Something / Come Together

Something / Come Together is a single on Parlophone (catalogue R 5814), released 31 October 1969. The first Beatles single drawn entirely from an LP with no original B-side.

Recorded during the band's Abbey Road (1969) period, produced by George Martin with Geoff Emerick (returned), Phil McDonald, Glyn Johns engineering. The tracks were committed to tape at EMI Studios on 3M M23 8-track (1968 upgrade), TG12345 console under construction via the EMI TG12345 transistor console (debuted on Abbey Road); some sessions on REDD.51.

Something / Come Together is a Beatles single issued in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1969 by Parlophone under catalogue number R 5814. It sits in the band's Abbey Road (1969) period. The release arrived 35 days after the parent LP Abbey Road, placing it firmly within that album's commercial window.

Sessions were produced by George Martin with Geoff Emerick (returned), Phil McDonald, Glyn Johns engineering, working at EMI Studios. The signal chain ran through the 3M M23 8-track (1968 upgrade), TG12345 console under construction • EMI TG12345 transistor console (debuted on Abbey Road); some sessions on REDD.51, with vocals captured on U47, U67, AKG C12, AKG D19/D20 (drums), STC 4038. This combination of room, tape format and outboard chain is the same one heard across the band's other releases from the era — meaning the release shares its sonic identity with its parent LP rather than departing from it.

The release features Something ★.

Documented alternate masters and remaster passes can be found via the linked entries above; the editorial position throughout Beatles Answers is that the original UK mono master is the canonical point of reference for any single from this era, with the 2009 and 50th-anniversary stereo remasters treated as documented variations rather than replacements. Catalogue numbers, label copy and matrix data are taken from EMI/Parlophone primary documentation and cross-checked against Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988).

Each track on this single carries its own session history on the dedicated entry. The summary below pulls the most distinctive editorial detail from each:

• Something ★ — The song was remade on 2 May with 36 takes, followed by extensive overdubbing of lead vocals by Harrison across multiple sessions through July, with reductions completed to manage multitrack complexity.

• Get Back / Don't Let Me Down
• The Ballad of John and Yoko