The Beatles and others back then considered stereo a fad - hi-fis, transistor radios, car radios were are mono. So they concentrated on the mono version and left the stereo to the engineers who need a product for America or the record company catalogue. So the versions are often quite different...
Original version complete with the two groupies sitting outside Abbey Road when they recorded. Lennon wanted this as a single but lost out. Slowed down by Phil Spector for Let It Be. The Anthology CD has a version that's really nice.
The Beatles and others back then considered stereo a fad - hi-fis, transistor radios, car radios were are mono. So they concentrated on the mono version and left the stereo to the engineers who need a product for America or the record company catalogue. So the versions are often quite different...