The Beatles had been recording in their Apple headquarters at 3 Savile Row, London. They had also been working on a documentary. The film maker needed footage of a performance to finish the feature, but the band members disagreed about where they would play. That’s when someone suggested they put their equipment on the roof and shoot whatever happens next.
The famed roof top concert lasted about 42 minutes before the bobbies showed up to request that they turn the volume down. Watch
A BBC documentary on the final public performance by Britain’s greatest band. Here
Then came Loco Ono…
Damn, I’m older than 64.
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I’m sixty four?
I’d like to say, ‘thank you’ on behalf of the audience and ourselves, and don’t worry, you passed the audition!
How many here saw history being made on The ED Sullivan Show?
And none too soon.
Never heard of ’em.
I remember watching them on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was playing with my brother in the hall when I heard the girls screaming in the audience after the introduction and went to the living room to watch. I started guitar lessons soon after.
To me the rooftop concert is the bookend for the 60s. It started with JFK’s election and ends when the Beatles break up.
The 70s started with Kent State and ended with Iranian hostages.
The 80’s kicked off with Reagan and ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now that was a good decade.
The 90’s – starts with Dessert Storm and ends with Y2K.
2000 – starts with hanging chad in Florida and ends with Obama taking office.
2010 – Obamacare and it will probably be bookended with the futile attempt by the democrats to remove the president from office.
How many here saw history being made on The ED Sullivan Show?
Topo Gigio? Loved him.
Beetles, not so much.
Bands are like marriages – ya’ gotta work at ’em, to make ’em last. Just ask Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart…
And the last 4 words they sang together are …..?
(anybody?)
(bueller?)
(anybody?)
Yawn. Not a fan and I don’t love you yeah yeah yeah.
I’ve outlived two of them (same age group) and hope to out live McCartney the Lib-Tard Obama fanboy piece of beetle dung.
…then they learned to code…
Best of thread so far,,,
Then came Loco Ono
When I’m sixty four?
The ED Sullivan Show
rooftop concert is the bookend for the 60s.
Wish bottom feeder greedy ponce from U2 Bono stayed in school,,
In The name of Love, piss off Bono
Never liked them. Never.
Way before my time, but I still can’t help but feel sad that music actually meant something more back then than it has since the mid 90s at least. :/
I was really little when they made their debut on Ed Sullivan’s show but I was hooked from the first notes. Greatest band ever. Without them, Rock and Roll may have faded out in the early 1960s, until they came along and changed everything. Right now, I’m in the midst of the 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition White Album. Absolutely amazing.
Their music is as fresh and exciting today as it was the day it was made.
Paul was my childhood favorite but now I think he’s a bit of a drag. I was once an expert and knew all about Pete and Aunt Mimi–but now I hate Imagine. However, I do love to play keyboard from my Beatles Fake Book
‘music actually meant something more back then than it has since the mid 90s at least.’
Research , school, open mindedness, Stay that path!
Warm hugs and best wishes,,
sincerely
I detest all things Beatles. Horrid music. Just horrid.
There was a big difference between Beatles 1.0 and Beatles 2.0. 1.0 was a boy band. 2.0 started with Revoler and was fully launched with Sgt Peppers.
The styles and exploration of music between 1.0 and 2.0 were dramatically different.
John Lennon and George Harrison were drivers of 2.0 and Paul never left 1.0. Her majesty’s a pretty
Nice girl.
I still like their stuff. But let’s just Let it Be. It was a long and winding road that mostly lead to tragedy.
I was waiting tables at Clyde’s of Tysons the night Lennon was shot. That was the end of on epoch, 1963-1980. The end of innocence.
Britain’s GREATEST BAND?
was 11 when The Beatles invaded America … 6th grade, Harmony Hills Elementary School, just starting to notice girls … & noticing that they absolutely loved The Beatles. did a caricature drawing of The Beatles for an art project & all the girls just loved it …. started making individual drawing of each Beatle, on request, & sold them for a quarter apiece … the whole band together, for a buck. made enough to buy Beatle albums & singles … I became popular w/ girls because of The Beatles 🙂 … been a fan ever since
@.45-70 ~ “… the love you make.”
(if you mean all 4 together; the last song recorded was ‘I, Me, Mine’ w/ George, Ringo & Paul, John wasn’t on that recording) … told ya I was a fan
The joke going around after Lennon was killed:
Q: What will it take to re-unite the Beatles?
A: Three more bullets.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ –
Dayum! You are a fan. And yes… When the four last sang together.
You win the Grand Prize!
They did reunite on vinyl or tape or CD? for “Free as a Bird” and that was very exciting for me. The music video debut on TV was an event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODIvONHPqpk
Great band. I grew up in the 60’s and enjoyed the link. Thanks.
the other one released in late 90’s Real Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2iDmuoIRl0
how about George with the Traveling Wilburys, too
Best music ever. I never grow tired of it. Individually? Meh. Some of it was OK. But together they were awesome game changers.
Grew up with it, loved it at the time, still enjoy hearing it now, but FUCK LENNON/McCartney….in hindsight of course.
George WROTE THE BEST SONGS, in and after the Beatles.
Ringo the funniest.
Imagine?? Are you kidding me?
Were they not part of the beginning of the Neo-Liberal end?
The Kinks were just as good IF not better.
I don’t miss the Beatles. I do miss Phil Everly. The real pioneers of Rock music. Their harmonies have never been dupicated. RIP, Phil.
@45-70
Guessing last 4 words: Get Back Home Loretta?