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  • far out

  • bass line!

  • This is good thanks to the lack of J.Bo

  • i saw this before, i must have been one of the 224,788 rofl

  • no lucy in the sky with diamonds??

  • wish the bbc wud issue the album

  • lovely stuff

  • The bass is shit-didn't even attempt the melody that Macca played,out of his depth

  • Very nice!!! Great complement to The Beatles. How wonderful that the world is still singing and recording their songs. So much love, love, love...

  • I just got mind fcked

  • Once this song is over, I'm already listening -in my mind- to the intro of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The attachment is so vivid...

  • @AFOH i cant get separeted from the those attachmets

  • @AFOH i cant get separeted from the those attachments

  • they should have the drummer singing. just like ringo

  • @enjoirasta09 uh, it is.

  • @enjoirasta09 just like they are. that's not johnny singing

  • not bad not bad at all love it they come real close to the beatles but they have they on style and it,s cool love it we need more

  • how does razorlight sound like the kooks

  • Razorlight are so different now

  • Their voices actually do this song justice.. not as good as the orig. of course but a bloody awesome cover!

  • love it!!

  • sort of sounds like the beatles

  • I came onto this video expecting nothing, thinking that Razorlight were just any other 'punk-pop' band, but I am pleasantly surprised. They have recorded a very respectful and similar cover, properly recreating the original sound. They even had their drummer sing it! He sounds quite like Ringo. A very good cover.

  • awesome!!!

  • No its Andy Burrows, former drummer with Razorlight, he's now got his own group I am Arrows who are GREAT!

  • am i going mad or is this not razorlight? that's not johnny borrell

  • I felt that around 0:25 it started to get really fast then around 0:40 go back to normal. Though It could have just been me

  • The Police’s Stewart Copeland: "Ringo is the leader in the education for all young drummers of style over flash, always playing the right things rather than a lot of things.”

  • Ringo "doesn't dazzle with flashy technique and pyrotechnics," says The Cars' lead guitarist, Elliot Easton. "What he does is so much more elusive and difficult: He plays songs on the drums. Anybody who has sat down behind a drum kit in the last 45 years owes him." (USA Today, Praising Ringo Starr, one drummer to another)

  • amazing song, lovely cover.

  • love that they had the drummer sing it :)

  • agreed, I'm amazed, he sounds so lovely :)

  • When I heard Razorlight were doing a cover of this, I cringed. But when I realised that arrogant Johnny Borrell wasn't taking part, I was elated! The drummer's quite a good singer as well - he does a good job here!

  • nice work ,with the 4 track,....makes me think about Ringo's voice ...wasn't so bad really and dare I say it Wet Wet Wet did do a really good cover with all the modern equipment of course

  • Ringo didn't have a great range like John or Pau, but he had the perfect voice for country/rockabilly music. Listen to his Beatles songs like Act Naturally or Honey Don't. Listen to his solo songs like Beaucoups of Blues, Love Don't Last Long, Waiting, Fastest Growing Heartache In The West + Woman Of The Night. He was the best country/rockabilly singer of the Fab 4.

  • Can anyone name the bass that the bassist is using? I can't remember the name!

  • fender precision (the yellow one)

    and a rickenbacker 4003 (red one)

  • oh not a precision but a fender jazz bass !

  • @jonser1 rickenbacker4001

  • how can you forget the name?

    that´s a rickenbacker 4003, one of the greatest basses ever made!

  • anyone notice the missing johnny borrelli? (sp?)

  • razorshite should not be allowed near this song, they sound so bored

  • yall are great keep it up much love

  • Wht's tha story wit "tha 2 boyz" "over-seeing" lol in the Recording Studio lol??!! They don't look too happy! :-/

    I think this is a fab cover of the song. They had a lot to live up to with the original band who sang it ... every-one in agreement bout that yeah?! And they did a pretty damn good version of it here if I may say so myself, so 11 outta 10 4 this 4 you Razorlight! :) Well Done! :D

  • they were the engineers of the abbey road studios when the beatles recorded there, i think one of call geoff mcsomenthing xD, i dont remeber

  • @xxxretrorockerxxx

    Geoff Emerick

  • Very nice. Great voice.

  • very nice cover, the best one I've listened to so far

  • This song Really suits his voice!

  • The thing about this cover that is seriously lacking is the strong bass part that makes this song so great.

  • "Paul wasn't particulary good on the bass" ? Sorry, joemclean, but I believe you don't have the knowledge to say that! In fact I think you have no idea of what is to play bass or either to listen to it. Paul was the best melodic bass player for years. John Lennon told this, and I don't think any of us can say the opposite.

    Love!

  • You dont quite understand me. Im saying the beatles wernt amazing because of how well they could play thier instruments, they were amazing because of thier ideas, and how they worked together. For example, flea from RHCP is probably a more proficient bass player, BUT this doesnt mean i think he's better. Paul wasnt bad on the bass by any stretch of the imagination, but he wasnt incredible either. He did, however, write songs that worked perfectly with the group. I hope you get me :P

  • I know that's why they weren't amazing but that doesn't mean Paul wasn't good on bass, he was still brilliant on bass. As i said originally, the bass on this version doesn't even come close to being as good as paul's (imo anyway).

    And no, Paul wasn't always the bassist while they were the Beatles. It was originally Stuart Sutcliffe while they were called the Beatles until mid 1962 when he died.

  • Looks like we'll have to agree to disagree. I think he wrote amazing things for the bass, but wasnt the best bass player ever. He isnt bad either. And obviously paul lied on the video then :P

  • Well I never once said he was the greatest ever, because I don't think he was, I just thought he was brilliant, certainly better than you were saying anyway :).

  • maybe i was a bit derogatory. Also, upon consulting a large beatles book above my head, youre right about the bass, i never knew they were a 5 piece in 62. You learn something new everyday. Was he the guy who went to art school with John?

  • joemaclean, I get you, I really do and also thank you for seeing no bitterness at all in my words, but I think that saying "Paul wasn't bad on bass" does not pay justice to the reality. I see there are a lot of subjective reasons to like or dislike a musician's playing, but there are also objective parameters -not technical necessarily- that tell us that a player is great, and Paul certainly was. Great imaginative lines, an unortodox (for the time) use of the harmonies...

  • comparing paul with flea? i mean thats comparing aples with pears. they both have diffrent styles and use diffrent instruments. and its not always about what you play but more about how you play it

  • You hit the nail on the head with that statement. They were singular and fabulous and irreplaceable. It was the collaboration and their progressive nature that made them the greatest.

  • You just understand how good paul was on bass when you here this version. The bass on here is no where near as good as on the original imo.

  • Paul wasnt particularly good on the bass. He only went down to the bass when he screwed up a guitar solo, but the beatles being 'technically profficient' has nothing to do with it,the beatles are amazing because of the sound they made when they came together, not because any of them were amazing at thier instrument.

  • Paul wasn't particularly good on bass?

    Haha.

    Just because he wasn't an aggressive player doesn't mean he wasn't good. Paul was an amazing bass player, just listen to him on with a little help or dear prudence, he is very melodic as polaroyd5 said.

    And the reason he played bass was because the original bassist in the beatles died...

  • I'd refer you to my reply above. And a bassist from a previous lineup may have died, but as long as they were the beatles, paul was the bassist. I got the thing about him going down to bass because he screwed up from a beatles anthology documentary, where paul said it.

  • coool! =D

  • What I like about the Sgt. Pepper 40th anniversary albums is how I hate practically every band that covered the songs but how you can really tell that they put their heart into the covers and that the covers are all fantastic.. With the exception of "She's leaving home".

  • snap!

  • do you not like magic numbers version of shes leaving hime LLawliet 133?

  • Nay, I don't. The vocalist's voice ruined it for me.

  • You are right , if you say that Greenday and U2 are great bands. But you cant say that the others are "shit" .. Thats the only shit.. or do you just know these two bands ??!

  • seem not to understand anything about music! as this is one of the best coevers, besides those of Green Day are all cats!

  • sory but nothing like the cover made by joe cocker

  • Andy cantas muy bien!!

  • Where's Borel?

  • they got the drummer to sing as ringo song this originally

  • where is lucy in the sky?, and who did the version for this album or whatever it is

  • it´s a good cover :)

  • This is actually a pretty damn good cover. I'm impressed.

  • Great cover!

  • I love how this is the first time Razorlight have sounded good and its because Johnny Borrel isn't with them..

  • Best version is the beatles?!

  • You'll find the best is the original,actually.

  • not as good as the origional

  • It is obviously never going to be, its a tribute

  • AWESOME COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ... I approve of this. O:

    Awesome cover.

  • This is truly one of the greatest performances by one of the greatest and most talented bands that is ever likely to exist. They make me glad to be alive. They put mozart to shame. I love them.

    Shit, my coke just ran out

  • Did the guys who work on CSI do the editing for these videos? I quite enjoyed their version of this song, despite not enjoying Razorlight in general

  • This is awful...ly GREAT!

    :D

  • @aterrorx

    Listen to this (or any of the tracks form this album) and then listen to the original - they all lack the tasty ear candy exquisiteness. Not dissing any of the bands, but...

  • btw, dunno about razorlight, but with a little help from my friends was actually written by john and paul for ringo to sing

  • that's why here it's the razorlight drummer who's singing. cool huh?

  • anybody think that maybe andys singing voice was just appropriate for the tone, a few people seem to be reading too deep i think!

  • this is incredible

  • i miss andy...

  • the excuse was that becuase ringo sang this song for the beatles the razorlight drummer should sing it, but i think this was a cover up of the real fact... that johnny borrel is a fukin cunt and proberly just cudnt be arsed

  • this aint razorlight?!? the lead singer looks nothing like him

  • johnny borrel cba so they got the drummer to do it dumbass

  • id say they just followed in true beatles fashion and got the drummer to sing it like Ringo !

  • That's the reason Andy sang it. The band decided to follow in the Beatles footsteps and have the drummer sing it. The whole segment used to be posted here awhile ago. Now all that you can find is the actual recording. The rehearsal and interview segment was almost 10 minutes long.

  • beautiful cover ^^

  • que buen cover me gusto mucho !!!

  • the chours doesnt sound high enough...

  • This is a brilliant cover, they aren't trying to be the Beatles, they are simply celebrating how great the album was in the first place, basically, they are just showing respect for the Beatles because they were fab!!!! And yes it is the drummer who is singing it, because they wanted to do it in the same way the Beatles did all those years ago.

  • Haha! That's fantastic!!

  • 2 basses? wtf?

  • I LOVE THIS SONG its awsome

  • its exactly the same as the beatles 40 years ago... why do i want this

  • razorlight suck johnny borrell is an arsehole and breaking benjamin are alot more talented and badass than these sucky muscicians

  • are the drummer and the singer the same person?

    or twins?

    or am i retarded?

  • I think they are trying to do the same thing as the 4 done back in the day, they got the drummer to do lead vocals on this track, I could be wrong =/.

  • omg ur right haha

  • They got the drummer to sing and play this one because this was Ringo Starr's contribution to the Sgt. Peppers album all those years ago. Love it =)

  • @pjgalvin14 Ringo's drumming was a major contribution to The Beatles music yet he never gets recognition. His drumming in A Day In The Life is iconic. To quote Phil Collins, ""Starr is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song "A Day in the Life" are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, 'I want it like that.' He wouldn't know what to do."

  • To quote Steve Smith of Journey, "One of Ringo's great qualities was that he composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs. His parts are so signature to the songs that you can listen to a Ringo drum part without the rest of the music and still identify the song."

  • It's the same person. it's different clips from the studio recording of the song, it wasn't all recorded in one take.

  • where's the twatty one?

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  • haha with other bands the comment would have buried, here i got a thumbs up :P

  • Love andy's voice!

  • i actually think this is the best cover of a bealtes ive heard.... like it acutally sounds like them

  • It is good but i always thought that the point of a cover was to take the song and make it your own...these guys do a bang up job but the best cover version of this song, in my opinion, is Joe Cocker's he slows the song down and makes it very soulful. But thats just one mans opinion.

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  • american? Thought they were english and swedes in the band...

  • its funny how they got the drummer to sing it like the beatles :)

  • Around 1.30 his resemblence to John Lennon is mad.

  • wow..nice observation

  • He's a better singer than Ringo, that's for certain.

  • that's not too hard lol

  • amazing! :)

  • I totally agree with kearnm, especially after the shiteness of Slipway Fires. Here they actually sound like a band rather than a vehicle for Johnny Borrell's ego. I used to like him, but the fact that most of their last album is just vocals and piano is rubbish. Big disappointment. But this is a great cover- one of the best in the Sgt Pepper BBC Sessions.

  • is it just me or are they almost better without Johnny?

  • i hate razorlight but i think this is a shit hot cover woop woop 5 stars woop

  • from certain angles the singer looks just like the elephant man...

  • Aye from the front angles mainly lol

  • lol very true nice one!

  • This is a very poor cover if you ask me. I've seen the documentary about contemporary rock artists recording SGT. Pepper songs. Bryan Adams was the best, Kaiser Chiefs were nowhere!

  • why is johnny not there at all? how can they call it razorlight without him?

  • That doesn't look like Johnny Borrell

  • it's Andy who sings

  • wow... beatles and razorlight *-* the best thig ever *-*

  • NICE! I LIKE! HIGH 5!

  • north london trash sing scouse!!!

  • Brill.

  • This is a nice version, but no one beats Joe Cocker's version. I love the Beatles, but Joe Cocker just brought this song up to a level that nobody can touch.

  • is the drummer the main singer or does he sing on this song because ringo sang this song?

  • It was just in honour of Ringo singing

  • ...i'm trying to find the faster paced version of this song...but this one is good *raises lighter and swings it in beat with the song*

  • I love this a lot.  Wow.

  • so much anger! chill out! what would yoda think?

  • No feeling at all. Fuck off IMO.

  • WOW so angry... did u get dropped on your head when you was a kid?

  • "When you was a kid" That wasn't angry, just my opinion. I'm sure more people than not will agree.

  • This version is excellent!

  • hes alot better than their usual singer

  • Well Then..

  • this sounds a lot like the actauall beatles song, not really like razorlight at all mmmmm

  • This reminds me of The Beatles when they were together they are the best band ever if Lennon was alive they would still be together for sure damned Mark David Chapman

  • The Beatles weren't together anymore when John was shot.

  • maybe he means they'd get back together if he was alive.

  • i'm not into razorlight and think Johnny Borrell is a fucking idiot, but credit is due, he and razorlight fucking nailed it!

  • yh i agree this is proberly the only johnny borrells performance i like for one good reason.... he wanst even fukin there

  • :O he sounds like john

  • This is only credible because Johnny Burrell didn't show up. Phew

  • gd singer gd drummer strange looking fellow though :P

  • alot better then peter frampton and the beegees!!!!!!!!!

  • really good cover

    one of the best i have heard of the beatles

    and considering that the beatles are not easy to cover

    but really very good

  • i'm not a fan of razorlight but i must say, that they are one of the few bands that did a good beatles cover.

    i was just listening to jonas brother's version of Hello Goodbye, and then i listen to this one, and i think i cant even compare them

  • Johnny (is that his name?johnny?) is a good singer.well of course ringo was hell a lot better but hey this isnt bad either

  • The guy who sings it here is the drummer, Andy.. Dunno where Johnny has gone

  • class :D razorlight are definately not "the c word"

    they're really nice guys & if you don't like them just keep it to yoruself

  • yourself*

  • sounds heaps lik the beatles.but the beatles were waaaay beter cuz they wrote really great songs

  • Whats the point of insulting a band on the internet? you just look like a dick. Why not just watch stuff you do like and that way you live an easier life and no one gets hurt.

    I've heard better but they're not bad.

    but then again i am me

  • And you are Greatness!

  • I'd just like to say that Razorlight are not cunts. Johnny is not a cunt, he is very talented but also a bit egotistic, so fucking what!. Andy Burrows sang that song well and is also a top drummer.