They played ALL genres. They can’t be put into one category. There are no musicians like them.Their songs are incredible!

Beatles are a 60s band. Literally changed music forever. This was their last recorded live performance as well I beileve

@bmxseeker6780

6 ай бұрын

The Beatles are a Every Year Band

@Newfie-zc7ug

5 ай бұрын

@@bmxseeker6780 .wrong .................every day ..........:)

@bmxseeker6780

5 ай бұрын

@@Newfie-zc7ug Yes i Stand Corrected ✌👍

You can’t put the Beatles into one genre. They did every genre, brilliantly, and invented a few as well. Their early songs seem simple but I don’t know of any other band that were as transcendent when they came together and, as you said, became more than the sum of their parts. If anything I am more in awe of them now than when I first heard them during their years together. They truly are different than anybody else.

I love the way Ringo waits until just the right moment to come into the next drum section. It is always so well placed and so well done.

@tdgallagher218

6 ай бұрын

This was still a relatively new song (maybe by a week or two) at the time of this performance. I believe that when Ringo closes his eyes, he is focusing, getting ready for a slightly different beat, and he's trying to make sure that he comes in precisely at the right moment. No surprise that he plays it flawlessly.

The Beatles are timeless. There will never be another band like them.

This was 30th January, 1969, on the roof of the Apple building in London. It was the last time they played in pubic together and the first time they had any foldback! They were joined by Billy Preston on keys.You can and should see the whole gig, episode 3 of Peter Jacksons Get Back

60 years ago this week, we sat in front of our TV to watch the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was 12 years old. I received their album Meet the Beatles as a gift from my sister. (Today is my 72 birthday). Last year my 44 year old daughter got to see Paul McCartney in a stadium concert. He is in his 80s and he and Ringo Starr (drummer) are still performing. They are true legends.

@steveullrich7737

6 ай бұрын

Same age as you and yes I also watched them that day and still remember it.

@dcg4mn

3 ай бұрын

Yikes hadn’t realised 60 years. I remember seeing it too. I was 10 😉

Raw music live on a rooftop. No autotune or fancy studio equipment. Just four guys doing what they did so well, with the incredible Billy Preston on keyboards. The last time they played live together in public. I was blown away by this when I heard it as an 18 year old and even 50 and more years later, it is still as incredible as it was then. Keep listening to the Beatles and you'll appreciate their genius. Good review.

Great reaction! the best thing with The Beatles is that they never repeated themselves. If you wanna listen to a much heavier song I suggest you listen to ”I want you (she’s so heavy)”🙂

What is truly mind blowing is that all where only in their late 20's when they performed in this video.

They were more than a rock band. They transcended "genre".

The next best thing to growing up with the magic of The Beatles, is watching this generation discover them for the first time. Please go down this rabbit hole. You won't regret it.

John Lennon was the lead singer of this song, Paul McCartney next to him on bass, George Harrison on guitar and Ringo Start on drums. This is actually the last time they played live together. The song was just learned by the band that month. None of their music sounds the same album to album, song to song. This is rock/pop. By the way, I like your thoughtful intelligent take on this.

@jamesrowe3606

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget Billy Preston on keyboard.

@michaeldezego340

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesrowe3606 How the heck did I miss mentioning him. This album isn't close to being as good without the amazing Billy Preston on keys. I was a big fan of his solo music, especially in the 70's. He was all over the radio back then.

@jamesrowe3606

6 ай бұрын

@@michaeldezego340 Easily done Michael. A few people have been described as "the fifth Beatle". Billy Preston earned the epithet, for the Get Back sessions at least.

@michaeldezego340

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesrowe3606 For that album for sure, but I think that moniker goes to George Martin for the fact that he produced their wonderful music and he played piano on countless songs.

"When you get done good, you really should be singing about it" Best comment on this song! LOL so true we need more singing💯

They ARE the classicest of the classics

That was God-given talent!

@brucedickinson12

5 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅

My teenage friends and I couldn’t wait until they released their next single in the 60s. We would religiously listen to the radio waiting for the da to play their latest hit. Then we would discuss each song and go out and buy the single or the album. 1969 for this single, I believe.

The Beatles are their own genre. This was their last public performance. The 2nd greatest band is light years behind.

This wasn't the 1970's. This was 1969

I also love the way they are all practically giggling during the “ really done me “ parts.

@perryvlahos3705

Күн бұрын

It's because John messed up the words that they're laughing. They performed two takes of Don't Let Me down on the rooftop. The best take unfortunately had John fluffing the words of the last (?) verse. The director kept the best take but substituted a snippet of the other performance, to remove the fluffed lyrics, and then returned to the remainder of the best take, which of course had George and Paul chuckling at John's stuff up.

Being 74, my teens were informed by the Beatles. Each new generation is discovering their music from a ten-year period of creating songs. They were more than their music, though. During the sixties, they were the springboard for youth culture, influencing to an incredible degree.

They are their own genre.

It's great to watch The boys singing and playing as they used to do in the first days. They loved each other although they finished going appart for external problems. The Beatles changed the way of composing and playing music forever

John's voice is golden

The Beatles were whatever they felt like being at any given time. They might do a standard pop song, rock song, a 1930’s dance hall style song. Jazz, whatever.

The GOATS

There are the Beatles...then everyone else. Their own plane.

Beatles are genre-less. They experimented with, and invented many, genres. Yes they sang the chorus many times because they actually started with the chorus. That is something they liked to do now and then as well as some songs which don't have a chorus or only have a few words as the chorus. They never adhered to rules with music but bent them to their will. and Yes, one of the really cool things about the Beatles is how the sum of the 4 (fab 4!) is greater than the parts. They were always about elevating the song and would create guitar, percussion, bass and other instruments that had their own voice but blended together into something stronger. In the song you just listened to check out the bass part, sometimes its complementing the singer, sometimes its doing a duet with the keyboards or lead guitar. But never is it just doing a doowap line.

The Beatles are one of the best bands in the world, probably. They're really diverse too, not King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard levels of genre-hopping (since it was the 60s and half of the genres King Gizzard plays such as techno and thrash metal didn't exist then), but as diverse as you could be in the 60s. They don't really give each member a verse in their songs, but each member has their own songs they sing on their own (with harmonies/backing vocals by the others). Since this is a late period Beatles John song, I'd recommend "Hey Jude" for a Paul McCartney song and "Something" for a George Harrison song. I'd say most Ringo Starr tracks aren't essential, and you've already heard Yellow Submarine, but that was a psychedelic era Beatles song. If you want to listen to Beatles _albums,_ chronological order would be your best bet. Most people say start with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Abbey Road, but I feel like that has a spoiling effect on their earlier pop-rock and folk period stuff. Once you hear something as incredible as their psychedelic and classic rock albums, the simplicity of their early work seems so unimpressive in comparison, but it's really great in its own way too.

Best band ever.....in fact....they made the first heavy metal song....try reviewing it....that was 1966-68.......the heavy metal song is Helter Skelter......please review it......thanks

This was their last live performance on roof of their London studio and it literally stopped traffic. Police arrived but then stopped when they saw it was the Beatles & by the way it was a freezing cold day. John is wearing Yoko’s fur jacket & Ringo his wife’s jacket.

Ringo’s drumming,Billy Preston on keyboards 🤘

Didn't you know they are English, from the UK. They just took over the world, with their music, at the time. The fuzz at the front of the ears was called side-burns in the 60's. It was so cold and Ringo had no coat, so the red coat was his girlfriend's.

Yes Sir, that is John Lennon on lead vocals. He had one of the best "rock" voices ever. But, don't sleep on Paul McCartney, who could also "growl" with the best of them. Check out, "Oh Darling" for a real banger! ☮

Cool reaction...check out The Beatles "Helter Skelter" the original from the White Album....it is the origin of Heavy Metal from 1968.

People who say they 'know the Beatles sound' usually don't... just sayin'... 😀

The four Beatles could not read music by notes -they each learned by listening to music, and leaning music, instinct. Paul eventually learned, like in his 50's, when he wanted to compose more complex music. Paul and Ringo (Richard) were left handed, and had to adjust to their playing. Ring wanted to play Jazz or American Country, but as a youth the only drummers around were British military drummers. George, Paul, and John would listen to records, and figure out the notes -or meet with other local musicians who would teach them the "G chord" or the "E-note". . They learned and remembered, and got better. The man on the keyboards, Billie Preston, was American, they had met while touring. The idea for the recording in Jan'1969, which was Paul's, was to record "live" and tour -as they had stopped touring in 1966, and became a studio band. If they would not do overdubs, they needed a keyboard player, George found Billie was in London (He is also in the Rock Hall, now). Instead of touring, they went up on the rooftop of their London studio/office and set-up for a half-hour concert, in January wind, in 1969, and they played their last actual concert. Traffic and people stopped on the street below -the British Police sent up Officers, for the "public disturbance" - thy tried to turn off the amplifiers, the crew of the Beatles set that back, and the half-hour concert finished. "Don't turn us off, this will be famous"

Thanks for this...Great reaction! The Beatles were lightning in a bottle...no band evolved with each album and had as much influence on other bands as they did!! They were all from the same city (Liverpool). John, Paul and George met as teens. I think Ringo joined on when he was barely 20. Amazing story, theirs is. There will never be another band like them!

Very much greater than the sum of the parts, it’s almost impossibly beautiful: put them together and perform? they FLY. Great reaction. Lennon was an all time great writer of the most beautiful melodies, often simple, and sung plaintively, with PASSION. His was one of the best rock voices of all time. Check Dear Prudence. Jealous Guy. Beautiful Boy. That man had a LOT of soul.

"I've got a feeling" from the same concert is really good too and Paul get to scream a little..

Their song "Helter Shelter" is considered the beginning of Metal. Check it out.

Give a listen to my all time favorite Beatles song, ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’, from this same rooftop concert. The band had been playing together for so long at this point, which is why they play so well as a band and make doing this seem so effortless.

I’ve been a Beatles fan for 6 decades, since I saw them on Ed Sullivan show in 1964.. This was the last time they performed together.

The Beatles are more than just some popular band from time gone by. The Beatles are the biggest selling music artist of all time, and nobody else even comes close. They are the only music artist to have the biggest selling album of the decade for 2 different decades (Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band in the 1960's, and "1" from 2000-2010). Cool reaction. I subscribed! Peace

Welcome to weird and wonderful World of The Beatles❤ The GOATS!

Try Blackbird, She’s Leaving Home, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Bluebird by McCartney

With the Beatles, you get the best music that is mostly rock, but crosses many genres with ease. For a more complete picture of the 60s music influence, get acquainted with Led Zeppelin, Procul Harum, Moody Blues, and Fleetwood Mac, just to name a few.

It was a chilly day....I remember it still.

Helter skelter by the Beatles, you will enjoy 😎 thanks 👍

A very honest and insightful reaction

The Beatle empire was crumbling already but even in that difficult time their music quality was still high!

Production? It's almost like you didn't notice they were playing live on a rooftop;) The very last Beatle concert, and the cops came up after a while and said, "shut it down, you're making too much noise"...

It wasn't just an American thing. The Beatles was a British band and loved by many countries. Beatlemania was international. The Beatles were banned by a few countries like Israel, communist China, the Soviet Union

Thanks, Sohum! I always loved this song.. not one of their most famous, but IMHO fantastic... I'm so glad you watched this video... (p.s. don't worry about "genre".. that would be like trying to classify Queen.. lol) I look forward to hearing more of your reactions..

For this album, the Beatles were intentionally just using guitars, bass and drums. They added the keyboard when Bill Preston showed up. This was because they wanted to play it/ record it live on stage. Back then, you didn't have anyone else on stage. Just the band. Nothing was recorded ahead of time.

To know three Beatles songs, is to know almost nothing. I guarantee, there will be a few surprises... The history of the band, their influence on music history, their input on people from the 1960s to today, is at least as exciting. Incidentally, the 1969 track Don't let me down was originally just a single B-side (from Get back). At the moment it's the most clicked Beatles song on KZread, although the Chainsmokers song of the same name from 2016, which to my ears is pretty interchangeable, certainly has its share in it. I would describe the genre for this Beatles song as Pop/Blue Eyed Soul.

What you're getting is is...they are not do this to look "cool" or to get social likes- they literally are making music that they can be proud of. BTW, I still think this is the #1 Beatles video on KZread, which is saying a lot.

John’s edge 🔥 Man, I miss him.

One of my many favourites. If you haven't, listen to Revolution. When you react to Dimash and then the Beatles that's all i need. The Beatles are a genre of their own. 😊😊😊

You had to live through Beatlemania , it was an amazing time looking back.

The Beatles are almost their own genre, but they fall under the umbrella of classic rock. If you haven't already, you should listen to A Day In The Life- It's considered the Beatles' masterpiece.

Such a journey to listen to their records. Enjoy!

GOAT

Its a shame u missed out on so many things from the late 60s and 70s..really good music..no autotune..only skill and voices. I hope u can appreciate the RAWNESS of that time...its the beauty of the time. I so enjoy ur reactions

This was live so not sure how much production was involved especially with the vocals. Also the 60s and 70s had so much great and varied music so this fantastic song was not an unusual occurrence but the norm.

So... in the film, the cops said "thirty complaints" were received to shut down the Beatles. Thirty. Actualy, we only hear from 3 people. But there are hundreds then over a thousand enjoying the music. What were the police bonked out on? Just imagine the idiocy to use '30' to justify public stoppage insteads of hundreds of fans, growing all the time?!

@RoSaWa386-33

6 ай бұрын

By the way... DON'T LET ME DOWN is an odd song. Sounds great look at the lyrics - John's "in love for the first time" and a "love that will never die". Yet, he is wailing - DON'T ME DOWN, LOVE OF MINE!!! Very odd... very incongruous... how can this love 'last forever' if he's screaming out, "But don't let me down!!"

@visaman

6 ай бұрын

​@@RoSaWa386-33compare that to George's Something. Same theme.

New subscriber! The Beatles/Helter Skelter😮😊 Considered to be the first heavy metal song😮😊😊!

They invented it, no comparison, no band in any which can compare,helter-skelter

Since they have about 230 recordings, or something like that, "due diligence" will be several songs. One cannot begin to understand them hearing 5 or 6 songs.

Last time they ever played together

The genre is 'The Beatles.'

The Beatles were their own genre. Those who came before them and just after them were the "classic rock" musicians. All 4 members are lead singers, and although at varying levels, (Ringo on drums only wrote a few songs) all 4 were songwriters. Ringo is the best musician, technically, but the other 3 are definitely more than mediocre. John (glasses singing lead) and Paul (bass, beard) started playing together in 1957, and this is 12 years later. George (mustache, walnut telecaster) joined in 1958, when he was 14, on lead guitar. This is their last performance and it was impromptu, and done the last minute to get a project over with. They split months later. This was underproduced, for their standard, they had tired of the relentless nit picking and editing, and just wanted to crank out some rock, like a band would.

kudos to Billy Preston on keyboard.

they are giggling at the "she really done me " part because John flubbed the lyrics and they fixed it for this video you can see the mistake if you check the full performance

We didn’t have genres in the 60’s. It was not particularly a thing. (Okay there were about half a dozen.)

@Sohum

6 ай бұрын

They’re their own genre

The 60's...

Now you have no excuse not to hear their entire output, you have been listening to second rate music, ever heard of The Stones? Bob Dylan? Janis Joplin? Great reaction, you have a good personality, new sub, how about some Rod Stewart? And please react to "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" by Elvin Bishop, live on Midnight Special.

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Can you turn up your mic a bit, please? New subscriber that wants to be able to hear you. :)

Pls react again

By "underproduced" do you mean without autotune, overdubs and samples? If so, I'm very happy to only listen to underproduced music, all day long.

@braudabo

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget, that the Beatles themselves incorporated every conceivable technique, every sound, that was possible at the time, into their songs. Last but not least, McCartney and Starr using AI in 2023 for Now and then.

Your gonna love their later stuff like this, not so bubble gum from when they were 3 years younger

@dannygriffith6185

6 ай бұрын

They NEVER made " bubblegum " music. Much of their early work is just as good as their later work! You've got to evolve. Get from A. to get to B.... Many songs from their "A" are brilliant.. There's a Place, Don't Bother Me, And I Love Her, I'll Be Back , I'll Follow the Sun, etc etc . Then their middle Period from Help through Rubber Soul & Revolver... Brilliant! Bubblegum ???YOU must be thinking of 99% of today's CRAP !CRAP!

Why give the devils horn sign?

"non american-having parent person" wtf? just say what you mean please, we won't be offended

If you’re in the 70’s this is the WORST thing you’ve ever heard. Wtf is up with this guy!? 😂😂 do you know anything about music?