r/TheBeatles

69 years ago today marks the day when John met Paul for the first time, and how The Beatles story started
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69 years ago today marks the day when John met Paul for the first time, and how The Beatles story started

u/Secure-Scientist4867 — 4 hours ago

This clay figure i made of paul last summer

I made it with air dry clay and the secret ingredient of love. Its so ugly that its super cute

u/cullenskywalker — 3 hours ago

Favourite Beatles Song??

I'm a little bit biased with my opinion, would LOVE to hear what everyone else's is

u/JessWild — 7 hours ago

1967 Magical Mystery Tour 2 Disc Booklet.

Looking for some info on this, thanks!

u/a3se7491 — 21 hours ago

Groovin’ Up Slowly (A Beatles Fan Album YouTube Channel) Episode 50: All Those Years Ago | The Beatles Never Stopped Writing About Each Other

All Those Years Ago is a fan album collecting songs the former Beatles wrote about one another across more than three decades. This album is arranged to follow the changing relationships between John, Paul, George, and Ringo after the breakup of The Beatles.

The story begins in 1970 with frustration, disappointment, and open conflict. This is reflected in songs like Wah-WahToo Many People, and How Do You Sleep? But, Ringo’s Early 1970 signals a very quick change from anger and frustration to reflection and a sense of looking back to the past fondly. George’s When We Was Fab pokes fun at the Beatlemania era before the album ends with tributes to fallen friends.

(Many thanks to Top_Major for the artwork!)

Here is the tracklist for this album:

  1. Wah-Wah
  2. Too Many People
  3. How Do You Sleep?
  4. Run Of The Mill
  5. Early 1970
  6. Best Friend
  7. I’m The Greatest
  8. Living In The Material World
  9. I Know (I Know)
  10. When We Was Fab
  11. Here Today
  12. Down South
  13. Never Without You
  14. All Those Years Ago

Here’s a link to Episode 50 of Groovin’ Up Slowly:

https://youtu.be/1pkcKWiK2ho

Here’s a link to this album on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UcjBkAt1UBHdhVqOewpbP?si=fad1bcfc42024da6

Here’s a link to this album on Apple Music:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/beatles-all-those/pl.u-jV89elNTaDKeRMN

Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist for this album:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5dkZQ7h7Gg0lrSVDP0CR-DI0PsIJJ51&si=Nj7NdjdE4oyd1RtQ

Here’s a link to the Substack essay for a bit of a deeper dive into this album…

https://groovinupslowly.substack.com/p/all-those-years-ago

I made a new arrangement of “All You Need is Love”!

I rearranged the Beatles’ 1967 smash hit “All You Need is Love”; I rearranged the orchestration by moving the orchestral backing from the first chorus to the second and fourth choruses, leaving the first chorus and the following instrumental interlude without orchestra.

What I’ve not done is compose new orchestral material; I simply repurposed the existing orchestration by moving it to different sections. I did this partly as an experiment; wishing to realise a different goal, from an artistic standpoint, than The Beatles. By delaying the orchestra until the second chorus onwards, I tried to create a stronger sense of build and escalation; the first chorus feels more restrained, making the later ones sound more expansive and impactful when the orchestra finally arrives.

I also carried forward the guitar part in the instrumental interlude after the first chorus into the fourth verse, believing it instils a great sense of dynamism and “punch” into the verse.

Lastly, I raised the volume of the orchestration a bit, in order to really put forward the gravitas this arrangement of the song has, that I believe wouldn’t have serviced very well the original arrangement due to it serving a very different artistic goal than the “instrumental build” I was tryna go for.

What do y’all say? Is it done well?

u/Light_Weight_Babyyyy — 24 hours ago

How we feeling about my ranking?

In the last few months I’ve gotten more into the band and I’ve been constantly listening to them; my feelings have changed on many of these albums within a short time and I love it. I didn’t care much for Rubber Soul on first listen months ago but now it’s one of my favorites. What are your thoughts on this ranking?

u/Inevitable_Sir_253 — 2 days ago
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The Rutles feet section

The other day, I was watching the Rutles with my mate and we both laughed that there was a whole minute of silence in the film with a montage of different feet (timestamp 58 mins 30 secs into the video I linked). Then, because this section was muted, I loaded up the dvd I have of the film to check which song would be playing over this part and there was no feet section in the film. I also cannot find it in any other upload of the movie.
This led me to think that the YouTube uploader added this section for a laugh so I was wondering if anyone knew if this section was in the original film and what song would have been playing over it.
Thanks.

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u/Far_Difference_9885 — 2 days ago

Degree antiperspirant commercial

Watching Canada play in the World Cup and a commercial for Degree antiperspirant came on with Don't Let Me Down on. You so rarely hear their songs in ads but this was terrible. It totally undermines the meaning of the song to now have it be how this crap won't leave you smelling

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u/Decent-Gas-7042 — 2 days ago