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31 March 2008
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Recorded: 24 January 1969
Engineer: Glyn Johns
Released: 8 May 1970 (UK), 18 May 1970 (US)
John Lennon: vocals, acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: vocals, acoustic guitar
George Harrison: lead guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
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A 38-second ad-lib recorded between takes of Two Of Us, Maggie Mae …
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11.07am
1 November 2013
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I was looking at Wikipedia and the spelling for the song was Maggie May, why did the Beatles spell it Maggie Mae ?
11.30am
17 January 2016
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I was looking at Wikipedia and the spelling for the song was Maggie May, why did the Beatles spell it Maggie Mae ?
Maybe that's how they know it to be spelled. Or they just felt like it. 
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11.40am
14 June 2016
Offline Maybe it's the same reason they spelled "git" as "get"
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8.10am
1 November 2013
Offline William Shears Campbell said
Maybe it's the same reason they spelled "git" as "get"
So it is more commonly spelled as Mae in Liverpool?
They did credit all the Beatles as writers so was a different spelling a way to make more money?
