Also featured – for the first time in its entirety – is The Beatles’ last live performance as a group: the unforgettable rooftop concert on London’s Savile Row, as well as other songs and classic compositions featured on the band’s final two albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be.” Yet perspectives change with time and the point for contemporary viewers is that the songs we see taking shape are intimately familiar to us, masterpieces of the calibre of The Long and Winding Road and Don’t Let Me Down gradually cohering in acts of constructive, collective genius. And the apparently mundane conversations illuminate the characters and relationships of now historic figures who shaped our pop world at a moment when they themselves were struggling to find reasons to continue. “Maybe we should have a divorce,” suggests Harrison as differences become manifest. “Who’d have the children?” responds Lennon, clearing the air with humour.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Meanwhile, The Beatles work. There is jamming, and japes as the band attempt to reconnect with each other from remote camps in their private lives, but each day they interrogate the songs and try to push forward, while Mal Evans (road manager and secret amanuensis) writes down the words. When organist Billy Preston, a former Hamburg buddy, arrives on January 22 to visit, and stays to work, he helps them recapture a love of playing which is utterly innocent and joyful, even while their lives outside the studio remain horribly complex.

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