Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSince the Beatles split in 1970, seemingly every known scrap of their history has been scrutinized and curated for public consumption — every minute of studio tape, every radio broadcast, home and concert recording; every photo and document and snippet of film footage — with one huge exception: the “Let It Be” film.There are several reasons for this, but only one matters: “Let It Be” is a downer.
We see our beloved Beatles breaking up before our eyes.Originally intended as a spontaneous, “as live as live can be, in this electronic age” documentary of rock as it happens, instead we see the group, who had finished recording the 30-song “White Album” just six weeks earlier, miserably trying to have a jolly ol’.
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