“I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met the Beatles when they took the stage after what seemed a hundred years of earlier acts. All very good, all marking time, because no one had come for anything other than the Beatles...
Then the theatre went wild. First aid men and police – men in the stalls, women mainly in the balcony – taut and anxious, patrolled the aisles, one to every three rows.
Many girls fainted. Thirty were gently carried out, protesting in their hysteria, forlorn and wretched in an unrequited love for four lads who might have lived next door.
The stalls were like a nightmare March Fair. No one could remain seated. Clutching each other, hurling jelly babies at the stage, beating their brows, the youth of Britain’s second city surrendered themselves totally.”
———— Derek Taylor (From his book “Fifty Years Adrift”)
JohnLennon ■ Paul McCartney ■ George Harrison ■ Stuart Sutcliffe ■■■■
Thedaysleadingto 1963
“The story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good” ’50s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.
They were determined to amount to something – in George’s words “we just had this amazing inner feeling of: ‘We’re going to do it’. I don’t know why... we were just cocky” – and make a record (in Ringo’s words you’d kill for that bit of plastic and make some money and have a laugh and shout. That would do to be going on with.
Six years later, they were the four most famous and musical men on earth, the best dressed and on a good day the most captivating people anyone can remember. The narrative that began where Paul met John and clicked at a garden fete in leafy Liverpool, and ended in high dudgeon in high-end London, is so far fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating every page to remind you with a joyous jolt that it was all true.
We didn’t dream it... though it came out of John’s dream of the “man on a flaming pie” who said “You are Beatles with an ‘A’”. It did all happen. The whole wonderful thing did happen, a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and the Hudson River.
Amazing and marvellous and, nearly forty years on, forever young.
1963- 1964 Beatlemania builds in the UK
“They’ve got something! From Liverpool, I hear, of all places.” “From Liverpool uber alles!”
They leave their Cavern Club and within months they take the ascendancy in the British pop world, and start to live the life of Riley in London. They play the Palladium, the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Variety Show, sing Moonlight Bay with Morecombe and Wise, give a spare hit to the Rolling Stones, play hundreds of concerts in Britain, nip over to Sweden, invent Beatlemania, record I Want to Hold Your Hand (their 4th British number one in a year) and, as if in a dream – while their conquering Paris – the record goes to Number One in America three weeks before the Ed Sullivan Show in New York.
If there had been no Beatles, no one would have had the imagination to invent such a story.
1964 – 1965. USA, Films, Touring, MBEs
’The Beatles sweep through the great US cities, drawing tens of thousands to airports for the merest glimpse.
They play for no more than half an hour per concert. A Hard Days Night has guaranteed them star status in the cinema and they laughed their way through Help! in Technicolour. Paul dreams that he has written Yesterday – and has. They are the first band to play a baseball stadium, Shea in New York, breaking records for crowd fever, numbers and good cheer. Oh, and they go to Buckingham Palace to receive medals from the Queen and, by now, more or less accept it as their due. They are, however, as happy and polite as can be.
TheBeatles ————
’Wherever they went, they brought Beatlemania with them. They couldn’t help it; it was a form of real love. George would say many years later that the world used them as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on the Beatles, but there is a parallel theory that it was time for the world to go that sort of mad – get down a bit, loosen up, and like Uncle John in Long Tall Sally, have some fun tonight. The crowd scenes are awesome and, in retrospect awful. How did no-one get killed?...
’65, ’66, ’67: TheYears of Dash and Daring’
These were the years of dash and daring. Sweeping out of the final (and wonderfully old-fashioned) 1964 family Christmas Shows into the wider world of 1965, The Beatles would soon find themselves figureheads of a movement far beyond “pop” where a counter-culture / alternative society was made flesh. National boundaries were presumed to be doomed. Millions of minds were to become expanded and many trousers would soon be spandex.
...though the music would continue to pour out of them breaking in great waves over uncharted, challenging Reason and warming the heart, the Beatles would tire of those great sweating stadiums where they now played to screaming crowds who could no longer hear them.
In the studio years (1966 onwards), supported by the steady hand of the great George Martin, they would produce songs which would be forever fresh and which still set the standards against the newcomers have to test themselves.
Greatly turned on by the Spirit of the Age and by the “tea-parties” of those times, the Beatles provided a sound-track for the plottings of the baby boomers – millions of them – whose enlightenment (however compromised it may have been by the material world in the harsh times since) still provides a hedge against humankind’s grosser instincts.
They... go into the studio which brings an amazed world the mighty whirligig of Sgt Pepper, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields here on the screen in surreal and glorious colour. They sing Baby You’re A Rich Man and they all are, but they don’t buy an island in Greece.
It was the great glory of The Beatles that they could absorb and transmute so much, first in those tiny houses in Liverpool, listening to eclectic 1940s wireless, then to r’n’r and r&b and to Dylan and the poets and soon to music and messages from India.
Unafraid of growth, dogged individuals with a powerful devotion to the group ethic, the Beatles accepted each other’s offerings and really “cooked” to make each record a feast that left us breathless with admiration. They never stood still.
1968– 1970
Apple, the Rooftop and Abbey Road. And in the end, these last years were a time of plentiful confusion a time to break down and a time to build up.
The Beatles started their own company, Apple Corps with five creative divisions – records, films etc – and then went public with an offer that anyone with an artistic need could come to them and get help. Is there, even now, a machine to count such numbers?
The promise was that all sincere supplicants would be given encouragement, succour, a contract and maybe an envelope full of money. At the same time, the Beatles flew to foothills of the Himalayas to learn meditation. There, between sessions with the Maharishi, they wrote songs for what would become The ‘White’ Album.
When recording started, the songs had come in such profusion that, famously, The White Album had thirty of them – enough for two high-class musicals. They sped from one track to another, content that the unity of the album would transcend the disparity in the style and content of the tracks. It was always their strength that they wrote bewitching singles.
New songs were written to suit themselves; sometimes written alone. This new work could virtually be recorded solo, spontaneously, simply.
Following the White Album(and the magnificent Hey Jude) they made Let It Be and with the final regal glory of Abbey Road they left their grieving fans a legacy that will never be matched.
In the inevitable breaking down of old liaisons, there was room for growth. John met and married Yoko; Paul met and married Linda. George matured far beyond his years, settled into his spiritual space and expressed himself writing classic songs; Ringo was now writing his own numbers and was widely acknowledged as a supreme drummer and a very good actor. To everything there is a season.
That the rift between The Beatles, evolved with much public angst was a pity but this is not a perfect world is it?
Relationships anyway, were repaired long ago.
And in the end, the equation between the love they took and the love they made was intact into infinity. They still represent the twentieth century’s greatest romance.
A Yellow Submarinemontage with various pictures from Yellow Submarine with background music by The Beatles with the song Yellow Submarine from the 1966 Beatles album Revolver.
Here a nice little film I made of the Beatles.It's a rare early mix of Sun King from Abbey Raod.It's set to some nice rare pictures of the lads form the Abbey Road sessions.........enjoy!
CD1
1、 Come Together 2、 Something 3、 Maxwell's Silver Hammer 4、 Oh! Darling 5、 Octopus's Garden 6、 I Want You (She's So Heavy) 7、 Here Comes The Sun 8、 Because 9、 You Never Give Me Your Money
CD2
1、 Sun King 2、 Mean Mr. Mustard 3、 Polythene Pam 4、 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 5、 Golden Slumbers 6、 Carry That Weight 7、 The End 8、 Her Majesty
LetItBe1970
Let It Be is a song written by Lennon & McCartney (although thought to be the sole work of Paul McCartney). The song was first recorded by The Beatles and released as a single in March 1970 and later the same year as the title track of their acclaimed album Let It Be.
Disc1
1、 Two Of Us 2、 Dig A Pony 3、 Across The Universe 4、 I Me Mine 5、 Dig It 6、 Let It Be 7、 Maggie Mae 8、 I've Got A Feeling 9、 One After 10、The Long And Winding Road 11、For You Blue 12、Get Back
1962-1966
Assembling a compilation of the Beatles is a difficult task, not only because they had an enormous number of hits, but also because singles didn't tell the full story; many of their album tracks were as important as the singles, if not more so. The double-album 1962-1966, commonly called The Red Album, does the job surprisingly well, hitting most of the group's major early hits and adding important album tracks like "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," "Drive My Car," "Norwegian Wood," and "In My Life." Naturally, there are many great songs missing from the 26-track1962-1966, and perhaps it would have made more sense to include the Revolver cuts on its companion volume,1967-1970, yet The Red Album captures the essence of the Beatles' pre-Sgt. Pepper records.
CD1
01、 Love Me Do 02、 Please Please Me 03、 From Me To You 04、 She Loves You 05、 I Want To Hold Your Hand 06、 All My Loving 07、 Can't Buy Me Love 08、 A Hard Day's Night 09、 And I Love Her 10、 Eight Days A Week 11、 I Feel Fine 12、 Ticket To Ride 13、 Yesterday
CD2
01、 Help! 02、 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 03、 We Can Work It Out 04、 Day Tripper 05、 Drive My Car 06、 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 07、 Nowhere Man 08、 Michelle 09、 In My Life 10、 Girl 11、 Paperback Writer 12、 Eleanor Rigby 13、 Yellow Submarine
1967-1970
CD1：1、Strawberry Fields Forever 2、 Penny Lane 3、 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 4、 With A Little Help From My Friends 5、 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 6、 A Day In The Life 7、 All You Need Is Love 8、 I Am The Walrus / Hello, Goodbye 9、 The Fool On The Hill 10、 Magical Mystery Tour 11、 Lady Madonna 12、 Hey Jude 13、 Revolution
CD2：1、Back In The USSR 2、 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 3、 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 4、 Get Back 5、 Don't Let Me Down 6、 The Ballad Of John & Yoko 7、 Old Brown Shoe 8、 Here Comes The Sun 9、 Come Together 10、 Something 11、 Octopus's Garden 12、 Let It Be 13、 Across The Universe 14、 The Long And Winding Road
CD1：1、Beatle Greetings (Speech) 2、 From Us To You 3、 Riding On A Bus (Speech) 4、 I Got A Woman 5、Too Much Monkey Business 6、 Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 7、 I'll Be On My Way 8、 Young Blood 9、 A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 10、 Sure To Fall (In Love With You) 11、 Some Other Guy 12、 Thank You Girl 13、 Sha La La La La! (Speech) 14、 Baby It's You 15、 That's All Right (Mama) 16、 Carol 17、 Soldier Of Love 18、 A Little Rhyme (Speech) 19、 Clarabella 20、 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) 21、 Crying, Waiting, Hoping 22、 Dear Wack! (Speech) 23、 You Really Got A Hold On Me 24、 To Know Her Is To Love Her 25、 A Taste Of Honey 26、 Long Tall Sally 27、 I Saw Her Standing There 28、 The Honeymoon Song 29、 Johnny B. Goode 30、 Memphis, Tennessee 31、 Lucille 32、 Can't Buy Me Love 33、 From Fluff To You (Speech) 34、 Till There Was You
CD2 1、rinsk Dee Night 2、A Hard Day's Night 3、Have A Banana! 4、I Wanna Be Your Man 5、Just A Rumour 6、Roll Over Beethoven 7、All My Loving 8、Things We Said Today 9、She's A Woman 10、weet Little Sixteen 11、822! 12、onesome Tears In My Eyes 13、othin' Shakin' 14、he Hippy Hippy Shake 15、lad All Over 16、 Just Don't Understand 17、op So How Come (No One Loves Me) 18、 Feel Fine 19、'm A Loser 20、verybody's Trying To Be My Baby 21、ock And Roll Music 22、 Ticket To Ride 23、 Dizzy Miss Lizzy 24、 Medley: Kansas City : Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! 25、 Set Fire To That Lot! 26、 Matchbox 27、 I Forgot To Remember To Forget 28、 Love These Goon Shows! 29、 I Got To Find My Baby 30、 Ooh! My Soul 31、 Ooh! My Arms 32、 Don't Ever Change 33、 Slow Down 34、 Honey Don't 35、 Love Me Do
PastMasters1988
PastMastersVolumeOne
1. Love Me Do 2. From Me To You 3. Thank You Girl 4. She Loves You 5. I’ll Get You 6. I Want To Hold Your Hand 7. This Boy 8. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand 9. Sie Liebt Dich 10. Long Tall Sally 11. I Call Your Name 12. Slow Down 13. Matchbox 14. I Feel Fine 15. She’s A Woman 16. Bad Boy 17. Yes It Is 18. I’m Down
PastMastersVolumeTwo
1. Day Tripper 2. We Can Work It Out 3. Paperback Writer 4. Rain 5. Lady Madonna 6. The Inner Light 7. Hey Jude 8. Revolution 9. Get Back 10. Don’t Let Me Down 11. The Ballad Of John And Yoko 12. Old Brown Shoe 13. Across The Universe 14. Let It Be 15. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
01. Yellow Submarine 02. Hey Bulldog 03. Eleanor Rigby 04. Love You To 05. All Together Now 06. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 07. Think For Yourself 08. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 09. With A Little Help From My Friends 10. Baby, You're A Rich Man 11. Only A Northern Song 12. All You Need Is Love 13. When I'm Sixty Four 14. Nowhere Man 15. It's All Too Much
Beatles12000
The Beatles were the first band, which backmasked some lyrics. Officially, they did it only once. But allegedly, they did it much more often!
Disc：
01. Love Me Do 02. From Me to You 03. She Loves You 04. I Want to Hold Your Hand 05. Can't Buy Me Love 06. A Hard Day's Night 07. I Feel Fine 08. Eight Days a Week 09. Ticket to Ride 10. Help! 11. Yesterday 12. Day Tripper 13. We Can Work It Out
14. Paperback Writer 15. Yellow Submarine 16. Eleanor Rigby 17. Penny Lane 18. All You Need Is Love 19. Hello Goodbye 20. Lady Madonna 21. Hey Jude 22. Get Back 23. The Ballad of John & Yoko 24. Something 25. Come Together 26. Let It Be 27. The Long and Winding Road
Let It Be... Naked
DISC:
Get Back / Dig A Pony / For You Blue / The Long And Winding Road / Two Of Us / I've Got A Feeling / One After 909 / Don't Let Me Down / I Me Mine / Across The Universe / Let It Be
LOVE2007
DISC
Because / Get Back / Glass Onion / Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition) / I Am The Walrus / I Want To Hold Your Hand / Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing / Gnik Nus / Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition) / Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite/I Want You (She's Heavy)/Helter Skelter / Help! / Blackbird/Yesterday / Strawberry Fields Forever / Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows / Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds / Octopus's Garden / Lady Madonna / Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition) / Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transistion) / Revolution / Back In The U.S.S.R. / While My Guitar Gently Weeps / A Day In The Life / Hey Jude / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / All You Need Is Love
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