terrible movie it was attached to. They should have just left the movie up to the public's imagination. Since it was the LP age, they could have done a lavish booklet of still photographs from the movie (for all I know, they probably did), only they shouldn't have _actually released the movie!_ The album and its four singles are the only part of the project that made a profit.
Personally, I hate rockism, the "disco sucks" movement, and the same mentality that destroyed New Wave and synthpop. I rarely listen to anything that has no keyboards, even if it's just an acoustic piano. I find most all-guitar bands boring.
Ben Culture Thanks. BTW, Wikipedia isn't the only thing that backs me up. I've been around the music industry since birth because I am the product of two parents who both worked in the entertainment industry. My late father was a professional musician and entertainer for 50 + years and my mom was a bar tender in many nightclubs where my father played gigs at. My father also used to back up many popular artists of the 1960's and 1970's as a guitarist in their bands, so I spent most of my childhood touring on the road and serving as both my father's roadie and electronics technician at a very early age. I am also a fan of VH-1's show "Behind The Music." This program profiles the history of many artists and it is one that I highly recommend watching if you want to learn the history of musicians. There are many episodes of "Behind The Music" on here also. Also, BTW, I never said that the Brothers Gibb were a failure as a music group and I'm sorry if you implied that from my posting. Most importantly, they were great musicians who also happened to also write many great songs that were recorded by many great artists and that's the one advantage that they did have in the 1980's when everyone was listening to the Disco Sucks movement, as they were able to retreat to a Miami recording studio writing songs and producing other artists, including a duet between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton called "Islands in the Stream. I'm not sure, but I think that there is an episode of VH-1's "Behind The Music" on here also which profiles "The Bee Gees" also. I remember watching it on VH-1 around 1997, so that's also where a lot of my information comes from. Plus, I'm very familiar with Robert Stigwood as a label owner of RSO Records. RSO was also the original record label that issued the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and both RSO and Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records were the two record labels most responsible for releasing most of the disco material back in the 1970's and that was one of the primary reasons why both labels folded in the 1980's also. There is also an episode of VH-1's Behind The Music on Neil Bogart on here. So go watch it. Take care and God bless.
Robbie Stewart Ironically, I just discovered that the VH1 "Behind the Music" episode about Styx has been taken down due to copyright violations, but I'll have a look and see if the Bee Gees episode is still up.
Ben Culture If it has, then someone else will eventually repost it back up. Happens all the time on here.
I didn't think this was possible... Jesus, it's almost as good as the original and I'm a huge Beatlemaniac. This is beautiful.
The Bee Gees were never hyped; they got to where they got to on pure talent. They have so many beautiful hits because they were together for about 40 years.
The bee gees se aproxima a the beatles tienen similitud armonías tienen sus historias aparecidas no triunfaron en Inglaterra the beatles surgieron en Alemania y the bee gees en Australia decían q the beatles eran alemanes dos inolvidables bandas q no pasaran de moda
Better.
Best cover I have heard of this song.
This is my favorite cover of any song.
All but one of the Gibb brothers are singing angels in heaven waiting for the last brother Barry to join them. I have grown up with their beautiful music and will always be in awe of their talent. Legendary music for all time.
Bee Gees & other singers didn't disappoint with their performance in this movie !
Love this movie
Great cover. Barry is a musical genius as a singer songwriter and producer.
Excelentes recuerdos de mi infancia ❤😢, hermosos tiempos que no volverán , este LP estaba en mi casa y siempre después de clases lo colocaba para escucharlo completo.
My fave Beatles song covered wonderfully by my fave group ever...The Bee Gees. They definitely did the song justice.
I loved this movie despite its shortcomings. Music was the real draw. Never liked the Beatles much until I saw this movie and heard the music in a context. This number was also very faithful to the original arrangement.
Yes I teared up during Golden Slumbers.
That funeral section just about killed me when I saw it in theaters. I own it on DVD now, but I'd better be in the right mood/strong enough to watch it all the way thru. And where the smeg is their version of "Nowhere Man"?
I saw this in the theater when I was a little girl. Got the Sgt Pepper’s album as an adult and had to find the soundtrack. It didn’t work for me, without Billy Preston, Aerosmith, etc. LOL!
I was the same i knew of Beatles but this turned me into a big fan i also loved the movie across the universe writer did A good job on the story wrapped around Beatles song
I first saw this movie on laserdisc in the mid 80s haha
I actually remember seeing it on the shelf at Blockbuster and thinking it was such a weird title. This was before "ONE" was released (remember when CDs were advertised on TV?) and I was turned on to the Beatles
Bee Gees are the greatest.
BeeGees is by The BEST Of the BESTS
thats really great cover, thanx for posting
Bee Gees version is gorgeous
If anybody was going to do it it had to be the Bee Gees. This is a really sensitive tribute to the music of the Beatles. Almost as good as the original.
This is great but you should check out The Analogues version. If the Beatles toured again, they would sound like the Analogues.
No one else could re produce this song like George Martin....pure genius
Barry Gibb beautifully covers 'A Day in a Life'. This is a great soundtrack! The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton covering the Beatles. Love it! Aerosmith covering 'Come Together' is also outstanding. Thanks for posting this.
r i p to Robin & Maurice gibbs their music will live forever..
Saw this movie as a child...now as an adult so appreciate it..Sandy and I can sing the heck out if these beautiful Beatles songs
loved this movie when i was a kid (watched it every time it was on the movie channel back in the day) and dare i say i prefer this soundtrack to the original....the bee gees and frampton nailed it....completely underrated....
This song that was sung by the Bee Gees was simply fantastic. I really enjoyed every minute of it. This music has has really been under rated and over looked . I loved it !!!!
Saw the Bee Gees on the steel pier in Atlantic City back in the late 60s early 70s. They were just starting out, and let me tell you, They were fantastic then, and they only got better with time. This is my favorite movie and my favorite album I like the Beatles, I really do, but nothing compares to these guys. All for boys together and separately carry their own. Thank you guys. It must’ve been very difficult to step up and sing these Beatles songs
I💞 still watch Sgt Pepper's Movie, Sweet Masterpiece! Sing every Song💞😁💞
love this version and the Bee Gees!!!!
I’m sorry, but Barry crushed this! This is better than the Beatles version...that middle harmonic section is awe-inspiring.
@Ryan Hunter, Right on Ryan !
The vocals to this cover are pretty good, especially during the bridge leading to the third verse, but the music itself sounds thin like a cheaply recorded karaoke version
Umm no?
When the Sgt. Pepper's movie first came out in '78, I was in 7th grade. My older sister bought the album and I had the Beatles Blue album. I made my own mix on cassette where the first half of the song was the Beatles and the 2nd half was the Bee Gees and right after that I reversed it with the Bee Gees being the first half and the Beatles the second half. I remember they fit together perfectly. I loved doing stuff like that!
Agree. Only the Bee Gees and no one else, not even Elvis, MJ, Elton John, etc, could do justice to the cover of this Beatles classic.
Chris Cornell...
No.
Sunny Suen Elton John does a great version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
JEFF BECK !!!!!!!!!
I like Elvis covers better than the og 99% of the time, and the beatles are no exception.
To Ben Culture... How do you not like the Bee Gees. One of the all time greats from the 60s along with the Beatles, Stones, Cream, Grand Funk, Chicago and the list goes on and on. Maybe not the same genre but great just the same. What voices...
jack duffy you would be surprised but there are still people that hate disco!!! I think it's stupid!! newer music is deplorable!! most of it!! I love their sound!! Bruno Mars seems to be the only one trying to keep the old school sound around!!! And trying to keep the funk
Pre-disco Bee Gees is actually good you know
To Love Somebody, Massachusetts, and I Started A Joke, as i'd like to think of it, is a masterpieces
And the New York Mining Disaster is good too you know
THE HARMONY. I LOVED THIS MOVIE AS A KID! BEE GEES WAS THE BEST MY FAVORITE WAS BARRY. MUCH RESPECT
Robin was my fave-eh he is my fave still
Watched the Movie in 1978..i was in Grade 4..
I am 55 y.o. now..
Saw this movie in the theater 12 times when it first came out. Bee Gees, the mall, Brothers Pizza & skee ball for me, back then was all, y'all!
All song from The Beatles is a classic, but I can’t deny, if there are no Bee Gees cover, I wouldn’t know about The Beatles at all
The bee Gees un buen grupo de los años 70 después de the beatles the bee Gees es el grupo más representativo de la música rock de la historia
melhor banda de todos os tempos !!!!!
A beautiful, perfect mashup of the two biggest talents of the time, imho, The Beatles and The Bee Gees. Genius.
This is a nice cover by Barry Gibb. We're so used to the Bee Gees performing their own original masterpieces that it is quite interesting hearing them sing the work of other great songwriters. What would have made this better is to have followed the Beatle's model more closely, using the contrast of John and Paul's voices in the different sections of the song to great effect. Including Robin's distinctive voice in this cover would have been magnificent.
chookiechooks robin's doing the aa-aa-aa after the "woke up, fell out of bed" verse, but i do agree that we should've heard more of him!
chookiechooks The Beatles long time producer, Sir George Martin, who produced both their 1968 Sgt. Peppers album and Abby Road, also produced this soundtrack in 1978.
If they had done this as just an album, and not done a film of it, and done it before they recorded "Saturday Night Fever," it might have done a lot better.
It just came at entirely the wrong time, not to mention the reaction to it fed right into their sensitivity about being considered Beatles knock-offs. They'd been labeled that way for their entire early career, and now they have something someone can point to and say "Told ya so?" I think that was why they went after Robert Stigwood with such venom, since he talked them into it.
I went to see this movie as a beegee fan turned into a Beatles fan when the movie is over 😂😂😘😘
@Bill Pao No one said the script was good, the Bee Gees didn't want to do it, it still don't change the fact the Brothers Gibb are far superior vocalists than the Beatles & blow them out of the water at the climax of this song at 2:51 seconds into the song, it should of made the Beatles gringe ! lol
@@spudjohnsonn8122 My wife would agree with you. Robin made a somewhat controversial comment that their versions of the Beatles songs would make fans forget the Beatles ever existed but unfortunately the movie flopped.
I do believe they were better vocalist on some of the original Beatles songs but his comments didn't go down well.
I also think they should've recruited their brother Andy instead of Frampton sinced he basically mimicked Andy.
Now that would've been epic.
@@meninpapin Good insight, I mean "Reaching Out" & "Too Much Heaven" are pure masterpieces that that would make the standard of vocal perfection.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 Exactly.I don't think there are other artists with that complex melodies and vocal arrangements.
Alby Galuten said when Barry multitracked he didn't even use a backing track to harmonize over his vocals like an onion layer but when all his vocals are layered up its 100% perfection.
So accurate were they.
@@meninpapin Pure talent my Friend, they could reproduce their sound live. the only other band I would acknowledge as great vocalists in the top 3 would be "The Association" but there is 6 of them.
“I saw the photograph” is what elevates Lennon, lyrically speaking, above other song writers…
2:51....makes the hair on my neck stand up. The moment you realize there is something greater than us out there.
@Ryan Hunter It's the climax & they blow the Beatles version out of the water !
@@spudjohnsonn8122 get out of town this is good but it can never beat John Lennons voice on this song.
@@wayneschweinfurth5497 You get out of town, lowlife ! Lennon got 5 bullets in his back because he thought they were more popular than Christ, lol Karma's a bitch. Barry Gibb's vocals blow the Satanic Beatles away at there own song ! Lennon sounds like he's on Quaalude's during the climax at 2:51.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 that's why more people know the names Lennon/McCartney rather than Gibb. The Bee Gees are alright, Gibbs voice is definitely unique but The Beatles are head and shoulders above Bee Gees and it's not even close. The amount of good songs The Beatles have are well over 100. They have a back catalog of songs that people can only dream of creating. The music is one thing but then you add the insane amount of influence The Beatles gave to pop culture as well as other musicians makes them greatest band of all time and no other band comes close really. Without The Beatles the Bee Gees wouldn't exist.
@@wayneschweinfurth5497 The Bee Gees were playing music before the Beatles even thought of it, where did you get your information from ? the Bee Gees could play & sing Pop, Rock, Folk, Gospel, & R&B. the Beatles attracted mostly White people, the Gibbs crossed racial barriers. the Gibbs were far superior vocalists by far, you don't have to be intelligent to know that. the Bee Gees wrote 2,500 hundred songs, had the Bee Gees ended up in England 1st, they would of been recognized 1st, I'm sure of it, the Beatles were a bunch of arrogant punks & the Bee Gees a bunch of humble lads. the Brothers were young teenagers here . th-cam.com/video/sCcuKkaaiaU/w-d-xo.html
The best song of all time...
There are more beautiful songs of them. Extraordinarily.
This is my favorite Beatles song. I remember this song playing on the TV a day or so after John Lennon was murdered. It was a sad time in that early December so long ago...
I love this version.
excelente versión, en lo instrumental y vocal.
A good & funny movie.
I think I like this version it feels more I don't know this sounds more calming and easy you know? Maybe not I don't know that's just me
I feel the same way, that this version feels like it has more heart to it compared to the slightly eerie way John did it. Even George Martin said that John's performance was very spine-chilling.
The moment at 2:52 always gives me chills.
I most agree
Me too! It really is the most beautiful musical sound that I’ve heard!
There vocals were so overwhelming, the Beatles at the same point, weak & dull ! Good Insight Chris.
The original was much better recorded but I will say that the Beatles version would've been better served if they did what this one did and double or triple up on the vocals 'Because'-style during the interlude to the third verse
Holy heck 1:48-2:20 - I LIKE.
I can't belive that it's possible... I feel it is better than original... very impresive
rockhero2274
Sorry, that I exaggerated. I mean: not bad remake. Original version is quite chaotic, this version is psychodelic... is little more modern... I enjoy it
The harmonies are a good match for the Beatles songs.
A great memory for me. A great cover of a truly fav song. But come on! The Bee Gees doing A Day In The Life and no one has commented?? Ugh...! It is faithful to the Beatles classic though.
I crank this movie up every Time I watch it I thought it would be pretty cool
2020 to Everyone To Greatest Band That exist
reminiscing, saw this movie when i was a youngster.
I was blown away when I first saw this movie in the theater I seen it in had such and awesome sound system speakers about as big as my bedroom door al around the theater I was in heaven
makes you miss the 60s
LOL this is from 1978
When Rest Of the players die this will be the Anthem for their the music.. Beatles
Beatles SUCK, a bunch of SATANISTS.
Okay Barry killed it.
Better version made by the Bee Gees than the Beatles I'm a fan both of this boys😅😅😅
Brilliant .....
Still love this song.
Fantastic ! 🍅🍅🍉
This was a movie and an album that each deserved about 2,000 times the recognition they got. They were panned hard.
But, one thing that was amusing is where I was, theaters and stores were giving discount prices because of how much people were not into them. And, that was great for all of us that loved, loved, loved them both. We had a family album and some of us had a private one, too Saw the movie many times over a year or so, as the theater owner tried to get their money back. It went "straight to cable" and we watched it there, too. And, all this time later, as an old lady instead of a little girl, I still watch it when I get the chance. It's an awesome movie!
una de las realizaciones más costosas de los Beatles por la cantidad de músicos en escena
EPIC
I got up this morning and as I read the online newspapers, I see that two very bad things happened in a city where I spent most of my teenage years at. First, with three high school football players being injured in a car wreck. Second, a member of someone's family, who I knew from a long time ago is now facing some very serious legal charges in another car wreck that killed one person and injured several others that happened on July 4th. While I am in prayer for the victim's family that lost their loved one for all of those that were injured, I am also preying for the person's family whose family member is now charged in all of this, because they are fixing to go through a legal nightmare and I will stand by them and be there for them in anyway that I can. Mainly because a member of that family just happens to be someone that I loved and cared about a long time ago and still do to this day. Anyway, when I read all of this news this morning, it made me think of this particular version of a song originally written by two members of The Beatles and was originally recorded and released by them on the Sgt. Peppers album back in 1967. But I like Barry Gibb's 1978 rendition better, simply because it was the version I grew up listening to.
Robbie Stewart Sgt Peppers by the Beatles came out in 1967 this movie and soundtrack came out in 1978.
no alarm clock?
my favorite song
I think that the “Sgt. Pepper” soundtrack was the only album they didn’t get the master tapes for when they got their catalog back, and somehow I don’t think they fought too hard for it.
To be fair, this and Mo’s take on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” were probably the best work they did for this album.
Next, let's see the Mona Lisa re-painted by Picasso. Or better yet, stop F-ing with masterpieces.
love the moive srg.peppers.
The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after the Beatles and the Supreme s", selling more records don't mean your better !
Also ABBA and Queen (world wide anyways)
@@kurtmorris454 ABBA was a short lived band, they might of sold a lot of records but that don't mean talent.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 first of all they were very talented, and second of all you're topic is about success and selling records. As far as bands, ABBA and Queen are right behind the Beatles in records sold, and as far as artists, only Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson are ahead as well. But that's world wide, if you're talking US , then you are correct, Neither Queen nor ABBA did as well in the US as they did everywhere else.
@@kurtmorris454 Who cares about ABBA ? they or the Beatles weren't as versatile as the Bee Gees, who could sing R&B, Rock, Folk, Country, Pop & Gospel.
@@spudjohnsonn8122 Once again that is irrelevant o the topic which you posted. You posted which bands sold more then the Bee Gees, I simply told you about 2 others that did as well. What you think about their talent doesn't have anything to do with anything.
Nice. Just it. Nice. I love it. :)
I might try to learn this on my new guitar. Woop
2:52 😢❤
What a great movie.
This version is nice, due to it being the Bee Gees. But the original is one that nobody can hold a candle to. Thinking back, it seems like John had a higher pitched voice in those days.
I challenge you to listen to the All This and WW2 version of this, set to The Longest Day by the way, so D-Day. That makes it more astonishing. I think Frankie Valli sang that one.
“ I read the news today…”
Was that Robin Gibb doing John Lennon's part, and Barry Gibb singing Paul McCartney's?
No it was Barry for both, But all 4 harmonized in the "Ahh" part
I prefer the Bee Gees sing that song ❤
Mariana Teixeira ai vc acordou e levantou da cama ahhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh
@@swiftlehman6639 Go fly a kite little brains, Ha ha ha to your ignorant ass !
has anyone found this song or album on iTunes?
L L The soundtrack was re-released as a double CD a few years ago. I'm not sure if it's still available or if its now out of print. I sent you a PM though YT's messaging system with instructions on how to get it.
Try to imagion alternative history: the Beatels decided to give it to the Bee Gees before recording it. Was it the same?
I've combined The Beatles and Bee Gees versions.
Look for The Beatgees - A Day in the Life.
The vocals are honestly very good on this version, especially the bridge leading to the third verse... but the backing track specifically the drums and the bass and the piano weren't recorded nearly as well as the original and sound like a cheap karaoke rendition
Barry Gibbs 🎼🎶
Show!
You can't reheat a souffle.
Imagine if the Sgt. Pepper weathervane never came to life... Billy would have succeeded in his suicide attempt. The ending of this version of the song made me think of that.
This entire experience of making this movie and the album had to figure into their lawsuit against Sir Robert in the 80's...
Quasi-Interesting and slightly sad bit of trivia: According to Maurice, John Lennon bought him his first alcoholic drink.
A flop of a flick. Disco tainted dispite noteworthy performance by Cooper and Aerosmith. (Earth Wind and Fire damn near steal the show) Then at the end the Bee Gees save the day with a truly wonderful rendition. It literally saves the movie.
👍😘
Will the Bee Gees come back as Supermen?
@Robert Williams
, No but they are super songwriters & vocalists !
This sounds way Better than the Beatles .....
Of course its bee gees..🙂
TH-cam ads ruin s good thing.
2:21 enter most ludicrous Deus Ex Machina ever
I stated in another comment, this version is better than the Beatles.
Backmasking: Demonic Subliminal Messages in Music, A Sundial Curated Playlist, Backmasking: Demonic Subliminal Messages in Music, A Sundial Curated Playlist
Motörhead - “Nightmare/The Dreamtime”
Many people have associated Motörhead’s music with the devil and selling your soul. At first, it is quite a laugh because it is simply music, but when this song is played in reverse you might second guess yourself. Played forwards it sounds like an angered growl but reversed it says, “Now tell me about your miserable little lives. I do not subscribe to your superstitious, narrow-minded flights of paranoia. I and people like me will always prevail! You will never stifle our free speech in any country in the world, ’cause we will fight forever.” When the song was released, Motörhead was going through an intense legal battle with their record company and this was supposedly their message to riot ! The Beatles - “I’m So Tired”
Perhaps one of the most well-known backmasking conspiracy in music history, towards the end of “I’m So Tired” John Lennon is heard speaking some sort of gibberish. But when flipped, some might hear “Paul is a dead man, miss him, miss him, miss him.” This ties into the infamous “Paul is dead” conspiracy. It was theorized that back in 1966 Paul McCartney died in a horrific car crash and the music industry replaced him with a double. Believers of this theory state that the rest of The Beatles snuck clues into their music to tell fans what really happened to McCartney. The Eagles - “Hotel California”
A ’70s classic that pays homage to the twisted side of Hollywood, it is said that this hit might hold a deeper and darker meaning. If you take the time to listen to the opening verse backwards you will hear the words, “Yes, Satan organized his own religion,” or “Satan, he hears this. He had me believe in him.” It might be silly to believe these hidden messages when the band themselves deny these claims, but strangely, you can make out those spooky messages. How could it be unintentional ? Led Zeppelin - “Stairway to Heaven”
The accusations of this timeless classic being a tune dedicated to Satan stems from other things the band has done. For example, guitarist Jimmy Page bought a mansion from the famed Satanist Aleister Crowley, and allegedly, he sold his soul to be successful and achieve fame. If this beloved classic rock track is played backwards you will hear, “Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He will give those with him 666. There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.” Once the band heard this conspiracy they were not amused, because “Stairway to Heaven” was made from their hearts. Page also stated in an interview that he believes slipping hidden messages backwards is not the way to make true music.
Enjoy Satan, he's likes destroying us more than we are already, the Bee Gees are a clean Christian group ! Good luck.
Love the Bee Gee's but this version while it's nice doesn't out do the Beatles. The movie sucked and alot of substandard covers on the soundtrack. Aerosmith and Earth, Wind and Fire covers were so good they were hit singles. Poor Frampton his career faded fast because of this movie and his record label demanding a rushed follow up to Comes Alive.
I just commented before that the singing and vocals are very very good... however, the backing instruments weren't recorded nearly as well as the first version. That final piano chord needed to be much more powerful