Video: 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'

(Wednesday, August 20, 1969, 2:00 p.m.-1:15 a.m. British Summer Time; during sessions for Abbey Road) — All four members of The Beatles rock band came together for what would turn out to be the last time today at EMI Studios in London to edit John Lennon’s “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” in the control room of Studio 3 (between 2:00-6:00 p.m. BST).

One version of the song was used for the first four minutes and 36 seconds. From then on, it cut to another version, ending at 7:47. The abrupt full-volume cut at the end was requested by Lennon during this session (recording of the song itself had been completed on Aug. 11, 1969).

From 6:00 p.m. until 1:15 a.m. BST, The Beatles worked in the control room of Studio 2, putting together a version of the album’s running order.

Although there were subsequent recording, editing and mixing sessions, for both the Abbey Road and Let It Be albums, this was the last time in which John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were together inside a recording studio, a mere 6 years 11 months and 16 days after the four of them held their first session together on Sept. 4, 1962.