The Making of Sgt Pepper (Part 2)

[markPatickk13]

@enserio75 that's right where is interview with john lennon

[dockaiser]

Probably the only compromise Mcca ever did ... the Lennon/McCa thing 

[enserio75]

one thing i hate is that all the videos i see about the beatles talking there is always only them three i also wanted to know how Lennon felt i wanted to hear his opinions But no!!! some pieace of shit had to murder him :'(

[PC3900]

David Mason, RIP.

[vivalaskeek]

Of course the editors would cut the man's trumpet solo off mid-performance to chop in the studio recording. Everybody's heard that. I wanted to hear him play it.

[26klyde]

@ManardGCrebs I admire your modest termonology.

[jin256]

Well what do people remember now? Englebert Humperdinck or Strawberry Fields?

[008fox]

This album not only has the best music ever made, but also the best collection of mustaches I've ever seen. Classic!

[Funkmastabuzz]

The 4 track makes me feel good as im always having to bounce to save CPU nothing changes really lol if you can make music you can do it with anything.

[jwild611]

:29 rumor has it that John was on drugs that night(Sgt Pepper release party at Eppy's place) I'd say judging by this pic he surely he had some psychedelic mushrooms that night ;-)

[bigman25plus25]

there's just so much win....so much.....overload....

[DrVonChilla]

I could listen to George Martin for days-on-end dissecting every Beatles track....!!

[MoveOverCasanova]

look at how martin handles that mixer at strawberry fields -- he knows that song in and out ok but what a producer -- he is absolute professor fab!

[bloodnokian]

I have 1gb of bootlegs of The Beatles called 'Artifacts' and listening to the home demo of Strawberry Fields up until the 2 stitched together versions is the greatest pleasure you can get from music. Ever.

[DAYD111]

Imagine Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were never singles and they were part of the Sgt. Pepper's album. That album will be even more legendary.

[hammerbrother]

David Mason, without him the song Penny Lane wouldn't have been as epic as it became. Thanks to his amazing Piccolo Trumpet!

[fuzzyone99]

This is so incredible. They were so lucky to have such a great sound engineer/producer like Martin to help encourage and work with all their creative ideas.

[clintbronson5]

Sorry Paul I love yaz but it does sound better LENNON-McCARTNEY

[TheFpuff]

Strawberry Fields sounds more bluesy.

[peteyc27]

this is fantastic...he's absolutely right, the uncanny rhythm section is what makes Strawberry Fields

[tomcon21]

They should release a detailed documentary like this of EVERY album the Beatles recorded.

[menoziinrevoltado]

Does George say "9 or 10 players" on drums?

[mrchristkngo]

@menoziinrevoltado Yes



[MoveOverCasanova]

5:45 -- typically epstein, just let´s not try something unlikely,- just can´t stand that queer screwball god bless him

[potsos1]

Genius that's all there is to it! and if you dislike this or don't respect this man in anyway well your just an idiot or just get off on getting a rise out of disagreeing with people. In that case well just go do us all a favor and off yourself there's enough assholes in this world we really could afford to loose a million or so...

[Kruelwanderer911]

how the hell could you dislike this???

[ollierodgers1]

most fucking historical album ever

[letosvet1]

2:48 Ringo isn't a bad drummer!

[SwanSong2156]

@letosvet1 ye but hes not the best ever either

[THECLARENCES]

Amazing!

xoxo

The Clarences

[hofnersinla]

backward cymbals...got them mr poncher

2:31

[MoveOverCasanova]

isn´t this man playing the penny lane solo trumpet

terrific!

[carsmater123]

i sound horybull

[M3town3]

So great album shut up! maybe the greatest album ever!

[Imagine5611]

@M3town3 it is the greatest album of all time according to rolling stone magazine

[M3town3]

@Imagine5611 according to MOJO Pet Sounds is the greatest album of all-time. Pepper weren't even in the top 20. MOJO has more critics if i'm not mistaken, while rolling stone let regular people also vote. People like, you.

[popomczowzow]

@M3town3

what makes the opinion of critic greater than that anyone else?

[M3town3]

@popomczowzow okay this is what actually happened. Rolling Stone magazine plazed pepper on no. 1 and pet sounds at no. 2. Mojo plazed PS on 1 and SP at 36 or something like that. "that's what happened" so technically PS got a bigger reputation than Pepper.

[popomczowzow]

@M3town3

that means nothing.

ps: you avoided my question.

[dhucke4assembly]

This is really interesting, manipulating the different sounds, voices, and instruments.

[ZendoZerda]

these sessions are legendary

[jnchich1]

isin't strawberry fields on magical mystery toor

[proken58]

In Britian, EMI put out all of the orginal MMT songs into a double EP set. But Captiol Records in the U.S. wanted an LP (EP's didn't sell well in North America). So they took the MMT songs and added Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love and Baby, You're A Rich Man - which had earlier been released as singles only - and made MMT into an LP for North America.

[BROOKS39]

Yea. Thats correct but as George Martin said it was from the same sessions but it didn't end up on Sgt Peppers...

[GarsinX]

i guess it counts since it was going to be on sgt. pepper

[aubenhairything]

I think that George Martin means that it was the first single since their second U.K single that did not reach number 1. Love Me Do war originally number 17, and Please Please Me made number 2. Then through to the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane single, all singles were amazingly number 1, and, of course, they had quite a few afterwards as well. Really it should have been counted as no1 because it was a double a side and outsold "release me", but the ridiculous counting system split it to number 2.

[Dodo251]

'Always sounded like a Russian language to me.' lol

[ian20022004]

"Hello Mal" :D

[duranasty]

george martin knows his shit ,instruments on vocal tracks that dont clash and work as seperates brilliant

[uburei]

i guess Geoff Emerick also played a crucial role on that

[ChickenPissInTheRoad]

At first listen, Ringo's drumming is almost unnoticable, but when you really listen to it, it's pure genius.

[georgekush]

oh yeah i always noticed the drumming especially the solo part its amazing. unique.

[wwfcgranger]

We'd have 2 BREAK IN just 2 get the milk out

george legend!

BEST ALBUM EVER

[raffiandwigglesrock]

It's true that Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane was the first Beatles single since Love Me Do failed to reach number one. Right, guys?

[Thirdal]

You're smoking something, boy.

[ZeropointZero70]

i think so. would have to look it up. Strawberry Fields was  definately ahead of it's time. Clapton and Townshend were the first outsiders to hear the acetate and both were a bit flummoxed and awed by it upon 1st listen. Clapton even asked to hear it again because he couldn't quite grasp it right away.

[mrprytania]

It would be wonderful to hear it like that. I grew up listening to it and so its been watered down from all the exposure. To hear it fresh would be priceless.

[HugeDrakeBellFan]

@mrprytania I would've loved to have heard it for the first time, when nothing like it had EVER been heard before.

That would've been great.

I'm only 19, so I never got that chance, but it would've been magical if I did ;)

[choff56]

thats correct

[TheNadaNoppes]

I wont say I think it's better, they're both great in their own right. However, I have to say that when in an optimistic mood I'd rather hear Penny Lane than Strawberry Fields. I'm more of a Paul fan too though.

-Bill Kluifjes.

[JoBrofanxoxo14]

i love the trumpet solo of penny lane. its wonderful.

[joesosa41]

I love the drums track in strawberry fields forever.

a real masterpiece overall

[monkeyhawk]

This is like having Picasso telling you what it's like to paint.

[BlackieHugeHands]

Waaaay better than that.

[HCShannon]

@monkeyhawk There's a prolly a video 'bout that!

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@monkeyhawk Or like Ron Jeremy telling you what it's like to, well, you know.

[SkateTS808]

@monkeyhawk you couldn't have said it better buddy

[GHOSTakaOzz]

@monkeyhawk Actually it's more like having a George Lucas tell you how to Direct. If you have horrible actors you can't make a good movie

[PeterMayer]

My wife and I toured Abbey Road Studios in 1990. I told them I did recordings, I engineered and they said "Sure, stop on by..." So here I am, in THE STUDIO and then the guy asks me "How much time do you want to book, etc." And I said "uhhh...we're just here visting". So then they were like "oh,,,,off ya go Yank!". Just kidding about that part, but it was cool and I did go across THE crosswalk!

[ChickenPissInTheRoad]

What crosswalk?

No just kidding.

Haha

[mark919]

George is so funny and dryly humorous and Paul is,as usual, full-of-himself ( and rightly so!).

[aarfeld]

That's alright, Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane ended up appearing on the second disc of what I consider to be their great psychedelic statement of 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Magical Mystery Tour. Think of it as a double album sold in separate parts and there you have it.

[rick8285]

"the biggest mistake I ever made"

It's ok, it was the greatest preview to the greatest record ever recorded...

[carlosdangerous]

Arggghhhhhhh... I hate Engelbert Humperdinck!

[mark919]

Lol..me too.....Horrible horrible horrible!

[Alainpozzo]

Can you imagine having George Martin as your grandfather? That has to be the coolest shit ever!

[michaeldamncute]

beatles and george martin are gods of music!

[starborn328]

wooahhhhh that "strawberry fields" part was SO COOL! i had no idea that it had that background beat

[kralle7611]

the description how they did that on 4 tracks is fantastic. thx for uploading!

[killchiro]

they didn't buy the plug to plug it in lol

[dvs1572]

In strawberry feilds it sounds as if there is a moris code sound. In this video you'll hear it around 1:25. Does anyone else hear it aswell? I'd like to know if that really is moris code, and if so, what does it mean?

The beatles are truely devine, and they will forever take the blues away for millions to come. There is so much ponder. I don't know where i would be without them and their music. Always keep in mind, happy or sad, you'll always be able to count on the Beatles.

[johnbailiol]

yes it is morse code. according to john lennon in his playboy interview in 1980 he says the code says "J.L." in morse code... his initials of course.

[dvs1572]

have you heard the beginning of 'Astronomy Domine' by Pink Floyd. That has some morse code. It's the first song on Piper at the gates of Dawn. Some heavy stuff. Not sure if the code in Strawberry Feilds is JL, those are my initials aswell, so thats sort of cool.

CHEERS, check my channel for utter beatlemania.

[rblackzzz]

amazing.

[oldtilter]

Thank u much...they never show this

[kasponya]

Wow, I haven't seen this since it came out......Thanks so much for posting it!

[RobertZ8]

Great video, is this on DVD? if it is where can u get it?

[blatspanner]

surely it's better value for money to put the singles on the album?then you don't have to buy both.

[stevenhoward72]

See 5:43 to 6:06. It's not having to buy a song twice that The Beatles gave the fans. eg once you had paid for "She Loves you" it did not turn up on their next L.P. As with "SFF" and "PL" and "I want to hold your hand" and "I feel fine" etc, ect they were stand alone singles. Just as once an L.P. was out they did not release songs from that lp.

[stevenhoward72]

Not having "Strawberry" and "Penny" on the album. Big mistake, but an indication of the respect they had for fans. Value for money and not "taking the mick"!. Not like todays "acts" where every track is released after the album is out to ring every last penny from it.

[jamesreidxox]

Personally, I just don't see where they could fit on the album. It's tight and concise as it is. They are certainly better than some of the songs on the album, but Pepper is more than just a collection of songs. It simply wouldnt be Pepper with them.

[Musztarda2]

Great Series

[dnnydirty]

George Martin is an absolute genius. Love the Mellotron.... Is he providing example off the master tapes?? They've got to be worth kazillions...

[sgtpepper1138]

IMO they're priceless, i mean they have made a digital backup of them for the love album, but as a piece of history they're priceless

[doforanimals]

Love this. Very interesting.

[MCslowmow]

"One of the biggest errors I've ever made!" George, you are so right!

[nbkid]

Great Show on the making of Sgt Pepper. Thx for posting.