Cartoons Thursday!

A dozen political potshots plus the George Harrison song axed from the White Album.

And away we go. But first, there’s an excellent David Remnick piece in this week’s New Yorker with Paul McCartney talking at length about the upcoming Peter Jackson Get Back/Let It Be six-hour epic and other Beatley stories. Among them, how they did 102 takes on this George song below—and then John & Paul kept it off the White Album because Harrison already had one song per side. George quit in frustration at one point (perhaps could be referred to as “while my guitarist gently weeps”). The song appeared much later on a George solo lp but here is take #102. Enjoy, then subscribe, it’s still free.

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, just had its world premiere and is drawing extraordinary acclaim. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.