Fifty years ago, on March 6, 1970, ‘Let It Be’ was released, simple that would give title to the last album of the most important band in the history of music in the 20th century, the Beatles, and that despite its success was the beginning of the end of the British group.
Considered today one of the best songs of all time, after its gestation process are the last queues of a group that, in the early seventies, would end a career that in just ten years revolutionized and reinvented not only the world of music, but popular culture in its entirety.
In the documentary of the same name, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, which was only intended to account for the recording process of the album, the discords between the members of the group that ended up ending his story.
The Master of the single was recorded on January 31, 1969, with the idea that it was part of an album that would be called ‘Get Back’, but that ended up being baptized with the title of the single. McCartney put on the vocals and piano, Starr on drums, Lennon on bass and Harrison on electric guitar; Billy Preston played the Hammond organ and Linda McCartney reinforced the Harrison and Lennon choirs.
It is said that the discontent of Paul McCartney, author of the song, with the arrangements made by producer Phil Spector for the final product, was the last straw. The Beatles were playing to their end by then.
For all these reasons, the importance of ‘Let It Be’ transcends the song itself by articulating itself as a symbol of a sunset; Last flash of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr that already had very different motivations and needed to take different directions.
And it was McCartney who, still convinced of the possibility of breathe life into the BeatlesHe had insisted on fighting that last battle at a time when each member of the band was in a very different vital and professional point.
George Harrison’s mysticism, Ringo Starr’s discontent over his minor role within the band and the Yoko Ono’s entry into Lennon’s love life They were the main triggers of this defragmentation that the Lindsay-Hogg documentary reports.
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On January 30, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary London Apple Corps rooftop concert, it was announced that the director Peter Jackson would carry out a review of all the videographic material shot then in order to make a new documentary.
Fifty-five hours of raw footage that the New Zealand filmmaker, author of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and cult films like ‘Bad Taste’ or ‘Braindead’, will be in charge of give shape and background, situating the final journey of the band in a new light that allows us to approach the ‘beatle’ phenomenon from a prism, if perhaps even more revealing.
Without definitive data in this regard, it is speculated that this new work will see the light when the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of ‘Let It Be’ is completed, the film by Michael Lindsay-Hogg that arrived in theaters on May 13, 1970.
The Jackson documentary expand recordings on the rooftop of the Apple Corps and show more intimate moments during the recording of the mythical album.
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