“Like the FBI and the CIA”
Free-form blues jam from the Get Back sessions, credited to all four Beatles. Lennon improvises over a I-IV-V vamp, name-checking the FBI, CIA, BBC, B.B. King and Doris Day. The 50-second album edit comes from a 12-minute studio jam.
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John Lennon played bass on 6 Beatles songs – including 'Fixing a Hole', 'Back in the U.S.S.R.', 'Helter Skelter'. This song is one of them.
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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