One After 909

One After 909 was one of John Lennon's first compositions, and one of the last songs recorded by the Beatles. Paul remembers having some input in the writing. He said he and John were trying to write a "bluesy freight-train song" with a slight twist: the train in question is not the 909, but rather, the one after it. John does not remember that McCartney had any role in writing the song, which was written perhaps as early as 1957. It was last recorded as part of the rooftop concert on January 30, 1969 and as such was released on the 1970 album Let It Be. The same recording found its way into the film version. Several years earlier, on March 5, 1963, the Beatles recorded One After 909 in the same session that yielded From Me to You (their third single release) and Thank You Girl (the b-side). This recording of One After 909 was incorporated into Apple Records' Anthology 1 collection in 1995. The first episode of the Beatles Anthology has a 1960-era recording of the song from the Quarrymen days.