Recording studio: EMI Studios, Room 4, Abbey Road • London • UK
Previous session Mar 11, 1969 • Recording "Thumbin' A Ride", "Going Back to Liverpool"
Album Mar 21, 1969 • "Is This What You Want? (Mono)" by Jackie Lomax released in the UK
Interview Mar 22, 1969 • Paul McCartney interview for Fabulous208
Session Mar 26, 1969 • Mixing "Get Back"
Single Mar 28, 1969 • "Goodbye / Sparrow" by Mary Hopkin released in the UK
Article April - May 1969 • The “Get Back” LP rumours • April to May 1969
Next session Circa April - Early May 1969 • Recording "Charity Bubbles", "Goose"
AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Get Back / Don't Let Me Down (UK - Mono)" 7" Single
The last Beatles single, “Hey Jude / Revolution,” had been released in August 1968 — over six months earlier. Despite the “Get Back” sessions in January 1969, no new material had been issued, and by March, both The Beatles and EMI were eager to release a new single.
On this day, producer George Martin and engineer Jeff Jarratt worked at Abbey Road Studios to prepare a mix of the song “Get Back.” They created an edit combining two takes — DDSI 27.63 and DDSI 28.43 — and produced four different mono mixes of this composite version. Acetates of the mixes were then cut for the group to review.
New mono mixes would be prepared on April 3 and again on April 7, ahead of the UK release of “Get Back” on April 11, 1969.
Why did we spring “Get Back” on the public so suddenly? Well, we’d been talking about it since we recorded it, and we kept saying “that’s a single”. Eventually we got so fed up talking about it, we suddenly said: “O.K. That’s it. Get it out tomorrow”.
John Lennon – From New Musical Express, March 3, 1969
Mixing • DDSI.27.63/28.43 • Mono mixing - Remix 1
Mixing • DDSI.27.63/28.43 • Mono mixing - Remix 2
Mixing • DDSI.27.63/28.43 • Mono mixing - Remix 3
Mixing • DDSI.27.63/28.43 • Mono mixing - Remix 4
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions • Mark Lewisohn
The definitive guide for every Beatles recording sessions from 1962 to 1970. We owe a lot to Mark Lewisohn for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - the number of takes for each song, who contributed what, a description of the context and how each session went, various photographies... And an introductory interview with Paul McCartney!
The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970)
The fifth and final book of this critically acclaimed series, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970)" follows The Beatles as they "get back to where they once belonged...". Not once, but twice. With "Let It Be", they attempted to recapture the spontaneity of their early years and recordings, while "Abbey Road" was a different kind of return - to the complexity, finish and polish that they had applied to their work beginning with "Revolver" and through to "The Beatles".
If we modestly consider the Paul McCartney Project to be the premier online resource for all things Paul McCartney, it is undeniable that The Beatles Bible stands as the definitive online site dedicated to the Beatles. While there is some overlap in content between the two sites, they differ significantly in their approach.
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