Kevin Harrington: Two years, ’68 to 70. It was two years of an incredible time for my life, 18 to 20 years old. I’m very proud to have done what I did. I’m really honored to have been invited into that small unit when I was and be welcomed in. I was an outsider, so I’m proud that I was invited into their inner circle and spent two years with them and I had a great time as well.

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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.September 1969: After screening a new cut at some point this month, the group signed off on the film to business manager Allen Klein, according to Michael. In what could simply be a coincidence, the same month also saw John announce to the others that he was quitting the Beatles. They released Abbey Road in September, too. And I suppose to a certain degree we did kind of make the strings and the orchestra of the Phil Spector stuff a little bit more Beatles-sounding. Giles Martin: My assumptions like everyone else’s was that Let It Be was their breakup album. Not really knowing much about it, that’s what I presumed. My dad was never happy with the Let It Be experience because they didn’t want to do any production on it. And he said he was getting fired to a certain degree. I suppose he was when Phil Spector took over his job. I wasn’t aware until we did the Abbey Road project that they started recording “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” just a week after they did the rooftop performance.

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Most of the Beatles fans bemoaning that not a lot of this stuff on this box set [laughing] already have copies of it anyway. And so quite often, I think about what should we put on here that people haven’t heard before that’s good quality and you want to listen to more than once. I think that’s important. Just walloping away at his bass, singing to himself. George yawns a bit while he does it, because you imagine he sees this sort of thing a lot. John Mellencamp Announces ‘Live and In Person’ Spring 2024 Tour; ‘Orpheus Descending’ Album Out Now I'm really looking forward to this film. Peter is great and it was so cool looking at all this footage. There was hours and hours of us just laughing and playing music, not at all like the version that came out. There was a lot of joy and I think Peter will show that. I think this version will be a lot more peace and loving, like we really were.."The RS interviews will always be a valid source for those wanting to know what Lennon was thinking and feeling at the time. 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.