Beatles Rooftop Concert – 1/3
I have the right to edit or remove user comments at my will. Vulgar, hate, redundant or otherwise. I haven’t blocked them all because some are actually informative. Please read them if you want to know some Beatles history. “Get Back” “Don’t Let Me Down” Thursday – 30 January 1969 Apple Corps (Roof), London The Beatles’ celebrated rooftop show. An idea conceived during a meeting on 26 January, it was the first of two consecutive Beatles/Billy Preston performances which concluded the Get Back project, for on 31 January they ran through numbers inside the basement studio. This day’s work has passed into history as the Beatles’ last live performance, even if it couldn’t be classified as a concert. The 42-minute show (about half of which comprises the sensational close to the Let It Be film) was a lunchtime blast into the cold wind – imagine a high London rooftop in January – that brought part of the capital to a standstill, until the police, in turn, brought the show to an enforced conclusion. Much was commercially used from the 42 minutes on the roof, in the Let It Be film and on the Get Back (unissued) and Let It Be albums. What follows is a detailed description of the full rooftop repertoire, as preserved on EMI’s eight-track tapes, with a guide to how it was made available.
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So much talent in one band. Thanks for posting this. Love it!
at 6:21 john messes up the lyrics and you can see ringo laughinng over his shoulder
priceless
where is piano?
notice the age varation of the audience people of all ages loved the beatles even to this day
Love the man at 3:00. Smoking the pipe. That is typical British.
@LoZfan95 well, even in that regard i’d say you need to explore more. i can name plenty of stuff that i find to be plenty creative from an experimental stand point, lyrical stand point, and musical stand point (melody crafting, song arranging, production, etc.). the beatles are great, yes, but i wouldn’t dismiss the past 30 years of music just because there hasn’t been another beatles.
@throbbingmember Now I gotcha. true, I haven’t done a lot of exploring through music in past decades. What I was specifically talking about were the popular genres that I feel have diminished in creativity over time.
@LoZfan95 for starters, you didn’t state any facts. it’s merely opinion. and “ignorance” wasn’t meant as “you’re stupid,” it just appears that you haven’t heard much music outside of FM radio from the 80s through today, which is a horrible representative of music regardless of the time period. there is an abundance of great music from the past 30 years, all you have to do is look.
@IIForbinddenSpadesII I meant the music trends that are still in effect today. If grunge were still popular today, I would be happier.
@throbbingmember With your advanced years of wisdom, perhaps you could contribute to the comments by telling me why that was ignorant. I’m still in school, so I haven’t forgotten to support a statement with facts. You have forgotten, so you have an excuse for how ignorant your response is.
@LoZfan95 lol you’re young so at least you have an excuse for how ignorant this statement is…
@LoZfan95 They were Englishmen, northern/western Europeans, men of Western Civilization. It is the decline and DILUTION of their/our culture you (correctly) lament. It’s ironic how at the time some from the older generation thought the Beatles were a threat to the culture, when in retrospect they clearly were a fine example of it. Since then, an over abundance of primitive, monotonous influence from the larger world has de-westernized everything from music to design to whole economies.
the guy at 2:54 looks like a Magritte painting
thank you for posting this
5:51 Whose Lamborghini?
@jamesthenabignumber Billy Preston
Who’s playing keyboard?
I love seeing John Lennon playing lead guitar on Get Back, too bad he played lead on only a few songs.
Before the hate starts, I know George Harrison is the better lead guitar player of the two, it’s just cool to see the Beatles switch up now and again.
The Beatles had in spades
Legendary concert.
beatles love
My God, I love these songs. I love this band. One of the, if not the best band ever. For all time.
Sometimes The Beatles are classer than The Stones. Macca’s amazing. Maybe the best gig ever, finally.
Incroyable.
get back beatles!!!!
John is a total Legend!