# 50 years ago today: The Beatles play their final gig together **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681 "2019-01-30T17:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/1 "2019-01-30T17:33:05Z")
[The rooftop concert](https://vimeo.com/279940593), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/2 "2019-01-30T17:41:30Z")
Get Back!! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/3 "2019-01-30T18:40:46Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/4 "2019-01-30T18:45:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/5 "2019-01-30T18:51:04Z")
I saw the movie on youtube a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/6 "2019-01-30T18:52:40Z")
[Peter Jackson Is Directing a Beatles Documentary Featuring Unreleased Studio Footage](https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/peter-jackson-beatles-documentary.html) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/7 "2019-01-30T19:28:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Peter Jackson Is Directing a Beatles Documentary Featuring Unreleased Studio Footage](https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/peter-jackson-beatles-documentary.html) I can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/8 "2019-01-30T19:35:55Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > I saw the movie on youtube a couple of weeks ago. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/9 "2019-01-30T20:03:16Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/10 "2019-01-31T00:55:53Z")
Peter Jackson’s Fab Four! Now with 60% more walking! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/11 "2019-01-31T02:02:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/12 "2019-01-31T02:16:43Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Peter Jackson’s Fab Four! Now with 60% more walking! Be cooler if ‘Peter Brown’ called to say. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/13 "2019-01-31T03:00:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/14 "2019-01-31T03:12:43Z")
> [@K364](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/15 "2019-01-31T03:39:48Z")
Too bad there was no backup, like maybe The Fugs. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/16 "2019-01-31T03:48:39Z")
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.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/17 "2019-01-31T05:25:42Z")
Yeah, it did get, um, [shitty?](https://youtu.be/u1G3vnc6WhY?t=17) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/18 "2019-01-31T07:32:43Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Yeah, it did get, um, [shitty?](https://youtu.be/u1G3vnc6WhY?t=17) Wow. Who did this? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/19 "2019-01-31T07:33:46Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Be cooler if ‘Peter Brown’ called to say. I think I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681/20 "2019-01-31T07:37:26Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I think I love you. We could make it okay;) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-ago-today-the-beatles-play-their-final-gig-together/828681.md?page=2)