Description

Get Back (Bootleg) is an un-released recording of the famous Beatles Let It Be sessions from 1969.

In January 1969, The Beatles got together with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg to film the rehearsals for the group’s proposed first live concert since 1966. This project would concentrate on new material, and was intended to form the basis for both a television documentary and a new album, which were given the title of Get Back.

But disagreements and a general lack of enthusiasm within the group led to much of the project never being fully completed. However, a one-off live performance was filmed and recorded on the rooftop of Apple Records on 30 January 1969, and the title song “Get Back” was released as a single in April 1969.

After essentially being abandoned by The Beatles for more than a year, the project was eventually renamed and released in May 1970; with the film footage now becoming a feature film, Let It Be, and the new songs becoming an album of the same name.

The rehearsals and recordings took place at Twickenham Film Studios and then at Apple, with more than one hundred hours captured on film and the corresponding Nagra tape recorders used for the film’s audio track. These Nagra tapes are the source for most, but not all, of the bootlegs from these sessions.

LP Bootleg Records 1969 ***