The 50th-anniversary editions of Abbey Road are available here. It’s funky, it’s bluesy, and I’m singing it pretty well. As John recalled in 1980 to Playboy, “It was a funky record – it’s one of my favorite Beatle tracks, or, one of my favorite Lennon tracks, let’s say that. The performance was tight and undoubtedly had a swampy funkiness to it. The secret to the song’s success lay in its simplicity. also banded together last week and put together a 30 billion package to rescue First Republic Bank, which also struggled after the SVB crisis. Having slowed the song to a funkier groove, the band recorded “Come Together” at Abbey Road over six sessions, starting on July 21, and the song was released as a single on October 6. I could have changed it to ‘Here comes old iron face’, but the song remains independent of Chuck Berry or anybody else on earth.” It is nothing like the Chuck Berry song, but they took me to court because I admitted the influence once years ago. I left the line in ‘Here come old flat-top’. As he explained, “‘Come Together’ is me – writing obscurely around an old Chuck Berry thing. To resolve a legal dispute, John recorded “You Can’t Catch Me” on his Rock’n’Roll album. “John acknowledged it was rather close to it, so I said, ‘Well, anything you can do to get away from that?’ I suggested that we tried it swampy – ‘swampy’ was the word I used – so we did, we took it right down.” “He originally brought it over as a very perky little song, and I pointed out to him that it was very similar to Chuck Berry’s ‘You Can’t Catch Me,’” McCartney recalled. Paul McCartney had noticed that, in its original form, “Come Together” bore more than just a passing resemblance to something by one of their early heroes. Leary may have accused Lennon of pinching his slogan, but his claim wouldn’t gain half the traction that another accusation of plagiarism would garner. It was from this unlikely seed that the opening track for Abbey Road grew. So he sold it to someone else.” “I suggested that we tried it swampy” Leary backs up Lennon’s story: “Though the new version was certainly a musical and lyrical improvement on my campaign song, I was a bit miffed that Lennon had passed me over this way… When I sent a mild protest to John, he replied with typical Lennon charm and wit that he was a tailor and I was a customer who had ordered a suit and never returned. I had the song there waiting for him.” Describing the song he wrote for The Beatles, Lennon remembered, “I came up with this ‘Come Together,’ which would’ve been no good to him – you couldn’t have a campaign song like that, right?” And they never came back to ask for the song. Well, I had written another little thing called ‘Come Together And Join The Party…’ It never got further than that. “Leary attacked me years later,” Lennon told Playboy magazine in 1980, “saying I ripped him off. “You couldn’t have a campaign song like that”
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