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How much do you really know about Come Together? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

The song was originally titled 'Get Back' before Lennon changed it.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

'Get Back' is a completely different Beatles song. 'Come Together' was always called that; the confusion may come from the Get Back/Let It Be sessions.

2.

The lyrics 'He got hair down to his knee' refer to a real person Lennon knew.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

Lennon said most of the lyrics were nonsense, inspired by a list of random phrases. 'Hair down to his knee' was just a playful image, not a real person.

3.

Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to 'Come Together' in the 1980s.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

Jackson outbid McCartney for the Beatles' Northern Songs catalog in 1985, which includes 'Come Together.' This famously strained their friendship.

4.

The line 'shoot me' was originally a reference to gun violence in America.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

Lennon said 'shoot me' came from a misheard lyric in a Little Richard song—not about violence. He liked the sound and kept it as a nonsensical phrase.

5.

'Come Together' was the B-side to 'Something' on the Abbey Road single.

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Medium
✓ TRUE

In the US and UK, 'Something' was the A-side and 'Come Together' was the B-side. Despite being a massive hit, it wasn't the lead single track.

6.

The opening drum beat was sampled from an earlier Beatles recording.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

Ringo Starr played that distinctive drum intro live in the studio. It was not sampled—sampling was virtually nonexistent in 1969. It's entirely original.

7.

Paul McCartney played the bass riff on a Fender Bass VI, not his usual Hofner.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

McCartney used a Fender Bass VI, a six-string bass, to get that low, growling opening riff. It's one of the few Beatles tracks where he didn't play his iconic Hofner.

8.

John Lennon wrote 'Come Together' as a campaign song for Timothy Leary.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

Leary asked Lennon to write a theme for his gubernatorial run against Reagan. Lennon agreed, but Leary was jailed before the song was finished, so Lennon repurposed it for the Beatles.

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