David Crosby was the first person to hear this as the Beatles played it for him in Abbey Road. David said he couldn't speak afterwards for a long time.
@edwardthorne9875
4 ай бұрын
That final crashing chord marks a before/after section of the whole of popular music. Before Pepper and after Pepper. Things were never the same after this moment. Rock was no longer for silly love songs, but was now a true art form.
@andrewkathe3471
4 ай бұрын
Pretty sure it was already an art form on Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Pet Sounds.
@mumbles215
Ай бұрын
They were all crafty songs in excellent albums. Great albums. Pepper is a work of art and this track is the pinnacle.
@mikefeast5743
4 ай бұрын
Arguably the greatest recorded song in history, between this and Tomorrow Never Knows, music was never the same again. Great reaction!
@ohfour-seven6228
4 ай бұрын
Tomorrow Never Knows jump started music by 100 years. so so great!
@lipby
4 ай бұрын
There's no greatest recorded song in history.
@groundscoresteve4964
4 ай бұрын
Got to add 'I Am the Walrus' to that list!
@letsgomets002
4 ай бұрын
Don't get carried away greatest recorded song in history....that's just silly
@carl_anderson9315
4 ай бұрын
As debatable as that statement is, I agree 100%. Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is widely considered the most important and influential album of all time, and A Day In The Life was the cherry on top. Not a single rock band in history recorded something remotely close to this level. Those song catapulted Rock’n Roll as a superior art form.
@josephmango4628
Ай бұрын
230 songs and 12 original UK albums were completed in an eight-year span before any of the Beatles were 30 years old. They were the Mozarts of their era.
@garygoodrich7495
4 ай бұрын
This is what true genius talent and top-notch musicianship sound like.
@samkarlsonmusic
4 ай бұрын
One of the greatest music master piece of all time , pure genius
@michaelminch5490
4 ай бұрын
Sgt Pepper is a concept album that needs to be listened to in its entirety. It's an experience. I do love watching youngsters like you getting your minds blown by what you're hearing.
@billmonetti2500
4 ай бұрын
I'm a 75 yo Beatle fan.It was nuts back then and still really nuts today.
@Starbeamers
4 ай бұрын
Imagine they only had 4 tape tracks to record this monument with their studio’s 1967 technology! Talk about an achievement!
@mark4262
4 ай бұрын
Gold..well said My Friend 🧡
@bobsylvester88
4 ай бұрын
Your comment made me realize how everyone laughs at the 8 track tape today, but that was amazing technology for its time.
@kallsop2
4 ай бұрын
Imagine recording 4 tracks, then recording 4 tracks, then doing it again and possibly again, then mixing it down multiple times.
@Starbeamers
4 ай бұрын
@@kallsop2 yes, I think this method is called « bouncing down ». Record 4 tracks, transform them into a lone track to be added to 3 new tracks, all new 4 being bounced down into a lone track again etc… But you were losing sound quality with this method the more you bounced down so it could not continue forever!
@clintonsmith5163
2 ай бұрын
@@Starbeamers Queen did a lot of bouncing down with Bohemian Rhapsody, and they were even using 24-track technology!
@mrmitchell78
4 ай бұрын
Goes without saying that The Beatles as a band were incredible but a lot of credit needs to go to George Martin who was (no pun intended) instrumental in not only giving The Beatles the space to express but to also contribute his own immense talent to the recordings.
@stephentoto6564
4 ай бұрын
Good point!,if it wasn't for George Martin,they might have never had a record contract!
@bwana-ma-coo-bah425
4 ай бұрын
@@stephentoto6564 if it wasn't for Epstein moulding them and changing their look and music, you might not know who they were.
@yvonnesurette
Ай бұрын
@@stephentoto6564 Or these fabulous productions.
@davidwestphal3469
4 ай бұрын
I’ve said it many times: there were the Beatles and there was everyone else. Still holds up today.
@ikshields
4 ай бұрын
“Holds up”? Nay. It is exactly the same power now as ever. No time may as well have passed. 🔥
@davidwestphal3469
4 ай бұрын
“Nay”?
@yvonnesurette
Ай бұрын
I always say there are many genres of music: hip hop, country, blues, Rock and Roll, and then....Beatles. They are a genre all by themselves.
@PeterOConnell-pq6io
4 ай бұрын
As innovative as music came back then, and perhaps to the present. And Ringo's drumming is fantastic, as always.
@OptLab
4 ай бұрын
This song and album witnesses the atmosphere of the 60's, a symphony of hope and confusion in times of a vietnam war, free love, drugs, cold war, reconsideration of the hierarchy, and technologies. That is why music and art are vectors of communication.
@suewalksthebluffs
2 ай бұрын
The impact of the Sgt. Pepper’s album can’t be overstated. I heard the full album, no breaks, on the radio the day it was released, riding around in a Triumph 3 with two friends. We were blown away. It was beyond anything we had heard before, a paradigm shift in music and perhaps even consciousness.
@yvonnesurette
Ай бұрын
I remember.
@Stereoheadx
4 ай бұрын
Maybe the best song of all time
@charlesflett2818
4 ай бұрын
Maybe
@letsgomets002
4 ай бұрын
Don't get carried away...every hear Mozart????
@Stereoheadx
4 ай бұрын
@@letsgomets002 all the time
@futurereflections4097
4 ай бұрын
@@letsgomets002 Chopin and Beethoven have more bangers.
@peterkoulouris8900
Ай бұрын
I remember distinctly hearing this song for the first time. I was 14. June 1967. Yes, it blew my little teenage mind.
@autistickakarot
4 ай бұрын
This is a really good example of a Lennon-McCartney, John did most of the first section, with some suggestion from Paul, and Paul made the middle section, it was his idea to have the chaotic orchestra, which really ties this whole song together in my opinion.
@karaamundson3964
4 ай бұрын
"Woke up Fell outta bed Dragged a comb across my head..." is Paul, whereas the 1st & 3rd sections are John. It was Paul's idea to use the orchestra, playing ever more loudly & ascending the scale at differing speeds until they all topped out--then, SCREECH to a halt. Great drumming as usual from Ringo.
@seanamcgee3427
Ай бұрын
Just pure art.
@davidmckenzie420
4 ай бұрын
One of the 3 greatest songs in the "rock" era. (Okay...the others are, IMHO, Stairway to heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody.)
@clintonsmith5163
2 ай бұрын
And if we add Kashmir and Shine on You Crazy Diamond, we have the Top 5.
@davidmckenzie420
2 ай бұрын
@@clintonsmith5163 Yep; I could have gone there too.
@coachtomas
4 ай бұрын
George Martin was the producer of the Beatles. I regard him as the fifth Beatle. He is responsible for that audio mix you mentioned. He also pioneered experimentation in music. Playing sounds backwards. Speeding up/slowing down etc; The innate talent of The Beatles is without question, but George Martin amplified it x100.
@emilen2
3 ай бұрын
Geoff Emerick was the sound engineer on the album; he received a Grammy for that.
@DaveMcIroy
2 ай бұрын
You mean the 7th Beatle.
@coachtomas
2 ай бұрын
@@DaveMcIroy no the 5th.
@DaveMcIroy
2 ай бұрын
@@coachtomas, there were 6 Beatles.
@coachtomas
2 ай бұрын
@@DaveMcIroy okay Dave 👍
@jacquelineoconnor7234
Ай бұрын
I remember hearing this as a kid in the early 70's and feeling it sounded so haunting - I cannot put into words how it made me feel, but I knew it was very special even at that age
@SuperKevin57
4 ай бұрын
This is the song that tipped Brian Wilson over the edge.
@andrewkathe3471
4 ай бұрын
Could have sworn it was Strawberry Fields Forever
@elementrypenguin3116
4 ай бұрын
It was Strawberry Fields Forever. I’m sure Pepper solidified his dementia
@futurereflections4097
4 ай бұрын
Anything regarding the Beatles was just a side note. Brian’s problem was lsd addiction and nobody around him being supportive.
@elementrypenguin3116
4 ай бұрын
@@futurereflections4097 he definitely had issues
@jonathanlandau-litewski7405
4 ай бұрын
This was my late dads favourite ever song by his favourite ever band. To think I'm now only 3 years than he was when he died. Glad I never had kids, would hate for them to look back and their dads favourite song by his favourite band was Too Much by the Spice Girls 😂😂😂
@eternalme6077
5 күн бұрын
You said it........that is a JD! When I heard it for the first time back in the day when the Album just came out, this John song BLEW MY MIND...........BOOM!!! Love your channel, I'll be back. 🎸♥️
@DavidF-y4t
4 ай бұрын
Now try their I Am The Walrus....less of a song, more of a multidimensional sonic assault.
@lindazee
4 ай бұрын
With the passing years, I Am The Walrus has become one of my own top 5 Beatles songs, and that's saying a lot, considering all the amazingly incredible songs that The Beatles created. I think it epitomizes the Beatles as one of their more avant-garde pieces.
@macharper8214
15 күн бұрын
So way beyond what a rock band would have ever been expected to do. The Beatles elevated popular music.
@MrsColumbo823
2 ай бұрын
A masterpiece. When I first heard it, it changed everything and I knew it. What a gift to grow up with these unmatched artists. Thank you for appreciating it.
@markoliver630
4 ай бұрын
Beatles Forever
@jimcomvideos
4 ай бұрын
As mentioned below, they only had 4 track tape machines. They had to bounce 3 tracks down to one track so they could continue to add vocals and other sounds. Amazing!
@robertjohnson5796
4 ай бұрын
It also sounds so much better than back then, what with re-mastering and the audio fidelity of the internet. Hearing it just now, to me, it has never sounded better.
@eric1966tomson
Ай бұрын
Derek, remember The Beatles invented *everything* in a studio during their 8-9 years activity (in the 60s) 🤗
@HeliotropeCA
Ай бұрын
I was living in the Haight in 1967. We waited in line to buy Sgt Pepper on the first day of release in San Francisco. We went back to our house , took lsd and listened to the entire album ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@mark4262
4 ай бұрын
Thank you Derek..fire 🎉❤
@mumbles215
Ай бұрын
The “ 4000 holes in blackbird Lancashire” Was an article in the newspaper about 4000 potholes in Lancashire. So Lennon being silly said somebody had to count them all lol classic
@andrewweatherhead4127
17 күн бұрын
Blackburn😊
@gailg2327
Ай бұрын
They’re are the greatest! Apparently Tara was a rich kid and a friend of Paul’s. Thank you, a great video and analysis.
@ikshields
4 ай бұрын
And this is just the finale of the real work of genius - the entire album, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. In its proper place at the end of the album, “A Day in the Life” is as inevitable as what would happen if you’d carefully stuffed the entire 20th Century into a broom closet for an hour, and then a child opened the door. Everything, everything, everything, the whole blessed, mixed-up, cacophonous, hyped-up, tragic, mystifying, beautiful mess comes tumbling out on the floor. Boom. 🤯
@cha0tr0pic
2 ай бұрын
This tickled me-beautifully put.
@brewstergallery
4 ай бұрын
Original pressings had an infinite loop cut into the last note so that if you had a non automatic or were able to keep it from lifting the needle it would keep going.
@zapotc
4 ай бұрын
Probably one of my favorite reactions to this song :) But actually, the Beatles mixes this in mono as in Audio in center, not in stereo (the video is a remix either way so its not the og stereo thank God). But the mono mix was awesome too.
@SuperKevin57
4 ай бұрын
I would have loved to be the one who played that last piano chord.😂
@Flowerbranche
4 ай бұрын
E major!
@dizzypilots2639
4 ай бұрын
The sound of those drums 😎
@peterzimmer9549
4 ай бұрын
Paul wrote the middle 8. It was actually a different song that Paul had been working on. John and Paul just merged their two different songs.
@francoismorin8567
4 ай бұрын
A must
@denis_catroun6167
Ай бұрын
Their producer George Martin was also instrumental (no pun intended) in the arranging of this song. The man was a genius. Basically, they all were.
@betsyab121
4 ай бұрын
This is a true Lennon/ McCartney collaboration! Lennon with his meloncholy story about his friend dying in a car. Then, they both came up with "I'd Love to turn you on..."Then, the classic McCartney bridge. And, don't forget Ringo's orchestral drum part. It is a sonically brilliant song! In the video, you can see Mick Jagger from The Rolling Stones and Michael Nesmith from The Monkees hanging out in the background, too!❤
@cablebrain9691
4 ай бұрын
This music wasn’t recorded primarily for playback on headphones. If you listen through speakers, you get the crossover of sound to the opposite ear, so the separation is much less.
@futurereflections4097
4 ай бұрын
Verse, Chorus, Verse. All they needed
@michaelhoward900
4 ай бұрын
The lyrics were based on stories in the newspaper that John had read.
@mikesaunders4775
4 ай бұрын
And the death of his friend Tara Browne.
@emmanuelsantos4414
4 ай бұрын
Meu garoto! Todo este disco é maravilhoso!!! Feliz por vê que jovens como você podem continuar dando um avante ao Rock! Sugestões: Suzi Quatro, The Runaways, Maggie Bell & Stone The Crows, Nina Simone, Sex Pistols... Abraço da cidade de Natal RN, no Nordeste do Brasil.
@charlesyateschalfant
Ай бұрын
A masterpiece.
@MVRemastered
3 ай бұрын
"A jaw dropper" and thats what it is.
@victorzavala3390
4 ай бұрын
John voice iconic
@thebeanpot-
Ай бұрын
this music was produced in the analog period. well before digital production equipment. Multi track ferrous tapes.
@suchahermit55
16 күн бұрын
McCartney is singing " woke up got out of bed" part
@guygambone5754
Ай бұрын
I find it interesting that you feel the vibe is dark. I always thought of it as liberating.
@dougking4377
4 ай бұрын
This was in the 60's, name me 1 other band that could take a guitar feedback in the studio and turn it into a hit. or take a 4 track tape cut it up throw it up then splice it together into a song.
@geraldharkness8830
4 ай бұрын
no words!
@sharonkirkpatrickcowzer9410
Ай бұрын
This is great acid trip music.
@kevinwalsh9788
4 ай бұрын
Beatles at their best😊😊
@timmellin2815
27 күн бұрын
Host has good micr. technique....He understands the audience wants to see his full face, and not just a cold microphone blocking it.
@BRGKasumi77Main
3 ай бұрын
Please react the song Rain also by The Beatles!
@dilvenbacamante5423
Ай бұрын
John lenon wrote master piece a combination of Rock& pop song
@mikeross14
4 ай бұрын
I heard the end was, 20 Grand Pianos hitting one note!
@caseyhazelman2390
3 ай бұрын
Imagine hearing this when it first dropped. I did! Holy shit. I watch a lot of reaction videos. My brother you are the most insightful! Check out Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite, another amazing blend of sounds. ✌🏼❤️🎶
@Code9
Ай бұрын
The genius, of course, is that it was all done with analog recording techniques, long before digital technology had come along.
@brian5154
4 ай бұрын
Many regard this as the best popular song ever written......
@paulcanbefoundhere
17 күн бұрын
If this was created today, they would be considered ahead of their time.
@alfredoramirez1022
2 ай бұрын
More Beatles pls
@phillipradcliffe8037
3 ай бұрын
Give a listen to The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows!
@robertjohnson5796
4 ай бұрын
This will be interesting. Enjoy
@Hana-p6j5h
Ай бұрын
There was NOTHING like this at the time!!! There were tonnes of great artists around. The Beach Boys just released a major hit album that was a pivotal point in music.... Then Pepper was released. There was NOTHNG like it! Critics and musicians praised it. It was the album that changed everything. Not only music, but the culture of the 60's!
@johng.8517
4 ай бұрын
Try some music by YES one of the greatest progressive rock groups of all time. You haven't reacted to them at all. Some good ones include "Roundabout", "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium". "Awaken", "Turn of the Century"... Loads of good ones.
@chrisrod6023
Ай бұрын
Never to see any other way. And Dogs go wild
@Brandi6666
4 ай бұрын
Much props to george martin🤘❤️
@MsAppassionata
4 ай бұрын
The Beatles were not up among the greatest. They were the G.O.A.T. They have sold more records than anyone else including Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Stones, Madonna, etc.
@lexdunn4160
Ай бұрын
Glad you like them, but they weren't up there with the greats, the greats were trying to be up there with them.
@prikov1
4 ай бұрын
A song from 1967 still amazing us today...
@digger65uk
4 ай бұрын
☮️Thank you for the music! PLEASE consider the following tracks. You won’t be disappointed…. Juxtaposed With You by The Super Furry Animals Totally Wired by The Fall Reverend Black Grape by Black Grape One to another by the Charlatans Love is the Law by The Seahorses God, part two by U2 Perfect day by Lou, Reed O Superman by Lori Anderson The story of my life, by Marty Robbins Teach me tiger by April Stevens Frontier Psychiatrists by the Avalanches Ain’t no pleasing you buy Chas and Dave Exodus by Bob Marley Comment te dire adieu by Françoise Hardy I wish you were fun by Sparks Lucy in the sky with diamonds remix by the Beatles I see you baby by Groove Armada (Si Si) Je Suis un rockstar by Bill Wyman The crunch by The Rah Band Big Spender, by Shirley Bassey Michael Angelo by Emmylou Harris Dancing fool by Frank Zappa Love missile F1 11 by Sigue Sigue sputnik Shoes, by Tiga leaving on a Jet plane by Peter, Paul and Mary Yes By McAlmont and Butler The sea of love by The Honey Drippers (Robert Plant) Without her by Harry Nilsson Moon River by Andy Williams Circles by Paul Desmond Girl Don’t Come by Sandy Shaw Tabletop Joe, by Tom Waits Jokerman, by Bob Dylan Space woman by Hermans rockets Chicken payback by the Bees A change is gonna come by Otis Redding Put a little love in your heart by Jackie DeShannon The impossible dream by Andy Williams Ali baba by John Holt Mr ghost goes to town by John Buzin Trio I Lust You by Neon Neon Boombastic by Shaggy Start eyes (I can’t catch it) featuring David Lynch by danger mouse, Sparklehorse Shattered by The Rolling Stones Downbound Train by Chuck Berry
@tomlew55
Ай бұрын
you were supposed to listen to this stoned
@sisuriffs
Ай бұрын
Poetry was cool then.
@lagoonsblue
4 ай бұрын
MONSIEUR MADAME LOIC NOTTET PLEASSEEEEE ;p
@sendtosw
4 ай бұрын
You make 1967 sound as if it's ancient history. I hear other reactors talk about today's music as "modern music" compared to something like the Beatles... Read serious books folks. 'Get some historical perspective. "The modern age" begins about the time of the French Revolution. Since then (1789) it's all "modern music."
@dreweasterbrook2003
Ай бұрын
Too bad you stopped . Goodbye.
@lclark6854
4 ай бұрын
Ringo's drumming on this is fantastic.
@ichbinich3166
4 ай бұрын
Ringo is always fantastic :-)
@tonybennett4159
4 ай бұрын
Yes his beats are syncopated underlining the uneasy feel of the whole song.
@toddmills2651
4 ай бұрын
Ringo is the most underrated drummer of all time
@RegnaSaturna
4 ай бұрын
Or Bernard Purdey's. Take your pick.
@timishere1925
4 ай бұрын
@modusvivendi1442 If you know, you know. Sadly, most don't. All an illusion.
@tanjabredehoeft2857
4 ай бұрын
John's voice is even more haunting on this song than it anyway is
@samuelparent1908
4 ай бұрын
Just another pure Lennon/McCartney masterpiece. So artistic, so inventive, so original and wonderfully produced.
@groundscoresteve4964
4 ай бұрын
The Beatles are OUR Bach, Beethoven, Shakespeare... They are BIGGER than 'Rock & Roll... Fab-4 / 4-Ever!
@vendelayindustries
4 ай бұрын
Such a masterpiece, that began as two separate songs that they just put together in a clever way. If someone does this it will always be compared with A day in the life. This was the closing track on Sgt. Peppers Lonely hearts club band and the boys' being first with a lot of stuff put a high pitch sound after the track that only dogs can hear. If you own the album what will happen is that dogs will sure react with a "-WHAT?" after the song has ended.
@johng.8517
4 ай бұрын
Beatles are the GOAT!
@BobKovacs
4 ай бұрын
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the whole song. Lennon did the beginning and end ("I read the news today..."), while McCartney did the middle ("Woke up, got out of bed..."). They were two separate things, until the two of them decided to put them both into this one song. The other two Beatles (George Harrison and Ringo Starr) had nothing to do with writing this song, although their instrumentation was always important to the song's sound.
@SequentialCircuitProphet5
4 ай бұрын
A masterpiece ❤❤❤❤
@espmind68
4 ай бұрын
There will never be a band like the Beatles. To this day they old so many records, no one as sold more albums than they have and by a long shot. They also have the most number 1 hits...and so on, Long live the Beatles!
@Stacy55ish
4 ай бұрын
Creativity at its finest.
@iqbalhussain9526
4 ай бұрын
More Beatles please❤❤❤
@AnnoyinglyGood
4 ай бұрын
I bought this the day it was released. Blew me away then and I love that all these years later people are still discovering it. The only guitar on this is Lennons acoustic, Harrison only played maracas! Probably the best thing the Beatles ever did ❤️
@RegnaSaturna
4 ай бұрын
Never gets old.
@maihindess1
4 ай бұрын
The idea was to listen to this "stoned", then you get it...😆
@charlesflett2818
4 ай бұрын
Exactly. They should have replaced the military paraphernalia with a joint.
@slavaukraini404
2 ай бұрын
In 7 years of recording The Beatles produced more brilliance than others could in a lifetime. They were a major pivot point in music only equaled by the likes of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. The Beatles sit alone in the rock era looking down from the mountain at everybody else. As far as bands go, they are at the ludicrous level.
@brianalmeida1964
4 ай бұрын
If you want another mind-blowing experience but from 1966 this time, then listen to The Beatles' song Tomorrow Never Knows. It still sounds strangely modern!! Stay safe 🤘 ✌️
@CBGB_1977
4 ай бұрын
The direction Paul gave the orchestra essentially was play any note on their instruments and play the scale as high as possible all at once. The end note was Paul. He said in an interview that they would hit keys on a piano and let it fade out at a parties. They felt the note could go on almost infinitely if everyone listened hard enough.
@johnnhoj6749
4 ай бұрын
Not quite. George Martin elaborated on Paul's suggestion: "What I did there was to write, at the beginning of the twenty-four bars, the lowest possible note for each of the instruments in the orchestra. At the end of the twenty-four bars, I wrote the highest note each instrument could reach that was near a chord of E major. Then I put a squiggly line right through the twenty-four bars, with reference points to tell them roughly what note they should have reached during each bar. The musicians also had instructions to slide as gracefully as possible between one note and the next. In the case of the stringed instruments, that was a matter of sliding their fingers up the strings. With keyed instruments, like clarinet and oboe, they obviously had to move their fingers from key to key as they went up, but they were asked to ‘lip’ the changes as much as possible too. I marked the music ‘pianissimo’ at the beginning and ‘fortissimo’ at the end. Everyone was to start as quietly as possible, almost inaudibly, and end in a (metaphorically) lung-bursting tumult. And in addition to this extraordinary [feat] of musical gymnastics, I told them that they were to disobey the most fundamental rule of the orchestra. They were not to listen to their neighbours. A well-schooled orchestra plays, ideally, like one man, following the leader. I emphasised that this was exactly what they must not do. I told them ‘I want everyone to be individual. It’s every man for himself. Don’t listen to the fellow next to you. If he’s a third away from you, and you think he’s going too fast, let him go. Just do your own slide up, your own way.’ Needless to say, they were amazed. They had certainly never been told that before." For the end chord: "John, Paul, Ringo, and the Beatles' assistant Mal Evans sat at three different pianos, and George Martin sat at a harmonium, and they all played an E major chord simultaneously." The recording level was increased gradually as the sound from the instruments decayed until at the end you can just here the studio air conditioning fans.
@bwana-ma-coo-bah425
4 ай бұрын
have you wiped the egg off your face yet?
@CBGB_1977
3 ай бұрын
@@johnnhoj6749 That’s right. It’s been lots of years since that interview. I’m going to ignore the self inflicting jerk below your comment. 😄
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