After spending the entire month rehearsing and recording the music that would eventually be cleaned up to appear on their final album, Let It Be, The Beatles, after having ended their touring for 2 and half years, surprised everyone by climbing out onto the roof of their Apple headquarters building at 3 Savile Row, London, U.K. on a cold January 30, 1969 lunch break and performed a 40-minute unannounced free mini-concert, effectively disrupting all the business in the area. Billy Preston joined them on keyboards for the show. The performance may have been longer if the London bobbies had not arrived to shut it down. Coverage of about half of the concert is seen at the conclusion of the Let It Be film (currently unavailable commercially) where this footage is sourced. I’ve Got A Feeling is actually a combination of John Lennon’s composition Everybody Had A Hard Year and Paul McCartney’s I’ve Got A Feeling. This live version is actually the same one used for the Let It Be album which would not be released for another 15 and a half months after the show and immediately after Paul McCartney officially quit the band. The show took everyone by surprise, and although The Beatles were on their way out at this point, we were still in a time when no one knew what they were going to come up with next.

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