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Friday, January 3, 1969

Get Back sessions - January 3, 1969 - Day 2

For The Beatles

Last updated on February 17, 2024


Master session

Location

  • Recording studio: Twickenham Film Studios, London, UK

Timeline

Master release

AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Let It Be... Naked" Official album

Some of the songs from this session also appear on:

Overview

This was the second day of rehearsals at Twickenham Film Studios. Only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were present at the beginning of the session. Paul went on the piano and played some of his new songs (“The Long And Winding Road“, “Oh! Darling“, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer“) and also some random oldies.

Ringo also played brief versions of songs he had written (like “Taking A Trip To Carolina” and “Picasso“). George Harrison joined them, and also played some work-in-progress songs, like “Ramblin’ Woman“.

When John Lennon finally arrived, the band spent some time playing rock ‘n’ roll classics, and also some early Lennon-McCartney songs like “Won’t You Please Say Goodbye“, “Thinking Of Linking“, “I’ll Wait Till Tomorrow” and “Because I Know You Love Me So” and “One After 909“.

It’s just we all used to sag off every school day. You know, and go back to my house, and the two of us would just sit there and write. There’s a lot from then, you know? There’s about 100 songs from then that we never reckoned, ’cause they were all very unsophisticated songs. “They said our love was just fun, the day that our friendship begun”.

Paul McCartney talking to Michael Lindsay-Hogg – Transcript from Peter Jackson’s film “The Beatles: Get Back“, 2021

The band finally spent some time on new compositions. Two original songs were brought on this day, John’s “Gimme Some Truth” and Paul’s “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer“. They also continued working on new songs rehearsed the day before, January 2 – those were “Don’t Let Me Down“, “All Things Must Pass“, “I’ve Got A Feeling” and “Two Of Us“.

Also, Paul brought back “Let It Be“, a song he was working on since September 1968 at least.

Aside from the production crew and The Beatles, George Martin was present, as well as Mal Evans and Yoko Ono.

Don’t Let Me Down , I’ve Got A Feeling, Two Of Us, Sun King

About the rehearsals of “Don’t Let Me Down” for this day:

“It hurts just to rehearse it,” John stated concerning his vocal delivery on “Don’t Let Me Down.” Nonetheless, they ran through ten versions of the song at this rehearsal, the final arrangement becoming quite complete by this time. John inserted a segment of “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” into one of the rehearsals of the song as a humorous ad lib. As seen in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” series, John was concerned about the song’s length. “I wonder how long it is? Do you wanna time it, Mal? Because it’s probably about a half minute long.” Assistant Mal Evans then produces a stop watch in order to accurately time a run-through of the song. “Three minutes 40 seconds, incredible,” Paul states after they complete a rehearsal of the song, to which John replies, “That’s fine then.”

From beatlesebooks.com

About the rehearsals of “I’ve Got A Feeling” for this day:

Being proud of how far they had gotten with “I’ve Got A Feeling,” they did run through it six times to tighten up their performance a bit further. Paul, however, was concerned about the song’s bridge, stating: “The bit that I find the weakest now is…” and then demonstrating his high register singing on the lyrics “All these years I’ve been wandering around” etc. After John replies, “Yeah, that’s just power, y’know,” Paul suggests that he provides harmony to that part of the song. “Just sing the next harmony down so it’s not too low for you,” he asks. After various attempts, John explains, “That’s very high for me…It’s a bit early for that. Early in the morning, y’know. I’m not 18 anymore!” Shortly thereafter, John’s harmony in the bridge was dropped in favor of Paul’s screeching solo vocal.

From beatlesebooks.com

They only did a few run-throughs on “Two Of Us“.

George Harrison: Let’s go through that one “two of us on our way home” just before we have lunch.

John Lennon: Lovely tune

Paul McCartney: Glyn [Johns] was saying to do it on two acoustics…

They also recorded four versions of “Sun King“.

Don’t Let Me Down“, “I’ve Got A Feeling” and “Two Of Us” would continue to be worked on, on January 6. “Sun King” would be brought back for one quick version on January 10, and then shelved for the time being.

Gimme Some Truth

John introduced “Gimme Some Truth” to the band and they started rehearsing it. They would return to it on January 7. The song would ultimately be left aside by The Beatles, and John would release it on his 1971 solo album, “Imagine“.

I was meeting with Paul [McCartney] and I said to him, “You know that John Lennon song ‘Gimme Some Truth’?”. He says, “Uh, the one on the Imagine album? Yeah, I know that one”. “Did you know that you actually co-wrote that with John?” He says, “What are you talking about?”

I showed him this footage from the Get Back sessions where Paul and John are working on ‘Gimme Some Truth’. Paul’s come up with that ‘money for rope’ thing which John loves. Paul looked at me and said, ‘I have no memory of that. I had no idea I was involved with that song’.

Then he says, “It’s a great song. I’ve always loved that song so if I get some credit for it, great”.

He had no idea he’d written some of ‘Gimme Some Truth’. I don’t want to take anything away from John but ‘Gimme Some Truth’ is clearly a Lennon/McCartney song. There were other songs that Paul took credit on on his albums that they’d worked on together too so it’s not a credit thing but it’s interesting to see.

Peter Jackson – About Paul McCartney’s contribution to “Gimme Some Truth” – From ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Reminded Paul McCartney He Co-Wrote a John Lennon Solo Song (cheatsheet.com), November 17, 2021

All Things Must Pass

The previous day, George had introduced a new song of his, “All Things Must Pass“, but he performed it without the contribution from the other Beatles. On this day, they extensively rehearsed it, with John on organ, Paul on bass and Ringo on drums. At some point, George got an electric shock when touching his microphone, leading Paul to joke to the technicians:

Gonna be in trouble over this. If this boy dies, you’re gonna cop it.

Paul McCartney

They would return to it, with varying degrees of involvement, on January 6, January 8, January 28 and January 29.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

At the beginning of the day, Paul had introduced “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and he decided to return to it at the end of the day:

This was their second day of rehearsals at Twickenham and, with John late in arriving, Paul ran through a number of work-in-progress songs on piano for the others to hear, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” being one of them. Lyrically, Paul only had the first verse, the chorus, and the first half of the second verse written at this time, and the arrangement still needed refining. Later that day, after John arrived, Paul led them through a total of ten rehearsals of the song, which he was referring to as “the corny one.” A small segment of one of these rehearsals, with Paul on bass and calling out the chords for John and George, made it into the released “Let It Be” movie. Paul then switched to piano at George’s suggestion and, with George on a Fender Bass VI, they rehearsed a little more before leaving it for another day.

From beatlesebooks.com

They would return to this track on January 7.



Discussions

Some time was spent discussing topics related to the live show, such as whether to include older songs or not, what type of audience it could have, and where it could take place.

George Harrison: Are we not going to do any ‘oldies but goldies’ on this show?

Paul McCartney: Don’t know. We could do.

George Harrison: It would, you know. And also from the selling point of view… […] Just to hit the first initial thing of us singing all completely new ones: they need something to identify with… So, it would be nice to just start the show, or end the show, with a couple of…

John Lennon: We’ll rock some up like Joe Cocker did. I’ve been doing ‘Help!’ pretty good, so…

Yoko Ono: Yeah, ‘Help!’ is nice.

George Harrison: I tell you which is a good one… [George and Paul then played “Every Little Girl”]

John also brought the idea of making one last album before splitting the band:

GEORGE: That band – uh, that band Bonnie & Delaney, for Apple, are more together than we’ve ever been. You know, as a band.

JOHN: Yeah.

GEORGE: [inaudible] You know, everyone’s who has ever been to see them playing, and sounding, their lives change. It’s really exciting when you hear a real groove on—

JOHN: You see, I think when we’ve done a month of this and that, and we do an album, that somehow we should either use what we’ve – the togetherness, to do the album. You know.

GEORGE: Yeah, to do a new one.

PAUL: Yeah?

JOHN: Yeah. But you know what I mean. We – we’re – we don’t fit. We’ve sort of run out of touch with it. If we get into the swinging of playing, let’s do an album after this album. You know, about a month later. That is, if we all— [inaudible]

PAUL: But I mean, you know—

JOHN: I mean, if we spend two – a month on this—

PAUL: We are.

JOHN: —just get to a good peak playing, and then we split.

PAUL: No, well, we should – we should sort of organise our career, man.

GEORGE: Yeah.

PAUL: Get our career together. And this, you know, this is like the idea of this. It’s to get us so we quite enjoy this. Of doing it again. And then what would we like to do next? Well, I would like— [inaudible] —to do a live show, lads?

GEORGE: Yeah. I think – I think when we learn to, like [inaudible] then we’d dig it. And we know ‘em all, what – you know, if somebody could say “that one” [and we could play them] when we were asked, that’d be great.

PAUL: Well, we can do it, but— [inaudible]

GEORGE: It’s just that choice. It’s like hard work, really, to do it. And uh, it’s – you know, it’s a drag to try and, you know – ‘cause I want to remember all the words—

PAUL: Right.

GEORGE: —and really, really get ‘em the way I want it to get ‘em, and to get the guitar, [and not keep being] made to perform when I don’t want to play the guitar. And then you’ve got to play the guitar… when you’re not ready for it. But that… that’s alright.

PAUL: I don’t know, you know, I mean—

GEORGE: I mean, we’ve got to do that in order to get the good bit.

PAUL: Right, yeah.

GEORGE: We’ve got to get through that bit of shit of the meeting until we get it together again.

PAUL: [receptive] You know, I can see it just – so we’re just working.

GEORGE: But – and also there’s so much to get out, you know…

PAUL: Yeah, right.

GEORGE: [sincere] And there’s nobody better to get it out with than us. For me, anyway, really. In my heart of hearts.

PAUL: [long pause; reserved] Yeah.

GEORGE: It should be where – you know, if you write a song, I feel as though I’ve wrote it. And mine versus – vice versa. You know, I mean – or to be involved, really, as much, as if… That was the good thing about the last album, [because] it’s the only album so far I’ve tried to get involved with.

PAUL: Yeah.

GEORGE: [inaudible]

PAUL: Mm.

GEORGE: The last one.

From a moral to this song — January 3rd, 1969 (Twickenham Film Studios,… (tumblr.com)


Session activities

The performances are sequentially numbered using the nomenclature from the book "Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image" by Doug Sulpy. DDSI 2.01 is, for example, the first performance from January 2nd, while DDSI 31.65 is the sixty-fifth performance from January 31st. This numbering is at times different from the DDSI numbers used on the bootleg collection "A/B Road Complete Get Back Sessions", likely because "Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image" was updated since the release of this collection.


  1. The Long And Winding Road

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.01 0:32

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  2. Oh! Darling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.02 0:55

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  3. Oh! Darling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.03 0:06

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  4. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.04 0:06

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  5. Maxwell's Silver Hammer

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.05 3:09

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  6. Adagio for Strings

    Written by Samuel Barber

    RecordingDDSI.3.06 3:21

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  7. Adagio for Strings

    Written by Samuel Barber

    RecordingDDSI.3.07 0:48

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  8. Tea For Two Cha Cha

    Written by Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar

    RecordingDDSI.3.08 1:24

    Paul McCartney : Piano

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  9. Tea For Two Cha Cha

    Written by Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar

    RecordingDDSI.3.09 0:43

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  10. Chopsticks

    Written by Euphemia Allen

    RecordingDDSI.3.10 0:30

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  11. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.11 0:40

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  12. Torchy, The Battery Boy

    Written by Barry Gray

    RecordingDDSI.3.12 1:14

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  13. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

    Written by Dave Curly Williams, Roy Hall

    RecordingDDSI.3.13 0:48

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  14. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.14 0:36

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  15. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.15 1:09

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  16. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.16 2:30

    Paul McCartney : Piano

  17. Taking A Trip To Carolina

    RecordingDDSI.3.17 0:45

    Performed by : Ringo Starr

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  18. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.18 1:23

  19. Please, Mrs Henry

    RecordingDDSI.3.19 1:36

    Performed by : George Harrison

  20. Ramblin' Woman

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.20 1:43

  21. Is It Discovered

    RecordingDDSI.3.21 1:33

    Performed by : George Harrison

  22. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.22 2:20

  23. Picasso

    RecordingDDSI.3.23 1:22

    Performed by : Ringo Starr

  24. Taking A Trip To Carolina

    RecordingDDSI.3.24 1:13

    Performed by : Ringo Starr

  25. Hey Jude

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.25 2:08

  26. All Things Must Pass

    RecordingDDSI.3.26 1:43

    Performed by : George Harrison

  27. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.27 2:36

  28. Your Name Is Ted

    RecordingDDSI.3.28 3:00

    Performed by : George Harrison

  29. Crackin' Up

    RecordingDDSI.3.29 2:12 • George Harrison only

    Performed by : George Harrison

  30. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.30 2:53

    Performed by : George Harrison

  31. Crackin' Up

    Written by Ellas McDaniel

    RecordingDDSI.3.31 0:33

  32. All Shook Up

    Written by Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley

    RecordingDDSI.3.32 1:05

  33. Your True Love

    Written by Carl Perkins

    RecordingDDSI.3.33 1:44

  34. Blue Suede Shoes

    Written by Carl Perkins

    RecordingDDSI.3.34 1:33

  35. Three Cool Cats

    Written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

    RecordingDDSI.3.35 2:48

  36. Blowin' In The Wind

    Written by Bob Dylan

    RecordingDDSI.3.36 0:33

  37. Lucille

    Written by Richard Penniman / Little Richard, Albert Collins

    RecordingDDSI.3.37 2:28

  38. I'm So Tired

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.38 2:33

  39. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.39 1:46

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  40. "Get On The Phone" improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.40 0:57

  41. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.41 0:15

  42. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.42 0:33

  43. The Third Man Theme

    Written by Anton Karas

    RecordingDDSI.3.43 1:51

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  44. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.44 0:31

  45. My Words Are My Heart

    RecordingDDSI.3.45 0:10

  46. Negro In Reserve

    Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.46 0:43

  47. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.47 3:40

  48. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.48 0:10

  49. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.49 3:16

  50. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.50 0:06

  51. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.51 0:17

  52. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.52 0:09

  53. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.53 0:35

  54. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.54 2:45

  55. Sun King

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.55 0:19

  56. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.56 4:38

  57. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.57 4:49

  58. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.58 0:26

  59. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.59 3:30

  60. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.60 2:49

  61. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.61 2:34

  62. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.62 0:29

  63. Going Up the Country

    Written by Alan Wilson

    RecordingDDSI.3.63 0:52

  64. On The Road Again

    RecordingDDSI.3.64 0:18

    Performed by : George Harrison

  65. One After 909

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.65 4:21

  66. Because I Know You Love Me So

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.66 2:30

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  67. One After 909

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.67 4:06

  68. I'll Wait Till Tomorrow

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.68 1:05

  69. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

    RecordingDDSI.3.69 0:12

    Performed by : John Lennon

  70. Thinking of Linking

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.70 0:26

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  71. Won't You Please Say Goodbye

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.71 0:53

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  72. Bring It On Home To Me

    Written by Sam Cooke

    RecordingDDSI.3.72 2:01

  73. Hitch Hike

    Written by Marvin Gaye, Clarence Paul, William Stevenson

    RecordingDDSI.3.73 1:58

  74. You Can't Do That

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.74 2:15

  75. The Hippy Hippy Shake

    Written by Chan Romero

    RecordingDDSI.3.75 4:16

  76. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.76 2:21

  77. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.77 1:46

  78. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.78 2:37

  79. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.79 3:34

  80. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.80 3:28

  81. Two Of Us

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.81 2:38

  82. All Along The Watchtower

    RecordingDDSI.3.82 1:01

    Performed by : George Harrison

  83. Sun King

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.83 0:47

  84. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.84 0:26

  85. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.85 0:35

  86. Short Fat Fanny

    Written by Larry Williams

    RecordingDDSI.3.86 2:58

  87. Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)

    Written by Traditional

    RecordingDDSI.3.87 2:09

  88. When You're Drunk You Think Of Me

    Written by Traditional

    RecordingDDSI.3.88 0:12

  89. What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

    Written by Busby Meyers

    RecordingDDSI.3.89 0:09

  90. What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?

    Written by Joseph McCarthy, Howard Johnson, James V. Monaco

    RecordingDDSI.3.90 1:35

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  91. Money (That's What I Want)

    Written by Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy

    RecordingDDSI.3.91 1:35

  92. Gimme Some Truth

    Written by John Lennon

    RecordingDDSI.3.92 1:39

    Film Included in Peter Jackson's film "The Beatles: Get Back", 2021

  93. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.93 1:58

  94. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.94 2:16

  95. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.95 3:14

  96. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.96 3:42

  97. The Weight

    RecordingDDSI.3.97 0:25

    Performed by : George Harrison

  98. I'm A Tiger

    RecordingDDSI.3.98 0:22

    Performed by : George Harrison

  99. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.99 3:19

  100. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.100 0:32

  101. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.101 1:59

  102. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.102 6:37

  103. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.103 0:06

  104. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.104 3:27

  105. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.105 3:13

  106. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.106 4:17

  107. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.107 3:48

  108. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.108 1:22

  109. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.109 5:28

  110. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.110 5:37

  111. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.111 4:25

  112. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.112 2:37

  113. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.113 2:32

  114. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.114 6:22

  115. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.115 2:22

  116. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.116 0:34

  117. Improvisation

    RecordingDDSI.3.117 1:04

  118. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.118 2:00

  119. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.119 0:40

  120. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.120 1:53

  121. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.121 1:13

  122. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.122 0:37

  123. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.123 1:13

  124. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.124 3:32

  125. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.125 1:43

  126. Unknown

    RecordingDDSI.3.126 0:08

  127. Back In The U.S.S.R.

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.127 0:54

  128. Every Little Thing

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.128 0:37

  129. Piece Of My Heart

    RecordingDDSI.3.129 2:12

    Performed by : George Harrison

  130. Sabre Dance

    RecordingDDSI.3.130 1:30

    Performed by : John Lennon

  131. Piece Of My Heart

    RecordingDDSI.3.131 1:29

    Performed by : George Harrison

  132. Over And Over Again

    Written by Paul McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.132 2:52

  133. One After 909

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    RecordingDDSI.3.133 0:25

  134. I've Been Good to You

    Written by Smokey Robinson

    RecordingDDSI.3.134 1:59

  135. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.135 0:24

  136. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.136 0:50

  137. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.137 3:45

  138. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.138 3:55

  139. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

    RecordingDDSI.3.139 5:31

  140. All Things Must Pass

    Written by George Harrison

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    Written by George Harrison

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    Written by Lennon - McCartney

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    Written by Lennon - McCartney

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    Written by Lennon - McCartney

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Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image - The Complete, Unauthorized Story of The Beatles' 'Get Back' Sessions

The definitive guide to the Get Back sessions, released in 1994 and updated in 2007. In the author's own words:

New, completely revised edition! This new volume isn t just a compilation of material from the 1994 book Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image (also later published as 'Get Back') and 'The 910's Guide To The Beatles Outtakes Part Two: The Complete Get Back Sessions' (2001). I've re-listened to the entire canon of available Get Back session tapes, come up with a bunch of new conclusions (and even a handful of new identifications!), and pretty much re-written half the book from scratch. In addition, great effort has been made to improve readability of the book. Songs have now been put into groups (generally by Nagra reel, or series of them), rather than describing each performance separately, as was done in the original. In every way, this is the book we wished we could have written in 1994.

As the paperback version is out of print, you can buy a PDF version on the author's website

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