Thirty Days
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Thirty Days is a 1955 song by Chuck Berry. The Beatles covered it during the Get Back sessions in January 1969, though they performed it live from 1960 to 1961. No recording from this era exists. Sometimes, they would perform it under the title "Forty Days."
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Early Live Performances
Thirty Days was the first song The Beatles taught Stuart Sutcliffe how to play on bass. George Harrison recalls, "Stuart was in the band now. He wasn't really a very good musician. In fact, he wasn't a musician at all until we talked him into buying a bass. We taught him to play twelve-bars, like 'Thirty Days' by Chuck Berry. That was the first thing he ever learnt. He picked up a few things and he practised a bit until he could get through a couple of other tunes as well. It was a bit ropey, but it didn't matter at the time because he looked so cool. We never had many gigs in Liverpool before we went to Hamburg, anyway."
Available Versions
- Get Back session, January 7, 1969, (Bootlegs)
- Get Back session (performed as Forty Days), January 22, 1969, (Bootlegs)
Personnel (Based On January 7, 1969)
- Lead Vocals: John Lennon
- Lead Guitar: John Lennon
- Backing Vocals: Paul McCartney
Source
- LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com
- LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com
