It seems a pity that we are not shown at least one song in its early stages of composition. This might have given us a genuine insight into the way the Beatles work. … I never once had the feeling that we were witnessing the creative process at work, or sharing in the mysterious, painful rituals of music-making.

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quotes from Derek Seagrove and Iain Macmillan added from a 2019 article by Ken McNab in Daily Record. At one point a tray of orange squashes is brought over. At another, they get a beer. But that’s about it: no moaning about the cold or anything. They just get on with it. I believe with the six-hour new Disney documentary that’s coming out you’re going to see the real fun of what it was like working for the Beatles. The 2011 exhibition “Beatles and bystanders” was a small one, with just the six Macmillan photos. So to expand the theme a bit, the exhibition focused on the bystanders that close scrutiny of the blown up original photos reveal. Dan Hampson, auction manager of Omega Auctions, said: “It’s hugely exciting to be able to offer items for sale from someone who really was there during that late-stage period of the group.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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October 1969: Counter to the NME story, the Beatles Book maintained the LP and film would come out in December. Elsewhere in this issue, in Steve Turner’s article on the Beatles’ effect on modern culture, the rumor that the Beatles may film a version of Lord of the Rings was revived.For the next several months, a clear pattern emerged: The release of the album was delayed because the movie was hung up. Over the years there are several people who have claimed to be the man on the Abbey Road cover. I have heard stories about people claiming to be or to know “the man on the cover” for as long as I have been a Beatles fan. One of them supposedly was a gay man who died in the seventies. Here’s another, earlier claim: September 1969: After screening a new cut at some point this month, the group signed off on the film to business manager Allen Klein, according to Michael. In what could simply be a coincidence, the same month also saw John announce to the others that he was quitting the Beatles. They released Abbey Road in September, too. 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.

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Kevin Harrington: Funnily enough, to me it was just an ordinary day in my life at that time. I mean, the most vivid thing is having to kneel in front of John. I remember looking around initially and I couldn’t really see anybody. And then I went to look behind me and there were office workers looking across the rooftops. Then people started showing up at the window and you’d look out again and there were people standing on rooftops. 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: My vision of a project always changes because you kind of learn what the album is to a certain degree, and I’m pretty stupid when it comes to this stuff to be honest with you. I’m not a very good Beatles historian. For instance, and people might find this kind of surprising, I suppose, because everyone [else] knows everything. But I didn’t know how much of the rooftop concert was on the actual finished album. As can be seen from the artwork, there are gaps around the “Beatles”, and other marks that were later fixed by the in-house artists.

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Kevin Harrington: To me, it wasn’t loud at all. When you’re on the roof and you’ve got a band playing, for people not used to it, it’s loud. I didn’t think it was loud because I was used to it. I’m used to being right next to these twelve-inch speakers. It was a bit chilly but it wasn’t especially cold for me but I was young then. [laughs] I would have been 19. Added Eric Bourgoin’s desaturated photo, probably closer to the natural light and saturation. (later replaced) On the very eve of the Let It Be’s ultimate release in May, we can catch a glimpse of contemporary opinions of the film.

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John and Yoko joined Rolling Stone chief Jann Wenner and his wife, Jane, for a showing Let It Be at a sparsely attended theater in San Francisco in the early part of June 1970. Mal Evans in the part of "Bearded Skunk Henchman" in the western Blindman, which starred Ringo Starr, July 1971.

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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. It surprised me that he didn’t know the lyrics so well. But I couldn’t stand there holding the lyrics because on the left hand side of John was George and on the right hand side was Paul and I knew the cameras were rolling, so I couldn’t stand in front of George and I couldn’t stand in front of Paul so the only thing to do was to kneel and just pretend to pretend to be a music stand. [laughs] What a Beatle wants, a Beatle gets. And I’ve just opened my wallet now, as it’s one of the lessons I’ve always taken from Mal and this is my reminder, I’ve never not carried a plectrum since that night when Mal told me in 1968. There’s one in my wallet now. It was Mal who had to negotiate with the authorities in the Philippines when the Fabs inadvertently snubbed the country's First Lady while on tour there in 1966; it was Mal who came up with the name "Sgt Pepper"; and it was Mal who can be heard counting down the 24 bars of orchestral noise on the song A Day In The Life. While the Beatles may have been in a difficult spot in early April 1970, it wasn’t the same spot — difficult or not — they were in January 1969.