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Michael Bonner, Editor.
FIFTY years on, where do you start with Let It Bel For The Beatles, the answer is a complicated one. Filmed in early 1969, director MichaelLindsay-Hogg’sdocumentarycontainssomeof the very best audio-verite footage of the band assembling songs, not to mention their last public concert ever, on the rooftop of Apple Corps’ headquarters at 3 Savile Row; but it also foreshadows their breakup nearly 15 months later. Perhaps understandably, it’s not a project for which the bandhave historically shown much enthusiasm. “It went into the things that happen in any family: little fights, little niggles, little mistrust, little this, little that,” Ringo Starr tells Uncut.