Mistakes in The Beatles Recordings | Part 1

For many people the Beatles are considered the closest thing to musical perfection that ever existed. In terms of production their career was always an upward climb, and they never suffered a slump. The fact that they broke up with a great album solidified their legacy. But as the years went by and thanks to testimonies and research, people started to find mistakes in the recordings of the most important band in the world.

[@musicbox_usa]

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[@disneyscott98]

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

[@paulisalive171]

Exactly

[@Jaestarofficial]

It was also made to sound perfect back then

[@disneyscott98]

@@Jaestarofficial Music recordings back then captured a performance or collection of pieces of a performance. Now, music is recorded, overproduced, and tweaked to perfection.

[@NoirL.A.]

YEP. EXACTLY.

[@Jaestarofficial]

@@disneyscott98 overdubs have been being used since 1947, they exist. They have existed. I agree that modern music recording techniques are more uncanny valley But your conclusion that it was “all better and natural back then” is untrue

[@Trombonology]

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

[@tomasgrounauer6180]

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

[@coconut580]

Totally agree!!!

[@keymaster430]

And Brian Wilson said, If you repeat it every four bars, it's not a mistake anymore.

[@user-wt1nk6sr8h]

Well if peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis

[@rivereuphrates8103]

100%. Hendrix knew this too. Several times on live recordings he either hits a bum note or his bridge goes out of tune (strat trem bridges do that with bending and vibrato use, both of which he did super heavily) but it's only a springboard for some incredible saves he comes up with. The next notes he hits consistently puts them in a better context. The greats don't escape mistakes but they make the mistakes work for them.

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

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

[@MrGuytariste]

Exactly 👍

[@johnsparks007]

You're right not to mention the difficulty level was extremely high no one else was doing it😮

[@stevesnellgrove1518]

Spot on 😂

[@laurencetyson7395]

"than". Not "then".

[@TravisMoore5]

Facs

[@lornes9853]

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

[@imkluu]

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

[@WGBader]

They always claimed it was a mistake because it violated EMI's protocols.

[@JohnDoe-tw8es]

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

[@ronniescerri4111]

Not true at all mate, I’m 15 , I’ve loved the Beatles for years after hearing Hey Jude at the Amex years ago, I completely understand the impact they had on peoples minds in that day and age, so that young people statement just comes off as quite stupid from you to be honest, I’ve absolutely loved the Beatles and their music for most of my life and always will

[@JohnDoe-tw8es]

@@ronniescerri4111 I am very glad you are enjoying the Beatles. Obviously there will be some young and perhaps many that enjoy that music. If you are 15 you have a lot to learn still.

[@ronniescerri4111]

@@JohnDoe-tw8es yeah thank you, wish you the best💙

[@user-we2yt5on9b]

@@ronniescerri4111wait until you have lived most of your life and look back at all the great music of my time, your time, and your children’s time. Lots more to come.

[@rupe53]

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

[@stevenwargo]

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

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

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

[@kevinshea4776]

I remember setting "Her Majesty" on repeat on my dvd player just as I left to shower, leaving my girlfriend in the room having to listen to it over and over!

[@NoirL.A.]

'LET IT BE' was the last released but 'ABBEY' was the last recorded. they were all but broken up by then but PAUL convinced the others to go out on a bang and they surely did. 'HER MAJESTY' was originally part of the medley which is why it opens with a crash it was originally after 'MEAN MR. MUSTARD' but they decided it didn't fit. they didn't, however want to discard it completely so yes it's an easter egg.

[@aquamarine99911]

@@NoirL.A. No, George, Paul and Ringo went into the recording studio in early 1970 to fix up Let It Be and I Me Mine before the album's release. That's when George recorded his killer solo on the album cut of Let It Be. They also did a crappy blues jam at the time (Beatles weren't really a jam band).

[@bbelindamorris6384]

What crappy?

[@paulhaynes8045]

Similar story with Sgt Pepper and the final track. No one could quite work out where to put A Day in a Life, as it didn't really fit in with the other Pepper songs. Eventually the recording engineer suggested that they 'finish' the album with the Sgt Pepper Reprise and then add A Day in the Life as a sort of extra track (that's a modern reading of it - no one did such things then). The Beatles loved this idea and that was the running order finished. Listening to Pepper now, it's impossible to imagine that it was ever intended not to be in that order - A Day in the Life is the absolute perfect way to finish their masterpiece - it couldn't be any other way.

[@Maltloaflegrande]

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

[@Hiseternallight]

It has that stank to it for sure. It sounds like he was trying to add some fills and throw some variation in there, you can hear him getting more confident once he finds the groove.

[@drutgat2]

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

[@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013]

It is so easy now to just go in there and crop every take to the content and reject all the noise inbetween. It was so much hassle then due to the equipment / technology. I mean... I am sure that you know this but it is always worth pointing it out for the context. Especially for younger generations who don't even know what a vinyl is for instance... or a tape machine.

[@drutgat2]

@@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013 Absolutely agree. I started out recording/tracking just when Portastudios were coming in (80s), but did own a Studer A70 (although never did the razor cut-and-splice editing), so digital stuff is an absolute doddle. You sound like you will be aware that even with the Portastudios, if you wanted more than 4 tracks, you had to bounce (what The Beatles used to call reduction recording, I think), and so had to anticipate at the time of recording what your tracks might sound like as they got further 'buried' in the mix when bounced to another track. More hiss, loss of bass, etc.. I marvel at that kind of technical skill on the part of Bown, Smith, Emerick, Scott et. al (and because I was terrible at it!).

[@Paul_Wetor]

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

[@johnn2882]

not even the group themselves.......Ringo famously wanted to own several hairdressing salons after they were finished in Liverpool as a band....

[@peterbaruxis2511]

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

[@bbelindamorris6384]

😍

[@Nerkin610]

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

[@nickytaylor4123]

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

[@daaquino5597]

Nice reference 👌🏼

[@coconut580]

Yeah i improvise on guitar and am always looking for new note combinations,which often emerge out of so-called wrong notes,so i can totally relate to that portals of discovery line!!!🐑

[@TheGreatOne16439]

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

[@artman102]

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

[@bbelindamorris6384]

Yeah, it's not like I hasn't noticed the mistakes years before...I just liked them.

[@grimtraveller7923]

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

[@im1who84u]

I like to watch their live performances when they make mistakes and look at each other and smile or laugh.

[@johnn2882]

You came to The Beatles n 1976 at 13? Welcome, Youth, welcome...:)

[@larrypryluck1361]

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

[@davidiusfawcett4496]

Paul was upset with Ringo moving his chair at the end of Day In The Life

[@jules-demos]

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

[@mikedmusic5122]

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

[@bpabustan]

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

[@trevorbyford]

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

[@lesnyk255]

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

[@bassboy8910]

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

[@Skinnyorangemusic]

I record music. The most important thing to me when I'm selecting a take is that it evokes emotion. If the music is played with feel it hits you in the soul, if it's played by routine it may be technically better but may feel empty. You must decide with your heart and soul, not your head.

[@Skinnyorangemusic]

That is to say I've had two takes that sound very much alike, but it's more than just the sound. It's the feeling that you put into your playing

[@wookieezzz2551]

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

[@coconut580]

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

[@artmarkham3205]

Same! That guitar is exactly what makes it a special track. I think it's perfect!

[@mschiano1]

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

[@seankm6nfo990]

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

[@chaleco82]

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

[@hpblack1953]

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

[@artapollo3367]

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

[@donfellman9712]

He was saying *Shoop* an imitation of dialing a telephone. The "t" sound on the end of the word is a cymbal tap. This is a similar illusion to the "cryin' all the time" line in Hound Dog, where the Southern accent turns 'cry' into 'crah' and, as here, the percussion (chichih-chichih) creates the impression of our hearing a "k" sound at the end so that it sounds like "crockin." I wonder how many other examples of this can be added to the list where fore-- and background blend into something 'new,' occasionally helped along by a singer's eccentric pronuncions of words.

[@hankhighsmith9050]

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

[@bbelindamorris6384]

🤣

[@markhedges1194]

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

[@BigLabels]

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

[@resurrectionsunday]

Where are the mistakes on paperback writer I do not recall any.. and yes on queen video

[@BigLabels]

@@resurrectionsunday There was a ton of stuff. While they were doing harmonic overdubs in the song, I think John went to early while singing, so you can hear him warming up

[@sheetmetaljesus]

Who cares, I hear inaccuracies in all kinds of music from all kinds of bands.

[@jesslapuz7605]

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

[@michaelestrada7632]

In the remixed 2009 version. The 1962 original album version has no laugh. They are two different recordings. It's was cool hearing a different mix, but I prefer the original 1962 pressed released version which is almost impossible to find now unless you held on the the original non remixed albums.

[@BigStar303]

@@michaelestrada7632 Contrary to what you (and the author of this video) both say, there are not "two different recordings" of "Please Please Me." For the single release of the song, John's vocal flub in the last verse was fixed by flying in his correct singing of this passage (as well as the subsequent "come on") from the first verse of the song via tape editing. So two different mixes, not two different recordings. They fixed Paul's voice crack at the end of the second bridge in "If I Fell" using exactly the same method for the mono release.

[@Edward-yd3zr]

In the song " If I fell ", where Paul's voice cracks on the word vain, the voice crack was intentional. It is called prosody.

[@overjoyous]

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

[@tonyrock5313]

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

[@TruthSurge]

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

[@jbyesterday3959]

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

[@alanjerram9258]

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

[@vicbertfartingclack4559]

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

[@alnunya2862]

Actually I think it sounds "thinner" because there is no bass playing with the fill at that point in the song. Sounds like the same fill, without the balls, due to the lack of a bass guitar.

[@pinkenbajedi2119]

The mistakes are what make them perfect 👍

[@michaelrochester48]

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

[@TheGreatOne16439]

Yes that was due to a lightning strike during that tune.

[@BakedRBeans]

Same with "Cry Baby Cry" when Paul sings, "for the children", the right channel almost completely drops out, then fades back in. At least on the original stereo mix. This may not be present on the mono mix, or on stereo remixes.

[@KabobHope]

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

[@bbelindamorris6384]

I love that bit!

[@lanfear63]

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

[@onecello9577]

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

[@michelottaviani3296]

On which words the mistake appears?

[@jerald6023]

Don't forget about Billy's harmony vocal in Revolution in the 2nd verse, Faul emphasizes "tution" as in institution (next verse) while John is singing Evo- "lution" but the harmony is perfect...also watch the video very closely if you aren't on board with William Campbell replacing James Paul Cartney, that video illustrates very well how nervous Billy was, and how utterly awkward he looks trying to play bass left handed- James Paul was so natural & effortless when he played,compare early Paul's performances to that video, you can't miss is- it's a very hard realization to make if your a lifelong Beatles fan, but it's called a realization for a reason...

[@ROCKINGMAN]

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

[@davidlee2490]

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

[@MountainBlade]

John whispering “shoot me” in Come Together is haunting when thinking about his death, and the general context of the song. Wild.

[@onecello9577]

but there was a whole different meaning that Lennon gave in some interview whereby this British lady was being 'sprayed' by a bunch of guys lol.... 'Come together' is a masterpiece of double-entente, like only he could deliver.

[@Berniewahlbrinck]

@@onecello9577 double entendre (sorry)

[@onecello9577]

@@Berniewahlbrinck oh thanks, I also heard it as 'double entente', so about time someone corrected me!

[@bbelindamorris6384]

I don't think "shoot me" is such an unusual thing to say, no matter what "context" came later. People say, "just shoot me" all the time. They just don't have it recorded to show up later...even if they do end up shot.

[@BakedRBeans]

I always thought John was saying "shoop". Is it possible there is no tragic coincidence?

[@rhopen]

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

[@maetzchenmusik]

It's a three note suspension. Pretty juicy effect. The composers of serious music will show you easily and frequently. Maybe that happened by chance, but was kept ever since by Paul.

[@larry4111]

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

[@christianboyadjiev1738]

...and it is precisely in the unintentional mistake that the charm lies

[@bloozswami]

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

[@lenglain]

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

[@dtpugliese318]

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

[@QueenSnowPea]

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

[@bbelindamorris6384]

I don't even care why. I just love it.

[@markcowpairlucky]

Yes i thought so too. Just like in Maxwell’s Silver Hammer when he was stifling a laugh during the line “writing fifty times…”

[@Jazz-dc6tf]

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

[@1228sammy]

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

[@melanietaylor4249]

The "Desmond and Molly" reversal was obviously deliberate, and not a 'mistake'. So often lost on most Americans, it was simply English humour - by way of a warmly sarcastic social statement, regarding cross-dressing and gender-role perception.

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

[@TruthSurge]

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

[@julianlawrens]

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

[@jbyesterday3959]

I hear crisscross vocals with John & Paul on 2nd verse of “I want to hold your hand”.I could never separate that one🤔

[@AGENTARMES]

Beatles mistakes are charming I’ve always loved em

[@Noycey64]

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

[@johnaston3983]

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

[@deanevangelista6359]

There’s a video here that goes over “I’m Looking Through You” and points out all the anomalies. It was a real train wreck of a recording.

[@grimtraveller7923]

@@deanevangelista6359 It's still a great song though. In fact, those anomalies enhance, rather than detract. For me, "I'm looking through you" is the only Beatle song where the original take {heard on "Anthology 2"} equals the take that was eventually released. In every other instance I've heard, the best take was on the record.

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

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

[@maxdoggo3366]

John was leaving the studio just then from all the takes

[@maxdoggo3366]

@mikedavis8008 yea

[@im1who84u]

@mikedavis8008 Paul was relentless with that song was trying so hard to make it a single and it just wouldn't fly that way. He kept having everyone do it over and over again and they were all getting pretty fed up with it.

[@user-fu2mi1nd5l]

nothing made him laugh, it just Paul bein Paul

[@dimitreze]

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

[@user-fu2mi1nd5l]

It may be Paul playin drums on that one

[@tonymalczewski7256]

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

[@user-qi9su4px8r]

Many things I did not know. Keep them coming please

[@Hazeltunes]

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

[@7Burns]

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

[@unafilmclass]

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

[@hairyhondaman]

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

[@01real1]

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

[@1724gino]

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

[@jamiej14544]

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

[@peterbaruxis2511]

IDK. I think "I've known (whatever) "for the week" or two," is likeky ordinary British vernacular. Also you say he refers first to A secret then THE secret? [BTW, the next thing he says is "Nobody know's, just we two"] Do you want to know a secret, nobody know's, just we two. Let it be.

[@Jpw824]

On the Slow Down mistake, John is actually singing 2 lines, he’s double tracked. One line is “Now you don’t care a dime for me” and the other one is “Now you got a boyfriend down the street”

[@CowmanUK]

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

[@TuberOnTheLoose]

Just to be clear about the feedback, every person who had ever picked up an electric guitar long before The Beatles were around had experienced accidental feedback. The Beatles were simply the first to put unnecessary and gratuitous feedback on record. When I play that song I sing "why?" over the feedback. The first band I know of that artistically incorporated feedback as an actual part of the song were The Who.

[@TuberOnTheLoose]

@@matthewbartlett3442 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

[@5400bowen]

John claimed the feedback on “I Feel fine” was the first ever..recorded on purpose or left in on purpose. Any way John claimed feedback was his innovation.

[@5400bowen]

Yeah, I think there were some surf music bands that used it earlier also.

[@urasam2]

@@TuberOnTheLoose1965

[@bintangtrawijaya6460]

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

[@JP5466]

The tempo slowing down was very obvious to me, even when I listened to that song for the first time when I was a kid.

[@iwaspaidtoflywithyoubatman]

In All My Loving, Ringo starts the 2nd verse like it's going into the chorus for half a measure. I always note to make the same mistake when I'm practicing that song on drums.

[@craigiefconcert6493]

Awesome! Thanks for that. I’ll listen for it. Paul makes a big-time bass blunder and plays the wrong chord change for four full beats if I remember correctly. It’s the second or third verse.

[@jrgboy]

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

[@dudzick9]

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

[@catchall673]

I enjoyed your video. Each recording is a moment in time never to be repeated exactly the same again. It is art. They are not machines and so the finished track is what it is. Our ears expect to hear that performance, warts and all.

[@Jerrysisland]

Even the mistakes are pure genius

[@Jovolution]

Mistakes? That's only life.

[@kennethoats2322]

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

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

In Slow Down, I believe the conflicting lyrics are "Now you've got a boyfriend down the street" and "Now you don't give a dime for me". Try listening for them.

[@buddyslowhand7647]

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

[@craigiefconcert6493]

Unless it’s a bass mistake 🤢🤢🤢😂

[@philgallagher1]

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

[@waynej2608]

It does fit. I wonder if that was conscious or not.

[@carolfreitag6847]

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

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

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

[@Skinnyorangemusic]

I record music at home, therefore having unlimited time to get it right. This blows my mind

[@brianphillips579]

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

[@LanceHall]

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

[@AbigailJrney-1]

I heard the mistake on "Hey Jude" before, but the one from "Let It Be" I would have never guessed it!. Is amazing how people catch this mistakes.

[@AstroThree]

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

[@billiswillis8293]

5:06 "McCartney accidentally changed the occupations of Desmond and Molly..." Ha ha ha. I love it when people show this kind of stolidity.