text: what do you think "get back" by the bealtes is about?   early versions include the line "i dig no pakistani's." the song began as a commentary about immigration, telling people to "get back" to their own countries. it was meant to mock britain's anti-immigrant proponents. paul mccartney thought better of it and made the lyrics more obscure.    "get back" was going to be the title of the let it be album. the concept was the beatles "getting back" to their roots and playing new songs for a live audience without any studio tricks. this song came closest to capturing that spirit, but the album became something completely different when they decided to scrap the idea of a live album. glyn johns, who engineered the sessions was asked to put the album together from what were really rehearsal tapes. after he put the album together, it sat around while the let it be movie was being edited from the film footage of the beatles rehearsing in the studio and playing on the rooftop. during this time, the beatles made the abbey road album, released it, and broke up. john lennon had phil spector produce his solo song "instant karma," which harrison played on. they liked spector's work and asked him to produce the get back album, which was re-titled let it be. spector took the tapes and added orchestrations using his "wall of sound" technique, and the album that was supposed to be the raw sound of the beatles returning to their roots was released as a highly-produced final album after they had broken up.  in their early days, the beatles played in clubs for hours most nights, but by 1967, they stopped touring. this single was advertised as "the beatles as nature intended."  at the beginning of the album version, lennon sang, "sweet loretta fat she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan." he was making fun of the first line in the song.  at the end of the album version, paul says "thanks mo" in response to ringo's wife, maureen, who was clapping.  the press release to promote the single contained this quote from mccartney: "we were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air... we started to write words there and then... when we finished it, we recorded it at apple studios and made it into a song to roller coast by."  lennon claimed this was basically a rewrite of their 1968 song "lady madonna."  the single version is longer than the album version. usually it is the other way around.  paul looked at yoko in the studio when he sang the line "get back to where you once belong." john thought he was disrespecting her.  mccartney got the idea for this from the line, "get back to where you should be," which came from a song harrison wrote called "sour milk sea," which was eventually recorded by jackie lomax. mccartney changed the line to, "get back to where you once belonged."  the character "jojo" was probably based on joseph melville see jr., linda mccartney's first husband. he was from tucson, arizona, and killed himself there in 2000.  billy preston played piano and became the only guest artist to get a credit on a beatles single when this was credited to "the beatles with billy preston." after george harrison left the sessions, he saw preston in concert with ray charles. the beatles met preston in 1962 when they were both playing in germany, but they hadn't seen each other since. harrison asked preston to come by the studio the next day, where he played on this and "don't let me down." having him in the studio eased the tension and made it easier for the beatles to put personal conflicts aside and record the album.