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"'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. 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. 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.

With Lennon's vocals isolated out during the production of Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary McCartney has played it live as a virtual duet on his 2022 tour and at Glastonbury 2022.

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. For this, the lyric was "Every'one' had a hard year" instead of the later "Everybody". 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.

While McCartney's song was very optimistic, Lennon had actually endured a "hard year" he divorced his first wife, Cynthia; his new partner Ono had a miscarriage; he was battling a heroin addiction; he was arrested for drug possession; he was estranged from his son Julian; and he had grown deeply unhappy in the Beatles.

Personnel



Personnel per Ian MacDonald

'The Beatles'

* Paul McCartneybass guitar, lead vocals

* John Lennonrhythm guitar, lead vocals

* George Harrisonlead guitar

* Ringo Starrdrums

'Additional musicians'

* Billy Prestonelectric piano

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