Review of Let It Be (1970) by Robert W — 16 Mar 2018

Finally watched this last night after all these years. My interest in the Beatles has had a huge resurgency over the last 6-8 months and I been gobbling up books (George Harrison: Behind the Lock Door"....awesome book. Currently reading "Fab- Intimate life of Paul McCartney", watching you tube vids, etc. So when I found this on my pirate movie source, I had to see it.

First, as a documentary, that everyone categorizes as the "breakup of The Beatles", I really didn't see too much dissension. The only really big scene was the Paul/George argument, where you could tell George was pretty annoyed at Paul. But, honestly, it wasn't anything that big.

The filming was a little annoying. I guess a product of it's times...it was cool then to do close up shots up their noses? It a little messy, but it's cool. As for the band, as most know, it really was the Paul and John show, which you see why pretty quick when you watch them just break out into jams. The musical talent, the musical ear, the creativity that flowed through Paul's veins is so apparent while he sits at the piano and just breaks out in jams with the rest of the group. It was hard to take your eyes off him. So interesting. John wasn't far behind. He was hard to take your eyes off him as well. But, I got the sense, Paul was the driver of the band. John may have been just as talented, but I'm guessing a bit lazy and was fine letting Paul provide the inertia.......most of the time.

Watching them rehearse songs from Let it Be was super. George's contributions as well are superb. Also get some rehearsing of songs from the soon to come Abbey Road, which was cool.

The doc changes focus once they hit the rooftop and begins their concert. Even if these were unhappy lads at the time, when playing together, you wouldn't know it. They looked like they were having a ball.

An amazing group. After all these years, there is still so much interest in them. You want a peek of the group at their apex, check Let it Be out.