Beatles Rooftop Concert - 1/3

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"Get Back"
"Don't Let Me Down"

Thursday - 30 January 1969
Apple Corps (Roof), London

The Beatles' celebrated rooftop show. An idea conceived during a meeting on 26 January, it was the first of two consecutive Beatles/Billy Preston performances which concluded the Get Back project, for on 31 January they ran through numbers inside the basement studio.

This day's work has passed into history as the Beatles' last live performance, even if it couldn't be classified as a concert. The 42-minute show (about half of which comprises the sensational close to the Let It Be film) was a lunchtime blast into the cold wind - imagine a high London rooftop in January - that brought part of the capital to a standstill, until the police, in turn, brought the show to an enforced conclusion.

Much was commercially used from the 42 minutes on the roof, in the Let It Be film and on the Get Back (unissued) and Let It Be albums. What follows is a detailed description of the full rooftop repertoire, as preserved on EMI's eight-track tapes, with a guide to how it was made available.

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[beatletat]

43 years ago today ;0)

[cubby1102]

I am approaching 60. My body aches every day and it keeps getting worse. I spend more time asking myself what went wrong than looking forward to the future. But no matter how I feel and how much worse it gets, my age allowed me to be alive through Beatlemania, and nothing will ever take that away from me. I suppose that when all is said and done, it has been worth it. God Bless The Beatles!!!

[Ahzdiosh]

And then the greatest band of all time started playing a concert on the rooftop next-door...which was nice.

[MrCeej9999]

Love the affection between John and Paul when they play live. Such chemistry.

People think they hated each other. Not true. Lennon just got to a point in his life where he generally hated everyone! He fell out with George Harrison around the same time as well

[MrCeej9999]

A friend of mine once said “they were so tight, it sounds exactly like the album versions”.

I didn’t want to tell him that the songs he’s referring to on Let it Be are actually the live recordings from this gig!

[BATOOTY100]

JOHN LENNON YOU ARE SO SORELY MISSED THE WORLD ISN'T THE SAME WITHOUT YOU.

[BeatlemaniacRenzo]

This was today but 43 years ago, in 1969 :)

[barrette0100]

the spirit is still alive :))

[essessessesq]

oddly, this event was ignored in the USA----i don't recall hearing any mention of it at the time! maybe someone else did?

[jayfey77]

@Tbor1000 oh ok sorry.

[margarita22973]

ke buen video esto paso en los estudios de apple el 30 de enero de 1969