What a wonderful look back at the video. Notice that Paul sings "take a load off and put it on me"!. I wish they would have shown more of Paul screaming in the 2nd half of the song, that is the best part and now it is mostly lost to history.

love this performance. also found a great version of this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXUWOLIrvg

Yeah Sky...I've got that Revolution take. Pretty cool.

Great clip. It gets screened on Australian TV occasionally (on a late night video show called rage) although I believe there was more than one take so I'm not sure it's exactly the same version. As for the mix of live and prerecorded sound, this was because the UK Musicians Union would not allow 100% miming to songs on TV shows at the time. So these performances were unique mixes. My favorite is the David Frost broadcast of Revolution, where the live backing vocals are more like those of the album version of the song, and John sings "you can count me out... in."

and most enjoyable in mine as well.

I agree Jeff. There are likely some precorded bits such as the brass. It's likely still that a lot more is prerecorded because (as stated in the post) it was a "promo film" for the new single (on the new label) done at Twickenham film studios where they can work all kinds of behind-the-scenes magic. If it was to be a real live kind of thing it likely would've been done somewhere else (like on a rooftop somewhere or something). Taken as a promo film without an expectation of a "true live" performance it's quite enjoyable in my book.

.....I'm not sure there isn't a bit of tomfoolry afoot! I contend that parts of this were prerecorded...part of the studio release while other parts were indeed, "live". There are various points, not many, where Ringo gives the game away. I could be wrong, I certainly wouldn't bet the farm. But I'd bet the chickens and the wife's damn cat!

One of my absolute favorite "music videos" of all time. The sense of carmaraderie in the extended coda is just so damn infectious! A most excellent post, Mark.

freakin awesome!
some of those lyrics are a little obtuse. but hey - it's the freakin Beatles!!! love it