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"Get Back" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Beatles and Billy Preston, written by Paul McCartney, and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". [ 4 ]
After the break-up of the Beatles, Lennon continued to reject religious teaching and organised religions. His 1971 single "Imagine" has been described as an "atheist anthem". [15] He sings about his beliefs in the song "God", in which he states, "I don't believe in magic, I Ching, the Bible, tarot, Jesus, Buddha, mantra, the Gita and yoga ...
Several versions were recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, on 24, [2] 26, [3] 27, [4] 28, [5] and 29 January 1969, [6] at Apple Studio.The 51-second version on the album is an extract taken from the 26 January version, [3] [1] which was a 15-minute jam that evolved from a loose "Like a Rolling Stone" jam.
The Beatles' decision not to issue "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as a single in the UK or the US led to many acts rushing to record the song, in the hope of achieving a hit in those countries. [4] A recording by the Scottish pop band Marmalade , released in November 1968, became the most commercially successful of all the cover versions of songs from ...
McCartney said, "It's not a great song but it's a great favourite of mine because it has great memories for me of John and I trying to write a bluesy freight-train song. There were a lot of those songs at the time, like ' Midnight Special ', ' Freight Train ', ' Rock Island Line ', so this was the 'One After 909'; she didn't get the 9:09, she ...
The lyrics underwent minor changes after Harrison presented the song to the Beatles in January 1969, when they began working at London's Twickenham Film Studios for the so-called Get Back project (released as the Let It Be album and film). [32]
This is a list of cover versions by music artists who have recorded one or more songs written and originally recorded by English rock band The Beatles.Many albums have been created in dedication to the group, including film soundtracks, such as I Am Sam (2001) and Across the Universe (2007) and commemorative albums such as Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (1988) and This Bird Has Flown (2005).
Instead, it was designed to trick fans into thinking their songs meant more than they actually do." [9] For the 50th-anniversary editions of The Beatles, a music video was created by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney. [10] The song served as a namesake for the 2022 film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and is featured in the film's end-credits.