Get Back   b/w   Don't Let Me Down

The Beatles
 
Get Back - Front Detail Get Back - Rear Detail
Get Back - Front (Detail only) Get Back - Rear (Detail Only)
Label Apple
Catalogue No. R 5777
Country of Origin England
Recording Details The infamous "Let It Be" sessions produced many "Takes" of this song.
Started around the 7th January 1969, these takes and rehearsals continue through January,
with the version that made it onto the single probably being recorded on the 28th January.
To read about them all, read Doug Sulpy's "Get Back" (shown in my "Books" section).
Release Date 11th April 1969
U.K. Chart Detail :
Entry Date :23rd April 1969
Highest Position :1 ... for 6 weeks from 23rd April
Weeks in Chart :
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17 Weeks
  5 Weeks from 3rd April '76 (reached no. 28)
  1 Week from 22nd April '89 (reached no. 74)
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23 weeks in total
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Detail : The nineteenth official EMI release.
No change to the Apple design of label or sleeve that we first saw on the previous release.
For the first time since Tony Sheridan's name shared the credits with The Beatles, there is another here.
The single being credited to, "The Beatles with Billy Preston".

And below, the picture disc version released in England as part of the,
"It Was Twenty Years Ago" series, on 10th April 1989.

Picture Disc(A) Picture Disc(B)
The Picture Disc A-side The Picture Disc B-side


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