Wasn't that exactly after his car accident? Kiddin'...............

@@marcjacobscontinued9411 I get you're kidding but I'm so sick of seeing that PID rubbish. Anyone who believes it needs some psychiatric help.

​@@ladraper7134you're off your meds mate

@@ladraper7134Please go away.

It really is a killer riff My other favorite is hey bulldog

Yep plus the single Penny Lane backed with Strawberry Fields..I mean wtf....some bands are around forever & can't even come close to one song no less 4 songs.

I still have the 45 after all these years.

Who gets it next?@@timb0man

Greatest "double A sided" single this side of Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields.

@@johndalton3180 Exactly. It's sad that when you do something that is the pinnacle of your talents you can never top it.

I was a college senior when Rubber Soul and Revolver were released. We were gobsmacked by the tunes, lyrics, tracks; even the stereo engineering. It was love and it still is ❤️❤️❤️

They were their best albums IMHO

@@JoePalau what a cool time to be alive lol by the way, is that Erasmus in your profile picture?

@@nicholasdibari9095 Every album is their best album.

At the same time that technology was advancing quickly and the culture was changing dramatically(cultural institutions forsaken, loss of respect for authority, and the ensuent mental and moral decline of the culture, the Beatles provided the subconscience lift that prople needed to handle it all. It was as if little muses were telling them what to say and all their talent, combined with good technology, gave them the epic status that still possess

it sounds super fresh too and 21st century, idk how they did that!

I'm with you! If it's on the radio, the radio is getting cranked, every time!

The lyrics are fantastic. Not a wasted word.

Crazy how the brain works...just reading the latest comment has my brain playing Paperback Writer. I didn't even catch it right away. I was like why all of a sudden am I singing PW? Then I remembered I just read the comment a minute ago. Now back to the singing!

Beatles song writing quite often told a story in 2 and a half to 3 and a half minutes. The lyrics engage our imagination because of the story structure. Give the songs another listen with this in mind. Your appreciation will grow. ❤

Ringo cited Rain as drumming he is most proud of.

I was 11, lol, howdy old friend, still love RAIN.

Paul McCartney, genius pop/rock bass player. IMO, his bass parts "made" so many of the Beatles song. In many cases, unlike with many other groups, it was his bass doing the nice "fills" in-between the vocal lines, and not the lead guitar or a keyboard. Many examples, but think of "A day in the life". Take away all the simple but beautiful bass fills in the song and it becomes much less impressive. Or "With a little help from my friends". But really, in every song, always adding a lot of value with his parts.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I love it. The bass is like the lead instrument on Rain.

When you hear "Paperback Writer" for the first time, it's a catchy, memorable song. And then on closer inspection you discover it's even more complicated and deeper than that first impression. In popular music, the mid-1960s was a renaissance. We're still assimilating it decades later.

@@Struwwel2 Having said that, it's based on the two "beginner's chords" of C and G7. Lesson 1: It's not the chords, it's what you do with them.

Yah! It really catches the rattle of the soul. That's basically what the Beatles and rock in general is meant to do, capture the soul.

I still have it too, it was my mother's

You're 1 year my junior. Good times..16 in '66? Better believe it!

I agree andyinoregon... There is a thread that runs through the 50's, 60's and 70's music. However, the Beatles were a SeaChange in music beginning with Rubber Soul and continuing into the 70's. I love the Beatles and recognize that the 70's were a direct result of the Beatles influence. However, there is no finer decade in Music than what was produced in the 70's. I don't think it will ever be duplicated... though I hope I am wrong.

@@bobbyh.3911 A very different style of music, but I've commented so many times on KZfaq that Steely Dan was for me in the '70s what The Beatles had been for me in the '60s.

Music was good in the 70s???

They are up there with the rolling stones but not as revolutionary, the stones made the Beatles even where there own clothes 😂 they were still in uniform before the stones come and changed the world and the Beatles wrote nice little songs but were never important politically like jagger and dylan

@@MrThedonhead : Yeah, OK Don……….🤦🏻‍♂️🤡

They far surpass the stones and were far more revolutionary. No band has been more inspirational for musicians.

In 1000 years, they will still be relevant.

@@MrThedonhead Jagger important politically. Ha ha. Jagger is a perfect example of a sell out to the system.

Live was lesser, but they worked hard to make it memorable nonetheless.

@@justiceforjamespaulmccartney Interesting, to be sure; however, Paul Part 2 wrote some great tunes and played an amazing bass! Perhaps Macca had a twin brother!?

@@justiceforjamespaulmccartney tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot XD How dumb do you have to be to believe that Paul died and was secretly replaced by someone who looked just like him, could play all the same instruments that he could, had the same voice as him, and could write songs just like him (or even better songs considering their best songs were in the latter half of their recording career)?

Bought the 45 in summer '66. Great music.

@@justiceforjamespaulmccartney - Give it up already... Besides, it was supposedly that motorbike accident that gave him the lip scar that "killed" Paul.

AMEN!

They got their start, just like the Rolling stones, copying black musicians.

@@Dana-ie2bhExactly what I came to post 😊 The existence of R&B, the times and moment they showed up, AND their natural talent AND the serious skills they developed as a hard-working bar band for years

Rick Rubin said that the Beatles proved the existence of God. I don't necessarily agree with that, but the Beatles are the most inventive and influential band in popular music of the last 100 years.

Illuminati

They boldly went...

"nobody" _in Europe_ had approached pop vocals that way before. The Beach Boys recorded "I Get Around" in April 1964, 2 years earlier. _Paul wasn't chasing Brian for nothing ;O)_

Yep. Came before, or after..

Saw The Beatles on their first Ed Sullivan appearance, also at 9 years old. I was forever changed. Still have all their vinyl records, including the 45’s.

At this point in the band's career, the Beatles enjoyed fame, attention and money on a scale that is unimaginable today. It was possible to perceive this wealth, just as we notice someone who is very well dressed or the owner of a very exclusive car. In fact, they had already reached this level two years earlier, in the American explosion and, consequently, worldwide, in 1964. What could have happened is very difficult: they could have suffered a negative impact of artistic accommodation, resulting from the benefits of glory and fame. Or what is almost the norm could have happened: they could have become perfect self-righteous idiots, enraptured with themselves and sunk into a vertiginous downward spiral of hedonism and decadence. But they were too distracted, WORKING. They took even serious knocks from fame, but they kept WORKING. We saw that on Get Back. We saw it on every album up to Let It Be. As it turned out, we're lucky: for as long as they existed as a band, they were the protagonists of a cultural and social portent whose impact shows no signs of being less than eternal, since it is deeply rooted in the genetics of feelings, behaviors and expressions. We are free to see them as just a band, after all. It's even a way of paying tribute to the way they've always seen themselves, and not without reason. It's what they have become of what we can now, without fear, call Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Think that's too much? Try playing "Yesterday" in a village in Cambodia, or showing the cover of Abbey Road to a family of Eskimos. Here, there and everywere.

At this point in the band's career, the Beatles enjoyed fame, attention and money on a scale that is unimaginable today. It was possible to perceive this wealth, just as we notice someone who is very well dressed or the owner of a very exclusive car. In fact, they had already reached this level two years earlier, in the American explosion and, consequently, worldwide, in 1964. What could have happened is very difficult: they could have suffered a negative impact of artistic accommodation, resulting from the benefits of glory and fame. Or what is almost the norm could have happened: they could have become perfect self-righteous idiots, enraptured with themselves and sunk into a vertiginous downward spiral of hedonism and decadence. But they were too distracted, WORKING. They took even serious knocks from fame, but they kept WORKING. We saw that on Get Back. We saw it on every album up to Let It Be. As it turned out, we're lucky: for as long as they existed as a band, they were the protagonists of a cultural and social portent whose impact shows no signs of being less than eternal, since it is deeply rooted in the genetics of feelings, behaviors and expressions. We are free to see them as just a band, after all. It's even a way of paying tribute to the way they've always seen themselves, and not without reason. It's what they have become of what we can now, without fear, call Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Think that's too much? Try playing "Yesterday" in a village in Cambodia, or showing the cover of Abbey Road to a family of Eskimos. Here, there and everywere.

With respect, that's a ludicrous viewpoint.

Agree 100%

Totally! I couldn't have put it better myself

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Definitely! I'm becoming quite the Beatles music collector... after watching this new video, I'm grabbing Rubber Soul which has a few lesser known jewels... such as "The Word" & "You won't see me" which have been covered by tons of artists, early crossover, I'd say

Cool story, thanks!

A taste for "Strawberry Fields" is a sign of a truly sophisticated sensibility.

Your dad had great taste!

In MY father's case, it Was Eleanor Rigby that did it😊

My Dad liked Nowhere Man.

Rain is my fav Ringo drumming and wish Paul had kept that rick bass

loved the drums on rain

Same here.

LOL; transistor radio. Me too!!

"If I could have been a fly on the wall...". Then the video would have featured the sound of a fly's swatter in the mix as you were crushed. 😁

And they were recording on a four track recorder!

I would be wondering what George thought about being relegated to tambourine. Same thing happened on their Magnum Opus "A Day In The Life" when he was relegated to maracas. I think Paul played lead on Georges's own song "Taxman" too. No wonder he ended up being "brassed off". Geoff Emerick recorded his impressions as a "fly on the wall". Interesting reading.

This was my sister Sue's favorite album of The Beatles also. RIP Susan, and I hope to see your soul somewhere later in this experiment.

Agree, everyone knows something else, ugh.

Maybe but I seem to recall Paul saying it as result of someone in the Asher household asking him why he only wrote about love and relationships.

@@martifingers That's what the book says. (I still have my copy some 45ish years later.) Could easily be a combination of reasons. "You should write about something other than love & stuff." "Good idea, lemme think… Got it! John just wrote these books, so…"

Read somewhere it was the result of a bet from Paul's Auntie, that he couldn't write anything but love songs etc. Could well have been Asher household member.

@@dougaldhendrick3497 You are more likely to have a better memory than mine. Dougald. I was there in the 60's!

In mine as well.....

Well, they are the #1 musicians in my book and the best music act ever. I hate it when people say they are the best band ever, key word "band" meaning that duos and singers that are not in bands are better than the Beatles. The Beatles according to you and others like you are just the best band and that's it.

​@@auletjohnast03638I always think that a real band, like the Beatles, are so much more than the sum of their parts. Best band is the ultimate accolade in popular music as far as I'm concerned.

​@@auletjohnast03638That's such a minor nitpick. The best band can also be the best act in general. To complain about people calling the beatles the best band because you consider them the best musicians overall is quite a pedantic complaint, since not only is it up for debate whether that's true or not; but the best band term is not mutually exclusive with the best musicians or the best artists.

That's exactly what I spent mine on. 45s.

I shouldn't be surprised if the band (Beatles plus Messrs Martin and Emerick) were fully aware of the quirks and left them in for extra flavour.

Well said! Living through the Beatles emergence was something that not everyone got to experience but those who did, are still living it today.

"Every time" is two separate words. And "go-to" should be hyphenated. I hope this helps. : )

Also, my favorite Beatles song. I love the harmonies and it showcases all four Beatles working together at the height of their creative powers.

@@stafford777 Are you the grammar police?

@@stafford777 - You can thank Britney Spears and her fabulous song, "Everytime", for corrupting the minds of youth with these types of errors.

You never heard the Fre"re Jacques harmony because of the crappy AM radios and cheap record players we all had back then. LoL!!!

Not really.

Did you know that Paul also played the guitar solo in "Taxman"?

@@saveourrivers yes I learned that recently! I always had incorrectly assumed the guitar solo was courtesy of George.

@@dorerd ooh, not liking The Beatles. So edgy and impressive. (yawn)

going now to take a look-see,

Sorry, but they did not play this one very well.

However, in 1993, McCartney and his band played it quite well.

And a shitty sound system with NO MONITORS, and thousands of hysterical girls screaming in the background. Talk about mission impossible.

Well the thing that’s very impressive is the fact that John and George don’t have their hands on the strings of the guitar but the riffs are playing either pre-recorded or a band behind the stage Bernard Purdie one of the best drummers and most recorded drummers said he played on 21 of the beetle tracks he said they were four drummers on Beatle songs and Ringo wasn’t one of them we’re supposed to believe they went into the studio in the beginning of November and I believe that December 4 it was in the stores with no material no songs and did the entire 16 tracks rubber soul in a matter of 3 1/2 weeks that would be an album cover and photo shoots pressing the record rehearsing the songs. And when you look at the history of the recording of that album most of the songs were done and either one or two takes absolutely impossible to write all that music rehearse all that music and literally put it down in one and two tracks when John and Paul in interviews said they couldn’t read music and that they weren’t really that good on their instruments it’s the old Cinderella story rags to riches they were put together by Tavistock and social engineering Group associated with MI6 British intelligence the Beatles were put together to debase society . They picked out each member sent them over to Germany to learn the 4 chord Chuck Berry songs which their first tour in 1964 all the songs from then they were still playing in 1966 nothing off of rubber soul or revolver still doing roll over Beethoven and I’m down and she loves you. it was a British invasion on the family unit long hair on boys creating the whole trans gender dystopia of today illicit drug use sex with whoever feels good with birth control pill abortions the breaking up of the family unit. I don’t think people realize how much work goes into just doing one song the songs were already recorded and they just did the vocals Davy Jones from The Monkees said two weeks before he mysteriously died the monkeys weren’t the first pre-fabricated band the Beatles were

The "Paperbak writer" vocal only "chorus" is actually built on 4 chords (C-G-Amin-D : you can hear them on the instrumental take or on the Budokan live performance. I remember being quite surprized, but it makes sense. The fact that it's only vocal harmonies kind of erases the impression of multiple chords... ;-)

@@pif-film that’s interesting. Thanks for sharing.

That's the debut of Paul's Rickenbacker bass. He became a completely different bass player after that.

Same here. Alot of awesome things happened in 66 me being 1 of them

It's probably my favourite Beatles song. The guitar bass and rhythm are so perfect, lyrics are amazing. It sounds so stoned too, which I love

There is no such song by the Beatles, how weird is that.

completely agree

At the very least it's a fantastic opening couplet

I spent a lot of time on my Ludwig Standard kit playing this song too. 61 now and I still love this song. Rock & Roll at it’s best ❤

The narrator wouldn't know about that.

On some verses they're singing paperback writer & on some verses they're singing frere jacques

Only in the last verse

@@lynnturman8157 that's why I thought every verse is Paperback writer 😂

It is PW during the chorus (unless anyone wants to correct me) but it's FJ during the verses.

I never heard it either!

very cool

How could you mistake " Dear Sir or Madam, for "Take the last train to"? I call B/S on that story.

@@CB-xr1egFrom what I’ve read in a couple Monkees-related articles (I’m s huge Monkees fan) is that either Tommy Boyce or Bobby Hart was driving down the freeway in L.A. and changing stations. They came across ‘Paperback Writer’ at the end of the song (just as it was beginning to fade) and thought they were singing “take the last train”. Remember, radios in cars back then were 99% AM only and some cars had just one tinny-sounding speaker on top of the dash; because AM was in mono, there was usually only one speaker in the center of the top on the dashboard though by then some cars started putting a second speaker in the middle of the rear dash as well. So, yeah, if he was doing 60mph down the freeway with the windows open (or closed) it’s very possible that’s what he thought he heard.

@@raymondkitchen6137 Fair enough, but the comment above which I replied to stated that Boyce & Hart heard the opening line of Paperback Writer " Dear Sir Or |Madam" and thought it was "Take The Last Train". My comment was questioning how that was possible, to mishear it like that.

Sounds like Boyce and Hart stole a little from the Kinks album "Face to Face". Bits of two songs - Party Line and Holiday in Waikiki.

Zappa was a massively creative genius, but he wasn't immune to the human tendency to jam his head up between his nether cheeks every once in a while.

@@Vito_Tuxedo or maybe he just didn't liked pop rock/the beatles and preferred blues rock/Rolling Stone and doo woop.

@@marcocardia3960 I dunno, and unfortunately we can't ask him. But I do think you're onto something regarding a kind of deep-seated animus toward "pop", whatever that means. In Zappa's frame of reference, I've always took it to mean "anything that was commercially successful". His disdain for the record industry's fixation on "commercial potential" was no secret. Actually, my comment was more an observation that Zappa's attitude was inconsistent. I mean, what is there about _Paperback Writer_ that differentiates it so greatly from any number of other Beatles songs that are just as rockin', just as sonically innovative, just as harmonious, or just as brilliantly performed and produced. As much as I love it, it's certainly not among their most musically creative songs. I can only assume that it just appealed to Zappa's subjective concept of "good", an opinion to which he's perfectly entitled. But considering Zappa's own penchant for innovation and musical complexity, _Paperback Writer_ seems a surprising member of his remarkably short list of Beatles favorites. Another point that was behind my comment (which doesn't have anything to do with music) is Zappa's bizarre socio-political perspective...er, not that politics makes any sense in the first place. Anyhow, he was a staunch advocate of individual liberty; yet, he was amazingly inconsistent in his identification of what he considered "good guys" and "bad guys" in the political domain. Hey...no one's perfect. Frank certainly wasn't omniscient or infallible. I agree with a lot of the ideas he expressed, but not everything. Ultimately, I value him for the music he created.

@@Vito_Tuxedo well Republicans are the bad guys so I agree with him on that, Frank just didn't lisen to pop music everytime they ask them what he lisens to, he answered that he had Bulgarian Folk music tapes on his car and classical music, like lou Reed their music reflects the people they are are, their music was radically different from popular music so they were anti the popular thing, although frank could do great pop songs and melodies as showed in Freak out and We're only in it for the money, a thing he said about the beatles wich was very stupid, but Frank was a cynic.

Is Paul real or fake

I was also 10 then .No doubt it was an awesome time hearing this novel record.

how did he manage to go 30 years without hearing that song?

By being a grown man listening to adult music?

Beatles had a particular impact on italian mainstream nedia. At first they were neglected as some ridiculous British hype. Then, they were rediscovered as a cultural phenomenon, long after their break up. It's quite normal here to know only a few of their songs, probabl youy from their earlier repertoire (the yeah-yeah era).

I still have that 45 I also have Revolution & Lady Madonna

What an amazing introduction to the Beatles for a young child.

That _is_ a typewriter! I've been down that rabbit hole and concluded that there's nothing else it can be - just the struggle to get the rhythm with it is apparent. Believe, lol.

Brian Epstein didn't want it released as a single as it wasn't a love song or about a girl.

@@CB-xr1eg their last few singles before this weren’t love songs either

@@jonathanbirch2022 The 3 singles prior to this were Yesterday/Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out. All were about girls. In fact all their singles prior to this, with the exception of Help, were love songs or about a girl. Do your Beatle research before making silly statements.

@@CB-xr1eg are you talking about their UK singles or US singles? Yesterday was not released as a single in the UK. Nowhere Man was a US single that was not about a girl and was released before Paperback Writer. We Can Work It Out is not about a girl, it is about a relationship but also could be about friendship, it has deeper themes than your average love song. So that’s three singles before Paperback Writer - Nowhere Man, We Can Work It Out, Help - that are not about girls.

@@jonathanbirch2022 I'm talking about the only chart that counts. The UK chart. So that excludes Nowhere Man. First verse last line in We Can Work It Out... *There's a risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone* Pretty sure that wasn't about a boy! So, as I said that just leaves Help as a non love/girl song.

The Beatles didn't usually put their singles on the British versions of the albums. So you got more songs from them that way. More bang for your buck! John said it was like ripping your fans off if you put a single on the album like Capitol but thats American greed for you. The record company should of been called Capitalism instead!

Yeah man, exact ! I m absolutly mesmerized that almost no one discuss about it..... who cares if that's the favorite song of a 10, or 70, years old cab driver in almeria...!!! The point is about Beat less.... (do you know about "What about my book, then ! ?")?

@@caesarborgia4012 The Beatles followed the naming convention of Buddy Holly and the Crickets but chose the beetles, but changed it to Beat les in a nod to the beat movement which they admired. They were well read and versed in great music and literature. That is why the Beatles and Dylan were such great writers.