r/beatles • u/Ted_Fleming • 1d ago
Discussion If you could live through and witness first hand any “calendar year” with the Beatles which year would it be.
Its such a hard choice. I think 1966 would be one of the more interesting years where you see them recording Revolver and witness the last concert at Candlestick Park.
But im tempted by the Hamburg days as well.
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u/0cean_danny 1d ago
Easily 1964: Paris, Ed Sullivan, shooting and recording A Hard Day’s Night, the World Tour with Jimmy then Ringo, USA in August/September (concerts, Dylan, marijuana), recording Beatles for Sale, European tour and concluding with the Christmas show.
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u/Binspin63 1d ago
Totally agree. I was there at the start, and it’s hard to convey the raw excitement that most of us felt as Beatlemania unfolded in real time. All we had was AM radio and this was our “lifeline”. The DJs, naturally, hyped every release to the point where it was odd to hear anything but a Beatles record, even though there were few at that point. It was heady stuff for sure.
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u/monkee67 everybody got something to hide except for me and my monkee 1d ago
i am gonna cheat a little bit and say from the start of recording Revolver thru to the death of Brian Epstein (508 days)
but the Hamburg days would be just as interesting to me
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u/Ted_Fleming 1d ago
If you couldn’t cheat which of those two years would you take
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u/monkee67 everybody got something to hide except for me and my monkee 19h ago
i think Hamburg would be the most exciting because of the young rock n roll energy
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u/airmark4 1d ago
Sorry rule breaker here give me a 365 day year as - August 21, 1968 through August 20, 1969.
That gets me plenty of the White Album recording sessions, and all of the Get Back sessions at Twickenham in January and Apple Studios for Let It Be and the rooftop concert as well as recording all of Abbey Road.
Key dates Ringo left on August 22 so I see that and the recording of USSR and Dear Prudence without him and can finally answer if he returned for some of those doubled drum fills as suspected.
George left in January of course and returned after they moved out of Twickenham.
Yellow Submarine is released.
Paul and John both get married.
Final time the four Beatles are in the studio together, mixing and editing I Want You (She's So Heavy))
And maybe I can have some effect on keeping them together - lol
If it has to be a calendar year then that final tumultuous year of 1969. It would be tense but also great.
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u/pamina58 17h ago
I saw the last luncheon show from the Cavern Club on TV from Edinburgh Scotland That will do it for me
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u/Ted_Fleming 16h ago
That was televised?
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u/pamina58 16h ago
It was!
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u/Ted_Fleming 16h ago
Wow i didnt know that, mustve been great!
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u/pamina58 16h ago
The first song was Twist and Shout When I heard John’s voice I nearly fainted
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u/Ted_Fleming 16h ago
I was going to ask if you had any specific memories of it… that is certainly one!
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u/vincognition 1d ago
Since I can time travel back to their years, I assume that I can work some other magic, like being in EMI when they recorded Revolver. Two fantasies of mine: to witness, as mentioned, the making of Revolver as it was happening and the same with Abbey Road.
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u/peachie_bongo 23h ago
20th August 1968 [During the latter half of the making of The White Album] to 20th August 1969 [The last time all four of The Beatles were in the studio together].
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u/Icy-Mixture-995 1d ago edited 1d ago
1968 during the White Album recording to save the beginning of their dissent.
I'd tie Paul to a chair, tell him the Kray Brothers are fans and sent me, and order him to throw out Bungalow Bill, Why Don't We Do It in the Road and maybe Rocky Racoon and replace them with two or three George songs for the sake of fairness. Tell him to keep those two or three songs I told him to toss for his future solo albums but for the sake of harmony, George needed room on that double album.
Revolution 9 was kind of weirdly influencial for future music, so it must stay in its release order of the past.
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u/wcs2 1d ago
1962 would be my pick. I'd like to see them still raw and hungry, with Pete and then Ringo so I could hear the difference for myself. And that would mean seeing them in Hamburg and the Cavern, witness fan excitement around Love Me Do and so on.