In honor of the release of this year's holiday-timed Beatles' collection "On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2," Apple premiered the clip for "Words of Love." The charming and shiny new music video features the version of the Beatles' classic Buddy Holly cover that appears on the new album, recorded live at the BBC Radio studios a year before the band cut the song for a record. "Words of Love" is certainly not new, but director Pete Candeland has given the track a new lease of life with a partially animated music video that creates a poignant backdrop for the Beatles' harmonies and the often psychedelic vibe.
The sequel to 1994's "Live At The BBC," is focused exclusively on the teeny-bopping, moptopping 1963-64 era with 63 tracks. This take on "Words of Love," which appears on the new album, was recorded on July 16, 1963 at the BBC's Paris Theater in London. It was broadcast a month later on the show "Pop Goes the Beatles," more than a year before English rock band released a version of the song on 1964's "Beatles for Sale." In the United States, it was on the album "Beatles VI." It is the first official Beatles video since "Real Love" from 1996's "Anthology 2."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, harmonized on their version, holding to the vocal and instrumental sound of Holly's original as well as they could. When they had played this song in their early days at the Cavern Club in 1961 and 1962, Lennon and George Harrison were the vocalists. Ringo Starr played a packing case on this song as well as drums, to achieve a similar sound to Holly's "Everyday." So the new video for Buddy Holly cover "Words Of Love" naturally zeroes in on the peak of Beatlemania, before psychedelics and facial hair entered the picture.
The sequel to 1994's "Live At The BBC," is focused exclusively on the teeny-bopping, moptopping 1963-64 era with 63 tracks. This take on "Words of Love," which appears on the new album, was recorded on July 16, 1963 at the BBC's Paris Theater in London. It was broadcast a month later on the show "Pop Goes the Beatles," more than a year before English rock band released a version of the song on 1964's "Beatles for Sale." In the United States, it was on the album "Beatles VI." It is the first official Beatles video since "Real Love" from 1996's "Anthology 2."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were fans of Holly, harmonized on their version, holding to the vocal and instrumental sound of Holly's original as well as they could. When they had played this song in their early days at the Cavern Club in 1961 and 1962, Lennon and George Harrison were the vocalists. Ringo Starr played a packing case on this song as well as drums, to achieve a similar sound to Holly's "Everyday." So the new video for Buddy Holly cover "Words Of Love" naturally zeroes in on the peak of Beatlemania, before psychedelics and facial hair entered the picture.
The clip combines period-specific archival vintage black and white and color footage from The Beatles' concerts, tomfoolery and time on the road and intersperses them with whimsical animated segments which gives the short video an endearing, home-woven aesthetic. We see the band's "tourbus" loaded to the sky with luggage drive up and down and undulating landscape and see screaming fans clamor to get close to the band as multi-colored confetti streams from the sky. Watch below and marvel that this stuff happened 50 years ago which gives an impressive look at the frenzied Beatlemania days.
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