The Making of "A Day In The Life" | The Sgt. Pepper Sessions

[@nvm9040]

Best song of Sgt Pepper

[@michaelparks6120]

Paul always wanted the Beatles to be the best they could possibly be.

[@darrensmith650]

One of the best songs ever written .

[@alexandrevallim8617]

Greatest song in the history of humanity.

[@jbognap]

Greatest record, along with Walrus.

[@StudioMargalima]

Very much agree. Epicness forever. But dont forget SFF.

[@ibleebinU]

I always told my wife, if I die first , play it as a celebration. It's my favorite Beatles song...ever.

[@daviddockery8962]

Just listened to this song on my record player and this video popped up. The song always gives me the strongest feeling of melancholy, but also introspection. It makes me think about how I take every moment in my life for granted and reminds me that time slips by so quickly. People live and die all the time, and every life is a blink in the eye of time. Great song. One of the best things they ever did.

[@JohnnyManThan]

I think my favorite part of the song is that final chord; so big, loud, and powerful. It also stands out considering it plays out until you’re left with complete and utter silence, it’s all good stuff basically haha.

[@taramahoney2412]

One of my top favorites Beatles song.

[@strathman7501]

Responding to comments that John was the avant garde Beatle and that Paul was just a pop writer who stuck a random bit in the middle of John's masterpiece. ADITL was developed by *both men,* from an initial fragment of John’s, into something that John had *not* envisaged when he brought in that first verse and a half. Lennon's account makes it clear that Paul's involvement was integral to the composition: *"A Day in the Life - that was something. I dug it. It was a good piece of work between Paul and me. Paul and I were definitely working together... we were doing it in his room with the piano. He said 'Should we do this?' 'Yeah, let's do that.' I had the "I read the news today" bit, and it turned Paul on, because now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of song, and he just said "yeah" - bang bang, like that. It just sort of happened beautifully... He had that beautiful little lick in the song 'I'd love to turn you on' floating around in his head, he couldn't use it for anything, so he stuck it on, and instead of going on and developing that lick into the middle eight which we would normally do we got into 'How about putting [in] a whole different song', which he already had... which is a precursor to Abbey Road style later on... and we arranged it and rehearsed it, which we don't often do, the afternoon before [recording]. So we knew what we were playing [including placeholder cacophanous crescendi present from Take One]."* So if you subtract from A Day In the Life the elements which Paul either introduced on his own, or was involved creatively with together with John from the start - ‘I’d love to turn you on’; the orchestral cacophanies; the ‘had a smoke and went into a dream’; and the dream sequence - what’s left is the verses. Imagine these as an acoustic song on their own (and arguably only the first verse and a half were pure John). It would be an interesting song, a bit surrealistic lyrically, but not at all like the musically avant garde, dramatic, mind-blowing composition that is A Day In the Life.

[@davidtignor6698]

true collaberation love the song now we know who the better singer was ?

[@scottjones6624]

I am so glad I have subscribed to this channel. Wonderful videos you are producing

[@BeatlesBible1]

Welcome aboard!

[@Larrymh07]

A commentator I read once wrote that the opening chord to A Hard Days Night and the final piano chord in A Day in the Life were the book ends to Beatlemania. I doubt it was planned and maybe it is not precise, but I still like that idea.

[@gogoyubari366]

One of my favorite Beatles songs!

[@ericbgordon1575]

The first time that I turned in for "A Day in the Life" would have been when I was 7 years old and my personal beatlemania was kicking into gear. Previously, we would hear Beatles albums and I would tolerate them. Then, during my first intentional listen to *Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,* I remember just enjoying the album and not thinking too much about how it was made. That's how it was when we got to "A Day in the Life".

[@pizza2437]

The Beatles NEVER put their singles on an album...... Except for all the times they did. "Please Please Me" "Ask Me Why" "Love Me Do" "P.S. I Love You" "Can't Buy Me Love" "You Can't Do That" "A Hard Day's Night" "Things We Said Today" "Ticket to Ride" "Help!" "Yellow Submarine" "Eleanor Rigby" "Get Back" "Something" "Come Together" Arguably "Let It Be" although it's a different version.

[@hw343434]

According to George Martin and Geoff Emmerick, John Lennon had the idea of starting with the lowest sound to something “like the end of the world” for the orchestral crescendo. Perhaps George Martin and Paul simply helped to give shape to John’s original idea. After all, these type of experiments were never found in Paul’s own Beatles songs, only on John’s. John was the avante-garde Beatle, Paul was the pop Beatle. So much for Paul’s history revisionism but the music (“when I’m 64”, “Lovely Rita”) vs (“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, “Mr Kite” and “A Day in the Life”) speaks for itself. Pepper would’ve been a good pop album had it not been for Lennon’s surrealist pieces

[@k.s.nichols4060]

Respectful argument: Paul did do Carnival of Light and Helter Skelter and other songs. I agree that Paul did what John called "granny shit," but Paul was also deeply involved in the avant garde and pushing boundaries. But you won't get an argument from me that Paul often enjoyed writing more "traditional" pieces.

[@hw343434]

@@k.s.nichols4060Carnival of Light doesn’t exist yet in 2024 so we can’t speculate on that one. Helter Skelter is a hard rock song and I love it but it’s not avante-garde. Paul is a great musician but he certainly was way more conventional in his songwriting than John during the Beatles. I wasn’t knocking Paul, he was pivotal as were all 4 but to me his history revisionism campaign is sad. He wants to take credit for John’s accomplishments so bad. He should be more than proud with his own

[@EmileJoulbert]

“Paul would … sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song … usually we’d spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul’s songs; when it came to mine … somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in. Subconscious sabotage.” - Playboy 1980 Why would John Lennon, the experimental/avant-garde Beatle, complain ten years after the break-up that his songs often suffered from being over-experimented with?

[@MrKGHunter]

Kind of a half assed take. Obviously you’re a John guy. I love big John too, but to paint things as simple as that is just shoddy studying.

[@dago87able]

⁠it is a fact though that Paul was very much into avant-garde during these years. It’s easy to put one neatly into the avant-garde realm and the other in the pop one, but I think we would be surprised if we learned how much out there ideas in The Beatles were actually Paul’s. I think that their collaborative creative process was often more fluid than we might imagine.

[@johnbender6042]

I see complaints about Paul’s middle section but I will say that Paul’s bass made this song. Just fantastic

[@CosmicMapping]

That contrast between the main body of the song and Paul’s section is literally what MAKES the song, and represents the broader musical contrast the made The Beatles special. Anybody who complains about Paul’s section are just John fetishists who have a painting of the words “granny music” above a shrine in their basement.

[@johnbender6042]

Totally agree

[@mafelaralte6978]

Paul always sore bout Pet Sounds.. how about John, was he really influenced by Pet Sound

[@robertlabude8784]

für mich eindeutig ein ANTI-KRIEG-Song und immer vorrangig.

[@frizzneil2590]

Only Paul gave a SH!t about Brian Wilson, please!!! 'Pet Sounds' was an is just Poppie Fluff...

[@robbhahn8897]

I dropped some LSD oh boy!

[@maetzchenmusik]

Ah! Let's spend the night together …or was it some time? 3:19

[@Willsontime]

I think the middle eight spoils it. They should have got something that fit better.

[@JohnClinton-sn8zb]

"Turn You On" could be about love, sex or drugs.

[@bowenisland100]

Great video....EXCEPT! Please remove the annoying fake vibrating sound wave over layered over ALL the photos.

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

McArtney’s contribution to A Day In The Life was something he’d written independently & it shows - it’s horrible. It should have been tagged onto Oh Blah Dee Oh Blah Dah. Thank God he didn’t touch Lennon’s masterpiece; I Am A Walrus.

[@hw343434]

Yep, Walrus was next level art. And yes, Paul’s bit on a A day in the Life is the weak link but Lennon’s song is so good it carries Paul’s “dragged a comb across my head” bit and the contrast of depth and surrealism (Lennon) and trivial pop (Paul) actually works perfectly as it balances itself very nicely in typical Lennon/McCartney style (like “We can work it out” where Paul has the singalong poppy verses and John comes in with the philosophical lyrics and the mysterious chord progression and melody of the chorus or middle 8). These two guys complemented each other like nobody else

[@buskman3286]

The song would have been album filler without the contrast of the two sections. It's precisely that juxtaposition with the accompanying orchestral buildup that makes the song great.