This version of the “Get Back” album was also rejected by The Beatles as substandard. After some additional Beatles recording sessions in early January of 1970, Glyn Johns went to putting together yet another “Get Back” album to be released in conjunction with the released movie. This being the case, a soundtrack album would be needed.
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In fact, since the group's rehearsals and rerecording sessions for this project were filmed, a decision was made by their new manager, Allen Klein, that the footage would be released as a movie in order to fulfill their United Artists contract for three feature films. While the future of the group was uncertain, John declaring he wanted “a divorce” from The Beatles in September of 1969, the “Get Back” sessions were still not forgotton. Putting the “Get Back” sessions behind them for the time being, The Beatles continued recording sessions to create a new polished album with producer George Martin, this becoming the painstakingly recorded “ Abbey Road” album, which was released in America in the fall of 1969. Instead, a newly recorded Beatles single, “ The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe,” was released that summer. However, because the quality of the album, as assembled by producer Glyn Johns, was viewed by The Beatles as substandard, that album was not released in that form. It was expected that this album, entitled “ Get Back,” would be in the record stores by summer while the single was still on the charts. In fact, the first evidence of this project came out as the follow-up single to “ Hey Jude,” namely, the highly sucessful “ Get Back / Don't Let Me Down” release, the a-side spending five weeks in the #1 position on the US Billboard singles chart in May and June of 1969.Īs expected, an album was prepared and readied for release on May 28th, 1969 that included this current single as well as the rest of the material they had recorded for this project. The intention was, of course, for it to be released to the world shortly after it was recorded.
As 1969 began, the group broke ground on yet another project that, as fate would have it, mostly sat in limbo for roughly fifteen months before it would see the light of day. After The Beatles completed the recording of their famous self-titled double album affectionately known as the “ White Album,” a two-and-a-half-month rest period ensued that allowed them to recuperate from the tedious five months they spent in the recording studio.