They May Be Parted

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Jan. 13: The Lunchroom Tape (Pt. 2)

The lunchroom discussion on January 13, 1969, winds and turns, overlaps and often overwhelms. It’s sincerely impossible to give a linear rundown of

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I’ve previously dipped in and out of the lunchroom tapes in recounting the events of the weekend of January 11-12, 1969. Now that our timeline here

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At the conclusion of the 1956 French documentary “Le Mystère Picasso,” the grand old painter splashed his iconic signature on a print and

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The Beatles’ work ethic stood peerless, regardless of situations and obstacles placed in their way, even if they were responsible for those very

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(From the March 1969 Beatle Book) January 11-12, 1969 was a much-needed weekend for the Beatles after George Harrison’s sudden departure on January

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In the days leading up to the premiere of Get Back on Disney+, I had the tremendous opportunity to spend more than three hours speaking with director

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A quick word: As someone who’s dug increasingly deeper into the Beatles’ January 1969 Get Back sessions for the past decade, it’s with obvious

1 min read 2021-11-23 08:00:44

As a film, Let It Be has more backstory than story. In Beatle-time, the 15-plus-month turnaround from the end of their January 1969 sessions until

1 min read 2021-11-08 19:41:21

While the Apple Corps board meeting at Ringo Starr’s house is the obvious focal point to the Beatles’ January 12, 1969, there was more to the

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Here’s that disclaimer again. For this series of posts recounting the Beatles’ private January 12, 1969, board meeting, I’m going to jump

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FYI at the outset: I’m applying the same disclaimer from last time, when I started recounting the Beatles’ January 12, 1969, meeting at Ringo

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Had the phrase been in vogue in May 1970, a record review would have called Let It Be a “hot mess.” I absolutely love the record, but I get how

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For all the company’s subsidiaries, history could have used Apple Stenography. The Nagra tapes so ubiquitous around the Beatles during January 1969

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Daylight is good at arriving at the right time, but January 11, 1969, was always going to be that gray. London was rainy that Saturday morning, a

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More than a half century removed, it’s pretty easy to say George Harrison was on a clear trajectory to cut his losses and walk away from the