Don't Let Me Down (Beatles song)

April 11, 1969

Do not Let Me Down (German: , Do not let me ') is a song by British band The Beatles in 1969 it was Composed by John Lennon, but is copyright Lennon / McCartney..

Background

On the last album the Beatles Let It Be Lennon was with only one own new composition represented ( Dig a Pony). Do not Let Me Down, however, was also produced during the recording sessions for Let It Be. Content, Lennon is in the song apart with his love for his wife Yoko Ono.

Recording

The recording sessions for the album Let It Be was filmed at London's Twickenham Film Studios early 1969. Here are the first versions of Do not Let Me Down arisen. On January 21, 1969, the song was recorded again, this time Apple in his own studio the Beatles. Produced the song by George Martin, the Glyn Johns assisted. A new recording from the following day should appear on the album Get Back, which remained unpublished ultimately. On the following days came other versions, of which those were ultimately selected by January 28, 1969 for publication on the B- side of the single Get Back. In the later album Let It Be Do not Let Me Down was disregarded.

On 30 January 1969, the Beatles played their last concert on the roof of her studio. Here they played Do not Let Me Down twice. A compilation of these two performances was released in 2003 on the album Let It Be ... Naked.

Publication

Do not Let Me Down released in the UK on 11 April 1969, the B- side of the single Get Back. In later years the song on the Beatles' compilations Hey Jew, Past Masters and the so-called Blue album was represented.

Cover versions

Like countless cover versions were published by nearly all Beatles songs, including Marcia Griffiths, Ben E. King, Phoebe Snow, Annie Lennox, Stereophonics, Matchbox Twenty or Paul Weller.