Ten Interesting Facts About The Beatles I Want You (She's So Heavy)

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  • The Beatles’ I Want You ( She’s So Heavy) on The Abbey Road album is as arresting as it is ensnared in obsessive, intoxicating, and absorbing sensuous tension. With the exception of John Lennon’s musique concrete sound collage that is Revolution 9, I want you is not only the longest song in the entirety of the beatles catalogue, coming in at just under 8 minutes, but exhibits the very loudest single moment on Abbey Road. Lyrics resonating like a mantra from John Lennon, Paul Mccartney's fluttering bass, George and John's wall of electric guitar, And Ringo and Billy Preston's essential groovy cadence, all culminating into a three minute finale that succumbs to the oblivion of white noise and then cuts off abruptly. This is perhaps one of the most experimental approaches to blues we’ve ever seen from the lads from Liverpool or anyone else and today we’re going to show you ten interesting facts about The Beatle’s I want you (She’s so heavy).
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  • @JamesMaharajOfficial
    @JamesMaharajOfficial  3 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    She's so.....
    HEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
    Love you all!!

    • @Sam-fb1nq
      @Sam-fb1nq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey. What about Billy Preston?

    • @hi-jg1lv
      @hi-jg1lv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love this song and honestly I love your channel, thank you for still uploading

    • @thefamily7598
      @thefamily7598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

    • @dsaltmer
      @dsaltmer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can you keep it down a little please? :)

    • @susanjimenez8529
      @susanjimenez8529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What an elite comment

  • @HerveBoisde
    @HerveBoisde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    Paul and John were the perfect ying and yang. When John would get too experimental and abstract, Paul would be there with the pop sensibility. When Paul would get melodious and dainty, John would get gritty and dark. When John would write something about love and beauty, Paul would scream about Helter Skelter. Such a great duo.

    • @donparsons3197
      @donparsons3197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's "yin" and yang

    • @rhinohoudini3320
      @rhinohoudini3320 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@donparsons3197 I like ying and yang better.

    • @PedroAmA
      @PedroAmA ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I guess the experimental side was from Macca

    • @HerveBoisde
      @HerveBoisde ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PedroAmA the band along with George Martin was a perfect laboratory for experimentation

    • @danielbouju1688
      @danielbouju1688 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Yin" Lennon and "Yang" McCartney.

  • @PaintingTako
    @PaintingTako 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    she’s so *insert about 10 seconds of music* HEAVYYYYY

  • @Show_CharlesDawson
    @Show_CharlesDawson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    This song is so haunting but amazing

    • @Show_CharlesDawson
      @Show_CharlesDawson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow this is what I get for being like the only comment in the first hour

    • @raihanavindi9364
      @raihanavindi9364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i thought i was the only who thinks this song is kinda haunting and doom

    • @crisrobles3425
      @crisrobles3425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@raihanavindi9364 Yeah it sounds pretty dark/gothic to me. Maybe it’s Yoko’s spell on Lennon :P

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I Want You (She’s So Heavy) was also the last Beatles song where all four Beatles were together in the recording studio. There were additional Beatles songs worked on and recorded, but it would be the last time all four Beatles were working together as a group.

    • @josephnobile7728
      @josephnobile7728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saved the best2gether4last being just that but does Ringo n Paul reflect on that fact is entirely their knowing lovingly so remain? Only they no that n all of us texting this n that is entertainment their feelings r among themselves deep down inside but they have so many it's hard2say unless we're them ok!

    • @patrickstewart6743
      @patrickstewart6743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i bought a cassette player and abbey road as it came out.
      that swan song was evident.
      i knew it was the last of them.

  • @YouCantUnhearThis
    @YouCantUnhearThis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    From ‘She Loves You’ to ‘I Want You’ in less than a decade...what a career. Great episode and congrats on 100k subs!

    • @evyalley
      @evyalley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Baylor Nelson (Student) yes please! Do that!

    • @JuanLopez-ef5pr
      @JuanLopez-ef5pr ปีที่แล้ว

      6 years..

    • @judemitchell9410
      @judemitchell9410 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      6 years, 1 month, and 3 days to be exact.

    • @judemitchell9410
      @judemitchell9410 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love your channel btw ❤️

    • @parkermudsen1063
      @parkermudsen1063 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or how about I Want To Hold Your Hand to Why Don’t We Do It In The Road in even less time?

  • @ashleighsalinas8526
    @ashleighsalinas8526 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Billy on that organ added a lot to this song, of course it was already great but he made it extra special! It's articulating John and his vocals beautifully, magnifying it in a way. So much soul and raw emotion! Billy's contribution to this song can't be overstated imo

    • @ardenaudreyarji
      @ardenaudreyarji 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was Billy on the OG release of this song? I can’t remember

  • @Will-en3kn
    @Will-en3kn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    This is my favorite song on the Abbey Road album. The guitars, the ending, and especially the bass

    • @nowheregirl1585
      @nowheregirl1585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same!!

    • @jollygrapefruit786
      @jollygrapefruit786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Idk what you mean about the ending man. Every single version I've listened to just cuts abruptly.

    • @Will-en3kn
      @Will-en3kn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@jollygrapefruit786 By the ending I mean how the song just gets heavier and heavier with more and more instruments and that white noise thing

    • @jollygrapefruit786
      @jollygrapefruit786 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Will-en3kn yeah I cannot enjoy the song because of how it just cuts. Like they couldn't even just fade it out? Lazy.

    • @alic-c
      @alic-c 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh the bass 😰

  • @stickman1742
    @stickman1742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Always loved the white noise at the end. Lennon was right on this one. It makes the song much more interesting. It also stops at exactly the right time which I read was at John's choosing. He had a knack.

    • @Superdelphinus
      @Superdelphinus ปีที่แล้ว

      I read that they just got an engineer to cut the tape at a random point at the end? I don’t even think Lennon was there at that point. Either way, it’s a great way to end it!

    • @danielbouju1688
      @danielbouju1688 ปีที่แล้ว

      "You can cut it,if you want it;cut it,cut it,cut it!"That was can you cut it by Geoff Emerick,and now we'd like to do,harj the scissors come".

    • @andrescarrero8152
      @andrescarrero8152 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Superdelphinus nah, John ordered engineer geoff emerick to "cut the tape"! against all conventions

    • @pinkmark4047
      @pinkmark4047 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SuperdelphinusLennon was there and called cut exactly at the length of the final track.

    • @robinfoster7597
      @robinfoster7597 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Superdelphinus John picked the exact point where it finnishes!

  • @andrewpappas9311
    @andrewpappas9311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Definitely one of my favourite Beatles riffs to play, it’s just so badass

    • @kingrobert1st
      @kingrobert1st 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Too right...I play it on a 12 string acoustic! If you have a looper you can build up the final section crescendo and then cut.

  • @wamber2391
    @wamber2391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    the clear pleasure that he just took in going “F***” is honestly me on a daily basis, i respect that.

  • @rome8180
    @rome8180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The same album had "Come Together," which is very complex lyrically. The critics saying John had lost his lyrical touch clearly didn't get it. It's the repetition that makes the song work.

  • @jvblhc
    @jvblhc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What I always loved about I Want You is that it goes on and one, noise piled onto noise, seemingly endlessly, and then there's the abrupt cut. And the the next song - Here Comes The Sun - washes all that tension away with just the first few notes. It's a brand new day!

  • @Bill_Jones.
    @Bill_Jones. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I’ve always loved this song and still do. The louder it’s played the better.

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ... and if the neighbors don't like it, it's *their* fault for getting a house in such a lousy district! 😉

  • @hammondeggsmusic
    @hammondeggsmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    There’s that word again -“heavy”.. Why are things so heavy in the future - is there something wrong with the earth’s gravitational pull?

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      "Hasn't affected me yet!" said a man in the future who is only two feet tall but six feet in diameter.

    • @haeretean9012
      @haeretean9012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Great Scott!!!

    • @lonnietoth5765
      @lonnietoth5765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lonnie D. Toth 10th Legion
      The pull of gravity plus LSD , weed and whatever else John was doing . John's been a naughty boy !

    • @allsystemsgo8678
      @allsystemsgo8678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Runny Marty, it's the Libyans!!!

    • @salmanuel4053
      @salmanuel4053 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It has something to do with the fact that as you approach the speed of light, mass increases.

  • @Nerkin610
    @Nerkin610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    For the first time in forever, I listened to this song earlier today. I got a sudden urge and listened to it on repeat. And now this. I wonder if the universe is trying to tell me something.
    I think the ending is the invention of doom metal. The whole mood of it all screams doom. The repeating haunting melody, the wall of darkly distorted guitar, the increasingly loud white noise etc. It’s incredible that such a thing came out of 1969. Such an experimental twist of the blues genre.

    • @hbarwickjr
      @hbarwickjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your onto something great as the Beatles are. You mentioned universe so if you never heard it, check out the Beatles song Across the Universe by John.

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, Lord Ithkos, the universe is, indeed, trying to tell you something!
      It is saying, " Dude, either use fewer drugs or think less often. These two are incompatible."
      Maybe you should listen...

    • @Nerkin610
      @Nerkin610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Craig Cerny Yeah, cause you definitely seem quite the thinker. I always appreciate an open mind.
      Have a good day!

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lord Ithkos, thanks for your response to my previous message! I wanted to reply to it, but I inadvertantly deleted it instead. Would you please be so kind as to repost your last reply so that I can reply? (This time I'll be more careful and will try not to delete it!)
      Thanks so much!

    • @kemmmer
      @kemmmer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Regarding the ending of the song being the invention of doom as you said - that's what I've always thought too :-D

  • @conradcadorna2316
    @conradcadorna2316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    When I heard this song for the first time, it was the coolest thing that I ever heard with that bluesy, jazzy and very sexy melodic lines that had a touch of romanticism. John was in his element employing a radical and experimental approach to his songwriting with change in the timing that sandwiched parts of his songs with something new unheard before in popular music. His employment of the Epiphone guitar with those P-90 pickups with sounds that just melt like butter as he performed his guitar solo. It was erotica in its execution. John is a pure master of musical and lyrical expression that defies the standards in popular music. He was the one that steered the Beatles to greatness. He may have been the "Nowhere Man" who needed "Help", but he sure convinced nearly everyone that "All You Need is Love".

  • @dravenblackthorn4765
    @dravenblackthorn4765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Wonderful job Mr. Hobbs.
    You're getting heavier and heavier all the time.

    • @NichOlsonSmooth
      @NichOlsonSmooth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He couldn't get no lighter lol

  • @maximus5060
    @maximus5060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    It's the best Beatles song along with A Day In the Life imo

    • @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284
      @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree. Along with revolution and don’t let me down

    • @natalie-cu3to
      @natalie-cu3to 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I feel like no one talks about across the universe, it’s such an underrated and beautiful song.

    • @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284
      @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      natalie . • * . Yea it really is. The version on let it be naked is my favorite

    • @natalie-cu3to
      @natalie-cu3to 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Gage Grossman yeah, I find it better than the Phil Spector version, too. It’s just.. nicer since it’s more acoustic. Same with strawberry fields, it’s an incredible song, but there’s a certain novelty in the acoustic/less edited versions.

    • @elstonngunn4193
      @elstonngunn4193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Their are better but all Beatles songs are great rlly

  • @nateds7326
    @nateds7326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Fun fact: Abbey road was my first beatles album I listened to front to back. Needless to say I was wondering what this prog rock, blues, psychedelic, hard rock masterpiece was doing on a record from a band I was told did corny love songs.
    Seriously though, this song is unimaginably good its debatable if it's even in the Beatles top 10. That's how good they were.

    • @wildcard9724
      @wildcard9724 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dark Side of the Moon is another album that MUST be listened to end to end. I too could not just listen to one song on this album, but I'm sure if I did, it was this one!

    • @bigtime2413
      @bigtime2413 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine too!😁

  • @angelbait5
    @angelbait5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    it’s such a beautiful song, it means so much without even saying that much

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    “If you’re a dog you can hear a lot more” - John Lennon😂😂😂

    • @tomkaplavka8446
      @tomkaplavka8446 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You steal that line from Yogi Berra...not Sexy Sadie.

    • @hbarwickjr
      @hbarwickjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny and profoundly true!

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kind of reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the late, great Groucho Marx: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, would love to have dog ears to discover those hidden frequencies

    • @ludrixte1938
      @ludrixte1938 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      More proof John hated dogs
      “It’s Okay To Leave A Dog In A Hot Car”

  • @HalfassDIY
    @HalfassDIY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Hearing the Beatles as a kid when I was 5 or 6 years old, this song actually scared me at the end.

    • @kingberzerk
      @kingberzerk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was confused by Revolution No9 when I first heard it on tape. My guess was that I maybe might have broken the tape machine. I was 11 or 12.

    • @hbarwickjr
      @hbarwickjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kingberzerk Revolution #9 was likened to like being on an actual acid trip common to the era of that time. Acid heads most likely got it but those who were wise not taking chances taking that drug probably were confused by this, naturally saying.

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Revolution #9 was released, ironically, when I was nine years old. Naturally, it confused the hell out of me, because it is clearly not a song for a nine year-old mind.
      Years later, while I was in my "experimental phase" (yes, kiddies, I'm referring to drugs here) I listened to Revolution #9 a LOT. I remember trying to isolate and decipher each and every little bit of the song, attempting to truly understand "the deeper meaning" of it all.
      Strangely, the one little bit that seemed to me to be the most profound is the part that says, "Every one of us knew that as time went on we'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower."
      Well, now, I am, indeed, a little bit older, and I am, in fact, a little bit slower, as well. (Okay... more than a "little bit" of both!)
      But to this day, it seems to me that all those years ago, The Beatles were trying to warn me that this was gonna happen! Damn! I should have paid their warning more heed! I could have prevented both of these results simply by dying sooner!
      Oops! My bad! Sorry, lads! Sorry, John-o! I promise I'll never do it again! Honest!

    • @kingberzerk
      @kingberzerk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hbarwickjr Ten years later I had these LSD experiences, But confusion was not a bad thing per se for a curious 11-year old that I was. And looking back, I prefer this #9 statement any time over Maxwell's Silver Hammer or Obladi Oblada. And I Want You struck Immediately, even though I was a young boy.

    • @JuannyBoy2023
      @JuannyBoy2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too... I picture a whirlwind or a cosmic tornado

  • @justinpuga3522
    @justinpuga3522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    I wish they had played it live at the rooftop

    • @MichaelTurner856
      @MichaelTurner856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah that whould have been cool as hell

    • @DiegoGonzalez-kh3eb
      @DiegoGonzalez-kh3eb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That would have been insanely awesome to watch

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Impossible! It took them eight months of recording, editing, mixing, re-recording, re-editing, and re-mixing to produce the final version on the album... no way in hell they could have ever played it live, on the rooftop or anywhere else!

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Craig Cerny alright Craig Can’t

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dondamon4669 Nice try, Mr. Bator!

  • @bernardosantos8020
    @bernardosantos8020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    4:18 I love that clip, specially when Paul yells “it’s his own fault for getting a house in such a lousy district”. And the take itself is pretty much gold, and the scream , oh my god!!! it’s so good

  • @georgeguja6155
    @georgeguja6155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    This song has so much
    Blues riffs, elements of proto-punk and metal as well as progressive rock, in 1969 no less, Billy Preston's organ Paul's bass and of course the final 3 minutes
    One of the most original songs from the boys
    Holy, this is probably my favourite of your facts videos while the funny facts to balance out, the information here was outstanding
    I am sorry I am totally wiped so I had to limit myself when it came to the fancy language and choose the most boring words, but hey, simplicity in language is pretty appropriate for the video
    Amazing work

    • @georgeguja6918
      @georgeguja6918 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      From now on I am George Guja this red picture is the old account

  • @bleikrsound6127
    @bleikrsound6127 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    George Martin once said his least favorite Beatles’ recording was ‘She’s So Heavy’.
    He said ‘the boys’ were so angry with each other that it comes through in the recording and was difficult for him to listen to.
    He also said that he felt The Beatles had reached a dead-end at this point.
    As stated, the final work on this song was the last time they were together in the studio.

  • @krycklund
    @krycklund 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One of the greatest endings to a song as far as i'm concerned, it sets such an intense atmosphere.

  • @alecfrawley5819
    @alecfrawley5819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    So glad you made this, such an awesome song

  • @CarlosGonzalez-yv1tg
    @CarlosGonzalez-yv1tg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My favorite song of The Beatles. That 3 min ending is epic.

  • @Jubbable
    @Jubbable ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The different styles of John, Paul and George is what makes The Beatles a great band.

  • @thegreatskinkpriest8104
    @thegreatskinkpriest8104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This song is insanely, ridiculously good.

  • @ericstewart9742
    @ericstewart9742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You could have included that this song was the first to:
    1.) use a massive amount of guitar tracking (8 guitars, if I remember correctly, played by John and George) to create a HUGE sound.
    2.) put to record the first example of heavy Doom Metal. Black Sabbath’s first album came out after Abbey Road.

  • @lilrosebush
    @lilrosebush 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I’m obsessed with this song, can’t explain it but it speaks to my soul

    • @mikeya983
      @mikeya983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same mate, same. It just…………a can’t explain.

  • @GentlemanAmerican
    @GentlemanAmerican 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That three minute finale of this song is my favorite part. Such a dramatic and powerful buildup, that abrupt ending gets you by surprise.

  • @paulcarpenter999
    @paulcarpenter999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    FYI, Mel Torme's last name is pronounced "Tor-Mey". Lennon jokingly used the name "Mel Torment" for himself later.

  • @Greg-ut6ey
    @Greg-ut6ey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The noise after John's scream is "What was that about ?" presumably in response to the scream. Listen closely and you'll hear this.

  • @didimean
    @didimean ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love this song... it's so epic. I really enjoyed the way George Martin combined it with Benefit of Mr Kite on "Love" too. Only problem is how short it is.

  • @somebraveapollo8211
    @somebraveapollo8211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Why are all my favorite Beatles songs solely by John during the last two years of their existence: "Dig a Pony", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Because", "Sun King", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)", "Sexy Sadie", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "I'm So Tired", "Hey Bulldog", "Across the Universe", "Glass Onion", etc.

    • @paulspears715
      @paulspears715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah!, Paul had all the "hits" but John's songs were every bit as good. I heard John was pissed at all the time spent on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", a silly little tune.

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paulspears715 Perhaps John was pissed off about that. And why not? He was perpetually pissed off about something or someone!
      I always wondered, "Dude, seriously, wtf have you got to be so pissed off about? You're rich as hell, more famous than Jesus Christ (according to John), and you never worked a day in your life!" What a smug, egocentric ass munch!
      Sure, he either wrote or co-wrote some truly amazing music and lyrics, and there's no denying that. But to lionize the man or to attempt to elevate him to sainthood is really, REALLY stretching it!
      And so what if Lennon got his pompous little panties in a wad because McCartney spent a little extra time getting one of his songs the way he wanted it? It took The Beatles eight freakin' *months* to finish "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" because *John* kept changing his mind about this or that part, how the song should end, etc.!!!
      So, when I read or hear everybody just gushing about Lennon's "genius of simplicity," I feel compelled to ask, "What is 'simple' about taking *8 months* to write *one* song?"
      Doesn't seem very "simple" to me!

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @James Brice yes John rules the White Album but “Blackbird” and “Helter Skelter” belong there too. And don’t forget George with arguably the best song on the album (again) with “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”. “Long long long” another great one by George there. That said, “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Dear Prudence”, “Julia”, “Sexy Sadie”, “Yer Blues” and “Revolution” are all masterpieces by John from that album. Even the transition from “Revolution 9” to “Good Night” is a brilliant way to close the White album

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @James Brice hmmm i Don’t know this one. Where is that song from??

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @James Brice wow that’s a GREAT song by George! Had never heard it before! Why did they not record “Sour Milk Sea”??? Or did George eventually release it as a solo artist??

  • @epictom3423
    @epictom3423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Epic

  • @danyelaru489
    @danyelaru489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Lennon always was a step ahead of Paul.
    He was the leader.

  • @christopherwitkowski4741
    @christopherwitkowski4741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +457

    Fun fact: she’s not heavy

    • @wewin_inonog
      @wewin_inonog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      No, not at all. ( in cockney Liverpuldian accent)

    • @elstonngunn4193
      @elstonngunn4193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thicc and plump she was

    • @Airestotle09
      @Airestotle09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not physically but mentally she was H E A V Y on all the Beatles members at the time

    • @misterschubert3242
      @misterschubert3242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      She's my brother...

    • @christopherwitkowski4741
      @christopherwitkowski4741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mister Schubert what?

  • @lonelypineapple2923
    @lonelypineapple2923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That was such a clever intro lmao

  • @MrJphelps5
    @MrJphelps5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Never stop making these!! They’re fun to watch and packed with a lot of great info

  • @aaronquist8125
    @aaronquist8125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's hilarious how Paul was upset about the white noise at the end of the track considering that he was the Beatle most interested and actively involved in the avant-garde scene in London during the mid-to-late sixties lol. He was devouring the ideas of John Cage and Stockhausen among countless others in that scene and attending numerous art galleries and parties filled with that crowd, all the while making bizarre tape loops/collages at home and goofy homemade faux radio commercials for fun...but a little white noise on a Beatles track, even after recording the experimental orchestra section for A Day In The Life two years earlier, made him feel uneasy. 😆 Gotta love Paul.

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paul was never avante-garde in his Beatles songs. John was

  • @leowenk4779
    @leowenk4779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    One of Paul’s best bass lines

  • @altoid2971
    @altoid2971 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I always thought that after John's Big Scream, a couple of the guys in the studio or maybe a couple The Beatles themselves we're cheering on an approval.

    • @hbarwickjr
      @hbarwickjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of Lennon's best screams. A lot more lyrics in the song would of messed it up. John's choice of just these few lyrics over and over with one of his best ever guitar riffs made it what it is, fantastic!

    • @fanbladeinstruments
      @fanbladeinstruments 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a pause in the rhythm track and it's paul counting the stop "One, two". This video is the first I've ever heard of a controversy over this bit.

    • @Jah_Rastafari_ORIG
      @Jah_Rastafari_ORIG 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I Want You, Cold Turkey...

  • @urwholefamilydied
    @urwholefamilydied 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I remember being a little sad when I finally got the white album on vinyl, because one of my favorite segues of all time (on the CD of course) is when "i want you" suddenly cuts of, and it goes right into "here comes the sun"... such a dramatic and grating change that's also magical... It thrills me to no end! With the record, I discovered, that's where you flip the disc. Which makes sense actually... that madness would be the last song on that side. And to be fair, it's its own experience that's different. It's nice to take a pause after that crazy song.. get up... flip the disc. Here comes the sun. But the transition on the CD is so ridiculous and cool.

    • @mrsbluesky8415
      @mrsbluesky8415 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s on Abbey Rd not the white album

    • @urwholefamilydied
      @urwholefamilydied ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mrsbluesky8415 ya, weird brain fart mistake. I know both of those albums back to back. And my two favorite albums. Yes, on the CD of Abbey Road, VS the Vinyl of Abbey Road.

  • @brickbrick9953
    @brickbrick9953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Before metal was truly formed...an awesome song from an awesome album

  • @jennywren9068
    @jennywren9068 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh love it. They weren’t little boys anymore. I love the fact that we watched them grow from songs like Love Me Do to I Want You (She’s so Heavy) and Savoy Truffle.

  • @theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909
    @theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It’s a brilliant, powerful track... building and building and building, lyrics be damned. Lennon constantly pushed the envelope of the Beatles.

  • @jalexander2635
    @jalexander2635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    So glad you did this one.

  • @jonathangoodman2636
    @jonathangoodman2636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One music fact of interest: the song is largely in A, B form. "I want you.." is largely in one style and chord progression, while upon hearing the word "Heavy", we enter a new section, always the same, which is based on a ground bass, or passacaglia. This is a classical form that employs a repeated melodic pattern, usually in the bass (here it is "heavily" reinforced with guitars an octave above the bass). This section has some improvising above it as each melodic pattern repeats over and over, and is truly an odd and amazing feature from the Baroque era, here guiding us up and out for the last 3 minutes! I used to teach a college music theory course, and always played the last 3 minutes to demonstrate ground bass.

  • @user-ze6do7kf4e
    @user-ze6do7kf4e 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The second half instrumental conclusion is the most daunting dreary dream state of darkness that is perfection. I wish it was 20 minutes long. My favorite grooving bass playing by Paul from any song and Lennons slightly crackling voice screams his love is uncontainable.

  • @aquamarine99911
    @aquamarine99911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Excellent stuff. I can't believe how much new info I learn from this channel. I always wondered about the organ. It sounded more sophisticated and jazzy and vampy than any of the Beatles could be expected to do. But I didn't know until today that it was Barz .. Billy all along.

  • @CoolidgeFanboy
    @CoolidgeFanboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is my favorite song on Abbey Road.

  • @jeanchristopheperez9574
    @jeanchristopheperez9574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That was truly amazing, thank you so much for making this

  • @obbor4
    @obbor4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It' so funny that, after six years of musical world dominance, that critics, engineers, and sometimes fellow musicians ('Revolution #9' notwithstanding), still thought that they could build a better John Lennon, or get into his head as to what he was after. When you have a genius artist in the room just hand him his brushes, move when he tells you, and wait until the canvas is covered in his choice of colors and patterns. In an album that is as completely musically masterful as Abbey Road is, 'I Want You (She's So Heavy') remain my favorite track to this day. It is both other worldly and right down here on the basic level of human desire and emotion. If you don't feel this way about the love in your own life, you probably aren't with the right person...

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ...and neither is the other person! 😉

    • @brucemarmy8500
      @brucemarmy8500 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hold the phone Plato, John is the perennial trickster; She's so heavy is his way of saying "Can't have sex with my woman, because she is so pregnant!" Sorry to burst a thought bubble you and many here are having.

  • @joshuacabezas8061
    @joshuacabezas8061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The song is actually 14 words since “so” appears in 2 sentences. I love this song so much, and it turned me on to blues rock and is one of my favorite Beatles songs. It’s so simple but so complex.

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joshua, good eye there, mate! I also noticed the repetition of "so" and wondered why it would be counted as two words. But you're right, it's 14 and not 15 words!
      But, as far as the song being "complex," well, I can only say that if a group as directionally diverse and innovative as The Beatles invests eight months to record, mix, re-mix, and re-re-mix a song, as they did with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" then yeah, that song is gonna be complex!
      Still a great song from the greatest band of all time!

  • @garyhunt8067
    @garyhunt8067 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    By far the best track on CD. Brilliant. I class it as the early stages of prog rock.

  • @Kosovar_Chicken
    @Kosovar_Chicken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    So as a super fan I understand there is no more Beatles coming so I have to ration them for the rest of my existence so far I’ve listened to just revolver, Sgt pepper, magical mystery tour and white album in full. I plan to listen to a Beatles album every year on my birthday for the next 7 years.... can’t watch this video but will leave a like 😃☘️

    • @brucemarmy8500
      @brucemarmy8500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rhett, I only share this with respect: if, God forbid, you were hit by a bus next month or next year, would you want your last thought to be "I didn't get to hear all the Beatles Albums!"? Many of the more cryptic songs actually had mundane origins. I could give some back round to several songs of theirs.

    • @aw-h3875
      @aw-h3875 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you mad?

  • @briancunningham3155
    @briancunningham3155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The heaviest chunk of heavy metal granite of The Beatles! Par excellence!

  • @eagle7399
    @eagle7399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought this album in 69 and when I heard this song with head phones blaring it cut off abruptly at the end and scared the shit out of me.

  • @morpher44
    @morpher44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And for this song, Paul was wrong. The white-noise bit is brilliant and for me made "I want you" a go to song during my adolescence. I felt it was extremely romantic because the lover is willing to brave all levels of weather and wind and noise. It is ear-candy that is necessary here in my opinion.

  • @SpaceCattttt
    @SpaceCattttt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It may lyrically be very simple, but musically, it's anything but. I'd argue that it's one of the band's most complex pieces, since it's probably the only time they
    truly embraced both progressive and jazz influences. In fact, the whole thing sounds like "psycho jazz" to me, and it's always been one of John's most interesting songs to me.
    The first time I heard it, I thought there was something wrong with my record player. But then I realized the white noise was deliberate, and since then, it's become the highlight
    of the Abbey Road album for me, because I also love white noise.
    It was a pretty brave song to make for the biggest band in the world. Today, I highly doubt that any big band would be allowed to make their music sound damaged.

  • @franciscobeltran4324
    @franciscobeltran4324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    JOHN LENNON, SIEMPRE FUE EL LÍDER DE LOS BEATLES Y EL MÚSICO MÁS CREATIVO.

  • @MB-en3do
    @MB-en3do 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video. I love the insight into what it could have been like in the studio during the creation of this amazing song

  • @hbarwickjr
    @hbarwickjr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good video, thank you. She's So Heavy is one of my best loved songs by John. Sometimes I've thought it would of been cool to of blended up slowly in the white noise the sound of the ocean from the beach and when the white noise abruptly stops you hear the sound of the waves crashing as they do. However it's all Beatles, the greatest of all bands I had the privilege of growing up with. :)

  • @SolaymanFawaz
    @SolaymanFawaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    actually smiled when I saw this as the first thing on my recommendation

  • @iamtheinserter
    @iamtheinserter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent work. I love hearing about my favourite band, I just can't get enough. Thanks.

  • @kingberzerk
    @kingberzerk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well done, man. Really appreciate the professional attitude of this lecture. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.
    Besides: "Art is an expression of oneself and is subject of the will of the artist. You experience art. You either enjoy it or you don't. But to dismiss it because it doesn't live up to your arbitrarily defined quota of words is asinine, considered a song is composed holistically" was a very interesting line for someone like me, because English is not my native language.

  • @freemagicfun
    @freemagicfun 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was one of the greatest Beatles songs ever. The fact that Paul did not like it is probably why I liked so little of his solo stuff. Paul needed John more than John needed Paul.

  • @ArthurSanford3706
    @ArthurSanford3706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Every teenage boy with a crush has listened to this song at least once

  • @johnpresnell
    @johnpresnell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bravo! What a great choice of song to discuss, and I love your passion for the band!

  • @johnsheehan1640
    @johnsheehan1640 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been really enjoying your videos since I discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Everything you do comes from a place of love and appreciation, and it really shows.

  • @groundscoresteve4964
    @groundscoresteve4964 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THIS video does 'I Want You (She's so Heavy) proud! Good Job! I remember the first time I listened to 'Abbey Road' all the way through (I was in my early 20's then in the late 1980's), and this song suddenly ended. I went over to see if something was wrong with my turn-table!! This is why Beatles albums, and others that were released as L.P.'s need to be listened to on the ANALOG RECORD FORMAT!! L.P.'s had 'SIDES', and that MATTERS!!

  • @AMTLL
    @AMTLL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the guitars are SO GOOD!

  • @frmrchristian303
    @frmrchristian303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man! You create some of the best videos on this entire format! Superb!!!

  • @jesserice1228
    @jesserice1228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this song so much!!!! Such a good hard rock tune

  • @cnau21
    @cnau21 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact, it’s only 14 words! The word “so” was double counted, making this even more impressive. I HATE songs that just repeat the same thing over and over again, but this one is just so… well, heavy, that it works so well!

  • @hw343434
    @hw343434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “You heard what I said Geoff. Cut the Tape!” What a legend John

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Andres C: I'm sorry, but I fail to see how telling a sound engineer - who was being paid by The Beatles to work on the production of the music they'd written and were in the process of recording - how and where to end a song he'd written in any way constitutes John as being a legend!
      Of course, Lennon was a legend! All four of The Beatles were legends, and their entire body of work was legendary, due to the incredible influence that their music had on the world! That much is a given, and is undeniable and irrefutable!
      But how does a *boss* giving an *employee* instructions on how to do his damned *job* make the boss a "legend"??? 🤔
      Dude! My boss, your boss, and everybody else's boss tells us what to do all the fecking time... and I seriously doubt that any of us have ever thought of our boss as a "legend"!!! A legendary ass, perhaps. A legendary pain in the ass, for sure! But can you honestly imagine this scenario?
      BOSS: "Do this."
      EMPLOYEE: "What a legend!"
      I rest my case, Your Honor.

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Craig Cerny jaja the difference is in INSTRUCTIONS! The instructions John gave are legendary. Not because he was the boss, but because of his revolutionary idea of “Cut the Tape”. Nobody had or has ever ended a song like that!!!! Legendary production by John there

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hw343434 Ah... now *that* makes more sense! And honestly, I'd have to agree with you, at least, for the most part.
      I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to call his instructions "legendary," but they were certainly innovative! The truth is that just about everything The Beatles did was new, different, and ahead of its time... expanding horizons, pushing the envelope, cutting edge... in a word: innovative!
      The reason I took issue with your initial comment was that - given the context in which it was written - it appears that you were saying that *John himself* (and not his *instructions* to Geoff) was the "legend." I mean, your post literally said, "What a legend John"... which I believe most people reading your post would reasonably infer to mean that you were saying that *John* was a legend in your opinion simply because he gave Geoff instructions to cut the tape. After all, the only thing a reader of your comments had to go on was what you *wrote* ... and the reader is then tasked to discern what you *meant* by the few words you wrote. Just a bit confusing, ya know?
      Anyway, thank you so much for clarifying what you intended to say... that helps a *LOT* !!! 👍
      And thank you even more for realizing that I was *not* in any way attacking *you* personally or your *right* to express your opinion! I was merely attempting to prompt you just a bit to *explain* your views, which you subsequently did. And for that, I sincerely thank you! 👍
      All the best to you, sir! 😁

    • @hw343434
      @hw343434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craig Cerny Blessings

    • @badczech8485
      @badczech8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hw343434 Thank you, sir! And blessings to *you* , as well! ☮️&♥️

  • @MichaelJohnWillJr
    @MichaelJohnWillJr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude I really like your breakdowns and you’re a really interesting guy. Thank you for bringing this awareness of the Beatles to us

  • @big61al41
    @big61al41 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what a wonderful thing that you can so much joy from a single track recorded more than 50 years ago...

  • @cmeflywva
    @cmeflywva 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I look forward to these videos so much. Thank you!

  • @Mort7an
    @Mort7an 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You work so hard on these, the quality is amazing. Thank you. :)

  • @theunnamedshow1373
    @theunnamedshow1373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favorite song discussed perfectly. A fantastic video again

  • @billbodger4723
    @billbodger4723 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    my favourite songs so simple but so intricate it’s both one and the other brilliant.

  • @jennyhf03
    @jennyhf03 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Thankyou for this, this is amazing.. I really love this song, just yesterday I was rambling to my brother the absolute masterpiece that this song is.. so seeing this made me really happy😄👏👏..

  • @beatledan858
    @beatledan858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a song that has cut right through me for half a century (in a good way). You did it justice. Thank you. ☮️&❤️

  • @sandervdbrink84
    @sandervdbrink84 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My all time favorite Beatles song. Thanks!!!

  • @MagicalMysteryMike
    @MagicalMysteryMike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another interesting and well made video. Cheers!

  • @loganhamilton4129
    @loganhamilton4129 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The way John takes over at the white noise is just his egotistical artist in him, I kinda admire it. The way he talks about the song and it being about yoko he was putting himself there that white noise was an expression and the way it was on there was purposeful. The whole song is a work of art from a tortured artists soul and you can feel it

  • @beatleshomie6954
    @beatleshomie6954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh my god honestly one of my favourites.

  • @jymfysher7704
    @jymfysher7704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When playing this masterpiece I find the one note that sets the tone is the F atop the Dm chord that remains played throughout the whole riff as the vocals sing "She's so heavy"in that eerie Beatle harmony.,over and over.It doesn't seem to belong at first and many musicians fail to include it as it seems unnaturally placed,giving a sense of dis-ease or some kind of impending doom to come.When the white noise(Theoretically all sounds combined)begins it begins to make the listeners mind imagine as it sweeps in intensity creating a movie like collage in the mind and thus a song that begins so simple becomes overwhelming in complexity.

  • @thewalrus8932
    @thewalrus8932 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another EXCELLENT and informative video.Thank you!

  • @howamilooking5952
    @howamilooking5952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really appreciate your attention to detail and still letting go. You are getting better with each video! Love ya!

    • @howamilooking5952
      @howamilooking5952 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's collab. It's me from a long time ago, but the video got me my 15 minutes of Warhol fame. lenn9o9n.bandcamp.com/track/asylum-featuring-eyeway

  • @renemies78
    @renemies78 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of your best videos so far! Loved it. Keep up the great work.

  • @CptChaosGaming
    @CptChaosGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Congrats on reaching 100k! One of, if not the most in depth Beatles channels on TH-cam!

  • @arsheelanwar2065
    @arsheelanwar2065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was waiting for this one, awesome song especially the outro

  • @nervo6321
    @nervo6321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So unique...cant really describe it...but it is a majestic fabulous track...