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Location: NJ | ". . Hmmmmm......I thought "Abbey Road" was recorded AFTER the songs for "Let It Be" . . ."
Okay, . . I was up VERY late last night ripping my bookcase apart trying t'find where I'd read that (doncha' just HATE when that "WildHair" flares up??)
From the liner notes of BeatlesAnthology3:
“. . A quick run-through of George Harrison’s “I Me Mine” (shot in early January 1969 during the Twickenham rehearsal period of the “Get Back” project) was set for inclusion in the “Let It Be” film, indicating that it also should feature on the accompanying album. But as the song had never been committed to tape with any serious endeavour, the Beatles convened again in Number Two Studio at EMI – some five months after completing the final album “Abbey Road” . . .”
“. . as the three Beatles (George, Paul & Ringo – John was on “Holiday”) recorded it during what turned out to be their last session together for 24 years . . .”
Although, in the hindsight of reading this, it doesn't particularly state whether or not Preston actually played on the subsequent recording session . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | I've never seen any documentation connecting Billy with "I Me Mine". He was present during the later part of the "Get Back" sessions, and joined them for many of the "Abbey Road" sessions, but "I Me Mine" was the last 'new' song recorded by the Beatles (on Jan 03, 1970, after Abbey Road was completed!) and everything I've read says only Paul, George, Ringo, George Martin and a couple engineers were present.
I always loved his work on Let It Be, Get Back and Don't Let Me Down. |
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Location: Indiana | RE: the concert for George....I liked My Sweet Lord too but Isn't It A Pity really got to me....as it did the audience from the looks of the standing ovation afterwards. He sure put his soul into that song. He lived near here in Fort Wayne Indiana for a while. I always wanted to see him play. Thanks for posting this, Cliff! |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | I was equally saddened when I read the news while out of town. Billy wrote "You Are So Beautiful" which a lot of folks don't know or remember. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Justa 'notha attempt to keepa blackman down...
StickyFingers...GoatsHeadSoup...BlackNBlue...ExileOnMainStreet, ItsOnlyRockNRoll....
If that was the ONLY stuff he did, He'd still be a legend. |
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Location: NJ | at our wedding "you are so beautiful" was "our song". Sue refused to use "you can't always get what you want". funny thing is that the band butchered the song so bad that all we could do was laugh duing the entire thing. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . . can't always get what you want . . .
but, if you try sometimes...
( I hope the evening didn't end at a vegetarian restaurant) |
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Location: NJ | Jeff
not that time... |
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Location: Oakton, VA | Billy Preston @ 10 |
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Location: NJ | VeryCoool . . . |
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Location: SoCal | That video clip is in-freakin'-credible! Billy showed such poise and all of his mannerisms were already in place. Just incredible...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | How rare is that? Reminds me of this Little Stevie Wonder 'Fingertips' clip. Don't know how old he was but he was way too young to be handling himself like this. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | And Michael J too...
Whodda guessed he'd grow-up to be a small white child.... |
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Location: North Idaho | Been running Preston's performance of Layla with Clapton through my head all week. |
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R.I.P.
