Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott

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We were at the Curzon Mayfair on May 7 for the premier of the rebooted Let It Be in all its burnished finery and came away with a ton of things to unravel, among them …
… what we never knew when the film came out 54 years ago.
.. seeing it in the shadow of Peter Jackson’s Get Back.
… how the edit was overtaken by events and the tangled reasons it turned out the way it did.
… why Lindsay-Hogg’s amphitheatre concept would never have worked.
… the divine symbolism of the Beatles v the police.
… why it’s a perfect social document of late-’60s London.
… the band’s three-film film contract.
… was the world really as distraught about their break-up as the 21st Century assumes?
… herringbone coats, red plastic macs, hairy black jackets: why someone should open a Beatles ‘69 clothes emporium.
Plus … the noble philosophies of the late Steve Albini expressed in a letter to Nirvana in November 1992.
… and what happens when rock stars don’t leave wills: Exhibit A - Steve Marriott.
Read Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana here …
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@JBurnett-n2j 4 ай бұрын

Albini recorded my band twice. I'm proud to have brought him to record in Scotland. A lovely, funny guy.

@krisscanlon4051 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like your broadcasting from my auntie Gin's loo😂!

@StevieBluenoseScott 4 ай бұрын

'Thank you for all the years' that's a great statement. Fantastic interveiw Phil you were brilliant.

@RobinMorley 4 ай бұрын

The sound quality is an immediate throwback to the early days of the podcast. Kept expecting Rob Fitzpatrick or Matt Hall to chip in…

@EdFredHernandez 4 ай бұрын

The best podcast that's recorded from inside a tin can!

@MACEASY2 4 ай бұрын

After all these years, they still can't afford a microphone!

@sandamianoyeah 4 ай бұрын

last time it was on TV, was 1982. no listings tell us otherwise!

@ws4488 4 ай бұрын

Agreed I said the same on twitter. It’s been shown four times in total, 1975, 1976, 1979 and 82. I remember watching it in 79 but missed it completely in 82. Not broadcast in the UK since.

@Voidoid77 4 ай бұрын

Steve Albini, r.i.p. - in person, a very down-to-earth, personable guy w/ an extremely strong work ethic for always doing his best for every band w/ his 'sonic tools' in the Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. As you, (gladly), point out; he was a man who steadfastly refused, point blank, to take any kind of extra financial 'cut', via 'production points' for his recording engineering talents. Plus, and extremely as important as his skill in the studio, was his guitar playing in Big Black & latterly Shellac, which showed just how innovative a musician he was. Yup, - A sad loss.

@easytoassemble54321 4 ай бұрын

He also never interfered creatively, in what the bands were recording (as a producer might normally do). He was just there to capture the band. Plus, I love his scornful Tweets about Steely Dan. I love The 'Dan, but also couldn't help but laugh at Albini's stingingly accurate swipes at them.

@Voidoid77 4 ай бұрын

@@easytoassemble54321 100% Agreed. Very funny. (And I like the 'Dan, too)... ;-)

@Mac-ku3xu 4 ай бұрын

A big pusher of bigpharma propaganda though, and that may well have killed him.

@ivanconnolly7332 4 ай бұрын

The gravy stained print lent a seedy quality to the film.

@ivanconnolly7332 4 ай бұрын

Ending up on a rooftop instead of mount Olympus was genius, Lennon ending up in New York went the other way.

@poggis49 4 ай бұрын

Linda did appear in Let It Be, albeit briefly. She is seen following as Heather makes her entrance and in one shot sitting down adjusting her camera.

@david_g_barron 4 ай бұрын

Allen Klein was on the scene by Part Three of Get Back and was probably was the major reason that Glyn Johns mix was not used, especially as heard officially for the first time what Glyn Johns said about Klein, after John Lennon had been well and truly groomed by Klein. The Rooftop concert, not the first band to do that on a rooftop, as a few months earlier in November 1968, Jean-Luc Godard filmed Jefferson Airplane doing that In New York. George's domestic issue, who was the person George was involed with, who that person was involved with previously or maybe at the time, and then later went on to be involved with. The last person I was thinking of was just really starting his ascendancy in January 1969 with his new band. You almost get the feeling that Allen Klein was trying for that ten year deal in 1970 to truly scupper Paul McCartney, and makes me wonder if Paul did his announcement of the break up on April 10 1970 to stop that deal. Which is why on the 31st December 1970, Paul did the writ to break the partnership deal, and eventually getting a receiver to start the break up of that deal. Let It Be wonder what TV Channel/s it was shown on in 2002. 2003 and 2005, as according to Genome BBC site and according to that website it was shown four times on the BBC and typed in their search engine Let It Be Beatles and then in Media Type put TV only, and did post this on another video on here: Friday 26th December 1975 on BBC1 at 10.55 which seemed a really odd scheduling choice and film premiere to show on Boxing Day Morning considering it is not A Hard Day's Night or Help which was broadcast on Boxing Day mornings in previous years on BBC1. Tuesday 24th August 1976 on BBC1 at 18:50 except in Wales, which must have really annoyed Beatles fans in Wales who could not pick up any of the English regions. All of The Beatles films apart from Magical Mystery Tour were being shown on Tuesday Evenings in August 1976 in BBC1 except in Wales. (Some of The Beatles films were shown on BBC1 Wales late on Friday Night in August 1976, but cannot see if Let It Be was shown in Wales at that time). Wednesday 26th December 1979 on BBC2 at 17:50 and interesting to see the show before was The Dick Cavett Magic Show. Saturday 8th May 1982 on BBC2 at 15:10 after Open University and before International Snooker (World Snooker Championships). There is one more reason that Let It Be may not have been officially been shown on TV for twenty years and any physical release since the VHS release in the early 1980s, is that maybe Neil Aspinall as producer of the film and as "CEO" of Apple Corps from 1973 had a veto on it being shown and may not have liked it being shown in the 2000s, and possibly the projected 2002 release on DVD was aborted due to the issue of the sound master tapes not being available, and maybe the film could not be restored the way Peter Jackson and his team could restore it in the last few years. Also if Neil Aspinall was entitled to a share of any profits as producer, then did Klein defraud him out of the original film royalties, and that might have been an issue that lasted until Neil Aspinall passed away in 2008.

@innertube47 4 ай бұрын

When cover bands play Beatles songs in the pubs people dance to them, all of them, and people of all ages sing along at the tops of their voices

@jeffw.england 4 ай бұрын

I like all songs now and i play the let it be album and film first and then sum songs on the get back album and i treat the get back film has a bonus.

@simonmatthews9771 4 ай бұрын

I think Let it Be is the second best thing Beatles album.

@matthewstiles3258 4 ай бұрын

I agree with the comments about the album. I don't like Dig a Pony or Dig It either. Some great songs on the album of course but only about half a dozen are really up to their normal standards

@brianharris7243 4 ай бұрын

Watching "Let It Be" (for the 3rd time over the years) after watching the "Get Back" series was disappointing, jumbled and badly edited...we've been spoilt!

@apolloc.vermouth5672 4 ай бұрын

It's interesting that Steve Albini was a huge Joy Division fan - Martin Hannett's imperious, bullying imposition of his 'sonic holograms' onto their recordings was the exact opposite of Albini's code of production etiquette. I never agreed much with Albini's musical tastes, but will sorely miss his hard-ass decency.