I've Got a Feeling

Template:More citations needed Template:Use dmy dates Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other "I've Got a Feeling" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was recorded on 30 January 1969 during the Beatles' rooftop concert.Template:Sfn It is a combination of two unfinished songs: Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling" and John Lennon's "Everybody Had a Hard Year". The song features Billy Preston on electric piano.

A studio take of the song, recorded about a week earlier, was released on the Anthology 3 compilation in 1996.Template:Sfn The 2003 remix album Let It Be... Naked includes a version of the song that is a composite edit of the rooftop concert take used on Let It Be and a second attempt at the song from the same concert.Template:Sfn

With Lennon's vocals isolated out during the production of Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, McCartney performed the song live as a virtual duet on his 2022 Got Back tour.

Composition

Lennon's song was a litany where every line started with the word "everybody". The song had been recorded twice before by Lennon, prior to the Let It Be sessions. The first occurred in early December 1968 at Lennon's Kenwood estate on a portable cassette tape.Template:Sfn For this, the lyric was "Everyone had a hard year" instead of the later "Everybody".Template:Sfn Later in December 1968, with the lyric changed to "everybody," Lennon was filmed performing the song in the back garden of Kenwood. This footage was used in the Yoko Ono art film Rape: Film No. 6, which was broadcast on Austrian television on 31 March 1969.Template:Sfn

Personnel

Personnel per Ian MacDonaldTemplate:Sfn

The Beatles

• Paul McCartneyTemplate:Sndbass guitar, lead vocals
• John LennonTemplate:Sndrhythm guitar, lead vocals
• George HarrisonTemplate:Sndlead guitar, backing vocals
• Ringo StarrTemplate:Snddrums

Additional musicians

• Billy PrestonTemplate:SndFender Rhodes piano

External links

• Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "I've Got a Feeling"