There are two early takes from the "Abbey Road" sessions at EMI Studio 2 taken from July 02 1969. It's been said that McCartney would always arrive to the studio slightly earlier than the rest of the band due to his close living quarters in St. John's Wood. On this day he was early and decided to run through his tune "Her Majesty" which was first introduced during the "Get Back/Let It Be" sessions earlier in the year. He recorded three takes on two tracks - one track for acoustic guitar and the other track for vocals - with the third being eventually used on the commercial LP with an edit (more on that later) but we can hear the entire take with the last strummed chord in mono on the bootleg LP and CD "No.3 Abbey Road N.W. 8" as well as on the CD "Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 5".After both George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrived for the session, attention was turned to a new McCartney tune entitled "Golden Slumbers" which segued into "Carry That Weight" recorded together with Paul on piano and guide vocal, George on bass and Ringo on drums. John and Yoko were still recovering in Scotland at that time.
The raw recording - take 13 - of "Golden Slumbers/ Carry That Weight" can also be heard on the above bootlegs. Overdubs would be added later in the sessions.
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