The two “Get Back” photo sessions

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  1. bri286 says:

    As discussed in the previous post, perhaps it was simply that while the balcony shot was appropriate while the Get Back concept stood, once the album became Let It Be that cover no longer seemed suitable, given that it had now become the group's final album, and also was now being intrinsically tied to the film and the book (which was not originally the case)?

  2. Geert says:

    Amazing: I've known this picture for almost 30 years now, and never did I realise that they were wearing their old stage-suits!! And it's so obvious! Beatles trivia are an endless fount of joy! Thanks for pointing this one out 🙂

  3. Anonymous says:

    As per discussions on previous post, the 'Get Back' project was, really, an album idea in essence. The 'movie' portion was more by way of documenting the process for that album for some as yet undecided TV or film use.
    When the movie had become such, ie after Klein had offered it to UA, the album, already in deep trouble, disappeared.

    Thus 'Get Back' did not have a change of title. Rather, a movie called 'Let It Be' developed a soundtrack album.

  4. bri286 says:

    Worth remembering that the final version of Get Back contained I Me Mine (recorded specifically for the purpose) and Across The Universe, specifically because they were to feature in the film – so Get Back WAS to be that soundtrack album in its final incarnation, still with the original sleeve. The name (and philosophy) change was the key to the sleeve re-think…

  5. Popper says:

    I'm not sure that the photo with the dark-suited John and George was taken an earlier session. If you look at this page (bottom image) thebeatlesbutchershop.com/GET-BACK-LET-IT-BE.html,
    you can see the dark suits, in a shot clearly taken from the correct angle (ie the later session), almost identical to the white suit images. There's also another one with just John in dark, George in white. The only logical solution is that the dark suits have been artificially coloured in, which throws up a question mark over whether they were ever actually photographed in dark suits, and whether the 'early' photo from the wrong angle is indeed from a different session. The coloured-in one has the same shade on George's jacket.

  6. bri286 says:

    I was lucky enough to meet Glyn Johns at a Q&A in the former Studio One at Olympic Studios in Barnes, South West London, last night. The recording studio is now a cinema, keeping many original features, and made the perfect setting for Glyn to reminisce about his work in Studio One with the Stones, Who, Eagles etc.

    Naturally I asked him about Get Back, which he mixed at Olympic (twice!), and he explained what he was trying to achieve with the track and take selections he made. And then he offered to let me hear some Beatles recordings from his personal collection…gulp!

    Watch this space for further news…

  7. Peter Hicks says:

    bri286 I'd love to hear more about the Beatles songs you heard from Johns' collection!

  8. Steve says:

    Too bad they all weren’t wearing their ’66 suits. that would have looked even better.

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