Big fans have probably seen this footage from Sweden a number of times, but it’s the first time for me. Great recording, well shot, without the deafening screaming that you usually hear. They do several of their biggies and end with Paul doing a credible job on a Little Richard tune.
I saw this when I went on a big Beatles kick a few years ago, but thanks for the reminder 
Excellent, and what fun (esp. Ringo at 10:48). Nice to see a non-cynical John, relaxed and having a good time. Hard to believe what superb musicians these guys were by then, they look like kids. Thanks for posting that.
I am checking it out now. How fun. I love with Twist and Shout, how the cameramen figured out how to feature John, then Paul and George. And the instrumental break durning Twist and Shout was fucking hilarious! So many mistakes - their forced grins as they played through the clams they were hitting were priceless. But John’s voice - so amazing.
And I Saw Her Standing there is great. John is crowding the mic on the first verse so you hear his harmony work really clearly - very cool. And the rhythm chugs! Really good groove. Too bad the mix has no way to feature George when he solos - totally buried.
With Long Tall Sally: is that John playing lead guitar? The camera shows them from the back, but the whole time, the chuggy rhythm guitar is clearly John, and all of a sudden you actually hear a lead, coming from the same rhythm player. Jeez, is that Lennon? That would be cool. Beyond that, great version - the cut to Ringo, hunched over and totally rocking out, is incredibly cool.
I Saw Her Standing There was great. I think I’ve underrated that song. A shame about George’s missing solo.
This is really great. Someones guitar is way out at one point. Lennons BG vocal goes out when he first comes in on standing there.
Then they don’t film enough to say who’s playing the lead on long tall sally. (But we get a minute of this sulky kid moping) It looks somewhat to me like it’s John. He moves his position with the solo, and George seems more static. Plus it sounds like Johns lead on “The End”
I’m going to watch this to see if I can get Lennons guitar sound isolated in my mind.
Also: This is probably the only film of another band setting up behind them while the Beatles are playing.
Poor Ringo. If he was any further in the background, he would be in the parking lot. Nice video though.
I know someone who goes to support group meetings fairly regularly. He tells me that Ringo often attends and that he behaves like a real nice guy who is happy to meet anybody and talk with them about most anything they like.
He will talk about the Beatle years or most anything else. I never would have imagined that someone with such great star power would treat people like the guy next door.
That’s really nice to know and it makes me feel like Ringo really deserves all the good things he has achieved in life.
People who enjoy The Beatles would almost certainly enjoy this film about George. It is a biography titled “George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)”. If you liked The Beatles, you really owe it to yourself to see this film.
I think it is the best film I’ve ever seen about the Beatles. Much of it consists of George speaking directly to the audience and he reveals a lot that I never knew before. One interesting detail is that George was the most experienced or talented guitar player in the group. That may seem a little suspicious since the film is produced by George. But I certainly believe it. According to this film, when George first met John and Paul, they knew hardly anything about playing guitar. John’s guitar only had 4 strings instead of 6 and he asked the others if that was a problem.
The film confirmed my feeling that John was a truly fine man who really cared about the other members and other people in general and went out of his way to help people. I especially enjoyed the parts where some of the members talk about what it was like in the early years and Ringo tells us that the best thing about being a Beatle was the shopping.
“The shopping was really great.”
One other thing that put a big smile on my face was the lady that George wound up married to for most of his adult life. Olivia Arias. She was on camera for a fair bit of time and had a lot to say about George and their life together. I really liked her. She was a true sweetheart. IMHO, George died far too young and that was a real shame. I would have loved to have met him and had some time to talk with him. He was a great person IMHO.
Along this line I remember reading once about a time when some guy who idolized Lennon came and tried to camp out on the grounds of Lennon’s estate, just to try to have some sort of connection to Lennon or feel closer to him. When John found out about it, rather than have the guy arrested and hauled off, he went out and talked to the guy personally, trying to disabuse him of the notion that he should be the subject of such adulation, telling him, “I’m just a guy, man, who writes songs.”
I know Lennon had some rough edges and could be an ass from time to time, but I thought the way he treated his intruder that night spoke volumes to an aspect of his character that most people never got to see.
Oh yes … I remember that incident and there was more to it than just that.
IIRC, this guy was kind of out of his mind and raving and ranting about the meaning of life and how The Beatles had found the key and unravelled it.
John spent some number of hours talking to him and calming him down and then he invited the guy to share dinner with Lennon and his family. It was all pretty amazing considering how other artists would just push a button and have the guy hauled off in hand cuffs. That impressed me deeply.
And then … to learn that John was shot dead by a fan who confused loving fandom to shooting someone in the heart with a revolver. I’m not ashamed to admit that got me to crying and the tears were flowing freely on that day.
Shit! What can be said about that? What a crying shame.
I’ve got a great bridge for you. That was being filmed for John and Yokos movie about how in love they were and how they love everyone and how his first family doesn’t exist. I take it you haven’t seen the 'Imagine" flick? He wasn’t going to tell the kid to F off in front of the camera, was he?
On the other hand he is famously quoted in his Wenner interview as complaining about “uptight hippies comin knockin at me door with a fucking peace symbol”, probably within 18 months of that movie being filmed.
Tell Julian Lennon how nice he was to the schizophrenic man.
*“Why must you destroy all my illusions?”
“Because you should have none, My Prince.”*
You’re right, I haven’t seen Imagine.
OH, well, it was a nice story and sentiment while it lasted…which in my case was quite a long while.
Thanks for fleshing the scene out for me, Charlie Wayne. I must have read an abbreviated account. Despite the additional info from drad dog, Lennon’s assassination was still a crying shame. To this day I can hardly believe it happened.
My impression of Ringo is that after he cleaned up from an awful, dark period of his life, he’s the embodiment of what you would hope a Beatle would be. And every story I hear about Paul - arguably the most famous musician alive - says that he has accepted the fact that he is ‘Paul from the Beatles’, and he does everything he can to make people have a positive experience meeting him (ie no false modesty or pretending to not understand what’s happening when he’s approached).
Fantastic video, and the first time I’ve seen it - thanks!
I bet those guys had fun after the show too……
I am sure Beatles was great in their own era, but I’ve never appreciated their music as someone born after such era. I prefer 80’s music over Beatles. If going back that far, I prefer Elvis Presley over Beatles. Beatles has great music. It is just that they seem kind of flat & plain compared to the later music. They do have a historical value & a nostalgic value (if you are that old), I’m sure. But as for the plain music, I can’t seem to appreciate Beatles. At least, not as much as Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007 - YouTube Maybe it has to do with the genre. Whether listing Beatles as rock or not, they sound more like… I don’t know what to call that genre.
Right:
Strawberry Fields Forever = Plain and flat
Do The Clam = Rock and Roll!!
What are you claiming. That it is not flat & plain “to you”? Or that it “should not be” flat & plain “to me”? As someone from a later generation, compared to 80’s rock, it is extremely “pretty”, mild, soft. Even compared to Elvis Presley, it doesn’t have that “exertion”, “shouting” or however such can be explained.