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It was impossible without damaging the banisters, and Peter Brown would have gone nuts if I damaged any of the walls. Above the stairs was a small skylight. I told Mal of the problem and he came up and said, “Okay. Let’s get it through the skylight.” We got some rope and started pulling it up but it wouldn’t go through the skylight by [any more than] about half an inch. So they decided that the skylight frame had to come out. So it went through there by about an inch and that’s how we got Paul’s bass cabinet up there and the bottom of Billy Preston’s keyboards. 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. When the Beatles stopped touring in the summer of 1966, Mal became more of a personal assistant to the four musicians, arranging the instruments at sessions and carefully noting down lyrics as the songwriters dictated them. 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. 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.”
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In Beatle-time, the 15-plus-month turnaround from the end of their January 1969 sessions until the film’s release in May 1970 was simply a glacial pace. Then from the moment it reached theaters, Let It Be has been treated as a snuff film.
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quotes from Derek Seagrove and Iain Macmillan added from a 2019 article by Ken McNab in Daily Record.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. 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? 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. 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. A shot of an empty crossing with a modern Abbey Road sign superimposed in the sky appears in an auction.
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