Release
After the release of The Beatles, Lennon was still adamant to see the song released. So on 26 November 1969, he and wife Yoko Ono recorded further overdubs with plans for it to be issued as a single by Plastic Ono Band alongside another unreleased song at the time, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", which was eventually issued as the B-side of The Beatles' "Let It Be" single in 1970. But when the other Beatles heard of John's plans to release a Beatle track under his own band's name the single was pulled. After that, the song had finally been planned to be issued on the album Sessions in 1985, but the album's release was cancelled due to objections by The Beatles. The song was not released until over 10 years later, on Anthology 3, during which time period it gained a certain aura of mystery. During this time, it could only be heard via bootlegs like Unsurpassed Demos, From Kinfauns to Chaos, Ultra Rare Trax Vol.5, and What a Shame, Mary Jane Had a Pain at the Party, a bootleg devoted to the song, as well as other outtakes from the same time period. A newly mixed version of the recording was officially released on the 1996 compilation Anthology 3.
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