The Beatles: 11 Things You Might Not Know About

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With the line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time.
The group was integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

If Decca had signed the Beatles and EMI signed the Rolling Stones, music history would be very different. I think that neither band would have been as great.

[@Guitarman19566]

Definitely. Would have been interesting if George Martin worked with the Stones instead.

[@johnmc3862]

If the Beatles weren’t the Beatles it would have been very different.

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊

[@thexmusicinsights]

Thank you! You too!

[@Derrymcg]

She showed me her room isn't good, I knew she would.

[@joecantello4022]

As an older Beatles fan, I knew all 11 items.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Me too 😊 Where did all those years go?

[@Guitarman19566]

Same.

[@os5484]

We all know it Love n Peace bro

[@johnmc3862]

Well you don’t know what the alternate title to ‘Norwegian wood’ do you? 😅

[@user-fu2mi1nd5l]

Did ya know Paul really is dead?

[@stevemolina9035]

#10: This song was especially meaningful. Once sharing a house with a Buddy & his girlfriend, but for some reason not having a key, my girl Jennie went around back & opened the door. Later when my friend Randy & his girl Liz got home & asked how we got in, I said she came in back the bathroom window. Wow! Everyone just lost it! 😂

[@GaryAa56]

Great history that I happened to grow up during.

[@RedVynil]

Obviously, Mr. Robo-voice never saw the video of that Washington gig in the round! Ringo didn't move his drums at all! There was a roadie, some older balding guy, that would come up every few songs and spin the platter the drums were on, in the direction the next few songs were gonna be played.

[@CitizenPain69]

I was thinking that couldn't possible be true. Your take makes A LOT more sense.

[@os5484]

The best line of the movie yesterday is: without the beatles is the Planet earth a darker place. Here comes the sun

[@adamfindlay7091]

A cop held traffic? Thats a gem.🥲 And the Beatles been @ since '57, according to George's 14th year.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Helter Skelter. I remember going on that same ride at Brighton beach when I was just a kid.

[@hansvandermeulen5515]

Is there ANYTHING at all we might STILL not know about the fab four?

[@Guitarman19566]

George Harrison advised a friend at Decca to sign the Stones.

[@spaceengineer1452]

Norweigen Wood, he sets fire to her furniture...they didn't know that or they would have mentioned it..I know all this stuff..and more...

[@Nuttybott]

One thing that YOU might not know: The Beatles' manager's surname was pronounced "EP-STINE', not "EP-STEEN"...

[@archangelmusic13]

the beatles were the first to have chord changes in their songs, nobody in rock and roll had done that till them. it changed the dirrection of rock forever.took it out of it's basic form.the beatles also helped end communism in east germany, the year before the berlin wall came down, the communists there made the mistake of allowing beatles records to be sold in that country,they also helped end communism in the soviet union as well, you can watch a documentary dvd on it called how the beatles rocked the kremlin

[@jrstafford5821]

Could you be thinking of time changes rather than chord changes ? The Beatles had quite a few songs that included time changes. Unless a song only has one chord, it’ll have chord changes. That’ll be at least 95. 5% of songs ever written.

[@archangelmusic13]

@@jrstafford5821 no i mean chord changes, no songs in rock and roll had chord changes till the beatles were the first to do it, from me to you was the first song ever in pop rock that had a chord change.

[@jrstafford5821]

Perhaps you mean key changes (not chord changes) then ? Just as an example, Elvis Presley’s ‘Love Me Tender’ (1956) - before a very young Paul McCartney wrote his first song - contains 9 chords with over 40 chord changes.

[@archangelmusic13]

@@jrstafford5821 no elvis song before the beatles has any chord changes. in fact no song in rock and roll before the beatles has chord changes. none of them. the beach boys weren't even having chord changes in their songs either before the beatles., the beatles were the first to do it in early 63

[@jrstafford5821]

Don’t take my word for it - ask anyone who plays guitar or piano!

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

Why would Decca turn the Beatles down by telling them that guitar groups are on their way out, then turn around and sign a guitar group?

[@jonfarmen7455]

I've been wondering about the same. But some one might say it's because Tremeloes where from London.

[@randyalford7039]

They didn’t want them

[@paulb2092]

Regarding Norwegian Wood, what about the story that the original lyric about easy women was "Isn't it good/Knowing she would," but that that was considered a little too provocative?

[@tangstamp]

Sounds like AI to me. So-so information.

[@capitolemiproducer]

1:04 Anyone else hate when the A/I narrator says words horribly wrong. It's pronounced "E" an not "I" an

[@californiahiker9616]

That’s not the only word mispronounced.

[@californiahiker9616]

DECCA. LOL!

[@Larrymh07]

Just pay a real life professional narrator, ok?!