Thanks DJ Madzilla, listening now!!

The next track, John Lennon's 'Bless You', is from 1974, a time when the initial unpleasantness of the band's breakup was beginning to pass, and is a mellow song which was written during Lennon's separation from Yoko Ono.

We jump forward with the next track, which is one of Paul's from early 1980. Coming Up originally featured on the album McCartney II. Lennon was apparently impressed by this song, and has mentioned that it was one of the reasons that he went back into the studio and started making music again, a short time before his death. This version is a live one from last year's iTunes Festival.

One of the songs John wrote during this period is our next track, 'Nobody Told Me', which was released posthumously on his 'Milk and Honey' album in 1984.

Relations between Lennon and McCartney had, to the latter's relief, improved greatly by the time Lennon died in December 1980, when they spoke often on the phone. Paul wrote our next track, and the last one in this little section - Here Today, as a tribute to his friend and songwriting partner.

Crank up your speakers for the last two tracks in the session - the first is the Beatles' 'I've Got A Feeling' from the album Let It Be (this particular version is from Let It Be ... Naked, the 2003 'remastering' of the album). This brilliant song was, like Baby You're A Rich Man from the beginning of the session, put together from two separate Lennon and McCartney songs - McCartney's incomplete 'I've Got A Feeling' and Lennon's incomplete 'Everybody Had A Hard Year'. As was often the case with Lennon/McCartney, the finished song was greater than the sum of its parts, the two separate pieces fitting together perfectly despite being very different.

Our last track is Paul McCartney and Wings' 'Rockestra Theme', which fetaures a huge number of guest musicians, including Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Pete Townshend, Steve Holly, John Bonham, Kenney Jones, Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, Ronnie Lane, Bruce Thomas, Gary Brooker, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton, Speedy Acquaye, Tony Carr, Ray Cooper, Morris Pert, Howie Casey, Tony Dorsey, Steve Howard and Thaddeus Richard. Keith Moon was to have performed on the track but had died shortly before it was recorded.

'Rockestra Theme' won the 1980 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.


Well, that's all for tonight, folks! I hope you enjoyed the tracks, and hopefully see you again in the future for Beatles Session 3.

Many, many thanks for such an excellent session, Mads.



That and all of the detailed, interesting anecdotes behind the songs themselves.

Here's looking to Part Three !!

Listening again!


Very cool with this *George Harrison* tune!