By 1969, the Beatles were just months away from breaking up, and the Liverpool band were recording Abbey Road.
But Paul McCartney couldn't turn off his creativity. He had an excess of songs stored up in his head so he would sneak into the legendary studio before the rest of the Fab Four arrived to lay down some more music.
Paul McCartney recalled in The Beatles Anthology that he penned Come and Get It in 1969, and recorded a "fairly decent demo".
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He said: "Because I lived locally, I could get in half an hour before a Beatles session at Abbey Road – knowing it would be empty and all the stuff would be set up – and I’d use Ringo’s equipment to put a drum track down, put some piano down, quickly put some bass down, do the vocal, and double-track it."
Working without his song writing partner, John Lennon, Paul McCartney recorded the entire demo himself, alone, on July 24, 1969, in Abbey Road Studios. It seems as if he simply wanted to write and record a new song for fun, but once the track was finished, he knew he had to give it to one special band.
At the time, The Beatles' music company, Apple, were managing a few other bands. One of these acts was The Iveys - a band who later changed their name to Badfinger.
The Welsh rock band were originally formed in Swansea and had a collection of major hits over two decades - including Paul McCartney's secret project. However, when he decided to give the band his song, he had some stipulations for the track.
He told them: "Okay, it’s got to be exactly like this demo."
Paul McCartney said the song's demo "had a great feeling on it," and he wanted to retain that when professionally recording it. The rockers were keen to put their own spin and flair on the track, though, and tried to change things up. But, as he was producing the song, he had to refuse.
Looking back, he said: "They actually wanted to put their own variations on, but I said: ‘No, this really is the right way.’"
Eventually, the Hey Jude singer recalled, they "listened to him"
The Iveys changed their name to Badfinger when they Come and Get It, which went straight to number one in New Zealand's singles charts and claimed a quick fourth-place spot in the UK and Canada.
The track also had a Hollywood debut just months later. Come and Get it was part of the soundtrack of the 1969 movie The Magic Christian, which starred Peter Sellers and The Beatles' very own drummer, Ringo Starr.
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