Getting Back To Where They Once Belonged

05/15/25 • 66 min

Fixing A Hole - The Beatles podcast you didn't know you needed

On their return from India in the spring of 1968. The Beatles set about recording the ‘White Album,’ a collection of 30 songs, many of which were written in Rishikesh.

In between these 6 months of recording sessions, they released their 18th single ‘Hey Jude’ and launched their own record label Apple.

In episode 7 of Fixing a Hole we look at the 2021 Peter Jackson documentary ‘Get Back’. Which tells the story of why following this intensive period of work, John, Paul, George, and Ringo decided that 6 weeks after the release of the ‘White Album’, they would go back into the studio and write, rehearse, and perform 14 new songs in January 1969.

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On their return from India in the spring of 1968. The Beatles set about recording the ‘White Album,’ a collection of 30 songs, many of which were written in Rishikesh.

In between these 6 months of recording sessions, they released their 18th single ‘Hey Jude’ and launched their own record label Apple.

If you’re a Beatles fan, or just love music we’d love to hear from you.

Please get in touch via:

Facebook: Fixing A Hole https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562724166069

Email: [email protected]

Previous Episode

The Beatles in the Boardroom

Ever since Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the group on 10th April 1970. Fans desire to hear new, or unreleased Beatles music has never stopped.

In this episode we tell the story of how a series of articles published in the New Musical Express back in 1974, lead to EMI searching the tape vault for unreleased Beatles recordings. Compiling two reels of tape of unreleased music and the executive meeting which took please in the Spring of 1976 to listen and determine what if anything was suitable for future release.

Amazingly, like all key events in the story of The Beatles. A sound recording of that EMI meeting, almost 5 decades ago was made and leaked into the hands of collectors in the early 80’s.

That meeting and the sound recording would become, the catalyst for the Anthology project co-produced by Apple and EMI two decades later.

In this episode we discuss the ‘Boardroom Tape’ as it has become known by collectors. Together with the chain of events that happened between that meeting in 1976 and the release of the Anthology project in 1995.

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Next Episode

See You In The Clubs - The Beatles In Clubland

At lunchtime on January 10th 1969, George Harrison walked out of Twickenham film studios and out on his band mates. As he left his parting words were, ‘I’ll see you in the clubs’.

The Beatles January 1969 ‘Get Back’ sessions were all about throwing aside the excesses of ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and getting back to a more basic sound which would allow them to play live together as a group. Just as they had in the Cavern.

In this episode of Fixing a Hole we take a look at the five-year period between 1957 and 1962 when John, Paul, George and Ringo’s served their apprenticeship in the dance halls and clubs of Merseyside and Hamburg and discover what audio and visual recordings of this important era in the groups development have survived.

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