Get Back
April 11, 1969 ( Single)
Get Back ( dt, 'Come back ' or ' Turn around ') is a song by British rock band The Beatles, released in the UK on 11 April 1969 as a single and on 8 May 1970 on the last album of the band, Let It Be, was released. Officially, the song by Lennon / McCartney was composed, but on the German pressings is correctly specified only Paul McCartney as a composer.
Title
The title of the song may well be interpreted programmatically, because the Beatles were a little tired at the beginning of 1969, the compositional as technical experiments in recent years and longed to returned back to simpler song structures with simple arrangements of guitar, bass and drums. So a kind of concept album of the same title was sought, the drop large orchestral arrangements and should go back back to the roots of the Beatles. Its publication has been postponed in the face of various difficulties within the band and it was not published until after the breakup of the band under the name of Let It Be.
Recording
The song was recorded in January 1969 during the filming for future documentary film Let It Be, solely with the so-called Rooftop Concert The Beatles played it three times. During the numerous jam sessions that the film took place in the work, McCartney improvised some textual variants for the song for which he also sang the lead vocal. John Lennon sings only with the chorus. An early version, which is known under the title No Pakistanis, had a politically colored text that criticized the immigration policies of the British government. In addition to the Beatles with Billy Preston worked on Fender Rhodes and was first mentioned as a guest musician on a Beatles single.
Achievements
The single was released in England on 23 April 1969 in the UK singles chart as No. 3, and in 1969 was five weeks from April 30, the No. 1 in the following countries Get Back was also at the top: Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, USA and New Zealand.
Cover versions
- Amen Corner - 1969 on the album Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven
- Al Green - 1970 on the album Green is Blues
- Elton John - 1993 on the album Tribute to the Beatles
- Ike & Tina Turner - 1971 on the album Workin 'Together
- Rod Stewart - 1976 on the soundtrack to the musical documentary All This and World War II and as a single hit
- Elvis Presley sang the song in the early 1970s regularly at his concerts in a medley with Little Sister