however, need to be mentioned.
For the time being, the “Get Back” project and the idea behind it were shelved. Changing course, the Beatles decided that what they wanted to make next was the kind of recording they had come to master: an album of polished studio-craft. The other key point is that the time spent at Twickenham and Apple would ultimately prove constructive in terms of the making of
Abbey Road.
Many of the songs—thirteen, in fact—that would appear on
Abbey Road
were first introduced and/or worked on considerably during that period. In fact, the only
Abbey Road
songs that did not surface during the “Get Back” sessions were “Come Together,” “Here Comes the Sun,” “Because,” “You Never Give Me Your Money,” and “The End.”
It’s hard to figure out why the Beatles decided not to consider any of the aforementioned 13 songs for inclusion on the first, aborted
Get Back
album. John Kurlander, a recording engineer who worked extensively on
Abbey Road,
was able to shed some light on why some songs made it onto a Beatles album and others didn’t. “It was really a continual process,” he began. “You would go in and record songs, and some got left behind and didn’t get put on that [particular] album; and then later on, on the next album, the ones that had gotten left behind were never really forgotten.”
Kurlander remembered hearing some of the music that had been worked on during the “Get Back” project in July of 1969, in preparation for the group to begin recording
Abbey Road.
He explained the process:
It
[Abbey Road]
started off as a collection of playbacks of tapes. “Hey Jude” was one. “Come Together” was another. The thing would start off like, “Let’s listen to every single take we recorded of, for example ‘Come Together.’” There was a lot of playback and selection of stuff. Then, after one gathered all the tracks of pre-recorded stuff and selected what was usable, what would be up for a remake, and what would only need overdubbing, … Well, that’s kind of when
Abbey Road
actually started to get pulled together.
Peter Brown was surprised but pleased that the Beatles decided to do the
Abbey Road
album. He remarked,“A new beginning was a good idea.
Let It Be
had become too bogged down in this mess—Twickenham, Apple, the disagreements. They said, ‘Let’s just put it aside.’ The idea that they could actually make
Abbey Road
was quite amazing.”
On July 20, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. In was on that day, according to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, that all four Beatles were first shown a rough cut of the film, which was longer than the final cut would be by about 30 to 40 minutes. The next day, Lindsay-Hogg received a phone call from Peter Brown. Lindsay-Hogg indicated that Brown said, “I think we could lose about a half an hour of the picture, especially the bits with John and Yoko.” Lindsay-Hogg replied, “Gee, I think that’s really interesting stuff—John and Yoko and seeing how they got on.” To that Brown responded, “Let me put it this way: I’ve had three phone calls this morning. I think we should lose the stuff with John and Yoko.” Michael Lindsay-Hogg felt that the footage got dropped “partly because once John had seen the rough cut, he didn’t care about the movie.”
Lindsay-Hogg said that in September of 1969 there was another screening of the film. It was a finished cut and he didn’t remember if all the Beatles were there or not. Allen Klein held a dinner afterwards at the White Elephant on the River, a fashionable London club, andshortly thereafter all four Beatles signed off on the finished cut.
August 15 marked the first day of Woodstock, the three-day music festival in upstate New York. As the concert got under way, the Beatles were at Abbey Road working on “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight,” “The End,” “Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun,” all of which would end up on
Abbey Road.
The session for
For the time being, the “Get Back” project and the idea behind it were shelved. Changing course, the Beatles decided that what they wanted to make next was the kind of recording they had come to master: an album of polished studio-craft. The other key point is that the time spent at Twickenham and Apple would ultimately prove constructive in terms of the making of
Abbey Road.
Many of the songs—thirteen, in fact—that would appear on
Abbey Road
were first introduced and/or worked on considerably during that period. In fact, the only
Abbey Road
songs that did not surface during the “Get Back” sessions were “Come Together,” “Here Comes the Sun,” “Because,” “You Never Give Me Your Money,” and “The End.”
It’s hard to figure out why the Beatles decided not to consider any of the aforementioned 13 songs for inclusion on the first, aborted
Get Back
album. John Kurlander, a recording engineer who worked extensively on
Abbey Road,
was able to shed some light on why some songs made it onto a Beatles album and others didn’t. “It was really a continual process,” he began. “You would go in and record songs, and some got left behind and didn’t get put on that [particular] album; and then later on, on the next album, the ones that had gotten left behind were never really forgotten.”
Kurlander remembered hearing some of the music that had been worked on during the “Get Back” project in July of 1969, in preparation for the group to begin recording
Abbey Road.
He explained the process:
It
[Abbey Road]
started off as a collection of playbacks of tapes. “Hey Jude” was one. “Come Together” was another. The thing would start off like, “Let’s listen to every single take we recorded of, for example ‘Come Together.’” There was a lot of playback and selection of stuff. Then, after one gathered all the tracks of pre-recorded stuff and selected what was usable, what would be up for a remake, and what would only need overdubbing, … Well, that’s kind of when
Abbey Road
actually started to get pulled together.
Peter Brown was surprised but pleased that the Beatles decided to do the
Abbey Road
album. He remarked,“A new beginning was a good idea.
Let It Be
had become too bogged down in this mess—Twickenham, Apple, the disagreements. They said, ‘Let’s just put it aside.’ The idea that they could actually make
Abbey Road
was quite amazing.”
On July 20, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. In was on that day, according to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, that all four Beatles were first shown a rough cut of the film, which was longer than the final cut would be by about 30 to 40 minutes. The next day, Lindsay-Hogg received a phone call from Peter Brown. Lindsay-Hogg indicated that Brown said, “I think we could lose about a half an hour of the picture, especially the bits with John and Yoko.” Lindsay-Hogg replied, “Gee, I think that’s really interesting stuff—John and Yoko and seeing how they got on.” To that Brown responded, “Let me put it this way: I’ve had three phone calls this morning. I think we should lose the stuff with John and Yoko.” Michael Lindsay-Hogg felt that the footage got dropped “partly because once John had seen the rough cut, he didn’t care about the movie.”
Lindsay-Hogg said that in September of 1969 there was another screening of the film. It was a finished cut and he didn’t remember if all the Beatles were there or not. Allen Klein held a dinner afterwards at the White Elephant on the River, a fashionable London club, andshortly thereafter all four Beatles signed off on the finished cut.
August 15 marked the first day of Woodstock, the three-day music festival in upstate New York. As the concert got under way, the Beatles were at Abbey Road working on “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight,” “The End,” “Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun,” all of which would end up on
Abbey Road.
The session for
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