Something / Come Together

Track list

Side 1

Side 2

About

“Something / Come Together” was the first UK single The Beatles had ever released containing songs that were already available on an album. This was also the first Beatles single with a George Harrison song on the A-side.

I suggested, rather strongly, that this single be released from the Abbey Road album. I think you’ll find that it was the first time that a single was released from a Beatles album. It was done because, maybe not to the knowledge of the outside world, it was pretty much decided that the four of them would try to do something individually, within a structure. In other words, within their own arrangement, they would have a chance to maybe magnify their own individual talent and let it be seen, and I felt that it was important for George, at this juncture, to show himself. I thought ‘Something’ was the best song on the album, and John’s ‘Come Together’ was also, and that’s why it went out on the other side.

Allen Klein – From “The Beatles: Off the Record” by Keith Badman

EMI are putting out “Something”, one of the best tracks from the boys’ new LP as a single in this country.

It has already been released as a single in the United States but this was not unusual as several tracks off LP’s have been released as singles in North America over the past six years. But this will be the first time ever that a new Beatles’ single release in this country has come from one of their LPs.

From The Beatles Book N°76, November 1969

Last updated on November 14, 2021