The rooftop concert, the tail-end of the rather depressing Let It Be movie*, showed the guys still could still play together despite the interpersonal turmoil. A bittersweet end to a fabled career.
*I see that Peter Jackson has signed on to do a film using unreleased footage from the original movie. Should be interesting.
Get Back!!
Get it while you can.
I had a different version saved in my favorites for a couple of years from Vimeo that was a bit longer showing them arriving on the rooftop. I think it was a better quality and was going to link to it but I see it has been taken down. “Third party blah, blah, blah”
I love that movie. I would like to see it again. I use to have it. May have been long ago on VHS. I’m gonna look for it. I still have a working VCR, I think.
I saw the movie on youtube a couple of weeks ago.
I can’t wait!
Me too, but I think it’s been taken down now. I enjoyed it much more last week than I did in the theater, 50 years ago. Yoko didn’t seem nearly as intrusive, for one thing (though you still have to wonder why the hell she was hanging around. Why wasn’t she off doing her “art?”).
I remember it really dragging when I saw it in the theater. This time around, it seemed to fly. Maybe 50 years of perspective (and the Beatles’ not being everywhere now, like they were back then) made the difference.
Wow, thanks for that!
I just got a notice addressed to our entire class concerning our upcoming 50th high school reunion.
I send this back in my reply to all!
Peter Jackson’s Fab Four! Now with 60% more walking!
The Jefferson Airplane did a rooftop gig around the same time, in NYC. That was pretty cool, in the same way…people leaning out of windows, people in the street staring up.
Which band did it first? Too lazy to look it up.
Be cooler if ‘Peter Brown’ called to say.
Working up a fever in a one-horse town
was a Jockey by the name of Joe
He didn’t have a lot of you might call luck
but he had a lot of get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go back home
Get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go back home
Hey, hey it’s the Rutles!
Too bad there was no backup, like maybe The Fugs.
I hope Peter Jackson leaves out the most depressing (to me) scene in Let It Be, where Paul is schooling George on what to play and Harrison replies, “I’ll play, you know, whatever you want me to play, or I won’t play at all if you don’t want to me to play. Whatever it is that will please you…I’ll do it.”
Yeah, it did get, um, shitty?
Wow.
Who did this?
I think I love you.
We could make it okay;)