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| THE "GET BACK” SESSIONS
I'll make this easy for you. You need Purple Chick's "A/B Road" series. Period. No doubt, using one of my previous books as a template (at least I hope he did - I'd hate to think of two people going through all that work!) Purple Chick has compiled every extant moment from the Nagra A and B rolls and edited them together in sequence. In January, 1969, virtually every moment of The Beatles' rehearsals and recording sessions were captured on audio tape as part of the project that ultimately became the film "Let It Be." For the first part of the month, at Twickenham Film Studios in London, The Beatles' performances were only preserved on small 16 minute long mono tapes (known as "Nagra" reels) that were recorded for use as the film soundtrack. Two different tape recorders were running (usually off of the same sound feed), resulting in what was termed "A" and "B" roll Nagra recordings. The "A" rolls generally ran the full 16 minute length of the tape. The "B" rolls were more fragmentary, but often captured performances or dialogue missed while the "A" roll operator was changing reels. In addition, once the sessions shifted to Apple Studios on January 21st, Glyn Johns began recording multi-track tapes of The Beatles' sessions which, again, sometimes captured performances not heard on either the "A" or "B" roll Nagra recordings. In 2004, Purple Chick collated these recordings, and issued them in a series of CDs called "A/B Road." These are now the most readily available source for the "Get Back" sessions material. |
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| "A/B Road" session tapes
Also known as The Nagra Reels COMPLETE SET version 1.1 83 CDs on 2 DVD'S 2187 tracks 97 hours, 44 minutes, 7 seconds Twickenham Studios (Part 1) Apple Studios (Part 2) |