Bungalow Bob said
From a purely marketing, money-making angle, I wonder why the Beatles' bean-counters weren't able to insist on an unused track to occupy the b-side of the Something single.
The simple answer to that is that The Beatles themselves had to say yes to UK releases. They themselves were not at all keen on seeing the single released in the UK, and it took lots of persuading and badgering from Klein (bean-counter #1 at the time) to get their agreement. That this argument was going on is shown by the time-lag of around three weeks between ...