Come Together
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| "Come Together" | |||||||||||||||
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| Single by The Beatles | |||||||||||||||
| from the album Abbey Road | |||||||||||||||
| A-side | "Something" | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 6 October 1969 | ||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" | ||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 21 July 1969, EMI Studios, London |
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| Genre | Blues-rock | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:18 | ||||||||||||||
| Label | Apple Records | ||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||||||||||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||||||||||||
| The Beatles singles chronology | |||||||||||||||
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"Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written mostly by John Lennon[1] and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song is the first song on the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. One month later it was released as a single with "Something", their twenty-first single in the United Kingdom and twenty-sixth in the United States. The song reached the top of the charts in the US,[2] and peaked at number four in the UK.[3] The song was also featured in a scene in the movie A Bronx Tale starring Robert De Niro.
Other websites [change]
- ↑ Sheff 2000, p. 201.
- ↑ Wallgren 1982, p. 57.
- ↑ everyHit.com 2009.
- "The Beatles Bible: Come Together". The Beatles Bible. http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/come-together/.
- Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 1-592-40179-1.
- "Something / Come Together". everyHit.com. http://www.everyhit.com. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Second Revised Edition ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years From Now. London: Seeker & Warburg. ISBN 0-436-28022-1.
- "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2007. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
- Self, Joseph C. (1992). "Lennon vs. Levy - The 'Roots' Lawsuit". abbeyrd.net. http://www.abbeyrd.net/lenlevy.htm. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
- Sheff, David (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25464-4.
- Wallgren, Mark (1982). The Beatles on Record. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-45682-2.
- Wenner, Jann S (2000). Lennon Remembers (Full interview from Lennon's 1970 interview in Rolling Stone magazine). London: Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.