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- "In 1967, a brilliant concept album was recorded that shattered the boundaries of song arrangement, and forever changed the art of recorded music. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Maybe Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr created a concept record about an imaginary band. They were in a race with the Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys to create the greatest record ever.. The last cut on their ground-breaking record A Day in the Life was a mind-altering composition inspired by the death of a notorious socialite, and psychedelia. We raise the curtain on this fantastic voyage across the perils of stone cold realism.. and the fantasy of lysergic imagination….NEXT on Professor of Rock."
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It’s Time for Another Edition of #1 in our hearts where we honor a song that should’ve been a #1 hit. This one is a no brainer… It changed everything by the greatest band of their time…
It began with the title “In the Life of..” and evolved into “A Day in the Life,” a track by The Beatles, acclaimed as an avant-garde masterpiece. The impetus of the song came from John Lennon's random perusing of the British newspaper the Daily Mail, when he learned of the death of his friend- Tara Browne- leading to the first line of the song- “I read the news today..oh boy. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the co-authors of “A Day in the Life” knew Browne very well. He was the 21 year old heir of the Guiness fortune, the popular Irish stout beer brand
Browne was a constantly in the tabloids, as a notorious socialite, labeled a “spoiled rich kid” from the swinging London counter-culture of the 60s, who spent lavishly on wild parties. Browne once hired the band the Lovin Spoonful over a thousand pounds to play a private concert- just for him. His most infamous party was the celebration of his 21st birthday, held at his parents manor in the Wicklow Mountains.
Browne paid for private jets to fly all 200 of his guests to the party, including celebrities like Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Paul McCartney- who ended up not being able to attend because The Beatles were recording at Abby Road. It’s been widely documented that Browne was the person that convinced Paul to take LSD for the first time.
Even though John, George, and Ringo had been regularly using LSD, Sir Paul resisted the baiting of his bandmates for a long time, before succumbing to the peer pressure of Tara Browne.
On December 17th, 1966, Browne was driving on the streets of London in his Lotus Elan sports car with his girlfriend, model Suki (sue-kee) Potier. He was reportedly speeding in excess of 100 miles per hour, when he ran a red light and smashed into a parked truck.
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Poll: What is your pick for the most innovative rock album of all time?
Sgt Pepper of course
Also: Dark Side of The Moon
That Sex Pistols one
Led Zeppelin 1
Black Sabbath
Beatles White Album- their first double LP with so many hit songs.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Radiohead: OK computer
1. Sgt. Peppers
2. Days of Futures Passed
Underrated:
S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things
I was 10 yrs old when the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan. 4th grade. I had the Beatles in every chapter of the most formative years of my life. I'm now 70 yrs old. I still get tears in my eyes when I listen to The Lads from Liverpool. Their music is as fresh today as it was 60 years ago. I am humbly grateful that my life overlapped their careers.
I was a couple of years behind you. That day (Sullivan Show) my Dad drove the family to another town to visit an old friend. This guy had two teenage daughters giddy with anticipation over the upcoming show. The parent's talk turned to this crazy thing -- The Beatles. I was aware of them because the girls in my school had lately seemed to lose their minds. I had no idea I was watching history that night.
I was raised in the deep South (Louisiana), during the 70s and 80s. My mother's musical preferences had always been things like Streisand, Tom Jones, etc., and I hadn't been exposed to the Beatles at all, really, until 1985, when I bought Sgt. Peppers on cassette to impress a girl who had mentioned how much she loved the Beatles. I had gone to the mall with her and spent my allowance on the album, only to take it home and forget about it until that weekend when, bored at the time, I decided to at least listen to the thing I'd 'wasted' my allowance on.
From the very first song, my ears perked up, and I was increasingly enthralled by this masterpiece of an album; I'd never heard anything like it before. From the guitars and harmonies of the opening 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', all the way to the end of 'Good Morning, Good Morning', I was utterly amazed.
And then my life was changed forever.
I know it sounds hyperbolic, but hearing 'A Day in the Life' for the first time remains one of the most profoundly impacting moments in my entire lifetime. After the song ended, I just sat there in my chair; I swear that it must have looked like those old advertisements of the guy sitting in a chair with his hair blown back (Boze speakers? I can never remember). I'd never heard something like that before, and it moved me.
After that, I begged borrowed, and cajoled my way into getting my hands on everything I could that the Beatles had done, and everything about them. Albums, pictures, books. They have been a constant companion with me throughout life, enriching and informing my perspective in countless ways. I love all of the Beatles' catalog so much, and at the very top of the list of 'why' is this song.
Every time I listen to 'A Day in the Life', it awakens that feeling -- a mixture of wonder, excitement, sadness and longing -- I had the first time I heard it. In the tapestry of my life, this is the greatest song ever written. Period.
Thank you for putting into words
what many of us - of all ages and
nationalities - feel about The Beatles. They transcended all boundaries . How and and Why ?
There is the mystery......
The Beatles truly were, and still are, on a whole other level in songwriting. Still blows me away to find something new in their music to this day.
Came to this conclusion as well. The breath of good, totally different, songs beggars the mind.
I agree! So wonderful.
For sure.
Whenever people claim that the Rolling Stones were "equal" to the Beatles in influence and in talent, I always remind them that the drummer from the Beatles, a charming fellow who could barely carry a tune and didn't really write music by himself, had a much bigger and more successful solo career than the much lauded front man of the Rolling Stones ever did.
The Stones ARE a great band and if any there is a second place, nobody has stronger claim to it than the Stones, but the gap is unbridgeable.
As a musician and lifelong Beatles fan, they never cease to amaze me. As the years go by, I keep finding more genius as the layers are peeled back on their songs.
Back in 91' when I was in college I took a class called Music In Society. We had a whole section on the Beatles and I remember the first time the teacher played this in class. I sat there just blown away thinking "Why have I never heard this masterpiece?" For months after I listened to it over and over. I think it's one of the greatest songs of all time and I'm so glad I took that class and was introduced to it. Thanks for doing this song.
It’s a classic song. I wonder if there is a “History of Rock and Roll Music” college course somewhere in the US.
Had the same experience in 85 in my first year of college. Took History of Rock and R&B. Was never a huge Beatles fan, they were before my time, but I liked several of their songs but didn’t own any. Prof. played this song in class and had the same reaction. Easily one of the greatest Rock songs of all time!
Yes, but they also did Revolution #9... sometimes the innovation brings elements together into a masterpiece like DITL. Other times it falls on its face. It's not like we didn't listen to R#9, but a lot of times we just hit the return button and flipped the album. The white album has a ton of great music, but it's most innovative track (let's not call it a song) is what has kept it from top rankings... It has more big hits and some favorite album tracks than others.
In college, January 1992, I took a course called "Music of the '60s" (Music 324) and I still have the custom workbook from that class and refer to it regularily. We had 4 albums that were required listening. You could rent them out at the library, but I chose to buy all four (really five) for myself. Dylan's "The Times They Are a Changin;"; Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers"; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bookends" and from the Beatles, either "Sgt. Peppers" or "Abbey Road" - I got both. Of course I knew the Beatles and all the stuff that was on the radio was just the #1 singles. There were no such thing as Album Rock stations back then - heck, the term Classic Rock was brand new as most older rock stations were called "Oldies" and stuck straight to the hits. So, this was the first time I had heard "Sgt. Peppers" in its entirety - and when it got to "A Day In The Life" I was astounded - couldn't believe I hadn't heard it before it was so complete and great. One of the best college classes I ever took that meant diddly squat for my career.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 There is and I took it at the University of Georgia
I saw footage of Paul McCartney in concert where he did "Day In The Life" It was fascinating when they got to the middle section and McCartney does the puffing sound in the song. The WHOLE audience did it for him. Just thought it was a lovely moment of connection spanning 50 something years.
I don’t know about Paul singing John’s main part on A Day in the Life. Must have been cool either way
I could help but think about John not being there…
Sgt Pepper's was and still is a total game changer!! It is my favorite Beatles LP and it's opus "A Day In The Life" is haunting and unforgettable!! Along with "I Am The Walrus," and "Strawberry Fields," The Beatles cemented their place in pop music history with offerings that defy logic!! Thank God!!
The Beatles recorded "Tomorrow Never Knows" just 3 years after they had recorded their first album... and the "Sgt. Pepper" album just 4 years after their first album. Their progression from where they began to where they went in such a short time - is probably the greatest thing about them.
agreed...it was a case of the whole world hanging on to their coat tails and taking the ultimate trip
The part about “I woke up, got out of bed” is just about Paul going to school. His bus stop was just around the corner from his house and he’d always be in a rush to catch it. I visited Liverpool last year and went on a Beatles tour. They played A Day In The Life when we reached Paul’s house. It’s great when you see the places mentioned in their songs and learn the stories behind them. Strawberry Fields is a fascinating one
Thanks.
I relate to that lyric, easily. I rode the bus to school in elementary and 8th grade.
Yeah, and they would always go up the stairs to the top deck of the bus because that's where smoking was allowed.
Yes, that song was an example of how John and Paul would be working on two completely different song ideas, and they just moshed them together.
When I was 10, my sister, Annie, gave me a $10 bill and sent me to the record store to buy the Sgt. Pepper album. She had a friend who worked there who called and said the shipment had just come in.
I got there before the doors opened and was first in line, so I own the distinction of having purchased the first copy of SPLHCB in Brevard, the little NC town I grew up in.
My grandmother had just given me a stereo record player with speakers that could be detached with enough speaker wire to let me set the speakers about 10 feet apart.
Annie put on the record and we listened to it start to finish about 10 times. “A Day In the Life” was indeed a memorable track, but I was too young to appreciate the innovation. I just love listening to the Beatles. I loved the innovative Rubber Soul and Revolver because they were Beatles albums. It was only years later that I listened to all their music with ever-increasing appreciation.
Annie, ironically, died in a car crash about 10 years ago. I asked my brother-in-law if I could have her copy of SPLHCB as a memento, which he kindly obliged. It’s been almost 57 years since that day, but I remember it like it was yesterday.
Thanks again, Adam, for stirring up such happy/bittersweet memories. Your show is the greatest!
Thanks Knight. So sorry about your sister. Thank you for sharing a piece of you life.
That’s a great memory. R.I.P. Annie.
@@ProfessorofRock Thank you for that. With what must be a very busy schedule, I’m so impressed that you take the time to respond to so many comments. You must get hundreds a day. I sure hope our paths cross someday. You are just a great and decent person. Hats off to you and your parents, siblings, extended family, and friends. Clearly they all had a positive impact on your life and you are passing those great traits along.
Sorry ..but "ironic"??
Dear Professor, you have no idea how many times I have watched one of your episodes and then said to myself, “Wow! Simply amazing! This is the Professor’s best episode yet!” Well, you’ve truly outdone yourself this time - and I don’t even know how that is possible! Thanks once again for keeping the best-music-ever-created alive for all of your admiring students!!! 🎸🎹🥁
Wow, thank you!
Perfectly stated!!
This was marvelous.
I was nearly 13 when I first heard A DAY IN THE LIFE.
For those of us who grew up with the Beatles, it's hard to express their meaning and impact on our lives.
Thanks, Professor!
If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Yesterday’ you should, I watched it on Prime, I heard Paul say he sat in the back of a theater to watch it and really liked it (he also said he still has dreams about John, which made me cry…)
I’m 53. I grew up in the 80’s. I enjoyed MTV and the 80’s music that came with it. Honestly .. I never knew I was a Beatles fan until I found this channel. I never realized it!
Just the way your father shared this with you … you shared it with me. I knew the song, but I had never really heard it before. Suddenly it hit me, like a reverie. A memory long gone but found again, seen with an entirely new perspective. The joy I felt! I’ve been on a Beatles binge ever since. Discovering old songs with added new meaning. It’s been like audio nourishment!
Thank you so much Adam! I’ve been going through an extremely difficult time. Lots of loss around me. You’ve helped me keep my footing. Thank you.
This was a time of humanity where the human experience was blossoming. I heard a story about how this album influenced other bands. The Doors were in final edits of their next release. They were literally weeks away from releasing it to the public when I believe it was the keyboardist Ray Manzarek who came bursting into the studio with a copy of this album. I remember him reciting how the entire band, The engineers and everyone sat around the record player, utterly memorized by this bold musical statement by a close competitor. He mentioned that they sat quietly, just absorbing it, turning the record over and playing the second side, once again, in complete silence. And when the record was finished and the last note played, they walked into the studio, threw out the entire album they were working on and started over. The album that came from that was Morrison Hotel. There are many reasons why this album is considered THE greatest album of all time. It wasn’t just the music. It was the vision, The experimentation and the entirely new way of creating music as art and commentary. And the ripples through our society and the world that reverberated from the creation of four lads from Liverpool will live forever on.
Thank you for this video. I can see that you get it. I am very jealous that you remember the first time you heard this song. I don’t. It was lost in the minds of a very young child. But, just like you, I too hear layering and complexity that was never noticed before each and every time I listen to it. And having discussions like this open up even more interesting facets and detail that were p otherwise unseen. So, for that… please keep up the excellent work!
Some of which emerged from the Beatles listening to Pet Sounds
@@Neilsmu some of Pet Sounds emerged from listening to Rubber Soul.
@@budmcnew7763 Some of Rubber Soul emerged from listening to The Beach Boys' "Today!".
And we can go on and on and on and on...
BTW, The Beach Boys started BEFORE The Beatles...
@@enowilson so? As the "Beatles" maybe. But 3/4 of the members started as the Quarrymen in 1957. I don't know when the Beach Boys started.
@@enowilson actually if you did your research, you would have found that the Beatles formed in 1960, the Beach Boys in 1961.
50 years on and the Beatles are still fantastic.
Try 60 years on, plus.
And what a vocal performance by John. It gives me shivers.
John's vocal on the song Rain is also great.
Yes I always think of this as really John's song although Paul's midsection is good too.
I was 14 in the Summer of 1967, growing up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. AM radio ruled the roost…93 KHJ and 1110 KRLA were the Favorites of most my age. There were DJ’s that began playing “A Day in the Life” prior to the release of SGT Pepper. As I recall, they were NOT supposed to be doing that. Anyway, they took requests, and EVERY hour THE SONG was the most requested song! That went on for days. My Dad ,who was a music guy, heard it, and on the DAY the Album was to be officially released, he loaded all of us in the station wagon, drove us to the record store, and bought the Album. We returned home and ALL listened to the entire Album together…as a Family! Dang! Am I grateful I grew up where and when I did! Abby Road was released when I was a Senior in High School. To this day, Abby Road remains my Favorite…but SGT Pepper was the Greatest Album ever because of what 4 guys Created together, along with George Martin on a 4 track recording machine! Changed Rock Music…Forever! IMHO! Bravo!
P.S. Listen to Ringo’s effort on “A Day In The Life!” Average drummer my A$$! 👏👏👏
You've made me proud, Prof. Sgt. Pepper has always been my favorite album, and this song is probably the greatest song composed in the Sixties. It deserves the best, most in-depth and reverential treatment, and you have given it to us. I salute you for it.
George Martin said that chills ran up and down his spine the first time he heard John's voice on A Day in the Life.
The greatest musical act of all time. There have been many greats, but no one can touch the Beatles.
I agree 100%.
I would like to add two words at the end of your first sentence. Those words would be "bar none".
ONE CLASSIC FAIR ENOUGH- But over Thirty-UNBELIEVABLE.
Matter of opinion
@@richardhillier1593 One Billion sales in career.We are still talking about a Group that finished in 1970.
The Beatles will forever be a musical & cultural phenomenon.
The Beatles are the greatest group of all time.
Just went to the Cavern Club in Liverpool a couple of months ago. Wept most of the time there. The solo singer-guitarist was wrapping up his brilliant set and asked if anyone had a request. I yelled out “A Day In The Life,” and he grinned and said “C’mon, man!” but then launched into it and pulled it off brilliantly. I videoed it but it shakes a little as I was by then weeping uncontrollably.
What a great moment. A real highlight in my life.
Thanks for doing this!
Your Bingham-County homeboy, Adam Hansen from Shelley
As incredible as their whole catalog is, there’s something fascinating about the last tracks of The Beatles three acid-influenced albums: Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver, A Day in the Life from Pepper and I am the Walrus from Magical Mystery Tour (the double EP in the UK). Three incredibly unique songs!!
Yep, the Lennon experimental masterworks with Paul, George, Ringo and George Martin collaborating magically to create Beatles alchemy
This is the one song that proved to me how incredible John Lennon and the Beatles are! This is one of the greatest songs ever. Thank you Professor for this video.....
“Strawberry Fields Forever” & “A Day in the Life” in the same sessions. 1967=Peak Psychedelic Lennon
Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is, without a doubt, one of rock's greatest masterpiece albums. The Beatles really took their incredibly creative songwriting to another level with this album. Out of all the great songs from this album, "A Day In The Life" is their most memorable which consistently gets heavy airplay on classic rock radio stations.
Another level for sure. Thanks Stephen.
One of the greatest records of all time. Nothing compares to Sgt. Peppers.
You said it.
And let’s not forget that Sgt Peppers was a direct reply by Paul and John to the challenge presented by Brian Wilson’s brilliant Pet Sounds LP.
@@trajan6927 Almost agree but theres no way Led Zep great as they were are more popular than The Beatles..
As a teen in high school, the Airwaves were pumping a mania ahead of time. No one could buy a copy, as it was sold out everywhere. People would pay exorbitant prices to get a copy. For anyone fortunate to have a copy, we gathered in groups at a friend's house, as we listened to it in the dark while lying on the floor.
For the album that started drug use, we felt already stoned by the music. Radio stations and politicians advocated banning the album.
If you weren't a teen at the time, you have no idea what an experience this was. We were living history without even knowing it !
You've got to admire the Beatles for their daring creativity and bravery to push the envelope and go where other bands would of been too frightened to go. Pioneers!
Totally!
You had me at ‘Beatles’!!! 😊
AWESOME!
A Day In The Life is, without question, Lennon-McCartney's masterwork. The two greatest songwriters of all time at their peak. It's brilliance can't be overstated.
While Pepper isn't my favorite album (That's Revolver), "A Day In The Life" is definitely the peak of Lennon/McCartney's partnership.
Ringo kicks incredible arse on that track too, what a genius performance from a ‘rock drummer.’
The 2 GOAT songwriters? They were great but not the “greatest”. That would be Burt Bacharach (and Brian Wilson).
Lennon and Macca knew it, that’s why the Beatles recorded Baby, It’s You. Burt never made a cover version of the scousers.
And Macca’s favourite song of all time is God Only Knows.
@@enowilson the guy's that Dylan cleans up?
@@Chapps1941 Dylan above Bacharach? HAHAHAHAHA
Only an ignorant would say that.
As certain areas of Twitter are entertaining themselves by calling The Beatles “crap” and the “most overrated” band ever, this video, albeit only scratching the surface, gives an inkling of what a remarkable group they were.
The Beatles, if anything, are underrated.
Thank you for another great lesson, Professor. 🙏🏼✨
No crap! Never under rated! Never taken for granted! God bless the Beatles!!
@@Geezer-yf8hv for real
I say all the time they are underrated. As the years go by, we see more & more how unbelievable it is they recorded their catalog in an 8 year period. Unbelievable!
Thank you for covering this classic song and album, Adam. I would listen to it devoutly as a preteen, and it brings back pleasant memories.
Verycool.
It’s a great song.
A friend had me lie on the floor and put a speaker on either side of my head close to my ears. That is how I first heard Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I was not on drugs at that time. The best album I have ever heard.
The unquestionable talent of the Beatles, are the main reason why their music still survived some 50 plus years later.
Once they retired to the studio, that was when they really began to shine as artists.
Actually it's 60 years on now.
Definitely do an episode on the race between the Beach Boys and The Beatles please. Loved listening to Sgt Pepper growing up. I know The Beatles were huge but this album was what introduced me to what is considered quirky Indie music; music that is different to what everyone else is playing but rips into your soul.
This album definitely started a new era of music.
Absolutely. And so sad the astonishing ‘Smile’ bit the dust before it could be finalised. A worthy (and only) competitor to Sgt Pepper
About that "race", The Beatles clearly won, but there's still a lot of people who don't know Brian Wilson broke down (except if you're a fan and/or have seen the movie "Love & Mercy").
And The Beach Boys' influence is bigger now (listen to Animal Collective) than before, and it's getting bigger and bigger since more people have got to know their songs better so far.
If Brian wouldn't have got insane, he would have finished "SMiLE" and the Music History would have become a much different one... We'll never know.
Anyways, I agree on your proposal - It would be great to watch an episode like that.
You know, the so-called race between the Beatles and the beach boys doesn’t exist anywhere other than in some music nerds heads. The beach boys were never remotely in the same universe as the Beatles, in popularity in sales in influence in anything. And then throw in the fact that the beach boys didn’t play any of their own instruments on the albums, it was all studio musicians lol.
@@jefffawcett "You know, the so-called race between The Beatles and The Beach Boys doesn't exist anywhere other than in some music nerd heads". Do you mean nerds like Brian Wilson or Paul McCartney? Brian has said many many many times in many many many interviews there was actually a race between them to show who made the better record, and Paul has stated many many times kind of the same thing, to the point to say his fave record of all time by anybody is Pet Sounds, and his fave song ever is God Only Knows.
"The Beach Boys were never remotely in the same universe as The Beatles"... Right, The Beatles were playing pop music, and The Beach Boys were playing... pop music. And both bands were influencing each other (Rubber Soul to Pet Sounds, Pet Sounds to Sgt. Peppers). You should listen to current bands like Animal Collective or Fleet Foxes, and then talk. The Beatles sold more records than The Beach Boys, that's true.
"And then throw in the fact that The Beach Boys didn’t play any of their own instruments on the albums"...That is true from albums such as "Today!", I'm not very sure. But it's a fact they used to play in their earliest LPs. They weren't virtuosos (The Wrecking Crew were), but they could play their instruments.
I think you are a little bit biased. Just a little bit.
Yet more great content. You and Beato are deffo the go to guys for all things music. 👏
I can still remember that first time hearing Sgt. Pepper's. I was 10 years old. One of my brothers bought it & immediately brought it home to play it. There were several friends there. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I really believe it changed my mind like a drug. I've never ever felt like that about a song or album. The Beatles were truly one of the major parts of my childhood thus my life. Sometimes I fall in love with another band thinking they are the GOAT but then I listen to the Beatles and remember all the great memories surrounding their music. No doubt. The Beatles are the GOAT. RIP John & George. Long live Paul & Ringo.
Abbey Road. The entire album is incredible, but the medley on the second side is beyond the pale. I've listened to it thousands of times and I'm still blown away every time I hear it.
Yep !! 🇬🇧 👍 !
The Beatles are somehow endlessly fascinating. About five years ago they became my #1 group. Their early, mid, and late periods are all equally impressive.
No question.
They did a lot during those 10 years.
This was a song that brought me to tears for its beauty. That's pretty much all I have to say about it.
I know, it has that effect on me as well.
It’s a really poignant song, we all relate to it.
I was very lucky to have older brothers who had all the Beatles albums. I’m now 48 years old and I still listen to them every day. A Day in the Life is my favourite. I’ve heard it thousands upon thousands of times and I still get goosebumps…especially at the end. A true masterpiece.
That ending is one of the best ever.
I was fortunate enough to be alive when this album dropped and double fortunate to have a hip music teacher in 4th or 5th grade that actually played it for our class and discussing it after. God bless that teacher and the school board that allowed it!
Loved this episode. This album came out the summer between high school and college for me. Went to a party where someone brought the album. I was blown away.
Crazy fact: The Beatles recording career was roughly 359 weeks long and they spent 132 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and 59 weeks topping the Hot 100 singles chart.
I've read those stats before. Mind blowing.
Broken records! 😮
I would argue that when it comes to impact, taking into account length of career, that Buddy Holly is also up there.
@@Alan_Duval
You’d lose that argument. Buddy Holly influenced for sure but his career and life were too short.
@@Frankie5Angels150 Um, that's my point. He was influential, and I would argue that he influenced the Beatles, too, and he did it in no time at all.
His first album was released in November 1957, but he died in February 1959. So his significant influence was achieved in a mere 15 months with three original albums.
The Beatles released Please, Please Me in late March 1963 and they officially dissolved in late December of 1970. So that's 92 months, around six times longer, and with 12 albums.
I'm not suggesting that Holly's overall influence is greater than the Beatles', just that, as a function of the length of the career (and the number of albums) from which that influence is derived, Holly is phenomenal.
When I was in the 10th grade, 1976, we had a beautiful young lady English teacher.
As a sort of class projet, we broke down this song.
One line at a time. Some times debating the meaning of certain phases or words.
I'd pretty much forgot about that time. That's one of the reasons I love your show. Brings back so many memories, in the corner of my mind.
Thanks again Prof.
People can kid themselves that there is a better song out there, but there just isn't. This is as good as it gets!
I shared a day in the life with my oldest son. He then devoured all of The Beatles music, learned to play guitar and has since produced six albums of fine music.
The Beatles are probably the most iconic, influential, and musical geniuses of all time. There have been many bands who have been inspired by them even if they won’t admit it or simply by accident. They have inspired more genres than any other band too.
Zeppelin were
that would be bach. probably every member of the beatles would agree.
Their musical output was mind-blowing, in 7 years they redefined what popular music was and could be. Amazing.
So True! You have the Beatles than you have everybody else. Stupendous show today. Good way to start off the week.
It’s the TRUTH. Adam speaks for all of us.
Pepper as an album was the most transformative on society, and Day in the Life was extraordinary. But the medley from Abbey Road I think is nearly perfect.
Of the songs that ended up on the album, I think A Day in the Life was the first recorded.
Penny Lane & Strawberry Field were the first recorded but ended up as singles and not put on the album.
Now that was a pretty golden thread of song writing and recording.
What if Strawberry and Penny Lane were included in SP?, there will be not doubt as to which is the greatest album of all time.
I was a freshman in high school when the album came out. It didn't arrive in my town until a couple of months later, plus, I was working on our Ranch, so I just had to stick to listening to it whenever it was played by our local radio station. After school finished in '68, I was getting on with the Beatles "White" album, but I always revered listening to it whenever I did. I had never heard the closing before as I was lucky the radio stations would take the time to play the last cord to the end. Then you turned me on to the real end and I have to get the vinyl pressing to be able to do so before I leave this world. Thanks Professor of Rock for the education I received on this great, great song.
The Beatles are the best band ever!!! I have the whole Beatles collection on CD. While my friends were listening to New Kids....I was listening to the Beatles. Sgt Pepper album was pure art. My teenage boys know who the Beatles are and we play the game who is singing lead. Thank you, Professor, for putting out this content, I always learn something new from your videos.
Beatles suck-- most dated band when you listen- so NOT timeless
@@MetalManiac-ex5nu So , you don't like the Beatles. Big deal. They probobly wouldnt like you either
@@MetalManiac-ex5nu when it comes to music you don't know your brass from your oboe. Your opinion is garbage.
@@stevebird9510 he is in a very small minority of people who suffer from having no understanding of great music. You should feel sorry for him.
New Kids were probably a lot of people’s guilty pleasures…
Not just my favorite Beatles song, one of my favorites period. Born in 64, one of the earlier songs I remember as a kid discovering the Beatles
Greatest band ever!! They have a song that will fit every feeling or every mood that you are having.
Without hesitation, Sgt. Peppers is definitely up there with the greatest albums of all time! And A Day in the Life is one of the greatest ways to end an album ever! From the cover art, to the track sequence, to everything in between, it created AOR, and totally re-envisioned what an album could be. What can one say? I still love listening to this album so many years down the road.
Id give credit to three albums for creating AOR, Revolver, Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper, three of the greatest albums ever made
@@andrewft31 Great choices!
Hey Professor, Please consider another equally brilliant concept album from the same period Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed". Terribly underated but a first of it's kind. I'm sure Justin Hayward, Mike Pinder, and John Lodge would enjoy interviewing with you. Thanks!!
Outstanding selection
First album I bought as a kid (8yrs old). Heard that song, brought my portable record player to the kitchen and made my grandmother listen to it!
Though I'm more a fan of their earlier recordings, they had some really good compositions that came later in the 60s- and this is one of them for sure. Love how it slowly draws the listener in.... I see it as one of those deep tracks that, unlike most of today's releases, made albums great.
It was revolutionary.
I think their best period is the late 60s.
Abby Road is my favorite album of all time but A Day In the Life is my favorite song of all time.
"A Day in the Life" is my favorite song by one of my favorite bands. This song had everything the Beatles had to offer: it was melancholy, popish, orchestral, whimsical, mysterious, and, in it's own way, rocked! Such an amazing song!
I spent the entire summer of 1967 listening to Sgt. Peppers over and over again. In 1969, it was Tommy. I don't remember 1968.
Monumental song and album. There was a fascinating Classic Albums segment a few years ago and George Martin and Paul went into detail on the making of Sgt Pepper. The orchestral bridge was also designed to connect John's verse with Paul's bridge, which were in two different keys and timings. It's a must see! Thanks, Adam!
I saw that! Awesome program. Thanks Robster.
I will check out that documentary.
Goosebumps still to this day, this album, this song in particular, launch the GREATEST deja vu for me ever, taking me back to the summer of 67 in the heart of the San Franciscan scene in junior high school, being cruised around in a brand new Camaro with it on the radio on a warm summer day, slipping into a mindful dream state, never felt you needed drugs to listen of feel this song/album, it was a drug in itself, simply amazing and still rocks the mind and raises the bumps all these years later! Dark side of the moon is the close second for my deja vu experience, but having been older, holds a much much different but VERY strong impact on me.
There has never been nor ever shall be a group like the beatles. They are without question the most innovative group of all time.
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In the mid 1980s, someone on the factory floor where I worked had a radio tuned into a local Boston FM rock station, possibly WZLX, and I paused (as one must) before leaving because they were playing "A Day In The Life." As that massive final chord wound down, the DJ slowly brought UP in the mix the sharp, repeated opening chords of "Good Day, Sunshine." The effect, as if "THE Chord" was slowly modulating into something new and different, until the insane cheerfulness of "Good Day, Sunshine" erupted into the air, was both mesmerizing and unforgettable. I'd love to hear that again!
You are correct. There’s no way to compare anyone else to the Beatles. They were in a category of their own. While my mom was a teen in the 60s and loved the early Beatles (she says she didn’t like the psychedelic stuff as much), it was my older brother who really introduced them to me. I was in 6th grade I think. And as I got older, I never understood how my friends didn’t know about the Beatles. I kind of figured everyone did, like it was a requirement lol. It should be, anyway.
They are in a league of their own. It is impossible to deny the Beatles as one of the bands that shaped rock and roll, EVEN when you don’t like them.
Thanks for the story behind this amazing song. Insanely great album and song.
There is no band greater or more prolific than the Beatles. Every single album is full of amazing work. This album was no exception and was without a doubt, as Kurt Cobain once said, a massive progression.
No question. Good insight. thanks Jerry.
I have been a music lover my entire life, I have met and interviewed many of my heros, that’s why I love your channel so much. Even though many or must of the times the stories you tell aren’t new to me, I enjoy them very much and don’t miss any of them. I wanted to tell you this. I do it today just because as today we disagree on The Beatles, I had to write. There’s is no one who could take their spot at the top. Our music history was changed by them. My name is Javier, you have a friend in Colombia.
I say this to every person who criticizes the Beatles: There is no doubt that they transcended rock and roll for the better. That’s all that matters.
@Jerry Oxley....I'll argue and disagree till the day you die and say the Rolling Stones ....they have been going strong for 60 years ...the freaking Beatles didn't do that ...
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 ...that ain't all said that matters ...the Beatles were just a obnoxious boy band the Stones are truly the greatest band ever and still going for 60 years !!!!
You just added an entirely new dimension to this song. Knowing what the "Behind The Scenes" creation of this song was will allow me to appreciate it even more now. Thanks for the insights.
Hello Beatles fans , they were ahead of their time. They were the first rock band to use tape loops , writing songs while in the studio , backwards guitar solos , ect. They also made the first music videos way before MTV was even thought of. Even though I can't picka favorite song I'm sure A Day In The Life is on my short list. Still I to psychedelic rock. Thanks Adam for the information. ✌️🤟
so hard to pick a favorite. They have so many great songs.
The way to listen to "A Day in the Life" is the way it is presented on the album-as a kind of mini-medley. I grew up in St. Louis & KSHE used to always do this (& other local stations copied). When they played "'Sgt Pepper'+'With a Little Help from my Friends'", they also always included "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." The intro-medley to the album. Whenever they played "A Day in the Life" they began it with "Sgt Pepper reprise." - This turns out to be an awesome mini-medley. There's McCartney's hard count, harkening back to "I saw her standing there", then the Reprise which is a heavy-medal, hard rock version of Sgt Pepper, with a driving beat and sung in 4 part harmony (including Ringo, something they rarely did), it then slides from the hard rock driving beat into the mystical beginning of "a Day in the Life", the bridge being a different song entirely. So you get a 3 melody, 4 part medley: "Reprise", "Day in the Life", "Woke Up-Got-out of Bed", then back to "Day in the life" and the crescendo close. That "Reprise" stacked in front of "A Day in the Life" takes listening to that song to another level entirely.
I'm waiting for legislation making it a violation of the law to play "Day-in-the-life" w/out the "Reprise".
I moved to Kirkwood in 1966, my cuz told me about KSHE, and I became an instant FM fan. Loved how they would play entire albums uninterrupted!! I've told many people about that station and described it as the best one ever. Back when FM was commercial free
Even the first pop songs by the Beatles were great. They established a very new structure to writing music. Taking very old school diminished and augmented chords, voicing them in new ways and also having perfect 3 part harmony. Incredible!
Nobody was really sure what to make of this until you shed online light onto. Thanks. You have, indeed, Prof, turned us on to the drama behind the lonely hearts' club collaboration to blow the LP tech into the space age.
The creation Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was an amazing feat. Recording complex music using 4 Track tape recorders, does not require recording all the input signals at one time, it requires planning, compromise and commitment. With just 1 machine, you can bounce 3 tracks to 1 track, then record 2 new tracks and bounce them to 1 track then record 2 more tracks for a total of 7 recorded tracks. You could then transfer those to track 1 of a second machine. The planning comes down to figuring out what needs to be recorded, do you need to plan for stereo or just mono. Compromise comes when you need to use a less than perfect take. Commitment is needed because you can't change your mind if you don't like the drum part the recorded an early part of the session it can't be replaced without starting from scratch. The engineers that worked on Sgt. Pepper's had tape machines that they could synchronize during recordings and the high quality of the machines allowed extra bounces. They also used various splicing techniques to bring different sections of music together. They even joined two performances that had different pitches by fiddling with the tape speeds. 🎸🎤🎧🎻🎻🎺😎
The film that accompanies this track shows a world that hadn't changed much since WW2 or even earlier. The music is knocking on the door of the 21st century.
STILL not a million subs?!?
Come on!
Professor...Your photo and video backed research is excellent, always...thank you
From what I understand, Lennon n McCartney, were working separately on two totally different songs, they couldn't figure out how to finish. They just melded them together, and it was magic.
On May 3rd, 2009 I saw an amazing thing. Let me set the stage: The day before at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Bon Jovi had closed with The Beatles "Twist & Shout". Not to be outdone, Neil Young performed the most accurate rendition of the Beatles "A Day In The Life" I have ever heard. He nailed it. I will never forget hearing the closest thing to the Beatles in my life!
Twist and Shout was a cover originally a hit for the Isley Brothers, not an original Beatles song
This album was one of the greatest albums ever made. I love everything about it. A day in the life was myistafying in every aspect. From how many holes it would take to fill the Albert hall. To the conspiracy theory of Paul's death in a car crash and Billy Shears stepping up and taking Pauls place in the band. Which confused the hell out of me because I thought (way back when) that Billy was Ringo. So many aspects to this song. John and Paul had to of been laughing and crying both when they came up with that song. Thanks for another great one Professor...
How ironic that The Beatles best song wasn't incluided as a single, having scored 21 # 1s, A Day In The Life easily would had made The Beatles have 22 #1s. Superb anailysis of this song Pofessor!!
Sgt Pepper had no singles released neither did the White Album
Last night after supper I put on Sloan's Navy Blues album and my 10 year old girl looked at the cover and listened to the music and asked if it was another Beatles album... I smiled and said "No, it's Sloan, a Canadian band from the 90's but they liked the Beatles a lot!" ...She had caught onto the sound and at a glance the four guys on the cover could be mistaken! Sadly I won't be able to make it to their show in Montreal in two days, but next time I'll try to grab a pair of tickets and bring my girl along!!
Wow!!! This was awesome. Amazing content once again and why are you even asking us if we’d like you to cover THE greatest creative rock music race of all time!???! 👊😎Professor, hell ya we do!!! How many musicians and bands were influenced by these all time greats? Thank you in advance!
Tara Browne’s father was the longest serving member in the house of lords at the time.
Great stuff I never knew that the Guinness heir was the inspiration for that song until now and it’s been my favorite Beatles song for a long time
The term "these guys.. &everybody else" is just an honest and truthful definition of the Beatles
A Day in the Life has always been one of my favorites, though I 've never known the back story. "He blew his mind out in a car", I've always assumed meant someone was out of his mind, intoxicated/high, driving at an insane speed, wrecked and died. Amazing how the choice of words in that one line relayed so much true information.
If you max yer volume on "A Day In The Life" as the last piano chord rings out, you can hear footsteps walking away...
Really? I'll try it.
You can hear someone get up off the piano bench, too…
@@5roundsrapid263 You can!
@@5roundsrapid263 I just listened to it on You Tube, wearing my wireless headphones and it comes in at the 4:50 mark.
I should hear it very closely.
You're so lucky to have a father that turned you on to the music of his day. I remember buying this as a 13 year old, the day after it came out. All of my friends gathered at my house to listen to it on my dads Hi-Fi. We were all blown away. We must have listened to it 4 times...it was an event. Everybody in school was talking about it that week. Truly a changing moment in music!
One more thing. There were two songs that were supposed to be on the album, "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane". EMI wanted a single badly and since those songs were already completed, George Martin gave them to EMI. To the day of his death, George Martin said that he should have put them on the album.
Great video about a great song. A rare error made by the prof. is saying that all sounds had to be made within the confines of 4 tracks - live. But a common technique used back in the day was to mix down 2 or more tracks to a single track, thereby circumventing the 4 track limitation. This process had its own limitations of course (such as lowered quality, inseparability of original tracks, potential synth issues, et.) but was widely used in the industry.
Definitively a masterpiece. Always my favorite Beatles track.
Love this one.
I was at least 7 years old when I first listened all the way through the *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* album of my own volition. I had no concept of hallucinogenic drugs or how they were impacting musicians like the Beatles twenty years earlier. All I knew was that I enjoyed the music strictly for what it was and how it had been completed. Subsequently when I learned about the way all four of them had been taking LSD during the making of the album, I did all that I could to avoid letting it color my enjoyment of the material, realizing they probably might have come to the same position anyway because of a producer and arranger like Sir George Martin. "A Day in the Life" was never an exception. I simply enjoyed it for its brilliance and did not care about its Inception.
The copy we had in our house was dubbed from a compact disc onto an audio cassette tape. It included the weird, looped sound bite at the end of "A Day in the Life", which was originally intended to skip when you finished listening to the LP version, and it made almost no sense to me when I was a child. I was pleased to hear an interview George Martin gave in the 90s explaining it.
Brilliance is exactly right! Thanks Eric.
You can NEVER go wrong with the greatest musical act ever on planet Earth!!!
That right. Thanks Bill.
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Thank you for this fantastic post. I was 14 when Sergeant Pepper came out, and I listened to it endlessly. In the 50+ years since then, I've gone through times where listen to it just as hungrily, and other times where I feel I just don't have the strength to do that, because it overflows with humanity. In a way, I guess that's why I get so pissed off at "youngsters" who call The Beatles overrated, while being so ignorant of history that they don't realize (or want to understand) that The Beatles deeply and fundamentally reshaped the entire landscape of popular music and culture.
I think they might be the best band ever...not just 60's.
In this life you realize you can have anything you want, yet you don't have everything you need. You end up holding overvalue for the things that is the most valuable to you, and that's life itself.
I vote ✔ for that Smile 🙂 vs Sgt. Pepper 👮♂️ video.
Got it!
I don't know if this is the first album I ever listened to as a kid but it is the first album I remember listening to and I remember exactly where I was when I listened to it. I have been listening to The Beatles for well over 50 years and counting now. They are the reason I got into singing and playing guitar and bass. The Beatles will always be my favorite band of all time. The other album I remember playing over and over again as a kid was my mother's Beatles Yesterday And Today. My favorite song of all time is YESTERDAY. I practically wore that part of the record out I replayed the song so many times. I got to see Paul McCartney sing it live 5 times in my lifetime. My second favorite song of all time is Nights In White Satin by The Moody Blues. I remember the week I got to hear McCartney perform Yesterday twice and then later in the week I saw The Moody Blues perform Nights in White Satin. I was in musical heaven that week.
I appreciate your admiration of the Beatles and I agree with you on how great they were. They were the greatest band of all time. As a sidetone. I would say The Bee Gees are probably second.
Yesterday And Today was the first album I ever bought, in 1966, when I was 11 years old. I still have it.
Sgt Pepper is the album that took rock from being pop music to high art.