“Whatever it is that will please you, I’ll do it.” Or I won’t play at all, if you don’t want me to play,” Harrison tells McCartney. “I’ll play, you know, whatever you want me to play. The Let It Be documentary has always been infamous for this scene, where McCartney and Harrison argue during the early days of rehearsals over how Harrison is playing. (You ever tried singing and smoking at the same time?) The best of these moments comes in part one, when Lennon pokes the end of a guitar string into the dart’s filter to keep the nicotine as near as possible as they discuss revisiting some of the songs they wrote as teens, including the eventual album cut “One After 909.” (It’s even funnier considering back then cigarettes were cheap, and the Beatles had any number of employees able to run out and buy more … and yet they held onto each butt.) (Disney+ even includes a disclaimer for it.) What’s wilder is witnessing how they used the floor at Twickenham studios as an ashtray, finding creative places to stash their lit butts mid-performance. Time: 29 minutes (well, throughout, really)įor people who didn’t grow up when cigarette smoking was commonplace, it’s pretty jarring to see how much the Beatles and everyone else in the documentary lit up. The Beatles’ Creative Cigarette Placement Read on and watch along so you won’t be left out of all the chatter surrounding this (deservedly) much-hyped documentary. These 12 scenes run the gamut of emotions: moments of joy, intraband tensions, tomfoolery, and the incredible creative magic that happened in the three weeks they spent making the album and film Let It Be.
While we can’t offer you a condensed edit - Get Back (Vulture’s Version) - we can give you a handy cheat sheet that highlights some of the best moments, with time codes included, so you can get a feel for the whole deal. (You wouldn’t be alone - George Harrison didn’t care for the song either.)
( But for good reason!) At nearly eight hours, sitting through the whole behind-the-scenes of the band’s painstaking process while recording their final album can be a daunting task to complete for those who are casual fans, lead busy lives, or just don’t feel like hearing them play “Don’t Let Me Down” for the umpteenth time. As has been widely noted, Peter Jackson’s new three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back is long.
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