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Phew!
finally finished this almost nine hour, three part doco.

premise:
so Paul McCartney thought that to create a new concept the Beatles should film the making of their next album ("let it be") and follow up with a one off concert spectacular to promote the album.
the band set up in the studios and over the space of three weeks they filmed over 150 hours of footage of them writing,creating and rehearsing songs along with the infamous "savile Row rooftop live performance".

episode one: shows the band coming together with no ideas or concept of what to do, jamming and eventually getting the basic structure of songs, it also shows the struggles within the band to get motivated in the studio, also shows George Harrison walking out of the band at the end of the episode.

episode two: shows George returning with guarantees that Paul wont be so bossy and all members will work together as a unit and finally getting songs together.

episode three: shows the band finally getting it together and finally realising the visions of Paul McCartney in the idea of the doco, concert and album. episode shows the entire "rooftop concert" and it finally being shut down by the Police for 'breach of the peace', all publicity is good publicity, right?!.
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anyway,
what i took away form the whole thing was:

1:  there was no animosity between Yoko and Paul, George and Ringo.
2:  there was little friction between the band and they even discussed doing solo projects.
3:  they worked harmoniously together for the most part and all helped create each others song.
4:  the way history/media has portrayed the final part of their career was probably mostly fiction due to the fact that it was the media that didnt like Yoko Ono, not the band.
5:  "get back" was generally regarded as being written about Yoko and Paul's hatred of her, this doco shows that it was written about the anti-immigration sentiment in the UK at the time.
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an excellent doco for those interested in how the writing and recording processes work.

Rating:  4/5