The Beatles - A Taste Of Honey (Live in Hamburg)

[starnberg2413]

actually, I was there in 1962. In the former Star Club. Went out, as I thought it wqas too noisy. I was only 16 years old than, though! Nice memories to Hamburg, my home town!

[TheLennonlegends]

what a rare recording thatnks heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­ps

[woodskier]

John was probobly half in the bag...and who could blame him

[DoojeenDoonican]

Thanks for posting - I've never seen some of those onstage photos before - it's amazing what still crops up

[utubehall]

wow!



[vinnypop]

Im Vinny Pop the greatest rock n roll artist since Elvis Presley and The Beatles my main clip has Greatest Rock N Roll Song In The World . Cheers and thanks

[Beatlelove100]

Who could hate this song. It's so sweet and cool, amazing, and cute! This song is history! Don't forget to get a taste honey every once in a while!

[Beatlelove100]

Who could hate this song. It's so sweet and cool, amazing, and cute! This song is history!

[MissThinkabunch]

Click like if you are here because you watched the George Harrison Special on HBO.

[imagineers101]

Good practice to try to sing over the noise of thousands of girls screaming when they got to the US. So odd to hear people chatting while they sing.

[Cheeseychum]

My Grandad recently told me he was in Hanburg at this time with some friends, they went to a club and the barman told them there was a group from england playing below and they should go see them. My grandad said they could hear them playing from below but decided not to go down because they were into jazz....years later, they realised who the band was. They would have probably been so happy to meet people from england aswell! At least I can say my grandad was in the same building as them...

[lovegeorgeharrison60]

@Cheeseychum i would love to be your grandfather that must be mind blowing even if you weren't in the same room but the same building

[TheGreenbouncer]

I am not that openminded, but I agree alltogether....

[smasherhits]

Its seems odd to see John standing on the left, Macca in the middle and George on the right hand side of the stage :0 }

[Derby14]

Great to hear this piece of history...and also a great performance. You can definitely tell why "Please Please Me" LP took only one day to record. The Beatles had already mastered the material in their live show...this performance being very similar in quality to what appeared on the album.

[laundrygone]

Benzedrine

[laundrygone]

benzedrine

[raphelbender]

sin duda el sonido beatle en todo su explendor,,carajo.

[mpm111144]

I was there...at The Star Club, and saw them in '62 while in the U.S. Navy. Then again in Liverpool a year later. What memories!! :D)

[mathsk8te22]

@mpm111144 lucky :( i wish i could have seen them, its my biggest dream

[mpm111144]

@mathsk8te22 Some of the greatest times of my life was back then.  Just fantastic! :)

[mathsk8te22]

@mpm111144 your making me jealous :(

[mpm111144]

@mathsk8te22 Thanks for the vid. I remember it well.  Take care.

[rubettes75]

thank god i went to hamburg . but unfortunately the star -club was close . it's sad .

[statesideur]

muy buena eeeeeeee

[ssparrow331]

It wasn't luck that made them what they are; they were GOOD

[765483]

lol EROTIC FILM NIGHT CLUB

[fcastro04]

This is a great part of the music history

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Who's drumming on this recording?

[wincipoet]

@Strawberry7Lynn Perhaps it was Pete Best

[WisMiss101]

@Strawberry7Lynn This is Ringo. All the Star Club recordings are from December of 1962. Ringo had been with them since August '62.

[albuorkka]

Who's singing? Paul?

[Jimbobfrey]

@albuorkka

yes, Paul is the lead vocalist in this song. :)

[melodiantime]

I WANNA BE ADORED-STONE ROSES,ABOUT A GIRL-NIRVANA, A REAL TASTE OF SOUND HONEY.

[melodiantime]

A SPECIAL MOMENT IN MELODIANTIME TO HEAR THIS, I WAS BORN IN 1962 BUT FEELS LIKE I WAS THERE, BUT NOT POSSIBLE AS MY MOTHER DID NOT VENTURE TO GERMANY AT THAT ERA. A GREAT LIVE GOODFEELING SOUND.

[mythtree]

The very first song I learned to sing to while playing.

I swore, they lied, when the band's last tour ended; imagine, so tragically hip and so young....

I died inside when they cried 'he shot Lennon"; misery dramatically hit everyone...

who yesterday masterfully sung - the walrus,

& I wept for George, building castles in sand - while the fog rolled in as my son~ held my hand.

I tried to decide if some lesson was planned, when he said all you need is love, understand?

[rameshta3]

i love this song, A Taste Of Honey very much!

[edwinataytash]

prefer the hollie version

[statesideur]

ho yea



[QueenBeatlesWings]

Beatles 4 ever

[VIVAVISCONSIN]

Everytime when i walk through Große Freiheit i am a little bit proud that the biggest band in history created their style in my hometown. I don't know why,but i feel a little special. I love them!

[nightcrawler511]

where did they go first hamburg or cavern?

[keithmoon1947]

@nightcrawler511 i think on the anthology dvd george harrison says they played the cavern before they went to hamburg, i think its been a while since i watched it

[RKRSizzle11]

@nightcrawler511 hamburg, although the quarrymen might have played the cavern before

[1982pencil]

@RKRSizzle11 Yep, they went to Hamburg before they had a regular gig at the cavern. Their first trip to Hamburg was in 1960 and their last was in 1962.

[adamkincaid1234]

Great photos. Feels like I've seen most photos of The Beatles, especially from the Hamburg time, but I've never seen any of these! Great stuff. A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom.

[Zoopersaz]

greaaaaaaat. Feeling like I was young in this time.

[OurManInMarrakessh]

Terrific version.

[wojiaokatya]

I love this song by them to death - they totally sound like themselves already on this early tape

[4TheLuvOfBillyElliot]

This song just sends shivers down my spine. They did such an amazing job of it.

[vance640]

shit people dont give a fucking damn about them playing....can you here people chatting in the background? They're just having a beer while those genius were probably having another rough night playing for themselves since dawn for only a few cheers....damn ^^

[lordkoos]

@vance640

That's always the way it is when you play in bars. People talked over Charie Parker and Miles Davis too.

[JaiGuruDevaOm62]

Woooooow O_O (good wow!)

[PicnicHikeMusic]

All you kids out there - this band PAID ITS DUES. The tightness that would later lead to "Revolver" and "Sgt pepper" all started here. Every band has to get tight to the point where there is "telepathy" going on. So, they struggled for a few years like everyone else.

[Kejkka]

This live sound is amazing, the pictures so great! Hamburg is one of my favorite town, when I was there 2 years ago I stand at the harbour, watched the ships and tried to imagine the early years of the 60's when there arrived a lot great bands for playing in the clubs. Oh, I wish I was there then!

[miss9starr7]

WOW WOW WOW<3 I'm swooning over a 48 yearold recording :P aldkjflkf

[ttlyawesome444]

Oh my gosh, wow. :)

Historic!

[moby406]

my fave Beatles record of all time

[ronaldomitchell]

A perfect sound became to a fabulous group

[another65girl]

Awesome!! They sound sooooo good live!

[mattclarida]

its amazing how good the beatles were. You look at stuff like A Taste of Honey, One After 909, stuff like that which they wrote before they ever stepped foot in Abbey Road. Amazing

[TrainToDH]

They did not write A Taste Of Honey. It was written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow. It was originally an instrumental track (or recurring theme) written for the 1960 Broadway version of the 1958 British play A Taste of Honey (which was also made into a film with the same name in 1961). Both the original and a cover by Herb Alpert in 1965 earned the song Grammy Awards. A vocal version of the song, first recorded by Lenny Welch, became popular when it was recorded by The Beatles in 1963.

[terrykayez]

@TrainToDH Yes yes yes, it was considered a "standard" song that many other artists also covered. It's said the Beatles were almost "forced" to sing the song, for live performances but didn't like it at all.

As a joke, Lennon would replace the words "A taste of honey" with "a waste of money".

[Dadgrug]

I had one taste of Beatlemania. In 1965 my Dad took my older sister and all her birthday guests to the Kimball Theater in Yonkers to see HELP! The place was packed with teenage girls. there is the whole opening sequence with the ring sacrifice Suddenly there's John singing HELP and the entire theater jumps up and screams. Every close up on a Beatle and the girls went nuts This was throughout the picture. I was a six year old boy I was thunderstruck.. swept up in it and at 50, I still am.

[SuperhumanGambit]

I mean I like the music and movies made with the Beatles, but that's just crazy

[LOKISlog7]

I wish I could have been 17-18 during this time, and lived all that BEATLEMANIA was.

I truly envy all of you that did.......

[marylovesthebeatles]

WOW

[paulreeve]

Thanks for this great posting. Very interesting.

[Vegetarier1988]

ich wünschte ich wäre so lat um thebeatles mal live zu erleben :-((((

[The64200]

Ich bin so alt, habe es aber trotzdem nicht geschafft, sie zu sehen, bedaure das sehr, höre mir aber so gut wie alles von ihnen immer noch und wieder gern an....

[Sox575]

Great post and I love the pictures of the club and the Beatles on stage performing. Also seeing the people on the street and in the club is cool too.

Great audio too.

[stevevandien]

What a wonderful hunk of history!

[girlywhirlyclm07]

hahaha pun indented?

[vlfriscia]

Thank you so much for posting this video. Oh, to have been in the audience at the Star Club in 1962! They were so much better than they had to be. Imagine how this would have sounded with studio-quality sound recording.....but so glad to have it, a true rarity, a moment in time.

[Sox575]

I would've loved to have been there! They should re-release these recordings on remastered CDs.

[paulreeve]

@ vifiscia.

You are absolutely right. They were so much better than they had to be. Maybe that is why they became the best. I consider myself open minded when it comes to music but I doubt I'll see a better band before I die.

[wojiaokatya]

@paulreeve would you want to see a better band? :) not me

[dabizza]

@paulreeve

You sould keep your hears open ;)

[Renelea3505]

@paulreeve Thats so true

[Renelea3505]

Respond to this video... That's so true

[cdydvdbst9109]

@paulreeve i think there will be bands with more textbook talent, but the personality of the Beatles will never be lived up to. Nor will their fan-base, or story ever be matched let alone surpassed.

[OropherThranduil]

@cdydvdbst9109

more texbook talent?

there's no bigger one than lrennons lyricsd and pauls melodies, and both were also pretty awesome in the other, like pauls eleanor rigby or johns in my life.

[tony00165]

Adrian barber was the guitarist with the Big 3.....griff replaced him when he stayed in hamburg as the stage manager...before going to work at the peppermint lounge in new York...Adrian designed the huge 'Coffin' speaker cabinets which most bass players started to use in liverpool...a great guy with a public school accent who had come to liverpool to join the merchant navy....met some of the musicians and got into the rock'n roll with Johnny Hutch and Johnny Gus...fabulous rockers...believe me!

[walrusss90]

histórico audio de una sesiones maravillosas en hamburgo.

una probadita de miel sabe más dulce que el vino...

[jguterman]

This could be the liminal stage for The Beatles. Maybe it is my fantasy. That when they performed this song live they met a threshold, in a moment they changed.

[cryptical70]

The Star Club tapes were recorded by Adrian Barber, an up-and-coming sound engineer. This was probably one of his early experiments in recording a concert with whatever equipment was around at the time.

[paulreeve]

An iInteresting and enlightening comment comment !

[DieHardBeatlesFan]

GREAT POST - THANK YOU

[GUILMON44]

Haha Yes That's true xD. Great Audio, Very rare by the way.

[superblooperman]

its kinda funny when they announce that they are going to do a taste of honey it sounds like someone says "NO!"

[lennonsbigfan]

haha you are right. I have this album and i never have noticed that