If this was anyone else but George Martin saying these things I would dismiss him as a wanker.
The Beatles would not have reached the heights they did without this great man producing them. No question whatsoever he was that important to their success.
I have no doubt he wrote the solo phrasing to Michelle. After all, he played the brilliant piano solo to Lovely Rita, the counterpoint string flourishes to Eleanor Rigby, the orchestra sections to A Day in the Life, and on and on...
@ChanoineStraub he had a rep from other non pop recordings and i believe that awards or charts were not, as are not today, the right tool to measure excellence. just my 2 cents for Sir George Martin
@14luisalonso I know he was already successful (but not famous) at Parlophone when he met the Beatles. I've read lots of books about the Beatels. What I mean is George Martin would never have been this famous and successful without the Beatles. He's a musician himself, but he's little known as a composer or player. He worked with other artists afte the Beatles, but none came close to the Beatles's success. What does that mean? I think the answer is obvious.
@ChanoineStraub Although the artists he worked with after the Beatles didn't come close to their success (but how could they anyway-no artist ever came close to the Beatles success, excluding only Elvis) he produced a series of excellent albums for artists such as America and Jeff Beck in the 70s...
@ChanoineStraub And concerning the fact that he became famous due to his involvement with the Beatles this was a process that worked both ways...George Martin helped the Beatles shape and improvise their distinctive unique Beatlesque sound in the studios and the Beatles helped him to become the most famous producer he is today..surely without Martin their songs would have sounded much worse like early 60s British bands do sound (e.g. the Stones and the Kinks) due to horrible production..
@ChanoineStraub He did the soundtracks for the Beatles films as well as the James Bond film Live and Let Die. And besides, he was a PRODUCER, and therefore each of the Beatles' successes is his own. He didn't TRY to make his own career as a musician, only as a producer, and he's the single most successful producer ever.
great solo....and perfectly played by george with feel and soul....better played then any of the best session players could have done....thanks to both georges for this solo
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Paul may have been dead at the time this song was recorded although it wasn't announced in the reverse-vocals until a bit later. To say he played most or all of the instruments is therefore quite impossible except insofar as he played any instrument (or sang) after he died, which is quite possible. George's solo doesn't sound like a George solo, but Michelle doesn't sound like a Beatles song, so I'm not sure anyone was in the recording studio except George Martin.
@BL80488 Which conspiracy? the one where George Martin inhabits Paul's skin and walks around as Paul, or where he dubs in Paul's parts after Paul died and takes over his house and family (true) and even has his children? It's not a pretty story. Rather ghoulish, actually. But such is life for the wealthy in the suburbs of London!
You're all wrong. Even Sir Martin. Ringo wrote and played that song and gave it to Paul because Paul was so short and ugly that Ringo felt sorry for him. If you don't believe me google "naked frogs can't dance" and you'll know the math.
Paul is certainly playing the bass, if you pay close attention and listen to the song in its many layers, these ears hear the unmistakeable sound of the hoffner bass,and I never saw a right handed hoffner in all the Beatles photos.
meanwhile if lennon was here he would tell you how brilliant paul was and who wrote..long and winding road, let it be, get back, lady madonna, hey jude, michelle, yesterday, cant buy me love, all my loving, eleanor rigby, here there and everywhere...etc etc
PAUL wrote those all....
john would tell u to stuff it...its not about john vs paul its about the great work the beatles did..peace and love u wanker and piss off...lol
michele is one of my favorite all time recording...
the melody and lyric are wonderful
the recording..how it was arranged and the sound...sonically..its a masterpiece that never gets old
i always figured george marin had written that solo..george harrison played it beautifully ..better then any top session man with musical education etc
hats off to george martin and hats off to george harrison for playing it so well with so much feeling
michelle was a favorite of irving berlin..he loved it!
George Martin came up with most of George Harrison's guitar solos in the first few years. He had no doubts about Harrison's ability to play, just his judgement on what to play. Martin now admits "I was rather beastly towards George in those days". By 1965, though, Martin stopped telling Harrison what to play. But by then it as Paul telling George Harrison what to play which caused a rift between George and Paul that never completely healed.
That's so cool! I always thought George Harrison thought that solo out by himself. It's a great guitar part and George plays it with a lot of "French" feeling and vibe.
That's so cool! I always thought George Harrison thought that solo out by himself. It's a great guitar part and George plays it with a lot of "French" feeling and vibe.
@nsra1933 Disagreed ,Paul had a broader sense of jazz harmony than did John, Paul's father was always playing show tunes in his home when Paul was a kid and this greatly rubbed off on Paul's compositional abilities.John was a rocker.
@JapaninArmeija@JapaninArmeija well, after all, it is PAUL'S song, and he always plays acoustic guitar when he plays it live, he used to play it in the parties he would attend with John whilst he was in art school., anyway Paul did the bass for the song, George or John didn't play bass maybe until the Revolver sessions in "She Said She Said" when George plays bass.
not sure who played this bass solo- it does sound like paul and its always possible that martin was mistaken, the beatles werent always entirely certain of who played wat- but i know for certain that mccartney played the solo in taxman. bloody brilliant it was too
Come on, guys ! The first thing is that it's a GUITAR solo, not a bass solo. And it´s George's : Martin wrote it and Harrison played it. It´s simple ! And terrific !
Ian MacDonald's book Revolution in the Head lists just about every instrument on Michelle to Paul, including drums, but it also puts an question mark to the list.
I want no trouble for anyone about this. It's nothing away from Paul, just some interesting alternate info on this matter.
That's still nothing George hadn't been able to do. Paul wasn't always the bassist on Beatles songs, Taxman has George on bass and Let it Be has John.
Harrison did NOT have the touch on bass to handle that solo, and McCartney would not have let him. Trust me, it's McCartney. Furthermore, Harrison did NOT play bass on Taxman; McCartney did (as well as playing the incredible guitar solo and outro).
That's your first mistake. George has obviously forgotten that it's a bass solo, not a guitar solo -- as McCartney and a thousand others have noted in the past.
Yes, a bass guitar that McCartney played on Michelle. Not Harrison. Do some rudimentary Internet-based research and you'll find authoritative sources confirming it. Conversely, I challenge you to find a single source specifically stating that Harrison played bass on Michelle (or on Taxman, for that matter).
"Authoritative" sources don't exist in internet. If you are even a bit correct then GM is a liar, but your bluffing is to be deemed ridiculous.
First off, George was the only Beatle who could read notes. Secondly, that solo is nothing like Paul's aggressive solos, it is more like the delicate George solos like Something, or the intro of My Sweet Lord. Thirdly, if the matter was how you claim then the transponing of the notes to Paul had been humiliating to him and insulting to George Harrison.
At least George Martin knew against whom he was defending himself. Letting Swedish interviewer to know something he would have been slaughtered for someplace else.
George Martin was in the studio, not you, or any of your "authoritative" internet sources.
In other words, you have nothing to support your contention that Harrison plays bass in Michelle, or in Taxman - both of which are demonstrably false. QED.
In the end it doesnt really matter one way or the other, it's a simple little solo melody that any one of the beatles (minus perhaps Ringo) could have done fine.
Well good luck on your hunt to find some hard evidence to who it definately was, I couldnt say one way or the other. But your sadly mistaken if you think Lennon or Harrison didnt have what it took to play that solo, any musician who's listened to a quarter of their work would realise that.
Lennon and Harrison were not bass players. Lennon played it on Let It Be and flubbed notes left and right; there is no way on God's green earth he had the touch to play the bass solo you hear in Michelle -- nor would he even have tried. Ditto for Harrison. QED.
Yes, I don't doubt for a second he wrote that solo, is simply brilliant. The Beatles were probably the best composers of their era but I believe that GM influence was very very important in the final product of their music ... I would say GM was the fifth Beatle ....
to JohnLennon100: yeh, I totally believe he wrote that riff. I "think" he also wrote the piano riff in "In My Life".....and if anyone could be called the 5th Beatle it would be George Martin for sure
I thought it was a bass solo :(
zeromant80 2 weeks ago
@zeromant80
Bass guitar ;) for a classical musician (like Martin) the bass is contrabass.
JapaninArmeija 2 weeks ago
@JapaninArmeija Yes, it was a Bass guitar (i know lol) but the solo, i thought it was a Bass guitar solo
zeromant80 1 week ago
If this was anyone else but George Martin saying these things I would dismiss him as a wanker.
The Beatles would not have reached the heights they did without this great man producing them. No question whatsoever he was that important to their success.
cspace1234nz 1 month ago
I have no doubt he wrote the solo phrasing to Michelle. After all, he played the brilliant piano solo to Lovely Rita, the counterpoint string flourishes to Eleanor Rigby, the orchestra sections to A Day in the Life, and on and on...
dadduorp 1 month ago
"And I love Her." This was a great song and a well played nylon string guitar by George.
BackInsight 2 months ago
George Matin was a great help for the Beatles for sure, but where is his No.1 record? Does he have any well known music of his own? The answer is NO.
ChanoineStraub 2 months ago
@ChanoineStraub
As the Producer his greatest records were Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Sgt.Pepper all alike.
JapaninArmeija 2 months ago 5
@ChanoineStraub he had a rep from other non pop recordings and i believe that awards or charts were not, as are not today, the right tool to measure excellence. just my 2 cents for Sir George Martin
14luisalonso 2 months ago
@14luisalonso I know he was already successful (but not famous) at Parlophone when he met the Beatles. I've read lots of books about the Beatels. What I mean is George Martin would never have been this famous and successful without the Beatles. He's a musician himself, but he's little known as a composer or player. He worked with other artists afte the Beatles, but none came close to the Beatles's success. What does that mean? I think the answer is obvious.
ChanoineStraub 2 months ago
@ChanoineStraub Although the artists he worked with after the Beatles didn't come close to their success (but how could they anyway-no artist ever came close to the Beatles success, excluding only Elvis) he produced a series of excellent albums for artists such as America and Jeff Beck in the 70s...
lapislazuli248 1 month ago
@ChanoineStraub And concerning the fact that he became famous due to his involvement with the Beatles this was a process that worked both ways...George Martin helped the Beatles shape and improvise their distinctive unique Beatlesque sound in the studios and the Beatles helped him to become the most famous producer he is today..surely without Martin their songs would have sounded much worse like early 60s British bands do sound (e.g. the Stones and the Kinks) due to horrible production..
lapislazuli248 1 month ago
@ChanoineStraub He did the soundtracks for the Beatles films as well as the James Bond film Live and Let Die. And besides, he was a PRODUCER, and therefore each of the Beatles' successes is his own. He didn't TRY to make his own career as a musician, only as a producer, and he's the single most successful producer ever.
joethulhuz 2 days ago
great solo....and perfectly played by george with feel and soul....better played then any of the best session players could have done....thanks to both georges for this solo
ChiroQuacker 2 months ago
there,just as i always thought,martin actually wrote different parts to songs for them.
dempsey981 2 months ago
Being a beatle fan is a magical unique experience.
fairyfellermaster 3 months ago
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You are invited to my channel to see a feature video that tells of 9 occasions.
Y would God do this? So that we turn around from a wrong path.
We should know that God created Israel for His Holy purposes, & He said He would raise up Israel in the end. If we don't know this, we are in darkness, and we should not be in darkness, because God has done too much to give us light.
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GodisTruthseekTruth 4 months ago
Paul may have been dead at the time this song was recorded although it wasn't announced in the reverse-vocals until a bit later. To say he played most or all of the instruments is therefore quite impossible except insofar as he played any instrument (or sang) after he died, which is quite possible. George's solo doesn't sound like a George solo, but Michelle doesn't sound like a Beatles song, so I'm not sure anyone was in the recording studio except George Martin.
vcx9dfne 5 months ago
@vcx9dfne Get your stupid conspiracy bull shit out of here.
BL80488 4 months ago
@BL80488 Which conspiracy? the one where George Martin inhabits Paul's skin and walks around as Paul, or where he dubs in Paul's parts after Paul died and takes over his house and family (true) and even has his children? It's not a pretty story. Rather ghoulish, actually. But such is life for the wealthy in the suburbs of London!
vcx9dfne 3 months ago
@vcx9dfne Paul McCartney isn't dead.
BL80488 3 months ago
You're all wrong. Even Sir Martin. Ringo wrote and played that song and gave it to Paul because Paul was so short and ugly that Ringo felt sorry for him. If you don't believe me google "naked frogs can't dance" and you'll know the math.
maripocita37 5 months ago 3
@maripocita37 ahaha your so fuckin weird.
chookieJS 5 months ago
I didn't know that!
Stube437 6 months ago
@cutandpaste1 Definitely just stupid.
SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 8 months ago
@cutandpaste1 0_0
Can't tell if trolling or just stupid...
SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 8 months ago
Lennon and McCartney were equals. Just cos one of em died young doesn't change that
xxKYLExGxx 9 months ago
Paul is certainly playing the bass, if you pay close attention and listen to the song in its many layers, these ears hear the unmistakeable sound of the hoffner bass,and I never saw a right handed hoffner in all the Beatles photos.
dannuserectus 9 months ago
@dannuserectus
Ok, let Paul played the bass. But the solo was played on an electric guitar, not a bass.
And now?
John91040 8 months ago
Sir George wa as much a contibutor to the Beatles success as the lads were. He brought the orchestral sound and the formal structures to their music.
He recognized early on that they were talented and focused their raw genuis.
Kingsuji
kingsuji 10 months ago
@nsra1933
boneheads like u argue all day..paul vs. john...
meanwhile if lennon was here he would tell you how brilliant paul was and who wrote..long and winding road, let it be, get back, lady madonna, hey jude, michelle, yesterday, cant buy me love, all my loving, eleanor rigby, here there and everywhere...etc etc
PAUL wrote those all....
john would tell u to stuff it...its not about john vs paul its about the great work the beatles did..peace and love u wanker and piss off...lol
ChiroQuacker 11 months ago
michele is one of my favorite all time recording...
the melody and lyric are wonderful
the recording..how it was arranged and the sound...sonically..its a masterpiece that never gets old
i always figured george marin had written that solo..george harrison played it beautifully ..better then any top session man with musical education etc
hats off to george martin and hats off to george harrison for playing it so well with so much feeling
michelle was a favorite of irving berlin..he loved it!
ChiroQuacker 11 months ago
In lot's of ways, George Martin was my favorite Beatle:)
elixer9339 1 year ago
George Martin came up with most of George Harrison's guitar solos in the first few years. He had no doubts about Harrison's ability to play, just his judgement on what to play. Martin now admits "I was rather beastly towards George in those days". By 1965, though, Martin stopped telling Harrison what to play. But by then it as Paul telling George Harrison what to play which caused a rift between George and Paul that never completely healed.
MegaObserver1 1 year ago
@MegaObserver1 Bull shit, quit discrediting Harrison, Where are your facts????
BL80488 4 months ago
That's so cool! I always thought George Harrison thought that solo out by himself. It's a great guitar part and George plays it with a lot of "French" feeling and vibe.
missionrd100 1 year ago
That's so cool! I always thought George Harrison thought that solo out by himself. It's a great guitar part and George plays it with a lot of "French" feeling and vibe.
missionrd100 1 year ago
@nsra1933 LOL.......someone thinks that guitar solo was done on BASS ????? W T F ?
inkey2 1 year ago
@nsra1933 Disagreed ,Paul had a broader sense of jazz harmony than did John, Paul's father was always playing show tunes in his home when Paul was a kid and this greatly rubbed off on Paul's compositional abilities.John was a rocker.
bobbysbackingtracks 1 year ago
@nsra1933 haha, mccartney was about equal to lennon
Pandemonium44 1 year ago
certantly Paul played bass on michelle, it doesn't sound like a George bass line to me, Paul did the acoustic guitar, vocalsm and bass.
F1FREEK 1 year ago
@F1FREEK
Sure, you were in the studio.
JapaninArmeija 1 year ago 41
@JapaninArmeija @JapaninArmeija well, after all, it is PAUL'S song, and he always plays acoustic guitar when he plays it live, he used to play it in the parties he would attend with John whilst he was in art school., anyway Paul did the bass for the song, George or John didn't play bass maybe until the Revolver sessions in "She Said She Said" when George plays bass.
F1FREEK 1 year ago
@JapaninArmeija He feels he has the right to say that because he played beatles rock band, just like thousands of people that bought it.
lirfrank 1 year ago
@JapaninArmeija It's in wikipedia : paul did indeed do the acoustic, vocals and bass!
letosvet1 1 year ago
@letosvet1
Wikipedia? The site where stuff is altered every minute?
hoobadoobler 11 months ago
@F1FREEK The solo is on an electric guitar that is tuned down.
BL80488 4 months ago
@F1FREEK Harrison did the Acoustic guitar work and the guitar solo
BL80488 2 months ago
not sure who played this bass solo- it does sound like paul and its always possible that martin was mistaken, the beatles werent always entirely certain of who played wat- but i know for certain that mccartney played the solo in taxman. bloody brilliant it was too
melanicholy 2 years ago
Come on, guys ! The first thing is that it's a GUITAR solo, not a bass solo. And it´s George's : Martin wrote it and Harrison played it. It´s simple ! And terrific !
Fanquesfair 2 years ago
Ian MacDonald's book Revolution in the Head lists just about every instrument on Michelle to Paul, including drums, but it also puts an question mark to the list.
I want no trouble for anyone about this. It's nothing away from Paul, just some interesting alternate info on this matter.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
The solo in Michelle sounds like a bass solo, not a guitar solo. As such, McCartney would have played it, not George.
gpc 2 years ago
Paul plays acoustic guitar on Michelle, just like he does on his concerts.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with the record. The solo is a bass solo, and a good one; no one but McCartney would have played it.
gpc 2 years ago
That's still nothing George hadn't been able to do. Paul wasn't always the bassist on Beatles songs, Taxman has George on bass and Let it Be has John.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
Harrison did NOT have the touch on bass to handle that solo, and McCartney would not have let him. Trust me, it's McCartney. Furthermore, Harrison did NOT play bass on Taxman; McCartney did (as well as playing the incredible guitar solo and outro).
gpc 2 years ago
I trust Sir George Martin.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
That's your first mistake. George has obviously forgotten that it's a bass solo, not a guitar solo -- as McCartney and a thousand others have noted in the past.
gpc 2 years ago 2
Bass guitar is a guitar too. A bass is a contrabass for a classically educated like GM.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
Yes, a bass guitar that McCartney played on Michelle. Not Harrison. Do some rudimentary Internet-based research and you'll find authoritative sources confirming it. Conversely, I challenge you to find a single source specifically stating that Harrison played bass on Michelle (or on Taxman, for that matter).
gpc 2 years ago
"Authoritative" sources don't exist in internet. If you are even a bit correct then GM is a liar, but your bluffing is to be deemed ridiculous.
First off, George was the only Beatle who could read notes. Secondly, that solo is nothing like Paul's aggressive solos, it is more like the delicate George solos like Something, or the intro of My Sweet Lord. Thirdly, if the matter was how you claim then the transponing of the notes to Paul had been humiliating to him and insulting to George Harrison.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
At least George Martin knew against whom he was defending himself. Letting Swedish interviewer to know something he would have been slaughtered for someplace else.
George Martin was in the studio, not you, or any of your "authoritative" internet sources.
JapaninArmeija 2 years ago
In other words, you have nothing to support your contention that Harrison plays bass in Michelle, or in Taxman - both of which are demonstrably false. QED.
gpc 2 years ago
@gpc
In the end it doesnt really matter one way or the other, it's a simple little solo melody that any one of the beatles (minus perhaps Ringo) could have done fine.
MahavishnuChris 2 years ago 2
@MahavishnuChris
It matters if you care about factual accuracy. It was McCartney. And neither Lennon nor Harrison had the touch on bass needed to replicate that solo.
gpc 2 years ago
@gpc
Well good luck on your hunt to find some hard evidence to who it definately was, I couldnt say one way or the other. But your sadly mistaken if you think Lennon or Harrison didnt have what it took to play that solo, any musician who's listened to a quarter of their work would realise that.
MahavishnuChris 2 years ago
@MahavishnuChris
Lennon and Harrison were not bass players. Lennon played it on Let It Be and flubbed notes left and right; there is no way on God's green earth he had the touch to play the bass solo you hear in Michelle -- nor would he even have tried. Ditto for Harrison. QED.
gpc 2 years ago
@gpc Harrison plays bass on Old Brown Shoe and Taxman, Old brown shoe rival the bass on Michelle.
BL80488 4 months ago
that solo is more jazzy now that i pay attention to it. Harrison and Lennon's solos at that period were far from Jazz...great vid!
HLordz301 2 years ago
@JapaninArmeija Also on Helter Skelter. I hate John's basswork on that song.
clay180 2 years ago
Yes, I don't doubt for a second he wrote that solo, is simply brilliant. The Beatles were probably the best composers of their era but I believe that GM influence was very very important in the final product of their music ... I would say GM was the fifth Beatle ....
JohnLennon100 2 years ago 39
to JohnLennon100: yeh, I totally believe he wrote that riff. I "think" he also wrote the piano riff in "In My Life".....and if anyone could be called the 5th Beatle it would be George Martin for sure
inkey2 2 years ago
The first.
M3town3 2 years ago
@JohnLennon100 , That is what the expression "The Fifth Beatle" means.
guitarslim56 1 year ago
@JohnLennon100
Yes, George Martin is/was the fifth Beatle.
davism5 1 year ago
where can I watch this docu?
theuc 3 years ago
Cool clip, a good George Martin bio is long overdue.
alramone1 3 years ago 3