The Making of Sgt Pepper (Part 6)

[ym61]

Love the gleam in George Martin's eyes, as if he were hearing it for the first time. This is the way The Beatles made us all feel when listening to their music.

[bloodnokian]

How do you get a roll of neck fat like Phil Collins has?

[fatcatbuzz]

Best recorded ever made. Sure, it's dated back in the 1967, but still a great record to pop in and go to a different world.

[RoiekY]

The last sentence put a huge smile on my face ! brilliant movie , brilliant album

[thommytaranto]

A giant orgasm of sound, brilliant

[zackulous]

Day In The Life = Masterpiece

[andrew34430]

the last three words what paul says about the album sums it up and it is the greatest album of all time

[iceseekers]

great quotes from ringo about the Peace movements and excellent ending from Paul!

[everlybro84]

read here, there, everywhere by geoff emerick

[manojkumarshow]

best ending to a documentary ever !!!! 

[larrecun]

@manojkumarshow I was gonna comment the same exact thing, you beat me to it.... hahaha. That ending wants to make you listen to the whole damn album for the 500,000,000 time.

[manojkumarshow]

@larrecun exactly,,,,beatles were the best band ,they are the best band and they will be the best band ever....fact :)

[PassengersMusic777]

Oh, this was such a masterpiece of a documentary. I fancy myself a huge Beatles fan, and there was so much more I learned in this whole doc. Thank you very much for uploading this gem! (smokes cigarette) sighhhhhh

[briney1973]

george martin really was the 5th beatle, would any other producer at that time have been willing to go along the journey the beatles were taking. i think not. maybe it was his experience working with peter sellers and spike milligan that prepared him for the beatles.

[harveydents]

@briney1973 absolutelly...geroge was the 5th beatle

[joe44850]

I feel like Geoff Emerick deserved a mention. He didn't do any arranging (that was Martin's job), but a lot of what you hear sonically can be attributed to his efforts. He won a grammy for best engineered album (Sgt.Pepper).

[afroman1ish]

gorge martin was avery sweat man poor him.hes in heven with gorge and john. making records

[jwild611]

@afroman1ish George Martin isn't dead

[joe44850]

@afroman1ish Someone should email George Martin to inform him that he's dead. I think he'd be very surprised at this news.

[randycasey99]

excelent!! thanks!!! =) you got more shows like this one of any other beatles album?

[Frugellhound]

one of the greatest milestones in our life!

R.I.P George&John.

[TheDR196]

you just wait.

[shaindaman13]

I wish TV here in the US was more like in the UK. Instead of being bombarded by adverts every 10 minutes! I enjoyed this a lot.

[MoveOverCasanova]

lorenaventura, noone right in his mind underestimates ringo -- he is the drummer, and he created a sound that fed generation all over the world!!!

[energycmtep30]

YOU JUST WAIT... :)

[larrecun]

the ending says it all.....

[H0E0M0G14]

i can't believe that there is a beatles suck fanpage...

[DudeItCanKill]

Ending was marvelous.

[Iloyod]

Ohhh!! :) George Martin loves " a day in the life" =D

[Koukai7]

I can't thank you enough for posting this! I really liked George Martin's openness about letting the Beatles try out new things. Without him they would surely never had gotten as far as they did. Thanks again!!!!!!!

[jjws]

there is no doubt that george martin was the 5th Beatle, he contributed so much to their music

[edyken77]

love how lennon was uncompromising; when he wanted something he convinced others they could do it for him.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

What the F*CK is Phil Collins doing in here?! I'd rather hear Milli Vanilli give their impressions than THAT douchebag.

[mateuszmattias]

@SubconsciousGatherer; you don't have to like Phil Collins, but he happens to be a very talented musician, so comparing him to Milli Vanilli either has to be a rather lame joke on your part or a sign of true ignorance. Regardless of what your personal taste is, if you take early Genesis stuff and honestly consider that equal to Milli Vanilli, I mean, come on!

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@mateuszmattias I agree that early Genesis stuff was much better, but it's the stuff since then that's caused his legacy to be tainted. It's like toothpaste. It's good and it serves a purpose, but when you drink orange juice immediately after it just ruins the taste in your mouth.

[TheFpuff]

Ringo's face is so droopy.

[comickrew]

haha, you just wait

[noble381297]

ringo is the best drummer in the world!!

[bboytracks]

@noble381297 Not True! - Try Jim Gordon!

[noble381297]

@bboytracks he is good to, but ringo just fits 4 the beatles

[mysterioustree14]

"Orgasm Of Sound" great name for a band

[jamsid33]

they should get back together again and do srgt peppers concert, how cool would that be

[afroman1ish]

@jamsid33 very cool!

[starryian007]

It must have been heartbreaking for George Martin to have to listen to John Lennon's voice being played with such clarity as though his old friend was still there in the studio.(The fact that John had been dead for 12 years at the time this documentary was made made it all the more sad)

His face says it all. A very poignant and touching moment.

[matco24]

@starryian007 I concur...one of his best vocal performances!

[JCRIBBSANDMCCOY]

he feels guilty about coveringup puals death

[ilovefreedom80]

@JCRIBBSANDMCCOY

PID is a cover-up story for the real conspiracy that was going on between Paul and John ;)

[rulo1256]

wonderful documentary

but it's a pity that they didn't explain what was the noise at the end of "A day in the life", I was waiting for that!

[willyrobson]

@rulo1256 18 grand pianos

[bendesmond66]

a day in the life was life changing when i first heard it, it just made me feel a way id never felt before

[neil73]

Fascinating documentary. I think I saw this when it was broadcast, I certainly remember the 20th anniversary of this album.

Anyway; an enjoyable 50 minutes of viewing on Youtube! No wonder people are throwing their tellies away!

[joefrack1990]

1:47 until 2:40 - bone chilling. amazing. you can see the nostalgia in george's face and how much he misses the band and the music

[JesusizMyHomie77]

George Martin should be an unlockable character in the beatles:rock band!! They could make like a mini game of producing or something!! Lolz

[beatlesfan07480]

2:26 oh my god i love how he says oh boy so much

[MrBassSlapp]

brilliant upload, thanks a lot

[amalialovesicecream]

Sir George was their guiding hand and rightfuly the 5th Beatle: can anyone imagine their careers at the hands of the Decca producer who turned them down??

[operaphantom8]

when paul say that the peapole thought that they was stuckt and couldnt do music, after 5 long month.... the worlds GREATEST album Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Clab Band came out, one thing i can say, RESPECT !

[archivist26]

Brilliance.

[ollierodgers1]

amazing!! but im still not sure why they didnt put strawberry fields and penny lane in the album? why not?

[53moreHP]

@ollierodgers1 George Martin said the 2 biggest mistakes he made with the Beatles was not putting "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" on Sgt Peppers and not exploring the talent of George Harrison.

[hiphopsucks96]

@53moreHP I think the latter was John and Paul's mistake more than George Martin's.

[53moreHP]

@hiphopsucks96 I'll believe what George Martin said over what you think.

[hiphopsucks96]

@53moreHP Dude, u don't even get what I'm saying! I'm saying that the fact that Paul and John essentially neglected to allow George to write more was more their mistake. I believe George Martin, and I agree with him. But I'm saying that it was Macca and Lennon's mistake- cuz ur such a Beatles fan, you must have heard that George had approached John and Paul several times for help in his songwriting, and he was denied every time. Get it now? R u gonna say something smug again?

[hiphopsucks96]

@ollierodgers1 George Martin said it in part one. He said that they used to not put singles on albums, because he felt that they were "conning the public." Funny, I don't know why they couldn't put them on the new remastered release as bonus tracks. Or free downloads on the website.

[tonkehar]

@ollierodgers1 It was going to be a two album set..just look at the album cover...it opens like a two album set cover. I believe strawberry and penny and other songs were going to be on the second album. When the singles came out of strawberry and and penny came out and it was going to cost too much, so..they dropped that concept. but they album cover had already been made!

[Salguine]

@tonkehar No, it was always going to be a single album. The cover is just a gatefold sleeve...one half has the record in it, and the other half is just flat; it doesn't open up. It's just for the picture and artwork.

[hellmasterx]

"you just wait"

[spence798]

i have to inform u zindazerda that mccartney did most of the music arrangement. hey, lennon was a legend, and a songwriter that can never be replaced. but u cant say he was superior to mccartney. thats what made the beatles, the lennon/mccartney team. not to mention mccartney formed another little band, with tons of hits, called wings.

[bibbler227]

@spence798 I have to inform you that you are wrong. They were both brilliant in different ways. I agree, McCartney was a more versatile musician and his songs were "technically" more complex than Lennon's. However, Lennon could do much more with starkness, minimalism, and simplicity (check out the Plastic Ono Band Album).. The entire John vs Paul argument is old and downright silly. Enjoy them both for the great writers that they were. Why do you need a competition?

[hiphopsucks96]

@bibbler227 Sorry for interrupting, but I feel that the words "simplicity" and "technicality" should never be used when talking about music. I think that the effectiveness of music really determines how technical it is. Is "technical" how flowery and overdone a song is? John and Paul have proved that it isn't about how complex song structure is at all. Just like a house- if it's built right, it'll stay around for a long time. And John and Paul's music has and will be around for a long time.

[curtainmender]

A Day in the Life

[archivist26]

Lord, what brilliance!

[larrecun]

how can anyone doubt that george martin wasn't the 5th beatle... he is it. He was there, he played with them, gave them ideas, transformed their ideas into music, admired them, ... etc... he is a beatle in my book

[THECLARENCES]

Amazing!!!!

xoxo

The Clarences

[cirquedusolielfan]

Take 1 of a day in the life is the version you can hear on the beatles love

[PeterTheMob]

john lennons voice in a day in life is the signature of john lennons voice

[THeEraSerr]

ily thom yorke and radiohead and ily beatles

[demonsbutterfly]

infinity & Beyond....like early Dylan..

[Haldwing]

& late dylan...?

[demonsbutterfly]

Some of the Late Dylan, But not all!!!!

Not even a Genius is brilliant all their life...

[demonsbutterfly]

What a Fantastic Documentary...."You Just Wait" prophetic Words Paul.

Shall always be a Masterpiece in any era.

[imthefrogman]

in the beginging i misunderstud. but now i got it, the word is good.

[ipete6]

that was the most epic ending ever "You just wait" -Paul mccartney

[ZendoZerda]

sgt. peppers is the best album ever made. Period.

[Marcuskristicus]

That piano chord at the end of 'Day In The Life' must be the greatest album-ender in history.

[robbylafont]

Seems like everyone forgot that Paul wrote Yesterday and Hey Jude....many of today's mordern pop songs lack that kind of freshness.

[BANGERS68]

yer ya know...yar

[fredrikottosson]

asso fan vilka jävla genier de var!!!

[plonsda]

how good is george martin!

"Even in this early take, John sings with a voice that sends shivers down the spine."

[timages13]

He's great isn't he!

Without him and that particular sensitivity he had for modern music the Beatles would have been a far different band. I think he made them realize their innovations with his tremendous craft and taste in music.

[timages13]

This series bares out what I've always felt about the Beatles. Without John Lennon's dimension and sensitivity they would have been a very good Pop band. Without John and the craft and skill of George Martin they would have been a pretty bad Pop band. With the exception of George's Within and Without none of the other material here besides John's is exceptional. It's good Pop music but it's not what gives the Beatles that depth and dimension that makes them truly the extraordinary band they were

[strangeones4]

Paul McCartney drove The Beatles after Sgt. Pepper. If it wasn't for him, Abbey Road would've never happened. Simple fact.

[timages13]

I don't know how that relates to what I wrote about the dimension of their music that John Lennon made. If you consider the songs on Pepper that Lennon wrote:Lucy in the Sky, Day in the Life, Benefit of Mister Kite, Strawberry Fields. They're a far cry from pop tunes like: When I'm 64, It's Getting Better etc. They add pathos and sophistication that was never seen before in Pop music.

But believe what you want, I've learned the hard way to NOT argue with the crazies who write on these things.

[strangeones4]

There's nothing crazy about it. After Brian Epstein's suicide, both George Harrison and John Lennon lost interest in the Beatles. Paul may have been heavy handed in the way he handled the band, yet if it wasn't for his "direction", the band wouldn't have made it to 1969. I didn't realize I was commenting to the simplistic notion that Paul wrote "pop" tunes, while Lennon only wrote "sophisticated, cerebral" rock songs. What did you kill Bungalow Bill?

[timages13]

Who said John Lennon didn't write pop songs? You did apparently. And John Lennon didn't loose interest after Epstein's death, he was afraid for the band's future because he felt they only knew how to make music and and he turned out to be right. If you look at the music JohnLennon wrote from Rubber Soul on it's more experimental, sophisticated, personal and introspective then Paul's. Paul himself said his great goal was to write for Sinatra.

Hardly the groundbreaking songwriter of the Beatles

[Orwell12345678910]

Fair point, but let's not overlook Paul - it was his idea to have the orchestral part in A Day In The Life, with the Orchestra going up their scales from the lowest to highest point.

Personally, I think that's the most sophisticated part of the song!

[Orwell12345678910]

Fair point, but that's not really what I was saying.

Paul wrote some dross, but so did John. Bungalow Bill? Revolution 9?

I agree that John wrote the better songs, but Pauls were still, for the most part, great - they just weren't on the whole as good as Johns.

Paul was the first Beatle to be into the avant garde - check out 'Carnival of Light', etc. He was even the first to go to the Indica gallery, where John met Yoko!

History in these issues tends to get rewritten to favour John.

[timages13]

You're right on all counts, because of John's tragic and shocking death history has been kind. In reading about his life after he treated his first son and wife horribly, that's never mentioned. I think Yoko saw to that.

Bungalow Bill is dreadful I agree!

What made John's songs great I feel was that he sang about a very personal pain and hardship to great music. Where as Paul wrote very very good pop songs.

John was a very troubled guy who dropped a lot of acid, he envied Paul's unfettered life.

[zombiiination]

not only that, but lennon has been portrayed as a cvili rights leader, which i will kind of agree with. he was just a lot more in the spotlight and did more "spectacular "things than the other beatles when they broke up .

[timages13]

Right, that can be said about Lennon, he did believe he could invoke change with his celebrity. But there is an impetuous irresponsible side to John as well, he left his first wife and child and didn't speak to them again for four years. I'm more than anything a fan of his music, he wrote in a deeply personal self confessional way. He had a very difficult early life and never forgot the pain of it. Federico Fellini once said that great art comes from deep pain, that's John Lennon's music for me.

[ZendoZerda]

mccartney was great and i like ob-la-di,ob-la-da and maxwell's silver hammer, but Lennon was just superior.

[timages13]

It has to be 30 years since John Lennon wrote his last song,(I think it's that long), and more than 40 years since the Great Sgt. Pepper Album. And you can see how extraordinary a song writer he was. His music is still great after more than two centuries in Rock years. I listen mostly to Radiohead which seems like a natural progression to the music of the Beatle's Sgt. Pepper...not so much the music after.

...I wonder what Lennon would have thought of their music, and what they think of his?

[bigdunk9]

Thom Yorke is a HUGE fan of The White Album. He once said on an interview it cured his writers block before OK Computer. Which was the landmark record of the past 15 years in my eyes.

[timages13]

Wow thanks for sharing that, I didn't know Thom Yorke had said that about the White album. I know the Beatles themselves didn't have many good memories recording it. Paul McCartney referred to it as the "tension album". It was the first time that other musicians were brought into the sessions, and Ringo Starr actually left the band for a few weeks during that time. I personally find it' a rather uneven album,but there are great songs in there... Sexy Sadie immediately comes to mind as one.

[bigdunk9]

Indeed man he did - The White Album is very uneven I agree. Blackbird, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps are also great songs. Kurt Cobain was also heavily influenced by The Beatles.

[DiazdelVivar]

George Martin did that part... he wrorte it down... they just said that they wanted an orchestal climax

[w7nter]

Who invited Phil Collins?

[stillwaterseven]

LOL ,..."you just wait"...

[lake40]

the part of day in a life was featured on anthology

[remyglessi]

you can see that George martin gets a little touched by hearing Johns voice in "a day in the life"

[07cramit]

A day in the life is so sad when john starts singing, just remembering him for everything

[deismusique]

Thank you very much for this documentary I was longing to find for many years !!!

[cruzman3608]

nothing about syd..

[lorenaventura82]

Ringo RULES!!!!! Better drummer than everybody thinks.

[sparsematrix]

@lorenaventura82 Never trust a drummer that doesn't respect Ringo.

[dougalmac54]

@sparsematrix Never LISTEN to a drummer that doesn't love AND respect Ringo. Thousands of guys all over the world became drummers because of Ringo. I know because I'm one of them!

[amamw1]

A Day In the Life always gives me chills.. it's one of the most beautiful things by the two

[stormcats2]

Ringo is such a humble guy.. truly awesome.

[johnyexhale]

Phil Collins stfu

[HingwayFilms]

2:12 brilliant.

[joesosa41]

" oh, you just wait ...."

[parchment52]

brilliant

[ammar255]

but wheres : Fixing A hole

Getting Better

She's Leaving home

Lovely Rita

Sgt Pepper reprise

nothing was mentioned about them?!!

[aarfeld]

One of those rare moments of pure genius, this one. The world turned a corner with Sgt. Pepper.

[rick8285]

Paul was the genius

John was the natural

George was the student

Ringo was the constant

[ammar255]

agree

[whofan2753]

i'm so sick of you retarts john is better than paul,waters better than gilmour,mick taylor than ron wood!!! Just because that's your opinion doesn't mean anyone gives a fuck!!!SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

[TheFracturedCrew]

you just wait

[Tonyinrosnemex]

George Martin was great.

And it sounds like Mal Evans' counting, on A Day in the Life, gets louder and louder and it probably influenced the giant wave of music in the song. His counting gives you that feeling of rising tension. Good tension.

[kralle7611]

a day in the life always had and still has the same effect on me like on george martin.

it mutes, relaxes, then singles you out. your spirit is alone in this human life. and all the other people you're with are sole spirits as well, no matter how socially involved they get.

[darrenfinizio]

music from a dolls house by the band family is just as good and worth checking out, as is the first pink floyd, the who sell out and s.f. sorrow by pretty things......these bands were less pop (in varying degrees) but the quality is still there in case you've never heard of these wonderful lps.

[thetramp1936]

...wow...

[nitramlio]

When I was at school(circa '75) our Religious Education teacher ( Mr Rind ) used to play Sgt Peppers for the class and would try to impress on us the 'morals' we could learn from the Beatles. I think old 'Rindy' just loved the album so much he couldn't bear to be without it and took it to work with him. It worked though several of us became Beatle fans, good on yer Rindy.(Anyone out there from 5G?).

[linekill]

Will there be another "sgt. pepper" album? I hope so....rock music has almost reach its end and the room that this album opened is already overflowing....someone..open then door to the room..we don't want to see rock dying..

[bb97js]

ringo in his latter years is just i pissed off grumpy man. . . . .sad but true

[WorkingKlassHero]

This is fantastic, great album

[plastodoido]

Thanks for posting!

[ljosca]

..."just wait"...great Paul!

[bencw05]

phil collins! boo!

[carlosdangerous]

Hey! He's amazing! I love Phil!

[walrusgombit]

when i first heard of the sgt. pepper album when i was 4 i thought they were gonna suck cuz all i remembered from the beatles were she loves you, i want to hold your hand, and all that other pop rock sounds. but when i heard it, it was almost mind altering 4 me, i was a little disturbed though because all the trippy sounds they made but at the same time amazed. 2 think this album was made 40 years ago, unbelievable.

[anybody51]

"Pepper" was the first LP I bought with my allowance back on June 1, 1967

[andionita]

Wow! What a memory this is!

[stillwaterseven]

I remember that feeling , buying your first LP with your "own" money,..something your father would never have bought for you ,..but getting it on your own was a great feeling.Thanks for sharing your memory, I think we all have one like it

[lescraneurs]

George Martin is a great musicien, great open-mind person.

Beatles sound comes from him too.

Fifth Beatle, i'm sure

[giles422]

the top

[stevenhoward72]

Greatness

[declan3906]

John Peel listened to this album and cried. He thought there would be nothing this good ever again.

[dnnydirty]

Remember countless hours staring at the Pepper artwork in the bedroom while playing the album over & over & over again on an endless loop despite the parent's obvious concern & objection....

[mondonudes]

Wow, yeah, I had forgotten those days. I had a poster of the jacket art covering a window in my teenage bedroom. And I would just stare and stare at the artwork listening to the record over and over thinking, god, how did they do it?

[nobbynemo]

Thanks, great to see this again.

[doforanimals]

Wow this is fascinating. Love it. You can see the affection George Martin has for John just by his expressions and gestures during John's vocals. I will always consider Martin the fifth Beatle. He took the Beatle's great music to another level.

[AllaBest]

I'll never forget walking into the record shop and seeing this album! It was truly mind-blowing! I don't think people today who were not there can fully realize the impact this album had! God Almighty, what's this on the back? The lyrics! Christ!

[koolgiy]

Greatest Rock Album ever.

Im 16 and I bloody well know that. Lol