Yeah. Years ago, I made a folder with every Beatles song in chronological order and it just confirmed to me how these guys led the evolution of rock music. They certainly didn't do it on their own but their success gave record labels the confidence to support others go outside the box.
It's so great! Thanks for being open to this brilliant music that some of us grew up with. It's really cool to witness you discovering it and being excited like we were!
Ringo's drumming on this is utterly, utterly magnificent. Those huge orchestral swoops have often been referred to as 'orchestral orgasms', and they were achieved by asking the full orchestra - over a specified number of bars - to move from the lowest not on their instrument to the highest, which confused the heck out of such formal players! And finally, that massive, massive chord at the end was play by all four Beatles and their roadie, Mal Evans, all thumping one hand each into the piano simultaneously. All in all, one of the most landmark, iconic pieces of music ever recorded.
I remember reading that on the last note, the only way they could get it to stretch out so long was to continually turn up the microphone volume as the sound from the piano damped out so that they could pick up every last second of sound.
Yes, Ringo was a genius on drums. This song, Something, Rain, Come Together. People who dismiss his drumming don't understand music. And anyone who's had a band and tried to cover a Beatles song know that your drummer can never play the part correctly.
My dad bought this album Sgt Pepper when it came out, he played it late at night and it woke me, I came out of bed being a little girl and he said: "Come listen to this, these are the Beatles, this is unprecedented". I will never forget it, and became a huge Beatles fan.
@@savvyplayz3484 I think that is my all time fave of LZ. But to compare the two is like comparing Monet to Van Gogh. Both masterpieces, but very different.
Without Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper, there would be no Pink Floyd, no Moody Blues, no Yes, no King Crimson, no Steppenwolf, and a thousand others. The Beatles literally wrote the road map for for the explosion of R & R. Their genius will be appreciated in 100 years.
Let's not forget Brian Wilson's influence on The Beatles. George Martin, commonly referred to as "The Fifth Beatle", stated in an interview that without Pet Sounds, there would never have been a Sgt. Peppers. But in turn, without Rubber Soul, there wouldn't be a Pet Sounds either. The Beatles and The Beach Boys were serious competitors and, at the same time, were each others muse.
@@bestcongressmoneycanbuy9704 Well... At first, there was a fifth beatle and his name was Stuart Sutcliffe. But he left the band for a girl from Hamburg and died with 22 years in Hamburg. And 2nd... The name of the Beatles manager was Brian Epstein and not Brian Wilson. If I remember well, Brian Wilson was, one of the Beach Boys...
You went a little too far with the namedropping there. Pink Floyd is older than you think and were already around when the Beatles made those records. Pink Floyd was recording at the same place (Abbey Road) and at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt Peppers. February to May 1967.
The original song was John's but he felt it was incomplete. He showed it to Paul who came up with the middle part "Got up, got out of bed..." etc. John also said he wanted "war sounds". He, Paul and George Martin put their heads together and came up with the crescendos. For my money, this is the best Beatles song by far. Two musical geniuses at their creative peak. It changed everything. Popular music was never the same.
It's like two people waking up to different perceptions of the day John serious, then Paul having a different lighthearted perception of his day its beautiful 💖💫💖
I'm going on 75yo: The point is that The Beatles were THE FIRST one day we were listening to Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and Frankie Avalon, the next every aspect of music changed FOREVER!
I think it was Spike Milligan that said that Queen Victoria died in the 1960's. Someone else( I don't remember who) said the old world died somewhere between the end of the "Chatterly" ban and the Beatles first LP. Both early 1960's
That's why Sgt. Pepper's is still the "most important" album of all time, even if (arguably) no longer the "best." Sgt. Pepper gave every band the latitude to do whatever they wanted--there were no more "rules."
"A Day in the Life" is probably the greatest Lennon-McCartney collaboration. John wrote the first section of this (the trippy "I read the news today, oh boyy..."), which is like a dream. Then comes the orchestra crescendo, followed by Paul's part (Woke up! Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head...). This is like the alarm clock waking you up, and now you gotta get your day started. But then when he lights up and "has a smoke," he starts to go into the dream state again, and we return to John singing the final verses, followed by another orchestra crescendo. And finally that huge doom-laden E Major chord struck simultaneously on multiple pianos. The chord seems to go on forever, giving the listeners time to think about what they just heard. Probably the most brilliant piece of music ever created in the 20th Century. Glad you liked it!
I think this is one of the most important songs ever recorded... it broke all the rules and was a dam breaker for modern music. That last note being the hammer.
When I was in high school, in the mid 90's, my modern history teacher did a 3 day seminar on Sgt. Pepper, completely paused the curriculum and taught only this album, for three days straight. That's how cool this whole album is. It was a world of 1sts.
I love when teachers share something they are passionate about like that. To have one student remember that as something important means he accomplished his goal.
I had an English teacher in high school who did the exact same thing when the White album came out. We spent at least a week listening to the songs and reading the lyrics and trying to interpret what they meant to us! Such a cool class. When my parents divorced, my father remarried after a year. She was like 36 yrs old and I was about 13. When he moved her in, she had the Beatles Rubber Soul album! Okay, I determined she was pretty cool at that point! I had a cool stepmom!
What makes him amazing is he's left handed playing a right handed drum kit. Some of the songs they did is difficult for someone playing the same handed drum kit they are because his hands are opposite.
This is a Master Piece Obviously But the Construction of it John Started it Paul Filled the Middle. John Finished it! " This is their Best! RIP John George!! 💔❤
I consider it the top of the mountain, what they had been building towards. Epstein's death threw them for a loop, and while they made more masterpieces, none approached this zenith of their careers.
A Day in the Life is a patchwork of John and Paul's distinctly separate styles of musicianship edited together by George Martin, their producer. They had pieces of snippets of songs that weren't completed and weaved them into a single song. The transitions are brilliant too, and there's a music composition term for it, but at the moment the name of that term escapes me! I hope someone in the comment section knows and remembers what I'm trying to identify. This song also directly inspired Billy Joel to write Scenes from An Italian Restaurant (as well as the movie Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman)
@@richarddefortuna2252 No. It's a very specific composition theory term involving a number of chords. This same composition technique happens in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
@axltyler okay. Interesting. I'll have to ask around, then - I'm a drummer, so never dealt much with advanced compositional theories. Thanks for the info!
Axltyler: The technical term when two songs are combined together is "mashup." Here is an example. It's Elise Trouw (pronounced "troll" from Dutch) doing a "mashup" of a Foo Fighters-Caldwell song... th-cam.com/video/93cIwTZTTiI/w-d-xo.html ♥️Diane, Vancouver,Canada. TuNO15/22 07:19 pm
And this was recorded on a 4 track recorder. It was beyond anything done before. Back then there were no 164 track mixers, no auto tune, no overdubs or samples. This sing was made without any outside input from session musicians. I’m 66 and I lived thru that era. Believe it or not this album and song changed everything about music and paved the way for other talents to experiment and take it further. Gen Z is truly missing something if you’re not listening to the Beatles. I love both your reactions. Fifty years ago it blew us away. Nice to see it still does
You got that right, fellow Baby Boomer! Imagine hearing this off the original radio station release, at the stroke of midnight and this was the final song on the album. The Rob Squad reaction was just as it was then: mind blown! BAM!! Also, kudos must go to the producer of this album, Sir George Martin. The orchestra climb whereby every instrument starts at their lowest note and climbs to their highest note, regardless of the range, in the exact number of bars, was what made the song the legend that it is.
Im 71. I was 11 when i heard my first beatles tune. It was october 1963. I even remember exactly where i was. I think i held my breath the whole song.., i wanna hold your hand. I was so choked up. I remember thinking finally, my music has arrived!. Imagine growing up through your teens to the soundtrack of the beatles. I was nuts for all the wonderful music that followed the beatles, but they remainded my favorite group. I still believe i was born at the best time to enjoy this misic and was able to attend many concerts. I lived in LA. So access wasnt a problem. As i look back, i wouldnt miss it for the world! Yes, born at the right moment.
This song is on their '67 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album put ALL of rock n roll on notice!!! PLEASE take the time to listen to the entire album! 💖
I inherited my older siblings Beatles records. I was 5 and 6 years old and listening to this song in 1969 with them so the Beatles have been the soundtrack to my life. To see young, intelligent and creative people such as yourselves become infatuated with their amazing music makes me smile. Thank you.
Same here, I grew up listening to them because of my older twin brothers (10 yrs older). I remember listening to all their albums with them, also remember seeing Let It Be in the theater with them, I was 7 years old and was in awe. I will never forget that.
Amber, you've correctly identified a major foundation to The Beatles' songwriting. If you look back into it, you'll note that the vast majority of their catalog is credited as written by Lennon/McCartney. When those two lads got together to start writing songs, they often came in with a number of partials they'd been working on alone. They then proceeded to marry the parts into a single song. As far as this song is concerned there is a ton of different aspects you could dissect and analyze. For the entire album this comes the band had begun to push the parameters of what one could put into a song and how to achieve the sounds they heard in their minds. As a result, they were true trailblazers. They not only started using orchestras and string sections, but some of the effects they achieved in recording were groundbreaking. More than that, they were unheard of before, so they, George Martin and the engineers had to invent ways to achieve those effect. Today we've got all kinds of digital technology to create almost any sound you can dream up. We can get a delay that's more than 500msec that sounds like an echo in a huge canyon. They didn't have that available to them. To achieve that, they hooked up two tap machines and ran the tape from one machine to the other. Yet even as they were dreaming up all this "newfangled" tech and sounds, you'll find that some of their compositional acumen is solidly based in music theory that in some instances goes all the way back two centuries. Not bad for four blue collar lads from Liverpool.
Yep, Ringo‘s drumming. Amazing. And the London symphony orchestra was told to start their instruments on their lowest notes and then rise as the conductor guided them upwards to their highest notes. That’s where they got that amazing sound. This song is a masterpiece of the 20th century. I cannot wait for you guys to react to the Abbey Road medley. It is their goodbye.
As someone who was born in 1954 and was 10 years old when The Beatles appeared on American television for the first time, I can confidently say that this band changed my life, changed music and fashion, changed the world. The musical and spiritual journey they went on during those 6 or 7 years from start to finish is unmatched. It is a journey that the world went on with them. After them, nothing was the same. The reason their music still resonates almost 60 years down the road is the pure and actual genius of their art.
100% agree and since I was also born in 1954 and first saw them on Ed Sullivan show, nothing was the same in music again. I feel so blessed to have lived through that era of music and to have been old enough to recognize what had happened. It happens that we were visiting my aunt for dinner that night. She was a single mother raising four children and my parents had us three children. After dinner my oldest girl cousin said she was going to her room to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I can remember asking her who the Beatles were. She was appalled that we didn't know who they were. So us 7 kids gathered around the television set and watched the world of music change in the length of two songs. We were always the cousins who were a little out of the mainstream and my four cousins were part of the popular groups. I doubt we would even have known each other if it weren't for the fact that we were related and they sort of had to be nice to us, LOL! All four of them went on to somewhat tortured lives, succumbing to drug and alcohol addictions. Us three kids navigated our teens and went on to have productive lives. I recently saw my girl cousin after not seeing each other in over 35 years. We had a good laugh about it and she is quite open about her struggles with addiction and has been sober for about 15 years. She didn't remember if she had graduated from high school and I told her that she had. She asked me if I was sure and I showed her her graduation picture in my yearbook. Funny thing, life. The Beatles will always be amongst my favorites. So many memories.
Beautifully put. In my baby book, there was a space to list “Fads” in 1959. My mother put 1. Foreign cars and 2. Rock and roll 🤣🤣🤣 She took me to see A Hard Day’s Night when I was 5…she fell for them just like the rest of America did.
Well said, Mr. McManus. I was a Beatles fan, but "Sgt. Pepper's" absolutely blew my mind and lifted the whole Beatles experience into the stratosphere.
John wrote the first part … and with Paul’s help they finished the song !! They are playing the tape backwards at the end . The greatest band loved by almost everyone ❤️
When the tempo changed so did the singer, John to Paul, then later back to John. And cameos from Mick Jagger, Monkee mike Nesmith, and British singer Donovan among others. And the Beatles couldn't have realized their imaginations without producer George Martin. He was a HUGE part of their sound and success.
It was a wonderful time to be alive on this planet. The 60’s were awesome most of my family were all alive with plenty of time to go on… Everyone had work, everything was cheap and we all got along. The main thing is everyone loved the Beatles and people all had respect for each other.
The video for this song was shot during the orchestral overdub recording session at Abbey Road. The Beatles decided to turn it into a party, invited some famous friends over (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Donovan, Mike Nesmith, and probably others that I missed) - and even some uninvited guests got in for a bit (you can see one girl being physically ejected from the studio). The orchestra player, conducted by George Martin, all wore formal dress and added funny noses and other disguises. As other commenters have noted, the score for the famous "orgasm of sound" was unconventional and required the players to go from the lowest note on their instruments to the highest note in the space of 24 bars (counted out on tape by Beatles roadie Mal Evans). As Jay and Amber just demonstrated with their reaction, 55 years after the fact, the song continues to be the ultimate musical mindf••k, in the best way possible.
thanks for the info on who was in the room saved me a job.although for those who don't know who these people are without their band name mick,keith rolling stones.mike the monkees and donovan solo artist mellow yellow is a famous song of his.
From the greatest album ever, and they left off Strawberry and Penny Lane from the sessions LOL. I can't even imagine where those would have placed in this opera of songs
There is so much to this masterpiece. I'm sure many comments will cover a lot of the facts regarding the song, soooooo, I'll cover... Yes, that was Mick Jagger and Kieth Richard's of the Rolling Stones. Marianne Faithful (Mick's girlfriend at the time & a recording artist), Donavan, George Martin, Mike Nesmith of the Monkees, the art trio known as The Fool, Patti Boyd Harrison and more personalities from the 60's are in this video (film). By the way the song was banned in Britain because the line ..."I'd love to turn you on" and the middle part of the song's ..."I had a smoke, somebody spoke and I went into a dream" because the authorities saw them as drug references. I'm glad you enjoy and value The Beatles.
That final piano chord was achieved by all Beatles at three pianos with George Martin conducting the signal. Total genius recoding engineer Geoff Emmerick pushed the faders UP as the chord faded out - to extend the fade and reveal the incredible texture of the harmonics. This is an astounding piece of work. And this was recorded on a tube-based 4 track with a single bounce down. (No hiss!) - this 4 track bounce down is why ringo’s drums are all on one side. Still - they are close-mic’d - (again Emmerick’s genius - no one had put a mic INDSIDE drums before) - amazing spatial sound on those drums. Near-peak Ringo
ACTUALLY, it was John, Paul, Ringo and Mal Evans (their long time roadie) playing on 3 different pianos, with George Martin (their producer) on a harmonium. The 5 of them playing an E-major chord simultaneously.
To think this masterpiece started out from John reading a story in the local paper about someone from the House of Lords killed in a car accident and another article next to the story about potholes in the street. John, and then Paul picked up ideas for songs from their surroundings and made them into masterpieces. John writing Strawberry Fields and Paul responding with Penny Lane. John writing A Hard Day's Night and Paul responds with Can't Buy Me Love. John writes If I fell and Paul responds with And I love Her. It happens over and over again in their catalog.
I beleive it was the son of member of the House of Lords. His name escapes me now, but he was to be heir to the Guiness fortune. I believe he went through a light and crashed into the back of a lorrie. I understand he swerved at the last second to save his girfriends life.
I had heard that they had 3 songs they couldn’t finish, so then made one song out of them. What rock had anyone lived under to have never heard this? I guess I’m old.
I lived in England when this album was released, and I was a teenager. The Beatles took us all to a place we had never seen musically. You need to realize the whole album of Sgt. Pepper was recorded on a four track recorder, and is without question, remarkable! They set the musical future for my generation! I have played their music for my children, and now play them for my grandchildren! Their music is timeless!
I was yelling at a friend of mine back in the early 90s because his band was complaining about a studio having "only 16 tracks" the Beatles only had 4!
@@BGNOLA Well, that sounds like a stupid, dick move. The Beatles were recording in mono, and by the '90s stereo recordings were were the norm, so, what were you thinking?!
Ooh I was 11 and watched them on Ed Sullivan. To say they changed everything is an understatement. A part of young girls transformed overnight. They were simply wonderful. Still are. I like lots of the older stuff too. Any Time at All is a great one and if you want to hear why Ringo is the master, listen to Rain.
John sings the front and end part of this song….often voted as best Beatle song ever. Paul covers the middle part, introduced by the ringing alarm clock ⏰
Fun fact: The alarm clock was added temporarily to the recording to signal where the "middle eight" should start as they didn't yet know what the middle eight would be. When Paul came up with "Woke up, fell out of bed..." they decided to leave it in.
Sgt. Pepper was the Beatles' transition into psychedelia, and the album reflects that, starting with pretty traditional rock'n'roll, then the song Strawberry Fields itself transitions from regular rock into a very psychedelic feel by the end of the song, and the album just goes from there. A Day in the Life was the final track on the album, and full on surreal.
Another Beatles masterpiece with a similar name (but very different) is "In My Life". Beautiful, evocative, a reflection on love...it made me cry the first time I heard it at the age of 12. It still does, all these years later. Hope you react to it. It's such an emotional, beloved song. 💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙
There are a lot of Beatles songs, this one included, that they never played in concert. They stopped touring because they couldn’t hear themselves because the crowd would just scream over the top of the music so they became just a studio band putting out albums
You can never go wrong with Beatles guys🫶🏽loved it❤️two different songs, one by McCartney one by Lennon meshed together with amazing sounds👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽amazing
For the symphonic part, they gave the musicians instructions to play for a certain amount of measures and gave them the starting and ending notes and told them to do whatever they wanted in between.
This song was placed at the end of Sgt. Pepper album for a good reason. It's no small wonder why that album is considered one of the best of all time. Each song on it is iconic and completely different. With a little help from my friends is a sing song. Lucy in the sky is pschedelic. Within you without you is meditative. She's leaving home is sweeping orchestral. Taken as a whole it is a distinct thought provoking boundary pushing work of art. It's one of the first concept albums. Listening to it you discover what was lost from today's music which is overproduced, under written and without much thought at all. It's also the last Beatles album made while Brian Epstein was alive.
The "Transition" was Paul's contribution to the song---" woke up, fell out of bed... with Paul singing until "I went into a dream", then John takes over and completes the song with his spacial reverie.... John wanted something more and he didn't have enough so Paul gave him the "middle" something he was working on but couldn't finish, ergo the change in beat....The sound genius is the prolonged E at the end that took invention to accomplish.... That's George Martin.....
I think that's unlikely. There are whole genres of music based on drones, where notes are sustained for ages. I bet even the solo Beatles have beaten this one. Well, maybe not Ringo.
10:13 The Beatles became a studio band at that point b/c they've had enough of the touring, and made music that couldn't be replicated in a live performance back then.
Not to mention, IF I FELL, I'LL BE BACK, NO REPLY, DR. ROBERT and HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE. plus all the other songs the RobSquad hasn't heard yet. They are all S -tier songs in my book, with one exception.
many people think this song is the Beatles' masterpiece and it's hard to argue. I love the fact that this song was the final track on Sgt. Pepper's and that final piano decay chord gives you space to process all the amazing things you just heard.
John’s voice is absolutely astonishing . It’s the icing on the Sgt. Pepper Cake right here.....Paul’s middle section of the song sets the tone for Lennon’s return summing up the rest of this masterpiece.......
@@Zebred2001 It's on a soundtrack from a movie done with Peter Frampton back in the late 70s called " Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" its a silly movie but it too is a great soundtrack.
They were no longer doing concerts when Sgt Peppers came along. I remember waiting anxiously for this album to drop and once it did we listened to it around 4-5 times to pick up all the new sounds and techniques. It did not disappoint!!
Sgt Pepper was a monumental masterpiece that many consider the definition of 60s music. A Day in the Life was a conglomeration of two songs, the sad lamenting of John about an acquaintance who died in a car wreck and the middle bit from Paul, a portion of a tune he was working on. At the end you can hear Mal Evans counting out the 24 bars to the end piano chord(s). Cheers....
This song is my favorite of all. But more relevantly, this song shows how critical the Lennon-McCartney collaboration was. The first part is Lennon's work. The part that begins with "Woke up, got out of bed..." is McCartney's addition. You mentioned that it sounded like two songs, and, in a sense, it was. But the two were so tuned into each other that they could write separately, then bring the two parts together to create a whole.
There’s so many Beatles songs that get lost I feel. “There’s a place” is my favorite off their first album. I absolutely love “You can’t do that” they kill that song in every live performance.“Fixing a hole” off Sgt Peppers is great. And Revolver is just amazing
What i can not get my head around is how the Beatles went from. i wanna hold your hand. And. She loves you yeah yeah to something as sublime as this masterpiece in a couple of years
I always find it so fascinating to know younger lister's reactions to these older songs. I was coming up to 16 years old when this album came out. It was a total revalation in terms of the direction they took to contemporary pop/rock music. Personally. I find "A Day in the Life" as one of the greatest pinnacles of their group creativity This feeling is only reinforced by how many times I happen to hear it over the years. It is a magnificent piece of music in this genre. You seem to be lovely people and I am so pleased by your reception of the music. David from London.
Indeed I was same age as you when this came out but living in the US and this song was so different and innovative, nothing before sounded like it. A great time to be alive and experience the Beatle's phenomena first hand as well as the other music of that time!
It's two songs - the first one written and sang by John, the second written and sang by Paul... these geniuses put them together, same theme, 'A Day in the Life'
The most amazing thing about the Beatles is that they are NOT over-rated.
Not if you ask some of the edgelords out there.
They're not always my cup of tea. But I will *always* afford them mad amounts of respect. They've earned it so many times over.
Very well said and very true also! Everyone can not be wrong. Cos basically everyone loves them!
most over rated band in history. George Martin production. Paul And George Were Genius. Lennon was a pathetic loser.
To me Led Zeppelin is the second greatest band. What is the gap between the Beatles and Zep?
"Love me do" was only 5 years away from this song. The evolution of this band is insane.
You got that right.
Yeah. Years ago, I made a folder with every Beatles song in chronological order and it just confirmed to me how these guys led the evolution of rock music. They certainly didn't do it on their own but their success gave record labels the confidence to support others go outside the box.
Evolution? It's called drugs
@@djd2819Madly enough, I made a folder of all their lyrics. Spent a fortune (of my dad's money) on printer ink doing it.
Yep
Love younger generations appreciating The Beatles.
It's so great! Thanks for being open to this brilliant music that some of us grew up with. It's really cool to witness you discovering it and being excited like we were!
Ringo's drumming on this is utterly, utterly magnificent. Those huge orchestral swoops have often been referred to as 'orchestral orgasms', and they were achieved by asking the full orchestra - over a specified number of bars - to move from the lowest not on their instrument to the highest, which confused the heck out of such formal players! And finally, that massive, massive chord at the end was play by all four Beatles and their roadie, Mal Evans, all thumping one hand each into the piano simultaneously. All in all, one of the most landmark, iconic pieces of music ever recorded.
I remember reading that on the last note, the only way they could get it to stretch out so long was to continually turn up the microphone volume as the sound from the piano damped out so that they could pick up every last second of sound.
Yes, Ringo was a genius on drums. This song, Something, Rain, Come Together. People who dismiss his drumming don't understand music. And anyone who's had a band and tried to cover a Beatles song know that your drummer can never play the part correctly.
@@eximusic Ringo is a sorely underrated drummer in my opinion.
You guys are so spot on, this track was truly revolutionary, nothing, and I mean nothing, came before it, everything came after it. ✌️
@@andymageen5308 That is the story of this band, everything came after!!!!!
My dad bought this album Sgt Pepper when it came out, he played it late at night and it woke me, I came out of bed being a little girl and he said: "Come listen to this, these are the Beatles, this is unprecedented". I will never forget it, and became a huge Beatles fan.
Bless your Dad.
Awesome father ❤
“Unprecedented” what a perfect word to describe that album. 👍
This is a beautiful story.❤
Wow, thats an amazing memory to have
Without a doubt, A Day In The Life, is The Beatles EPIC MASTERPIECE!!!
Why do people need to add the word epic to everything? It absolutely does not fit here.
@@gheller2261 Jog on, sourpuss.
@@gheller2261 It's EPIC, that's why.
Totally
@@gheller2261 Its one of the greatest songs written and produced ever that is why it is a epic masterpiece!
This was the last song on Sargent Peppers and is considered the best album closer in the history of rock music. No one has equaled it.
I'll take When The Levee Breaks over this every day.
Exactly!
@@savvyplayz3484 I think that is my all time fave of LZ. But to compare the two is like comparing Monet to Van Gogh. Both masterpieces, but very different.
@@savvyplayz3484 While that may be my favorite last song on an album, 'A Day in the Life' really adds a new layer to the entire Sgt Pepper experience.
I highly recommend you watch the Beatles “Get Back” documentary by Peter Jackson. You can witness their genius as they create the album.
And let’s not forget Ringo’s drumming on this song. It’s perfect
John and Paul: "What do you think of drum solos?"
Ringo: "I hate them"
John and Paul: "He's hired!"
Ringo is the master of feel.
I've been a drummer all my life, and he is still my hero.
Inimatable!
So dope
@sillyagreed. His drums on Something is fantastic
Ringo's drums fit so well, they simply are the mood. How the hell did he do that??
Without Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper, there would be no Pink Floyd, no Moody Blues, no Yes, no King Crimson, no Steppenwolf, and a thousand others. The Beatles literally wrote the road map for for the explosion of R & R. Their genius will be appreciated in 100 years.
that is correct. and also the white album, metal came from helter skelter
Let's not forget Brian Wilson's influence on The Beatles. George Martin, commonly referred to as "The Fifth Beatle", stated in an interview that without Pet Sounds, there would never have been a Sgt. Peppers. But in turn, without Rubber Soul, there wouldn't be a Pet Sounds either. The Beatles and The Beach Boys were serious competitors and, at the same time, were each others muse.
@@bestcongressmoneycanbuy9704 Well... At first, there was a fifth beatle and his name was Stuart Sutcliffe. But he left the band for a girl from Hamburg and died with 22 years in Hamburg. And 2nd... The name of the Beatles manager was Brian Epstein and not Brian Wilson. If I remember well, Brian Wilson was, one of the Beach Boys...
The Beatles coMpletely reinvented popular music. I was lthinking exactly what mark said here.
You went a little too far with the namedropping there. Pink Floyd is older than you think and were already around when the Beatles made those records. Pink Floyd was recording at the same place (Abbey Road) and at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt Peppers. February to May 1967.
Hard to believe this song, 1967, STILL stands up 55 years later! The Beatles work, all in less than 8 years, will never be surpassed!
I was born in 1967. I can remember singing along with my mother before I was 5. Iconic
The original song was John's but he felt it was incomplete. He showed it to Paul who came up with the middle part "Got up, got out of bed..." etc. John also said he wanted "war sounds". He, Paul and George Martin put their heads together and came up with the crescendos. For my money, this is the best Beatles song by far. Two musical geniuses at their creative peak. It changed everything. Popular music was never the same.
It's like two people waking up to different perceptions of the day John serious, then Paul having a different lighthearted perception of his day its beautiful 💖💫💖
Yes- That is an incisive observation. This piece is a never-ending source of enthrallment.
Wish it was 5 minutes longer.
It definitely sounds like John's writing style.
Well said!
I'm going on 75yo: The point is that The Beatles were THE FIRST one day we were listening to Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and Frankie Avalon, the next every aspect of music changed FOREVER!
I think it was Spike Milligan that said that Queen Victoria died in the 1960's. Someone else( I don't remember who) said the old world died somewhere between the end of the "Chatterly" ban and the Beatles first LP.
Both early 1960's
Exactly Correct!!
Can we talk about “next level” for a second… This song revolutionized popular music, without understatement.
Absolutely agreed 💯. I'd argue further that this album revolutionized popular music and influenced everything that would follow.
Surely without overstatement?
I think you meant without "overstatement".
That's why Sgt. Pepper's is still the "most important" album of all time, even if (arguably) no longer the "best." Sgt. Pepper gave every band the latitude to do whatever they wanted--there were no more "rules."
No that was Tomorrow Never Knows
Extra kudos for letting the final note run the full duration. Most reactors would have cut it off. Your respect for the music is admirable.
When they recorded the final piano chord, as the sound decayed they raised the recording faders to maintain the chord as long as possible
that is genuine important comment. KUDOS
Nobody comes close the the Beatles for sheer creativity and mind blowing music. Their music changed the world.
Nice one mate 👍 😊❤
And I suppose the psychedelics helped a bit !!😅
"A Day in the Life" is probably the greatest Lennon-McCartney collaboration. John wrote the first section of this (the trippy "I read the news today, oh boyy..."), which is like a dream. Then comes the orchestra crescendo, followed by Paul's part (Woke up! Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head...). This is like the alarm clock waking you up, and now you gotta get your day started. But then when he lights up and "has a smoke," he starts to go into the dream state again, and we return to John singing the final verses, followed by another orchestra crescendo. And finally that huge doom-laden E Major chord struck simultaneously on multiple pianos. The chord seems to go on forever, giving the listeners time to think about what they just heard. Probably the most brilliant piece of music ever created in the 20th Century. Glad you liked it!
The blend of separate themes contributed by John & Paul --- made A Day In A Life , SURREAL & so powerful .
I think this is one of the most important songs ever recorded... it broke all the rules and was a dam breaker for modern music. That last note being the hammer.
When I was in high school, in the mid 90's, my modern history teacher did a 3 day seminar on Sgt. Pepper, completely paused the curriculum and taught only this album, for three days straight. That's how cool this whole album is.
It was a world of 1sts.
I love when teachers share something they are passionate about like that. To have one student remember that as something important means he accomplished his goal.
I had an English teacher in high school who did the exact same thing when the White album came out. We spent at least a week listening to the songs and reading the lyrics and trying to interpret what they meant to us! Such a cool class. When my parents divorced, my father remarried after a year. She was like 36 yrs old and I was about 13. When he moved her in, she had the Beatles Rubber Soul album! Okay, I determined she was pretty cool at that point! I had a cool stepmom!
Ringo has always been underrated. Great drum fills in this one, as usual.
What makes him amazing is he's left handed playing a right handed drum kit. Some of the songs they did is difficult for someone playing the same handed drum kit they are because his hands are opposite.
Saw Ringo 4 weeks ago in Oklahoma. Sir Paul Dallas 2002.
Ringo ran off the stage about 4 times. I guess when you got to go you got to go.
Ringo was definitely the best drummer for The Beatles.
Ringo's creative drumming in this song is a masterpiece
This is a Master Piece Obviously But the Construction of it John Started it Paul Filled the Middle. John Finished it! " This is their Best! RIP John George!! 💔❤
The Beatles …the best band to ever walk the Earth 🌏
What can I say. They changed my life way back in 1964. Music has never been the same. Long live rock and roll!!!!🤟🤟
Me too, the Ed Sullivan show that they debuted in the USA did it for me, life altering moment.
@@vicprovost2561 same show man lol.
Yep. Then 6 months later my 18 year old half Brother moved to Canada from Liverpool. 🎶
It changed my life at 5 years old that Sunday night.
@@pattyduke3079 I was only six. Ain't it cool.
Of everything they’ve ever done - this is probably the greatest thing they ever did - “tomorrow never knows” included.
I consider it the top of the mountain, what they had been building towards. Epstein's death threw them for a loop, and while they made more masterpieces, none approached this zenith of their careers.
That last chord is the greatest chord in music history.
As is the first chord of A Hard Day's Night.
... never could be any other way ...
A masterpiece that still hits hard 55 years later.
A Day in the Life is a patchwork of John and Paul's distinctly separate styles of musicianship edited together by George Martin, their producer. They had pieces of snippets of songs that weren't completed and weaved them into a single song. The transitions are brilliant too, and there's a music composition term for it, but at the moment the name of that term escapes me! I hope someone in the comment section knows and remembers what I'm trying to identify. This song also directly inspired Billy Joel to write Scenes from An Italian Restaurant (as well as the movie Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman)
Are you thinking of a crescendo?
@@richarddefortuna2252 No. It's a very specific composition theory term involving a number of chords.
This same composition technique happens in Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
@axltyler okay. Interesting. I'll have to ask around, then - I'm a drummer, so never dealt much with advanced compositional theories. Thanks for the info!
@@richarddefortuna2252 A crechendo is a quivering note that ends a song. Yes, this song does end on a crechendo.
Axltyler: The technical term when two songs are combined together is "mashup." Here is an example. It's Elise Trouw (pronounced "troll" from Dutch) doing a "mashup" of a Foo Fighters-Caldwell song...
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♥️Diane, Vancouver,Canada. TuNO15/22 07:19 pm
And this was recorded on a 4 track recorder. It was beyond anything done before. Back then there were no 164 track mixers, no auto tune, no overdubs or samples. This sing was made without any outside input from session musicians. I’m 66 and I lived thru that era. Believe it or not this album and song changed everything about music and paved the way for other talents to experiment and take it further. Gen Z is truly missing something if you’re not listening to the Beatles. I love both your reactions. Fifty years ago it blew us away. Nice to see it still does
You got that right, fellow Baby Boomer! Imagine hearing this off the original radio station release, at the stroke of midnight and this was the final song on the album. The Rob Squad reaction was just as it was then: mind blown! BAM!! Also, kudos must go to the producer of this album, Sir George Martin. The orchestra climb whereby every instrument starts at their lowest note and climbs to their highest note, regardless of the range, in the exact number of bars, was what made the song the legend that it is.
Well...a full symphony orchestra is there.
Amen to that! I remember where I was when I first heard it in elementary school.
I'm 23 and absolutely love the Beatles. I took a college class on the History of Rock Music, and they were a HUGE part of it. Absolutely blew my mind.
George Martin was the Fifth Beatle, a little according to the band themselves. Not Billy Preston.
The most incredible band EVER! four men creating music that will last forever.
Innovators and genius!
And the 2 eldest Beatles were only 27 here 😱
@@eviekelpie1 Actually 26!
@@sexysadie2901 if this was 1967, both John and Ringo were born in 1940, makes them 27. Anyway, they were damn very young
Not only did the Beatles push the boundaries of popular music, they wrote and performed fantastic, timeless music.
Im 71. I was 11 when i heard my first beatles tune. It was october 1963. I even remember exactly where i was. I think i held my breath the whole song.., i wanna hold your hand. I was so choked up. I remember thinking finally, my music has arrived!. Imagine growing up through your teens to the soundtrack of the beatles. I was nuts for all the wonderful music that followed the beatles, but they remainded my favorite group. I still believe i was born at the best time to enjoy this misic and was able to attend many concerts. I lived in LA. So access wasnt a problem. As i look back, i wouldnt miss it for the world! Yes, born at the right moment.
I'm 71 also and I second everything you wrote. The Beatles set the standard for every band that followed them.
Dick Clark said it best when he said, "Your music is the soundtrack of your life".
This song is on their '67 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album put ALL of rock n roll on notice!!! PLEASE take the time to listen to the entire album! 💖
I inherited my older siblings Beatles records. I was 5 and 6 years old and listening to this song in 1969 with them so the Beatles have been the soundtrack to my life. To see young, intelligent and creative people such as yourselves become infatuated with their amazing music makes me smile. Thank you.
Same for me - born in 1961!
Meee toooo...born in 63' ...!!!! Sister born in 1960..!!!
Same here, I grew up listening to them because of my older twin brothers (10 yrs older). I remember listening to all their albums with them, also remember seeing Let It Be in the theater with them, I was 7 years old and was in awe. I will never forget that.
Born in 57 here was Fortunate enough to watch the Beatles evolve into the worlds greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever
Born in 57 here was Fortunate enough to watch the Beatles evolve into the worlds greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever
No band can ever come close to the Beatles 11 albums in 7 years.Amazing!
This song highlights Ringo's drumming... The jazz blend and beat around 5:45 is superior!!
Amber, you've correctly identified a major foundation to The Beatles' songwriting. If you look back into it, you'll note that the vast majority of their catalog is credited as written by Lennon/McCartney. When those two lads got together to start writing songs, they often came in with a number of partials they'd been working on alone. They then proceeded to marry the parts into a single song. As far as this song is concerned there is a ton of different aspects you could dissect and analyze. For the entire album this comes the band had begun to push the parameters of what one could put into a song and how to achieve the sounds they heard in their minds. As a result, they were true trailblazers. They not only started using orchestras and string sections, but some of the effects they achieved in recording were groundbreaking. More than that, they were unheard of before, so they, George Martin and the engineers had to invent ways to achieve those effect. Today we've got all kinds of digital technology to create almost any sound you can dream up. We can get a delay that's more than 500msec that sounds like an echo in a huge canyon. They didn't have that available to them. To achieve that, they hooked up two tap machines and ran the tape from one machine to the other. Yet even as they were dreaming up all this "newfangled" tech and sounds, you'll find that some of their compositional acumen is solidly based in music theory that in some instances goes all the way back two centuries. Not bad for four blue collar lads from Liverpool.
The absolute genius of the Beatles and the Lennon/McCartney dynamic in one song, right here.
Yep, Ringo‘s drumming. Amazing. And the London symphony orchestra was told to start their instruments on their lowest notes and then rise as the conductor guided them upwards to their highest notes. That’s where they got that amazing sound. This song is a masterpiece of the 20th century. I cannot wait for you guys to react to the Abbey Road medley. It is their goodbye.
As someone who was born in 1954 and was 10 years old when The Beatles appeared on American television for the first time, I can confidently say that this band changed my life, changed music and fashion, changed the world. The musical and spiritual journey they went on during those 6 or 7 years from start to finish is unmatched. It is a journey that the world went on with them. After them, nothing was the same. The reason their music still resonates almost 60 years down the road is the pure and actual genius of their art.
well said.
100% agree and since I was also born in 1954 and first saw them on Ed Sullivan show, nothing was the same in music again. I feel so blessed to have lived through that era of music and to have been old enough to recognize what had happened. It happens that we were visiting my aunt for dinner that night. She was a single mother raising four children and my parents had us three children. After dinner my oldest girl cousin said she was going to her room to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I can remember asking her who the Beatles were. She was appalled that we didn't know who they were. So us 7 kids gathered around the television set and watched the world of music change in the length of two songs. We were always the cousins who were a little out of the mainstream and my four cousins were part of the popular groups. I doubt we would even have known each other if it weren't for the fact that we were related and they sort of had to be nice to us, LOL! All four of them went on to somewhat tortured lives, succumbing to drug and alcohol addictions. Us three kids navigated our teens and went on to have productive lives. I recently saw my girl cousin after not seeing each other in over 35 years. We had a good laugh about it and she is quite open about her struggles with addiction and has been sober for about 15 years. She didn't remember if she had graduated from high school and I told her that she had. She asked me if I was sure and I showed her her graduation picture in my yearbook. Funny thing, life. The Beatles will always be amongst my favorites. So many memories.
Beautifully put. In my baby book, there was a space to list “Fads” in 1959. My mother put 1. Foreign cars and 2. Rock and roll 🤣🤣🤣 She took me to see A Hard Day’s Night when I was 5…she fell for them just like the rest of America did.
Born in '54 here as well and yes to all you said. I think of them as MY Beatles.
Well said, Mr. McManus. I was a Beatles fan, but "Sgt. Pepper's" absolutely blew my mind and lifted the whole Beatles experience into the stratosphere.
The two most famous chords in history: the one at the end of this song and the one at the beginning of "Hard Day's Night."
You missed one out . Feedback on I Feel Fine
That’s a note but ye @@davidalexander2607
The chords at the end of this song were used by Apple as the startup sound for the Macintosh computers.
Simply one of the best Beatles songs ever! A masterpiece of lyrics and music.
Listening to the Beatles albums in order is quite rewarding because you can hear their genius flower from one record to the next. It's astonishing.
John wrote the first part … and with Paul’s help they finished the song !! They are playing the tape backwards at the end . The greatest band loved by almost everyone ❤️
Love The Beatles!!! “Long and Winding Road” Is my favorite!!🤘
They NEED to react to Let It Be.
Released in 1970 . One of the few songs that came out in the 70s From the Beatles
When the tempo changed so did the singer, John to Paul, then later back to John. And cameos from Mick Jagger, Monkee mike Nesmith, and British singer Donovan among others. And the Beatles couldn't have realized their imaginations without producer George Martin. He was a HUGE part of their sound and success.
Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull, too.
@@fuchsiaswing8545 PLUS George Martin (their producer, obviously) and PATTIE BOYD HARRISON (GEORGE'S wife)
George Martin was the 5th Beatle
It was a wonderful time to be alive on this planet.
The 60’s were awesome most of my family were all alive with plenty of time to go on…
Everyone had work, everything was cheap and we all got along.
The main thing is everyone loved the Beatles and people all had respect for each other.
I agree. The music was so phenomenal
The video for this song was shot during the orchestral overdub recording session at Abbey Road. The Beatles decided to turn it into a party, invited some famous friends over (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Donovan, Mike Nesmith, and probably others that I missed) - and even some uninvited guests got in for a bit (you can see one girl being physically ejected from the studio). The orchestra player, conducted by George Martin, all wore formal dress and added funny noses and other disguises. As other commenters have noted, the score for the famous "orgasm of sound" was unconventional and required the players to go from the lowest note on their instruments to the highest note in the space of 24 bars (counted out on tape by Beatles roadie Mal Evans). As Jay and Amber just demonstrated with their reaction, 55 years after the fact, the song continues to be the ultimate musical mindf••k, in the best way possible.
thanks for the info on who was in the room saved me a job.although for those who don't know who these people are without their band name mick,keith rolling stones.mike the monkees and donovan solo artist mellow yellow is a famous song of his.
Marianne Faithfull is there as well.
Freaking Goosebumps hearing this. Masterpiece
greatest band to ever walk the earth
This is in my opinion, the greatest song ever recorded....This is them at the peak of their game. A complete cohesive unit
Doesn’t get any better than this song 🙋🏻♀️
The greatest song ever recorded to me is The Great Gig in the Sky. It caught lightning in a bottle.
@@vincentschmitt7597 Yeah, this song is widely considered the greatest song of all time. No offense to Floyd,Gig is a Masterpiece in it's own right
From the greatest album ever, and they left off Strawberry and Penny Lane from the sessions LOL. I can't even imagine where those would have placed in this opera of songs
It’s fantastic. Zero argument from me.🖖🏼
There is so much to this masterpiece. I'm sure many comments will cover a lot of the facts regarding the song, soooooo, I'll cover... Yes, that was Mick Jagger and Kieth Richard's of the Rolling Stones. Marianne Faithful (Mick's girlfriend at the time & a recording artist), Donavan, George Martin, Mike Nesmith of the Monkees, the art trio known as The Fool, Patti Boyd Harrison and more personalities from the 60's are in this video (film). By the way the song was banned in Britain because the line ..."I'd love to turn you on" and the middle part of the song's ..."I had a smoke, somebody spoke and I went into a dream" because the authorities saw them as drug references. I'm glad you enjoy and value The Beatles.
Those drum fills are amazing.
The Beatles showed that the sky is the limit when it came to expressing musical ideas.
That final piano chord was achieved by all Beatles at three pianos with George Martin conducting the signal. Total genius recoding engineer Geoff Emmerick pushed the faders UP as the chord faded out - to extend the fade and reveal the incredible texture of the harmonics. This is an astounding piece of work.
And this was recorded on a tube-based 4 track with a single bounce down. (No hiss!) - this 4 track bounce down is why ringo’s drums are all on one side. Still - they are close-mic’d - (again Emmerick’s genius - no one had put a mic INDSIDE drums before) - amazing spatial sound on those drums. Near-peak Ringo
ACTUALLY, it was John, Paul, Ringo and Mal Evans (their long time roadie) playing on 3 different pianos, with George Martin (their producer) on a harmonium. The 5 of them playing an E-major chord simultaneously.
@@patticrichton1135 George Martin on a harmonium? I had never heard of that. Amazing.
To think this masterpiece started out from John reading a story in the local paper about someone from the House of Lords killed in a car accident and another article next to the story about potholes in the street. John, and then Paul picked up ideas for songs from their surroundings and made them into masterpieces. John writing Strawberry Fields and Paul responding with Penny Lane. John writing A Hard Day's Night and Paul responds with Can't Buy Me Love. John writes If I fell and Paul responds with And I love Her. It happens over and over again in their catalog.
I beleive it was the son of member of the House of Lords. His name escapes me now, but he was to be heir to the Guiness fortune. I believe he went through a light and crashed into the back of a lorrie. I understand he swerved at the last second to save his girfriends life.
Name was Tara Brown who was an heir to the Guinness fortune, who died in an single automobile accident ..
Yes Tara Browne Paul was friendly with him.
This is the apex of the Beatles catalogue. The perfect marriage of their individual styles into a perfect song. The best song they did.
The best song they did... that's a difficult choice as there are so many contenders.
Agree 100%.
I had heard that they had 3 songs they couldn’t finish, so then made one song out of them. What rock had anyone lived under to have never heard this? I guess I’m old.
Yes I agree.
@@gregorymoore2877 I'd put "In My Life" up there..
You nailed it, exactly right. Pushed the boundaries in every direction
I lived in England when this album was released, and I was a teenager. The Beatles took us all to a place we had never seen musically. You need to realize the whole album of Sgt. Pepper was recorded on a four track recorder, and is without question, remarkable! They set the musical future for my generation! I have played their music for my children, and now play them for my grandchildren! Their music is timeless!
I was yelling at a friend of mine back in the early 90s because his band was complaining about a studio having "only 16 tracks" the Beatles only had 4!
@@BGNOLA Well, that sounds like a stupid, dick move. The Beatles were recording in mono, and by the '90s stereo recordings were were the norm, so, what were you thinking?!
@@rollomaughfling380 they turned down a record deal because of it; what were THEY thinking?
I was also living in England when this was released and it stunned us.
Ooh I was 11 and watched them on Ed Sullivan. To say they changed everything is an understatement. A part of young girls transformed overnight. They were simply wonderful. Still are. I like lots of the older stuff too. Any Time at All is a great one and if you want to hear why Ringo is the master, listen to Rain.
John sings the front and end part of this song….often voted as best Beatle song ever.
Paul covers the middle part, introduced by the ringing alarm clock ⏰
Fun fact: The alarm clock was added temporarily to the recording to signal where the "middle eight" should start as they didn't yet know what the middle eight would be. When Paul came up with "Woke up, fell out of bed..." they decided to leave it in.
Sgt. Pepper was the Beatles' transition into psychedelia, and the album reflects that, starting with pretty traditional rock'n'roll, then the song Strawberry Fields itself transitions from regular rock into a very psychedelic feel by the end of the song, and the album just goes from there. A Day in the Life was the final track on the album, and full on surreal.
This song is a masterpiece.
Another Beatles masterpiece with a similar name (but very different) is "In My Life". Beautiful, evocative, a reflection on love...it made me cry the first time I heard it at the age of 12. It still does, all these years later.
Hope you react to it. It's such an emotional, beloved song.
💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙☮💙
There are a lot of Beatles songs, this one included, that they never played in concert. They stopped touring because they couldn’t hear themselves because the crowd would just scream over the top of the music so they became just a studio band putting out albums
You can never go wrong with Beatles guys🫶🏽loved it❤️two different songs, one by McCartney one by Lennon meshed together with amazing sounds👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽amazing
Its one song.
@@brianmcmaster5112 it is now, it wasn’t to begin with
This song is a masterpiece among masterpieces.
absolutely my fav song by the Beatles!!
This is considered their MASTERPIECE
Revolution in the Head?
My all time favorite Beatles song. It has so many flavors.
Can never get enough Beatles songs.
For the symphonic part, they gave the musicians instructions to play for a certain amount of measures and gave them the starting and ending notes and told them to do whatever they wanted in between.
Probably the longest sustained chord ever recorded lol
Yes yes yes. An amazing song that always comes first to mind when I think of their brilliance.
This song was placed at the end of Sgt. Pepper album for a good reason. It's no small wonder why that album is considered one of the best of all time. Each song on it is iconic and completely different. With a little help from my friends is a sing song. Lucy in the sky is pschedelic. Within you without you is meditative. She's leaving home is sweeping orchestral. Taken as a whole it is a distinct thought provoking boundary pushing work of art. It's one of the first concept albums. Listening to it you discover what was lost from today's music which is overproduced, under written and without much thought at all. It's also the last Beatles album made while Brian Epstein was alive.
The "Transition" was Paul's contribution to the song---" woke up, fell out of bed... with Paul singing until "I went into a dream", then John takes over and completes the song with his spacial reverie.... John wanted something more and he didn't have enough so Paul gave him the "middle" something he was working on but couldn't finish, ergo the change in beat....The sound genius is the prolonged E at the end that took invention to accomplish.... That's George Martin.....
That very last piano chord is still the longest sustained note in Music Recording History! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
I think that's unlikely. There are whole genres of music based on drones, where notes are sustained for ages. I bet even the solo Beatles have beaten this one. Well, maybe not Ringo.
10:13 The Beatles became a studio band at that point b/c they've had enough of the touring, and made music that couldn't be replicated in a live performance back then.
Gotta love those lyrics too. And the melody and singing for the slower verses is amazing.
To think that this song was released 55 years ago! It must have totally blown people away, as it still does today. True musical geniuses.
It did and still does
Some say the greatest rock song of all time.
The manager of the Hollies was present at the recording. When he left, someone asked him what did you think? His response: "I give up."
Great comment. Pete Townsend actually admitted that he was totally intimidated by The Beatles genius.
As a fellow musician friend said, "I don't know whether to go home and practice or throw my instrument away". Talk about raising the bar!
Ha, lovd that. Proper order
You guys gotta check out some of their earlier tracks:
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- A Hard Days Night
- Please Please Me
"I Saw Her Standing There" is the best if the early Beatles. Such a fun song.
Um . . . I Wanna Hold Your Hand . . .
… and She Loves You!
@@davidspalten1304 Who's Hand? (sorry David, I couldn't resist)
Not to mention, IF I FELL, I'LL BE BACK, NO REPLY, DR. ROBERT and HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE. plus all the other songs the RobSquad hasn't heard yet. They are all S -tier songs in my book, with one exception.
many people think this song is the Beatles' masterpiece and it's hard to argue. I love the fact that this song was the final track on Sgt. Pepper's and that final piano decay chord gives you space to process all the amazing things you just heard.
and . . . the nonsense john lennon decided to put on the vinyl end groove -- destroyed the out-of-body experience of the massive piano chord fade.
John’s voice is absolutely astonishing . It’s the icing on the Sgt. Pepper Cake right here.....Paul’s middle section of the song sets the tone for Lennon’s return summing up the rest of this masterpiece.......
His voice was not epic. Nobody's voice is epic. That's not what the word epic means.
This song gives me chills every time I hear it, just pure genius
My all-time favorite Beatles song!
Have you heard the Bee Gees cover of this ? It's amazing.
@@mikeortiz6008 Thanks! I'm gonna check that out!
@@Zebred2001 It's on a soundtrack from a movie done with Peter Frampton back in the late 70s called " Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" its a silly movie but it too is a great soundtrack.
@@mikeortiz6008 The funny thing I did see that awful movie! I guess I forgot it. I will give a listen (again) to the Bee Gees' cover. Thanks.
Even the last 30 seconds of the sustain on that last chord fading to silence is just phenomenal .
They were no longer doing concerts when Sgt Peppers came along. I remember waiting anxiously for this album to drop and once it did we listened to it around 4-5 times to pick up all the new sounds and techniques. It did not disappoint!!
In the midst of this greatest of songs is Ringo’s drumming which is key. No other drummer would have done what he did and he holds the song together.
by far the best band ever
Sgt Pepper was a monumental masterpiece that many consider the definition of 60s music. A Day in the Life was a conglomeration of two songs, the sad lamenting of John about an acquaintance who died in a car wreck and the middle bit from Paul, a portion of a tune he was working on. At the end you can hear Mal Evans counting out the 24 bars to the end piano chord(s). Cheers....
This song is my favorite of all. But more relevantly, this song shows how critical the Lennon-McCartney collaboration was. The first part is Lennon's work. The part that begins with "Woke up, got out of bed..." is McCartney's addition. You mentioned that it sounded like two songs, and, in a sense, it was. But the two were so tuned into each other that they could write separately, then bring the two parts together to create a whole.
they did so much - amazingly none of the Beatles was even 30 years old when the band broke up, that just blows my mind
One of the biggest differences between the Beatles and other bands was the way they explored different sounds and chords.
The greatest abstract piece of music of the 20th century
I haven’t even finished watching the video and I’m commenting. You see, this is my all time favorite song. 🙌🏼 such a massively creative song.
There’s so many Beatles songs that get lost I feel. “There’s a place” is my favorite off their first album. I absolutely love “You can’t do that” they kill that song in every live performance.“Fixing a hole” off Sgt Peppers is great. And Revolver is just amazing
@Scalisque, oh I LOVE "THERE'S A PLACE" TOO
This can be a very long list ... they didn't create anything but masterpieces.
Gosh I love the guitar sound under "Silly people run around..."
@@triggerwarning5762 that sounds like what 70s rock would be like. Just crazy how far ahead they were with their music
What i can not get my head around is how the Beatles went from. i wanna hold your hand. And. She loves you yeah yeah to something as sublime as this masterpiece in a couple of years
This is widely considered one of the greatest songs of All Time! Enjoy. Its EPIC.
I always find it so fascinating to know younger lister's reactions to these older songs. I was coming up to 16 years old when this album came out. It was a total revalation in terms of the direction they took to contemporary pop/rock music. Personally. I find "A Day in the Life" as one of the greatest pinnacles of their group creativity This feeling is only reinforced by how many times I happen to hear it over the years. It is a magnificent piece of music in this genre. You seem to be lovely people and I am so pleased by your reception of the music. David from London.
Indeed I was same age as you when this came out but living in the US and this song was so different and innovative, nothing before sounded like it. A great time to be alive and experience the Beatle's phenomena first hand as well as the other music of that time!
@@steveullrich7737 you are so right. thanks for responding. d
It's two songs - the first one written and sang by John, the second written and sang by Paul... these geniuses put them together, same theme, 'A Day in the Life'
Ringo's drumming is sublime
They still pave the path, they're all influenced by The Beatles