Howard Goodalls 20th Century Greats - The Beatles (Part 6)

[1rtwilson]

So what went wrong with music? I think that should be in the next episode :P Modern music is honestly pretty poor compared to music by the beatles, it only sounds good nothing else.

[MrJohndl]

The greatest band in history.

[pigeonshouse]

1:34 - 1:53 = YT Poop anyone?

[ProducShuns]

I must say I love the Revolver album with all my heart and Tomorrow Never Knows is one of their 'forever contemporary' sounding songs. It sounds new, not like it was made by a band in the 60's... simply amazing. Although I prefer other songs on Revolver to it I have to agree that the experimental quality of it must have been absolutely mindblowing for the audience to hear in the 60's... just amazing stuff

[JNagarya]

@ProducShuns The Beatles were cutting edge with every single, every LP, they released, from first to last. We couldn't wait for their next -- and had no idea what it would be. "Tiicket to Ride" was gigantic.

Everyone else chased them -- but never caught them.

[12G295]

Thanks for posting. I remember when this was first broadcast and having my breath taken away thanks to Mr. Goodall articulating in words the reasons why this music affected me so profoundly. Magic.

[watergun7]

Radical idea NUMBER FOURRRRR44444!!

[jocegir]

absoutely astounding. I've never heard their music explained so precisely and clearly before. This should be reqired learning in music courses.

[hayden50]

thanks for posting this..simply brilliant documentary on the greatest most innovative band of all time

[Dios67]

The Leslie used on Lennon's voice was the idea of Geoff Emerick; the Beatles sound engineer. John wanted to be held by a rope and spun around the microphone. Hear the slight speedup in Strawberry Fields about half way through? They are two different takes that John liked 1/2 of each one. Geoff Emerick had to figure out how to marry the two even though the tempos were different. He did a pretty good job :]

[AshtonArcher]

Which whopper clicked on dislike for this? What a moron!

[yobhsiFehT]

When talking about mending a rift or bridging a gap between classical and popular music, I can't help but think of Ray Charles, specifically, "Georgia On My Mind," a good seven years before Sgt. Pepper's, and about three years before the Beatles were any kind of musical "force to be reckoned with"... Just sayin':)

[flangermanmanmanip]

radical idea number 4 lol

[Infofan]

The Beatles- the restorers, healers, and leaders of all Western music!

[jackbliss]

This man made me appreciate the music of The Beatles even more than I ever had.... it's unbelievable!! :O

[phillipmart]

@Ragash91 how did u cry. its not sad, its not too joyful to cry for. their just a band. I love bands too, but i dont cry when they talk about them.

[Ragash91]

OMG I almost cried at the end. That's just... too much... thank you Beatles, indeed!

[FloydIV]

Thank you Beatles :)

[Fedora982]

Tomorrow Never Knows was ahead of it's time, still is.

[piojosoricotero]

UAUUU!!! exelente documental. se agradece.

[holycrappers8899]

tomorrow never knows gives me an orgasm every time i listen to it.

[miamiweiss]

First drone in Western music since the Middle Ages? In 1966? Really? What about LaMonte Young 6 years earlier? Etc. Again, giving The Beatles *singular* credit where it's not due doesn't strengthen the case being made. Overall, this series is fantastic, but it falls into the trap here and there of giving a tad too much credit for originality. Which when you're talking about such genius isn't necessary at all.

[ZachusN]

@miamiweiss

You need to listen more before you comment. "First drone in MAINSTREAM Western music since the Middle Ages." LaMonte Young was not mainstream by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, he did it first. The Beatles made it popular.

[Fritha71]

Discovering this document made my Sunday afternoon ten times better. Thank you for the upload! I didn't think it was possible for me to revere this band more than I already did, guess I was wrong ;D

[teddy1066]

My calls on Skype must be going thru a Leslie cabinet...

[P33N0]

how annoying this guy is, I don't care about for the Beatles, but jesus, this guy is the most incredibly annoying beatle fanboy ever, Tomorrow never knows isn't THAT radical, it was different for sure in the mainstream, but there was music that was more complex, not because it quoted a book, or because it had an incredible overproduction (innovative techniques for what? for making this song more "pretty" it's a pop song, with a drone, interesting, but nothing else! Seriously, Stockhausen rocks.

[P33N0]

Bob dylan made rock music an art form, with Highway 61, all but one song where much longer than 3 minute pop ditties, and where profound and influential. The fugs released virgin forest, maybe the first rock collage, in february of 1966, in thier second album, Frank Zappa released Freak out! that had Who Are the Brain police and the unfinished return of the monster magnet that was, as TNK, electronically processed, sadly the label assess didn't let him finish. Trying to set the record straight

[Spudcorewarrior]

Isn't that Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the B&W stock footage when Howard is talking about the use of tape loops in Tomorrow Never Knows?

[rwm48]

Very well done documentary Mr. Goodall and thanks to sych0 for posting. I've have been an avid blues guitar player for 40+ years listening to all the USA & British blues guys (dead or alive) and the list goes on & on to the present. To this day, still my favorite music group is the Beatles. As much as I am a lover of the blues, listen to tons of jazz & classical works, the Beatles still come out on top for me. I never ever get tired listening to their legacy of work. Long live "The Beatles!"

[tough0crowd0eh9]

Frank Zappa pwns the Beatles!!! Educate yourselves!!!

[daniixxx]

Don't you think you're slightly missing the point? The Beatles - knowingly or otherwise - took a huge amount of musical concepts that existed outside the remits of pop music and placed them within. Their genius was that they manages to make it all seamless and that it all seemed to make perfect sense. Most poeple would have taken the same raw materials and made a complete mess. Zappa was amazing, but, generally speaking, it's not like he was aiming for the same thing - especially in the late 60s

[atomicmcguire]

Just because this programme is about the Beatles, it doesn't mean that it is saying Frank Zappa is bad by default. Frank Zappa was a genius no doubt, but this programme is about the Beatles influence not Zappa's.

Your comment is like saying "Charlie Parker owns Beethoven" or "Michelangelo owns Warhol". Instead of people treating it as a competition to see who's better, why don't we just see them all as great artists who have contributed greatly to the development of culture and humanity.

[Creissels]

Thanks for uploading. I watched this on first broadcast, along with the rest of the series. There is no-one better qualified or more entertaining than Goodall to explain how music works. I really enjoyed seeing it again.

[havvacuppa]

Thanks for this!

[alastairI]

Thanks...loved this when I saw it on TV. Love Beatles all over again, and Howard Goodall is great. Love all his programmes.BTW isn't Ringo's drumming brilliant on Tomorrow Never Knows?

[stethebee]

I played Tomorrow Never know i a shop u sed to work in and all the lads thought it was the Chemical brothers!!! LOL Beatles are the greatest band ever!

[nashville2]

Thanks so much for posting this. Wonderful stuff.

[renownpete]

best programme ever on the beatles, saw this when it was on tv, been looking for it for ages,awesome

[minkoncert]

part 4?!?

[Aristurtle89]

'radical idea numbeerrr fooouurr' lol

[tomsega]

He gets everything right with this documentary. I was getting ready to say "But he didn't bloody say anything about Tomorrow Never Knows!"

[vulcanicspice]

This has got to be one of the best documentarys on the beatles I have ever seen. I love how it focuses primarily on their music, because most documentarys just tells the story of their lives, which is of course also interesting, but I think there are plenty enough of those as it is. I love how analytical he is about the smallest of things.

Anyway, to sum up: I LOVED IT :D!! lol

Thanks a lot for posting it sych0 :)!

[positivespin1]

I've finished watching the 6 parts of this show - a spine tingling experience! As a youngster who grew up during the 60s, mesmerised by the Beatles, I always suspected that I was an unwitting witness to something very special, but Howard Goodall's passionate and persuasive essay gloriously confirms it. Thank you Howard for weaving together the evidence so eloquently and to sych0 for posting it so that people outside of Britain could view it.(For my own tribute to the Beatles, please click above)

[sych0]

...6 months later (hey, youtube stopped emailing me when people add comments!)

Welcome all. Glad you all loved it as much as I did, which is why I posted it. I just adore the beatles and could watch Howard deconstruct every single song of theirs. And agree, that it's a nice change from the countless other docs about their lives.

[ludachris475]

Beautiful.

[myshkin]

Superb programme.

[jimbreak]

Nice one. I've been waiting a while to see all of this again.

Don't suppose you have the Leonard Bernstein one too?

[mjd7]

Great! Keep 'em comin'.

[ken131]

This is great!