Talk:Get Back

message: I've made considerable edits and re-written much of the article.  I may include some more audio samples to back up my statements if people feel it would be of benefit. simonthebold 02:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: I'm currently disambiguating links for "Let It Be", and I am finding truck loads of links for 'Get Back sessions' which point here. I wonder if we could add the phrase "Get Back sessions" to the disambiguation line just to make it crystal clear that the user has come to the wrong place, or move this article to Get Back (song) and have a dab page? --kingboyk 13:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, I just found a bad link for the Get Back sessions to the song (in the article Glyn Johns), so I've created a Get Back sessions redirect. --kingboyk 14:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get Back Sessions 

message: The image used to illustrate the picture sleeve was taken in August 1969 at their last ever photo shoot.  As this image postdates the single release should it be used? Or should we revert back to the previous Apple 7" vinyl image.  Comments please. 
simonthebold 10:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture Sleeve 

message: Why is this at "Get Back (song)" when there's no ambiguity about the title "Get Back"? It could simply be at "Get Back". The Disco King 21:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: Just from a recording of the bootleg with the "No Pakistanis" verse, it sounds more like a parody of a song that was already written. The version I'm hearing is available here: . During the second verse (the first with music behind it), you can hear Paul creeping in with the actual second verse before switching back to making up the words as he went along (starting with "Mohegan"). That's the way I would interpret it, without a timeline or anything, anyway. It just sounds like a jam. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 02:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd agree that the Beatles were just messing around, ad libbing, possibly. The typical inflection of spoken syllables in the word "Pakistani" worked well with the existing melody and rhythm, which the Beatles may have found amusing. There's also another Pakistani version, not covered in the article. I've got the source bootleg someplace, what I can remember is: "...don't need no Pakistanis, taking all the people's jobs. / Get back, etc." I'll go digging for it, if that's held to be of historical value. Leave a msg on my talk page. Piano non troppo (talk) 14:38, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "No Pakistanis" 

message: Are we aware that the "Anomalies and quirks" section is pretty much lifted straight off of the What Goes On? page for Get Back? It's not credited in the References and I don't think we have permission for them.... —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 03:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Anomalies and quirks" section 

message: The phrase "Beatles Rooftop Performance" had an article link.  That link went to a "History of the Beatles" page that was a general history of the band, and contained no specific info about the Concert on the Roof.  While I think a Wikipedia article on the rooftop concert would be a good idea, I removed that link, since there doesn't appear to be any such article at this time. Vidor 11:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Beatles Rooftop Performance" 

message: The article states that "Get Back" was the only Beatles' single to ever credit another artist which is a statement I've heard before elsewhere.  But I was wondering, what about the work they did early on with Tony Sheridan?  Those credit another artist.  Or are they just considered "Tony Sheridan singles" and therefore not Beatles' singles or is it because the band was billed as "The Beat Brothers" (although I think some of that stuff was re-released as being by The Beatles after they became big)?--Lairor 07:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually both. They were Tony Sheridan releases, credited to "Tony Sheridan with The Beat Brothers". They were not Beatles releases and were never released as such (at least not officially, as far as I know), even if they were later relabeled to be "with The Beatles". Get Back was specifically a Beatles releases, specifically credited as "with Billy Preston", and the only Beatles release to do so. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 09:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Beatles with Billy Preston 

message: :Image:Beatles Get Back.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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replies: text: Added/updated FU rationale. — John Cardinal 03:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Beatles Get Back.jpg

message: Shouldn't there be something in the article about how John Lennon thought that "get back to where you once belonged" was directed at Yoko?  There's information in the interview in All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by John Lennon, David Sheff, Yōko Ono (), around page 202. --Evil1987 18:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lennon's speculation that it was about Ono 

message: Who was Candidate Macmillan in the earlier version of the Pakistanis verse?  Harold Macmillan - he wrote the winds of change speech? his son Maurice Macmillan? any thoughts?
Why was it changed to candidate for Labour?simonthebold 13:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Candidate Macmillan

message: On Beatles anthology episode 8, in the studio, it appears that George is playing the solo. The Person Who Is Strange 16:34, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  John on lead guitar? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Getback roof.jpg

message: Just to say, when the song is played backwards, it appears that the "Get Back, Get Back, Get Back to where you once belonged" backwards is "Oh, I need some wheels. Help me! Help me! Help me!". This is funny, I think something of this should be added.--200.41.3.107 (talk) 20:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: it can be added if a reliable source can be found for it. --Rodhullandemu 21:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I need some wheels (Help me!) 

message: I think that the german version of this song should be included in this article.
--neolandes (talk) 02:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geh Raus 

message: It Wasn't a Single from Let it Be! it was released during that period, but it was re-recorded for the album--Das Ansehnlisch (talk) 13:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Single Release

message: To avoid misleading interpretations because the single and album versions of this song are different, John Cardinal and myself came up with the solution of two separate infoboxes, one for the single and the other for the album track. Steelbeard1 (talk) 15:55, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate infoboxes for single and album track 

message: A quick google shows over 400 hits for "Fart", and three for "Vat", one being a version of this article. I prefer to trust the senses of those who have studied the lyrics over the years. If anyone has a reliable source for "Vat" to outweigh all the others, please cite it. Rodhullandemu 04:25, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sweet Loretta Fart" or "Sweet Loretta Vat"? 

message: I think it's clearer if the main writer was mentioned in the first paragraph. Official writer is Lennon-McCartney, but like this is written only by McCartney, right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.155.227.94 (talk) 03:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Writer 

message: The so-called single sleeve cover shown in this article is false.  This was never the official sleeve cover because it physically cannot be the sleeve: the photo shown is from a Beatles photo session from august 22, 1969 - the Tittenshurst photo session done right after recording for Abbey Road was completed (numerous sources confirm this) - months after the Get Back/Don't Let Me Down single was released.  Could someone upload a new pic file with actual sleeve or perhaps the photo of the actual A side of the Apple Records single with the Get Back title shown. This photo can be found on numerous web sites.  Thank you, dhfro  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhfrto (talk • contribs) 13:18, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I added to the article that there was no picture sleeve issued by Apple or Capitol.  Parlophone issued a 20th anniversary picture disc with the same photo.  Could the picture be a reissue sleeve or an advertisement?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:42, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Get Back Single "Cover" Shown in This Article 

message: This song isn't really heavy enough to be classified as hard rock. Compare it with songs like "Helter Skelter", "Smoke on the Water", "Immigrant Song", "Born to be Wild" and other songs that have more than just a prominent guitar. C.Syde (talk | contribs) 04:58, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: These genre classifications on Wiki have always been problematic. One person's "heavy" is another's "pop". As with the rest of Wiki, all we can go in is reliable sources.--Egghead06 (talk) 05:01, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hard rock? 

message: I like the naked version of the song, as it doesn't have an echo effect so it sounds more cleaned up, more crisp. Unfortunately I still prefer the single version because the naked version fades out before the coda which they recorded one day after recording the master take. C.Syde (talk | contribs) 23:35, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naked Version vs. Single 

message: LOL! I always thought the "Get Back to where you once belong" lyric was a reference to the fact that The Beatles were playing more basic rock songs like in their early years. C.Syde (talk | contribs) 06:47, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of Get Back 

message: The page should mention the cover version of the song by Al Green on his album Green is Blues which was released only four days after the single of Get Back came out. Thus long before Get Back appeared on a Beatles album it appeared on an Al Green album. Jasonpfinch (talk) 12:50, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Al Green version