In 1970, the Beatles made another movie called Let It Be. It was supposed to be a documentary of the "rebirth" of the Beatles but it turned out to be a film of the bands breakup. The original idea was to show the guys rehearsing and then playing in a concert. What they got was countless hours of bad jam sessions, fights, and a fast concert on top of the Apple building. The movie ends with the police shutting the rooftop concert down and bringing the end to the Beatles film careers.
I havn't seen this movie yet, so I cannot rate it.
What They Have To Say About It
John:
By the time we got to Let It Be, we couldn't play the game anymore, we couldn't do it anymore. It came to the point where it was no longer creating magic, and the camera, being in the room with us, sort of made us aware of that, that it was a phony situation.
Paul:
In fact, what happened, when we got in there, we showed how a break-up of a group works. We didn't realize that we were sort of breaking up as it was happening.
George:
As everybody knows, we never had much privacy, and, you know, this thing that was happening was they were filming us rehearsing. There was a bit of a row going on between Paul and I. You can see it, where he's saying "well, don't play this" or something and I'm saying "Well, you know I'll play what you want or I won't play if you don't want it you know, just make up your mind." That kind of stuff was going on. And they were filming us, recording us having a row, you know, it was like, terrible really... I thought I'm quite capable of being relatively happy on my own, and I'm not able to be happy in this situation, you know, I'm getting out of here....
Ringo:
The thing on the roof that I always feel let down by are the police. Because someone in the neighborhood had called the police and the police came up and I was playing away and I thought "Oh great! I hope they drag me off!" you know, I wanted the cops to drag me off 'Get off those drums!' cause we were being filmed and it would've been really great, but they didn't, of course. They just came bumbling in, 'You've gotta turn that sound down!' It couldn've been fabulous...
