Rooftop concert

Let It Be/Get Back recording sessions, Day #19, The Beatles’ rooftop concert (with Billy Preston); It was a cold day, and a bitter wind was blowing on the rooftop by midday. To cope with the weather, John borrowed Yoko Ono’s fur coat, and Ringo wore Mo Starkey’s red mac. Traffic in Savile Row and neighbouring streets came to a halt, until police entered Apple and ordered the group to stop playing. Photo by Ethan A. Russell

The Beatles

The powerful and bluesy "I've Got A Feeling," which John Lennon jokingly called "I've Got A Fever," is a true Lennon\/McCartney composition. It blends \u2014 via alternation and superimposition \u2014 two incomplete songs, one by Paul McCartney, one by Lennon.

On January 30, 1969, the Beatles (along with Billy Preston), took to the rooftop of the headquarters of Apple Corps to play one final concert.

Few Beatles fans had complaints about Peter Jackson’s recent “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, but to the extent they did, there were some grumblings that the faithful wanted a way to hear the entire rooftop concert that makes up the last portion of the docu-series without the spoken interjections of the interceding British policemen or…

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Everybody just wants to hang out with the lads.

Forty seven years ago today the Fab Four assembled on a London rooftop. They couldn't know it then, but that rooftop concert would be the band’s last live performance. The event was part of an album/film project meant to unite a quartet teetering on collapse. Both the film and album projects, both named 'Let it Be,' survived. The band didn't. The concert took on iconic status for all the obvious reasons. Here are nine fun facts tied to that Beatles rooftop concert you may not know… Who Else…