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

  • May 12 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
  • Podcast

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

  • Summary

  • 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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