This video was used as research for the upcoming documentary on Curt Claudio, the homeless American who visited Lennon at Tittenhurst Park while he was recording Imagine. For more information on this project please go to www.findingclaudio.com/
Funny I stumbled across this video with your comment. I just watched “Imagine: John Lennon” today featuring the clip of John and Yoko talking to the homeless man. He felt a personal connection to the songs and John invited him in for breakfast.
@@j-zap In the video I saw that Claudio guy quotes a song by Paul and a few lines Yoko wrote thinking John wrote them, kinda makes the situation even more bizarre to think that the guy had been tripping out over these lyrics and flew all the way to England thinking John was sending him messages yet they weren't even words John wrote .
According to Glynn Johns it was Ringo’s idea to record on the roof which he…Glynn…discussed and eventually between them they worked it out. Sure it might have been cold on the day itself and therefore Ringo was reluctant. My inclination is to believe that version but other inclinations are available
@@andrewegan7011 I've got it on dvd but had it a few years.. I think it was recorded off the TV showing.. Not sure.. In fact its been that long I can't even remember who did it for me
Lindsay-Hogg plays a much bigger role in the series than he did in the movie. He's a real personality, and his failure to get the band to do what he wants is actually helpful in getting a narrative line Peter Jackson and his team could develop. The movie is just a lot of footage with no sense of purpose until you get to the rooftop (which does come off there too).
I'm eternally grateful for the footage this man and his team were able to capture. But it took until 2021 for someone to present it to us properly. A big thanks to Peter Jackson and his team.
One of the most interesting parts of this doco is Mal Evans, seeing how he looked after the boys, and played Anvil in Maxwell's silver hammer. What a great big bear of a man, an Beatle legend. His end in LA was a tragedy.
Mal was a telephone engineer, so technical. He rigged up the amps and the likes for them. Could fix basic electrical things. He was a bouncer on the door of the Cavern, hence his size. George Harrison suggested he take the bouncer job. They were earning millions per year, yet Mal was paid buttons.
Pablo Van Cleef that was not his edit - it was forced on him and even the beatles believed the time wad a bummer until Peter Jackson showed film to Paul and later Ringo who were relieved to hear even their memories were wrong
The Get Back documentary made me fall in love with The Beatles all over again. The rooftop concert was amazing seeing how they outsmarted the cops that were trying to shut it down. The reaction from Paul when he saw the cops finally making it to the roof and his refusal to stop playing was AMAZING.
Michael was making editorial choices at the time for the final cut. We've had 20 to 30 years of reality TV and MTV unplugged and various styles of documentary making. So for today's audience you would make different choices like Peter Jackson did. But this man had foresight to put cameras where they just didn't in the 60s and record things nobody thought of recording. So I thank you
Dear Host, please thank the Director for the "hidden mic in the cafeteria". That conversation answered what some Beatles fans consider "the single most important question" in Beatles-dom all these years.
@@andysongs9485 Apologies but what was the single most important question that you're referring to? Was it McCartney telling John that John was always the #1 boss of the group?
Michael Lindsay Hogg, if you're reading this, I just want to thank you. I hope you never feel like you're seen as some kind of "Beatle villain". Hindsight is 20/20. You shot this incredible footage, you did the best job you could and what's great about the "Get Back" documentary is that it REALLY is just a long, "special feature" about the making of your movie. Your movie is mostly music, and I think your cut of the Rooftop Concert is THE cut of it. Ideally, you watch YOUR cut of the Rooftop Concert.....then you watch the last section of "Get Back" to see how it was filmed and what happened in real time. "Get Back" builds to this rooftop concert, but lots of the music is drowned out by the cops talking in the lobby.
Your exactly right. The whole build up for the concert, only to be constantly interrupted. It should have been only the performance. It's the music that's important.
@@Pharoset Butt, I'm not trying to kiss his ass. It's just acknowledgement of his efforts. Orson Welles' kid, did ok. 👍 As for u, well, you're probably the type who didn't appreciate, The Lady from Shanghai. Or, you're just a bit thick, in general. God bless, and breed you all!
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse No, it's because Peter Jackson had a lot more time to sync up the audio as there were no clapperboard tracks. Ah, and by the way, Sy....you're an imbecile!
I’m a little younger than some of you I’m guessing. But I’m really intrigued to know what was the public perception of John and Paul during the 60s, 70s ? And also Paul during the 80s? Were they adored like now or did it take John’s death to send their reputation into infinity? I’d love to know more about the actual public sentiment towards them back then
Michael Lindsay-Hogg filmed it in a time there was no reality television. So he couldn't just show the images purely, as Peter Jackson did recently. He needed a narrative to guide it through, so it is understandable his approach. This raw approach woudn't work very well back in 1970, today we are used to see it, so that's why putting together this unreleased material is so great and joyful to watch. We are beings from another generation, another sensibility brought by new medias, so watching all of this it makes it feel like a time machine indeed.
So many amazing scenes from the new movie. I just loved it. I’m saddened that this gem was hidden for so long and we have lost so many of them Linda, Maureen, Mal, George Martin, George and John. It was not a sad story of their breakup but was actually a glorious redemption story of 4 guys who put themselves under an insurmountable task and emerged gloriously with so many amazing songs and along the way you got to see them really work so hard and were genuinely nice people who really did care for each other.
Fascinating to see how people's recollection from that time gets so distorted, same thing hearing Glyn Johns or the remaining Beatles themselves talk about all these things and finding in the Get Back documentary that a lot of what they remembered wasn't exactly right.
I loved Let IT BE . , I saw it when it came out I was 17 at the time, saw it a few times. I never got thst negativevof a vibe off it! It was unique in its time for sure....that type of footage of The Beatles is priceless. Peter Jackson's access to it has just expanded it 100 fold because he had a free hand 50 years later and could go ove 7 hours in the series firmat streaming. But thanks to Lindsay- Hogg for capturing it!
Michael, I want to thank you profusely for your work. The Peter Jackson production of your team's footage brought tears of joy to my eyes. Your tenacity and determination are palpable through the filming. That was no east feat. The result is worth its weight in gold. I didn't think my love for this band could ever grow as it has been growing since I first heard them in the mid-1960s as a child. What I love most is how each of their personalities shines through. It shines without judgement or bias. 4 lads from Liverpool under pressure to create art on demand under imperfect conditions. The respect for each other at that point is abundantly apparent despite the little riffs. I feel I got to know George a lot better through the first episode. Seeing a glimpse of how John and Paul worked together was priceless. It was messy. It was silly. At times it was boring. But from emerged genius. Nonsense lyrics gave way timeless poetry. Thank you for capturing the Billy Preston affiliation. Even from a young age it was apparent to me the impact of Billy's playing had on those songs. You gotta love how Billy showed up, sat down, brought his best stuff, ..., all without complaining or asking for a contract. What I saw was a passionate player with genuine affection for this band with the ability to kick it up a notch. The Beatles, in turn, paid Billy with their welcoming attitude. I love every one of the people in this film for the roll they played creating the operating manual for my life. Even at age 58 I still listen, read, and ponder the songs of the Beatles and come out smiling every time. Bravo sir.
Anybody who knows anything about production should have a great deal of respect for Hogg. For him to come out of that chaotic jam session with a viable product and narrative was a miracle in itself.
In Get Back he mentions the microphones having a hard time picking up their conversations because they would strum their instruments while talking. So I believe the footage he used was the best he could find. That's why Let it be movie has more full songs and jams then Get Back.
Brilliant director- the first director to shoot documentary footage of the Beatles playing an rehearsing and the only director to shoot the very last footage of the Beatles playing together- quite something
PS: Thanks also to Michael Lindsay Hogg for things like the Paperback Writer/Rain videos, and the "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" videos as well. And all the other great musical acts you captured during that time....like the Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus! THANK YOU.
Michael Lindsay Hogg shot and directed some all-time classics. Glad you posted his if for no other reason than because he talked about precisely why Mal Evans had unplugged John's and George's amps. A fairly obvious reason but it's good to hear it from an eyewitness with the authority of Lindsay Hogg. So thanks.
I agree with the sentiments that he was so important in this iteration because of the tons of footage and shot angles and audio. He shouldn’t be vilified but instead celebrated.
The Beatles were a British band as you may or may not know. ~The home market for the Beatles is the UK. Let It Be has been released in multiple formats over the decades here.
Great insights! The Let It Be film footage is wonderful. I loved The Beatles since 1964 and The Ed Sullivan Show appearances. I bought every single and every album as soon as they were released. To see them creating some of the most beloved songs of all time is majestic. This is so wonderfully nostalgic nearly 60 years later. Loved it! Teri
It was around 7°C/45°F in London that day, not counting the wind chill factor. I can just imagine how much the strings contracted on their guitars from the cold weather. I bet it took them a while to get tuned up.
@@spockboy Quite likely the guitars were upstairs waiting which meant they were acclimated by then. There were also acoustics and they need about an hour to acclimate so I suspect they were up there earlier in the morning.
I saw Peter Jackson's edit and it is amazing. Let's not forget none of that would have been possible if not for the vision and phenomenal oversight of MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG. - Mr. Hogg earned a great seat very near to the fab 4 at the table of Beatle chroniclers.
Having been there when all this happened and buying 'Let It Be' when it was released and going to the theater and watching the movie when it was released, it's so cute to watch people 50 years later with all the hype about it. Michael LH worked with them after 'Paperback Writer'; he filmed 'Hey Jude'.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg did a fantastic tour de force that January 1969, always propositive, creative and clear in his director role with the Beatles regearsings, I admire his films like Stone's R&R Circus, Becket's Godot and the 56 hours of Let It Be now seen in Peter Jakson as Get Back for Disney. My best wishes to him always!
The roof gig is just a wow moment in history let alone musical history, they were cultural icons. Those people that climbed the roof to see them (for free) at the pinnacle of their career. I wonder which of them thought wow this is lucky and a special moment. Wait till I get home and tell everyone what I saw today. Especially when they see themselves on the big screen as well later. I saw the movie in a cinema when it came out, I was 10 years old. Thanks Michael for your story and the filming of course, you had to put up with a lot of crap making that.
He recalls that Ringo wasn't really into the idea of going on the roof, but in the Peter Jackson version Ringo is clearly the one that wants to go up the most when the other guys aren't as into the idea.
Thanks, Michael You deserve a lot of my respect for what you directed and Paul refused the green light to the project Peter Jackson wanted to bring to fruition, and He finally did, all of which has been a true revelation of the Beatles volatile relationship, a gem of documentary indeed!
The surviving Fabs offered it to Jackson in 2017 - he worked on it four years came back and said - its three films not one - where did Macca ever attempt to prevent him?
Thank you Michael for shooting the original footage. I don't like the fact that there seems to be an urge to edit the raw footage to "Tell a story". No, we all know the story or can research it. Let's just see ALL the footage.
I appreciate Micheal filming them, I own let it be on vhs, and its all over the place, it just jumps over there here..it wasn't put together right. I'm glad Peter Jackson fixed it up so we got what i think, Hogg wanted to do. A masterpiece of a documentary about the best band in the bloody universe 👍🏻😃🎸
@@conorfurlong The band couldn't decide anything after Brian died. George was especially despondent. Paul is the only one with any real enthusiasm. Missed opportunity for an epic event. The only reason the rooftop gig is significant was because it was The Beatles final live performance. The gig in the desert would have been world wide news and every band would have copied them.
Nice to hear his perspective on the footage he shot. Michael received a lot of undeserved flak for the " Let It Be " compilation in 1970. He also filmed four Beatles' songs for promotional media and had a respected career afterwards. Thanks to him, we have Jackson's " Get Back. "
@@Revolver1981 nope, we are talking about the incredible excellent movie? or only the awesome stupendous rooftop concert? at the end of the movie john says "You've got so many of those bastards" which I find hilarious.
after Get Back, i actually have more...much more respect for Mr. Hogg. despite all the reluctance and seemingly challenges the band and various circumstances were throwing at him..he persisted and still did his job professionally...and it paid off...TWICE.
I think the real question is why MLH chose the footage he did. Seeing far more of the film through the recent documentary you get a really different take on this than came out of the film release in 1970. While there were tensions the recent doc shows a much more harmonious atmosphere. We were lucky he filmed it all, but not what he chose to portray in his film.
Yeah in many ways that 1970 let it be film was a main contributor to the myth the Beatles despised each other you know. I feel like if aspects of the latest film were shown back then the Beatles would’ve looked back with more fondness
@@Azoria4 the beatles sat and watched his documentary and made him cut out hours and hours of footage. they didnt let him use certain scenes that peter was able to. not to mention, he had a time limit of 2 hours whereas peter was able to push it to 6
One important limitation people don’t seem to aknowledge is the insane possibilities we now have in post-production to organize, sync, clean-up and make usable footage and audio that it would have been a mixture of beyond any fathomable budget and straight put impossible to do in 1969/70. There was also many conversations that simply couldn’t be used in a contemporary film because of being personal, sensitive and businessy. From what little was left, he had to construct some sort of coherent reality. And the depressive «let it be» was what he was able to do. Peter Jackson had soooo much more to work with. This doesn’t mean that I think PLH was any sort of genious either, he is acting very strangely in the scenes he is participating in.
I was thrilled seeing this Get Back documentary, but I don’t recall them performing all of Let It Be songs on the rooftop concert. Did I miss something?
This Michael Lindsay Hogg was only 29 years old when he directed the Beatles in this documentary. Amazing since he looked like a kid to. How did he ever get this assignment?
The lads were cold on the roof. I was surprised Lyndsay Hogg did not have some small heaters for them, and gloves with the finger tips cut out like the Stones use. I guess that stuff had not been invented for rock. Peter Jackson made a mistake of not using the day-after-the rooftop footage featuring "Two of Us," "The Long and Winding Road," "Let it Be, " etc. He did not want to reuse "Let it Be" material. But so what? Millions upon millions of young people have not seen it. The music was the main thing, and the best thing. Lyndsay Hogg does have an Orson Welles demeanor in the film.
@@gilbertsanto9188 Yes, that was silly. "Here's some of the best parts, but we're not showing them after 6 hours." It could be an intellectual property thing with "Let it Be." But with enough of the right legal power, that can be obviated. If not legal, then a huge mistake. And it says something about Jackson's taste and judgment.
It was very difficult for him as the director to actually know exactly what he was doing from day to day as they kept changing their minds as a group but at least he got the footage of them rehearsing…
Great comments from Michael Lindsay Hogg on an extraordinary film. The interviewer seems to be drifting in and out of sleep. How do such uninteresting and seemingly unprepared people get such interesting guests?
Here's someone who brought more turmoil into an already rocky and rough situation....love the footage that he and his crew captured...BUT not even a 20 Pack of "1000 Sheet Per Roll" TP would clean him up after watching all of GB.
Pity his version was so heavily edited so as to focus only on the arguments and bad vibes. It's clear from the Jackson version that they were having fun too. I guess Hogg thought it would be more sensational to show them in a bad light.
@@richardarmitage9621 there was over 50 hours of footage from this film to work with and Get Back runs for under 9 hours, I would say Jackson made a generous amount of editorial cuts himself.
This is the baronet with the performative cigar who suggested taking the whole thing to Libya? The person who set up in Twickenham, until a showdown with George got the four back into Abbey Road. And until the new edit he had clearly been happy with the world putting it all on Yoko. It's clear from his poncing about in the studio he would be the sort to still take himself seriously decades on. But why should anyone else?
I was under the impression it was Glyn johns and Ringo's idea to do the roof concert. Oh the differing versions of well documents events... Lindsay Hogg was all for Tunisia and QE2 right?
The roof gig idea was based on Jefferson Airplanes rooftop gig in New York the year before..if you check it out it is remarkably similar in style and feel to to The Beatles impromptu performance, even the way its filmed with cameras filming office workers leaning out of windows trying to see what's happening..and ultimately, also getting halted by the intervention of the police. Mr Hogg doesnt refer to it but would have been aware.
He captured some amazing footage but did The Beatles dirty with the way he edited the final product. He picked so many moments of the boys looking pissy, annoyed, and/or detached to paint a false picture of such misery. I saw in a comment thread a theory that he may have exploited the fact that the band was breaking up at the time he was editing to sensationalize the situation and make himself look like he was smart & savvy.
Agree 100%. Even in 'Get Back' he is oblivious to the Beatles' wishes except when he is forced to accept them, as he is always pushing his agenda. One poignant scene is the one where Paul says 'And then there were two'. He and Ringo were obviously upset at the coming demise of the group, as pain was written on their faces. Then in a moment of silence and reflection he says something akin to "So what about Libya"?
Michael can thank Peter Jackson, as Peter Jackson can thank Michael because without Jackson’s decision to make Get Back, Hogg would have remained a footnote in the Beatle universe. But now Beatle history is changed forever because of the effort of both men. But what’s amazing is the unreliable thing called memory. Here he says Paul was enthusiastic about going on the roof and Ringo was against it. But HIS OWN footage provides clear evidence that Paul DID NOT want to play the rooftop and Ringo did!!
Apple should have released an "I Like Mike" Tee Shirt to coincide with the Peter Jackson release. From one angle on this shirt, you see Lindsay-Hogg with a flat expression on his face; from a different angle you see him grin as he takes a puff from a cigar.
Michael Lindsay has been shit on for years .ppl saying he was green to film this.to be trusted with the let it be movie. But he's why we have this footage.paperback writer is just one if tge coolest 2 minutes filmed ever
I share many of the sentiments expressed in the comments. However, filming means editing a lot. Watching it all, making quick 1st, 2nd, 3rd......cuts, making choices and decisions to get the final version. I still feel that "Let It Be" was not balanced. I walked out of the theater a despondent, disappointed 15 year-old. That stuck with me for a while.
This video was used as research for the upcoming documentary on Curt Claudio, the homeless American who visited Lennon at Tittenhurst Park while he was recording Imagine. For more information on this project please go to www.findingclaudio.com/
Funny I stumbled across this video with your comment. I just watched “Imagine: John Lennon” today featuring the clip of John and Yoko talking to the homeless man. He felt a personal connection to the songs and John invited him in for breakfast.
@@j-zap In the video I saw that Claudio guy quotes a song by Paul and a few lines Yoko wrote thinking John wrote them, kinda makes the situation even more bizarre to think that the guy had been tripping out over these lyrics and flew all the way to England thinking John was sending him messages yet they weren't even words John wrote .
@@j-zap credit
According to Glynn Johns it was Ringo’s idea to record on the roof which he…Glynn…discussed and eventually between them they worked it out. Sure it might have been cold on the day itself and therefore Ringo was reluctant. My inclination is to believe that version but other inclinations are available
Those times are gone my friend. Not many people of that ilk anymore sadly. To much red tape
I like the fact that Peter Jackson's Get Back was also a documentary about the making of Michael Lindsay Hogg's documentary.
100% agreed...another story there
Ironically you cannot get Let it Be the movie; despite being shown constantly on the BBC at Christmas during the 1970s.
@@andrewegan7011 I've got it on dvd but had it a few years.. I think it was recorded off the TV showing.. Not sure.. In fact its been that long I can't even remember who did it for me
There's always two sides to a coin.
Lindsay-Hogg plays a much bigger role in the series than he did in the movie. He's a real personality, and his failure to get the band to do what he wants is actually helpful in getting a narrative line Peter Jackson and his team could develop. The movie is just a lot of footage with no sense of purpose until you get to the rooftop (which does come off there too).
I'm eternally grateful for the footage this man and his team were able to capture. But it took until 2021 for someone to present it to us properly. A big thanks to Peter Jackson and his team.
Amen. I'm going back and rewatching "Get Back" for a second time as I type this.
@@jrussellcase 3rd time here. Agree completely.
To be fair, how could anyone edit all that footage into a coherent 80-minute movie? I think he did pretty well, all things considered.
Well said.
@@GOGOLH The technology for the sound mixing that Jackson could do didn't exist then.
One of the most interesting parts of this doco is Mal Evans, seeing how he looked after the boys, and played Anvil in Maxwell's silver hammer. What a great big bear of a man, an Beatle legend. His end in LA was a tragedy.
He's got a biography coming out.
He also took written notes of the lyrics as they developed and would suggest changes
Messed up none of the beatles showed up to the funeral, and I think didn't offer any significant help to his family.
Two of these guys were shot dead by gunfire in the USA.
Mal was a telephone engineer, so technical. He rigged up the amps and the likes for them. Could fix basic electrical things. He was a bouncer on the door of the Cavern, hence his size. George Harrison suggested he take the bouncer job. They were earning millions per year, yet Mal was paid buttons.
I'm surprised this interview wasn't conducted in the desert with 2,000 Arabs and friends.
Don’t forget the orphans.
hahaha good one mate..
He REALLY wanted that concert!!! I loved how he kept bringing it up.
Underrated comment. I’d go there with a boat.
Great comment!
This man helped present a MAJOR gift to the world! 52 years later. Finally seen in my lifetime. Just wow..
But his edit caused 50 years of nonsense that wasnt true.
@@mumbles215 Yeah, maybe...
Pablo Van Cleef that was not his edit - it was forced on him and even the beatles believed the time wad a bummer until Peter Jackson showed film to Paul and later Ringo who were relieved to hear even their memories were wrong
@@mumbles215 What are you talking about? When was the last time you watched Let It Be?
The Get Back documentary made me fall in love with The Beatles all over again. The rooftop concert was amazing seeing how they outsmarted the cops that were trying to shut it down. The reaction from Paul when he saw the cops finally making it to the roof and his refusal to stop playing was AMAZING.
"Wahoo!"
And the reaction from Paul when Lindsay Hogg talks to him about his rooftop idea.
I really have to wonder about the empty lives of the person or people who called the police to complain
about the "noise".
@@markoman5267 oh hush
@@markoman5267 Good point. A free concert from the best band in history and they grumble. The expression "get a life" comes to mind.
Michael was making editorial choices at the time for the final cut. We've had 20 to 30 years of reality TV and MTV unplugged and various styles of documentary making. So for today's audience you would make different choices like Peter Jackson did. But this man had foresight to put cameras where they just didn't in the 60s and record things nobody thought of recording. So I thank you
And almost ended The Beatles in the process. Would you have thanked him then?
Dear Host, please thank the Director for the "hidden mic in the cafeteria". That conversation answered what some Beatles fans consider "the single most important question" in Beatles-dom all these years.
I was disappointed that Ringo wasn't included in that meeting.
@@andysongs9485 Apologies but what was the single most important question that you're referring to? Was it McCartney telling John that John was always the #1 boss of the group?
@@doublek321 No true. John was just the loudest. Paul was always the musical leader.
Michael Lindsay Hogg, if you're reading this, I just want to thank you. I hope you never feel like you're seen as some kind of "Beatle villain". Hindsight is 20/20. You shot this incredible footage, you did the best job you could and what's great about the "Get Back" documentary is that it REALLY is just a long, "special feature" about the making of your movie. Your movie is mostly music, and I think your cut of the Rooftop Concert is THE cut of it. Ideally, you watch YOUR cut of the Rooftop Concert.....then you watch the last section of "Get Back" to see how it was filmed and what happened in real time. "Get Back" builds to this rooftop concert, but lots of the music is drowned out by the cops talking in the lobby.
Your exactly right. The whole build up for the concert, only to be constantly interrupted. It should have been only the performance. It's the music that's important.
@@gilbertsanto9188 I'm so happy I'm not the only one who felt that way! Thank you, Gilbert!
Well said. And, this goes double for me, Mike. 👍
@@Pharoset Butt, I'm not trying to kiss his ass. It's just acknowledgement of his efforts. Orson Welles' kid, did ok. 👍
As for u, well, you're probably the type who didn't appreciate, The Lady from Shanghai. Or, you're just a bit thick, in general. God bless, and breed you all!
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse No, it's because Peter Jackson had a lot more time to sync up the audio as there were no clapperboard tracks. Ah, and by the way, Sy....you're an imbecile!
Seeing him alive and well cements how John should still be here
41 years later, I still can’t get over it.
Yes. It's December 8 once again and your comment hits home... 💔
@@DJ-bj8ku RIP 41 years ago today
@@Azoria4 I remember that night like it was yesterday.
I’m a little younger than some of you I’m guessing. But I’m really intrigued to know what was the public perception of John and Paul during the 60s, 70s ? And also Paul during the 80s? Were they adored like now or did it take John’s death to send their reputation into infinity? I’d love to know more about the actual public sentiment towards them back then
Michael Lindsay-Hogg filmed it in a time there was no reality television. So he couldn't just show the images purely, as Peter Jackson did recently. He needed a narrative to guide it through, so it is understandable his approach. This raw approach woudn't work very well back in 1970, today we are used to see it, so that's why putting together this unreleased material is so great and joyful to watch. We are beings from another generation, another sensibility brought by new medias, so watching all of this it makes it feel like a time machine indeed.
So many amazing scenes from the new movie. I just loved it. I’m saddened that this gem was hidden for so long and we have lost so many of them Linda, Maureen, Mal, George Martin, George and John. It was not a sad story of their breakup but was actually a glorious redemption story of 4 guys who put themselves under an insurmountable task and emerged gloriously with so many amazing songs and along the way you got to see them really work so hard and were genuinely nice people who really did care for each other.
And Billy Preston
Fascinating to see how people's recollection from that time gets so distorted, same thing hearing Glyn Johns or the remaining Beatles themselves talk about all these things and finding in the Get Back documentary that a lot of what they remembered wasn't exactly right.
Yea, our memories can't always be trusted.
Yeah everyone has claimed to have had the idea for the rooftop
You may chalk that up to the haze of years and the haze of other thing...
Seriously, Glyn Johns tells it totally different
I loved Let IT BE .
, I saw it when it came out I was 17 at the time, saw it a few times. I never got thst negativevof a vibe off it! It was unique in its time for sure....that type of footage of The Beatles is priceless. Peter Jackson's access to it has just expanded it 100 fold because he had a free hand 50 years later and could go ove 7 hours in the series firmat streaming. But thanks to Lindsay- Hogg for capturing it!
Get Back is a priceless gift to every Beatles fan … thanks to all who made this amazing documentary.I loved every second of it!!!
Absolutely
Thank You For Everything, It was fantastic
Michael Lindsday-Hogg did an awesome job gathering all that wonderful footage.
Michael, I want to thank you profusely for your work. The Peter Jackson production of your team's footage brought tears of joy to my eyes. Your tenacity and determination are palpable through the filming. That was no east feat. The result is worth its weight in gold. I didn't think my love for this band could ever grow as it has been growing since I first heard them in the mid-1960s as a child. What I love most is how each of their personalities shines through. It shines without judgement or bias. 4 lads from Liverpool under pressure to create art on demand under imperfect conditions. The respect for each other at that point is abundantly apparent despite the little riffs. I feel I got to know George a lot better through the first episode. Seeing a glimpse of how John and Paul worked together was priceless. It was messy. It was silly. At times it was boring. But from emerged genius. Nonsense lyrics gave way timeless poetry. Thank you for capturing the Billy Preston affiliation. Even from a young age it was apparent to me the impact of Billy's playing had on those songs. You gotta love how Billy showed up, sat down, brought his best stuff, ..., all without complaining or asking for a contract. What I saw was a passionate player with genuine affection for this band with the ability to kick it up a notch. The Beatles, in turn, paid Billy with their welcoming attitude. I love every one of the people in this film for the roll they played creating the operating manual for my life. Even at age 58 I still listen, read, and ponder the songs of the Beatles and come out smiling every time. Bravo sir.
Anybody who knows anything about production should have a great deal of respect for Hogg. For him to come out of that chaotic jam session with a viable product and narrative was a miracle in itself.
Hiding mics and cameras. Genius
In Get Back he mentions the microphones having a hard time picking up their conversations because they would strum their instruments while talking. So I believe the footage he used was the best he could find. That's why Let it be movie has more full songs and jams then Get Back.
They played 'Get Back' three times. 'I've got a feeling' two times, 'Don't let me down' two times, 'One after 909' once and 'Dig a Pony' once.
Too bad they didn't do one of George's. Oh well, still great. I love One After 909.
@@waynej2608 They didn't have any of George's ready to go.
Brilliant director- the first director to shoot documentary footage of the Beatles playing an rehearsing and the only director to shoot the very last footage of the Beatles playing together- quite something
The original project was supposed to be a TV special and ended up as a film. Jackson’s project was supposed to be a film and ended up as a TV special.
hahaha wow, thats very true!
Ha
PS: Thanks also to Michael Lindsay Hogg for things like the Paperback Writer/Rain videos, and the "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" videos as well. And all the other great musical acts you captured during that time....like the Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus! THANK YOU.
Michael Lindsay Hogg shot and directed some all-time classics. Glad you posted his if for no other reason than because he talked about precisely why Mal Evans had unplugged John's and George's amps. A fairly obvious reason but it's good to hear it from an eyewitness with the authority of Lindsay Hogg. So thanks.
I agree with the sentiments that he was so important in this iteration because of the tons of footage and shot angles and audio. He shouldn’t be vilified but instead celebrated.
completely agree! the hate is just absurd...and sad
Exactly. Without Lindsay-Hogg, we don't have their last performance. That, alone earns him a solid grade. 👍
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse Never released to the home market??? Its almost as if you have literally no idea on any level what you are talking about.
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse Its a film, from 1971. It was released in America. So was the soundtrack.
The Beatles were a British band as you may or may not know. ~The home market for the Beatles is the UK. Let It Be has been released in multiple formats over the decades here.
Thanks a MILLION, Michael. What a treasure you have made and left to us🙏🙏🙏❤️
Great insights! The Let It Be film footage is wonderful. I loved The Beatles since 1964 and The Ed Sullivan Show appearances. I bought every single and every album as soon as they were released. To see them creating some of the most beloved songs of all time is majestic. This is so wonderfully nostalgic nearly 60 years later. Loved it! Teri
It was around 7°C/45°F in London that day, not counting the wind chill factor. I can just imagine how much the strings contracted on their guitars from the cold weather. I bet it took them a while to get tuned up.
I used to jam with a band in a garage (with no heat) in the winter and I can tell you that your hands do become numb making it hard to do chords.
@@spockboy Quite likely the guitars were upstairs waiting which meant they were acclimated by then. There were also acoustics and they need about an hour to acclimate so I suspect they were up there earlier in the morning.
@@sjmuffler1 Interesting supposition, but I don't understand what that has to do with fingers freezing making it hard to play. : )
@@spockboy "I bet it took them a while to get tuned up."
I suspect you haven't read my point.
I think John mentioned how cold his hands were.
I got so hyped when I watched George plug the amp back in, it was amazing lol
No, not really. It was pretty arrogant, thinking that a Beatle can't be arrested. George knows better, he's been arrested before.
Perfect ending to the film. Couldn’t be better.
I saw Peter Jackson's edit and it is amazing. Let's not forget none of that would have been possible if not for the vision and phenomenal oversight of MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG. - Mr. Hogg earned a great seat very near to the fab 4 at the table of Beatle chroniclers.
Having been there when all this happened and buying 'Let It Be' when it was released and going to the theater and watching the movie when it was released, it's so cute to watch people 50 years later with all the hype about it. Michael LH worked with them after 'Paperback Writer'; he filmed 'Hey Jude'.
Thank you Michael!
Michael Lindsay-Hogg did a fantastic tour de force that January 1969, always propositive, creative and clear in his director role with the Beatles regearsings, I admire his films like Stone's R&R Circus, Becket's Godot and the 56 hours of Let It Be now seen in Peter Jakson as Get Back for Disney. My best wishes to him always!
The roof gig is just a wow moment in history let alone musical history, they were cultural icons. Those people that climbed the roof to see them (for free) at the pinnacle of their career. I wonder which of them thought wow this is lucky and a special moment. Wait till I get home and tell everyone what I saw today. Especially when they see themselves on the big screen as well later. I saw the movie in a cinema when it came out, I was 10 years old. Thanks Michael for your story and the filming of course, you had to put up with a lot of crap making that.
A fun drinking game for the Beatles “get back” documentary is to take a drink whenever Hogg mentions performing in Tunisa at the amphitheater
He recalls that Ringo wasn't really into the idea of going on the roof, but in the Peter Jackson version Ringo is clearly the one that wants to go up the most when the other guys aren't as into the idea.
Thanks, Michael You deserve a lot of my respect for what you directed and Paul refused the green light to the project Peter Jackson wanted to bring to fruition, and He finally did, all of which has been a true revelation of the Beatles volatile relationship, a gem of documentary indeed!
The surviving Fabs offered it to Jackson in 2017 - he worked on it four years came back and said - its three films not one - where did Macca ever attempt to prevent him?
Thank you Michael for shooting the original footage.
I don't like the fact that there seems to be an urge to edit the raw footage to "Tell a story".
No, we all know the story or can research it.
Let's just see ALL the footage.
I appreciate Micheal filming them, I own let it be on vhs, and its all over the place, it just jumps over there here..it wasn't put together right. I'm glad Peter Jackson fixed it up so we got what i think, Hogg wanted to do. A masterpiece of a documentary about the best band in the bloody universe 👍🏻😃🎸
The rooftop gig was iconic.
The Libyan amphitheatre in the desert surrounded by local tribes and lit by moonlight would have been BIBLICALLY-EPIC.
Paul: John you said we're bigger than Jesus. How are we going to top that?
John: How about a concert in the Coliseum?
It really wouldn't. The band didn't want to do it, and playing to a group of people who've never heard your music would have been a disaster.
@@conorfurlong Unless they'd brought a couple of thousand people on a ship from England to watch them... 😋
@@ninagohlsson6053 yeah that idea was as hilarious as it was mad 😂
@@conorfurlong The band couldn't decide anything after Brian died. George was especially despondent. Paul is the only one with any real enthusiasm. Missed opportunity for an epic event. The only reason the rooftop gig is significant was because it was The Beatles final live performance. The gig in the desert would have been world wide news and every band would have copied them.
Looking at the Get Back sessions it was Paul and Michael who were both keeping the band together at this point.
I wished he would have been asked why the disposition and attitudes of The Beatles in “Let it Be” are diametrically different than in “Get Back”.
"Let It Be" was the first of amazing 70s ultrarealistic documentaries, total pioneer.
Nice to hear his perspective on the footage he shot. Michael received a lot of undeserved flak for the " Let It Be " compilation in 1970. He also filmed four Beatles' songs for promotional media and had a respected career afterwards. Thanks to him, we have Jackson's " Get Back. "
John’s last comment on the film is iconic… “thank you and on behalf of the group I hope we pass the audition”
that was not his last comment in the film
He said "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition".
@@Revolver1981 nope, we are talking about the incredible excellent movie? or only the awesome stupendous rooftop concert? at the end of the movie john says "You've got so many of those bastards" which I find hilarious.
@@eljohndoe6109 I'm correcting him to what the quote Lennon said on the rooftop concert.
after Get Back, i actually have more...much more respect for Mr. Hogg.
despite all the reluctance and seemingly challenges the band and various circumstances were throwing at him..he persisted and still did his job professionally...and it paid off...TWICE.
I think the real question is why MLH chose the footage he did. Seeing far more of the film through the recent documentary you get a really different take on this than came out of the film release in 1970. While there were tensions the recent doc shows a much more harmonious atmosphere. We were lucky he filmed it all, but not what he chose to portray in his film.
Yeah in many ways that 1970 let it be film was a main contributor to the myth the Beatles despised each other you know. I feel like if aspects of the latest film were shown back then the Beatles would’ve looked back with more fondness
@@Azoria4 the beatles sat and watched his documentary and made him cut out hours and hours of footage. they didnt let him use certain scenes that peter was able to. not to mention, he had a time limit of 2 hours whereas peter was able to push it to 6
@@bassesatta9235 Uhm no the documentary was 8 hours long & there was 60 hours of footage
One important limitation people don’t seem to aknowledge is the insane possibilities we now have in post-production to organize, sync, clean-up and make usable footage and audio that it would have been a mixture of beyond any fathomable budget and straight put impossible to do in 1969/70.
There was also many conversations that simply couldn’t be used in a contemporary film because of being personal, sensitive and businessy.
From what little was left, he had to construct some sort of coherent reality.
And the depressive «let it be» was what he was able to do.
Peter Jackson had soooo much more to work with.
This doesn’t mean that I think PLH was any sort of genious either, he is acting very strangely in the scenes he is participating in.
@@hepphepps8356 Right, MLH didn’t seem to realize how unrealistic his expectations of what the Beatles could do in 2 weeks.
I was thrilled seeing this Get Back documentary, but I don’t recall them performing all of Let It Be songs on the rooftop concert. Did I miss something?
No, they didn't play it. They only played 5 different songs.
2000 Arabs light by torchlight. Just picture it, fellas.
This Michael Lindsay Hogg was only 29 years old when he directed the Beatles in this documentary. Amazing since he looked like a kid to. How did he ever get this assignment?
Yeah, he looked very young at the get back doc. Very stylish as well
I think he was 28 in early 1969, he was same age as John.
@@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879 Yeah, he got art in his blood!
@@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879 "Maaah-ha, the french"
The Beatles were around the same age themselves
Congratulations glyn Jones for the Beatles get back album I bought bootleg years ago on cd and the quality was great
Fascinating that in another interview with Glyn Johns, he says HE, and Ringo, came up with the rooftop idea.
The lads were cold on the roof. I was surprised Lyndsay Hogg did not have some small heaters for them, and gloves with the finger tips cut out like the Stones use. I guess that stuff had not been invented for rock. Peter Jackson made a mistake of not using the day-after-the rooftop footage featuring "Two of Us," "The Long and Winding Road," "Let it Be, " etc. He did not want to reuse "Let it Be" material. But so what? Millions upon millions of young people have not seen it. The music was the main thing, and the best thing. Lyndsay Hogg does have an Orson Welles demeanor in the film.
I think Peter Jackson is an asshole for rolling credits while the Beatles are playing "Two of Us" "The Long and Winding Road and "Let it Be"
@@gilbertsanto9188 Yes, that was silly. "Here's some of the best parts, but we're not showing them after 6 hours." It could be an intellectual property thing with "Let it Be." But with enough of the right legal power, that can be obviated. If not legal, then a huge mistake. And it says something about Jackson's taste and judgment.
It was very difficult for him as the director to actually know exactly what he was doing from day to day as they kept changing their minds as a group but at least he got the footage of them rehearsing…
1:23 it feels so strange hearing it be called "a couple years earlier", seems like at least a decade of change between that era and let it be
They did get back, don't let me down, dig a pony, I've got a feeling, 909. 5 songs on the roof.
The word "iconic" is so over used, but in the case of the Beatles, we can make an exception 🙂
That interviewer is the most stoned guy I've ever seen in my life.
Hogg and team made amazing job. Let It Be movie is very good actually.
I saw it on the 10 to 6 news the same day it happened. A very short remark by the news host. I didn't it would become history
Great comments from Michael Lindsay Hogg on an extraordinary film. The interviewer seems to be drifting in and out of sleep. How do such uninteresting and seemingly unprepared people get such interesting guests?
Mr. Hogg sounds the same as he did 50 odd years ago. He still has a sharp memory in his seventies.
70s ain’t old!! Most people are still pretty sharp
I agree. Very keen and sharp.
Here's someone who brought more turmoil into an already rocky and rough situation....love the footage that he and his crew captured...BUT not even a 20 Pack of "1000 Sheet Per Roll" TP would clean him up after watching all of GB.
Get Back is a documentary about Michael Lindsay Hogg creating a documentary or TV Special about The Beatles rehearsing, cursing, singing and jamming.
And I still found it captivating to watch. Go figure.
PJ did a great editing job and told the story (but it took him 4 years).
Am I the only one who wants to know who those officers are? I wonder if they are alive? I'd LOVE to hear an interview with them.
I don’t think Mal Evans unplugged George’s amp. Instead, he turned it off. You can clearly see George reach to the rear panel to turn it back on.
To be fair to Michael, he had almost no time to edit the movie together. Peter Jackson had five years.
Pity his version was so heavily edited so as to focus only on the arguments and bad vibes. It's clear from the Jackson version that they were having fun too. I guess Hogg thought it would be more sensational to show them in a bad light.
@@richardarmitage9621 You would say that, Thorin Oakenshield.
@@neonatalpenguin Damn, outed!
@@richardarmitage9621 there was over 50 hours of footage from this film to work with and Get Back runs for under 9 hours, I would say Jackson made a generous amount of editorial cuts himself.
Interesting. I keep reading that the idea to play on the roof was Glyn Johns and Ringo’s idea.
Great interview! So nice to hear him these many years later without that very weird posh British accent he was sporting in Let It Be.
This is the baronet with the performative cigar who suggested taking the whole thing to Libya? The person who set up in Twickenham, until a showdown with George got the four back into Abbey Road. And until the new edit he had clearly been happy with the world putting it all on Yoko. It's clear from his poncing about in the studio he would be the sort to still take himself seriously decades on. But why should anyone else?
I was under the impression it was Glyn johns and Ringo's idea to do the roof concert. Oh the differing versions of well documents events... Lindsay Hogg was all for Tunisia and QE2 right?
Incredible how his accent changed
The roof gig idea was based on Jefferson Airplanes rooftop gig in New York the year before..if you check it out it is remarkably similar in style and feel to to The Beatles impromptu performance, even the way its filmed with cameras filming office workers leaning out of windows trying to see what's happening..and ultimately, also getting halted by the intervention of the police. Mr Hogg doesnt refer to it but would have been aware.
He captured some amazing footage but did The Beatles dirty with the way he edited the final product. He picked so many moments of the boys looking pissy, annoyed, and/or detached to paint a false picture of such misery. I saw in a comment thread a theory that he may have exploited the fact that the band was breaking up at the time he was editing to sensationalize the situation and make himself look like he was smart & savvy.
Agree 100%. Even in 'Get Back' he is oblivious to the Beatles' wishes except when he is forced to accept them, as he is always pushing his agenda. One poignant scene is the one where Paul says 'And then there were two'. He and Ringo were obviously upset at the coming demise of the group, as pain was written on their faces. Then in a moment of silence and reflection he says something akin to "So what about Libya"?
I caught that Drifters reference, Michael Lindsay Hogg
Michael can thank Peter Jackson, as Peter Jackson can thank Michael because without Jackson’s decision to make Get Back, Hogg would have remained a footnote in the Beatle universe. But now Beatle history is changed forever because of the effort of both men. But what’s amazing is the unreliable thing called memory. Here he says Paul was enthusiastic about going on the roof and Ringo was against it. But HIS OWN footage provides clear evidence that Paul DID NOT want to play the rooftop and Ringo did!!
What happened to Harper Simon? He’s “ate up”
3:00 Young Paul makes a cameo hahahaha
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Beatle or one of those involved in the recording that put in the complaint.
This guy also shot 1968 Rolling stones rock and roll circus
Apple should have released an "I Like Mike" Tee Shirt to coincide with the Peter Jackson release. From one angle on this shirt, you see Lindsay-Hogg with a flat expression on his face; from a different angle you see him grin as he takes a puff from a cigar.
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Whut? Get Back shows he definitely wanted to do it!
is this the director that butchered the movie back then? they shot great footage but completely failed in editing.
This interview should have been held in Libya.
I have never seen anyone less able to read a room than Michael Lindsay Hogg. His lack of emphatic ability is astounding.
he gets credit for creating the raw footage - beyond that he was a waste of time....
@3:55 I thought John said, “I want to thank you on behalf of our JUVENILE selves and I hope we passed the audition.”
Michael Lindsay has been shit on for years .ppl saying he was green to film this.to be trusted with the let it be movie.
But he's why we have this footage.paperback writer is just one if tge coolest 2 minutes filmed ever
I share many of the sentiments expressed in the comments. However, filming means editing a lot. Watching it all, making quick 1st, 2nd, 3rd......cuts, making choices and decisions to get the final version. I still feel that "Let It Be" was not balanced. I walked out of the theater a despondent, disappointed 15 year-old.
That stuck with me for a while.
If they played that many songs my question remains, where's the footage?!
They didn't play that many songs.
@@joechill1 You know,it didn't sound right to me either 🎵🎶❗
He is a genius and we are lucky to have him. People who insult him are stupid
when he was younger, he looked like Orson Welles - now he has aged into Paul Williams
To resolve the uncertainty over whose idea it was to play the rooftop concert, it was the idea of the sixth Beatle.
They did Get Back 3 times
Has anyone found, or tried to find, the two police officers?