Footage Of The Beatles Jan 28 1969 At Apple - Get Back Playback

Nor sure if this has been posted before:

 

Thank you, I'd never seen this before. Who are the guys in the control room?

 

Great stuff! Thanks for posting. Who else is in the control room?

 

One of my favorite Beatles singles. It is an example of why sometimes take one, or take two is not it, and playing it a hundred times can make a track sound so effortlessly tight. They played this many takes until it gelled just right. Hit #1 no problem. Such a perfect double A sided 45, and it still seems a perfect follow up to the White Album. It could have come from the WA,

 

Looks like Glyn Johns behind the board.

 

Actually a regular single with one A-side.

Yes Glyn is there, as well as director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Not sure who Paul is talking to.

 

Great stuff indeed...I have an old VHS tape with about 90 minutes of black footage including this..so now, we can ask altogether: where IS that great deluxe, remastered Let It Be bluray that's going to include some of this ??

 

Actually all singles are issued with an A since and a B side. But it is the rise in stature after the fact that brings a single to the "Double A" status.

This is often when both songs become hits and drive sales of the 45 with radio play. The Beatles have quite a few of these Double As in fact. But it's not a term I often see used as an official release type.

Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
Honky Tonk Woman / YCAGWYW
Laughing / Undone
Bad Moon Rising / Lodi

I place in this special catagory.

 

Wonder why so many of the outtakes that surface are B&W when the sessions were filmed in colour (British spelling somehow seems appropriate)

 

Most likely a typo on your part but it was Strawberry Fields Forever on Penny Lane's flip side. Or perhaps you were thinking of Hello Goodbye /I Am The Walrus

 

Thanks for correction. There might still be time to edit my glitch.

But yes SFF and Hello Goodbye are both as well about as close to a double as it gets.

 

Denis O'Dell, head of Apple Films and one of the Apple Corps directors.

 

Lindsay-Hogg certainly looks like his father Orson Welles in that clip. I hadn't seen a clear front-on shot of him up to now.

 

Thanks for that. I found that increadably interesting.

 

Has it been confirmed that Wells was his father? Last I heard it was supposed and suggested but not certain.

 

I believe Yoko had her own cameraman filming and the B/W shots are from her film. But correct me if I am wrong.

 

They looked like they were having fun - even George.

Then again, they weren't playing and about to go home.

And I agree - where is our deluxe Let It Be film?

 

back in the 80's i had the pleasure of working on a project with Michael Lindsay-Hogg for a few weeks. With all my presumed knowledge of musical history ,
i never put him together with TOTP or Rock and Roll Circus or Let It Be he once referenced his rock and roll past and said we would talk about it another day, sadly
that never occurred . I kicked myself when i put it all together..

 

so in other words you have decided that it is a double a side then ...

 

Hard to make out what anyones talking about. Wonder what George is exactly suggesting to Paul? Paul has this "Uh huh...ok" kind of look to him in response.

I suppose it was cramped up in that booth because it was a playback. I think George is sitting on a cigarette disposal. Kind of funny how later they were treated practically like royalty; but they just seem like a bunch of blokes in a room with other guys here.

 

Not certain by DNA but supported by Gloria Vanderbilt, a friend of his mother.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lindsay-Hogg

 

No, as far as the Beatles are concerned, the double A sided single was invented in December 1965 as a compromise between George Martin, Brian Epstein, Paul, George, Ringo and NEMS who all wanted We Can Work It Out to be the A side, and John Lennon who wanted Day Tripper to be the A side. It was the first designated Double A side (not just by The Beatles, the first ever), and promoted and advertised as such. It was a bit of a moot point, as The Beatles always played both sides of their singles on TV, radio and on tour anyway (I Want to Hold Your Hand, This Boy; Can't Buy Me Love, You Can't Do That; A Hard Day's Night, Things We Said Today; I Feel Fine, She's a Woman; Help!, I'm Down), as indeed they did with this one.
Any feeling about the retrospective nature of hit driven DoubleAs is 70s territory, by which time DoubleA's were common, and some of Elvis's 50s hits were re-considered as Double A's as the disc was often flipped and the B side became just as played on air or requested at stores. But no single was officially called a Double A side before December 1965.

 

Paul's constant threading of his hair through his fingers (it happens all through the Let It Be film as well) annoys the hell out of me!

 

And who's idea was the beard? Paul must have thought it made him look more sophisticated or something. And he shaved that thing off right after the last sessions on January 31, 1969. Such a ham. He only did it for the film.

Arnie

 

No, these are all from the official Lyndsay Hogg films, just black and white viewing copies. Yoko didn't have her own cameracrew there. A French Canadian TV crew filmed a sequence with John and Yoko at some point but not The Beatles.