Beatles Songs from the Late 1960s

In late 1968 and early 1969 the Beatles began a project that had several titles considered for it. One of the names chosen, that it is still referred to as, was "Get Back" which was one of the songs included in the album that resulted. The final name for the filmed sessions and resulting album, was "Let It Be".

The project was planned as a simple rock album without some of the fluff that previous projects included and the point to the film that would go along with a completed album, was to show the Beatles from ground zero or from the beginning of the creative process, all the way through to completion of a compilation of straight, simple rock songs. The plan was for them to perform the completed rock songs, in a live finally at some exotic or unusual location. The live performance of the rehearsed songs would end up being performed on the roof top of Apple Studios in London.

When you see the Let It Be movie, you have to understand that the Beatles are shown going through the very same process all rock groups go through in completing songs from rough ideas. You see them plinking around, warming up a lot and going off into tangets of playing oldies (50s & early 60s songs). These are the usual steps rock groups go through to find inspiration to develop completed songs.

The problem was, that the Beatles were somewhat burnt out with the Beatles in general and were ready to try new things on their own. This created tension that clearly manifests during the filming of the movie.

The live performance that was filmed, is well played and interesting as well. You see the uncut mistakes, such as Ringo stopping the song "I Dig A Pony" at a false-start, to make an adjustment to his drum set. You also see the London Police come to arrest the disturbance of the peace that was happening unannounced. At one point George Harrison's guitar amp is unplugged by someone attempting to halt the concert and he defiantly plugs it back in to keep playing the song Get Back, which they had already started. You also hear Paul McCartney jokingly refer to getting arrested for "singing on the roof top again", toward the end of Get Back.

It was an unusual but historic rock event and interesting to see.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd8JYA4MvlQ&feature=related

Here's a song from the diverse Sergeant Pepper album. This song "Good Morning Good Morning", is a peppy morning type tune that John Lennon wrote after being inspired by a corn flake commercial, according to some accounts.

It has orchetra music incorporated into it and a variety of animal sounds at the end. Ringo does some complicated stagger type drums beats near the end and drum rolls throughout the song.

George Harrison plays a hard rock guitar solo, a real attention-getter about mid-way into it and as usual the Beatles added that touch of sophistication, with John proclaiming in one line of the song "it's time for tea and Meet the Wife". This is the song that leads into the "Sergeant Pepper reprise", a cluck of a chicken that ends the song, turns into a guitar sound, starting the downbeat for the reprise and Paul counting off "one, two, three, rock...". The short hard rocking reprise then leads into the album's ending song, the haunting John Lennon tune "A Day in the Life".

The album is still considered the greatest rock album of all time by many. Others believe this is an over-rated evaluation but regardless, it is an incredible Beatle album.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5OQGknWnlI