Let it Be (Part 1) (season 4, episode 10)

Now is the winter of our discontent: or is it? Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Let it Be is widely thought a miserable affair, documenting arguments and the breakup of the Beatles. But watching it afresh after Peter Jackson's Get Back in 2021, it doesn't feel so much like that. We ask whether the widespread consensus that it's a negative depiction is actually more a failure of collective memory. What was it really set George Harrison off when he told Paul McCartney "Well, I'll play whatever you want me to play"? And what do we make of Lindsay-Hogg's decision not to let you hear any of the songs in full until the end?

Let it Be is generally not commercially available to watch but, well, you know.

The clip we mention of George Harrison talking to George Martin in the studio is from the Hey Jude sessions, and you can see it at    • The Beatles - Hey Jude - rare video in stu...  

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