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2.43am
10 August 2011
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The sheer variety of intros is but a small example of their genius.
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
4.23am
22 April 2011
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I love I've Just Seen a Face's intro with the double acoustic guitars.
6.41am
9 June 2011
Offline Definitely Here Comes The Sun , Blackbird and In my Life 
Step on the gas and wipe that tear away.
5.25pm
9 June 2010
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The Walrus said:
It’s hardly a classic, but what about the dubh (chn) dubh (chn) dubh du du du dun intro to Think For Yourself ?
What? “Think For Yourself ” isn't a classic?
I'm moving to the dimension where it is now.
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22 April 2011
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of Baby's In Black here:5.31am
14 December 2009
Offline You know what intro really bothers me? “Drive My Car “! Not because there's anything wrong with it, but the rhythm confuses me everytime – I can't tell where the backbeat is, I think I've gotten that 8-note guitar bit in sync with the imagined “And baby I'll lo-ove you” refrain, and then Ringo throws in that weird-ass drum fill that throws me off everytime! How many hundreds of times I've heard the song, and if they asked me to play along I'd STILL be guessing as to where to come in…
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3.46pm
10 August 2011
Offline Love the “Baby's in Black” so-called instrumental. You can sing karaoke to the Beatles!
You can achieve the same effect if you get hold of the early Beatle albums that were turned into “stereo” by putting all the vocals on one speaker and all the instruments on the other.
By turning down the vocal speaker all the way, you get the “instrumental version.”
Somewhere in a closet, I have Meet the Beatles re-released in such fashion.
[Von Bontee, I know the backbeat is the 2nd and 4th beat, but never quite got why these two beats are particularly important to the Beatles or rock'n'roll. Didn't realize “Drive My Car ” was so tricky! Does Ringo get credit here?]
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
8.32pm
4 December 2010
Offline MeanMrsMustard said:
The Walrus said:
It's hardly a classic, but what about the dubh (chn) dubh (chn) dubh du du du dun intro to Think For Yourself ?
What? “Think For Yourself ” isn't a classic?
I'm moving to the dimension where it is now.
Well, it took until the third page for it to be mentioned, and this is a forum dedicated to the band who first recorded it, and it isn't a stand out track on the album it is on.
I told her I didn’t
5.35pm
13 September 2011
Offline one of my favorite intros (though there are so many) is to “i've just seen a face”…beautiful! 
Can you take me back where I came from?
5.54pm
13 September 2011
Offline Also Long, Long, Long ( I didn't see that one mentioned)
A Hard Day's Night
Lucy in the Sky
It's All too Much
Rocky Raccoon .. Ok I guess we could all go on and on being that basically all of their songs have amazing intros, outros……..and middles! 
Probably Off topic, but best outros-Lovely Rita ,
You Never Give Me Your Money (1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven..)
A Day in the Live (the “never could see any other way” segment)
etc…….
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1 May 2011
Offline Please Please Me with its outright energy that had girls screaming their heads off after 2 notes first time of hearing.
As for great endings Hey Bulldog would have to be up there.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
2.58pm
14 December 2009
Offline OK, pointless trivia question time! What (released) Beatles song has the LONGEST intro – in other words, the longest time from the opening note to the beginning of the vocal?
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4.07pm
10 August 2011
Offline Sexy Sadie ? I've Just Seen a Face? The End if you count the 3 guitar solos that precede it?
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
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18 January 2011
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1 May 2011
Offline Its All Too Much goes on for 45 seconds before George starts singing, tho it does have John's “To Your Mother ” bit right at the beginning. So i guess it depends on your p.o.v..
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
7.27pm
14 December 2009
Offline Ding ding ding! “Sun King ” it is! Fifty-something seconds between beginning and vocal. And as for “Flying “, it's the third-longest, measuring between the intro and the first “La-la-la”.
2nd longest? “Love You To “. And the fourth-longest, somewhat surprisingly, is “Slow Down “.
The End if you count the 3 guitar solos that precede it?
“The End ” would indeed have been the longest if not for the “Oh yeah! All right!…” right at the beginning.
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14 April 2010
Offline That was a great question Von. I would have said “Slow Down “. Every time I hear it I wonder why the intro had to be so long.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
7.52am
21 September 2011
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10 May 2011
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The Piano when the guitar comes in… BLECH!!! OUT-OF-SYNC!!!!
But I love Come Together .
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1 May 2011
Offline I think it depends on what mix for money as the stereo is clearly different from the mono at the beginning.
I Want You has a fabulous intro, and a fabulous elongated outro what with all the white wind noise.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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