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But for all intents and purposes, the original Let It Be film had its reputation established by its release, with the breakup taking on a disproportionate stake. Decades of unavailability for mainstream viewers cemented the movie as a straw man for late-era Beatles. The only two views of it were “watch the Beatles break up” or “watch for the symptoms of the Beatles breaking up.” There was little middle ground. Maybe Michael Lindsay-Hogg offered up too much subtlety. On 5th January, Mal was living in a rented apartment with a new girlfriend, Fran Hughes, and working on the book with his co-author John Hoernie. The manuscript was due to be delivered a week later, but the former Beatles aide was still depressed about his impending divorce. The most accurate review yet: “Singing their songs, doing their thing!” (From the May 13, 1970, Californian)
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Most of the Beatles fans bemoaning that not a lot of this stuff on this box set [laughing] already have copies of it anyway. And so quite often, I think about what should we put on here that people haven’t heard before that’s good quality and you want to listen to more than once. I think that’s important. All episodes of SATB all feature conversations. Sometimes they are with Beatles authorities: writers or academics who’ve done the research and come up with a thesis. Others are with folks in the business: musicians who were inspired by The Beatles and who’ve walked the walk – written songs, recorded records, gone on tour. They know the ins and outs of Beatles music. But it certainly wasn’t a breakup of the band. Perhaps given the death of Brian Epstein and what happened on The White Album they’re aware that they’re probably reaching the end of this creative road they’re on. If Let It Be was this huge acrimonious breakup, they wouldn’t have done Abbey Road and certainly John and Paul wouldn’t be singing “Two Of Us” sweetly to each other. [laughs]A still photo of the four Beatles on the Abbey Road stairs has been captured from the recent trailer for the George Harrison documentary, “Living in the material world” April 29, 1969: Melody Maker reported 68 hours of footage was about to be edited down, “from which two films will be produced.” From Macmillan’s transparency, a dye transfer print was made using separation negatives, (you end up with a set of three pin registered matrixes, magenta,cyan and yellow, which are then individually placed on top of a print to transfer the 3 colours that make up the Dye Transfer). quotes from Derek Seagrove and Iain Macmillan added from a 2019 article by Ken McNab in Daily Record.
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Describing his time with the band, Harrington said: “First of all you’re in charge of setting up the equipment. When Let It Be was first shown to the public, on May 13, 1970, there was no glitz or red carpet. Instead the film was screened in ordinary theaters dotting the United States, not at a promoted premiere in New York as Apple had initially promoted.
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Giles Martin: Yeah. The original Let It Be film is quite drab. It’s quite a struggle to get through the film itself. It seemed like a slog, and I think the one thing that was unveiled by going through this stuff is there’s actually a lot of fun in there. That’s the difference. Watching the original Let It Be film you didn’t get a sense that they were having that much fun, and the Beatles genuinely had fun in the studio, so I think you’re right and I think that’s the difference. Giles Martin: There isn’t one. There isn’t one, really. I mean, that’s the thing about the Beatles, and one thing that’s revealing about what’s in the footage in the film footage, Let It Be is a lot about John and Paul trying to rekindle their songwriting romance. However, you do definitely get the sense that the band are very much, as much as they can be, in a sort of diplomatic situation where there were democratic votes. The article prompted a further response, a phone call from fellow director — and father, as he later learned — Orson Welles, who asked Michael if he was happy with Let It Be. Towards the end of the recording sessions I was asked, along with Steve Brendell, to meet on a Sunday morning at EMI Studios. Iain Macmillan, the photographer, wanted to take a few shots of four people walking across the zebra crossing outside the studio on Abbey Road to show the boys what the album cover idea would look like. To make up the foursome, two studio porters were drafted in as well. I know a photo exists of the four of us but I am not in a position to publish it.”
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For the next several months, a clear pattern emerged: The release of the album was delayed because the movie was hung up. A week later, May 20, the film received a more proper launch, premiering in London and Liverpool with the pomp missing stateside. In London, Beatle exes Jane Asher and Cynthia Lennon were among the guests, which also included Mary Hopkin, Lulu, Spike Milligan and other notables as thousands of fans showed up at the scene. Kevin Harrington, assistant roadie at the time, wrote in his memoir that he took an Apple Scruff to the premiere. No Beatles were present, however. The film is a bore. … Shot without any design, clumsily edited, defeatedly titled ‘A Feature Film,’ uninformative, awkward and naive. It would have destroyed a lesser group. How could 200,000 feet of film have produced nothing but an extended promotional exercise? Lennon’s ‘Child Of Nature’ – later rewritten as ‘Jealous Guy’ – was introduced on this day as ‘On The Road To Marrakesh’. He sang two verses, with Harrison joining in several places. Its presence here served to highlight the dry spell Lennon was undergoing as a songwriter; the song had been written in India more than six months previously.
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Kevin Harrington: First, I thought it was a darker representation. It seemed to be more focused on them having issues with each other, when in reality I remember lots of laughter. The argument caught on camera between Paul and George wasn’t a big deal. It’s just one of those arguments. There was a lot more laughter. Listen, I’ve worked with so many acts in the studio and in rehearsal rooms and worked with so many people, they were just another band having an off day. To put 51 years into context, it’s 11 more years than John Lennon spent in the material world. It’s about as far away from today as the release of Let It Be was from the Treaty of Versailles. It’s a relative eternity. Kevin Harrington: [laughs] Out of the blue John said, “I need a music stand,” and we didn’t have a stand in the studio at Apple. There was not one downstairs in the studio. So it was a question of, well, we don’t have time to run to a shop to get one, that’s for sure. Okay, so what a Beatle wants, a Beatle gets. If John wanted a music stand and the only thing I could do was improvise. So I became a music stand. This was for the song “Dig A Pony.” And I suppose to a certain degree we did kind of make the strings and the orchestra of the Phil Spector stuff a little bit more Beatles-sounding.
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Variety’s review, published in their May 20 issue, called the movie “relatively innocuous, unimaginative piece of film. But the musicians are the Beatles, and coming hard on the group’s breakup, … [it’s] charged with it own timely mystique. I mean, you have songs from Abbey Road but you also have “Gimme Some Truth” from Imagine. John and Paul started to write that together. You have “Child of Nature,” which became “Jealous Guy, which is on Imagine. And then there’s also “All Things Must Pass” and “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window” and “Octopus’ Garden.” The thing about The Beatles is they were never short on songs, and especially George, at this stage, was a powerhouse writing a bunch of songs.July: Most of the first week was fine and warm, but the 6th was dull and wet with 33mm of rain and a high of only 16C. It stayed rather cool until the 10th, but it then became very warm and humid. On the 16th, the temperature rose above 31C., but fresher weather followed on the 16th, although it remained mostly warm or very warm until the 28th. No measurable rain fell from 11th to the 28th, but over 30mm of rain fell on the 29th and it then became much cooler. Giles Martin: Yeah. Yes, it’s in the film, and if there was no visual for it, I’d definitely put it in, but there is and the visual is great. So the same people that are gonna be interested in having the full rooftop performance would probably just rather see it than hear it, and the mix will be my mix, anyway, in the film. So the rooftop performance is in the film and concerts always sound much better when you can see them. Kevin Harrington: No, oh good Lord no, not at all. Getting the tea and getting food and stuff, that was exciting ’cause you were finally able to do something after waiting around for hours for something to do. [laughs] You’re just sitting there watching and listening and tapping your foot and humming along, “let’s go make a cup of tea because I’m bored.” Seagrove: “I am the guy on the right, in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture. It wasn’t unusual for me to be at Abbey Road. I had been there on numerous occasions. I used to see the Beatles having a cup of tea in the canteen. We would sometimes be at the next table and say a casual hello to them. On this day, we saw them all walking out the front door around about 10 or so, which was unusual in itself. You rarely saw them at that time of day. Curiosity got the better of us so we followed them. We stopped at the gate and they walked up the other end. We just stood there watching. The guy who was taking the photograph was waving to us to get out of the way but we decided to just stand our ground. We had no idea about the significance of the picture.” Added a new transparency version of one of Mal’s photos, and a Japanese single cover with the same photo.
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