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I love hearing the mistakes. It reminds me that they're real people playing real instruments. Music today is made to sound extremely "perfect" and feels lifeless.

I always thought Paul was just trying to be funny with "Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face."

The Beatles mistakes are still so much better then most other bands non mistakes.

Miles Davis famously said, “If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad,” and “do not fear mistakes, there are none.”

The Feedback on I feel Fine was intentional, not a mistake. Tho it was an accident that caught their attention, the use of it on the recording was planned.

I appreciate videos that deliver exactly what they promise. This one points out actual mistakes, adds a backstory for each, and provides clips for us to hear. No fluff or clickbait crap. Thank you for the time and research!

I have noticed the lyrical flubs many times over the years and always thought they were just laughing and winking at each other while they kept playing. After all, they were in their heyday, so who was going to dock their paycheck for something so minor? The show MUST go on!

The fact that The Fabs left the mistakes in makes them all the more fantastic.

Her Majesty works either way but I always considered it as kind of an Easter egg. Being it was their last studio album as a band and a perfect way to go out I hold to that even if unintentional, was perfection.

4:10 That's not a mess, it's funky off the scale. I doubt Lennon would have been ashamed of it; I certainly wouldn't.

As a kid I loved the Beatles . As an older man now I still love the Beatles. Appreciate the great music that hopefully will last forever. Young people do not understand the influence they had on the minds of so many in their day.

Mistakes and raw playing are what made the music so great. Plus it was then approachable by younger musicians who felt like it was okay to make a mistake while playing. Many a garage band was formed because of this kind of thinking.

Back then it wasn't easy fix one little mistake. Now with digital editing, it's a piece of cake. Plus the early Beatles vocals were double-tracked, which made the recording process even more difficult. On top of that, pop groups had a short life expectancy, which is why their first movie came out so quickly. Nobody was expecting this music to be listened to, much less analyzed, sixty years later.

They had a similar mistake in "What You're Doing"......Paul says "You" and John says "I" in one of the verses.

A lot of people talk about the false start vocal in "I saw her again" by Mamas and Papas- "I saw her, I saw her again last night...." I think that little thing makes the song something it would not have been otherwise.

"To a man of genius, errors are volitional, and are the portals of discovery" . In Ulysses, James Joyce was referring to Shakespeare in this quote , but it applies just as well to the Beatles.

Paul doesn’t really get the occupations of Desmond and Molly mixed up, he sings that Desmond does his pretty face but consciously continues that Molly still sings it with the band. The silly mistake was singing that Desmond was doing his makeup, even though that would of course start being cool in the glam years to come. A nice little accidental prediction, I’ve always found it hip! :-)

Couldn't really hear the mistakes as you zip over them and cut them short.

Writing, recording and releasing at lightning speed and yet so few mistakes that they have to dig deep to find any. Pretty impressive band.

I've been a lover of the Beatles music since May of 1976, when I was 13. Right from the start, I heard lots of quirks in the songs, which now are being highlighted as mistakes. I mean, they are mistakes, but when I first heard them and in the thousands of subsequent listens down the years, I've never thought of them that way. I've always just seen them as part of the song on record. It's ironic that books and videos and websites now exist to highlight these things ! But I still think they're really interesting.

It makes it easier to accept my own! Great idea to put this episode out...keeping everything human is what the Beatles were all about x

Love the mistakes. Makes the lyrics sound more sincere and the characters more vulnerable.

john’s guitar on What Goes On is amazing. you made a mistake including it!

Art is never perfect . Nor should it be. Sometimes flaws make life beautiful. 😊

During the fade out at the end of So You Want To Know A Secret there is a guitar flub, as if either John or George overplayed it, or a string broke. At the end of Twist And Shout it sounds like someone brushed up against a microphone. ANd most subtly, during the Say In The Life fade out you can hear someone gets up from a desk chair.

In Slow Down, a guitar fill in the intro suddenly stopped as if George was hesitant or slid too far to the targeted fret.

I was lucky enough to play bass with Randy Bachman, Rightous Bros’ Bill Medley, Tom Dowd and the amazing Paul Revere and more. They all had the-same answer - when I asked why they chose the recording with a mistake over another take that was perfect. Their answer: “The take with a mistake just felt better” - bottom line is It’s got to move you. 🎸

John also laughs on the stereo version of please please me. It's not really a "Mistake" because he still manages to say "Come on" but you'll notice the mono version has a different vocal take. Fun fact I guess

With all of these mistakes it's a wonder that they ever passed the audition.

They're not the only ones to make mistakes that somehow made it to the final pressing. On the aftermarket recording of themes from Lalo Schifrin's soundtrack to "Bullitt", a trumpet clearly comes in off-cue in the "Hotel Daniels" track. The player responsible catches it & chokes it off almost in time. And on "Ayo", the closing track of Bill Watrous's "Manhattan Wildlife Refuge", tenor player Ed Xiques seems to get lost at the beginning of his solo, and fumbles around a bit before finding his way. Live recordings are full of them, too - someone in the brass section of Don Ellis's band blows a clam partway through "Samba Bajada" on "Tears of Joy". Even Miles Davis let a few slip through - John McLaughlin opens "Right Off" (from "Tribute to Jack Johnson") with a guitar riff in E, then segues into B flat. But the bass player (Mike Henderson) misses the change & continues in E. MIles comes in midway between them & blows until Henderson finds a spot to change key. I dunno, imperfection in creation seems to make it more accessible somehow......

The Beatles were so natural and fun, and this makes them great too!

You missed Paul's bass flub on the last verse of All My Loving, Not a very big mistake. It was probably left in there because they likely assumed nobody would notice it or care haha or they didn't have enough time to go back and re do it, Who knows? Haha, It's definitely there though if you listen! When he says "Tomorrow I'll miss you" on the last verse you can hear it quite clearly actually haha.

I'll take them as is. They are one of our best musical history.

Wow!!i heard many of those things when i was a kid and didn't even think of them as mistakes...like that rhythm track in what goes on i used to love...i just considered it part of the beatles funkiness and uniqueness...the random element where things just happen un expecdectedly...✌

There is NO WAY the suspension on 'Mother Mary' is a mistake! The semi-tone clash is one of the most beautiful things in the whole song. One definite harmonic mistake you leave out is the clash of chords in Yesterday. While Paul strums a modal E minor chord straight after the tonic (there is no B natural in the home key of F major), George Martin consistently scores the string arrangement with a half-diminished chord with a B flat in one of the inner parts (producing a beautiful clash with the long-lasting A in the violin). A sort of classical re-visiting of the original harmony, one might say, but it should have been one OR the other.

All of these mistakes happened using technology of the 60’s. Today we have computers to fix anything except the lack of talent and creativity.

If you make a part 2, maybe you can talk about Paperback Writer, there are a ton of mistakes in that song. Also, could you possibly do a video on Queen?

The mistake on Please Please Me is audible. You can even hear in John's voice that he was laughing as they sang the last "c'mon" part.

The most glaring flaw in the Beatle catalog to my ears is the sound of Lennon's falsetto "ooo la la" seriously running out of gas in You Won't See Me. I could never understand why they didn't fix that.

That is not a mistake on let it be. The Chord there is intended and sounds great. Paul plays it exactly like this in concert.

That shoot me line gave me chills knowing what would happen to John later

If these are ALL the mistakes you could dredge up, then these guys WERE nearly perfect on the album cuts and that's damn amazing given that it was way harder to overdub back then and sometimes impossible depending on what needed to be fixed. 4 tracks. amazing.

You forgot the sound drop off in the song “Day tripper” toward the end where one channel of the stereo version is completely missing for about a half a second

The Beatles were so perfect that a few minor mistakes were insignificant.

You forgot the lack of double tracking on Ringo’s drum fill just after the mid instrumental section on Glass Onion. It sounds like a little drum tap compared to his other fills on the track. It was a control room error but Lennon heard it and loved it, so he kept it in. It was “corrected” decades later by Giles Martin’s White Album remix project. I think Giles f’d that one.

On “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, I can hear John & Paul mixed up a little on the 2nd verse. Through the decades I still can’t figure it out, but I love that part…& treasure the song!

Looking forward to part 2!

Nobody cared for the stereo mixes 63 to 68. It is unfair to hunt for “mistakes” there. The Beatles worked on the mono mixes and left the rest to others for a quick superficial mix. The stereo mixes not only contain weird takes but also less bass and a horrible karaoke like panning and again , The Beatles had little to do with that. If you wanna hear the music that made them , try the analog mono mixes in vinyl . That’s the closest you can get . CD mono from 2009 are a close second . That’s what The Beatles hits sounded like.

Now do one for Steely Dan. They strove for perfection but I wonder if anything slipped through

Many things I did not know. Keep them coming please

So here's a few mistakes. In Penny Lane, original recording. Macca now sings: "Penny Lane Is in my ear and in my eye" instead of ear's and eye's. Funny that as the lyrics say ear's and eye's and he sings it that way on stage. Secondly, if you listen to the original recording of "She loves you" Now, it is repeatedly sang as" "She loved you" which is past tense. Interesting these have been cited as a Mandela Effect. There are others regarding this group. Another I have just been shocked by as it seemed to have corrected itself. The opening line to with a little help from my friends seems to have come in line with with the Joe Cocker version and the published lyrics. For some time: "Stand up and walk out on me" was different on the original recording and it was widely discussed. Now it is back to the way we all remember it. And before you ask, no memory now of what it changed to. Such is the nature of this alleged phenomenon.

Very interesting. As for a part two, yes please.

1:33 McCartney : You know you never even try, girl Lennon : Why do I... never even try, girl

Flaws are human, I for one am glad they left them in the recordings. They help us to witness the truth.

George makes a mistake singing "Do you want to know a secret?" "I've known a secret for the week or two" rather than "I've known the secret for a week or two..."

When I was a teenager I listened to the stereo version of "If I Fell" and heard Paul's voice crack and thought I had never noticed it before. When I next heard it on the radio it was the mono version and I thought I was imagining things.

5:45 - It is John that makes a mistake (on guitar & his vocal line) and curses, not Paul. But, ewery body makes a misstakez. :-)

I never knew that the different chord when he says mother Mary was by accident! It felt out of place yet appropriately Paul to me. Thanks so much for the video!

It's ironic that a video about mistakes has a mistake in it. Please Please Me was not their 2nd No.1 UK single.

Thank you for this video, it is very nice.🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I always thought that Paul was trying to keep himself from laughing when he sang "was in vain", in the song "If I fell" it sounded like he was slightly snickering not his voice cracking.

Day Tripper has a drop out with some of the backing track after the middle eight, She Loves You sounds like 2 takes put together or a tape error when the drums sound completely different. Don't bother me still has Harrison saying "it's too fast" from the take before. I'm Looking through you a tambourine being dropped. Lennon using 2 foot tall/small in You've got to hide your love away.

I have this memory of I FEEL FINE ,and before the feed back hum someone says ' going up '. To this day i have never heard it on a recording since.

The mistakes are what make them perfect 👍

I didn't know there was a different single version of 'Please Please Me'. Do you mean the mono version? I think it sounds quite the same as the stereo version except for the mono sound... but to me the same session material was used. Am I wrong? Don't I just hear the difference? Or is there really another different mix? Another thing I've noticed in the stereo version of 'Please Please Me' is that the stereo channels are out of balance at the beginnig of the second verse, which leads to a sudden decrease of volume level there.

Beatles mistakes are charming I’ve always loved em

Bring on part 2!!!

The overdub of George's lead spot on "Cant Buy Me Love" has an easy spot to hear. Their are two guitars playing different parts. Plain as day!

The most impressive part of Let It Be is how the grounded they were. today, everyone is a prima donna, an artiste, genius etc ect The Beatles were just everyday people and I love that about them.

I bought the 45 of Let it Be in high school and played it to death on a little plastic turntable I had in my bedroom. The first time I heard it I said to my 17-year old brother, who was a piano player, "There's a mistake there..." He laughed and said no, they would never release a record with a mistake, that it had to be intentional. Yet to me, the non-musician, it never sounded right. It always sounded like a mistake. It stayed with me all my life. Any time I'd hear it I'd hear a mistake. My brother is now 70. I'm still trying to convince him it was a mistake. He still insists it was intentional.

9:15 is just an extension of the minor 6 chord where he's taking the minor 3rd up a step along with the root note also up a step. It's just not the plain old minor 6 chord he played the rest of the song.

Right at the beginning of the video "Please Please me was *his* second single" His? They were a group. What are you on about? Also why is the guitar feedback from I Feel Fine included, because it wasn't a mistake on I Feel Fine. It was done on purpose, as you can clearly hear from the clip you played. I quote Geoff Emerick: "Norman (Smith) later explained to me that they had discovered that sound purely by accident at a previous session, the night they recorded 'Eight Days A Week.' It was just serendipity: during a break, John had leaned his guitar against his amp, but had neglected to turn down the volume of the pickup. Just at that moment, for no particular reason, Paul had plucked a low 'A' on his bass and, from across the room, the sound waves set John's guitar feeding back. They loved the resultant howling, so much so that Lennon had apparently been fooling around with the effect ever since. And with his new song, entitled 'I Feel Fine,' he was determined to immortalize the sound on record...years before Jimi Hendrix ever started doing it." That was within the first 3 minutes of your video, and so I gave up after that and stopped watching.

Idk if it's intentional or a mistake but the track "You Won't See Me" features a slowing down tempo throughout the song... Not really big of a change but it notices my ear easily, and I really like it because i think it somehow fits the song that's about "having a crisis with girlfriend"

I'd like to know what cracked Paul up during 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' on Abbey Road. He laughs after the word, "writing" in the line, "writing fifty times..." But I'm sure Paul would not remember that moment. Maybe you'll cover that in Part Two!

Reading the Beatles recording sessions book by Lewisohn it states that mono was king in the 60s and the engineers took a lot longer creating the mono mixes as it was the major format at that time and the stereo mixes were created much quicker. One example is the stereo version of Yellow Submarine with john’s background “a life of ease”. In the mono version it is complete but the stereo version he comes in late as if the person mixing the track forgot to bring up the fader at the correct moment.

very interesting mistakes. never heard the “ fuckin hell!” before!

"What goes on" - was the name of the webpage dedicated to Beatles mistakes :)

Great photos

Love this (and anything to do with The Beatles!) Re: "Her Majesty"... It fits after "Mean Mr. Mustard" for another reason as well... The lyrics from "Mr. Mustard" are "... takes him up to visit the Queen, Always shouts out something obscene".

I was in the 6th grade when The Beatles were first on the Ed Sullivan show. I and the world were never the same.

The original Temptations from Bayonne, N.J. who was with Savoy Records at the time, did cover song of,,,RUBY, where Butch Moore incorporated distortion around 1962 or 63.

Even the mistakes are pure genius

Commenting because i want a second part

The let it be mistake is perfect. When I play it on piano I always include it as it highlights the striking nature of Paul seeing an apparition of his dead mother

As you say most Beatle tracks were recorded quickly as Abbey Road studio was always very busy & there was no priority..

What goes on! Yes more please!

As “I’m A Loser” fades out, George seems to rush some twanging riffs. As others have said here, a lot of recordings were rushed, with studio sessions squeezed into very busy band schedules. And who at the time thought these recordings would be analyzed second by second, decades into the future? If the feel was right, out it went.

Please Please Me was their first #1. Love Me Do was a minor hit but it got nowhere near #1 during its first run.

Listen closely to Ringo's squeaky kick pedal on "Anna", on "Slow Down" John's double-tracked voice sings two different lines. The fade-out on "I Feel Fine" someone is barking like a dog. Listen closely to both "Taxman"and "Getting Better" there's some strange whistling.

These vids are great but are the videos on this channel made with A.i? Listen at 1:10.. they refer to the Beatles as "his" recordings instead of "their" recordings. I noticed this in the other vids on this channel. It's like the program constantly referred to the Beatles as a person instead of a group

For the Abbey Road anniversary set they digitally REINSERTED "Her Majesty" back in the medley. This was a HUGE mistake. They chose to REMOVE it AT THE TIME so it would never have been released like that. Full stop! Putting it back in was revisionism.

Paul has said in many interviews, that a lot of times they just left the mistakes in. On McCartney 1, you hear a cabinet door closing on " lovely Linda" it still works. I always thought that was a sound effect, it wasnt.

There are no mistakes, but happy little accidents.... its dynamic!

Ob-Bla-Di, Ob-Bla-Da has loads of "mistakes". Goldmine ran an article called "OOPS" which stood for "Out-of-Phase Stereo". It was a way to rewire your needle, which changed how the music was heard. John Lennon is goofing through much of the song. In part of it, you can hear Lennon say, "Home. H-O-M-E", for example,

in I'm Looking Through You, Ringo hit the edge of the snare, instead of the center, for one beat

Hehehe.... I remember noticing straightaway the mistake in "I'll Get You" which sounds like "when I'm going to mange your mind" 😄

Mistakes? That's only life.

Second part would be great

There is an error in the video.. the "Please Please Me" single was NOT their 2nd UK #1. It was their first. The 1st single "Love Me Do" did not go to #1 when released.