What does the 1970s documentary talk about?

After years of disappearance, iconic documentary The Beatles: Let It Be (1970), from Michael Lindsay-Hoggis available on Disney+. The production also resulted in a documentary series — The Beatles: Get Back (2024), by Peter Jackson.

In an interview with The New York Times, Lindsay-Hogg recalls some aspects of the film he directed, such as the fact that before the feature film, people had not seen the band fight. “Until then, no one had ever filmed the rehearsals of Beatles, except one stretch or another. So it was new territory. That exchange between Paul and George, they never even commented, because any artist collaborating with another has conversations like that. As a theater and film director, I know these kinds of conversations happen every day.”

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The director also explains the absence of the four musicians at the premiere of the documentary, in 1970: “The Beatles They were already in the process of separating when the film was ready to be released. Maybe they had a grudge against each other,” reflected the director.

They announced their separation in April 1970, and Let It Be was released in May. Let It Be it was collateral damage. People didn’t see it for what it was, they just wanted to see what the film wasn’t.

He also remembers watching a preliminary version of the documentary with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul It is Linda McCartney It is Peter Brown. He recalls that at the time “no one criticized or joked” about what was shown. “When we showed the final cut, at the end of November, we went out to dinner again, at a place that had a dance floor. We all had drinks and talked a lot, and Paul He said he thought the film was good. Ringo he was dancing. He dances very well.”

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