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Watching Get Back I noticed how John and Paul sought each others approval. One would crack a joke and then look at the other for a giggly response. They were still really kids in many ways. I cannot easily put my finger on why The Beatles were so special, but they definitely were.

I wish I could go back in time and find whoever it was that decided that there should always be cameras filming and/or tapes rolling whenever the Beatles sat in studios together. THAT person was a genius, and I owe them so much.

John singing a McCartney's song is the highest praise coming from him.

On the 9th of December 1980, a Beatles tribute act was booked to play in a local dance venue and we went and saw them (we had planned to go weeks before). The night was down but good, they were brilliant, covering most of the Beatles career in 3 acts (Cavern - 4 Sale / Rubber Soul - Mystery Tour / White album - Abbey Road) with a long encore as the band didnt want to stop playing. The Encore was the guys basically in street clothes doing songs from the solo careers after they split (so we got Photograph, My Sweet Lord, Imagine, Junior's Farm etc). For the final song of the night, they said they were going to do something different and the guy who had played John Lennon, sat at the piano and then the band did Let it Be with Lennon on vocals. The band ended up in tears, as did the crowd. Everyone stopped dancing and just stood and listened and thought about what had happened the day before. It was an emotional way to end a gig ... I knew the drummer in the band and he told me years later that it was the only night that they ended the show that way. It was special.

I am 71 years old. I grew up with the Beatles. When I listened to the music of the Beatles I feel connected. I am listening to old friends sharing some of the deepest thoughts, experiences and feelings. A fan forever!

I just love John's voice

Spine tingling and eerie

Great song!

These guys were seeming not of this earth! Some of the messages that they delivered through there music, truly amazing! We were so lucky to have witnessed it in real time 🎉🎉❤

A rare gesture of friendship hidden in the folds of a lost recording, just present enough to be extracted and proven and shown. So much poetry in that.

Amazing 😢😢😢😢😢

Stay Blessed

The Beatles are the only band that I have ever had a fascination for that goes further than their music. I've been listening and watching footage of them for 40 years now.

This channel should be up for an award for bringing us this - amazing.

We are glad that Paul did the vocals on the record.

I grew up with The Beatles always there on the radio on tv and in movies we all know that John and Paul had man crushes on each other, Paul said not long ago that when he looks back at their time together and when he worked with John that "then i was working with my mate John it's just know hitting me i was working with JOHN LENNON!", I was born on November 21st 1963 The Beatles were playing the ABC in Carlisle and next day JFK as murdered, but as a very young kid in Scotland tv took breaks during the day so radio was on all the time the first song i remember is HELP! coz someone gave it to my dad he loved the song help! but dad was a rocker in the 50s so like the Beatles he loved all those great rock and roll records and till i became a teenager and was buying my music that was all the records we had, then i started to get into bands like The Jam and Weller had always talked about the Beatles and covered "And your Bird can sing" So i bought Revolver and wow a whole new world opened up to me, up to then all i had heard were the greatest hits all those no1s, so over the next year i bought every Beatles album and 45 i could get then Dec 8 1980 happened and the dream was over for real this time😪 but these guys built everything that rock music became, they were and always be the GOAT 4 normal Lads who fate brought together to bring so much joy to everyone no matter who or where you are from, its 60 years from their 1st UK hits and here we are all still talking about them. peace out fra Scotland

the Beatles, their lives, their story, their relationship and their art, is one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century

John’s voice had a unique sound unlike any other rock or pop singer, he could transmit emotion through his voice like no other rock singer ever to this day. Paul’s voice was beautiful and melodic. John’s voice was pure Soul and magic

THANK YOU

Absolutely brilliant. Fantastic love and work put into these videos . Never thought I’d head this .

I truly had a visceral reaction hearing John sing this all-time classic from his bandmate and close friend, Paul McCartney. Thank you for sharing this beautiful moment in Beatles history. Just amazing!

😭let it be😪

I grew up not far from them all & seen em upon there arival back from hamburg at the town hall balcony a few hundred yards from the recently opened mersey tunnel upon wich a saw our late majesty the queen, great times now looooong gone ey !

Stunning to hear. So heartfelt

I just found your channel and this is video is just great. You are presenting what a band is really like.

Wow !

Wonderful!!

I think the "imperfections "make John's voice straight up beautiful I love every tone John uses he seemed to have a carefree sounding voice Man Let It Be whatever comes out it's alright

Nothing but gratitude to the people who post this precious pieces of music history. Thank you!

nice work

Thanks for sharing from The Genius

That is something I never thought I would ever hear. Thank you.

The world can never have enough Beatles

I'm glad they decided to go with Paul's version.

Awesome 👏 awesome 👏 awesome 👏

This is wonderful. I miss that band every day.

You know who was a huge Paul McCartney fan? None other than John Lennon. He'd stated it numerous times. Coming Up got John back in the studio to give us Double Fantasy. Even years later, they were still inspiring each other.

Very cool thank you for that

Very cool

Still sad that John is gone.

A great compliment from big brother John to Paul, not just as leader of the band but as Pauls composition partner.

That really was beautiful. John's voice is so emotive, I sometimes wonder if Paul's songs would come across differently if John had sung them. Here we see the answer is yes for at least one song. I love them both of course, and even lean Paul, but man, John exuded soul.

By golly, that was cool. Thanks.

Remember that “Imagine” reworked some of the melody from “Let It Be,” almost like a sequel to it ♥️ and it borrowed some lines from one of Yoko Ono’s poetry books. George Harrison remained quite Christian in a non-denominational sense throughout his life, so Let It Be was kind of a respectful nod to his spirituality by McCartney in the first place (yes in addition to Paul’s actual mother Mary, there were often double-entendres in their songs). With “Imagine,” Lennon was putting together the pieces of the people he loved most in his life, and tearing away the idea of any structural or institutional things standing between him and the people he loved, as well as the people of the whole world too.

Lennons voice always makes me feel calm

I can attest to the thrill that comes with someone you respect covering a song you have written. This has happened 2 or 3 times with songs I've written (I'm an amateur singer/songwriter). Paul must've loved this, but for us as fans it is also very special. I always saw John as being outspoken and a satirical, but this just proves to me that it was definitely a shield which he is willing to drop on occasion and it is very endearing.

John loves the song "two of us" so much that he almost sings the middle eight with paul....'cause he knew it was all about him and his teenage pal Paul.

So, special. Thank you

I loved watching Get Back. I had goosebumps watching these songs in progress of creation.

This makes me realize again how much i miss John and George. I loved their solo careers too, i have been lucky enough to see Paul twice and George once. Thank goodness for the bigger venues in Detroit.

John playing a Fender Bass VI, classic!

Thanks guys.....really nice.

The Beatles, Chicago, and The Cars were three bands with multiple lead singers that always got it right when choosing who should sing which songs.

Fabulous find! I love when some piece of overlooked evidence seems to dispel a typical Beatle narrative (“John hated Paul’s sappy songs, etc”). Despite the tension of the latter years, they still deeply admired each other in so many ways.

I almost skipped the commentary. Glad I didn’t. Concise and insightful!

It is so good. Specially when we only read all the time that John hated that song. Oh, no. It shows deep inside he liked it. I knew he also sung it once making fun...in John's style...Letter b Letter C, letter D...But here he feels the song. It is priceless indeed. I also loved to see Paul singing Strawberry Fields forever. I liked your comments too. Very inspired.

What a find. Thanks for posting it. Will we ever hear John’s version of ‘Goodnight’ that Ringo has praised so much?

Beautiful Footage

And John played bass on that track. John is playing a fender 6 string bass in the video footage.

Still fresh after 50+ years. And it's Still beautiful.

I swear I've heard John sing this song where he changes the lyrics to "let it be, let it c, let it d, let it e, let it hgklmnowp"

Love it! ❤❤❤

Respect.

John knew more words from let it be than when doing his own songs. Years later he stated he hated the song and thought it very WINGS like. But when doing songs he later hated John seemed to like them at the time. No Reply is another example. Great show as always. Any try outs of Maybe I amazed during the Get Back sessions.

Even though there was anger and possibly hate against each other, they loved each other so much. Brothers forever. ❤

magnificent

Thank you

In my teens I was a total Beatlemaniac (still am). John was always my favorite.

I think I heard Paul singing I'm so Tired on a bootleg. Loved that too.

Don't forget that Let It Be, during the white album sessions, Let It Be was a slightly hammy boogie-woogie thing. Clearly Paul must have felt it didn't work in that style so held it back till he could get it to work.

What a great video. Thanks for posting.

When Paul introduce "let it be" for the first time. John was heard saying "I think that was rather grand, I'll take one with me." Okay let's track it"

So glad Paul sang that.

john and paul were looking for each other's approval because deep down, egos aside, they were each other's fans and knew that if their partner liked the music, it was good. Of course there was a competition, but it was healthy, the “music” won. The fact that they created the credits "Lennon/McCartney" meant that they did not cross the healthy barrier. PS: It's great to see them having fun playing together

This was 14 days before I was born!!!

Thank you for this. I wish John and Paul sang each others songs while in the Beatles and recorded it. They could release an album evey decade for the next 100 years and pretty much be guaranteed a number one. Imagine the album help, for example, was released with Paul singing Help and John singing yesterday etc.

This is an Incredible little time capsule rarity; a gorgeous golden beacon of timeless light cast by this beautiful shining purity of Soul. Thanks for sharing this, and for all who find it, especially for those who find it to be an inspired moment of sweet splendor, and joy. ✌& ❤

Hence 'Imagine' - just like 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' - you can see where they came from ...

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Paul’s story of how the song came about gives me chills.

That version is so beautiful and so John.

Lost for words

Good stuff. Thanks, guys!

If there happened to be video like today you’d lose all the authenticity of the band. Unrehearsed, no BS is what we get and I love it.

Thank you for sharing this. Very good to hear. One thing, if I may, to point out. John isn't playing a guitar. He's playing a Fender six string bass. They were popular in the mid to late sixties.

He was most likely practising the song for whatever additional or harmony vocals he was to add when laying down the track for recording

This is very cool. Wow just wow

I wanna hear Johns version of Oh Darling! He said it himself that he wanted to sing that song because it fit his voice. THAT would be priceless!!

I sat outside juluas house the other month in allerton, after it had recently sold at auction.. lovely sunny afternoon, i played her song. Was a beautiful moment ❤

Levi Nunez! From Old Californio! Long time no see! Nice to see you’re a fellow Beatles fanatic and historian!

Yikes straight to the heart!

So many lost treasure discovered in all these tapes and films... I could spend years listening to them!

Those high notes. 😲

I think the essence of Let It Be has passed you by. You may be die heart fans of the Beatles but I don't think they would be about you picking apart the tiniest detail like this.

exactly what I needed to hear in this time and space, thank you

He once also sang Let It B, Let It C, Let It D.

It's interesting to see George using his Stratocaster here. I had only ever seen him using the red Les Paul that was gifted to him by Eric Clapton or his rosewood Telecaster during the Let It Be sessions. Most of the pictures and videos I had seen of George using his Stratocaster are from the Sergeant Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour era. Has anyone seen any pictures of George with his stratocaster in its original finish before it was repainted? I have read that it had a sonic blue finish before being repainted in a psychedelic rainbow, and that it was one of two matching ones that he and John Lennon got in 1965. I have seen pictures of John Lennon with his sonic blue stratocaster, but I have never seen George with his until after it received the psychedelic paint job.

Re your opening remark; an absolute cannot be modified - ‘unique’ cannot be ‘very unique’, or ‘really unique’, it can only be ‘unique’. Page one.

No 1 band on Earth!