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John LennonNotes on ... Series 161 - 196

 





  Get Back (1969 - 1970)
  by Alan W. Pollack
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  In the last years of their career the final split of the group already became visible in the growing number of solo projects. As an antidote to their conflicts in January 1969 the Beatles initiated their Get Back project at the Twickenham Film Studios in London. In April they released the single Get Back / Don't Let Me Down, followed in May by The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe. Some of the other results of this tribute to their roots are collected on the album Abbey Road (September 1969), the single Let It Be / You Know My Name (March 1970) and the last album Let It Be (May 1970). To his analyses of these songs Pollack adds his views on the two original songs on the recent Anthology CD's: Free As A Bird and Real Love.

161 Get Back (1999) 160
162 Don't Let Me Down (1999) 159
163 The Ballad Of John And Yoko (1999) 168
164 Old Brown Shoe (1999) 169
165 Let It Be (1999) 164
166 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (1999) 112
167 Two Of Us (1999) 161
168 Dig A Pony (1999) 157
169 Across The Universe (1999) 123
170 I Me Mine (1999) 186
171 Dig It (1999) 162
172 Maggie Mae (and other "Get Back" session fragments) (1999) 161b
173 I've Got A Feeling (1999) 158
174 One After 909 (1999) 166
175 The Long And Winding Road (1999) 165
176 For You Blue (1999) 163
177 Come Together (1999) 179
178 Something (1999) 170
179 Maxwell's Silver Hammer (1999) 178
180 Oh! Darling (1999) 171
181 Octopus's Garden (1999) 172
182 I Want You (She's So Heavy) (1999) 167
183 Here Comes The Sun (1999) 177
184 Because (1999) 185
185 Sun King (1999) 181
186 Mean Mr Mustard (1999) 182
187 Polythene Pam (1999) 183
188 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (2000) 184
189 Golden Slumbers (2000) 175
190 Carry That Weight (2000) 176
191 The End (2000) 180
192 The "Abbey Road" Medley (You Never Give Me Your Money - Sun King - Mean Mr Mustard - Polythene Pam - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End) (2000) 181, 182, 183, 184, 175, 176, 180
193 Her Majesty (2000) 174
   
194 Free As A Bird (1995) 187
195 Real Love (1995) 188
   
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196 Ian Hammond Interviews Alan W. Pollack (2000)  
197 Quarrymen Sessions (2000)  
198 Can You Take Me Back (2001)  
199 Percy Phillips Shellac ("That'll Be The Day", "In Spite Of All The Danger") (2001) E1b, E1
200 Notes on Three Simple Songs That Didn't Make It ("Twelve-Bar Original", "If You've Got Trouble", "Leave My Kitten Alone") (2001) U73, U54, U38c
   
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  Copyright © 1989-2001 by Alan W. Pollack. All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced, retransmitted, redistributed and otherwise propagated at will, provided that this notice remains intact and in place.
  In case you want to quote these pages, please refer to the original sources. So for Pollack's remarks on "Free As A Bird" refer to: Pollack, Alan W. (1995), Notes on "Free As A Bird". Notes on ... Series no. 194, 1995. The 'Official' rec.music.beatles Home Page (http://www.recmusicbeatles.com).
  Conversion to HTML by Ed Chen, Mike Markowski, Bruce Dumes, and Maurizio Codogno. Indexed and adapted for Soundscapes by Ger Tillekens.
  The numbers in the last column refer to the second, updated edition of Ian MacDonald's book: Revolution in the Head. The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. London: Random House (Pimlico), 1997.