Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Apple Rooftop Concert


On January 30, 1969 The Beatles performed live for the last time ever. It just happened to be an unannouced performance of on top of their London Studio, Apple. I have been able to garner a copy from my various sources. So my sources are your sources. With the recent death of Billy Preston, I thought it was an appropiate time to post this gem.

There are a lot of double takes and repeat songs, this recording does not make any cuts or edits. It is straight from the audio of the cameras. So take that with a grain of salt. There are a bunch of sites that talk about this concert, the best one I found is here. It actually is a great story of the Get Back sessions.

Enjoy

This post updated while listening to the Cubs v Astros.

3 comments:

Colin said...

This is awesome. Thanks, Kevin!

Kyle said...

I listened to this at work today. While this is a pretty interesting piece of rock history, as a concert it is shit. The only play a total of 6 six songs, some of them as many as 4 times. The audio quality is actually pretty good but I could only listen to this once. The best part is the commentary and non-band action. Like when some guy starts questioning a lady on the street if she knows what she is hearing and how important it is. Brilliant. I just wish we were able to hear the bit when the bobbies come and tell them to cut it out.

Kyle said...

this has been removed.