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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.

Wow !

Ave Maria.

Those high notes. 😲

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.

Spine tingling and eerie

Would you like to hear "Let it be" in the voice of John Lennon in a digital recording? Call his son, Julian, whose voice is 98% John's. Call Julian and ask him to sing the song.

I just love John's voice

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

THANK YOU

Stay Blessed

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

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 🎉🎉❤

John- "should I sing it this time?" Everyone else in the world- " no. Please for the love of all that is holy, let it be"

😭let it be😪

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!

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

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

Great song!

John was bleeding those lyrics: his tribute to his deceased best friend, John Paul+❤ 🙏 R.I.P.

I was laying in the bath, 6 years old (1964) playing Beatles songs in my head. When John and Paul sang together sometimes it merged into another new voice, so I'd analyse which voice was who. Their 2 voices making a new voice was something unique. No competition- both amazing voices.

Awesome 👏 awesome 👏 awesome 👏

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.

Stunning to hear. So heartfelt

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.

Amazing 😢😢😢😢😢

Respect.

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!

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

Thanks for sharing from The Genius

John wouldve crushed the song if he really wanted to, it wouldve been amazing.

Still sad that John is gone.

The singer in my band was the first person to hear the song 'Let it be' when Paul played it for him at Apple back in the good old days. Paul then turned to him and asked "What do you think" not an easy question to answer, LOL!

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.

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.

Thanks guys.....really nice.

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

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

This is wonderful. I miss that band every day.

nice work

BRAVOOOO

Lennons voice always makes me feel calm

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

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 !

By golly, that was cool. Thanks.

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

The world can never have enough Beatles

So, special. Thank you

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

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.

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

Lost for words

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

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!!

Chronic!

Awwww that's cute 🥹🥹🥹

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.

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

George's guitar is fn awesome

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

Very cool thank you for that

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.

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

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

Yikes straight to the heart!

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 ❤

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"

This was 14 days before I was born!!!

No 1 band on Earth!

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

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

Is like to hear Lennon singing Ob-la-di and Octopus’s Garden.

He plumped for Imagine instead and the rest is history

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

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.

New lyrics.

Beautiful Footage

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

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

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.

Wonderful!!

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. ✌& ❤

So glad Paul sang that.

The remake of John's in this one seems more clear than last him on "Free as a Bird".

Thank you

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.

Just great times ...

haunting.....

John playing a Fender Bass VI, classic!

That version is so beautiful and so John.

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"

❤

GOATS and the added archives of watching 4 geniuses come together at exactly the right moment and converge to form The Beatles.

This is music GOLD!

Always love John Lennon.

💓💓🙏💓💓 Love Y'a'll😻

Very cool

Goosebumps. John puts so much feeling into it. Beautiful commentary. The context really adds to the beauty of the performance. I bet this would blow Paul's mind.