I read the news today-oh boy- Beatles news on Saturday January 4, 1969- The Beatles Press Officer- Derek Taylor announced that The Beatles next album would be recorded live- possibly back where it all began- at The Cavern Club in Liverpool or at London’s Roundhouse. Of course this didn’t happen. The Beatles would soon be recording material that would later become the Let It Be album which would be the final Beatles album released a year later- and then in the summer of 1969 record and release Abbey Road.
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Not heard of the live album before. Was it also news to the band? If it had gone ahead, I wonder what the track listing would have been.
I think at that time they were- at least Paul was trying to get the old feeling back with the band…throwing out a lot of ideas. That would have been interesting had they done it.
Instead we got The Beatles’ final concert on the roof of Abbey Road Studios on Jan 30, 1969 and the version of Get Back, which ended up on the Let It Be album. I’m wondering whether that may have been the basis for the press speaker’s comments.
True that anniversary is coming up…thanks for the reminder!
I just saw a Rolling Stone story reminding me of another great album that was released today: Springsteen’s 1973 debut Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
46 years ago. WOW