After you hear this song about 8000 times, what really stands out is Ringo's outstanding percussion.

Ringo, Ringo, Ringo. His percussion & bass drum placement is like a heartbeat in this song.. that & his playing exactly what the part needs & not more... There are technical drummers but most people forget what Ringo NEVER forgets...the song is the most important thing, not ego. :)

If you read John's books, or even just listened to him talk, you can see that he was a big fan of absurdist word association, similar to what Monty Python always did to great effect. Weed and LSD only magnified that in him.

The lyrics did exactly what they were meant to do.

1:38 "What is that instrument in the back..?" It's Paul McCartney playing his bass guitar. It's one of the most famous bass lines in history.

John was sick of music critics trying to read the meanings of his songs so he,d confuse them and laugh at there interpretation.". Lets see em read the meaning of this Paul " 😂😂

Instruments in that intro bit - bass (doing the riff), wurlitzer or rhodes electric piano, electric guitar, and awesome under-rated drum pattern by Ringo - most under-rated drummer in rock n roll!

No other group can touch these dudes

I love the lyrics! So trippy! It does not matter what the words mean. The whole vibe is soooo cool.

One of my favorite Beatles songs that usually get overlooked is Baby Your a Rich Man. It has a funky vibe with an Indian/Oriental twist. Great stuff!

The four verses are a description of the four Beatles. "Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see is Paul.

The reference to "He shoot Coca Cola" is a reference to shooting cocaine intravenously.

Each verse in the song is supposedly about each of the four members of the Beatles.There's a breakdown somewhere on KZfaq about the lyrics and how they apply to each of the Beatles.

Lennon wrote it. It even has a sideways reference to his wife.

You hear John and Georges Guitars Paul's base. Ringo put dishcloths on his drumheads to give it that petty patty sound and the great Billy Preston on keys.

You gotta just feel the groove Man.

Originally intended as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, a kind of drug pope at the time, with the main line "Come together", Lennon added these cryptic lyrics to a Chuck Berry line. There were and are many interpretations, e.g. that someone sits on a chair and is sprayed with ejaculate by other people present (Come together). One shouldn't think too much about it. Sometimes musicians just put a few words together, that somehow sound good in the context of the music. Come Together is now the second most streamed Beatles song on Spotify and the video was produced by Melon Dezign in 2000 for the official launch of the Beatles website.

From what I’ve heard about this song ,John was getting tired of every song he had written getting dissected and analyzed to death.So he wrote this to mess with everybody’s mind.

"Come Together" is on the Beatles' 1969 album "Abbey Road". This is one of my favorite albums. All the songs are great on it such as "Something", "Here Comes The Sun", "Oh! Darling", "Because", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" etc.

Sometimes good music doesn’t need meaningful words. The Beatles have other songs that lyrically don’t make sense yet somehow they the do make sense rhythmically. The Beatles could be very abstract, especially John.

Cool song! “Long and Winding Road” is still my favorite!!🤘🔥

Your next Beatles reaction......Day Tripper

Damn it Michael,...What's with the mayonase.................?

That instrument you asked about is Paul’s bass. Legend.

And the lyrics, . . . At that time there were numerous "gurus" to be found on all sorts of communes, what today would be called Cults. Anyway these gurus would spout really deep concepts like 1+1+1=3. If you are higher than a kite, simple things appear very deep.

A very hippie and drug hidden message to these lyrics. Written at a time when it was popular to hear such a message.

Come Together added to the “Paul is Dead” conspiracy. It was believed that the part, "One and one and one is Three" was a hidden clue implying there’s only 3 living Beatles

The bass, drums and John saying: Shoot Me combined make it sound like an old rotary phone.

I think everything in that song went over your head.

Ringo, Ringo, Ringo! Wow.

If you fancy a brilliant live performance take a look at the rooftop "concert" from back in 1969. They set up on the roof of their Apple HQ in central London and practically caused a riot when the general public realised what was happening above them. They did a few songs but the best was Get Back.

Oh! Darling! is a phenomenal song.

That famous riff sounds like a sneaky cat😆 very catchy always loved it

This album was played at every party we had in 1970 at Michigan State.

Michael, the song is mainly John's and it was about his desire to keep the group together. They were going through break-ups at the time and actually broke up after this album was recorded. Each of the 4 verses is about the individual Beatles - "Hair to his knees" is George, "No shoe-shine" is Paul - he likes going barefoot, "Ono-sideboard" is John and "So hard to see" is Ringo (he's behind the drums....) - the weird words are typical of John's lyrical imagery. At one point in their history everyone except John left the band. Ringo left for a while during the White Album. George left during Let It Be, and even had a solo Album by then, and then finally Paul quit and the Beatles ended. Come Together over me... means, let's keep the band together... That's how I saw it back then and still see it now...for what it's worth...

Ringo’s drums and Paul’s bass drive this song .

Lennon was a huge Lewis Carroll reader (Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass) and that comes through here and with I Am the Walrus. Sometimes he just wrote things to confound those who kept trying to find meaning in his lyrics.

This song is very much like his later song "Give Peace a Chance". "Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Madism, Ragism.... All we are saying, is give peace a chance." The verses don't matter. The chorus is the point.

"I am the Walrus" is also a very trippy song by John Lennon. And also "Strawberry Fields" is similar, by John Lennon. He has quite a way with his lyrics and probably inspired by LSD.

KZfaq still has a really cool, old ad for Nortel Networks that uses this song. Well worth a look.

You want a Beatle trip. Try I am the Walrus or Strawberry Fields... or It's all Too Much, or Across the Universe... or just about every song of theirs. Their catalog is huge. lol

May I suggest that you keep in mind that John said he was often just making rhymes. There was often very little meaning intended. Enjoy your reactions!

That instrument is bass but as cool as it is, the drums and the swells in the background make it even better.

Oh, yeah...this was a trippy one for sure! The guitars, the keyboard and...Ringo is just so amazing! John Loved word play, and absurd wording .He wrote 2 small books of funny poetry and sketches in '64 and '65 that were a bit 'Python-esque' , looking back. (his voice is great, too)

They were the first to figure out music needed to be laid down in tracks to do away with mono we were ready for hi fi . I think the background is a sitar from India. This was when they were getting into psychedelic drugs like LSD. The other thing that the Beatles did was put their new album out on the 1 December great marketing strategy.

The funny thing about this song is that the original lyric was Hold you in his arms and you can feel his physic. not hold you in his arms and you can feel his disease lol.

If you think this is psychedelic animation, do not wait! Find yourself a copy of The Yellow Submarine, the last movie that they endorsed. They had little to do with it, as it was conceived in order to fulfil the three movies contract they'd signed in 1963. They endorsed it because it was done under the supervision of Joe Orton and other well known counterculture London artists at the time. It fun, it's trippy and it's The Beatles. I promise you'll smile...🧓🎭😎

I believe Lennon originally wanted to release this as a Plastic Ono Band release. Regardless, it blasted the AM wavelength when it came out, and then some

sounds like a base playing (paul mccartney) the clicking sound is a dial phone.

Early in the Beatles career, John wrote a couple of well-received books. If you read those, it will give you a sense of his use of the absurd. The song started as a political song for a Timothy Leary run for president, but that didn't work out.

LOL this video was done in the last few years,. A lot of these old songs have new videos for you tube. For example "Rocket Man" by elton john etc..

its the beatles,,what do you expect!

John explained this song as a Word Salad, and Come Together was the sexual fashion of the time he lived in. Got sued by Chuck Berry for using some of his lyrics.

I love that you try to make sense out of this. ❤

backround vocals are saying "shoot me" and it's a bass doing that lick. Paul.

LSD proponent and California governor candidate Timothy Leary asked John to write a campaign song for him. You just listened to the final result!

It's a play on words. You have to look good vs you have to look well. Good looking is used as you really have to look with focus because otherwise you don't see him. Lennon loved absurd jokes and word play. Check out his books. A spaniard in the works is one of the titles. The Beatles were big Monty Python fans, shared similar sense of humour. Harrison ended up financing Life of Brian.

John wrote a little book back in the early Beatles days called, "In His Own Write" (q.v.). It was a compilation of little stories and essays, which were mostly nonsense language. He was a lover of nonsense poetry and prose. He loved stories written by O. Henry, Lewis Caroll, Edward Lear, Edward Gorey, and so on. Look them up sometime. He had other Beatle songs with nonsense lyrics, too, such as "I Am The Walrus". He just liked the sounds of certain words coupled with other words. No meaning, just sounds. John was funny that way. The lyrics in "Come Together" are mostly nonsense. Read into them what you will, it's just mainly a bunch of meaningless sounds.

It's stream of consciousness lyrics. Michael, did you ever explain the the Hellman's?!

Long live Ringo-George-Paul-John's music!!

John came in one day with this song in a simpler form, when Paul noticed that the lyrics were a direct rip off of CHUCK BERRY"S ----YOU CAN'T CATCH ME. Sorting out John's legal nightmare, he added a cool bass riff, Ringo changed up the rhythm, and Paul and George helped him change a few lyrics to make it less like a potential lawsuit. This is the result. The "video" is from a rock band video game since there were no such things as videos in the 1960s.

PS There is a great movie with all Beatle songs called “across the universe”. Tells the story of the 1960s. Then you’ll get their music. Check the history of Coke

The instrument you are referring to is Paul McCartney's bass line.

The Beatles also just wrote a lot of songs that had no meaning to them, sounded amazing and came out on top.

Its john Lennon who wrote the song with Paul McCartney

i think that video has nothing to do with the beatles or the song, it looks like nintendo wii fit characters. Michael Jackson made a pretty good cover of this song, check it out if you like

Everything is relative

1 an 1 an 1 is 3 and it sounds so exciting

John wrote it. Most Beatles song are sung by the person who wrote it.

dude don't try to break it apart too much --just close your eyes and enjoy ..🤟

John loved to play with words and Images. You just got to go along. John wrote it.

The instrument you're hearing that you couldn't identify is a Fender Rhodes electric piano

That's bass guitar in the background. Played masterfully by Paul McCartney. Bass guitars usually have four strings and are lower in pitch and smoother. It's not the first thing most people notice in a band, but you'd miss it if it wasn't there.

Never asked, but what's up with the Mayo behind you? It's kinda become your signature thing now. Anyway, another good & fun Beatles song 🎵

scrap the video, the music speaks for itself

This is from 1969, so yeah pretty trippy.

What you are hearing is a bass guitar. Just so we are clear, the bass is note pronounced like the fish. Bass: "low and deep".

John was asked to write a lyric when Drug (LSD) advocate Timothy Leary thought of running for political office in California in 1968 - phrase "Come Together" -Lennon ended up write this song, stream of conscious lyrics. The first lyric was cribbed from a Chuck Berry song - John paid a fee, to not be sued. Ringo has said this is one his favorite Beatles songs. The Lads had some personal discord in the year before, and in the Spring of 1959 they overcame some of their problems, and recorded the "Abbey Road" album, their last. This video was done for a Greatest Hits set, after 2000.

Paul plays the iconic bassline in this song! The video was made in 2009 (approx) when the remix was done. If you look at the Abbey Road album cover, you will notice that the cartoon Beatles are wearing the same clothes! This song is what we call SWAMPY! Piece of advice: Don't try to understand John Lennon 's lyrics! He was a poet and writer and he loved to wordplay and experiment with lyrics. Listen to I Am the Walrus, if you don't believe me!

I always loved this song and still do. But it always bothers me now that I found out that it starts out with John saying"shoot me" as well as in between the verses. More than ironic, it's absolutely heartbreaking.

It could all mean something or it could all be obviously absurd. John is the king of the absurd. I’ve heard this song thousands of times. I have no idea what it’s all about. I don’t think too much about it. Some songs are just like that.

This song led to the rumor that Paul McCartney died.

The video is years after the song was produced. I don't care for it much!

If that video true - Mario Cart has some royalty's to pay lol

John Lennon wrote this one just to mess with the other 3. It describes each one if them.

If you think this is "trippy", watch a Banana Splitz video, or Yellow Submarine. And Lennon was long dead by the time this video was made.

Don't get caught up with John's lyrics. He had an impressionist rather than direct lyric style. It creates a mood without literally meaning anything in particular.

the song is actually about charles manson

MD, it's time for you to react to the music documentary, Muscle Shoals

This was a double sided hit with George Harrisons song Something on the A side the single went to number one in october 1969

Trying to make linear sense out of some of John's more Dada lyrics will only frustrate you. A lot of times he was just having fun with word play while laughing up his sleeve at anyone who took it too seriously. Other times, of course, he was devastating in his rapier command of language, and had few peers in that regard. John was a gifted and respected writer with quite an impressive range, R.I.P.

and that's not talking about Coca-Cola it's talking about cocaine

More Beatles please. More solo details please! 💟All good thanks for the tunes. PLEASE will you consider the following…. Run to Me by the BeeGees Casanova70 by Air Train by Goldfrapp Song to the Siren by Robert Plant S-S-S Single Bed by Fox I’m Gonna Crawl by Led Zeppelin Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump Lucky Man by The Verve Devil Woman by Cliff Richard Apache by the Shadows Ride a White Swan by T Rex Cathy’s Clown by The Everly Brothers Let’s Stick Together by Brian Ferry Over You by Roxy Music Music by John Mills The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack Sweetheart Like You by Bob Dylan You’re So Vain (studio version) by Cary Simon Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club Power of Love-Frankie Goes to Hollywood Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel Mr Myself and I-Joan Armatrading Senses Working Overtime by XTC State of Independence by Donna Summer I’ll Find My Way Home by Jon and Vangelis Chung Kuo by Vangelis Oxigene part 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre La Femme d’argent by Air Golden Brown by the Stranglers Swinging Safari by Bert Kempfert Love spreads by The Stone Roses

Now that you watched this. Pleas react to Michael Jackson's version of this song. He had just bought the rights to the entire Beatles catalog and recorded a version of come together. Imo its far better than the beatles version. Let me know

The coca cola plug was probably more of a drug metaphor than actual pop. He shoot coca cola, yeah, definitely drugs, i have a feeling a lot of this was about drugs.

John was not above writing lyrics just to mess with the listener.

Did you hear John humming "Shoot me!" at the start of this song?

Okay, why did I only find out now that Obi-Wan Kenobi has a KZfaq channel?

Usual Beatles songs? What’s that? There is no such thing. Most Beatles songs were different from one another. They tried never to repeat themselves.

It's sad when people can't coqe with anything that isn't absolutely literal and where they label anything outside their comfort zone as being down to drugs...