The Beatles "Revolution" | Reaction

[@mlong1958]

Paul McCartney had an incredible vocal range, and he could even scream in key. Check out The Beatles "Oh, Darling" for an example. Sadly, at 80 years old, he's lost that range, but in his day, he was possibly the best male vocalist in rock.

[@chasleask8533]

Bear in mind he was backing vocals in this song .

[@phillipecook3227]

Have you heard his scream voice in" I'm Down"?

[@Mike-rk8px]

No one at 80 could sound like they did in their youth, but he’s still great. I’m surprised he can sing at all now, after punishing his vocal chords since the early 60’s, and smoking cigarettes and pot for decades. When you listen to what cigarettes did to Joni Mitchell’s voice it’s heartbreaking. Whitney Houston destroyed her voice in her 40’s, which was really sad.

[@candelise]

@@Mike-rk8px Stop smoking, children!

[@johnvirgilio5323]

For decades he had an incredible voice! One of the best decisions John ever made, letting little Pauly into the band. But it was the power of the four of them together that put them above superstars before them. Their creativity in songwriting and musicianship is far beyond the skill set of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson after them. They set the standard ever since. Even Michael Jackson wanted to own their stuff.

[@arturoochoa7237]

A masterpiece written by Lennon. RIP John

[@jimso771]

Still sounds as fresh today as it did back then 👌

[@anonagain]

The lyrics may be even more relevant today...

[@cuebj]

@@anonagain Back then: student marches in Paris, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Cassius Clay / Muhammed Ali refused to do draft, cold war, CIA and USSR equivalent intervening all over the place with bloody regime changes and control. UK had been brutal in Kenya. Rhodesia UDI under Smith but rival ZANU and ZAPU preparing to tear each other to pieces once they had removed Smith. Plenty of relevance then! In fact, both Beatles (with this) and Stones were deeply critical of the self-indulgent revolutionaries of UK and US who had little to nothing positive and, when you got up close, showed themselves to be as much into terror and imposition as the forces they claimed to be opposing (I was in many such meetings, presentations, debates). Not more relevant but just as relevant as those who call for change eat their own children on social media full of vitriol and hate for anyone not in their particular world view sect 'splitters' as in Life of Brian

[@davidjohnson6553]

So glad you appreciate the Beatles. As a teenager in the 60s it's hard to describe the impact they had on the world to someone with 21st century "ears" because so much great music has been heard since then. But their unique look, originality and raw energy was something brand new in 1964 and they continued to lead the way until up until 1970 when they broke up.

[@jnagarya519]

They consolidated as #1 by mid-1965, and they only grew from there. They never peaked.

[@davidjohnson6553]

@@jnagarya519 If rockers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry started the fire, the Beatles poured gasoline on it. Fun fact: from their arrival in 1964 to Woodstock was a mere 5 years!

[@subanakatz4943]

they were amazing!! There is a video called How the Beatles Changed the World about the changes they made. They really changed everything from music, fashion, politics, concerts, etc! Their concert at Shea Stadium showed other groups that they could have these huge, massive concerts too! They also made albums more popular too. Until that time most people bought single records 45 rpm but they changed that too.

[@milt6208]

The Rolling Stones were Rock n Roll.

[@jnagarya519]

@@milt6208 Past tense. They stopped being rock and roll decades ago and became a money machine that still recycles "Satisfaction" and their other 1960s hits. And I'll bet you have every official and bootleg copy of every "different" concert "version" of "Satisfaction" they've played since the first. Meanwhile, "The Beatles" were playing 8 hours a night 7 nights per week in Hamburg before "The Rolling Stones" existed.

[@DJ-bj8ku]

Lennon was so cool. God I miss him.

[@craig1538]

We all do love. We all do.

[@doriwiljt]

And George.

[@starwood213]

He was unique.

[@kainajones9393]

So sad how the actions of one demented human could rob us of his presence. But that is unfortunately the way it's always been

[@cuebj]

Also a very nasty individual for understandable childhood reasons and extremely bad eyesight. The great music came from a near permanent 14-year old's angst. Finally grew up and realised the importance of 'Silly Love Songs' just a couple of years before he died. Apart from a few songs, we missed out on his take on growing up into adulthood and parenthood as a middle-age man. Other pop stars did similar growing up after mixed up childhoods and producing great music from out of their mixed-up upbringings.

[@paulweston285]

The Beatles played over 900 gigs before they recorded their first single " Love me do " and thats why they were so polished when they hit the big time.

[@treetopjones737]

Brian had them wear suits, getting parents to assume they were "nice boys" when the reality was they were young men "feeling their oats" like the Rolling Stones for example.

[@paulweston285]

@@treetopjones737 Brian gave them even more polish

[@Beausoir1]

The Beatles forever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mikewarker4445]

George Harrison vastly underrated as a guitarist, Actually all of them , Paul Bass, John’s rhythm guitar and Ringos drums . That’s why they are the best ever. If you listen to other groups in their era you can hear just how far ahead they were

[@loosilu]

The opening riff is all John! He is SO underrated as a guitarist.

[@loosilu]

@John Ashtone exactly! The British Invasion guitar players were kind of frenemies. Clapton, Beck, Townshend, Page, go down the list. I think George is the only one from that group of guitarists who never felt threatened.

[@loosilu]

@John Ashtone I don't remember who I'm quoting, but I heard someone say that John the songwriter ate John the guitar player. He's such a brilliant songwriter, his playing is overlooked.

[@carlweaver3243]

@@loosilu Check out a song called Do Unto Others by Pee Wee Crayton.

[@georgesmith8988]

They got that guitar distortion by plugging directly into the desk

[@dobythedog]

You are probably the best Beatles reaction that actually analyses the song. You really do seem to understand the qualities that make the Beatles so ridiculously brilliant.

[@scottchapin2323]

Even their worst, is better than most of the stuff that comes out today

[@voiceofreason7856]

About the only song of theirs I don't really like is 'Matchbox' - and they stuck that one on Ringo ! :)

[@sess122]

@@voiceofreason7856 And "Matchbox" was written and originally recorded by Carl Perkins, which is probably why...although Perkins was great in his own right.

[@voiceofreason7856]

@@sess122 I do realize that, but thanks for pointing it out for some who may not. No matter who wrote it, I just really don't like it ! :)

[@rorykeegan1895]

No ... its "leagues" better than anything today. Mind you "today" is the worst / most boring the music scene has been in living memory. Utterly uninspiring.

[@warrenbridges1891]

@@rorykeegan1895 I was in high school back then and one of my more recent purchases is the double album "High Visceral Parts I&II by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets from Perth, Western Australia. Although, that's getting on eight years old now. So, maybe you're right.

[@davidschecter5247]

They have about 160 songs that are near-perfect. And so many different from the rest of them. Unbelievable songwriters.

[@guciowitomski3825]

„Near”? I think you meant „absolutely”

[@home2624]

Here in Great Britain Revolution was on the "b" side of the single Hey Jude. How's that for value for money. I have listened to the Beatles all of my life (Im 68 years old) but I'm a little bit envious of you Luke. You're just starting on your Beatle journey and I remember how exciting that was. Just the thrill of seeing a new Beatles song in the charts was amazing. It really is impossible to explain how huge they were and their influence still resonates with bands today. Look up what David Grohl has to say about them. Welcome to the Beatles family buddy.

[@alexandrathrift6308]

By that time The Beatles no longer had 'A' and 'B' sides. They were always too good to pick which was A and which would be B. Everything became double A sides. Don't you remember ?

[@home2624]

@@alexandrathrift6308 Hi. Thanks for your comments. Here in the UK only Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out and Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby were released as double A sides before the Beatles broke up. After the break up there were many more. I'm not sure what the situation was in the USA. On Facebook its stated that Something/Come Together was an officially released double A side in 1969 in the UK but this is incorrect.

[@MarkKrawczyk-sn8xq]

Yes, my 45 was Hey Jude on the A Revolution on the B in the US. Herd an interview with Lennon who said they should have waited on Revolution and they "would have had them both" as in #1s

[@maxowl9550]

Really glad you love this song. I first heard this as a 17 year old in 1968 and it sent a shiver down my spine. I am now a ( young) 71 year old boomer and listen to it every week. It still sends a shiver down my spine.

[@fredgien]

Me too!!

[@exclamationpointman3852]

Honestly..... I am an artist. As in I am fairly good with my hands drawing images. But, my goodness..... There is no food that you can eat from the 60's that never goes old, and always fill you up, and always taste great, and you never get full, and nourish you in a way physical food can't reach - your soul! Music can. It is the greatest most powerful art form. It never goes old, and is ever powerful.

[@Mirrorgirl492]

I get to hear it every day at work (I work in a group house and all our Residents adore The Beatles). It never gets old.

[@fast4wood]

The Beatles have been living in my head since 1964 when i was 7 . Couldn't ask for better tenants. Long live the Beatles ! Great reaction !

[@gregkerr725]

I was 14 in 1968 and the Beatles White Album was the first album I ever bought....cost; 5 bucks. Listening to that album many many times left me with an appreciation for all types of music. It was pure genius!

[@MarkKrawczyk-sn8xq]

My first album too. I was 12

[@mangelwurzel]

I obtained the White Album when it first came out and played it constantly, never tiring of it. Now I have it in different formats and it never fails to give me eargasms.

[@anzacman5]

Yeah, first album I ever bought, '68. Cost me $5.

[@brucekislow1690]

I rode my bike to Kmart to get it.

[@milt6208]

Me too. I wore my first copy out and have bought a few copies since never tiring of it.

[@Mister8224]

Unfortunately, as you know, this was not in White Album. A real bummer.

[@Mister8224]

@@anzacman5 Then you must have changed price stickers with another album. $11.59 was cheapest price I saw, at Discount Records, E Lansing campus location.

[@Xcris_crosX]

The Beatles are the musical version of abstract artists and poets like Pablo Picasso and Emily Dickenson. For those that get the strangeness it’s weirdly wonderful

[@anzacman5]

Or, Salvador Dali to music

[@craig1538]

@@anzacman5 Now that's more like it! Both were master surrealists in their own right.

[@johnvirgilio5323]

The thing is they did a variety of music and different songs seem to go with different artists. Overall they're the most highly valued, like Van Gogh. Which goes well with psychedelic music but would not be their most popular style. So goes the way of metaphors, they break down somewhere. Maybe in Strawberry Fields Forever.

[@anzacman5]

@@johnvirgilio5323 yes, quite so

[@sharrongrant6240]

The Beatles were the first bandand we all loved them. We had weekends on the radio where they played nothing but Beatles songs..all weekend! I knew the words to all the songs, we were all obsessed with them and then the British invasion started and there were so many more bands!! Great time to be a teenager in love with George!!

[@bobbybrettel5422]

Helter Skelter by the Beatles.....first heavy metal song ever.....you must listen to this song

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Accidental first heavy metal song. I don't really think they planned that. They just wanted to be harder than the who.. Black sabbath are the real pioneers of heavy metal with tri tone chords

[@bobbybrettel5422]

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 interesting to know that back in the 60's you only heard top 40 songs of the Beatles on the air....great songs like Yet Blues, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry, Hey Bulldog, I am the Walrus, etc..... especially more "harder rock" Beatles songs NEVER we're played. The exception was when in the late 60's some stations at midnight would play the whole album. If you didn't buy the album you would have never heard Helter Skelter. You are correct on what you said.....they just tried to "out heavy" The Who at the time but it's even harder for you to come up with that type of sound as "mainstream" because they knew it would never be played on radio. Hard to come up with something brand new but my due goes to Black Sabbath as they were awesome in heavy metal......great group

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

@@bobbybrettel5422 lennons opening riff for revolution was pretty crackin as well 😄

[@quietman2672]

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 Taken from another song. Peewee Crayton. Do unto others.

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

@@quietman2672 you're right. The first bit does sound like lennon borrowed it. Thanks for that

[@neilgoldsmith482]

They are their own genre. I was 3 years old when She Loves You was played on AM radio over and over by Murray the K here in NYC. I also saw them on the original Ed Sullivan when I was 5 years old. I remember this to this day. They are the greatest Rock and Roll band ever period.

[@juanita6479]

You're right, this song is John's call to make a 'Revolution' in a peaceful way as a response not only to Vietnam war, but to the whole chaos developed all over the world by a time in which young people were not willing to keep quiet anymore. Also notice that in the studio version the intense scream at the beginning is from John, but here live Paul had to take his place. PS No matter if you are just beginning your journey with the Fab Four, you can select any of their songs, they never dissapoint.

[@DJ-bj8ku]

Actually Lennon was scolding the left for wanting to trash the system for supporting Vietnam and expressing sympathy for commies who were fighting against us.

[@waynec3563]

"select any of their songs, they never dissapoint" Revolution 9?

[@gpxo11]

@@waynec3563 number 9, number 9 number 9 number 9...

[@papercup2517]

@@waynec3563 Revolution 9 has its merits, which may become clearer if one consider its historical context. While not being to every pop/rock fan's taste, it was very relevant to wider cultural influences, taking inspiration from twin movements in the avante garde art and classical music worlds of the period, in which all expectations were being broken down and turned on their heads - a parallel stratum of ground breaking experimentation to the revolution in popular music the Beatles spearheaded throughout the 1960s. Paul, living in central London where 'it was all happening' was very attuned to this other world, in fact to all the changes that were taking place culturally. John found Yoko (or did Yoko find John?) and quickly discovered a resonance with her multimedia and performance art concepts as another, exciting way of reaching beyond the limits of what rock music could do and was expected to do, into a more fundamental questioning/ challenging of the status quo, that ideally, might even lift people's consciousness and help make the world a better place. Thus it was indeed another version of the 'Revolution' discussed in this song, which was more about external revolution than a revolution of the mind.. Revolution 9 might well disappoint if we hold on to a rather limited, fixed idea of what to expect on a rock/pop record, but if we can just open our minds to its brand of optimistic chaotic nihilism (for want of any better phrase to describe it) we might just have our minds blown, at least a little bit... :-)

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

"Revolution" is just bourgeoise mockery of leftist ideas and thoughts. John Lennon only became a leftist in the 70s, in response to the artistic expansion of the era. He went back to being a right winger right before he was killed.

[@daveowens271]

I became a Beatles fan at age three listening to my older sister play "Hey Jude" on her little portable turntable...over and over and over again. Hearing Paul sing the opening "Hey Jude," never gets old. What's totally amazing about fans of the Beatles both new and old is that we all point to the same elements as to what makes them so special. Like when you mentioned that opening riff. The Beatles just grab you by the throat, swing you around for a while, and then toss you in the air. THAT is MUSIC...that is ROCK AND ROLL!

[@270yis7]

Heavy rock was just getting started in 1968...the Who, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, and yes...the Beatles too.

[@tombennett2790]

When I was 12 years old dad was driving home from my football practice. It was 1968 and we pulled into a Rexall ( Walgreens). I stayed in the car and my father left the a.m. radio on for me. There are only a handful of songs I loved the very first time hearing. This is one of them and still love to this day.

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Rock and Roll Forever!!!!! The Beatles were my introduction to rock and roll back when I was a kid in the 60's.

[@secolerice]

This came out when I was 11. As I got older. I came to love the slow Revolution #1 on the White album but the original single version still is close to my heart. John’s message is still something people need to hear. It is so wonderful to see young people finding my favorite band and why they indeed are the best.

[@watkinssixtyfive7788]

I'm your age and remember this as the dawn of my musical appreciation. The first record I bought with my own money was the Hey Jude/Revolution single and I wore it out! And spot-on observation about John's message. Of the four of them, he made the biggest impression on me. I was so crushed to hear of his untimely passing, as I imagine you must have been.

[@erickvermeulen9734]

Just have to like it. As teenager in the seventies I bought the red and the blue double albums, now got the whole Beatles collection on cd and still love it. The way they developed in the sixties is amazing and many thing still sound great, time does not touch them.

[@ellenbeckmann4293]

Genau meiner Meinung. Lg Ellen 🌹

[@KingoRichie1990]

I've got those on cassette. 😆

[@vsmicer]

The opening heavy distortion riff is John playing his Epiphone Casino directly plugged into the desk, as was Paul's bass and George's Les Paul. John played most of the lead breaks, with George playing 'high' rhythm. The funky piano was added by renowned session player Nicky Hopkins.

[@mediumlevel1]

Nicky Hopkins never got enough love for this track. That wild piano adds yet another layer to lif the song even higher.

[@darylhoskins5696]

Yet through out their Short History George was the far Better Lead Guitarist !

[@kathleenwright4826]

If not mistaken, thatz Billy Preston on keyboards /so fab!

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

@@darylhoskins5696 What does this have to do with the fact that John played lead here?

[@douglasdingwall1596]

They were the sound track to my youth....

[@dougconley]

It's amazing how the Beatles music progressed in such a short period of time. Truly talented.

[@tamlynburleigh9267]

What I notice about most Beatles songs is the way they have one memorable or catchy tune, then they add another one and then a third. They combined so many different catchy Melodies or tunes into one unit, so it was all interesting from start to finish. Even the riffs were standalone.

[@magicbrownie1357]

One of the greatest pop bands ever. If not THE greatest.

[@alvarojaviercarrillokirkman]

The best rock and roll and all music all styles

[@sallykohorst8803]

What a great song! Well you are listening now.! Even one hundred years from now the music will still be loved! There are so many songs to love and also variations of songs.

[@salanzaldi4551]

Never before and never since has there been a band that popular.

[@dynjarren8355]

Welcome to the Revolution! They we’re about 4 Decades ahead of their time! They innovated sounds that no one does anymore. And I like how this is a real banger when people would say the Beatles weren’t a Rock band. Lennon liked raw Rock n Roll and this tune rocks hard! Plus, I like the message and the smart lyrics about freeing your mind instead. And if you want money for people with minds that hate all I can tell you is you have to wait! Don’t you know it’s gonna be Alright? Lennon was right, of course! He didn’t like violence and anarchy for its own sake. He didn’t agree with tearing everything down. He knew people would get killed or hurt that way. So he said Relax. It’s all gonna work out and he was right! Lennon was smart and sensible. 👏🏻😊

[@JustAnotherINFJ]

No two Beatles songs sound alike. Every Beatles song was written and recorded while they were in their 20s. So much can be said about the Beatles. Thanks for the content:)

[@EvaFariou]

The Beatles!!!! All my life I love them!!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@brianferris8668]

Bought my first The Beatles song, back in 1963. I have loved them ever since. A lifetime of musical pleasure. Thank you 👍

[@barbarjinx3802]

Rewatch the beginning when John starts singing, George says to Paul “John’s mic is shit.” This was their first live performance on tv in about 2 years.

[@TheYRReyes]

The Beatles' phenomenon is a like a time traveller that comes out of a vortex and becomes relevant to every generation. You never knew about the Beatles when you were younger but then their music reappeared and rediscovered.

[@simply_psi]

The Beatles are so good, but they are often dismissed as over rated by those that have never really dived into their sound. Others I think you'd like are Taxman, Tomorrow Never Knows, I Want You and Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite.

[@JesperHellvik]

I Want You is f@cking awesome!

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

They are dismissed as overrated by anyone who understands drugs and understands why they became so popular (it had little to do with the specific music).

[@simply_psi]

@@annaclarafenyo8185 not true, they were groundbreaking before there experimentation with psychoactive substances, the drugs never changed their talent, but seemed to open up stronger feelings, these could eventually be seen as the cause of the break up. If you are looking for music free from drugs, you will struggle to find artists who have not taken drugs, from Chopin who took Opium to Mozart and Beethoven who were alcoholics. There are a few notable exceptions like J Mascis, Ian Anderson, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, Kiss etc but even those like to sink a few alcholoic beverages.

[@JesperHellvik]

@@annaclarafenyo8185 I know drugs - I don't think they are overrated. What's your reasoning here?

[@braudabo]

@@annaclarafenyo8185 More details please. I'm curious about the next best theory...

[@Patriot-jc5wi]

Revolution is the song that hooked me on the Beatles. First time I saw the video it blew me away.

[@gerbear1907]

Child of the sixties, I am. Does me heart good for folks who have not had the "Beatles " to experience their music nowadays and be able to sample what it was like "back in the day" It was such a change in pop culture, stretching back to 1963 I truly cannot imagine a similar universal shift in culture as The Beatles. Thanks HBK Luke!

[@macharper8214]

I went through this journey about discovering the Beatles that you seem to be on now in 1988. I first heard one song, then I had to hear another one, and then another, and then all 200 of them.

[@rpoberhausen]

My favorite part is George mouthing to Paul at the start “ John’s mic sucks” 😂

[@walsingham-xxiii]

“… is shit.”

[@montymontano8618]

I always found it remarkable that they are four lads from Liverpool. You can’t underestimate the influence their common background had on their success.

[@BecomeConsciousNow]

Love this song! Amazing guitar and meaningful lyrics. Love it.

[@KlausJLinke]

Plus they're having fun, and don't take themselves too seriously.

[@waynec3563]

This was the promotional video for the single "Revolution". It differs from the single with the addition of the shoo-be-do-wahs from the album version "Revolution 1". You should check out "Revolution 1" from The White Album - same words, different vibe.

[@billwilson7948]

Yes, this isn’t the single. I like it, it shows the Talent, playing live, but…. you should Always listen to the real single first…. then go from there…

[@davefink2326]

The music track on this promo is indistinguishable from the single. But the vocals seem to be either replaced by the vocals from this film, or looped in later by the band members. I think it’s the latter. Because they are turning off mike, at times, yet the volume stays constant.

[@zoeherriot]

If you ever want to feel bad about your lifes achievements - just think they wrote and released their entire catalogue of music, and disbanded before any of them reached 30 years of age. And Paul and George were only 27.

[@debjorgo]

Don't Let Me Down from the rooftop concert!

[@rightroyalpain1]

Someone on another reaction video said that he felt, on first hearing the Beatles, that his ears had been baptised! Lovely way of putting it.

[@user-jl8wg2eh3f]

Greatest band ever! Will never be equalled!

[@narlycat]

It amazes me that Paul and George had to talk John into doing a fast hard version of the song. The Esher Demo tape version sounded like a camp fire sing along. Revolution #1 on the White Album sounds like a gentle 50s doo wop and Revolution #9 is an 8 minute train wreck, no lie it is an avant garde piece. And a few Beatle fans in 1968 thought the distortion was a defect on the record at first.

[@kathleenwright4826]

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[@mikefetterman6782]

The guitar sound was acheived by being the first time rock musicians recorded direct to the mixing board. The microphones were crap. You can see George lean to Paul and say ("his mic is shit") right after the first line of the song. The guitar sound was the revolution in this song.

[@betsyduane3461]

The music isn't live here, just the voices, see a keyboard player? The Beatles sang the vocals live over the pre-recorded instrumental track from the single version

[@conphuze]

@@betsyduane3461 That sounds correct.

[@gregorylapointe4157]

They would flood the market with singles when they started out, and incredibly out of the top ten singles in the U.S. at any given point in '64 or '65, half of the songs in the top ten would be Beatle songs. On top of that, the flip side of their records were great songs also. You had to have been alive back then to see just how powerful they were on popular culture.

[@Randyrocker1]

There were times where I actually thought MI5 created the Beatles and each one was a Secret Service Agent to take over the Music Industry and set the pace for a newer generation. They were that good. I'm pretty sure the thought arose while watching a James Bond 007 film. Not that it ever was, but the thought did emerge from the depths of activities around that timeframe. Amazing perfection in everything they touched. They definitely were and always will be the greatest for all time.

[@michaelgibson6204]

Rather it was all the hungry early years perfecting their skills

[@raymondfrye5017]

To Randyrocker:You are not far from the mark. Great Britain was in trouble from day one when it was revealed that call girl,Kristine Keeler, was sleeping with Prime Minister John Profumo and the Soviet Ambasssdor at the same time. To make MI5 & MI6 look good, USA and UK gov'ts paid the film industries millions to launch 007's career. The whole series came from former MI6 spy, Ian Fleming and his novels made into film. The Beatles were part of the package in the media.First,Kennedy's assasination, then Profumo's scandal,and it was Beatles onward until the decade was over.

[@Randyrocker1]

@@michaelgibson6204 Agreed they were so tight after playing nearly every top hit recording released at that time; 18 hours a day for almost 7 days a week, for months on end. Although, with all honesty, none of this would've happened at all, without Brian Epstein, the best Manager any group could ever have, along with George Martin, one of the best Recording Studio Producers in the business evolving with them to bring out their creative best. With a team like that and their dynamic charm and personalities, how could they lose. Everyone loved them all across the world. They worked hard to achieve their success too, by polishing every tune to perfection. They were the real standard of excellence in those days. Only one other song, ever matched their perfection and brilliance, The House of the Rising Sun, by the Animals, recorded in one take.

[@blitztim6416]

‘But if you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell you is brother you have to wait’

[@bobbybrettel5422]

Another great song/video is Hey Bulldog

[@PaulRubino]

I was around during the years when they were still releasing albums. We got to know them one song and one album at a time. It was amazing.

[@explorer1968]

At that time, the Beatles had already revolutionazed rock 'n roll!!

[@noteverton]

As John starts singing, George says "John's mic's shit"! George Martin achieved this heavy distortion by plugging the guitars straight into the desk. Genius!

[@ysgol3]

Regarding your 'Why not before' point, I so envy you - you are discovering these unbeatably brilliant songs for the first time. I remember, so long ago now, how fantastic that was.

[@buckchile614]

John's allusion to Chairman Mao is arguably the coolest lyrics ever

[@daytripper9222]

I grew up in the 60s so I was there. I always loved this video when John Lennon says don't you know that you can count me out and then he says in. If I recall John Lennon is the one that wanted this guitar turned up full blast and I can't remember who it was but someone was worried that it was going to blow up the desk lol. What an excellent time to grow up with music. I'll never forget.

[@JStarStar00]

You had to be there in summer-fall 1968 to hear the air raid siren of this song over the radio

[@anzacman5]

"You just had to be there". How many times have we heard that, my friends.

[@roxorange6022]

I love watching your reaction haha you're so in love with this sound. Beatles forever!

[@TheRezus35]

The Beatles, bigger than life..

[@macca1146]

They came up with so many original sounds, if they had wrote a Rap record it would have been the best Rap song ever.

[@melissalochamy229]

This is my go to when i need a Beatles fix. This and about 50 more. They were and will always be the first and best

[@joehernandez9722]

I was10 when I first saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan in a black and white T.V. It was like the epitome of a Beatle big bang. Since then, in my life, the Beatles became like a second beating heart. I wept when John and George died. I'm 68 now and my love for the Beatles has not waned. Good night.

[@mckenzie6593]

Stunning band. The best.

[@ungmd21]

The opening riff grabs you instantly, then you go for a fun ride until the last note fades out

[@johnalcorn8079]

The Beatles were not only keeping with the times,but they were the times……………..They kept changing in music.Everything was different by them,and others tried to copy them to a degree.

[@jamesscanlan6240]

The best way to discover the Beatles is by listening to their albums, especially the later ones like Revolver or Abbey Road.

[@TurdFerguson101]

I started listening to the Beatles after seeing the neighbor girls, listing to their records with a portable record player on a blanket on in their backyard, back in the early 1960's. They were screaming just like the Fab 4 was actually there. As a child, it left quite an impression. 🍁

[@royhollyfield1826]

This band changed the world..wrote 328 songs .

[@tjcassidy2694]

The piano bridge was by Nicky Hopkins, one of the most in-demand session men in London at that time.

[@rogerhart2618]

The Beatles hold so many records in music history, but one record is likely never to be touched. On April 4, 1964, The Fab Four owned the Billboard charts, as they held the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100. After only two weeks on the charts, "Can't Buy Me Love" hit No. 1, while "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "Please Please Me" round out the top five. In all, they had 12 spots on the charts that week. Can't Buy Me Love Twist And Shout She Loves You I Want To Hold Your Hand Please Please Me I Saw Her Standing There From Me To You Do You Want To Know A Secret All My Loving You Can't Do That Roll Over Beethoven Thank You Girl According to The Beatles Bible, the following week two more Beatles singles entered the chart: There's A Place (at 74) and Love Me Do (81).

[@voiceofreason7856]

I remember those heady days !!! I lived just outside of Toronto, Ontario and THE Top 40 AM Station at the time was CHUM 1050 , in Toronto. I still have one of their 1964 weekly music charts they published at the time of the Top 40 hits of that week. It's from March 1964 ( sorry - don't remember which week off hand) but the Beatles held 6 of the top 10 songs that week - and probably continued for several weeks after that - THAT'S how popular they were ! :)

[@ursgeiser6570]

So an interesting TV show. A few days ago I saw the first time Hey Jude of BBC and then began a discussion, which parts were live, which came from tapes. A connoisseur explained to me how it was used by BBC at the time. Here recognizable too: the microphones were open, but sometimes the lips aren't right. They worked with different traces too, partly recorded during rehearsals. Hey Jude/Revolution (if my parents would have realised the lyrics of this B-side) was the second "harmless" single after Obladi Oblada which I was allowed to buy after several huge theatres. Lucy in the Sky with Diamond (LSD-Albert Hofmann-Swiss), Strawberry Fields Forever and I'm A Walrus (B-side of Hello Goodbye: once I slipped away from the jukebox once; a theatre again, now you see ....) made many parents break their heads because of their protégés and the notorious wrong path, special in the countryside.🙂🙃😉

[@vsmicer]

The BBC 'Hey Jude' was recorded at Twickenham studios (the reason why the Beatles mistakenly went back there to record the 'Get Back' sessions. They played to a basic partial backing track operated by George Martin, in much a similar way as they did to the semi-live 'All you need is love'. They did three run throughs keeping the best bits from each take, which is why some of the vocal lips don't match up in the final edit. by he way, Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da was never a Beatles single in the UK...but Scottish Band Marmalade did a version which got to no. 1. It's nowhere near as lively, humourous or as polished as the original.

[@ursgeiser6570]

@@vsmicer Great thanks for these infos: amazing and somehow elaborate. In the last days I found a video of the German cult-TV Beat Club: Unique is the total live performance of My Generation with all theirs attidues. By the earlier songs Magic Bus, Pictures and My Friend Jack I'm not sure; by the Tommy songs I think some voices could be live, perhaps the music from pre-produced tapes as BBC did at this time. Also Jimi Hendrix 1967 was live and brilliant. At Woodstock he was surely inspired by Pete and his guitar acrobatic use. Beat Club was known for their new TV image effects in Mid-Europe. All the best to YOU!!!

[@jnagarya519]

They always had FUN! "Bom-shoo-be-doo-wah" -- the spontaneous humor.

[@PC4USE1]

I fell in 'musical love' with the Beatles in 1964 as an 8 year old and they are the best. I am glad to see transgenerational interest in them. Long after I die,someone will be listening to them.

[@vincentvancraig]

for all their magnificent beautiful ballads, all the catchy, sing-a-long pop ditties, and the psychadelic madness they did (they did it all, seemingly effortlessly), people forget, or dont assume/pressume that they could definitely ROCK.... from 1958/1959 they were a bar band in hamburg , germany, maybe even since 1957, i forget....point is they paid their dues, thats for sure, playing live and rocking out, which a lot of super popular bands (more like just "musicians" [cough, cough] these days) .....anyway, they paid their dues, and it showed when they played live, and there werent 70,000 screaming 12 year olds (who no one had dealt with prior to them, so their live stuff suffered in the last years of their proper "touring") ....anyway, great reaction (and for the experts who read this, yes, i realize there may have been some "sonic safety nets" for this live TV broadcast [Like, who the F was on piano, lol] but, still, they were the beatles, and 95-ish% of this is totally live)

[@vincentvancraig]

they paid their dues and worked their a$$es off, like, really, really worked themselves half to death....then they got famous, and had a work-load that wouldve killed a horse, or an ox....point is, they really went thru their unknown poor working musician days...and it shows in stuff like this.

[@Peter-pb8jg]

Nicky Hopkins played the piano on the recording of Revolution. The vocals for the promo film were recorded live over the pre-recorded instrumental track from the earlier recorded single version. The film was recorded on 4 September 1968 and shown on the David Frost program on the ITV network on 19 September.

[@anniemaes6387]

they were very, very, very good!!!! Still love them after all these years!!!

[@dynjarren8355]

When you listen to this song with Headphones or Earbuds it’s overwhelming! The guitar and beat just overpower and wash over you! Powerful song! Then and now! There’s no one like this now with the sole exception of Jack White! But they were doing this guitar distortion in 1968! And they were ahead of their time by decades! The White Album is still the best Double Album of all time! The Beatles “beat” everyone then and they “beat” everyone now, too! They are still the GOAT! 👏🏻😎

[@cliometrician]

Great song and reaction, thanks. I've been listening to the Beatles since I was a teenager in 1964, and I still listen to them. They were the best.

[@mikenaykki2173]

Greatest Band of all time ! They were heard of the times in another level of Rock Music! Long live the Beatles!! 👍👍😎

[@sammanganaro9254]

I am 69 from Australia love there music, played there albums over and over never get tired to listen to them...I love all types of music even some of the current stuff.. But still go back and have a listen to them ....By the way your surname is the same as Stu Sutcliffe the Beatles friend who played bass in there Hamburg days before they got famous. Sadly passed away at young age 1962....

[@theyrekrnations8990]

Ringo's Drum sound on Revolution is one of the best drum sounds ever. Lennon couldn't get enough distortion on the guitars so ran the VU meters well up in to the red to get that sound

[@barry5111]

In the sixties an album was £1 12a 6d peanuts today, but a fair chunk of a teenager's money then. I remember queuing up to get Rubber Soul and Revolver and you bought it without even hearing it. You just knew when you got the disc home it would blow you away.

[@peterzimmer9549]

George was mouthing at Paul…”John’s microphone is s-t”

[@noteverton]

I was born in Liverpool in 1958. I was too young to fully appreciate what was happening in the early 60's. All I know is, even at that age, I could feel something was happening around Liverpool. I'd see young lads with guitars and The Beatles were on everybody's minds. As a 12 year old, I attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, Paul and Georges old school.

[@nogunnofear6703]

As an old guy that's been a big old fan forever. Saw them live in Atlanta on August 18th 1965 and it was one of the highlights of my life they were so good. So considering all that I am so glad to hear your comments and to know that as I suspected this music's going on way past us. They were truly the greatest. No question. Peace ✌️❤️👍

[@ChipsAplentyBand]

I've only seen Paul & band live in concert (2005). How wonderful you got to witness all four Beatles together while they were still touring! I don't suppose you remember what a ticket to your Atlanta concert cost back then? We paid $250 each to go see Paul and I thought that was a bargain in 2005. He had 141 people in his tour doing all the various jobs, so there were lots of employees to be paid.

[@betsyab121]

What I love about this version is the backing vocals of Paul and George that are not on the official recording. This is a looser version, which shows how The Beatles could frolic and experiment while recording and it still sounds perfect. I don't know another group that could pull that off. Listen to Hey Bulldog where Paul is making animal noises, or Rocky Raccoon where Paul is singing with a cheeky southern twang. The Beatles had fun while creating. You can hear it all through their songs. It's one of the reasons they are so loved.

[@donaldhaight5127]

And the was f----ing live in 1968!!!!! (post note:no one, could play anything live like this today or before; I could go for days making comments on The Beatles but I'm going back, at my 67 year-old best, to listen to more)

[@Music_is_Breathing]

So glad to so such a young new Beatles fan :) I first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show, live in 1965! All these years later, they are still the best. Great reaction, kid. :)

[@dash4191]

Nice to see young buck's and doe's getting into our Groove! From good days that have been so good to us. Don't forget Elvis younger years and mid years and last years he could sing anything and had so many ranges in his voice

[@carmeloruiz6021]

Last year I was in my car driving at the street and listening to this song at a highest level of my CD player and two young guys next to my car shout at me: what song is that?! I answerd Revolution from the Beatles. And they instantly found it in their device. I am glad that Day i changed their lives forever!!!

[@orangeandslinky]

Melody was VERY important back then. Bands were called "Vocal groups," back then. As a musician you hear the instrumental work but the Beatles never really spoke of it at all. When you heard The Beatles, or most any 60's Brit invasion band, you ended up singing as much of it as you could right away when you went walking down the street. Melody was a must. That's what stuck to our ribs. If it didn't have melody, it really wasn't a hit for us back then. Also, if you asked anyone what their favorite Beatle song was , no one could really answer that.

[@michaelmanus7765]

I was pre-teen when I first listened to the Beatles. In fact, it was when they first came to the USA. I still listen to the Beatles. Btw, you should compare this to the other version Lennon did of Revolution.

[@mnamhie]

Great reaction, great review. You're right, the Fab Four was/is the greatest of all times. I'm one of the lucky ones. I've been listening to the Beatles for over 50 years. Still love 'em today; always will.

[@viper2148]

Fun Fact: George’s red Les Paul was formerly owned by Rick Derringer (#1 hit ‘Hang on Sloopy’), and used by Eric Clapton in the studio recording of ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeos’.