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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 ]
The song is also an ode to one of Lennon and McCartney's influences, the harmonies of the Everly Brothers. [7] An early performance of the song, in a guitar-driven rock style, can be seen in the Let It Be film and later in the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. Unsatisfied with this style, which McCartney described as "chunky", the band ...
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was the last Beatles song from the group's official canon to be included on an album, issued on an LP for the first time on Rarities (which had been included as a bonus disc in the British and American boxed set, The Beatles Collection in 1978, and released separately as an album in the United Kingdom in ...
A book also titled The Beatles: Get Back was released on 12 October, ahead of the documentary. [378] A super deluxe version of the Let It Be album was released on 15 October. [379] In January 2022, the album Get Back (Rooftop Performance), consisting of newly mixed audio of the Beatles' rooftop performance, was released on streaming services. [380]
Not so coincidentally, Peter Jackson had already started creating “Get Back” from the treasure trove of Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1969 footage of the Beatles during the “Let It Be ...
Producer Phil Spector was invited by Lennon and Harrison to take on the task of turning the Beatles' abandoned Get Back recording sessions into a usable album. [59] The songs " Get Back " and " Don't Let Me Down " had been released on a single in April 1969 and "Let It Be" was the A-side of the band's March 1970 single. [ 60 ]
The last album The Beatles released was Let It Be in May 1970.. The making of the work was chronicled in the three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which painted a portrait of a band who ...
[4] [5] The song is a love ballad with part of its lyrics sung in French. Following its inclusion on Rubber Soul, the song was released as a single in some European countries and in New Zealand, and on an EP in France, in early 1966. It was a number 1 hit for the Beatles in Belgium, France, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand.