The Beatles - 1966

[paulandjohnfan1]

At 1:08, i have the same shirt as John and I am a girl

[duffh]

I saw both show in Seattle in '66, but they were not good shows. Bad sound system. Bad lighting. Beatles were not enjoying it. It was a take the money and run appearance. They stopped touring soon after.

[klinsmeier]

@duffh

Bad sound, OK, but: You saw them!!!

[alonenjersey]

One word to describe Revoler: "Masterpiece".

[Vitally14]

I heard they never played a revolver song live. Is this true?

[beatlefan64]

@Vitally14

Hi :)

Yes, that is true.

[Vitally14]

@beatlefan64 why? thats kinda dumb

[beatlefan64]

@Vitally14

Well, back in the mid 60's performing live shows was very different from today, back then it was very primitive:

For example there were no such things as monitors, so bands couldn't hear themselves on stage and.PA systems were pretty much non existant etc.

[unfortunatebeam]

@beatlefan64 it wasn't that primitive, I and yes they did have PA systems but they weren't quite yet powerful enough to blare over the mountain of screams.

[HerrLimb]

@beatlefan64 Well, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel Cream, Donovan and many others could do just perfect shows in the mid 60ies with these "primitive" equipment! I think the Beatles would be able to manage to play the Rubber Souls Songs live, because they are the best Band in the world :P But I think they just didn´t played them live, because the most songs from Rubber Soul werent completely finished when they stopped touring.. well that just my opinion.

[edvadojunk]

Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Cream, and Donavan didn't have tens of thousands of little girls screaming for "Love Me Do."

[toxicpizza72]

@Vitally14

..because of John`s statemente in 1966 (same year as Revolver-album) , that The Beatles was more popular than Jesus..Lots of people burned their records,they got threatned,banned & certaintly didnt wanna play live after that..Another fact, is that Beatles at that time was so popular on their concerts that they didnt even hear them selves playing while audience where screaming through their whole show..They deicided to only give out studio albums later.

[reneperezz]

66' beatles were awesome!!!!!

[ViacomFailsAtLife]

is there any footage of them playing dr robert? i cant find any. any studio stuff or live?

[beatlefan64]

@ViacomFailsAtLife

Unfortunately, they never performed Dr. Robert live, that would have been great!

[ViacomFailsAtLife]

@beatlefan64 Seriously, it would have! This song is so underrated man the guitars are just awesome.

[JohnNiemsMusic]

One of my fav fab tunes that you don't hear enough! They had so many great tunes that the fade out starts at 2 minutes! 2 MINUTES and FADE OUT??? MORE PLEASE!

[reneperezz]

Beatles in 66' were AWESOME!

[jsmyers24151]

The picture of them on stage at 1:32 is kind of funny considering they were playing in a stadium somewhere, but yet the were set up like they were playing the cavern club. I guess, once again, because of no monitor system, they had to huddle up in order to hear themselves.

[tiranchula]

my fave era of the fabs! this is pretty cool, bf64! thanks for posting!

[beatlefan64]

@tiranchula

No problem, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for watching :)

[gdosic]

YES! A superb upload...Brilliant, beautiful ...Fantastic footage! I love it!

[PhantomKitty957]

John Lennon's "fat Elvis" stage. Well, personally I think he looked better then than he did after that... he ended up getting too skinny.

[crapple009]

@PhantomKitty957 Yeah, definitely agreed. He started slimming-down here in '66, no doubt due to the heavier pharmaceuticals his then life-style. 1965 was definitely the height of the "fat Elvis stage". Compared to '65, he was quite slimmer in 1966.

[unfortunatebeam]

@crapple009 What do you mean by quite slimmer, he doesn't look that much slimmer in '66. He just looks like he has a normal, healthy looking body more or less.

[unfortunatebeam]

@PhantomKitty957 actually, he never really was that skinny. I've seen real skinny, and John Lennon wasn't that. And isn't being thin better than being fat?

[2012Grizz]

Nice choice of soundtrack. Not a very well known song compared to many of their others, but a great one

[melfree]

Revolver is a real masterpiece. Pure art. Thank you beatlefan64.

[habsman1]

Some of the last pics of the real Paul...R.I.P. Paul.

[todd7416]

Their best year.

[cherylharrell1961]

Some nice pics there! They do turtlenecks justice. :) I've always loved this song.

[furie1]

1965-1966 was when they looked the coolest

[kevlarkid2]

Got this album as christmas gift in 1966

[wickerman78]

Really good photos - and a good soundtrack of 'Dr Robert' from 'Revolver'! Thanks beatlefan 64!

[beatlefan64]

Hi Wickerman 78,

Thanks for watching! : )

[beatlefan64]

@wickerman78

No problem  : )

Thanks so much, for watching!

[TheBeatleno5]

great photos and good editing!

thanks for the video! it´s really good!

[beatlefan64]

@TheBeatleno5

Thanks! : )

[LiveVideoAZ]

Very gear...Very Fab...Thank you...

[beatlefan64]

@LiveVideoAZ

Thanks for watching!

[waguw55]

does anybody know what actually happened to paul's face -please no more paul is dead theories-

I agree with all you people U2 and Green Day Should get over themselves and stop OR start creating new stuff, right know Rock n´Roll is in a hole!

[WilburyVision]

@waguw55 Paul had a moped accident in 1966 when he was up in Liverpool visiting his dad. He landed on his face and badly chipped a front tooth. In many photos in 66 his face is swollen, and some shots show the broken tooth before he had a crown made, which he has pretty much worn ever since.

[piacentini]

beatles sold 16 billion Sterling Pounds until today

In 1965 they double, whiskie incoming royalties for the Crown ,and the Queen made them Sirs

J,king `s respectable opinion,,it is just 1 opinion

but not the 6 ,4 billion world`s population opinion

drugs,only used as a "test" ,later Beatles did not use drugs ,they did not need them

understand ,they were just KIDS, KIDS !!!! handling billions of sterling pounds !!!!

and changed our life.

[eimolein]

da war ich 18 Jahre alt und hatte meinen Führerschein gemacht

[hopebgood]

I love this period in their careers.  Revolver is probably my fave album and after this they just evolved further and further. What band nowadays does anything even remotely like that?

[kenfig]

Truth is they never intended to break up at the end of that year.Nor did they nearly break up ; they went on holiday for 10 WEEKS !! (nothing these days) before starting work again

[kenfig]

The Fabs never looked so cool as they did in '66. R.I.P. John & George. Tragic how the wrong people die instead of scum child molesters like Jonathan King & Gary Glitter !!

[crapple009]

I knew that about Gary Glitter,but Johnathan King?

[kenfig]

Well i was surprised you didnt know but i looked on your profile to see where you are ; Czec Republic ? O.K., Well in 2001 King was jailed for seven years for many serious crimes of sexual abuse of diffenrent young boys some aged as young as 13 going back many years before.He would pick them up around London in his Rolls-Royce car,treat them, tell them he knew pop stars,take them home,give them drink,show them girl porn first then sexually molest them - BASTARD !

[crapple009]

Thanks for the info on the King case.

BASTARD is right. Did he serve the full 7 years? Either way,he's out now which is frightening to know.

[kenfig]

He served about 3 and a half years and then released but LOADS of his victims reported him to the police ; some he picked up at his teen disco in England in '70s with his friend convicted gay paedophile and ex-radio d.j. Chris Denning - check it out to find out more.King is a liar ; he says he is completely innocent although all evidence was found at his house !

[crapple009]

I'm just surprised no one was able to fight him off. He must've spiked their drinks. Is he a big guy or wimpy?

[kenfig]

Well he is big but i think there was a lot of drink and drugs involved

[crapple009]

Must've been more than the soft stuff.

I suspect he slipped something into his victims' drinks to knock them out.

Hey isn't this the same guy who named the band, 10cc? Now it really makes sense-what a sicko!

[kenfig]

Yea thats right and made a load of rubbish daft pop records himself under different names - HUGE ego and full of himself ; you could say delusions of grandeur ! - One more thing you may not have heard before : Beatles are my ( like millions of people's) favourite band.Well,when 'Revolver' was released in '66 everyone said 'amazing' etc. EXCEPT  (no doubt jealous of their praise) J.King who said : "Pseudo intellectual rubbish !" - Ha ha

[crapple009]

The Beatles are all-time fave band,too (since the mid 70's when I "discovered" them for myself as a young schoolboy).

I believe Noel Coward said something similar in the mid-60's and as a result McCartney refused to speak to him in 1967 when Coward came calling at someone's residence while Paul was there. Coward was miffed which served him right. What a bunch of sour, jealous twits!

[unfortunatebeam]

@crapple009 well if he's a grown man picking up young boys, why is it so surprising to you that no one could "fight him off"? and there's a whole grey area between "big" (whatever that means) and "wimpy"

[terrythekittie]

@crapple009 - exactly ..I was a big fan of U2 in the eighties..they did some good things in the 90's but appear to recycle themselves now (i.e.'Elevation' rejigged into 'Vertigo')..the Beatles just did something different every five minutes.

[crapple009]

Totally agree,terrythekittie. I liked them in the 80's until Rattle And Hum (who can forget that horrible,staged video clip of them trying to re-enct the Beatle rooftop concert,complete with cops and all. Pathetic.). They did do some good things in the 90's,though sporadically.

And now Bono tries so hard to be a Lennon figure,saving this and that (Billie Joe from Green day is not far behind) that I find it hard to take the chap seriuosly. .

[terrythekittie]

@crapple009 - Bono almost alluded toU2 being as big as the Beatles..again the albums considered classics by the BEATLES are Revolver, Rubber Soul, '..Pepper', 'Whit album' and 'Abbey Road'..U2 probably have two..'Joshua Tree' and 'Achtung Baby' and the latter is 19 years ago now...time to call it a day Bono.

[crapple009]

That's sad when artists such as Bono believe in their own fame and illusion.

And the bigger-is-better ethos. I always thought the really classic U2 albums were considered 'Joshua Tree', 'War' and 'Unforgettable Fire'. And then probably 'Achtung Baby'. I wasn't too impressed by it,though.

Bono's too absorbed in himself to call it a day though I agree with you.

[unfortunatebeam]

@crapple009 a "lennon figure" lol pfffft. since when is Lennon the only pop star that can be concerned about things going on in the world? The more people doing it, the better, so what are you yobbling on about?

[unfortunatebeam]

@kenfig did gary glitter child molest? didn't he just have child porn?

[Electronicbox]

The photo at 0.45 is from '65!

[crapple009]

You are so right. Well spotted,dude!

[Daycron66]

This was, indeed, their peak year. Rubber Soul and Revolver, and the singles Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out and Paperback Writer/Rain. Where did they find the time?

[elsworth3030]

well when your job is to make music 30 song from 4 people in a year isnt that wild.

[terrythekittie]

U2 take eight to ten years to release 30 songs.....the Beatles prolific output over seven years is just another reason why they are the greatest musical act (group or solo) of all time.

[libraryquiet]

Hey terrythekittie. Here Here!!

[crapple009]

U2 (and Green Day) are so over-rated.

The Beatles were and are simultaneously the best!!

[crapple009]

Right on, good point. And let's face it -U2 are not making any new progressions.Songs from each new release could be exchanged with each other without any difference. Not to "rag"on U2,but just a valid point.

The Beatles were/are truly a phenomenon that will never die. They are immmortal.

[terrythekittie]

@crapple009 - exactly, I

[RollingOrmond]

@terrythekittie

It had more to do with the record market back then, when an artist was under pressure to come up with another hit right on the heels of the last one. U2 came of age when that totally had changed and artists could take their time for releasing albums.

[terrythekittie]

@RollingOrmond - that's true..but on the other hand U2 have been so lucky to have had little musical competition ....the BEATLES had HENDRIX, DYLAN, STONES, DOORS, BEACH BOYS, CCR, CREAM and many others to compete with from the mid to late sixties...U2 have had nothing like that for the last thirty years.

[RTSiciliano]

Actually, Rubber Soul & DayTripper/We Can Work It Out were recorded in 1965 & released in December '65. But I agree it was in '66 with Revolver & Paperback Writer/Rain that they did their best work.

[cambulldog]

in 1967 john's appearence changed alot

[mpc3po]

Bob Gobbert

[withnielandi]

The 20th century peaked in 1966. It was just before the summer of love, god was the DJ and England won the world cup!

[DBeatles4Ever]

This has nothing to with the price of tea in China, but my opinion states that The Beatles were looking their absolute hottest at this point in their careers. I'm drooling like a very simple girl just seeing the pics. Poor little heterosexual female that I am!

[TeoTheMaestro]

if you're down i'll pick you up,doctor robert

[mpc3po]

'he'll' .. pick you up...

[69MC97gc]

Dr Roberts is about a dentist,a dental surgeon who popped pills and taught the Beatles  how to use LSD...Doctor and laureate Robert (Bob) Zimmerman(Dylan) taught the Beatles how to use Mariuhana...reef.Smoking dope.Whatever the spelling is...the correct is the one--Mari--U-hana.Please check any enthymologist...

[buzonperiodista]

This is a very simple 90's song... erhm, but in 1966... get it?

[poussyledzep]

what?simple??hehehehe

do you really understand what does it mean?

Revolver Album?

[trev8200]

Doctor Robert

On Yesterday And Today

Sadly Not On The US Revolver.

[vwtch]

&fmt=18  stereo!

[bobay4]

The Beatles by this stage were at their zenith. Rubber Soul had just come out, they were recording the Revolver album and writing the songs which would be on the Sgt. Pepper album. 1966 was a good year.