A luxurious box and a nice book come back to the last months of the group, before a mini-series on Disney +.
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They left over half a century, two of them are no longer from this world (John Lennon, murdered in 1980, George Harrison, died in 2001), but they will not have never stopped talking about them. The separation of the Beatles occupies the news with the concomitant publication of a box dedicated to the album Let It Be (the last published by the Quartet of Liverpool, in May 1970) and by a beautiful book, Get Back, Verbatim drawn from from two hundred hours of conversations from the recording sessions. Two Zakouskis, waiting for Disney + broadcast, on November 25, a six-hour mini-series performed by Peter Jackson from images (57 hours of film) filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in January 1969.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr want to write the end of this story on a more joyful note than the one left Let IT BE, the lindsay-hogg documentary released in theaters at the same time as the album. Images, Sound and Written: The Anthology Device, the official history of the group delivered from 1995, is renewed identically and will not fail to show the enigma to the Cluedo which divides the fans. Who killed the Beatles? The Vox Populi has long designated Yoko Ono, widow of Lennon, like guilty, not without misogyny – a woman at a rock band … What McCartney had predicted in 1969 by addressing Lennon: “It’s going to appear of an incredible comic, in fifty years, you imagine: they separated because Yoko sat on an amp! “
If the photos of the book – signed by Linda McCartney, a woman of Paul, and Ethan A. Russell – testify that Yoko Ono was actually ubiquitous, the bassist nevertheless washed the Japanese artist of any suspicion in an interview for BBC radio 4 which will be broadcast on October 23rd. It is Lennon who is “the origin of the rupture” for asking for a “divorce” at a meeting of the group. These McCartney’s remarks were presented as an astounding revelation while the first to recognize the facts is Lennon himself, in December 1970, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine …
Phil Spector rehabilitated
The luxurious phonographic box celebrating Let it be rehabilitates another unlike, the American producer Phil Spector (dead on January 16th in prison), purged in 2003 with the publication of Let it be … Naked, a version of the Album cleared from ropes, brass and choirs that the inventor of the Wall of Sound (“sound wall”) had added. His strong work has been preserved, even the crime of majesty committed on The Long and Winding Road. A new mixer was directed by Giles Martin, son of George – the producer of the Beatles -, who saves clarity (not really the brand of Spector) and enjoys the beautiful part of McCartney’s piano on the for You Blue of Harrison.
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