Paul McCartney: What happened was, when we got in there, it showed how the break-up of a group works. George Martin: Let It Be was the worst time of all, really disruptive. Because he is confident of his own abilities. He took me to lunch, and said: ‘You’re not to worry about a thing.’ I was feeling really awkward about the whole thing, and he was completely at ease about the situation. George Martin, being the gentleman that he is, realised that I had been compromised in a way, and he saw fit to put me at ease about the situation. I was the same as every other punter on the planet, who saw them as these extraordinary icons of marvelousness. But when I got the call, to walk in and be privy to those guys sitting around, doing what they did, and to be invited in, was pretty astonishing. Glyn Johns (engineer/producer): I was quite used to being around people who were famous. We had two cameras and just about did the same thing. The sound crew instructions were to roll/record from the moment the first Beatle appeared and to record sound all day until the last one left. Les Parrott (cameraman): My brief on the first day was to ‘shoot The Beatles’. Paul McCartney: The idea was that you’d see The Beatles rehearsing, jamming, getting their act together, and then finally performing somewhere in a big, end-of-show concert. The project will eventually morph into the Let It Be album and film.
THE BEATLES LET IT BE THE BEATLES TV
Jan 2, 1969: At 10am The Beatles arrive at Twickenham Film Studios to begin rehearsals for a proposed TV show, Get Back.