What are your 2 favourite video clips of the Beatles?
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:22 am
Mine have to be:
1) When The Beatles played at Treslong in Holland in 1964. They are interviewed in a separate room before going into the place they were going to perform. Imagine being in the audience and hearing the Beatles but you can't see them. You know they are in the next room and you will actually see them for real imminently. Then the band are informed that they are ready for them and they walk from the interview room to the one they are going to be miming (and singing over). You can hear the footsteps made by the Beatle boots as they walk nearer and nearer to where they are sitting. When they come out and audience sees them for the 1st time their reaction brings tears to my eyes. The performance then is one of the maddest I've ever seen, one where the band end up getting swamped by the audience - they are literally standing next to the band. Some of them are doing some very dated 60s dancing which gets some odd looks from John and George which culminates in George spotting a very small lady, he laughs, looks at John, who then also notices said lady then also cracks up. The whole show ends in carnage with some of the band not even visble and certainly nowhere near their microphones and Neil Aspinal and Mal Evans scoots them off before the end of the last song which, of course, you can hear play to the end, with no band members in view anywhere! It's chaotic and amazing viewing.
2) Any of the 3 performances of Hey Jude with the audience present. Each member of the audience they show in the clips illicits a pang of jealously from me that I was not there (I still had another 2 years to wait to be born in 1968). Singing along to Hey Jude with Paul at any of his past concerts was a religious experience so imagine what it would have felt like to be singing along in 1968 with Paul, John, George and Ringo present and to have it recorded and your presence then preserved in that footage for years and years to come. You can tell too that John especially, is enjoying himself. I always listen out to his cry of "LOUDER!" during the start of one of the end refrain, as he trys to get everyone going. The bit where you can lip read Ringo saying "Everybody sway", then starts swaying in time to the music, is also one of my looks out parts.
Over to you. What Beatles footage sends chills down your spine (as these do to me) when you watch them?
1) When The Beatles played at Treslong in Holland in 1964. They are interviewed in a separate room before going into the place they were going to perform. Imagine being in the audience and hearing the Beatles but you can't see them. You know they are in the next room and you will actually see them for real imminently. Then the band are informed that they are ready for them and they walk from the interview room to the one they are going to be miming (and singing over). You can hear the footsteps made by the Beatle boots as they walk nearer and nearer to where they are sitting. When they come out and audience sees them for the 1st time their reaction brings tears to my eyes. The performance then is one of the maddest I've ever seen, one where the band end up getting swamped by the audience - they are literally standing next to the band. Some of them are doing some very dated 60s dancing which gets some odd looks from John and George which culminates in George spotting a very small lady, he laughs, looks at John, who then also notices said lady then also cracks up. The whole show ends in carnage with some of the band not even visble and certainly nowhere near their microphones and Neil Aspinal and Mal Evans scoots them off before the end of the last song which, of course, you can hear play to the end, with no band members in view anywhere! It's chaotic and amazing viewing.
2) Any of the 3 performances of Hey Jude with the audience present. Each member of the audience they show in the clips illicits a pang of jealously from me that I was not there (I still had another 2 years to wait to be born in 1968). Singing along to Hey Jude with Paul at any of his past concerts was a religious experience so imagine what it would have felt like to be singing along in 1968 with Paul, John, George and Ringo present and to have it recorded and your presence then preserved in that footage for years and years to come. You can tell too that John especially, is enjoying himself. I always listen out to his cry of "LOUDER!" during the start of one of the end refrain, as he trys to get everyone going. The bit where you can lip read Ringo saying "Everybody sway", then starts swaying in time to the music, is also one of my looks out parts.
Over to you. What Beatles footage sends chills down your spine (as these do to me) when you watch them?
