This is a video of The Beatles singing Help! and I have a hard time recognizing them. Could you please help me identify which is which. There is a nice shot of all of them at 0:14 or you could just let me know by instrument. Thank you.
I feel old now.
Ahem. Paul is on the left, playing guitar backwards, then George, then Ringo on drums, and John.
Thanks for your help. Its so much harder knowing which is which without the extra hair.
I’m old too.
In just about any Beatles pic when they’re playing, Ringo is playing drums, Paul is playing (bass) guitar lefthanded (backwards), and John has one mike to himself, while George is sharing a mike with Paul. George has a thinner face, and Paul has downward sloping eyes. If it’s a later shot, John will be wearing glasses.
I’m gonna move this over to Cafe Society, while I’m here, since it’s music related.
Do you suppose there will be a thread someday begging for help identifying the New Kids on the Block, or the Jonas Brothers? I don’t think I’ll be of much help then either.
Old or young or whatever, how could anybody not know and recognize the Beatles? It’s not like they’re wearing disguises or something. They are in the same positions they are in for every concert performance they ever did.
Now, if you were asking about “Another Girl” from Help! I could see some confusion.
I’ve heard it said that Americans loved Ringo so much because they couldn’t tell the other three apart at first.
How old were you when the Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, Krokodil? I was 11. I clearly remember how popular they were. I don’t remember anythng about Ringo being the favorite because the others couldn’t be told apart.
Bass guitar, to be precise.
Bull. Everyone could tell them apart.
I will leave this here just to practice.
How would they look if the Beatles got signed to a label today:
See post #4.
I’ll be 54 in a week, and the appearance of the Beatles, as a group and as individuals, was a frequent topic of conversation among the girls in my school. We all had our favorites, but Ringo usually was a runner up, not a favorite. The “Paul is dead” rumors very nearly led to fistfights.
I’m Bodoni-esque in age, and not only could we tell them apart, we all had our favorite.
Leading Tom Robbins to opine that you could tell all you really needed to know about a person by asking them who their favorite Beatle was.
And, even if you didn’t really believe it, wasn’t it a thrill to discover another “Paul is Dead” clue?
It was always Paul on the left … to John on the right. As God intended.
I often have trouble identifying beetles.
But not Beatles.
Oh, there’s nothing like the passions of tween/teen girls. We were all convinced that if only we could meet our favorite Beatle, our love would shine through, and he’d immediately fall in love with US. Even if he was married already.
And we studied everything about the Beatles far more diligently than any school subject, and we learned more about researching things with that Paul is Dead theory.
The most hilarious thing I remember about the “Paul is Dead” adventure was from school. In social studies, we were supposed to do an oral report on a current news story, and one girl chose to do hers on Paul and why he really was dead. Bear in mind, young 'uns, that back in those days, celeb news was usually a little fluff filler at the end of the broadcast, not the lead and dominant story.
I swear, you could hear the teacher’s eyes rolling in disgust. In fact, I seem to recall the girl doing the report was told she should have chosen "real"news instead of celeb gossip for her report. Heck, even I thought what she did was silly, and I was as big a Beatle fan as there was.
Jesus, what are you eight years old?
Sorry.
My sister and I played “Strawberry Fields Forever” (that was the song, right?) backwards on the hi-fi to hear someone say “I . . . buried . . . Paul” and totally freaked ourselves out. (Can you even *play *computer files or CDs backwards?)