First Time Reaction The Beatles A Day In The Life | Dereck Reacts

[Starbeamers]

Imagine they only had 4 tape tracks to record this monument with their studio’s 1967 technology! Talk about an achievement!

[lclark]

Ringo's drumming on this is fantastic.

[tanjabredehoeft]

John's voice is even more haunting on this song than it anyway is

[edwardthorne]

That final crashing chord marks a before/after section of the whole of popular music. Before Pepper and after Pepper. Things were never the same after this moment. Rock was no longer for silly love songs, but was now a true art form.

[newms]

David Crosby was the first person to hear this as the Beatles played it for him in Abbey Road. David said he couldn't speak afterwards for a long time.

[samuelparent]

Just another pure Lennon/McCartney masterpiece. So artistic, so inventive, so original and wonderfully produced.

[mikefeast]

Arguably the greatest recorded song in history, between this and Tomorrow Never Knows, music was never the same again. Great reaction!

[groundscoresteve]

The Beatles are OUR Bach, Beethoven, Shakespeare... They are BIGGER than 'Rock & Roll... Fab-4 / 4-Ever!

[BobKovacs]

Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the whole song. Lennon did the beginning and end ("I read the news today..."), while McCartney did the middle ("Woke up, got out of bed..."). They were two separate things, until the two of them decided to put them both into this one song. The other two Beatles (George Harrison and Ringo Starr) had nothing to do with writing this song, although their instrumentation was always important to the song's sound.

[espmind]

There will never be a band like the Beatles. To this day they old so many records, no one as sold more albums than they have and by a long shot. They also have the most number 1 hits...and so on, Long live the Beatles!

[CBGB_]

The direction Paul gave the orchestra essentially was play any note on their instruments and play the scale as high as possible all at once.

The end note was Paul. He said in an interview that they would hit keys on a piano and let it fade out at a parties. They felt the note could go on almost infinitely if everyone listened hard enough.

[garygoodrich]

This is what true genius talent and top-notch musicianship sound like.

[samkarlsonmusic]

One of the greatest music master piece of all time, pure genius

[vendelayindustries]

Such a masterpiece, that began as two separate songs that they just put together in a clever way. If someone does this it will always be compared with A day in the life. This was the closing track on Sgt. Peppers Lonely hearts club band and the boys' being first with a lot of stuff put a high pitch sound after the track that only dogs can hear. If you own the album what will happen is that dogs will sure react with a "-WHAT?" after the song has ended.

[billmonetti]

I'm a 75 yo Beatle fan.It was nuts back then and still really nuts today.

[michaelminch]

Sgt Pepper is a concept album that needs to be listened to in its entirety. It's an experience. I do love watching youngsters like you getting your minds blown by what you're hearing.

[PeterOConnell-pqio]

As innovative as music came back then, and perhaps to the present. And Ringo's drumming is fantastic, as always.

[mrmitchell]

Goes without saying that The Beatles as a band were incredible but a lot of credit needs to go to George Martin who was (no pun intended) instrumental in not only giving The Beatles the space to express but to also contribute his own immense talent to the recordings.

[maihindess]

The idea was to listen to this "stoned", then you get it...😆

[AnnoyinglyGood]

I bought this the day it was released. Blew me away then and I love that all these years later people are still discovering it. The only guitar on this is Lennons acoustic, Harrison only played maracas! Probably the best thing the Beatles ever did ❤️