Comments on: Long Tall Sally

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:49:18 +0000

I just saw Backbeat again, which once again I thoroughly enjoyed. You’d think that the director/producer/whomever could have gotten that point right. Easy enough to ask Paul during the making.

By: Nina

Nina — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 04:55:26 +0000

I think there is even a recording of like half of Long Tall Sally, final song from their final concert, but the tape ran out. It used to be on youtube, don’t know if it’s still there.

By: John Thiele

John Thiele — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:11:15 +0000

For what it’s worth, I agree with you. He’s certainly not singing “she’s built for speed.”

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Tue, 30 May 2017 13:11:20 +0000

I was also surprised to read that Long Tall Sally was performed live until the last show. I read somewhere else years ago that I’m Down was specifically written to replace it as the closing song and assumed LTS was not played after it’s inclusion.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:36:20 +0000

It was the last song of the last ever (proper) concert.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:33:05 +0000

He was a great rhythm player and took a lot of leads throughout the Beatles’ career. “You Can’t Do That” and “Get Back” are just two of many examples. There’s no “after all” to it.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:29:44 +0000

I don’t hear that at all.

By: sue Natalie

sue Natalie — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:16:38 +0000

I always wondered if that was really Ringo on drums. He’s never had that style of playing before, or since. The last 30 seconds or so sounds more like Keith Moon, than anything Ringo could pull off.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:48:44 +0000

This is my all-time favorite Beatles rave up song. There are so many amazing things about it. I stumbled on to this website because, after all the years of blasting this song at full volume, I wanted to find out if it was actually Ringo playing the drums. So glad to find out it was. For me, the epitome of the song comes at about 1:18 leading into the 2nd instrumental break. Ringo’s timing and the way the bass and drums complement each other here is phenomenal. Interesting, in reading all the comments above, that no one said anything about McCartney’s bass playing. He’s pretty much shredding it…WHILE singing! He’s definitely one of the best melodic bass players while singing, in the world.

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:41:18 +0000

Ringo just rocks out on this tune. love his drums. if you ever get the chance and haven’t seen it, there is a video if them playiing this song live and he is having so much fun.

By: guitarmike

guitarmike — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:19:54 +0000

Did they really play Long Tall Sally in San Francisco for the 1966 final show??
Wasn’t this replaced by I’M Down for over a year as their last song??

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:36:14 +0000

A brilliant Paul McCartney vocal and all round rave up by The Beatles. First got this on E.P. in 1982. As others have said no one does Little Richard like Macca!!

By: Sir Huddleston Fuddleston

Sir Huddleston Fuddleston — Tue, 19 May 2015 06:01:50 +0000

Anybody who accuses the Beatles of being inferior instrumentally should be forced to listen to this song. Ringo turns in a performance equal to Rain or Tomorrow Never Knows, John plays a great guitar solo. And then there’s Paul McCartney. The man is just so extraordinary. Listen to “And I Love Her”, recorded not more than a few days before. He can go from sweetness and grace to screaming Little Richard at full volume. Later, in the Help sessions, he performed I’m Down and Yesterday back to back.

A blowout. A monster. The greatest rave up ever recorded.

By: Atlas

Atlas — Thu, 14 May 2015 13:50:40 +0000

I only noticed that recently…..I was watching the awards and though they cut to George at the beginning of the break it’s obvious from his fingering that he’s not playing the solo until later.

Well done John.

By: L, and or Rigby

L, and or Rigby — Sun, 10 May 2015 14:39:44 +0000

Did John Lennon really play a solo in this song? Pretty good solo, based on New Music Express Awards 1965. If so, he could play guitar after all.

By: Maksim

Maksim — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:11:50 +0000

Ringo Starr rocks the songs so well ! The way he plays drums here , is one of the best rock n roll performance i ever heard in my life .

By: mentorcoach

mentorcoach — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:45:24 +0000

There’s one note in the beginning of George’s guitar solo that to me sounds sharp — I’m guessing that the take was otherwise so perfect and rocking that they didn’t want to go for another one.

By: MIMS

MIMS — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:23:22 +0000

The Beatles version of this song is, to me, the greatest pure rock and roll performance of all time. The energy is flippin’ incredible, absolutely everything about it is perfect.

By: beatlesboy

beatlesboy — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:59:42 +0000

I read somewhere that since they only had to transcribe the lyrics off the vinyl record, some of the lyrics didn’t match those of Little Richard’s, for example, Paul sang “Well, Long Tall Sally drew pretty pictures of Everything that Uncle John did”

By: timharrod

timharrod — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:12:51 +0000

This song plays an important role in the early history of the Beatles: It was the opening song in their legendary breakthrough set at Litherland Town Hall, December 27, 1960. Everything Little Richard has accomplished is only augmented by his connection to the first incredible flash of Beatlemania.