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  • Is the vocal live in this one, or is it all mimed to a raw backing track?

  • To all the people who are saying that George is playing a guitar - look at the position he's playing on the fretboard at the start and listen (where they're jamming). Then ask yourself, does that sound like an electric guitar? Answer is no, because it's a bass!

  • LOL I love the kid with the big thick glasses on Ringo's left that they keep cutting to

  • Oh my! I've never seen this! I mean of course I've seen the video but not the actual performance! I saw (and heard) the live version of Revolution on this show but not actually this song! :O

  • in the actual recording, is his voice doubled by an electric guitar at about 1:26 when he sings "nah nah nah nah" for the first time?

  • A jam session and they blow you away! Damn, I love these men forever!

  • Wow, Lennon makes me crack up at the beginning.

  • i remember seeing this on telly at my grandparents in Chelmsford 1968 - blew my socks off. Fantastic...never be the same again; Beatles or telly!!

  • hahahahahah :23 george is pissed xD

  • Aww, George finally smiling at Paul at the end XD

    He looked upset for most of it. They all do, kinda.

    And someone pointed out "Susan Boyle"? She's in the royal performance as well supposedly lol

  • @Mardawar when does he smile at paul what time?

  • Paul McCartney looks very similar to Alex Kidd...

    (Paul tá muito parecido com o Alex Kidd...)

  • They paid David Frost to do that and act like it was his TV show, He was kind of stiff. But the whole thing was all staged.

    They are lip-syncing to s stripped down cut of the recording, and jamming along with it. Worked out pretty well. One thing's for sure, the world will never have a band that good again.

  • Lol. I love at the end where the people are all singing "Hey Jude!" out of beat. XD

  • The exchange between McCartney and Lennon at 2:50 says it all. Mutual admiration. Mutually sick of this job.

  • lol i love how john lennon was being sarcastic with that misplaced guitar in the beginning.

  • i love how you like never actually see paul's top teeth!!! XD lol

  • Nice! George Harrison is playing a Fender VI (6-string) bass!

    Drool tastic!

  • Shut the fuck up Frost and let them improvise! Gold dust.

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  • This is just so unbelievable great, I have this "live perfomance" on my iPod exactly when Paul sings "Hey Jude" but I haven't seen it as a show like this!

  • lol i heard john say i can't hear you yoko

  • @IanGPx2 mmm

  • @IanGPx2 there was never an lp of this song

  • @Psychedozzzer

    There was the american Hey Jude compilation.

    get yer facts straight ma fella.

  • @OropherThranduil it was released as a b side to revolution and a compilation is NOT a long player, it is a compilation...

  • @Psychedozzzer

    LP: Phonograph records are generally described by the size of their diameter ("12-inch", "10-inch", "7-inch", etc.), the rotational speed at which they are played ("33⅓ r.p.m.", "78", "45", etc.), their time capacity ("Long Playing"), their reproductive accuracy, or "fidelity", or the number of channels of audio provided ("Mono", "Stereo", "Quadraphonic", etc.).

    has nothing to do with what is on, Hey Jude IS an LP.

    just like every vynil record in that size is.

  • @OropherThranduil no, i'm in a band and i'm a producer and i own my own company, i think i would know more then you

  • @Psychedozzze

    riiight, and i just bought apple records and am now in the process of cloning john and george to reform the beatles.

  • @OropherThranduil fucking retarded nigger

  • does anyone know if the played this live for the taping, or is this just a mime?

  • Man, can't believe George got stiffed with the penis microphone...

  • This sounds like live feed from the TV broadcast. Fantastic. I always thought they overdubbed the feed to the TV broadcast even though they did the song live in the studio. Either way, this is the ONLY live performance of the Beatles themselves performing this epic masterpiece. I have seen Paul in concert in 2002 and obviously that was fantastic, but to see the originals perform it shortly after it was written, knowing they did not tour, is a complete treat!

  • This gives me goosebumps, ha ha! It's so awesome to see all of those young people crowded around The Beatles - not screaming and grabbing for them like in the earlier days, but singing and smiling and having a good time. What a great, simple example of the peace John wanted.

  • 0:27 Look at John and just picture, who would've imagined him dead! It's just sad to look at John i this video, and not to mention George, his birthday past 3-4 days ago. 

  • I love how everything in the 60's wasn't synthesized or anything. What u heard was what u heard...

  • Been looking for the David Frost "Tea Band" intro. Thanks !

  • Hey Kids! This is not a true live version. They are simply (as the beatles did before) singing to the record. I mean, hasn't anyone wondered who is playing bass? when no one is playing bass?

  • @orthiconghost George was playing the bass

  • @asdfghj1382 at 5:39 (for lack of a better place) George is clearly playing a six string electric. Although I should have clarified they are singing along with the record thereby doubling their instruments and vocals live.

  • @orthiconghost I dont think so, because, if you watch let ti be video, you can see to john playing a 6 string bass, and is the same that is george playing.

  • @orthiconghost At 7:08 you can see that george's instrument is wider than john's, that's a bass

  • @asdfghj1382 the machine heads on George's guitar are for an electric, not a bass. Although the quick camera cuts can make it difficult, George is fingering for guitar.

  • @orthiconghost Yes he is fingering because it is a bass, the neck is so wide, for a guitar, and the bass is the same that in let it be, and, why the beatles would like two guitars in this song (sorry for my english, im mexican)

  • @asdfghj1382 this is from beatlesmovies - "Despite the additional presence of a full 36 piece orchestra and several hundred extras brought in to add visual panache to the vocal finale of ‘Hey Jude,’ only the vocals are live on these promos, though thankfully the visuals were enough to convince the Musician's Union that the performances were live, and thus protect them from a another ban on British TV!" and this is from thecanteen - 1968 Fender Telecaster solid body

  • @orthiconghost ITS A PROMO!!!!?? I THOUGHT IT WAS LIVE

  • @orthiconghost George is playing a Fender Jaguar. Telecaster has a whole different shape.

  • @4string59 thanks for the correction. Man, never trust a book.

  • @4string59

    Nope, George is playing a Fender Bass VI, that's the one Nigel Tufnel doesn't want anybody to even look at in Spinal Tap which he has with original price sticker.

    But since it's a 6 string bass AND looks a lot like a Jaguar the mistake happens often.

    but since Paul here plays paino and John is definitely NOT playng bass, it's quite logical george plays bass.

  • @OropherThranduil Nobody's playing anything here. They're singing live, but the instruments are from the studio recording.

  • @kw219251

    i know, but still they're PLAYING those instruments.

    you just don't hear them since it's live singing over backing track.

  • @orthiconghost

    It's still a Bass guitar.

  • You can tell at 7:41 some of the group fell behind and got offbeat. But that's okay because it's The Beatles and they mumble alot in their later career.

  • At 2:52 - 2:56, there's a funny little laugh and glance that passes back and forth between and Paul and John - like something odd happened off-camera.

    I love how the camera pulls back at 4:10 when they begin the final extended chorus and John gestures to the audience to crowd in. Beautiful.

  • @searcherboy John forgot to sing the backing part for that verse, that's why he looks at Paul and helplessly shrugs his shoulders

  • This is Rock, ladies in gentlemen. Three chords for six minutes = awesome!

  • @ArtFlunky There are 6 chords in Hey Jude F, C, Bflat,. Am, G , & Eflat. The name of the song they are playing at the intro is called Satin Doll, a standard lounge band song circa the 1950 & 60s. The Beatles were playing along with Frost's Tearoom band comment by playing something a typical "tearoom: band would play.

  • What a patronising phoney David Frost has always been.  An establishment figure trying to pretend he is 'down with the kids'. His entire career has been a sham. No wonder Lennon looks like he wants to thump him, after his pathetic put downs.

  • @niborant frost has a job to do .. get the show on the road. Lennon is entering into his embarrassing period if you ask me.

  • @niborant Lennon and Frost should have gotten along fine then. Lennon was a phoney also.

  • @45arther why do you say he was a phoney

  • @niborant David Frost is actually a very nice man.

  • What is that little song called in the beginning? The one that John is playing on his guitar. Someone please tell me! Thanks.

  • Susan Boyle at 6:57

  • @twosoulsup hehehehe

  • and Paul would never allow The Beatles to be just a side show for any band like the Rolling Stones. John appeared with a band called the Dirty Mac on the Rock and Roll show of the Stones and it was said that they intended to invite the Beatles there but they knew Paul wouldn't approve of it. Just this song "Hey Jude" and this performance would smash all Rolling Stones best songs ever made and any of their live performances in comparison.

  • @Sphoeninx um no... The Beatles might be the greatest band, but The Rolling Stones also come close...

  • @Y2JROCKFAN

    Surely not during the time both were active.

    back vthen 6 months after the beatles did anything the stones tried the same, stringladen ballad yesterday as tears go by, using sitar norwegian wood paint it black, going psychedelia sgt pepper satanic majestys (epic fail by the way) hay jude strings inspired you cant always get what you wants orchestra part and so on and so on.

  • It's really a song that's meant for John - "..go out and get her" thing.. and the song has some heavy emotions on it. They are writing songs together even if Paul says it's for Julian.. he can't hide it from John. Paul never really wanted the Beatles to be disbanded at that time... maybe Paul can't get over with the fact that John chooses Yoko

  • Man I envy those people. They can claim the right of, I actually sang with the Beatles. Talk about your 15 minutes of fame!!!!!!!!!!

  • beautiful... absolute poetry....

  • 0:12 Sounds like john was playing the super mario bros 3 theme lol

  • It sounds like they are playing live over the studio recording. You can hear an acoustic guitar but John and George are both playing electrics. Paul is singing over his own voice but not through out the entire song. The back up vocals are studio perfect so they are not being sung live. Where is the bass player? At 2:47, John is supposed to come in with a back up vocal but forgets. Paul looks at him and then John acknowledges he missed it. Paul laughs. Funny stuff. Paul is such a perfectionist.

  • @jamesdavid3 George is playing a six string bass. Looks like a regular electric but has bass strings.

  • the smothers brothers have this too but different scenes

  • The line at 2:10 sounds like it's about John and it even shows him...or am i crazy?

  • 0:33 i like the way john was kinda dancin

  • great until the recorded track comes in.....Mac looks great!

  • Remember well watching this on TV when it first aired. It was awesome then and it's still awesome...many years from now. :-)

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  • This was my daughter~Sheila's favorite song~~or one of them~~(she was 27)

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  • 2:52: Great moment where John is just zoning out, Paul wonders where the second harmony from John might be, and John obliviously shrugs, surprised that Paul is staring right at him. Paul the showman just gives a "yeah!" and carries on cheerfully. Well, either that or there was something else amiss that they were both aware of but couldn't do much about mid-performance. Think it's the backing vocals thing, though. Come to think of it - John might have been in the right to skip the harmony there.

  • @johnsomnia i've seen this so many times. i agree. except for paul, the other three did not care. but sir maca saved the day with The Beatles best song!

  • Beautiful = SHUT THE HELL UP

  • Arguably in the top 5 of the Beatles greatest songs. A collection of creative geniuses that, at some part, had to fall apart (very unfortunately). This seemed to become worse Yoko entered the scene. And @calvery28, I was alive then and each Beatles album became a cause of celebration. Wish it could have lasted.

  • I think John and Paul would be happy just playing for themelves...after the mania didn't really need the audience.

    lovely

  • @gandil408

    why did they do it?

  • Love how John goes from sub-amateur playing at :13-:24 to skilled imitation of the Frost theme at :35-:40. The short-attention span genius.

  • Is there no bass-track? Or is the piano functioning as a bass?

  • @FredDude27 In the original recording which is played in this video the Bass was played by George Harrison.

  • @FredDude27 George is playing the...bass!

  • Real CREDIBLE musicians playing REAL instruments and writing their OWN materiel

    ......something sadly lacking in a lot of contemporary artists

  • I think Hey Jude was released september 68

  • george had to tell stop when david told him to

  • This F***ing awesome.

  • Ringo looks so happy on here :D

  • as i can understand this is semi-live performance?

  • The beginning is so funny. John Lennon singing "David Frost" in that voice. The guy was hilarious.

  • John and George really sound great on the back-up vocals.

  • fake voice of people at the beginning and ending of Hej Jude lol this video is from the Anthology

  • Paul's such an angel :) !!!

  • I was a kid when I saw the Ed Sullivan's shows. . just blew out our minds. Nothing had happened before or since. It was as though the world went into some sort of an upheaval over them.

  • I like the tune in the beginning of this video. are they just playing around and composing? Sounds amazing ~! hahahahaha

  • was Julian there at the time?

  • Frost hates this SOOOOO much, the miserable twat!

  • About 6 billion people were singing "nah, nah, nah, nah, hey Jude!"

  • Paul looks damn good in this.

  • Did you hear that, Georgie was a ladies man :)

  • Whats the song they play at the start called?

  • @stickmandxxd They are winging it.

  • @stickmandxxd they're just making it up on the spot :P

  • wait he said over a year does that mean they performed live in 1967?

  • @srocketdude yeah, they did the live satellite broadcast of All You Need Is Love in June(?) of '67.

  • They must be playing along with the recording? There are too many voices for the number of mouths moving! And then, the strings come in at the end...

  • @DailyBrusher You can tell that by listening Paul's voice doubled (live one and the studio recording) and at the final part when he is adlibing and at the very end the studio track and the live music stopped being in sync XD

  • 0:41 - 0:45 actually, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you are in color, David... hahaha

    I love this :) especially at 2:52 haha The Beatles were so amazing...!

  • poor david frost

  • poor Ringo is being crowded at 6:48.

  • The reason paul gives him a look at 2:50 is because he and george both forgot to sing  "ahhhhhhhhh." as you can see, john clearly forgot and he shakes his head to paul.

  • 2:50 - 3:05 Paul sings directly to John and gets his attention ...is classic.

  • that fucking tool standing in front of Paul towards the end...lol

  • world's greatest.

  • McCartney's having a ball. A great rock voice!

  • Just noticed the orange bow around John's neck

  • i could listen to this a million times over..

  • @DELPHIIII So could I.

  • i love the beginning of this video, its what makes the Beatles so awesome

  • what a day October 13 1968 was for TV in the US! Same day Beach Boys live on Ed Sullivan - Do It Again

  • i like the description 'In 1968 The Beatles taped (and filmed)" haha what?

  • @mrfreakyinastar He's differentiating between audio and video capture...

  • 0:32 what's the chord john is playing?

  • I always thought that was a funny John Lennon moment. It's the opening of this video with them playing the Davey Frost, song. And John goes on to play the melody with distortion on his guitar. Damn, I wish John were still around.

  • the best video

  • i wish i grew up with john lennon :]

  • They all look really wasted. Have they been on something before the show?

  • omgg.... paul so cute!! <3

    i would freak out if i were performing with the crowd that close to me o.O

  • que hermosa melodia.....

  • Haha John was pissing off David Frost.

  • @DAYD111 why he would be pissed at John ????

  • @urkingod

    Because John was irritating David Frost because he was wasting his time, he tried to speak but but John kept interrupting.

    Beautiful= Stop playing!!

  • Awesome! You can even catch a glimpse of a very young Bill Gates at 5:21 to 5:27!!!!!

  • I love the water-drinking kid at 5:21 to 5:27 -- rocking out to the Beatles can indeed parch the throat!

  • Eric Idle's changed a lot.

  • Look at John at 2:52, he is saying to Paul, "I don't know."

  • PAAAUUUL!!!

    soooo cute!!!

  • JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! AAAAAAGH!

  • loving the fender bass VI

  • that guy standing infront of paul at the end, was sooooo obnoxious!

  • @sugagirlx

    Yeah he looks (and acts) like an American

  • The Beatles don't look particularly happy here...especially in the beginning of the video

  • it looks like paul was almost going to laugh at around 3:43

  • George using a jazzmaster!! YEH!

  • DORK ALERT: actually, it's a Fender Bass VI -- a six-string electric bass tuned like a guitar (EADGBE).

  • 0:55 - 01:00 - Paaaaul!

    OMG! SOOOO CUTE!!!

  • beginning is priceless

  • @andantinowithaswager hell yeah it is, i can't believe more ppl did not comment the beginning.

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  • @joanhowroyd

    Really Are U serious They are Really Luky

    Tell Them I Said So

  • When I first met my Husband and went to his house his Mum had a picture, of them, at the recording. I found out recently that it was on YouTube, I looked at the photo and went through lots of recordings until I came across the one where they were wearing the same clothes. I knew it was with David Frost and in 1968. I looked through so many but eventually found it, such a great experience. My Mother in Law is 86 now and my Sister in Law 63. I think they are really lucky as well.

    regards Joan

  • ye

    good story that

    man i wish i was born bak then

  • dude i think everyone wishes they born back then

  • well actually no alot of people i know would rather be in these years then back then

  • @calvery28 They even had a Towelhead in attendance. :) Nothing against TH's but it is another great thing plainy to see how all walks of life were brought together.

  • @seanmichaels Those people in attendance got a pretty good story to tell to their grandchildren.

  • Dude, is want not just the Beatles, it was a whole lot of things, but the Beatles were my favorite band, it was unreal musically, and I was in the middle of Iowa. The world was a better place overall, but I am still makikikng the most of it. Read your bible, say your prayers, take your vitamens and work smart. Life is good!

  • Adleast u Read The Bible

    And There DEfinetely my favourite band as well

  • The world has always been a little shitty. Vietnam war was happening back then.

  • My Mother in Law & Sister in Law were at this recording in 1968.

  • OMG!!!!! It's Susan Boyle @ 6:56

  • @zeldamex No it's not...

  • haha It's obviously not... But she's got a look like Susan, ain't she?

  • @zeldamex Poor girl... :P Jokes

  • @zeldamex

    Except Susan Boyle was 6 years old when this was filmed. :-)

  • I liked this better than the All you need is love session..