GROOVY!! First Time Reacting to The Beatles - 'Don't Let Me Down'

[@MDreeezy]

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[@brucecampo6543]

got you

[@garethjamesdavies6850]

The Beatles are stand alone. You can't categorize them. They are the BEATLES....

[@tomhenno4000]

They were setting the genre as they progressed. Probably the most influential band of all time.

[@patclark3024]

You don't need to categorize them. They were growing and changing the rock genre. If you just say "The Beatles", everyone will immediately understand.

[@walterfleury3840]

One of my favorite Beatles tunes. John was always my favorite. He was murdered when I was 13 years old. I remember I cried for days everytime one of his songs would come on. The radio stations at the time were playing nothing but Beatles and John's solo tunes for days after his death.

[@myownchannel247]

Billy Preston on keyboards! He was a legend. 🎹 I didn’t see him in this video but they only showed him for a second anyway

[@jnagarya519]

They met Preston in Hamburg when he was in Litle Richards' or Ray Charles' band.

[@lamplighter5545]

Billy Preston is the only non-Beatle musician credited on any Beatles' album.

[@jnagarya519]

@@lamplighter5545 He's credited on the "Get Bak" single. But he was in the role of stuio musician, not as a member of the band.

[@goodbyedemocracy5678]

Four of the coolest humans to ever walk the earth.

[@picolo4102]

Billy Preston playing piano keyboards off camera

[@spiritualhammer392]

He was their secret weapon - what a super group this could have been.

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 my friend, The Beatles are just the Beatles. I truly believe that they are beyond categorizing.

[@cheriemelissa]

This was the last time they played together. They were on the roof of Apple studio's where they recorded their music

[@nicolewhitt83]

They were the original! They evolved over the years!

[@jamesbobo]

Billy Preston is on keyboards. I am 99% sure that's him at the 2:30 mark. He's the guy sitting down in front of the policemen.

[@cindiloohoo]

He was referred to by many as the fifth Beatle.

[@blitztim6416]

No weak link in this band. Each had their strengths and they blended. And they were funny.

[@davidholiday4494]

one of my favourite songs of all time - i was 14 when the record came out and played the single to death.

[@debjorgo]

The Beatles redefined Rock and Roll. Rock Music became Beatles music. Pop Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Avant Garde Rock, updated Music Hall with a Rock sensibility, Classical Rock, what became Heavy Metal.... As other here have said, it was a group effort, with many bands/acts joining in, but I'd say, the Beatles created that atmosphere to experiment.

[@MikeytheGeek7711]

The Beatles were only together for 7 years, but they changed so much in that time and they took the music world with them into the 70's. You can't really categorize them because they were constantly changing. You said you reacted to Helter Skelter. As I recall, Paul wrote that because Pete Townshend, I think it was, said they were soft. They could do anything they wanted to do.

[@papercup2517]

Unless you're only counting it from when Ringo joined, they were actually together as a recognisable entity from the summer of 1957 when John and Paul met as teenagers and John invited Paul to join his skiffle group, and they began their song-writing partnership. George, Paul's younger guitar-playing friend from the school bus, joined not long after. OK, so Ringo didn't complete the final line-up until 1962 when they got their recording contract and doubts were cast (possibly misunderstood) on Pete Best's competence to play on their first single, but the nucleus of the band was well established and had been playing gigs daily in Northern England/ Scotland and Hamburg, Germany for YEARS before that. I really don't think it's reasonable to discount those THOUSANDS of hours of performing together, plus many, many more hours of J and P sitting down writing/composing together, prior to recording their first single with Ringo on board. Since they broke up unofficially and then officially between 1969 to early 1970, that makes it about 12 years in total they were a functioning band. I only harp on about this because some people (Americans mostly) seem to think they were some kind of overnight sensation, and/or that their career only began when they toured the US and had their first Number 1 hit over there. Some conspiracy enthusiasts even claim they were just a proto-typical boy band manufactured by their manager, who couldn't play their instruments and didn't write their own songs! That might not be at all what you meant (so I apologise for the rant!), but I would just like others to know that, semi-magical as they might seem to us now, this was indeed a real band, that spent years honing their art, well and truly 'paying their dues' before eventually hitting the bigtime worldwide..

[@leighloutreedore8926]

​@@papercup2517Understand your argument BUT the Beatles are the Fab 4!

[@MikeytheGeek7711]

@@papercup2517 You're right about what Townshend said. I just looked it up. I remembered the story wrong. Thanks.

[@papercup2517]

@@MikeytheGeek7711 No worries! Sorry about the rant....

[@papercup2517]

@@leighloutreedore8926 OK! They were just a slightly different Fab Four with Pete. 😀

[@garethjamesdavies6850]

A rooftop in London....😊

[@marilyndurham738]

AND TIS IS LIVE😂NO AUTO ANYTHING❤❤

[@jeanniedebartolo5965]

The Beatles are the Goats forever❤

[@debjorgo]

As everyone is saying, Billy Preston can be seen at 2:31 at the keys, when you first see the billy cop. He's the black guy in the black leather jacket. You don't see the keyboard but you see him hammering away. Also with the last "hee hee" verse, you can see him behind Paul.

[@tomroome4118]

Don't know why he wasn't more prominently featured.

[@debjorgo]

@@tomroome4118 I don't know either. Billy's pretty prominent in the film. I don't know if maybe director Lindsay-Hogg thought at that point, the rooftop concert might be the focus of the whole film and Billy might take too much of the spotlight. I don't know. I think he had enough cameras to cover him. It may have just been a brainfart. He had to cover John, Paul, George and Ringo. Maybe that tapped out his attention.

[@nthdegree1269]

If one must categorize the Beatles.... I would say they were the true and only bridge between what began in the 1950s and then what evolved via them and others. They truly set the template. Before they made it they were already touching the biggest stars, hanging around them... and some of those stars are the ones that created rock and roll ...like Little Richard. The Beatles were the bridge, but absolute geniuses at music. The timing for them was perfect

[@joebacon9555]

No point in finding a spot for them. They made their own. Less than 10 years to change music as we know it forever!

[@peterhall2810]

The pianist is Billy Preston (often called the fifth Beatle). You can see him in the shot when the two policemen are shown.

[@chitownlee]

Billy Preston played keyboards on this and other Beatles songs too, he was often referred to as the fifth Beatle.

[@thewizard6077]

Awesome reaction! And The Beatles are way beyond the "Best", or "Most influential band in the world" like some people here in the comment section like to say. Titles like "Best" and "Most influential" are really so subjective. What is absolutely not subjective is, to this very day, THE BEATLES ARE THE BIGGEST SELLING MUSIC ARTIST OF ALL TIME, AND NOBODY ELSE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THEIR RECORD SALES! The Beatles are bigger than Michael Jackson, bigger than Elvis Presley, bigger than Rhianna, bigger than Madonna, bigger than Taylor Swift, bigger than Drake, bigger than Dr. Dre, bigger than any other music artist that ever breathed air and walked the face of this earth! Nobody else even comes close to their record sales. Do a quick google search and you'll see what I'm talking about. Again, awesome reaction! Peace

[@markbronx172]

The Beatles changed every album. They came before all the other harder bands.

[@chitownlee]

This was the last time they played live together.

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

"it looks like they did that one on a rooftop".... this is why I love watching people react to Beatles for the first time.... because you can write a book about the fact they are on a rooftop, or make a 6 hour documentary! Yes, my friend, they are on a rooftop. I don't recommend you watch the documentary, called "Get Back", until you know most of their music

[@albertscanlon2005]

Yes!.. your sure got it. It's the Chemistry of the four lads from LIverpool from schooldays. Their timing, the feel for the music and their creativity all combine to give greatness. Yog got it for sure. No-one song sounds the same.

[@jnagarya519]

"The Beatles" didn't do "genre". They made music.

[@charliecochran3035]

Check out I've Got A Feeling feom the rooftop. Rhey actually used it as the album take. Amazing vocals by Paul and its just fun to watch them. Theyre really a bunch if goofballs. Aa far as genre, they were just whatever genre they were doing at the time. They olayed around with everything, almost as if to show that they were the kings and could do what they wanted.

[@Tony-yp7ok]

You should watch the Get Back documentary, it’s all about the writing and rehearsals that led up to this performance on the rooftop of their studio in London. It’s about 9 hours long but it’s a fascinating insight into the group, showing how they worked together - lots of laughing and goofing around and of course tons of great music.

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 Mr Billy Preston on the keyboard

[@sherylkeib4993]

The piano really makes this song

[@Zeb-gb2uk]

The great Billy Preston on keys ✌️❤️

[@brandonflorida1092]

With the exception of this reaction and "Come Together," most of the Beatles songs you've chosen are strange places to begin listening to the Beatles. All are sort of late in their career. They aren't very typical of their work, and, in fact, many are sort of one off novelty songs. The Beatles have many, many songs which are just straight rock, such as, for instance, every song from their first 3 albums. Even much later in their career, when they were doing less standard things, they still have many, many songs that are still pretty much straight rock, such as "Back in the USSR," "Revolution," "Getting Better," or "Ob-La-Dee Ob-La-Da."

[@viniciusgomeslazaretti8904]

React to dear Prudence

[@damonhines8187]

'I Dig A Pony', also the rooftop.

[@billc.5861]

The great Billy Preston is playing the Keys just left of Paul McCartney. He was playing keys all over the “Let it Be “ recording sessions and I think a bit on “ Abby Road “

[@TerenceShortman]

The beetles like many bands of this era crossed across all genre's and were influenced by all genre's

[@robinfoster7597]

They did everything. For heavy try "Helter Skelter" and "I want you (she's so heavy).

[@dalesands1857]

Billy Preston on keyboard, considered the 5th. Beatle, (Honorary).

[@walterfleury3840]

That was Billy Preston on the electric piano. He was often referred to as the 5th Beatle. In the Get Back Documentary they voted to add Billy as a full member of the group, but it never came to fruition. Too many interpersonal issues going on by that time.

[@terryhuwe2184]

This was their last performance ever.

[@rondickinson8741]

Yeah man, that’s the one and only Billy Preston on the on the keyboard. If you look real close, he sitting down in the background with the black guy is awesome and Billy Preston is one of the best love to see him out there The Beatles

[@MisterMasterShafter1]

Billy Preston was the keyboard player. He's shown a time or two here, briefly.

[@jimscholle2932]

It would be interesting to go through the Beatles catalog in order to understand how they weren’t “in” a genre, they created and evolved genres. The evolution from world’s finest pop band in ‘63-‘64, to world class innovative musicians by 1968. Every phase and iteration of the Beatles changed music standards; changed the world. It sounds like hyperbole but it was truth!

[@jimscholle2932]

PS. Loving your channel.

[@charlefish]

Billy Preston play the Piano. You can see in the video 2:31.

[@heyrobwest3908]

The Beatles were actually together for about10 or 11 years but they hadn't Released albums really yet. They started out as A garage band in high school Which was basically John Lennon's band They went through a lot of different Members Over a. Of time Paul McCartney joined. Back then I can't remember which was which but 1 of them was amazed that the other 1 could tune a guitar and the other 1 was amazed about lyric writing or something. I think they went through about a dozen different members And then finally became the silver Beatles And then just the Beatles They spent a year in Germany playing in small clubs owning the craft! At that time they had 5 members George John Paul Pete best who was the drummer and another member who was who family was bankrolling them. The 5th member controversial believe he Died And then they just stuck with 4 members Kicking out Pete best and replacing him with Ringo Ringo Starr which is a nickname His real name was Richard Starkey Before he became Ringo Starr because of the rings he wore! I believe I could be wrong but Ringo Starr was the oldest member Of the Beatles Paul McCartney possibly the youngest. Right now Or at least in the last few years Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney were still on tour and writing new music. Have you Have you reacted to the music video of the last Beatles song that was actually released in the last couple of years? It was A demo tape by John Lennon that his widow Yoko Ono gave to Paul McCartney Backstage when they were doing a A special concert for John I think it's when he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? She had given them 3 songs The last song now and then Degraded on the cassette tape he recorded it on sitting on his piano. When the 3 remaining Beatles after John Lennon's death Got together to do their anthology project In the 80s I can't remember I can't remember when George Harrison died I think I think it was in the early 2,000s from cancer. Anywhere about a decade before that The 3 of them George and Ringo And Paul Did the anthology project and they recorded2 of the songs from demos that John Lennon did With their 2 anthology albums! The 3rd and final 1Couldn't be produced because of noise in the background and a bad recording until About 2 years ago When somebody had created AI To clean up the noise And enhance John Lennon's voice So Paul And Ringo got together to add lyrics to the song And record a special music video Build as the last Beatles song ever and less some more Show up! How about their live performance of hey Jude Which Paul McCartney wrote for John Lennon son Julian Lennon! I suggest a reaction to the traveling Wilburys Members including George Harrison A British American supergroup Members being George Harrison Tom petty bob Dylan Roy Orbison Jeff Lynne. Songs End of line Handle with care Tweeter and the monkey man not alone anymore Baby inside out dirty world last night run away KZbin you took my breath away New blue moon pour house Where were you last night7 deadly sins. Roy Orbison passed away shortly after they released their Or before they release their second album!

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 this was also the very last time that the Beatles played together

[@RockinMamaT]

This was their last live performance. There's a documentary Get Back on Disney if you have the chance to check it out. Another great song from this performance is Get back. The Beatles were their own genre they could rock out with Back in the USSR and Helter Skelter or make you dance with twist and shout or space out to the magical mystery tour or the could do it with blues or ballads ...They were influential for years to come and they all spanned solo careers which are worth checking out too .Great reaction glad you enjoyed it and Peace out 🙏 ☮️ ✌️

[@warrenhughes911]

Great reaction.. Yo, react to BOB DYLAN.. Bob turned the BEATLES onto WEED..true story!!! My fav Dylan is HURRICANE..but my man has hundreds!!!

[@johnandrews3151]

Beatles/Helter Skelter😮😊

[@sarablack2547]

The Beatles are whatever they want to be from record to record. The Beatles are creative. Don't stick them in a box. Please do hard days night,strawberry fields and penny lane next

[@roberthubal6278]

THE BEATLES. 'nough said

[@bwilson5401]

Listen to Helter Skelter or Revolution. They are hard rock.When Pepper came out, Hendrix learnt it and played it live the next day.The reason they're the greatest will become evident, the more of their stuff you listen to.

[@tomhenno4000]

7 yrs as a group solo careers that produced some of the best music ever ever Like John's give peace a chance being sung at a 1969 protest of 500.000 people in. Washington to stop the veitnam war.

[@papercup2517]

12 years, I would suggest, from 1957 to 1969. Sorry, just wrote a great long rant about this following another poster's comment , so I won't repeat it all here! Not dissing Ringo or anything, but it boils down to the fact they were a fully functioning band racking up THOUSANDS of hours practising, performing and composing, building their repertoire, group identity, style, skills and localised fan bases in Britain and Germany, well before Ringo joined in '62 to complete the familiar line-up we know today.

[@tomhenno4000]

@papercup2517 well that was pertaining to their recording career as a band discounting My Bonnie with Tony Sheridan. But rant away no-one will probably read it. 🤣

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

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[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Yes, Billy Preston is on the organ, and he was called The Fifth Beatle. I wish the camera had focused on him more.

[@richvalois6405]

he played some keyboards on the last couple of albums

[@braudabo]

One of the many "Fifth Beatle".

[@SuperKevin57]

Billy Preston on keys 😊.

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 George's son, Dhani, looks exactly exactly like him.

[@petejones879]

Billy Preston on piano keyboard

[@johnandrews3151]

Beatles/Something😮😊

[@alfredlandesman5165]

The Beatles play all genres of music. Name a genre and they have a song.

[@richoxgen]

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears (Official Video)

[@nicolewhitt83]

They were breaking up at this point!😢

[@christinemorgen4441]

❤

[@pelaronson4086]

Dear boy, the Beatles have their own box.. OK?.... there is no ganrne they hadent done.❤

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 I would highly encourage you to look up the information on the rooftop concert because it's it's quite interesting LOL

[@MDreeezy]

Got it!

[@richvalois6405]

they did heavy too! listen to revolution

[@jnagarya519]

Be different: check out their "Live at the BBC" recordings -- many are on youtube. From those you'll discover their broad scope of sources -- and that they were a kick-ass live band.

[@nicolewhitt83]

Rooftop of Abbey Road! Check out Revolution if you want something heavier!❤

[@braudabo]

It's not Abbey Road, it was on the rooftop of the Beatles' Apple-studio in London at Saville Row.

[@zakmartin]

The "she done me" line would have got the song banned at the time - certainly from radio play - if the censors had understood what it meant. The sexual connotations of the phrase weren't as widely known back then as they are today. "Come together" was another sexually implicit Beatles song (about 3-way s*x) whose meaning went over - and still goes over - most people's heads (so to speak :) ).

[@stevenboettcher4796]

The Beatles can do hard rock too. Listen to Helter Skelter and Revolution.

[@davidadams5280]

As a little kid in the late 60's this was my favorite Beatles song. It wasn't a big hit.

[@clamtree]

Billy preston on the piano

[@sherylkeib4993]

The Beatles referred to themselves as playing rock and roll, so that's what I think.

[@tylerjsmithers8385]

I think it's a CRIME that this song was not included on the Let It Be album... big mistake

[@pairofpints]

They did all kinds of genres, don't need any categories. Just listen to The White Album to see what I mean.

[@joecleveland2338]

What genre? The genre is, simply, The Beatles.

[@mrfester42]

The Beatles are NOT soft rock and they're not POP rock,,, whatever that means. The Beatles are just the Beatles. They're music covered just about every type of music there was in popular music. They can't be categorized. You can't put a label on them or put them into some slot that defines them. They defy categorization. The only way you're going to understand that is to listen to ALL of their albums and I will bet you a years pay that you will NOT like any one of them BUT you will love every one of them. You have a long way to go to get there so, fasten your seat belts and get started.

[@papercup2517]

It's all just popular music... Back then there weren't really any very distinct genres in the way popular music is divided today. In the US, as I understand it, there was regular, mainstream popular music and this other thing called 'race music'... I know, shudder... but these were the days of segregation and black music wasn't mainstream, being regarded as not only alien but likely to be dangerous to the morals etc of nice respectable white teen boys and girls. Adults were extremely uptight in those days; the merest suggestion of sexuality or sensual movements, etc, were enough to have artists banned from TV, for example. NOTHING like today. Anyway, the Beatles changed all that, by incorporating a whole lot of black musical influences into their act and having no problem telling everyone who their musical heroes were in the black community. As a result, careers were revived or took leaps into the more lucrative mainstream, for quite a few previously overlooked or undervalued artists. But I digress... Because the Beatles were genuine creative geniuses who were always trying to grow and develop, they took inspiration from a vast range of sources, going through a series of evolutionary changes over the total of 12 years they were performing or recording together as a band (or 7 after Ringo replaced their previous drummer), accidentally creating new genres as they went along. These are the genres we know today, now each with their own artists and charts and awards and so on. But the Beatles did it all, and started most of it. That is why they're known as the most influential band in the history of popular music, and why it's impossible to limit them by any particular genre..

[@annheckenbach9396]

A useful tip- those who once decades ago used the word "groovy" do not and have not used that word since. Please stop that.

[@markbronx172]

They broke up shortly after this. they never played together as a band again.

[@terrenceplunkett]

Not super heavy? Keep listening. Start with the “Revolution” video

[@understone]

There is no genre. They covered many genres over the course of their career. They covered many genres just on the White Album.

[@mellowyellowvision]

The Beatles are trans-genre!

[@atuuschaaw]

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