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When it comes to the titular track on The Beatles’ parting effort, John Lennon was always strongly dismissive. Let It Be was ...
Adam Behr has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the British Academy. In one sense, Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 film documenting The Beatles’ ...
The Beatles’ “Let It Be” documentary, which first released in theaters in 1970, finally sees the light of day once again. The documentary re-releases on Disney+ on Wednesday, May 8. The film was ...
The catalogue of great posthumous movies, such as “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Rebel Without a Cause,” and “Amazing Grace,” also includes another of the great music documentaries: Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s “Let It ...
The Beatles‘ “Let It Be” is so influential it even inspired a song by Kanye West. Interestingly, Paul McCartney helped West write the track. West’s tune shared some of the lyrical details of “Let It ...
But what if it wasn’t really that at all? Two surprising developments have occurred to give “Let It Be” a very belated rehabilitation in the public mindset. First, Peter Jackson scoured dozens of ...
The Beatles’ John Lennon was never one for mincing his words in speech or music, and the Let It Be track that many speculate was a “dig” at Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is certainly no ...
There’s a great tradition of pop songs that sound like gospel music without being religious per se. These tracks include Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Elvis Presley’s “Burning Love ...
We know who’s playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’s quartet of biopics, and we know (more or less) who’s playing their partners. But who's playing Bob Dylan? Or George Martin?