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I've been getting into Radiohead recently and in particular their album OK Computer. Some great tracks like Paranoid Android.

I'm surprised no-one on this thread mentioned the very strong similarities of the track Karma Police and Sexy Sadie (a nod the The Beatles).

I know Kevin won't like this but here I go anyway.   

Great music returns to Abbey Road Studio Two...


The Beats

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_Ht8w0bJQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_Ht8w0bJQ</a>

...replete with that beautiful organ solo!

I like God Only Knows & Wouldn't it Be Nice.

The rest I'm not too overly keen on. Just OK for me.

Drum & Bass only.

I love Pauls bass playing but he never gets any sustain on any track, just plunk plunk.

I suppose maybe there was on "Rain"

https://youtu.be/jaSV8E-zVAg

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJ1cHm_su4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJ1cHm_su4</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfHAPbDWhk" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfHAPbDWhk</a>

More Beatles and the Hohner Pianet...


You Like Me Too Much

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqCf3D26YlA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqCf3D26YlA</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-43lvX30As" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-43lvX30As</a>

And The Fab Four...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbbDA4ApyU" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbbDA4ApyU</a>

Well, Kathy, I certainly didn't find Peter Townshend's use of his song in the closing credits of the film "crass" at all.  As far as "divine love" and spirituality goes, Look Who's Talking tells the story of a troubled single unwed mother who by chance meets a man who bonds with her child and soon comes to love the boy as his own.  Indeed, the first words spoken by the boy in their presence is "Dada."  She soon falls in love with him and they marry thus providing the boy with a loving upbringing.

I wish every sad story like this can have such a happy ending.  The closing credits show the miracle of fertilization of an ovum and conception of what will be the boy's half-sister.  And thus, I consider this an example of "divine love" and an appropriate use of Let My Love Open The Door.

I just read that maybe it was a back-up for Billy Preston.

That's also a possibility, zipp.

Billy Preston played a Fender Rhodes MK1 Sparkle top Suitcase Electric piano on the rooftop...





...you can see it partially obscured by the corrugated metal roof awning in the piture I posted above.

Was the pianet actually used in the studio during the Get Back sessions?

I'm not sure.  I didn't see it in any of the photographs I've seen.

I do see the Lowrey DSO Heritage organ behind George and John...

Wow I’d never noticed that. What were they thinking it would be needed for?

Maybe they were planning to do Revolution in which case Billy Preston would have played it.

In the original recording of Revolution, Nicky Hopkins played the Hohner Cembalet, similar to the Pianet but with a slight metallic sound to its voicing...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw</a>

Here's Nicky Hopkins playing an upright piano on this 1985 Spongetones performance of Revolution...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AakWAZtGA4k" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AakWAZtGA4k</a>

I personally  find that particular use crass. IMO it takes away from the beautiful intent of the song.

https://americansongwriter.com/the-spiritual-meaning-behind-pete-townshends-let-my-love-open-the-door/

“This was a song about love, but this is actually about divine love. It’s supposed to be about the power of God’s love, that when you’re in difficulty, whether it’s major or minor, God’s love is always there for you.”