It was supposed to be the usual one and a half-hour, hop-on, hop-off ride on a double-deck bus taking tourists around this English port city. The itinerary included stops at Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, two subjects of Beatles songs with pass-throughs of the homes where John Lennon and Paul McCartney grew up.
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By JM McNab Published: May 09th, 2024
"Let it Be", the documentary film about The Beatles released just after the band's break up in 1970, hit screens again on Wednesday -- the first time it has been legally available in over 50 years. Shot in January 1969, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg's movie contained glimpses of the tensions and
Capturing what would become some of the final moments of the Beatles all together was never director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s goal while making "Let It Be." "When we were filming, there was no sense that they would break up," Lindsay-Hogg told Fox News Digital. "There was a sense that they might have gone off and made solo albums like people do these days, but the nucleus was going to stay together, and that's what I thought many people thought. "And then when we were shooting the movie and...
Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 film gets a glorious restoration, capturing rock ‘n’ roll’s most extraordinary foursome
“No, we didn’t get along,” Ringo Starr said about the Beatles.
In 1966, writer Doon Arbus got an assignment from the New York Herald Tribune to profile James Brown on the occasion of the singer's first-ever show at Madison Square Garden. Long before most of white America had heard of the "Godfather of Soul," Arbus, daughter of famed photographer Diane Arbus, spent hours with Brown at his house in Queens, N.Y., then traveled with him to a show in Virginia Beach. Arbus even convinced Brown to let her, a 20-year-old white woman, stay in the hotel with...
One night in 1983, I wandered through the Sam Goody record store in New Jersey’s Burlington Mall in my usual quest for new albums. It was a year or two before compact discs became popular, and decades before digital downloads. It was also 14 years before DVDs, and I spotted a copy of the Beatles’ last move, "Let It Be
Reviled by the band when it came out and widely thought of as miserable, the film – restored to its original format – actually offers light and insightful momentsThe most surprising thing about the reissue of Let It Be is that it commences with footage shot not in 1969 but last year: an interview between Peter Jackson and the film’s director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. If nothing else, this suggests that Lindsay-Hogg is a good sport, given that Jackson’s eight-hour 2021 docuseries The Beatles: Get...