(Soundboard FLAC)
Best of the Twickenham Rehearsals - 50th anniversary edition - in stereo (no camera beeps)
Recorded 2-14 January 1969 at the Twickenham Film Studios, Richmond upon Thames, London
If you like your Get Back rehearsals raw and unedited, then this compilation is not for you. If, on the other hand, listening through the nearly 100 hours of circulating film soundtrack reels, plagued by sync beeps, seems like much too great an effort for to be only occasionally rewarded by an odd snatch of truly listenable tape, then you might want to give a chance to this compilation of highlights from the Twickenham half of the sessions. (A sequel culled from the Apple sessions may follow later.)
The roughly 40 hours of soundtrack recorded at the studio sound stage between 2 and 14 January 1969 - weekends excepted - has been carefully sifted through and distilled. While there is little that is truly great, there is much that is at least interesting, and on this compilation the "good" has been hand-picked and the "bad" left on the cutting room floor, along with just a tad of the "ugly" also thrown in, to give a fly-on-the-wall impression of the Beatles breaking up on camera. (But a more satisfactory impression, it is hoped, than the 'Let It Be... Naked' bonus disc with that moniker.) The selected tracks, totaling about 5 hours, have been mostly arranged chronologically, although with some exceptions made due to reasons of flow and disc space limitations.
What's more, all of those annoying sync beeps are gone, and to further enhance the listening experience, the edited compilation, originally recorded in mono, has been processed - except for a handful of solo piano and dialogue tracks - into a stereo presentation using modern de-mixing software (NOT micro-second delay or ADT in one channel).
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DISC 1: Thu-Fri / 2-3 January [77:00]
01. setting up (2.00,31,34) [0:52]
02. I've Got A Feeling (2.30) [4:06]
03. discussion #1 (2.46) [0:52]
04. I've Got A Feeling (2.46) [3:43]
05. I've Got A Feeling (2.47,45) [1:21]
06. Don't Let Me Down (2.48-49) [2:30]
07. Don't Let Me Down (2.50) [2:42]
08. discussion #2 (2.51-53) [1:51]
09. Don't Let Me Down (2.53) [3:38]
10. Two Of Us (2.63) [4:21]
11. One After 909 (3.66) [2:48]
12. discussion #3 (3.66,64) [1:05] *
13. Because I Know You Love Me So (3.65) [2:22]
14. Lucille (3.37) [2:29]
15. Your Name Is Ted (3.28) [3:03]
16. discussion #4 (3.48-51) [1:15]
17. Don't Let Me Down (3.54-55) [2:59]
18. I've Got A Feeling (3.56,59) [4:04]
19. Hitch Hike (3.72) [1:58]
20. You Can't Do That (3.73-74) [2:40]
21. Two Of Us (3.80-81) [2:59]
22. discussion #5 (3.99,109,138) [2:42]
23. All Things Must Pass (3.140,137) [3:30]
24. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (3.147,148) [2:45]
25. My Imagination (6.25,26) [4:52]
26. discussion #6 (6.97,102) [6:26] *
27. Two Of Us (6.103) [3:11]
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DISC 2: Mon-Tue / 6-7 January [77:00]
01. The Palace Of The King Of Birds (6.15) [5:37]
02. Don't Let Me Down (6.69,72) [2:15]
03. All Things Must Pass (6.117,119,123) [3:36]
04. Lowdown Blues Machine (7.13-14) [2:23]
05. What I'd Say (7.15) [1:18]
06. Get Back (7.16) [1:27]
07. Get Back (7.18) [2:40]
08. Get Back (7.19) [5:12]
09. dialogue about the show #1 (7.20-25) [3:21] *
10. dialogue about the show #2 (7.20-25) [4:46] *
11. dialogue about the show #3 (7.20-25) [2:56] *
12. dialogue about the doldrums #1 (7.28-31) [2:38] *
13. dialogue about the doldrums #2 (7.28-31) [3:28] *
14. dialogue about the doldrums #3 (7.32-34) [3:39] *
15. I've Got A Feeling (7.44,47,46) [3:41]
16. Oh! Darling (7.51,52) [2:37]
17. When I'm 64 (Speak To Me) (7.67-68) [1:26]
18. improvisation (7.74) [0:35]
19. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (8.61,69) [4:20]
20. Gone, Gone, Gone (7.105) [2:09]
21. Dig A Pony (7.106) [1:14]
22. A Case Of The Blues (7.92-93) [1:17] *
23. Gimme Some Truth (7.94-96, 3.91) [2:02] *
24. Gimme Some Truth (7.97-98) [1:25] *
25. Across The Universe (7.99,86) [4:37]
26. Don't Let Me Down (7.118) [0:58]
27. Don't Let Me Down (7.122) [2:48]
28. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (7.138) [3:11]
29. goodnight microphone (6.xx) [0:34]
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DISC 3: Wed-Thu / 8-9 January [76:20]
01. The Long And Winding Road (9.07,14) [2:31] *
02. Let It Be (9.08) [1:14] *
03. Her Majesty (9.09) [1:07] *
04. Golden Slumbers (9.10) [3:42] *
05. Carry That Weight (9.11) [2:40] *
06. Honey Hush (8.08,09) [4:21]
07. Stand By Me (8.10) [2:32]
08. Hare Krishna Mantra (8.11,13) [1:47]
09. Two Of Us (9.33) [3:15]
10. Mean Mr Mustard (8.38) [3:23]
11. Let It Be (8.82) [3:32]
12. I Me Mine (8.108,109) [2:22]
13. For You Blue (9.21,22) [2:55]
14. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (9.57,56,55) [3:52]
15. Suzy Parker (9.39) [2:27]
16. I've Got A Feeling (9.40,43) [3:56]
17. Get Back (9.59,60) [2:38]
18. Get Back (9.64,63) [3:11]
19. Across The Universe (9.79,80,82) [3:55]
20. Commonwealth (9.88-90) [4:41]
21. Get Off! (9.91) [3:01]
22. Can You Dig It (9.91,93,94,83) [3:39]
23: Let It Be (9.121-22) [3:16]
24. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (8.73-76) [2:20] *
25. Oh! Darling (14.48-50) [4:03] *
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DISC 4: Fri & Tue / 10 & 14 January [78:00]
01. Jazz Piano Song (14.13) [1:18]
02. Woman (14.14-17) [2:11]
03. piano improvisation (14.21) [0:43]
04. The Back Seat Of My Car (14.22,23) [4:37]
05. Song Of Love (14.25,26) [3:01]
06. Get Back (10.09,10) [3:02]
07. I've Got A Feeling (10.11,14) [2:24]
08. I've Got A Feeling (10.15) [2:05]
09. Get Back (10.18) [2:29]
10. Get Back (10.22) [1:39]
11. Get Back (10.22) [1:48]
12. Get Back (10.22) [2:19]
13. Get Back (10.22) [2:55]
14. Get Back (10.23) [4:00]
15. Hi-Heel Sneakers (10.24,25) [2:26]
16. Two Of Us (10.42,44) [3:02]
17. George quits (10.44,49) [1:10]
18. A Quick One (10.50,51) [1:58]
19. dialogue about John and Yoko (13.07) [6:53] *
20. Pythonesque dialogue (14.28) [2:34] *
21. dialogue and jokes #1 (14.29) [3:09] *
22. dialogue and jokes #2 (14.29) [2:27] *
23. dialogue and jokes #3 (14.29) [3:26] *
24. dialogue and jokes #4 (14.29) [3:21] *
25. Madman (14.31) [4:10]
26. Mean Mr Mustard (14.32) [4:15]
27. Watching Rainbows (14.33,34,35) [4:52]
28. closing remarks (13.34) [0:41] *
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SINGLE DISC HIGHLIGHTS: suggested selection [79:40]
1.01. setting up (2.00,31,34) [0:52]
1.02. I've Got A Feeling (2.30) [4:06]
1.11. One After 909 (3.66) [2:48]
1.13. Because I Know You Love Me So (3.65) [2:22]
1.17. Don't Let Me Down (3.54-55) [2:59]
2.01. The Palace Of The King Of Birds (6.15) [5:37]
2.02. Don't Let Me Down (6.69,72) [2:15]
2.03. All Things Must Pass (6.117,119,123) [3:36]
2.15. I've Got A Feeling (7.44,47,46) [3:41]
2.16. Oh! Darling (7.51,52) [2:37]
2.19. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (8.61,69) [4:20]
2.20. Gone, Gone, Gone (7.105) [2:09]
2.25. Across The Universe (7.99,86) [4:37]
2.28. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (7.138) [3:11]
3.09. Two Of Us (9.33) [3:15]
3.10. Mean Mr Mustard (8.38) [3:23]
3.12. I Me Mine (8.108,109) [2:22]
3.13. For You Blue (9.21,22) [2:55]
3.15. Suzy Parker (9.39) [2:27]
3.18. Get Back (9.64,63) [3:11]
3.20. Commonwealth (9.88-90) [4:41]
3.23: Let It Be (9.121-22) [3:16]
4.25. Madman (14.31) [4:10]
4.27. Watching Rainbows (14.33,34,35) [4:52]
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For more details, see the separate track notes. Parental advisory: occasional explicit content.
Audio source: Purple Chick's 'A/B Road' v.1.1 (jameskg etc.); for identification purposes, the DDSI numbers in parentheses correspond to tracks on that revised set.
All tracks de-mixed to stereo and edited from the film soundtrack Nagra tape reels, except * mono.
Camera sync beeps ("bloop slates") removed by filtering, editing and patching.
For further background, read Jonathan Cott & David Dalton's article from 1970: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/daddy-has-gone-away-now-let-it-be-169042/
Artwork included. Photographs by Ethan A. Russell.
A Nite Owl production (NO-2019-07).
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