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The Beatles 1970: Deranged and quarreled
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Roy Cummings / imago images
George Harrison left the sessions, John Lennon described them as "Hell" - but the album they recorded became one of the Beatles' biggest and final successes: "Let it Be".
The story of this record, which was supposed to be called "Get Back", is now published in a book.
"Get Back", the first book since the Beatles anthology of 2000, is due to be released in August 2021 to accompany the TV documentary by director "Peter Jackson".
It was created from over 120 hours of transcribed conversations during the recording sessions.
The book is said to describe the band's first friction in January 1969 when the Beatles were rehearsing for a TV special and recording music for a new album.
Things didn't go smoothly for the Liverpoolers in the studio: Yoko Ono stuck to John Lennon, a film team logged every recording for a documentary and finally George Harrison left the studio when Paul McCartney criticized him for playing the guitar.
The songs, which were written despite the bad breath, were later mixed and finally released in May 1970 as "Let It Be" instead of the original "Get Back".
A month earlier, however, Paul McCartney had left the band.
And John Lennon had also revealed to the others that he no longer wanted to participate.
In addition to the previously unpublished conversations of the band, the book will contain many previously unpublished photos.
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