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The last of Lennon's great B-sides for the Beatles is a pleading love song. «He was saying to Yoko: “I’m really just letting my vulnerability be seen, so you must not let me down”», Paul recounts. John asks Ringo to hit the cymbals hard: «give me the courage to come screaming in.»… The Beatles recorded “Don't Let Me Down” during the rehearsal sessions for “Get Back”, a multimedia project that was initially abandoned but later revived by Phil Spector under the name “Let It Be”, although “Don't Let Me Down” did not appear on it. It was released only as the B-side to the single “Get Back”. It is the last of John Lennon's great B-sides for the Beatles (who else has written B-sides as valuable as “Rain”, “I Am the Walrus” e “Revolution”?!), a pleading love song for Yoko Ono. In some ways, it foreshadows the “Primal Scream” style that he would later adopt in some of his solo songs. The song, although relatively simple in lyrics and chords, features a melodic line that pushes Lennon
