The Beatles at Frost's part 1: Hey Jude (higher def)

[anim8orman72]

Saw an interview with George Martin where he mentioned trying to convince Paul McCartney to trim the length of "Hey Jude" down. George told Paul, "Number 1 songs aren't seven minutes long". Paul said, "This one is" Nuff said

[jimihendrixaerosmi]

0:40 no it's not :)

[kennyddd1]

Greatest act in the history of entertainment HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!

[lebeboun]

Un monument, trop bon!

[mugwamp4]

obviously sung to backing track as theres a distinctive  acoustic guitar and bass

[bones22j]

Litterally laughing out loud at John Lennon at 0:02 "David Frost dee da dee dop David Frost ba di ba di bop David Frost"

well not laughing AT John Lennon but with him....AT David Frost I guess.

[newmark401]

The audience was hand-picked beforehand, so it's not as if the boys in the band felt threatened by anyone. Still, it all looks very spontaneous.

[mwredit]

This does look nice an crisp. Not bad for 42 year old footage.

[chitos95]

george looked skinny as hell

[1954telecaster]

@chitos95 - i was just thinking the same thing, we view them as larger than life but in reality the beatles were tiny people

[rocknroll1able]

the audience are freakin suffocatig them. especially Ringo

[mavsfan069]

yeah there are like different versions I will kill to be in any of those 3, peace & LOve

[Halchemist15]

0:22 look George ^^

[theroopsmith]

If you notice Paul throws his voice around alot in the background. Why is this you may ask? After they quit touring, the Beatles never played on TV without a guide track of themselves. They're playing to a previously recorded "live take" track of Hey Jude and singing and playing over it, this was done to avoid disaster as the rust was starting to settle. All You Need Is Love was also performed on that global telecast this way.

[westfield90]

@theroopsmith They actually did it this way since there was a BBC union miming ban in effect and they thought they could bypass this ban by singing live but playing to their recorded instrumental track. They figured the union wouldn't notice that they weren't really playing the instruments.

[cornball918]

@theroopsmith Rust?

[theroopsmith]

@cornball918 yes. They hadn't toured since mid-66, they basically became a studio band and by doing so, they were aware that anything they were producing in a studio couldn't possibly be pulled off by just the 4 of them on a live stage at least by their ability (it would have been great to see them at least attempt it!). I read about this in Abbey Road Sessions book, after '66, they were frightened of sounding bad in a Worldwide TV spot so they used a rhythm track for their own security.

[xemily91]

if you look, on the side, Paul's whisteling at 1:10? after frost introduces them. XD

[Lehnerd57]

there were 3 live takes to the song on david frost done just seen one is all unless u were lucky then see to see all three

[lander77477]

I posted this video too, though my upload looks like a different copy of it, I cant tell which one is better

[lander77477]

Well i noticed one thing, that applause at the beginning of the song is not supposed to be there, its absent on my version

[lander77477]

wait wait, I thought there were only 2 performances and ive watched them a million times but this is like a 3rd version ive never seen, the camera is showing people i hadnt seen and McCartney is singing different! Im confused I thought there were only 2 takes of this, not 3!!!

[carlospc]

It's good to have different options!! :D

[propaganda63]

Excellent!

[Rodrigoteacher]

Outstanding moment!!