The original title track of the film and recording sessions which became Let It Be. Although fully proficient themselves, the Beatles invited Nicky Hopkins, one of the British rock scene’s leading session musicians, to contribute the piano track. This 16-take recording commenced on 10 July and was completed two days later. One of three ‘Revolution’ songs released by the Beatles in 1968: this was the last to be started but the first to be issued, on the B-side of ‘Hey Jude’. A one-take recording, with overdubs, it was completed at Trident on 1 August. The recording commenced at Abbey Road on 29 July but switched to Trident Studios, in Soho, for a re-make version two days later.
George’s lead vocal and John and Paul’s brief backing vocals were overdubbed at Abbey Road on 6 and 8 February.Īn enormously successful single, issued on 30 August 1968. The instrumental track was recorded in five takes by Indian musicians, under George’s direction, at the EMI studio in Bombay on 12 January 1968.
The B-side of ‘Lady Madonna’, and the first George Harrison composition to appear on a Beatles single. The five-take recording commenced on 3 February and was completed with a four-man brass overdub on 6 February. Recorded for a Spring 1968 single and release while the Beatles were in India studying Transcendental Meditation. The instrumental recording – played fast and remixed with the tape machine on slow vari-speed – commenced on 14 April 1966 and the song was completed with vocal overdubs two days later, the seventh of eight takes providing the master version. The B-side of ‘Paperback Writer’, and the first released Beatles song to feature a backwards tape (John’s final verse).
The Beatles’ first single of 1966, released on 10 June and recorded in two takes and an overdub on 13 and 14 April. The recording commenced with two takes on 20 October 1965, and was completed with an overdub nine days later.
The single was released simultaneously with Rubber Soul on 3 December 1965 but neither song appeared on that LP. A double A-sided single with ‘We Can Work It Out’, completed in three takes, one session, on 16 October.
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