Anybody else watching the making to the ‘Let it Be’ album documentary on Disney+ ?
I found it utterly fascinating. Grizzled music industry veterans (at 29 yrs old) trying to re-discover the fun of playing together and get a live album across the finish line.
Billy – Simply an amazing keys player and very cool dude. The rest are on their best behavior around him because being rude in front of a guest is not at all English.
Ringo – affable, capable, agreeable. A great drummer in spite of what everyone says.
George – a little prickly after being on the outside of the Lennon/McCartney thing for so long. But keeping up the hippie chill in public.
John – periodically acting up and cutting up to keep the feeling that he is over it at bay.
Paul – the working class Liverpudlian just trying to set some goals and not seem like the boss.
I remember the Beatles Era very well, I was seven years old at the time at it washed over the country like a wave of Beatles haircuts, boots, cloths you name it. It was truly the end of the sappy pop music that had preceded it, in short most of it rocked. I never appreciated why they broke up, until I had worked in bands a few years. I’ll watch it at some point, but suspect little of it will be new to me.
I had the white album on my turntable for several years. When I was a kid, I would put on my beetle boots, Beatle wig and put on my Hard Day’s Night 45 rpm and intentionally shock myself with the record player plug! lol
I am looking forward to watching this. I was never a big Beatles fan, but I do really like some of their post-breakup solo work.