"Watching Rainbows" is an unreleased song by The Beatles recorded on 14 January 1969 during the massive Get Back sessions at Twickenham Studios. It features John Lennon on lead vocal and electric piano, Paul McCartney on lead guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums; bass guitar is absent from the song because Paul McCartney is playing the absent George Harrison's usual role as lead electric guitar. George Harrison had temporarily left the group at this ...
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"Watching Rainbows" is an unreleased song by The Beatles recorded on 14 January 1969 during the massive Get Back sessions at Twickenham Studios. It features John Lennon on lead vocal and electric piano, Paul McCartney on lead guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums; bass guitar is absent from the song because Paul McCartney is playing the absent George Harrison's usual role as lead electric guitar. George Harrison had temporarily left the group at this stage of the sessions.
It was improvised by Lennon while he, Starr and McCartney were running through two other songs of his, the future Abbey Road's "Mean Mr. Mustard" and the unreleased song "Madman", which the Beatles ultimately abandoned after a few run-throughs. The song is very often associated with three other songs by the Beatles. The first song associated with it is the structurally similar McCartney tune "I've Got A Feeling", which the Beatles eventually released. One of the most intelligible pieces of lyric in the whole song is the...
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