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Don't Let Me Down - Rooftop Apple If you are going to Play The Guitar like the Beatles you need
some insight into the songs. It helps to get an idea of what artist intended.
This was one of the songs The Beatles played at their
impromptu rooftop concert in 1969. The concept of the album was The Beatles performing new songs
for a live audience, with film footage of their rehearsals used to make a documentary TV
special.
George Harrison didn't like the idea, and when things got tense during recording, he left the sessions and returned only after they agreed to cancel the live performance. The Beatles were still under contract to make another movie, so they decided to use the rehearsal footage as their last movie, Let It Be. In order to end the movie, they needed a big scene, so they went to the roof of Apple Records and started playing. In the original video John Lennon forgot some of the words to this song while the Beatles were playing their rooftop concert. Billy Preston, who The Beatles met when he was on tour with Little Richard in 1962, played keyboards on this track. Preston was one of the few outside musicians (excluding members of orchestras) to play on any Beatles song. George Harrison brought him in to smooth tensions in the studio. He did the same thing during The White Album sessions, when he brought in Eric Clapton. The presence of a musician The Beatles respected had a way of making them put aside their differences.
When Apple Records remixed the album Let It Be and released
it in 2003 as Let It Be... Naked, this was included. An alternate take was used. It was the
only song on the new album that did not appear on the original.
Lennon asked Ringo to crash his cymbals loudly to "give me
the courage to come in screaming."
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