Starting from 1962 and ending at 1995 (don’t forget Free As A Bird, ya know), Kye Smith, a drummer based in Newcastle, Australia, plays the signature parts of all your favourite Beatles songs. Like, all of them. And he did it on top of a building, a nod to the fab four’s final concert on the top of Abbey Road Studios.
On his Facebook page, Smith writes:
Way before I found out about punk rock or even knew what a snare drum was I spent my childhood playing vinyl records at my grandparents place spinning artists such as Slim Dusty, ELVIS PRESLEY and The Beatles.
This chronology called for some special treatment and got me out of the studio and onto the rooftop of The Great Northern Hotel – Newcastle, Australia for a pretty stunning view of Newcastle, New South Wales in the background.
Thanks to everyone at The Great Northern for letting me make some noise up there and to Eluminate for helping me shoot it and lug heaps of gear up 7 storeys of stairs!
(1962)
0:06 – Love Me Do
0:09 – P.S. I Love You
(1963)
0:13 – Please Please Me
0:17 – I Saw Her Standing There
0:20 – Do You Want to Know a Secret?
0:22 – From Me to You
0:24 – Thank You Girl
0:27 – She Loves You
0:30 – All My Loving
0:33 – I Want to Hold Your Hand
(1964)
0:36 – Can’t Buy Me Love
0:40 – A Hard Day’s Night
0:43 – I Should Have Known Better
0:46 – If I Fell
0:52 – I’m Happy Just to Dance With You
0:55 – And I Love Her
0:59 – I’ll Cry Instead
1:01 – You Can’t Do That
1:04 – I Feel Fine
1:07 – She’s a Woman
1:10 – Eight Days a Week
1:13 – I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
(1965)
1:18 – Ticket to Ride
1:22 – Yes it Is
1:29 – Help!
1:33 – Yesterday
1:41 – Day Tripper
1:45 – We Can Work it Out
1:47 – Drive My Car
1:51 – Norwegian Wood
1:55 – Nowhere Man
2:01 – Michelle
2:03 – What Goes On
2:08 – Girl
2:10 – In My Life
(1966)
2:14 – Paperback Writer
2:18 – Rain
2:22 – Taxman
2:24 – Eleanor Rigby
2:29 – Yellow Submarine
2:33 – Good Day Sunshine
2:37 – Got to Get You Into My Life
(1967)
2:41 – Strawberry Fields Forever
2:47 – Penny Lane
2:51 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2:56 – With a Little Help From My Friends
2:58 – Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
3:05 – A Day in the Life
3:11 – All You Need is Love
3:15 – Baby You’re a Rich Man
3:20 – Hello Goodbye
3:23 – I Am the Walrus
(1968)
3:24 – Lady Madonna
3:29 – Hey Jude
3:34 – Revolution
3:39 – Back in the U.S.S.R.
3:41 – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3:46 – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
(1969)
3:50 – Get Back
3:54 – Don’t Let Me Down
3:58 – The Ballad of John and Yoko
4:02 – Come Together
4:07 – Something
4:12 – Octopus’s Garden
4:15 – Here Come’s the Sun
4:19 – The End
(1970)
4:24 – Let it Be
4:32 – You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
4:37 – For You Blue
4:39 – The Long and Winding Road
(1995)
4:50 – Free as a Bird
