Gallery: The 20 worst Beatles songs (Espresso)“Eventually I tracked down someone who said: ‘We know who it was, but he died. '”MacMahon then drew on previous contacts he had with a sound archive in Canberra, Australia, which went through “30,000 unmarked reels” to find the one with the interview.
He went to similar lengths to get full concert recordings of the songs as performed, sometimes finding reels of uncut songs that had never before been seen.
He said he went to such lengths because he wanted the film to essentially be a musical, interspersed with interviews. Page said he particularly appreciates the focus on the music — the songs are played at full-length, not just snippets.
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