Thread: The Beatles Last Public Performance - The Apple Studios Rooftop Concert

“Get Back", "Don't Let Me Down", "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909", and "Dig a Pony", “Get Back – reprise” from the rooftop of Apple Studios, located in London, from Let It Be is a 1970 documentary film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. The film features an unannounced rooftop concert by the...

hmmm the sympathy tour die hippie

fun fact: Quote: . The album version of the song famously ends with John Lennon quipping "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition". (Originally John said that on the roof top concert, but Phil Spector edited it into the Get Back song on the Let It Be album.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Back also, i'm reminded of this......

Paul and Ringo were always sensitive that the Let It Be film hardly showed any of them in a very positive light, so they put the kabosh on it being re-released on DVD anytime soon. It's not a very interesting watch...it's basically an hour or so of the band sitting around looking bored and arguing and close-ups of Paul's beard while they try to write new songs. The only good part is the end with the rooftop concert. The film was...

You know I had never actually seen the film until I torrented it a couple of years back. I found that what was going on really wasn't quite as bad as it was reputed to be. There were some tense moments every now and then, but nothing seemed especially intense, nothing much worse than any group of people who spend long periods of time together go through. On a side note, I always thought Paul got a lot of undeserved shit regarding the...

To think, people were just walking to work and witnessed this along the way. Amazing. And I know it's the Beatles' performance and their film, but is Billy Preston even shown destroying the keys? Where is he, in the back next to his own water fountain?