How The Beatles Changed Album Covers

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Beyond the Music: Rethinking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
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'Nothing You Can See That Isn't Shown': The Album Covers of the Beatles
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[@L.O.Hammmm]

That last sentence, and the way you faded in A Day In The Life. Perfect. Thank you!

[@MartinJohnZ]

@Jeevan M R Yeah, and the Patreon commercial that followed immediately. Goosebumps.

[@caitlynwilson9263]

it made me cry omg

[@harleybfilms]

holy shit was bout to say that

[@melanieespriu5809]

Turtle Vision Films PERFECT

[@eminem7152]

got goosebumps and made me want to cry. I'm so glad to know and love what I do on my free time and what I study about

[@TheJulianifyBTS]

Now time to analyse the white album ay

[@Seskoi]

Ahah, see how everything is a cycle - at first all album covers were bland carton, then the industry innovated with artworked covers... Then it was considered innovative to have a bland white carton ahah!

[@jaykeii]

So many symbolisms wow

[@meghandorris9966]

Yes that would be so cool

[@futuramayeah]

you mean a doll's house? forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-beatles-a-dolls-house.200834/page-3

[@williampow69]

Just wanted to save inks

[@rodgersmythe6579]

Lets not forget the real best album cover... the white album.

[@bennywise410]

so true

[@StephySon]

Can't believe one song on that album inspired a murderer and laid the foundation of Heavy Metal . . .

[@bennywise410]

StephySon which one?

[@perryoparsonneseatingjuicy8738]

+pelusrubiusdospuntocero Helter Skelter

[@bennywise410]

BritishBanjoWolf lol i love that one

[@Howl14]

Video ends with A Day in The Life. I click like.

[@Gordon_Freeman_PhD]

I click like.

[@soymilk841]

vrafiqa I click like.

[@udayandwivedi3353]

Yup

[@gabrielgian8988]

My favorite song ever

[@semireckless]

Gabriel In another comment thread below a specific video of the song "A Day In The Life", someone stated his opinion that the song was the best song on the best album of the best band in history., Amen to that!

[@machiel5888]

There will never be another band like them

[@timothywright3130]

Machiel de Groot No need to be pessimistic of course there will. I patiently await the day.

[@legoresources]

Timothy is right, the Beatles are amazing, but there is high caliber music still being created today.

[@datura7883]

nah they where far surpassed by multiple bands and artists during the 60s. As pop culture icons I agree, there will never be a band as influential as the beatles. They set the standard for pop music, how to market yourself with album covers and personalities. Music wise is however a different story. In the 60s Frank Zappa, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground and of course Bob Dylan surpassed them with boundary pushing sounds and ideas together with satirical, cryptic and memorable lyricism. When Beatles where producing pop jingles for the masses Zappa was bending genres.

[@trevorhouck4544]

Hannes Samuelsson um, the Beatles are known for their revolutionary techniques in the studio. they weren't just pop jingles.

[@toxa35]

Hannes Samuelsson Dude, I love Zappa and captain beefheart, as well. Both great and experimental as hell. But you know what they didn't have, what Beatles had ? The idea and sublime talent of songwriting. Zappa did experiments just for the sake of these experiments, when behind all that stuff was just eagerness to be extreme and "edgy". Beefheart was weird and crazy dude. He could come up with these awesome avant gard'ish tunes, like no one else, but he lacked the idea and songwriting skills. Beatles had that idea within their music and they had much more superior skills in songwriting. For instance, Zappa's "freak out" was released less then two months prior to "Revolver". Take the most experimental song from "freak out" and compare it then to tomorrow never knows. Feel the difference? Beatles didn't just do some crazy experimentation. They knew what stands behind these experiments and they REALLY tried to push boundaries. That's why, Tomorrow never knows sounds so fucking ahead of its time and in fact, even nowadays sounds quite fresh. When experiments of Zappa and Beefheart (amazing songs, no doubt) sounds great only for it's time.

[@ScriptureSketches]

Brilliant. Your commentary on art is some of the best material I've seen on youtube.

[@Nerdwriter1]

ScriptureSketches Thanks, ScriptureSketches.

[@Theroadtoawe]

+Nerdwriter1 Yeah seriously dude, your doing humanity a great service by breaking down art so that the simple man can understand it. Ive learned so much, thank you!

[@lamyisdaeadxd9853]

how du you explan gore metal allbum covers!

[@antonlefaivre4327]

It's less interesting, really. Shock value, a particular niche aesthetic and the like. I highly doubt there is any intended intellectual material in, say, Cannibal Corpse covers.

[@samguy7654]

Theroadtoawe The simple man can in fact "understand" art.. even though it's more of interpreting then understanding..

[@TomRNZ]

Fun fact: The stretched effect on the "Rubber Soul" album cover was a happy accident. The photographer was projecting the photos onto a piece of card to show the Beatles how the album cover would look, when the card fell back slightly, giving the appearance of the photo being stretched. The Beatles liked this effect and asked the photographer if they could have it like that, to which he said yes.

[@worschtee1]

Pretty common knowledge to a lot of folks...but thanks for sharing anyways

[@anthonyryan998]

PacificRimNZ - I never knew that! One occasionally thinks one knows everything about something, and every now and then one learns that one doesn't! I will now go back to believing I know everything - until next time. :-)

[@mikeexits]

@@worschtee1 Maybe, maybe not. I didn't know that previously so I appreciate OP pointing that out.

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

worschtee1 The world’s as big as it is small. I’m glad they posted-it was new to me.

[@schuckdaddy1318]

@@worschtee1 Always going to be people discovering The Beatles for the first time, and they certainly wouldn't know these behind-the-scenes facts. No need to gatekeep, the more the world knows about The Beatles, the better!

[@allxtarmusic]

You are the Vsauce of culture and arts. Beautiful

[@Nerdwriter1]

allxtar music Thanks! A lot of poeple say that. I wonder if he would collaborate with me...?

[@allxtarmusic]

A total dream being able to do this full time.. Sick of the drudgery of corporate work,,,

[@kurtduvel4345]

+Nerdwriter1 I almost thought you were him for a moment - you two have very similar speaking styles.

[@kaiesalmahmud6782]

Show Me That Riff Couldn't agree more.

[@Dr.Vinnie]

best comment

[@nateds7326]

The beatles literally made 4 guys walking down the street the most iconic album cover of all time

[@-Scrapper-]

Nope dark side of the moon

[@PercyPanleo]

​@@-Scrapper-I'd say both covers are pretty close together in that regard

[@-Scrapper-]

@@PercyPanleo nevermind is closer

[@nicolasayalagomez3104]

@@-Scrapper- xdddddddddd

[@sx20Ramar]

Technically, they are walking "across" the street, not down it.....😮

[@paulmccartneystoenail4897]

R.I.P John Lennon R.I.P George Harrison You will never be forgotten.

[@Braud04]

R.I.P. George Martin

[@paulmccartneystoenail4897]

João Augusto Soares dos Reis- and RIP Brian Epstein

[@jamesguy1030]

Rick Astley my overlord ~ Yeah, Check out the amazing short video Called = “Paul to Faul 1966/1967 interviews more differences” By Sandpit123 R.i.P Paul McCartney

[@paulmccartneystoenail4897]

James Guy- really? He ain’t dead lolllll

[@HaSabeanies]

R.I.P ♥️

[@danielhenrysilver6607]

Your videos are of such a uniquely high quality for youtube.

[@Nerdwriter1]

Daniel Henry Silver Thanks Daniel. That means a lot.

[@coreytk]

Couldn't agree more!

[@danielhenrysilver6607]

No, thank you.

[@euphospug]

+Maha Bilal 120k now :-)

[@AmazingQguy]

check lemino out, he makes quality content too!

[@maketimmycry]

"all music is invisible" cut to White Album cover (there true masterpiece and perfection of this idea)

[@Mattteus]

+maketimmycry I agree with you wholly on the idea that The Beatles is the perfection of the idea that "all music is invisible". The Beatles is a great album but, in my opinion, it ranks below Rubber Soul and Let It Be. Also, did you mean 'their' when you wrote 'there'?

[@jadedjimmy]

I heard that the White album was pretty much their follow up to the mastery that was Sgt. Pepper. And instead of trying to come with another concept for an album that would top the preceding album, they literally just threw together whatever they could write and had literally no concept at all. That's why I love the White Album.

[@hw343434]

@@MattteusLet it Be lol wasn’t even released. That’s Mid tier Beatles. Revolver, Abbey Road and White Album for me

[@jrandrade7850]

Damnit, Evan! your closing statement combined with the amazing audio mix made me shed a tear of joy.........how dare you make me cry during working hours.

[@afonsolucas2219]

Jr Andrade What were you even doing watching this at work hours!?

[@jrandrade7850]

watching it for Inspirational purposes

[@afonsolucas2219]

Jr Andrade Well, that's good enough for me.

[@joshdot9244]

Modest mouse mate.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"the designer" The Sgt. Pepper cover was designed by two pop artists, Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, just as the album credit said it was.

[@notmontyburns]

I love a Day in the Life, it's such a beautiful song.

[@KungaMatata]

Well I mean A Day In the Life is already a pretty damn high standard for music lol

[@dennydarkko]

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

[@dennydarkko]

Gives me chills when I hear john say "I read the news today oh boy"

[@joehackney8110]

@John Cavanaugh carry that weight is in my top 5 favourite Beatles songs

[@hw343434]

@johncavanaugh1911Abbey Road medley is nothing compared to A Day in the Life. Both masterpieces tho, no need to compare

[@LarryOfilms]

Sometimes I like to think they were high as hell and were like " hey wouldn't it be awesome if we had random people joining us in the photo?" and then hours later they created a masterpiece without knowing it.

[@milkflavored]

Agreed. I think half the things considered groundbreaking by them were created when they were blitzed out of their minds and over time has been assigned cultural value. But it still works bc it's honest.

[@pigsrock93]

Larry O Well.... Paul and Ringo did say that "they were on acid when they made everything for Sgt. pepper". This is the actual reason for this album cover

[@neighbor472]

+Pigsrock93 so if someone was tripping when they made the album that's the whole point of it?

[@pigsrock93]

Troncoso I did, I'm just saying that they were on acid when they made the cover.

[@neighbor472]

+Troncoso well it does have something to do with drugs, I'm sure they came up with the concept while tripping. But aside from that the concept has nothing to do with drugs. It was just drug inspired

[@skatemetrix]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is one of hell of a cover.

[@Nerdwriter1]

skatemetrix I love all the Floyd covers, particularly Wish You Were Here, which I think goes as far toward pure art as an album can go. The first editions were sold in a black plastic wrapping, almost to refute the idea of the record as a commodity.

[@skatemetrix]

Nerdwriter1 Wish You Were Here cover is purely surreal. Also you must know your Pink Floyd, you see the band's idea was to issue album covers in pure black but the music corporations thought Pink Floyd were fucking crazy- paraphrasing Storm Thorgerson.

[@jamiestimpson7763]

Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of an album!!

[@iammad3490]

Nerdwriter1 whats up with Animals? Or Ummagumma?

[@culvernile2255]

the most profitable.

[@jamiewilliamson1588]

That ending gave me goosebumps

[@arenawarfare2584]

Jamie Williamson saammme

[@xXSellizeXx]

Oh my god... That was perhaps the greatest KZbin video I've ever watched.

[@morissmor]

Jake Whitton actually you're wrong. The best video on this site is zlad's music video for elektronik supersonik. And that's objective truth.

[@SpaceFlye]

Ending on "A day in the life" was perfection.

[@howtubeable]

How many KZbin videos have you watched? This is pleasant, but not a favorite.

[@torger8305]

"It's in the mind y'know" -George Harrison

[@Jfran-nj3dz]

Oh shit nigga that was deep

[@eladbari]

Jfran2013 got the chills when his final words hit "a day in a life"...

[@tedmills]

Another great video, which just so happens to be about one of the best bands of all time, and you still manage to point to something new about it (including a crowd on the cover as a way to include fans). BTW, I'm not sure about the use of the phrase Holy Grail to describe this album. Surely, 'holy grail' means something that is heavily sought after but is most probably lost to time. (A Beatles holy grail would be the master tapes of She Loves You, which nobody can locate.)

[@Nerdwriter1]

ted mills good point

[@TheGroucho66]

+ted mills Or the 'Carnival of Light' - or even that half an hour long take of 'Helter Skelter'.

[@fausto8265]

or even Brian Wilson's original concept of SMiLE. That is surely something that has been lost over time.

[@paperviewcast]

SMiLE, it can be argued, is the Holy Grail of all music humans have ever made.

[@helga7986]

"The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind."-an excerpt from "the Present" on the truth contest site. What do you guys think?

[@carlosmontilla1804]

This video made me cry

[@youresohot1392]

Are your serious?! I mean I'm only a minute into the video so I wouldn't understand but did it really make you cry?? If so then damn this must be one good video.

[@carlosmontilla1804]

YOU'RE SO HOT it's not that I like the Beatles or something it just made me cry at the end

[@SamSveistrup]

Agreed

[@noramarkham3719]

you should like The Beatles! Give them a proper listen if you haven't yet (:

[@larryinc64]

2:20 - 'Photo of The Band' I see what you did there

[@GreenSnowleaf]

+larryinc64 I don't, please explain it to me.

[@larryinc64]

Joop Hooijmans The photo used there is of the band 'The Band' from their self titled album 'The Band' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_(album)

[@JimmyS.25]

Oh wow. Ohhh wow.

[@christopherbishop6172]

I laughed so hard that I had to find another person in the comments section who got the joke as well

[@joeschmo7834]

I know Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road are touted as the Beatles’ best album covers, but Revolver was just as amazing as both in my opinion

[@oneseagullflock]

Peter Blake didn’t fully create the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover: he co-created it with Jann Haworth. She was the main pop artist. Don’t just give him all the credit.

[@mertinho]

This is definitely one of the best content on KZbin. The depth and range of how you examine specific topics is remarkable.

[@javierprieto1250]

wow this guy made album covers a science

[@DreamMoneyGang]

THEY did... he just told you

[@NotQuiteFirst]

+Javier Prieto Science is Art that you understand the rules to

[@canadianstudmuffin]

Excellent video!

[@mycubiclepenguin868]

Canadian Studmuffin funny seeing you here...

[@phatato]

A Day in the Life seriously STILL gives me goosebumps every time I hear it

[@billymiskimmin]

I love the play on words at 2:20 when you say "just a photograph of the band", and show a photo of The Band!! Absolutely brilliant

[@efp722]

Damn. That got deep. Now I'm sad.

[@Jolgeable]

Well I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph...

[@fozzie51]

So good, every time I'm impressed with your content!

[@Nerdwriter1]

Grant Foster Cheers, Grant!

[@glomerdian]

After listening to this video I think I fell in love with you. I'm not gay I swear. Just for you.

[@TRFAD]

+meatlog I was thinking something similar haha.

[@DeshaunIsAmazing]

Don't fear being any sexuality. Sex is only ones expression of love and passion for another. If you love another male, then love him with the entirety of your heart. Some people don't get the joy of falling in love at all.

[@nousseirbahlous3387]

+Deshanles Did you have to take a joke and turn it into a tumblr post.

[@andisadiku1819]

+meatlog gay is ok bro XDDDD

[@glomerdian]

Nousseir Bahlous Did you have to take a comment and post it 3 times.

[@benchambers1305]

Every Radiohead album has amazing artwork like Kid A and In Rainbows

[@pastywhiteboy9393]

Ben chambers kid a especially

[@bix3622]

Ben chambers Moon Shaped Pool artwork is beautiful

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

Pablo Honey, honestly

[@teethgrinder83]

I really love the artwork on ok computer-handy that it's one of my favourite albums ever too lol

[@user-rv6py8cd6p]

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS THREAD

[@claudiabailey8629]

honestly gave me goosebumps

[@usernameTheInnerTube]

I watch a lot of things on You Tube, Probably more than I should, but nothing gives me pause to think and reflect quite like any of your videos. It's hard to explain, it's more of a deep seated visceral reaction than anything else. And I mean that in a good way. Keep up the good work.

[@Nerdwriter1]

Dr_Boom Thanks again, Dr_Boom.

[@okike.4573]

the beatles changed a lot of things

[@countalucard4226]

Okik E. Mainly the world

[@anthonychiulli7736]

Yes the world

[@LPChipi]

No, the 60's changed a lot of things. They were just popular enough to get the credit.

[@johnnymoondogs1816]

Juan Inchauspe lol you dont know nothing about music

[@sergeantpepper2737]

@@LPChipi nooooooob idiot

[@GabzitoHD]

4:59 ... the Beatles never reused the same chords, they were very creative early on

[@thefaminedenier5199]

GabzitoHD hello

[@finnhaney7432]

Yeah they actually never even played the same note more than twice per album

[@krisengelaar1928]

@@finnhaney7432 idk if your joking but that sounds highly unlikely

[@IndyDefense]

2:20 I see what you did there.

[@HosamSherif]

Missed it. What was the reference?

[@IndyDefense]

Hosam Sherif He slyly name dropped The Band.

[@HosamSherif]

IndyDefense Thanks, pissed that I missed that. :)

[@thomasponzio8345]

the student has become the teacher

[@GoldenTV3]

I don't get it what did you mean.

[@adamwebb241]

Literally cried at the end of this video

[@noramarkham3719]

same here

[@lizzym1112]

me too!

[@phatato]

A day in the life does that

[@luizantonio1050]

The velvet underground and nico it's my favorite album cover

[@RumtumtuggerTB]

Beautiful cover, beautiful album

[@proletar-ian]

+Luiz Antonio It is a work by Andy Warhol, in case you didn't know. He's an interesting character.

[@onwun4292]

+Ian Henderson Could you give me your opinions on why that cover is good ? I don't know that much about Andy Warhol.

[@rauleao]

I think the cover of TVU&N is more iconic than Sgt. Peppers

[@tasoskontogiannis8260]

+Luiz Antonio And it came out first, Beatle's album came out later that year.

[@willowecker9285]

Dude, you are so good at this, like, my god. The end almost made me cry. I love this so much

[@connorhalleck2895]

Dude this is so good, love the cut to black.

[@MikeyBrown99]

I concur with your point about having no need for music videos as I myself would rather just listen to the music and just let the instruments, vocals and samples take me to that place. This is amplified when I engage in the recreational and meditative herb.

[@buddha4tw]

I remember looking at this album cover and listening to their music, it seemed very sad to me at the time.

[@joeymanson2222]

I was reading Helter Skelter when i realized i needed to give the Beatles a wholehearted listen. I was looking for the White Album at first. Couldnt find it readily so Sgt Peppers became my first Bealtes album. Mind blown. Fell in love with it immediately. The biggest suprise on that one for me was When im 64. The World According to Garp was one of my favorite movies as a kid and just loved that song without any knowledge of who did it. Suffice to say i did not stop there. Words cant express the influence this group has had on me years before i ever realized. And evet since.

[@TheSweBoo]

You make some of the most refined, well-thought and interesting videos on this website. Hats off to you

[@99thTuesday]

It seems to me that primarily the cover is not a Band using Art to make commentary but an Artist using the Band to make commentary, albeit with the Band's permission and collaboration. What I mean to say is that the Pop Art movement in Visual Arts had been around for years before the Beatles and at least a decade before Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles were genuinely experiencing their commodification but chose to tap into an existing visual movement to express this, while their music continued to break other musical barriers. Maybe the Visual Arts had become radicalised earlier than Music and so had the maturity as an artform to convey the necessary critique or maybe it was just another string in the bow of what the Beatles wanted to achieve.

[@jorgecurti8712]

Almost cried in the end.

[@herr_fuchsnews5630]

I am so happy to finally find a 1 million subscribers channel with amazing content. So many other channels just follow trends to become popular. But your channel, and this video in particular, shows that some people do youtube for the sake of making videos. And it shows that some people understand videos and film as what they are: art.

[@MinorCirrus]

You MUST do the same with Pink Floyd (and Hipgnosis as a whole). You HAFTA.

[@CloroxBleach-cq7tj]

Dark Side is the most iconic Album Cover

[@jibran2846]

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj it's definitely up there, but I think Abbey road, Sgt pepper, and mj's 'bad' album are too.

[@jibran2846]

@@CloroxBleach-cq7tj also nevermind is pretty noteworthy.

[@dmacmcmanus95]

4:03 haha paul is 64! like if you understand.

[@jesusm7728]

OMG I have seen it thousands of times in the vinyl but never noticed it

[@worschtee1]

Totally done on purpose I'm sure ;-)

[@SpaceFlye]

Gosh damn, this was beautifully made. Did not expect this to get so meaningful towards the end. Got a bit emotional there too. Bravo.

[@emmanuelortega3708]

This is such a good video, I've watched it like 4 times, and absolutely love it, especially the ending

[@avaloncolours]

Dude! Love this- as an art history student and a huge music lover, the analysis of album covers an the visuals of music videos and concerts are sooo fascinating to me. And your last statement was so lovely!

[@doodle2763]

The cover of Sgt peppers is absolutely amazing

[@Averg_]

Wow....I'm just speechless, this is a great video.

[@santaco1125]

by far the most interesting video about the Beatles I have ever seen!!!!

[@gewhizz985]

that ending literally made me cry. so beautifully put together. -thank you

[@skysmindgarden]

That ending was perfect and so theatrical. You wrapping it up with a beautiful bow of tone and poetic touch, and Day In The Life playing in the background. Absolutely beautiful

[@lucasholloway6999]

You just had to end with A Day in the Life. Now I'm all verklempt.

[@alundberg]

Have you ever played Journey (the videogame) ? It's rather short for a videogame but an amazing philosophical experience as well. I think you would dig it. :)

[@KonflictYT]

Amazing video, I was so captivated. The visuals of your videos are awesome, and the commentary is very intriguing. Had me interested from the very start until the very end.

[@Dsweet93]

This almost made me cry. I love The Beatles, for all they were. This made it clear to me that they were actually probably the most celebrated "artists" of any form ever. If you consider pop music an art (which it is). No other artist has been given so much praise during their life time and after. Shakespeare? Van Gogh? Andy Warhol? I really do think The Beatles were the most well regarded in the art culture, ever.

[@jamesrodriguez3593]

Thank you Nerdwriter1, awesome job here it's great to pay a tribute to the most amazing spectacular creative and artistic band of all time

[@ABadgerDoctor]

What was that first into song, that was just an eargasm.

[@liza19972009]

Did you find it?

[@wyattrowe8396]

I see what you did at 2:20. Good one.

[@samguy7654]

Wyatt Rowe What did he do?

[@Aleph-Noll]

when he said "the band" in the video while talking about that style of album art, he used the album for a band called "the band"

[@samguy7654]

Aleph Null Oh okay, i didn't know about "The Band" that's why I missed it, thanks man.

[@Birdsofthelou]

No one will ever be like the Beatles. Not only were they in their own league musically and artistically but they straight up grinded. They released 6 albums, two movies, went on several tours and tv shows just from 1963-65. They always came out with an album more magical then the last and changed the world. I don’t think you or I will see a band that changed so much in just a couple years. They changed music. They changed the world. They changed my life, I know that much.... and I guess that’s all that matters.

[@carlanaperla7718]

The Beatles is my favorite band , Sgt.Pepper is my favorite Album and "A Day In The Life " is my favorite song , however you made me understand the album's meaning in a deeper way I never noticed before... Thank you so much , keep doing this videos , is the best material someone can find in KZbin...

[@potmki6601]

"All music is invisible" - woah Also. I like your passion

[@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956]

There was this rumor floating around in the late 60s that Paul McCartney was dead and if you opened the Sargent Pepper's album to the lyric section inside, you would see a photo of the Fab Four, but Paul was standing with his back towards the camera. If you look to Paul's left, George Harrison's has his finger pointing towards the lyric line "Wednesday morning at five O'clock..." The story was that somewhere embedded in the album there was a secret phone number. If you found it, you were to call on Wednesday morning at Five O'clock and someone would tell you the time and place of Paul's funeral... Genius marketing in my book!

[@dmolinari]

one of the most original commentaries on the Beatles I've seen, great job.

[@BallotBoxer]

Great video essay! However, I couldn't go along with the speculation at the end. "The third depiction of the band is invisible" line felt like too much of a stretch to bookend the video.

[@joshlee1090]

BallotBoxer I didn't think it was a bookend as much as it was the point of the entire video.

[@BallotBoxer]

Wellll, I'd say the point of the video was about a popular band leading leading a new trend in inventive album art. Not the preference for music to be heard, rather than seen.

[@joshlee1090]

BallotBoxer Yes, but the trend you and the video are speaking about was the progression from unseen(pre-album art), to seen, to parody of being seen.

[@popc5245]

BallotBoxer I think the exact words he used are what make it not as a convincing argument as everything else, i try to refraised for myself i think i can cacth better what was trying to say

[@Nerdwriter1]

Josh Paulson I like both sides of this argument.

[@DavidSmith-jj7zn]

Damn dude that was deep .... But still awesome

[@micharekosiewicz8660]

Man, your video popped up on my recommendations list several weeks ago and I watched it out of curiosity. After watching the whole video I started to actually listen to the Beatles, which I have never done before (I didn't like their early stuff and I thought it's the only thing they did). OMG have I listened to anything else since then! I became a fanatic at this point, thank you so much for properly introducing me to the Beatles!

[@bosox3125]

This was beautifully put together and written. Fantastic.

[@thePinkKitty3]

4:46 kinda sounds like hey Jude

[@jonnik.404]

am i the only who cried?

[@victoriapillai7809]

great video!!!

[@jeffabbott9505]

i’m in love with those last lines, i showed this video to my group holiday lane and it’s very inspired, music is invisible

[@alecmcgrathofcanada9175]

I keep watching this... over and over. Fuels my inspiration, and continually reinforces my love for The Beatles.

[@stardustman420]

Beautiful.

[@sugarjoe50]

Have you forgotten the famed 'butcher' cover?

[@g-wiz154]

The end gave me goosebumps, great work keep it up

[@Borgmatha1027]

The Abby Road cover is my favorite kind of cover, the kind that just has the image and not the name of the album on it, like Led Zeppelin 4

[@Paul07791]

Interesting, but it's also a cover which suggests the Beatles have moved on from the simple days of loitering around high-rise flats. This pretence would eventually have other bands proclaim "phony Beatle Mania has bitten the dust!"

[@netzahuacoyotl]

+Lantern Jaw Clash of ideologies, perhaps?

[@Paul07791]

Austin Schell Haw!

[@Sambabipamba]

+Lantern Jaw i would argue that it was from rubber soul on that signified the change from "phony beatlemania". also nice Clash reference!

[@johnnhoj6749]

To be pedantic, the cover of Please, Please Me wasn't showing The Beatles in a high-rise flat block. It was shot in the stairwell of EMI's London Headquarters in Manchester Square. Although, if you like, there is maybe symbolic significance in that too.

[@PaulusCaesar]

...another band who loved their music... seriously, I find the Clash to be the band that most understood the significance of the Beatles and got to become one of the most interesting bands of their time. Especially with the London Calling album.

[@PerlasNegrasXII]

1:26 That low key black face though.

[@pthompson]

MusicSprint1080p Bert Williams was black.

[@pip6293]

high key

[@kjedsomhett]

@@pthompson nope

[@laHagans]

George Harrison Bert Williams was a Black Man.

[@GameyRaccoon]

Oh?

[@liza19972009]

0:00 to 0:44 SONG NAME PLEASE ANYONE

[@beesareLameWasps]

Man, your videos give me chills. awesome pacing, visuals and analysis.

[@ianreitz7224]

hey man I play bass in American Wrestlers. I'm a big fan of your video essays and it was a nice surprise to see the album cover in this video. keep doing what you do man!

[@acelessbros.3111]

Anyone else catch the pun at 2:20

[@ComradeChrome]

No, what is it?

[@acelessbros.3111]

Andrey Myakishev the second he says"picture of the band" he shows a picture of a band called "The Band"

[@constanzaed]

Abbey road is iconic too...

[@filthybryan7981]

To Be Honest, Abbey Road has a lot more iconic album cover than the Sgt Pepper one. I mean, c'mon, even a person who has never listened to the Beatles will probably recognize the Abbey Road cover. This cover made a zebra crossing in London an atraction...

[@Leegert]

Chills... The ending made me shiver

[@KosmosDream]

Happy 50th anniversary Sgt Pepper!

[@Scifiguy11th]

you need to do a video on the Mountain Goats.

[@Meshica111]

But what if i see faint colors when i close my eyes and i hear music.

[@Meshica111]

then it aint invisible

[@yodaburek]

I do that too, it's called synaesthesia

[@Meshica111]

Conor Actually i remember reading a study showing that people with synesthesia all see relatively the same types of colors according to the song

[@eyeball8468]

same I HATE music videos they ruin the song for me

[@Wenyi108]

Eye Ball it depends, some actually enhance the song but you have to find the right director to find the perfect balance between audio and visual

[@kinokochan]

To each their own. Certainly true of some songs for me, but two of my favorite bands, Gorillaz and Studio Killers, have such beautiful videos that I get kinda sad listening to the audio without the visuals at times.

[@unfabulouslyfabulous]

kinokochan some artists chose to have a video as as its own art form not just an accessory and then there are others who treat it as just an add on

[@thefooonthehill2934]

This video made me have tears of joy, what a wonderful video!

[@nathanielausten1577]

I love Sgt.pepper just so much. When you started playing day in the life that hit me.