Years later, Paul was still having to field questions from journalists who'd heard bootleg editions of this version and who wondered if he'd gone through a racist period. "(The verses) were not racist at all," he said. "They were anti racist. If there was any group that was not racist, it was the Beatles. All our favourite people were always black."

By the time it was recorded, Get Back had been transformed into a song about Jojo from Tucson, Arizona (Linda Eastman had lived for a while in Tucson), and Loretta Martin who "thought she was a woman, But she was another man". No story was developed and the original Get Back chorus was retained. Because it was a rock'n'roll song, Get Back was taken to refer to a return to musical roots and Apple's newspaper advert, which bore the slogan "The Beatles as nature intended' appeared to confirm this notion. Get Back is the Beatles' new single," ran the copy. "It's the first Beatles' record which is as live as can be, in this electronic age. There's no electronic watchamacallit. Get Back is a pure spring time rock number."

It went on to quote Paul saying: "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 rollercoast by."

Get Back sold over two million copies and was a hit around the world. It reached the Number 1 spot in Britain, America, Australia, Canada, West Germany and France.