![]() ![]() ![]() “Let it Be” was shot in January 1969, just weeks after the “ White Album” hit stores. The timing of the theater release of the “Let It Be” sessions seeded confusion over how the group unraveled. (Lennon and McCartney singing “Two of Us” in grandiose Scottish brogue almost steals Part Three.) But in their interviews, Jackson and McCartney accentuate the positive as if to paper over the acrimonious history of lawsuits, the loss of the Lennon-McCartney publishing catalog and the lurching solo careers that followed. It seems to be working: A recent New York Times headline proclaimed, “Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind.”Ī lot of these sessions contain the irrepressible gags that made the Beatles famous. “I’ll tell you what is really fabulous about it, it shows the four of us having a ball,” McCartney told The Sunday Times after seeing the film. “I kept waiting for all the nasty stuff to start happening, waiting for the arguments and the rows and the fights, but I never saw that,” Jackson told The Guardian and others. In their press rounds, both Jackson and McCartney have been eager to recast the legacy of this period. ![]()
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