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

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: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana

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