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  • Bonus Track: Our Lovely Young Queen

    30 Nov 2019

    In the course of this one minute and thirty-three seconds you can hear all three takes of “Her Majesty” that…

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  • November 26, 1969

    26 Nov 2019

    This day’s entry in Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions — the only one for November 1969, as the…

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  • November 25, 1969

    25 Nov 2019

    The Beatles had received their MBEs — which stands for “Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” —…

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  • Bonus Track: Walnetto Sandwich

    24 Nov 2019

    I am mainly interested in this alternate take — the last of the 36 takes of “You Never Give Me Your…

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  • Bonus Track: It’s a Ringalong-Singalong

    21 Nov 2019

    As with “Oh! Darling,” everyone seems to have liked “Octopus’s Garden.” George, in particular, considered it a “cosmic song” and…

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  • Bonus Track: A Great One of Paul’s

    19 Nov 2019

    In contrast to, say, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” — which all the non-Paul Beatles bitched about and played grudgingly, if at…

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  • November 15, 1969

    15 Nov 2019

    When presented with a piece of unlistenable dreck like John and Yoko’s Wedding Album, a critic has two choices. Either…

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  • November 14, 1969

    14 Nov 2019

    Today saw the release in the UK of Wedding Album, the third installment of John and Yoko’s series of experimental…

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  • Bonus Track: Changing Faster than the Weather

    11 Nov 2019

    As I write this snow is falling outside the window to my left. Yesterday Kansas City was 60 degrees and…

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  • Bonus Track: Un String Avec Kaput

    09 Nov 2019

    When John and Paul recorded “The Ballad of John and Yoko” back on April 14, they’d done 11 takes of…

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