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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.
Phish included "Piggies" in their performance of The Beatles on Halloween 1994, which was released in 2002 as Live Phish Volume 13. [140] The harpsichord [141] from the original Beatles recording was mashed with Jay-Z's "Change Clothes" for a track on Danger Mouse's The Grey Album in 2004. [16]
[7] [8] Author Ian MacDonald speculates that the guitar arpeggios at the end of the track were influenced by "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and the middle section of "Here Comes the Sun", and that the overall structure was inspired by Lennon's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from the previous year's album The Beatles, which also joined unrelated song ...
"Mickey's Monkey" is a 1963 song recorded by the R&B group the Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. It was written and produced by Motown's main songwriting team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, who later went on to write two more Miracles hit singles, the Top 40 "I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying", and the Top 20 "(Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need".
He stays there for the whole song, which the Beatles play in Lennon's quarters of the Beatles' shared flat. The flute part of the song is performed by George's in-house gardener ( Bruce Lacey ). They are watched by Ahme ( Eleanor Bron ), and at the end of the song, Harrison passes out after Ahme produces a giant needle for Starr, who is wearing ...
So we got in a little cupboard – a closet that had microphone leads and things, with a drum kit, amps turned to the walls, one mic for John. We did 'Yer Blues' live and it was really good." [ 10 ] In interviews for The Beatles Anthology series, Ringo Starr affectionately recalls recording this song in the stripped-down conditions, saying it ...
McCartney premiered "The Long and Winding Road" on 7 January 1969 during the Beatles' filmed rehearsals at Twickenham Film Studios. [14] [15] After they abandoned thoughts of returning to public performance, and instead decided to make a new album, [16] the band recorded several takes of the song at their Apple Studio in central London on 26 January and again on 31 January. [17]
McCartney himself has not spoken well of "Etcetera". He has stated that "it's a bad song" and that he's "glad it died in a tape bin". [1] On the other hand, engineer Alan Brown called it "a very beautiful song." Brown described the song as a "ballad and has the word 'etcetera' several times in the lyric.