"I've Got a Feeling" is a song by the English rock band

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from their 1970 album '' Let It Be''. It was recorded on 30 January 1969 during

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. It is a combination of two unfinished songs:

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's "I've Got a Feeling" and

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's "Everybody Had a Hard Year". The song features

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. 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

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'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

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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

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''Rape: Film No. 6'', which was broadcast on Austrian television on 31 March 1969.

Personnel

Personnel per Ian MacDonald The Beatles *

bass guitar, lead vocals *

rhythm guitar, lead vocals *

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lead guitar, backing vocals *

Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, us ...

drums Additional musicians *

Fender Rhodes piano

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:I've Got A Feeling The Beatles songs British blues rock songs 1970 songs British hard rock songs Songs written by Lennon–McCartney Song recordings produced by Phil Spector Songs published by Northern Songs