He sang two verses, with Harrison joining in several places. Lennon’s ‘Child Of Nature’ – later rewritten as ‘Jealous Guy’ – was introduced on this day as ‘On The Road To Marrakesh’. He also played through an unfinished song titled ‘A Case Of The Blues’, which was mostly instrumental. Lennon’s part was based on a 1968 home recording known as ‘Everybody Had A Hard Year’. They then turned to ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, which at this stage lacked McCartney’s contributions. Lennon improvised a guitar instrumental and sang two verses of Chuck Berry’s ‘Brown-Eyed Handsome Man’, joined by Harrison in places. Harrison put forward another, ‘Let It Down’, which was eventually recorded for the All Things Must Pass triple album. Lennon then played a solo version of ‘Dig A Pony’, before improvising a song known as Everybody Got Song. Both attempted to play along with each others’ songs, and were joined by a recently-arrived Ringo Starr on drums during a version of Don’t Let Me Down. As they tuned their guitars, the musicians played snippets of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ and ‘All Things Must Pass’. Lennon and Harrison were the first to arrive, the former with his then-girlfriend Yoko Ono. View the complete list of songs played during the January 1969 Get Back/ Let It Be sessions. ‘It’s Good To See The Folks Back Home’* (McCartney).‘The Teacher Was A-Lookin”* (group jam).‘Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’ (Bob Dylan).‘Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues’ (Buddy Holly).‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man’ (Chuck Berry).The full list of songs played on this day, including fragments and off-the-cuff, unpublished songs with presumed titles: Performances of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, ‘Johnny B Goode’, ‘Two Of Us’, ‘Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’, and ‘I Shall Be Released’ from this day appeared in part one of the 2021 documentary Get Back. The Beatles spent much of their time working on three songs: ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, and ‘Two Of Us’. “Clean though,” added Paul McCartney, a reference to Wilfrid Brambell in A Hard Day’s Night. “Who’s that little old man?” John Lennon asked. Watching the first day was Shyamsunder Das, a friend of George Harrison. The shots would eventually be used for the opening sequence of the Let It Be film, and the Get Back documentary. This first day officially began at around 9.30am, however, with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg filming as Mal Evans and Kevin Harrington set up The Beatles’ equipment onto stage one before the group began playing. On this first day the group arrived at Twickenham at 11am, apart from Paul McCartney who was delayed on public transport, and arrived at 12.30pm. The Get Back rehearsals followed a Monday to Friday schedule, and each day started between 11am and 1pm. The Beatles, whether out of boredom or desperation, played tunes ranging from nursery rhymes (‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’) and rock ‘n’ roll classics ( ‘All Shook Up’) to pre- ‘Love Me Do’ original compositions and improvised songs (the unreleased ‘Suzy Parker’). The better attempts were included in the Let It Be film and the 2021 Get Back documentary. They also jammed a great deal sometimes at length and without much artistic merit. A vast number of songs were performed by The Beatles during January 1969, many of which never saw light of day in an official capacity, though works from Abbey Road and their solo albums did emerge, in addition to the Let It Be songs. You couldn’t make music at eight in the morning or ten or whatever it was, in a strange place with people filming you and colored lights.Īs a result, the Get Back sessions were extensively bootlegged, providing a fascinating insight into The Beatles’ working practices. I just wanted them to go away, and we’d be there, eight in the morning. It was a dreadful, dreadful feeling in Twickenham Studio, and being filmed all the time. And we put down a few tracks and nobody was in it at all. And of course we’re lazy fuckers and we’ve been playing for twenty years, for fuck’s sake, we’re grown men, we’re not going to sit around rehearsing. And so he has these ideas that we’ll rehearse and then make the album. Paul had this idea that we were going to rehearse or… see it all was more like Simon and Garfunkel, like looking for perfection all the time. I was stoned all the time, too, on H etc. I didn’t even give a shit about anything. I would just tag along and I had Yoko by then. He set it up and there was all discussions about where to go and all that. As usual, George and I were going, ‘Oh, we don’t want to do it, fuck,’ and all that. In a nutshell, Paul wanted to make – it was time for another Beatle movie or something, and Paul wanted us to go on the road or do something.
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