1963 TV Concert: 'It's The Beatles' Live

[HermanJ06]

I really envy anyone who saw the Beatles live..Course, they didn't know they were seeing history, but what a memory it must be, to have seen them. I'm just happy to have been around at the same time they were..

[cowtowngrl]

The girl at 6:27 kinda looks like Ann Margaret

[pit2ryan3]

All those fake screams ...

The only real musician here is Ringo ...

[Imaballer729]

At 6:02 Ringo is probably like " Holy shit, im going to die!!"

[cockshield]

0:28 FUCKING HELL!! What the hell is that?

[historiadorderock]

Sooooooooo awesome! what dvd is this from?

[alisaRaspberry]

LOVE THEM AAAAA SO CUUTE SO GENIOUS AAAAAA

[jillzi7]

@3;58, how adorable is George with his little hoppy dancy thing..its so great to see him so into it..love it...thank you to the person who shared this with us..great stuff..

[TalmaLennon]

John, pretty "crazy".... so funny, love HIM, love THEM!

[TalmaLennon]

AWESOME!!! FANTASTIC!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!

[TheSen0123]

beatles forever.......

[jaspurr77]

really i'm born on the same day as ringo the ninth of december? I've never seen this before and ive seen loads..what a treat

[martinone9]

Funny how John is singing lead but there are more close ups of Paul and the audience members but none of John.

[sweedlepipe]

@martinone9

Yes. Exactly. What poor camerawork. I've noticed this on other films of their concerts.

[clsarashimmer20]

Sweet!

[h3815]

Fantastic to see this footage. I watched it live on TV at the time but think it was on earlier than the time stated? I also had the sound recording of the whole thing on a reel to reel tape as my Dad had done it as a surprise. I watched at a friend's house. Sadly it was recorded over about 20 years later but I found it somewhere on You Tube a couple of years ago. Still had the original set list in the handwriting of a 10 year old!

Thanks for sharing, wonder if there is any more?

[elder5001]

sin duda una de sus mejores presentaciones para tv y from my to you instrumental fenomenal

[giles422]

possibly the worst coverage of a Beatles performance on TV ever. This director chooses the crowd and close ups up of clapping hands and girls looking at themselves on the monitors etc and cannot find basic shots of the Beatles onstage! As if the story was in the girls jumping on the seats! What happened during dress rehearsal? Didn't they plan on filming the group? Jesus Christ. No close ups of John Lennon, singing lead on two great rocker numbers and sounding great! SMFH.

[PhillipSmith44]

It was John's band....don't blame him for being pissed off when Paul took over!

[yonberi]

@PhillipSmith44 I saw an interview with Beatles manager Brian Epstein where he said that when the group returned from Hamburg, they were John's band and it was his job to change them into Paul's band. I liked them better when they were John's band - and before they stopped giving concerts. The concerts kept their synergy high. I saw them live in Chicago in 1965 at White Sox Park.

[PhillipSmith44]

@yonberi Well, of course this thing called "The Beatles" would not have existed if were not for the talent of both Paul and John. Their early music was magical, when both personalities were represented. As they started to slowly part ways musically, (the White album) I see that Paul wanted to write songs that were hits, John wanted to write songs that meant something to him! I love them both, but I respect John more, because he stuck with his guns; even with Yoko because he followed his heart

[yonberi]

@PhillipSmith44 "Well, of course this thing called "The Beatles" would not have existed if were not for the talent of both Paul and John. Their early music was magical, when both personalities were represented." Right on. Their harmonies were great. It seems to me it got to where they were playing each other's music instead of the group's music. Paul was definitely more commercial pop. Still good. But, as George said, "all things must pass."

[MysticSkySpirit]

I wanna hold yourSCREAAMM/SHREIK

I wanna hold yourAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHH

It's such a feeling that my love; I can'tEEEEEEEEAAHHH!!!

No wonder they stopped touring!

[ChiroQuacker]

why did they put the camera on that hideous creature at :30...

a bloated peroxide blonde with a drooping eyelid

must have been the director if the shows gruesome daughter...

[oneoneone5]

Two months later, they would take over the world.

[IproSyndicaterocks]

i love johns funny and colourful personal plus the cynicism

[benitobenavidez]

as it is called the first song playing?

[WWBZT1]

About 6-7 months before the Beatles, my Dad said someone he worked with had a daughter going to school in Europe and she said there was this musical group called the Beatles. The first time we saw them on the Ed Sullivan show was awesome

[tmpq1lzy]

@WWBZT1

too bad they werent called The Beatles when they started.

[kevin104z]

no close ups of john!!!what the fuck???

[pepperjack8]

The girls @ 4:23 t0 4:29  mine o mine so pretty

[levi7516]

6:21 ......your welcome :)

[Sophie3104]

2:13 John jumping hahahhaha Love them!

[Quiverbow1]

It's amusing the way Paul and George look at John when he sings the wrong words at 6.30. The last bit of the 'From Me To You' instrumental looks as if someone tells John to keep going as the programe hasn't finished and he wanders off the stage as he couldn't hear, so they play a bit of 'The Third Man Theme'.

[beatlestoneful]

anybody notice?...where the hell is john???not one damn close up!!!

[alienhuman]

After this show Churchhill was quoted to say: "In the course of events of this Kingdom I have never seen so many Brits with all their teeth."

[ciaobebbo050]

I thought people said the Beatles weren't very good live...I mean, this is insanely good!

[mbfaust1]

RS was a very steady, unflashy drummer. Kept excellent time, all the time. Remember, they got rid of Pete Best because they wanted a good drummer, and they chose Ringo. So he wasn't Keith Moon, or John Bonham. He wasnt supposed to be, it would have gotten in the way of the vocals. The two great musicians in the band were Paul on bass and George on guitar, sitar, etc.

[ZAPDUNGAA]

A CLOSE UP OF EVERY LITTLE TWAT IN THE AUDIENCE..NOT ONE OF JOHN...WHAT A WASTE THIS VIDEO WAS...

[aBeatleFan4ever]

Wow... The Beatles ended this show with a live instrumental version of "From Me To You" which I have never heard before, and I didn't even know it existed until I just saw it. And they also did a live performance of "Money". These are two very rare performances. Thanks so much for sharing.

[GyxXorify]

Twist and SHHFine

[shaneyseano]

ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[DninK]

don't think Ringo got to unfold his talent on two drums and two high-hats

[alienhuman]

@DninK believe me, RS talent would fit on a tambourine.

[DninK]

@alienhuman

uuuuuh, hater.

[alienhuman]

@DninK No hate whatsoever. In my opinion RS was one of the luckiest men in history.

[DninK]

@alienhuman

you got that right.

but I still think he was/ is a good drummer.

[alienhuman]

@DninK as cute as you are, you probably could get me to agree in time. ;-)

[DninK]

@alienhuman

i don't think so..

okay, he's not anymore, but while in Beatles he did great.

[tommytimp]

Some of those crowd shots look recycled.

[BL80488]

Harrison was a master of the Guitar

[castletriglav]

@BL80488 By 60s standards, when there was no one worth a shit on guitar, sure, Harrison wasn't too bad. By the time that Hendrix came along, Harrison wasn't shit. Even a hack like Clapton played circles around Harrison. Maybe it was all that dothead mysticism that eroded what little talent Harrison had. Hmm.......

[BL80488]

@castletriglav Harrison was an innovator and a well respected guitarist. Harrison outplayed clapton at the concert for Bangladesh. Listen to Harrisons playing during his tour in japan where he outplays clapton again. His leads fit the Beatles songs perfectly and hendrix was nothing more than an overhyped, overrated hack. George Harrison influenced a hell of alot more people than hendrix did. Listen to old brown shoe, gimme some truth, how do you sleep at night, back off boogaloo, bluest blues...

[martinone9]

@BL80488 I doubt Harrison could outplay Clapton,it's just that Clapton has class and respected George and didn't want to overshadow him.

[BL80488]

@martinone9 Watch the concert for bangladesh, the prince's trust concert from 1986 and george live in japan versions of while my guitar gently weeps. He outplays clapton at all of them

[thebeatles641]

is the 8th of December ringos birthday if it was the day after this took place was ringos birthday

[MONEYMANRULEZ45]

@thebeatles641 Ringo's birthday is July 7th.

[thebeatles641]

@MONEYMANRULEZ45 thanks for telling me whos birthday was it or did john lennon die on that day in 1980

[MONEYMANRULEZ45]

@thebeatles641 John Lennon did die on December 8th 1980

[aloyiusmcg]

beatles rule

[BeatleBangs1964]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Money

Twist & Shout

From Me To You (instrumental)

December 7, 1963 was a Saturday, the Ford Falcon Era of cool cars, great music and Better Ideas

[BeatleBangs1964]

The Messrs. McCartney & Harrison were so adorable! George sure does take after Louise wih his beautiful French cheekbones and the Louise French intensity and the French nose. He was just so damn fine!

I LOVE the Beatles and it's fun to watch shows like this! Any excuse to look at the Fabs, sing along with them and just have fun works for me!

[Badfinger1974]

The Stones were in this audience waiting for The Beatles to give them their first song.

[Quiverbow1]

@Badfinger1974

The Stones may well have been in the audience, but they had already released 'I Wanna Be Your Man' four weeks previous.

[krukdriver]

No boys in the crowd. I guess they're across the street at the Stones concert.

[Verbeke7]

@krukdriver

Watching a purse-carrying Mick trot around like a poof?

[MrsPresleyLennonFrey]

Great to have this on record. The only problem I have is that there are better camera shots of the audience members than there are of The Beatles. John never gets any camera focus on him, even when he is the lead singer. It seems almost as if the camera person had something against John. Silly, but that's how it seems. What a pity.