The final overdub session for “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, which included the final mixing and editing, was the last time all four Beatles worked in the studio together. The mix is the third generation for 4:37 and then the second generation tape, which has white noise produced by the Moog synthesizer played by Lennon and additional drums added on 8 August. Different overdubs were made to the second generation tape on 8 August. Three takes from 22 February were edited into a master (second generation), which was overdubbed, mixed down on 18 April (third generation), and overdubbed on 18 April, 20 April, 8 August and 11 August. “When you’re drowning, you don’t say, ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.’ You just scream.” “‘She’s So Heavy’ was about Yoko,” Lennon told Rolling Stone. “I Want You” received the “She’s So Heavy” vocals on 11 August, and thus the title became “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”. Billy Preston’s Hammond organ and Ringo Starr’s congas were added on 20 April 1969. Lennon and Harrison overdubbed multi-tracked heavy guitars on 18 April 1969. But again, it’s very original sort of John-type song.” The riff that he sings and plays is really a very basic blues-type thing. It’s really basically a bit like a blues. John plays lead guitar and sings the same as he plays. Lennon played the lead guitar, as George Harrison stated: The song was rehearsed several times during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions the basic track and Lennon’s guide vocal (which is used in the master) were recorded at Trident Studios on 22 February 1969, shortly after shooting for the Let It Be film ended.
In the middle of the 15th repetition of the theme, the song abruptly ends. The song’s coda consists of a three-minute repetition of the “She’s So Heavy” theme, with the arpeggios double tracked, intensifying with “white noise” fading in as the theme continues this consists of multi-tracked guitars from Lennon and Harrison, Moog white-noise from Lennon, and drums and bass from Starr and McCartney respectively. During the next E7(♭9) transition, Lennon lets loose a primal scream of “Yeah”, until his voice breaks. Another repeat of the “She’s So Heavy” theme (this time featuring harmonies) is followed by Lennon singing a livelier repeat of the “I Want You” verse. The second set of verses are rendered instrumentally with lead guitar. The main theme repeats with Lennon singing “She’s so heavy”, with a long sustain on the last word. This would function, throughout the song, as a transition to the main theme.
As the last chord fades, a verse begins in 44 time, based on the A and D blues scales, with Lennon singing “I want you / I want you so bad …” The two blues verses alternate, before the reappearance of the E7(♭9) chord, and McCartney playing a notably aggressive bass riff.
The bass and lead guitar ascend and descend with a riff derived from the D minor scale. In this chord sequence, the F note is a drone. It begins in 68 time, with an arpeggio guitar theme in D minor, progressing through E7(♭9) and B♭7 before cadencing on an A augmented chord. Lennon wrote the song about his love for Yoko Ono. It was the first song recorded for the Abbey Road album but one of the last songs to be finished, on 20 August 1969, the last time all four Beatles were together in the studio. The song is an unusual Beatles composition for a variety of reasons, namely its length (nearly eight minutes), minimal lyrics, a three-minute descent through repeated guitar chords over a rising background of synthesized white noise, and an abrupt ending. The song closes side one on their 1969 album Abbey Road. “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney).
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