Lindsay-Hogg’s film, they argue, was selectively edited for maximum dreariness, perhaps to retroactively explain the breakup – Abbey Road, the Beatles’ true swansong, was made after Let It Be but released first – while evidence from bootlegged tapes suggests a mixture of pleasure and frustration familiar to any musician struggling through Take 24 on a deadline. Yet that narrative has long been challenged by some Beatles aficionados. Lennon described the sessions as hell, and Harrison called them the group’s winter of discontent. In time that film took on a reputation as a joyless document of the band’s collapse, and later testimony from members of the Beatles seemed to buttress that view. That period was already the subject of Let It Be, a 1970 verite film by Michael Lindsay-Hogg its soundtrack was the Beatles’ final studio LP. Photograph: Disney+/Linda McCartney/Apple Corps Get Back: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. “I hope we passed the audition,” Lennon quips at the show’s end. The band’s journey in January 1969 began with intense pressure to put on a high-concept live show and ended with something wonderfully low-concept: an impromptu lunchtime performance on a London rooftop that reminded the world of the band’s majesty, spontaneity and wit. Jackson’s film is also a volley in one of the longest-running debates in Beatles scholarship. “‘Just for one day, just watch them, and I’ll be really quiet and sit there.’ Well, guess what,” he continues. “‘I wish I could go in a time machine and sit in the corner of the stage while they were working,’” he says, describing a lifelong dream like a child praying for the ultimate Christmas present. “It’s sort of that one impossible fan dream,” Jackson says from Wellington, in New Zealand, where he has spent much of the past four years in a darkened editing suite surrounded by Beatles memorabilia. Harrison blurts out what they may all be thinking: "Maybe we should have a divorce."įor Beatles fans or any student of 20th-century pop culture, these are astonishing glimpses into the band’s working life and the tensions that surrounded them. Lennon, who seems to space out for much of the meeting, declares vaguely that "communication" with an audience is his only aim, while an impatient McCartney challenges his bandmates to show some enthusiasm for the project or abandon it.
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They have loose plans for a concert TV special featuring brand-new songs, but most of the men appear to be dreading it – and may be dreading one another, too. Later that same day, after John Lennon arrives, the four rock deities gather in a circle and bicker. "Get back to where you once belonged." Almost like magic, a Beatles classic begins to form out of nothing. Within minutes, a midtempo groove takes shape, and a familiar vocal melody emerges. With Ringo Starr and George Harrison sitting groggily before him, a tray of toast and jam by their side, McCartney starts to strum and sing, searching for inspiration. “Lennon’s late again,” Paul McCartney says matter-of-factly as he plugs in his bass guitar. It is a cold January morning in 1969, and three of the four Beatles are assembled in a cavernous film studio in London, with cameras rolling and microphones everywhere.
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