Review of Let It Be (1970) by Bill H — 25 Jan 2007
An entertaining, informative, yet somewhat depressing film, "Let It Be" unknowingly (at the time) was chronicling the breakup of the world's greatest pop/rock group.
The moving apart shows. The group's founder and original leader, John Lennon,.
Is by now a distant, distracted, Yoko One dominated heroin addict who doesn't really care if he's there or not. Ringo Starr is "Good Old Ringo", who tries to keep everyone co-operative but is getting pretty harried from the effort of doing so. George Harrison is getting more into Indian culture and has less interest "The Fab Four" at the time. He also is tired of being dominated by McCartney & Lennon and yearns for his own gig, done his own way. He also resents Ono's studio presence and shows his irritation. From early on George said she gave him "bad vibes" and he never really warmed to her...causing some diificulties between himself and John (John quit playing at all on any of George's sitar-based songs).
McCartney, the born stage performer of the group, has, at this point, incrementally taken control of The Beatles.
And has being doing so since "Sgt. Pepper"in 1967. This has been somewhat by defualt, since John has been drifting away from enthusiastic involvement for some time. Paul still believes in "The Beatles" and wants to re-charge the.
Group, but he tries too hard in his efforts and only really succeeeds in getting the others ticked off at him.
The real rally here comes at the end of the filkm with the rooftop concert atop Abbey Road studios. Here, for the song "Get Back", for a few beautiful minutes, the dysfunctional juggernaut really does "Get Back"...to where it's always belonged.
This review of Let It Be (1970) was written by Bill H on 25 Jan 2007.
Let It Be has generally received very positive reviews.
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