Get Back by The Beatles – ***

First released: 1969

I hate to say this, but I really never cared for this track. I always thought it was a major let down after the triumphs of "Sgt. Pepper", "Magical Mystery Tour", and the “White Album” that this is the best song The Beatles could come up with lyrically and musically. Only Billy Preston’s keyboards save a somewhat pedestrian song. The fact that I heard The Rutles' "Get Up and Go" before hearing this song may also have something to do with it. I thought that The Rutles were poking fun at the banality of certain Beatles song, but it seems that The Beatles were already doing it with this. It was a hit single, but I always believed that ANYTHING could have been a hit single from 1967-69 when The Beatles were at their peak. The single version is a different performance than the "Let it Be" album version. Big deal. That one first appeared on CD on "Past Masters, Volume Two" in 1988. It's also on "1967-1970" and 2000's "1". A demo version appears on "Anthology 3" in 1996. The Beatles even attempted it in German as "Geh' Raus"! It is also used for 2006's "Love". Two different demo snippets are featured on 2003's "Fly on the Wall".
The album version is on "Let it Be" and 2003's "Naked".
George Harrison messed around with this in an unreleased 1970 version. A live version was performed by Paul on 1990’s "Tripping the Live Fantastic" and on 2009’s "Good Evening New York City".