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Fantastic. Sacrilegious I know, but it’s my Favourite Beatles album (the original Let it Be)
History won’t have it any other way, but I do wish they’d have released those recordings as part of the original album concept: ‘Get Back... with Don’t Bring me Down and 10 other songs’ I understand there were a couple of different track-listings proposed. The intended group-shot - used later on the ‘1967-70 Best-Of’, of course - could’ve made it, in my opinion, their greatest LP sleeve.
As good as 'Please Please Me"?
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Taylor1
The Beatles reached their peak in the period 1962-1966.
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The Beatles reached their peak in the period 1962-1966.
I don't disagree. Whilst I enjoy all their output - with a few exceptions -, I've also held their early to mid-period work in the highest regard. The Beatlemaina years were so utterly thrilling: She Loves You wasn't their first #1, but it was the release that truly propelled them: biggest-selling single in the U.K. until McCartney's God-awful Mull off Kintyre. A Hard Day's Night is my favourite L.P. from this period, whilst Revolver is my favourite overall. Simply no-one - Dylan aside - could match them, in my opinion. I find the latter-period, Lady Madonna - Abbey Road - is focused on a little too much. Their early brilliance is overlooked
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The Beatles reached their peak in the period 1962-1966.
I don't disagree. Whilst I enjoy all their output - with a few exceptions -, I've also held their early to mid-period work in the highest regard. The Beatlemaina years were so utterly thrilling: She Loves You wasn't their first #1, but it was the release that truly propelled them: biggest-selling single in the U.K. until McCartney's God-awful Mull off Kintyre. A Hard Day's Night is my favourite L.P. from this period, whilst Revolver is my favourite overall. Simply no-one - Dylan aside - could match them, in my opinion. I find the latter-period, Lady Madonna - Abbey Road - is focused on a little too much. Their early brilliance is overlooked
Yes, the early Beatles stuff was thrilling, because it bought SUCH wonderful change to a generally very staid, dull musical scene. It EXPLODED. But musically it did and does nothing for me. I hate the yeah, yeah, yeah stuff. There were odd exceptions, Eight Days a Week, She’s a Woman and a COUPLE of other early songs, but UNTIL most of Revolver, and Abbey Road, The Beatles and Let it Be, musically The Beatles were just too twee for me. And don’t get me started on Sgt Peppers, an overweight overwrought piece of pompous vaudeville.
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Not sure how I feel about this. Seems like an attempt to re-write history and give the Beatles story a happy ending by skillfully editing together an alternate version of the Let It Be movie using only footage that shows them appearing to be having a good time and still enjoying one another's company. If they were still getting on as well as they appear to be in this montage, why did they break up just a few months later?
McCartney is desperate to have us believe that they parted the best of friends. That's why the original Let It Be film has never been re-released and has been suppressed to the extent that most younger Beatles fans think it's an un-released film, not even realizing that it did in fact play in movie theaters in the 1970s and was even available, briefly, to the home video market in the 1980s.
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Not sure how I feel about this. Seems like an attempt to re-write history and give the Beatles story a happy ending by skillfully editing together an alternate version of the Let It Be movie using only footage that shows them appearing to be having a good time and still enjoying one another's company. If they were still getting on as well as they appear to be in this montage, why did they break up just a few months later?
McCartney is desperate to have us believe that they parted the best of friends. That's why the original Let It Be film has never been re-released and has been suppressed to the extent that most younger Beatles fans think it's an un-released film, not even realizing that it did in fact play in movie theaters in the 1970s and was even available, briefly, to the home video market in the 1980s.
Maybe you are right but let us first see the movie... and on the other hand we know the truth
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tatters
Not sure how I feel about this. Seems like an attempt to re-write history and give the Beatles story a happy ending by skillfully editing together an alternate version of the Let It Be movie using only footage that shows them appearing to be having a good time and still enjoying one another's company. If they were still getting on as well as they appear to be in this montage, why did they break up just a few months later?
McCartney is desperate to have us believe that they parted the best of friends. That's why the original Let It Be film has never been re-released and has been suppressed to the extent that most younger Beatles fans think it's an un-released film, not even realizing that it did in fact play in movie theaters in the 1970s and was even available, briefly, to the home video market in the 1980s.
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Taylor1
The Beatles reached their peak in the period 1962-1966.
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tatters
Not sure how I feel about this. Seems like an attempt to re-write history and give the Beatles story a happy ending by skillfully editing together an alternate version of the Let It Be movie using only footage that shows them appearing to be having a good time and still enjoying one another's company. If they were still getting on as well as they appear to be in this montage, why did they break up just a few months later?
McCartney is desperate to have us believe that they parted the best of friends. That's why the original Let It Be film has never been re-released and has been suppressed to the extent that most younger Beatles fans think it's an un-released film, not even realizing that it did in fact play in movie theaters in the 1970s and was even available, briefly, to the home video market in the 1980s.
Maybe you are right but let us first see the movie... and on the other hand we know the truth
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It’s interesting how many songs the Beatles had at the Let it be sessions which the Beatles used later on solo albums and Abbey Riad.Most of Abbey Road songs like She Came In Through the Bathroom Window, Mean MrMustard, Polythene Pam, Something, Maxwells Silver Hammer and Octopus Garden. And solo songs, Another Day, Junk, Back Seat of My Car, Hot as Sun, Teddy Boy, Junk, All things Must Pass, Isn’t it a Pity,What is Life, Gimme Some Truth, Mind Games and others
Actually I don’t think that’s correct. McCartney is not desperate to show that the Beatles parted as friends. That is revisionist history that cannot be accomplished. However Michael Lindsay Hogg made a movie that was not reflective of the Beatles at all. He edited pieces together to create a movie the documented the break up of a band. That wasn’t necessarily happening during the let it be sessions. By all accounts actually the let it be sessions were quite jovial especially once they moved out of Twyckingham. And he put together a movie that was boring, dark, and not really reflective at all about the reality that was going on. All you have to do is read that hundreds of pages of transcripts from the sessions. And just that film clip that Peter Jackson has released shows a whole different side of things. It’s actually revisionist history to take a movie like let it be at face value and think that that is indicative of where the Beatles were at that time. Particularly since they were able to produce abbey Road!Quote
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Not sure how I feel about this. Seems like an attempt to re-write history and give the Beatles story a happy ending by skillfully editing together an alternate version of the Let It Be movie using only footage that shows them appearing to be having a good time and still enjoying one another's company. If they were still getting on as well as they appear to be in this montage, why did they break up just a few months later?
McCartney is desperate to have us believe that they parted the best of friends. That's why the original Let It Be film has never been re-released and has been suppressed to the extent that most younger Beatles fans think it's an un-released film, not even realizing that it did in fact play in movie theaters in the 1970s and was even available, briefly, to the home video market in the 1980s.
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buttons67
the beatles were influenced by pink floyds psychedelic stuff, john himself admitted they were always interested in what pink floyd were doing