The Beatles Films Podcast

Let it Be (part 1)


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Now is the winter of our discontent: or is it? Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Let it Be is widely thought a miserable affair, documenting arguments and the breakup of the Beatles. But watching it afresh after Peter Jackson's Get Back in 2021, it doesn't feel so much like that. We ask whether the widespread consensus that it's a negative depiction is actually more a failure of collective memory. What was it really set George Harrison off when he told Paul McCartney "Well, I'll play whatever you want me to play"? And what do we make of Lindsay-Hogg's decision not to let you hear any of the songs in full until the end?


  • This episode and part 2 are both based on our viewing of Let it Be in its original form, or close to it, ie a bootleg we found online. Since we recorded this it has of course now been restored and re-released on Disney+, and we've got a short bonus episode discussing the restored version later in this feed.
  • The clip we mention of George Harrison talking to George Martin in the studio is from the Hey Jude sessions, and you can see it at https://youtu.be/nb8Ue3mk0Qo


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The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by Matt Looker and Ed Williamson. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for TheShiznit.co.uk, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.


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