Yup, the right film. Spector's work was afterwards, in what became the
album of the same name.
At 02:16 PM 12/16/2003 -0500, Ken Wolman wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>>I only heard the CD in a friend's car, tho a decent system. All of
>>Spector's tracks are gone. The boys had exquisite taste by that poinht in
>>their careers.
>>
>>Twas the Abbey Road studio, I believe.
>
>If we're thinking of that rooftop film, it was "Let It Be." About.Com's
>classic rock website actually gets it right at least as I remember it:
>"What started out as a documentary following the Beatles on the creative
>process of putting an album together from beginning to end, ultimately
>became the story of a band falling apart." I remember seeing it in 1970
>(my mind misgives--was it '71?) and found it utterly depressing. I had
>no idea until today that Phil Spector had ever been involved with
>Beatles production. The most dominant presence in the film was not
>pounding Spector chords but the much-maligned Yoko Ono: she didn't have
>to say much, she just had to be there for an aura of disgust from the
>other band members to envelop the area. I felt like I was eavesdropping
>at a rather nasty family gathering where a bunch of people are talking
>but shut up abruptly when someone unwanted walks into the room.
>
>Ken
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