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Nei Twickenham Studios fa freddo e non si sta troppo bene. Un immenso capannone ostile, un luogo certamente non idoneo per delle sedute di registrazione. Tra strumentazioni varie, luci colorate, tappeti e cineprese nel Gennaio del '69 i Beatles sono alle prese con il nuovo progetto che dovrà seguire nella discografia "The Beatles" che ha visto la luce solo pochi mesi prima. Il clima è gelido anche per altri motivi, Lennon considera ormai la questione dell'incidere un nuovo disco come una sorta di lavoro d'ufficio, Harrison ha sempre più la testa rivolta altrove e Ringo s'accoda senza troppo entusiasmo.
"Get Back" è più un'idea di Paul, un ritorno ad un suono grezzo e ruvido come agli esordi per risollevare il gruppo e riportare l'entusiasmo perduto. L'idea è condivisa da John e da George Martin, nessuno ha voglia di passare ore e ore in studio per realizzare un disco dopo l'intenso biennio '67-'68. Il problema è che l'idea di realizzare un film documentario su un live in studio non è ben accetta e quello che doveva essere il documento di una band affiatata diventerà la testimonianza dell'inizio della fine. Il materiale che viene provato si basa su alcuni recuperi dell'ultimo periodo del '68, John ha la sua "Across The Universe" e Paul riprende una canzone domestica dal titolo "Two Of Us", l'esecuzione di quest'ultima vede un inedito Harrison alla chitarra a simulare il basso mentre Paul si occupa della chitarra acustica. Ad emergere dalla pressione è la personalità dispotica di McCartney che preso troppo dall'entusiasmo si scontra frequentemente con Harrison, mentre Lennon le volte che è presente si assenta in un mondo parallelo con la sua Yoko. La presenza della Ono è il corpo estraneo che catalizza solo tensione e McCartney non sa più dove andare a sbattere la testa e cerca in tutti i modi di spronare gli altri. Paradossalmente l'intento di produrre un disco grezzo fra mille difficoltà riesce, "I've Got A Feeling" è ruvida carta vetro, "The One After 909" è un ripescaggio del primissimo periodo e "Don't Let Me Down" il contributo sostanzioso di John al progetto. Harrison ci mette del suo con la grintosa "I Me Mine" e la bellissima "For You Blue" con una slide guitar suonata da John. Le registrazione proseguono nel Gennaio del '69 presso il seminterrato della Apple, luogo più congeniale all'incisione, si aggiungono le ballate "Let It Be" e "The Long And Winding Road", composizioni sublimi di un McCartney ormai prossimo a gettare la spugna e la collaborazione con il vecchio amico Billy Preston per "Get Back". Nel tentativo di dare una scossa si decide di registrare un live che avrebbe dovuto chiudere degnamente il documentario, piovono mille idee ma nessuno ha la voglia di organizzare un evento e così in una fredda mattina di Gennaio si opta per la terrazza sul tetto della Apple, il gruppo riesce a eseguire solo pochi brani prima che qualcuno sentendosi disturbato nella quiete chiami la polizia e faccia mettere la parola fine all'ultimo concerto del gruppo.
Con una notevole quantità di filmato e molte ore di registrazione c'è solo da mettere insieme il tutto, George Martin si è defilato e il tutto viene dato a Glyn Johns perchè ne ricavi qualcosa. I quattro ormai sono totalmente disinteressati a "Get Back" e quindi finisce tutto in soffitta fino a quando i nastri non arriveranno nelle ossute mani di Phil Spector che ne stravolgerà l'essenza provocando l'ira di Paul nei primi mesi del '70. Bisticci riguardanti le date d'uscita dei primi lavori solisti e la contemporanea pubblicazione del rinnegato, da parte di McCartney, "Let It Be" porteranno alla dissolvenza finale. Ma l'idea di un ritorno alle origini, un suono diretto e meno sofisticato aveva già contaminato le personalità artistiche di Paul e John che adotteranno la nuova filosofia per realizzare "McCartney" e "John Lennon Plastic Ono Band", in mezzo c'è "Abbey Road" ma questa è un'altra storia.
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01 One After 909 (03:04)
(Intro)
My baby says she's traveling
on the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby,don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I begged her not to go
And I begged her on my bended knees
You're only fooling around
You're only fooling around with me
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I've got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you've got the wrong location
Picked up my bags, run right home
Then I find I've got the number wrong
Well, I said I'm travelingon the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I've got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you've got the wrong location (yeah)
Picked up my bags, run right home (run right home)
Then I find I've got the number wrong
Well, I said I'm traveling
on the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
Yeah
05 Dig a Pony (04:02)
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, dig a pony
Well you can celebrate anything you want
Yes, you can celebrate anything you want
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, do a roadhog
Well you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, pick a moondog
Well you can radiate everything you are
Yes, you can radiate everything you are
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, roll a stoney
Well you can imitate everyone you know
Yes, you can imitate everyone you know
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, feel the wind blow
Well you can indicate everything you see
Yes, you can indicate everything you see
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, cold and lonely
Well you can syndicate any boat you row
Yes, you can syndicate any boat you row
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
07 Get Back (03:09)
Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
for some California grass
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo Jo
Go home
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Loretta
Ah, get back
Yeah, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Yeah get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, Ooo
[Past Masters/single version only:
Get back, Loretta,
Your mommy's waiting for you,
Wearin' her high heel shoes and her low neck sweater,
Get back home, Loretta
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back, get back...]
08 Let It Be (04:04)
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right it front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
And when the brokenhearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted
There is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Yeah, there will be an answer let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Yeah, let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
09 For You Blue (02:51)
Because you're sweet and lovely girl, I love you
Because you're sweet and lovely girl, It's true
I love you more that ever girl, I do
I want you in the morning girl, I love you
I want you at the moment I feel blue
I'm living every moment girl, for you
Bob, bobcat Bob
Go Johnny go
Same ole 12-bar blues
(Elmore James got nothin' on this baby)
I loved you from the moment I saw you
You looked at me, that's all you had to do
I feel it now I hope you feel it too
I'm having the blues
10 Two of Us (03:22)
I dig a Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids.
Phase One in which Doris gets her oats.
Two of us riding nowhere
spending someone's hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
Two of us sending postcards
writing letters on my wall
You and me burning matches
lifting latches on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
longer than the road
that stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
longer than that road
that stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
We're going home
11 Maggie Mae (00:41)
Oh, dirty Maggie Mae
they have taken her away
and she'll never walk
down Lime Street anymore
Oh, the judge she guilty found her
of robbing the homeward bounder
dirty no good robbin' Maggie Mae
It's the part of Liverpool
She returned me to
Two pound ten a week
that was my pay
15 Across the Universe (03:27)
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my opened ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai Guru Deva
Jai Guru Deva
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