The Beatles – The Rooftop Concert (Bootleg)

 

The Beatles – Get Back (live at Apple Building, the Rooftop Concert)

The Beatles

With The Beatles coming out with their own Rockband game on, yes you are reading it correctly,
09/09/09, The Beatles are more popular than ever it seems. Undoubtedly,
one of the “Rushmore of Rock” as Dave pointed out to me yesterday at
the Horse Racing tracks.

I decided to dig out some of my Beatles albums, still to this
day, this band have never made the leap to digital/MP3 distribution of
their music (you can only get their music on vinyl, cassettes,
8-tracks, or CD).

I haven’t written about bootlegs in a while, I think my last few were Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stone and The Smiths. Anyway, I found this interesting Beatles bootleg called The Rooftop Concert from their final public concert appearance together as a band on January 30^th, 1969. Their final album, Abbey Road, was recorded later that year and by September, John Lennon announced his departure from the band.

What made this concert so special, besides from all the various
bootlegs that exists and their last appearance, was that it was filmed
and made available Let It Be (film).
Unfortunately, not everyone was ecstatic about The Beatles, and by the
end of the film, the police arrived and shut the concert down.

According to the 2005 bootleg by “Doc E” (Dr. Ebbetts):

I wanted a fantastic sounding version of the famed rooftop
show, void of the lengthy in-between chatter, without the occasional
sound anomalies (like volume fluctuations, for example), in a nice
concise package. I believe this is it. It was sourced from several CDs
in an attempt to create the best sounding collection. It’s a nice
companion to the “First Concert” and “Hollywood Bowl” CDs in the
Ebbetts collection.

The audio is excellent, as a result of several other bootleg CDs!

Trivia: On the last track, their third performance of “Get Back”, Paul McCartney can be heard saying “Thanks, Mo!“, acknowledging Ringo Starr’s then-wife Maureen Starkey … which I didn’t hear on this bootleg.

Trivia 2: A recent Vox’s Question of the Day “You May Say I’m a Dreamer” is taken from Lennon’s “Imagine” song.