If you are listening to a song sung 58 years ago and still enjoying it, you are listening to a genius musicians.
@jeffmartin10263 ай бұрын
It sounds as fresh today as it did 50+ years ago.
@garymorris18563 ай бұрын
The Beatles are in a category by themselves
@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V82 ай бұрын
*The BEATLES were Amazingly Musical for the time.*
@danielwragh77353 ай бұрын
this is my fav beatles tune, criminally underrated . loads of bands took this sound as influence
@braudabo3 ай бұрын
"Paperback writer" was also a big hit, reaching No.1 in the USA in 1966, in the UK and in other countries, as someone already mentioned There are a number of rock songs by the Beatles, including a proto-metal track with legendary status, "Helter skelter" (1968), a wild hard rock('n roller) "I'm down" (1965), or Lennon's martial fuzz guitar classic "Revolution" (1968), to name just a few particularly outstanding ones. "Paperback writer" was also part of the Beatles' live program on the Fab Four's last, chaotic, tours in 1966.
@charlenewebb58933 ай бұрын
Your dad dosent know this song ? What Planet have you been living on ! The Fab Four The Beatles Man !
@glawnow19593 ай бұрын
Now imagine hearing this on the radio in the summer of '66, with the weird studio effect of the "revolving" vocals, the loudest bass we'd heard yet on a Beatles record, and the great buzzing guitars. Flip the record over and listen to "Rain," and you'll hear Ringo really have fun.
@Newfie-zc7ug3 ай бұрын
WOW ! .........my thoughts exactly ..at the same time :) Thank you !
@wpollock13 ай бұрын
One word: "Rain".......you haven't heard it because they have so many hits......it is mind boggling to think of how many hits they had.
@howarddickson88563 ай бұрын
Hold on to you're hat kid the Beatles are the best. Great rabbit hole to explore. Enjoy the ride.
@kpmac13 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Beatles songs. Even though it was one of their MANY #1 songs, it isn't one of the songs you hear a lot about. Underrated IMO.
@atgdcommish6083 ай бұрын
"This is a great song, man!" -- perfect summary
@strathman75013 ай бұрын
I think you'll find that "killer guitar riff" is actually McCartney, who played lead on Epiphone Casino. John played rhythm. George played place-holder bass which was later overdubbed by Paul, and he may have added some guitar fills as overdubs but the main riff was Paul.
@nonrepublicrat3 ай бұрын
NOT a killer anything. The "riff" could not have been any more simple. Who told you that nonsense about "play-holder bass"? Cite where you found this "fact" if you can.
@strathman75013 ай бұрын
@@nonrepublicrat That was the reactor's reaction. Was he "wrong"? I agree it's a powerful phrase, simple though it may be. The finale melody of Beethoven's 9th is simple, anyone could play it with one finger on the piano. T S Elliot opined that the most powerful poetry in Shakespeare's King Lear is the line "Never, never, never, never, never!" Whether a musical idea is effective or not has nothing to do with how difficult it is to play.
@JoeScottish3 ай бұрын
@@nonrepublicrat It was the guy reacting that called it a 'killer Guitar Riff'..... yeah wikipedia mentions "Robert Rodriguez and Walter Everett each credit McCartney as the player of the song's main guitar riff, and state that Harrison added lead guitar "fills" over his initial rhythm part", check Wiki for the references
@Rkw7723 ай бұрын
It’s not hard to Google and it’s Paul playing the riff and his bass is killer too. Great song.
@kpmac13 ай бұрын
Ringo's so awesome, he doesn't even have to play the drums.
@rethink623 ай бұрын
I like oh we covered their big hits this is one of their lesser known Men it was another #1
@robertlear27122 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Beatles songs - especially since my last name is Lear.
@jimmcdonald40873 ай бұрын
Now listen to the flipside of this single, "Rain."
@halcyon2892 ай бұрын
Oh yes ...Rain is killer !
@Jerry-dn5yw2 ай бұрын
FINALLY!!! Somebody acknowledges "Rain"! One of favorite Fab 4 tunes......
@runningsuperska3 ай бұрын
It must be amazing to discover The Beatles songs for the first time. Jealous!
@ijonny252512 ай бұрын
this is some of Ringo's best drumming and even better is the flip side "Rain"
@slavaukraini4043 ай бұрын
The B side Rain is even better with an amazing bass line by McCartney. Rain was written by Lennon and Paul's best bass lines are often on songs the others wrote. Beatles B sides are the second greatest band ever after the Beatles A sides.
@RobbEverett2 ай бұрын
Mom, the Beatles are in the backyard again
@ricknbacker56263 ай бұрын
FWIW, Paul wrote and plays the guitar riff on the recording. Paperback Writer is a changing of the guard song for the Beatles. Up till then John had sung the bulk of the bands A sides of the Beatles singles from 1963 through 1965. (The bands previous single had Johns Day Tripper listed as the A side. Turned out Paul's B side We Can Work It Out garnered more radio play. Same thing happened to their next single. John's Strawberry Fields Forever was listed as the A side only to have Paul's B side Penny Lane got the most radio play. John would only have 2 A sides after 1966 through 1970. 1967's All You Need Is Love and 1969's The Ballad of John and Yoko. Paul's A sides included 1967 's Hello Goodbye, 1968's Lady Madonna and Hey Jude, 1969's Get Back and 1970's Let It Be and (in America only) The Long and Winding Road. Paperback Writer was indeed a changing of the guard in the Beatles hierarchy. Great reaction lads, You Gents may want to check out Oh! Darling from the Beatles final album Abbey Road. Paul's last masterpiece written as a Beatle. RNB
@rayyoung65943 ай бұрын
I read that the Beatles did this in response The Beach Boys vocal mastery.
@dannygriffith61853 ай бұрын
This song was a direct influence on The Monkees first hit, "Last Train to Clarksville."
@mariannemaloneywitherspoon63353 ай бұрын
That Neil Diamond wrote for them (The Monkees).😊 5:06
@scottandrewbrass19313 ай бұрын
@@mariannemaloneywitherspoon6335Boyce and Hart wrote "Last Train To Clarksville"
@newremote3 ай бұрын
@@scottandrewbrass1931 Yep. Neil Diamond wrote "I'm A Believer", "Little Bit Me…" and half a dozen others.
@binxbolling2 ай бұрын
Probably their first hit with distorted guitar.
@perrymalcolm38023 ай бұрын
This WAS a “big hit”, huge in fact 😊
@RRCCTexas3 ай бұрын
Paul palys the lead guitar on this studio version. George played the lead in their concert appearances.
@artiewithers69803 ай бұрын
Try the flip side “Rain”.
@binxbolling2 ай бұрын
Top selling musicians of all time.
@roystonvasey54713 ай бұрын
Anyone notice Paul's chipped tooth? He fell off his moped just before this was shot.
@rjaraneta9133 ай бұрын
This was a top hit. It reached #1 on the singles charts in the US, UK and several other countries.
@PFNel3 ай бұрын
#2 in the UK. Kept away from #1 by Engelbert Humperdinck, if I remember correctly!
@rjaraneta9133 ай бұрын
@@PFNel That was "Strawbery Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" double A Side single that was kept from #1 by Englebert, not "Paperback Writer".
@PFNel3 ай бұрын
@@rjaraneta913 You're absolutely right, and thanks for the correction! That was a brain fart on my side. I was thinking of "Penny Lane" another McCartney effort of their middle years.
@tdgallagher2183 ай бұрын
I believe the inspiration for this song was from Paul's auntie. She complained to him that all of his songs were about girls and/or love. She challenged him and suggested that he write about something ordinary. Apparently, John was inspired by the task himself, being that the flip side of this single was Rain.
@Uetti3 ай бұрын
John had already written non-love related songs before, Nowhere Man being the most obvious example
@tdgallagher2183 ай бұрын
@Uetti Nowhere Man was written/recorded six months later, in Oct '66. Paperback Writer and Rain were recorded in Apr '66. If anything, Help (recorded Apr '65) might be considered a non-love song, although it could easily be presumed the 'you' in the song is referring to his girl. Nonetheless, the story regarding the inspiration for Paperback Writer remains as told.
@Uetti3 ай бұрын
@@tdgallagher218 Sorry, are you a Beatles fan? Doesn't seem so, because everybody knows that Nowhere Man was recorded for the Rubber Soul album, which came out in December 1965. For the record, The Beatles never had a single recording session in October 1966. I don't know where on Earth you got such a wacky information
@tdgallagher2183 ай бұрын
@@Uetti A thousand pardons for my gross ineptitude. Other than old age and failing eyesight, I have no excuses. I am clearly a lowly outcast and don't deserve to share the same air you breathe. Evidently, I wasn't thinking straight this morning while I was serving you my reply. EVERYBODY knows that in Oct '66, the Beatles were beginning to grow chin whiskers as they were moving into the planning stages of Sgt Pepper. Even preschoolers know that. And for the record: my initial comment was solely about the source that inspired Paul to write the song. At no point did I declare this as being the *first* Beatle song to be a non-love composition.
@Uetti3 ай бұрын
@@tdgallagher218 You didn't say that straight, but you wrote that John was inspired by Paul's task to write a non-love/girls related song and so he wrote Rain. I just pointed out that John was already writing non-love/girls related songs way before Paul came up with Paperback Writer, so I highly doubt he was inspired to write Rain by it. That's all. Also, The Beatles weren't planning Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in October of 1966, that concept came way after they reconvened at Abbey Road in late November of that year. They weren't planning anything in October, all of them pursuing personal projects (How I Won The War for John, The Family Way for Paul, sitar lessons in India for George and the Bricky Builders construction company for Ringo) and writing individually with very little interaction between the four, following the end of their last, exhausting, tour
@lindasalvaterra13043 ай бұрын
That's one of their best! I love it!
@Uatu-the-Watcher3 ай бұрын
Pop Rock in perfection.
@philharris58483 ай бұрын
Great reaction guys to the legends singing what for me was one of their best singles. Coming back up to date there are two amazing singers you should definitely react to. The first is from Kazakhstan 30 year old Dimash Qudibergin, singer, composer and multi instrumentalist. The other is from the UK 20 year old Lucy Thomas, she's released 5 studio albums and has 70 + videos on utube. Her latest is a cover of the classic song "Unchained Melody" I guarantee you'll be amazed by these two incredible artists.
@Nelson10Hernandez3 ай бұрын
And the side B not bad at all 🔥
@dannyshelton15013 ай бұрын
"Instant Amnesia" this 2005 Ringo hard rocker will really surprise you! Please take a listen. 😊
@donlawson33303 ай бұрын
Flip it over and listen to the "B" side 😉. They put "poppy" songs on the "A" side and edgier, more experimental stuff on the "B" side-"Rain" in this case (Ringo's best recorded work).
@Uatu-the-Watcher3 ай бұрын
Silly Love Songs. An excellent Pop Rock song. :-)
@garlooroztox3 ай бұрын
At that time John Lennon did have a paperback novel out 'In His Own Write'/'Spaniard In the Works' which was influenced by Edward Lear. Worthy nonsense which informs one of his 'I Am there Walrus' lyric approach.
@JoeScottish3 ай бұрын
McCartney played a lot of the Lead Guitar on this song
@hungfao3 ай бұрын
Yes, you need to check out their tracks that weren't issued as hit singles.
@StanSwan2 ай бұрын
They made these videos for the Ed Sullivan Show as playing their songs live was imposable with all the double tracked vocals and punch in dubs. They did play this song live In Japan and it was a big reason they stopped touring. They were a great live band but as their songs got more complex in the studio there just was no way to do them live at that time. Today they could just play along to a basic track or use punch in digital effects. They also got sick of flying halfway around the world when every new single came out.
@williamdeypres11223 ай бұрын
Filmed at Chiswick House in West London. I've stood in the conservatory on the very spot where it was filmed.
@johnmichaelson91733 ай бұрын
If you listen to the backing vocal they're singing "Fere Jacques" the famous French children's song.
@ronmartin42123 ай бұрын
The mono mix is more pumped up!!
@newremote3 ай бұрын
As it so often is! It's a common assumption that a stereo mix is somehow automatically better. Much of the music at this time was recorded to sound great in mono on a record player or transistor and, as with this track, a stereo mix only came later. Even now, in the opinion of many, including me, on a modern system the mono still sounds best.
@GaryBox3 ай бұрын
Listen to the B side of this single which was called Rain, just as good with some great drumming by Ringo.
@freebirdtony3 ай бұрын
If you liked this, you'll really dig "Tax Man"
@user-ky6vw5up9mАй бұрын
Last verse the harmony is singing French song Frere Jacque
@ijonny252512 ай бұрын
George is not playing lead on this-Paul did. Martin did not like Georges' attempts so Paul tried to help and Martin told Paul to do it!
@wissmo2122Ай бұрын
ringo's just sitting there because it book based on a novel by Lear
@PFNel3 ай бұрын
"Top hits" are not their best songs. Well, that's an exaggeration, because obviously some of the big hits were among their best songs, but there's so much to discover beyond those.
@NelsonMontana12343 ай бұрын
I can't trust the opinion of anyone who never heard this song before.
@oldvsyoungreactions3 ай бұрын
You do realize this is a reaction channel right?
@davidredmon74213 ай бұрын
They were a little glum because they disgreed with Capitol's insistence that they lip synch.
@ianbrooke63423 ай бұрын
If you listen carefully at about 1:20 you can hear in the background someone singing frere jacques.
@sourisvoleur48543 ай бұрын
John and George, I believe.
@patticrichton11353 ай бұрын
Yes, it's NOT "someone in the background" it's John and George who are singing "Frere Jacques."
@ianbrooke63423 ай бұрын
@@patticrichton1135 Ok, so it's two people in the background.
@patrickmcgoldrick82342 ай бұрын
How many thought the beginning lyrics were ,.Sir old man,as opposed to the real lyrics,Sir or mam,have you seen my book
@MaxGretinski3 ай бұрын
They couldn't fit Ringo's drum kit in the car. Seriously.
@Marlenefanclubsimone3 ай бұрын
Next reaction: George Harrison: Let it Down ❤️🤘🇮🇹
@TheMerryPup3 ай бұрын
If you look closely you’ll see that Paul is missing one of his upper front teeth. I don’t know why they didn’t postpone the shoot until after he’d seen the dentist but there you go.
@jeffreykennedy12663 ай бұрын
This is a lesson in how to make 2 chords sound great…
@pilesovinyl3 ай бұрын
Dad, you must have been born in a cave not to have heard this before.
@oldvsyoungreactions3 ай бұрын
Not much of a Beatles guy. They were broken up before I was born.
@SeanMSwindler24 күн бұрын
Ringo is just sitting there due to union rules in the UK at the time - they weren't allowed to pretend to mime/simulate a live performance
@oldvsyoungreactions24 күн бұрын
Really. That's so interesting. We just assumed that pulling the drums out was a pain for them when they went on location. Ringo made the most of it with his charm.
@paulsullivan16503 ай бұрын
But it's "SUNG!"
@RobbEverett2 ай бұрын
Were you born in a cave? How do you not. Know this song?
@Alpha_WK3 ай бұрын
Forget the lyrics. The song is more of trance inducing mantra/raga.