clicky (http://www.thebeatles.art.pl/tele.html)

I still love Hey Bulldog :PDT_Aliboronz_11:

I like the video for 'Free as A Bird'

I've only just found this what a great site thanks Victoria.:celb (23):

I've only just found this what a great site thanks Victoria.:celb (23):


No probs Paul, I only just found it myself... quite a little gem isnt it :)

No probs Paul, I only just found it myself... quite a little gem isnt it :)

I'm going to have a proper look through it I'm made up with it I love The Beatles.:)

Hello All

Thank you for the link, Victoria. I have been thinking about this matter of the Beatles having, in a sense, pioneered the music video, so I am very glad to be able to discuss this matter. As George Harrison put it before the "Rain" video, "We invented MTV."

I do remember thinking at the time that these films of the Beatles songs first came out in 1966 (forty years ago!!!) that they could be marketed just like LPs and singles were at that time sold. Of course, the innovation of making such films of songs was less a brilliant strategy by the Beatles than that it was a pragmatic move and an outcome of the fact that the Beatles had stopped touring and making public appearances.

They would make their final public appearance at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, on August 29, 1966, and then on they they were going to record in the studio, working on "Sergeant Pepper." So they needed something to put on shows as "Top of the Pops" since they would not be able to appear in person.

My recollection was that the two first such films were "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" but of course I was incorrect, and the first ones were "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" released June 10, 1966, just before the appearance of the "Revolver" album on August 5.

The release of "Rain" backed with "Paperback Writer" comprised, in my view, two of the weakest songs of the Beatles catalogue to be released as singles, and they followed them quickly with the stronger "Eleanor Rigby" and "Yellow Submarine" on August 8, 1966.

Chris

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You can watch a preview of Cirque Du Soleil the Beatles show from Las Vegas on this link.

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/showstickets/love/intro/intro.htm?sa_campaign=internal_click/redirect/love

The release of "Rain" backed with "Paperback Writer" comprised, in my view, two of the weakest songs of the Beatles catalogue to be released as singles,
Chris

The first time I heard Paperback Writer I didn't know what hit me. The harmonies on the intro are amazing. I didn't know it was the Beatles when I heard it. This sound was bouncing around my head for days until I heard it again on the radio and said it was the new Beatles single. We had never heard anything like before.

The first time I heard Paperback Writer I didn't know what hit me. The harmonies on the intro are amazing. I didn't know it was the Beatles when I heard it. This sound was bouncing around my head for days until I heard it again on the radio and said it was the new Beatles single. We had never heard anything like before.

Hi Waterways

Yes I suppose "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" were innovative in heralding that pyschedelic sound that would characterize the era, although I would submit that "Rain" is rather uninspired in terms of melody with "Strawberry Fields" being a much better track in a similar vein and "Paperback Writer" seems to me rather a throwoff which is the way "Can't Buy Me Love" always struck me, similar to "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and other earlier Beatles songs but not as good. I just may be letting my personal prejudices show.

On another tack while the tracks that I mentioned earlier "Paperback Writer," "Rain," "Eleanor Rigby," and "Penny Lane" were specially made films for those particular songs, some of the videos on the Klipy site (http://www.thebeatles.art.pl/tele.html) are clearly out takes from "Yellow Submarine," "Magical Mystery Tour," or "Help." One of the videos that did surprise me was "All You Need Is Love" which uses the song as taken from the movie "Yellow Submarine" and not the live TV broadcast that was done of "All You Need Is Love" when the Beatles broadcast the song to the world. The video of "A Day In the Life" in fact seems to use bits and pieces, some of them probably using the same orchestra that was on hand to record "All You Need Is Love" since the Rolling Stones and Donovan and those people were on hand for the recording and are seen in this "A Day In the Life" video which nevertheless I think is pretty well done.

Chris

I just watched 'Timewatch-unseen Beatles', it is a BBC/Open University programme. I would recommend it, it is a history of their tours. It is available on UKnova.:037: