Jan 3: Filming continues, but the proposed 10am start time has already been abandoned by Lennon and Harrison. We didn’t realise it but we were actually breaking up as it was happening. Paul McCartney: What happened was, when we got in there, it showed how the break-up of a group works. George Martin: Let It Be was the worst time of all, really disruptive. Because he is confident of his own abilities.
He took me to lunch, and said: ‘You’re not to worry about a thing.’ I was feeling really awkward about the whole thing, and he was completely at ease about the situation. George Martin, being the gentleman that he is, realised that I had been compromised in a way, and he saw fit to put me at ease about the situation. I was the same as every other punter on the planet, who saw them as these extraordinary icons of marvelousness. But when I got the call, to walk in and be privy to those guys sitting around, doing what they did, and to be invited in, was pretty astonishing.
Glyn Johns (engineer/producer): I was quite used to being around people who were famous. We had two cameras and just about did the same thing. The sound crew instructions were to roll/record from the moment the first Beatle appeared and to record sound all day until the last one left. Les Parrott (cameraman): My brief on the first day was to ‘shoot The Beatles’. Paul McCartney: The idea was that you’d see The Beatles rehearsing, jamming, getting their act together, and then finally performing somewhere in a big, end-of-show concert. The project will eventually morph into the Let It Be album and film.
#PAUL MCCARTNEY LET IT BE TV#
John had left at that stage and within months, so had the others.Jan 2, 1969: At 10am The Beatles arrive at Twickenham Film Studios to begin rehearsals for a proposed TV show, Get Back. Only George, Paul and Ringo were present for the final session. ‘I Me Mine’ does not feature John Lennon. Paul McCartney wanted with his father-in-law, New York lawyer Lee Eastman to run the business but was out-voted. John, George and Ringo had brought in crook Allan Klein to run their business. At this point The Beatles’ empire was falling apart. The official break-up of The Beatles was in April 1970, one year and three months after the ‘Get Back’ sessions had concluded. It was the last song The Beatles ever recorded (not counting the two Anthology songs ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ in the 90’s, made with early John Lennon recordings after he had died). George Harrison’s ‘I Me Mine’ was recorded on 3 January, 1970, one year after the ‘Get Back’ sessions and after the release of ‘Abbey Road’. The ‘Abbey Road’ sessions continued through until 20 August 1969 but the very final Beatles song features on the ‘Let It Be’ album, not ‘Abbey Road’. ‘Let It Be’ wasn’t out until and inbetween, The Beatles also released the ‘Hey Jude’ album on 26 February 1970, made up of songs that weren’t on albums, including two from the ‘Get Back’ sessions, ‘George Harrison’s ‘Old Brown Shoe’ and John Lennon’s ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. ‘Abbey Road’ was released on 26 September 1969.
#PAUL MCCARTNEY LET IT BE MOVIE#
Because a movie takes so long to produce, ‘Abbey Road’ was started, finished and released before the ‘Let It Be’ movie was ready and subsequently, the ‘Let It Be’ album was held back to coincide with the movie release.
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