In an interview in Playboy magazine in 1980, Lennon described “Get Back” as “… a better version of ‘ Lady Madonna‘. (He had said that at the end of their 30 January 1969 rooftop concert on the roof of Apple Studios, but Phil Spector edited it into the “Get Back” song on the Let It Be album.) For the press release to promote the “Get Back” single, McCartney wrote, “We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air … we started to write words there and then … when we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to roller-coast by.”Īt the beginning of the Let It Be version of the song, Lennon can be heard jokingly saying “Sweet Loretta Fart (often misheard as “fat”, due to Lennon’s pronunciation), she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan.” The album version of the song also ends with Lennon famously quipping “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition”. On 9 January McCartney brought a more developed version of “Get Back” to the group, with the “Sweet Loretta” verse close to its finished version. McCartney had played bass on Jackie Lomax’s recording of “Sour Milk Sea” a few months earlier. Over the next few minutes, McCartney introduced some of the lyrics, reworking “Get back to the place you should be” from fellow Beatle George Harrison’s “ Sour Milk Sea” into “Get back to where you once belonged”. The song’s melody grew out of some unstructured jamming on 7 January 1969 during rehearsal sessions on the sound stage at Twickenham Studios. Much of this documentation is in the form of illegal (but widely available) bootleg recordings, and is recounted in the book Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles’ Let It Be Disaster by Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt. “Get Back” is unusual in the Beatles’ canon in that almost every moment of the song’s evolution has been extensively documented, from its beginning as an offhand riff to its final mixing in several versions. In the UK, the Beatles’ singles remained monaural until the following release, “ The Ballad of John and Yoko“.
“Get Back” was the Beatles’ first single release in true stereo in the US. It was the Beatles’ only single that credited another artist at their request. The single reached number one in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Australia, France, West Germany, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, and Belgium. The single version was later issued on the compilation albums 1967–1970, 20 Greatest Hits, Past Masters, and 1. A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be (1970), which was the Beatles’ last album released just after the group split. “Get Back” is a song recorded by the English rock band the Beatles and written by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon–McCartney), originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to “The Beatles with Billy Preston”. Paul McCartney – From “Many Years From Now” by Barry Miles, 1997 I often left things ambiguous, I like doing that in my songs. Another number with a blatant country flavor, "Because I Know You Love Me So," surfaces for the first time here, with Paul dismissing it as soon as they finish performing it.Many people have since claimed to be the Jo Jo and they’re not, let me put that straight! I had no particular person in mind, again it was a fictional character, half man, half woman, all very ambiguous. One such song, "One After 909," makes the cut, and ends up being one of the album's high-energy highlights. At one point, they decide to revisit a lot of compositions they wrote and abandoned much earlier in their careers, in case they could use some to pad out the set list. They debate a lot about where to stage their planned concert and even what songs to include. What you're basically doing is watching John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr rehearse, revise and procrastinate. For everyone else, the first part of The Beatles: Get Back may be slow going. And for them - well, for us, because I'm part of that group - this Disney+ docuseries is a true treasure. There are the most rabid fans, who will watch it and recognize instantly the stuff they've never heard or seen before. The Beatles: Get Back concludes with the band's legendary 1969 rooftop concert.Īs I see it, there are two very different audiences for Get Back, Peter Jackson's new documentary about The Beatles' Let It Be sessions.
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