volume 1
june 1999 |
 Notes on ... Series 161 - 196
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Get Back (1969 - 1970) |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 194 |
Free As A Bird |
(1995) |
187 |
| 195 |
Real Love |
(1995) |
188 |
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| 196 |
Ian Hammond Interviews Alan W. Pollack |
(2000) |
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| 197 |
Quarrymen Sessions |
(2000) |
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| 198 |
Can You Take Me Back |
(2001) |
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Percy Phillips Shellac ("That'll Be The Day", "In Spite Of All The Danger") |
(2001) |
E1b, E1 |
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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. |
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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). |
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Conversion to HTML by Ed Chen, Mike Markowski, Bruce Dumes, and Maurizio Codogno. Indexed and adapted for Soundscapes by Ger Tillekens. |
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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. |
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