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1969 single by the Beatles

This article is about the Beatles song. For other uses, see Come Together (disambiguation).

"Come Together" is a song by the British rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

The song is the opening track on the band's 1969 studio album Abbey Road. It was also a double A-side single in the United Kingdom with "Something", reaching No. 4 in the UK charts.

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The song has been covered by several other artists, including Ike & Tina Turner, Aerosmith, Eurythmics, Joe Cocker and Michael Jackson.

Background and inspiration

In early 1969, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, held nonviolent protests against the Vietnam War, dubbed the Bed-ins for Peace.

In May, during the Montreal portion of the bed-in, counterculture figures from across North America visited Lennon. Among the visitors was the American psychologist Timothy Leary, an early advocate of LSD whom Lennon admired. Leary intended to r