"Who's The Redhead On The Roof....?": My life with The Beatles

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Giles Martin: Yeah. The original Let It Be film is quite drab. It’s quite a struggle to get through the film itself. It seemed like a slog, and I think the one thing that was unveiled by going through this stuff is there’s actually a lot of fun in there. That’s the difference. Watching the original Let It Be film you didn’t get a sense that they were having that much fun, and the Beatles genuinely had fun in the studio, so I think you’re right and I think that’s the difference. Then it’s really a question of whatever the boys want. If I could get it, I would get it. If not, Mal (Evans, the Beatles’ personal assistant) would get it.”

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A week later, May 20, the film received a more proper launch, premiering in London and Liverpool with the pomp missing stateside. In London, Beatle exes Jane Asher and Cynthia Lennon were among the guests, which also included Mary Hopkin, Lulu, Spike Milligan and other notables as thousands of fans showed up at the scene. Kevin Harrington, assistant roadie at the time, wrote in his memoir that he took an Apple Scruff to the premiere. No Beatles were present, however. And in the sleeve notes on the 2019 remixed anniversary boxed set of Abbey Road, it clearly says “In 1973, the vocal group New York City dropped in pictures of themselves on another of Iain Macmillan’s pictures from The Beatles’ session for their own record, Soulful Road.” So, this photo was probably taken on the same day, but without anyone crossing the road. The members of New York City were photographed elsewhere and then superimposed on Macmillan’s shot of the empty crossing. PHOTO #8 The full list of songs played on this day, including fragments and off-the-cuff, unpublished songs with presumed titles: quotes from Derek Seagrove and Iain Macmillan added from a 2019 article by Ken McNab in Daily Record. Added a new transparency version of one of Mal’s photos, and a Japanese single cover with the same photo.Variety’s review, published in their May 20 issue, called the movie “relatively innocuous, unimaginative piece of film. But the musicians are the Beatles, and coming hard on the group’s breakup, … [it’s] charged with it own timely mystique. It’s tough to keep pace in Beatle-time. Paul’s point is clear, though, even with the tremendous exaggeration. Keeps coppers and other slightly cross rooftop concert-affected persons at bay by disassociating herself from the situation completely: “I think it’s for a film”… “I don’t know anything about that…” Never apologise, never explain.

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To put 51 years into context, it’s 11 more years than John Lennon spent in the material world. It’s about as far away from today as the release of Let It Be was from the Treaty of Versailles. It’s a relative eternity. The Beatles spent much of their time working on three songs: ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, and ‘Two Of Us’. Some of it,” Michael replied. “It’s hard when your stars are your producers. And there were four of them. … A lot I liked got cut out. … But the footage was good.” As can be seen from the artwork, there are gaps around the “Beatles”, and other marks that were later fixed by the in-house artists. The February 1969 issue of the Beatles Book, their fan club magazine, said that while there was “still no fresh progress” on the Beatles’ next film, it was a “priority job” for the new year. They hadn’t yet realized the film was already in the can.

I took a couple of shots of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road one way. We let some of the traffic go by and then they walked across the road the other way, and I took a few more shots.” April 29, 1969: Melody Maker reported 68 hours of footage was about to be edited down, “from which two films will be produced.” In February 2008, news was that Florida resident Paul Cole, the man beside the police van had died, aged 93. But was he really that man? We don’t think so, and here’s why. On the very eve of the Let It Be’s ultimate release in May, we can catch a glimpse of contemporary opinions of the film.