NFR...The Beatles new Doc "Get Back"

[Nick Bateman]

I found it somewhat amusing "woke" Disney put a warning message that there was SMOKING in this 70's footage. One cannot make it up!

[RaySmith]

I found it somewhat amusing "woke" Disney put a warning message that there was SMOKING in this 70's footage. One cannot make it up!

One  reviewer said that John Lennon was 'stoned out of his gourd ' most of the time.

I actually read a book about the Beatles and drugs - Riding So High - it's  a great read, and I was quite surprised to read how into drugs all members of the group were.

Well, Paul was  really into smoking dope, though they all smoked it, as was Linda when he met her; and has been arrested numerous times, including being detained in  jail  in Japan, arrested at the airport, where he wrote Band on the Run.
Ringo was  into booze and pills, and George  into cocaine.

Anyway, both John and Yoko were taking  heroin at this time apparently - I'd thought he only got into that on his 'lost weekend' episode, in the States.

So, the health warning about the comparatively innocent  fag smoking habit, which most people had at the time, seems very ironic.

The book raise the question - how much was the Beatles creativity linked to drug use?
Well,  probably true about most 60's musician's, in that extraordinarily creative time, and musicians and artists generally - but you still need the basic talent, of course, and the ability to be  creative without  outside stimulants.

Also, the 60's culture of self- expression and 'doing your own thing' must have helped. Imagine if the Beatles, instead  going to art college in some cases, and then to  work as a band in Hamburg and honing their trade, had  all got regular jobs instead.

[RaySmith]

There are many clips popping up on YouTube now, here's a moving and sadly prophetic moment of Paul and Ringo after George had "left the band" and John hadn't turned up that morning...

https://youtu.be/RYzjNE0_NKY

And, yes, sadly prophetic of course.

Agree. As another great songwriter, Joni Mitchell, wrote - 'You never know what you've got til it's gone.'

I think Paul really wanted to  keep the band going and go back on the road, which he did with Wings.
He's recently shown regret that the band broke up when they still seemed very creative and producing good work, and the  sum was more than the parts, so their solo work was never going to be as good - though George might have some disagreement with that!

[Steeeeeeeeeed]

I found it somewhat amusing "woke" Disney put a warning message that there was SMOKING in this 70's footage. One cannot make it up!

One  reviewer said that John Lennon was 'stoned out of his gourd ' most of the time.

I actually read a book about the Beatles and drugs - Riding So High - it's  a great read, and I was quite surprised to read how into drugs all members of the group were.

Well, Paul was  really into smoking dope, though they all smoked it, as was Linda when he met her; and has been arrested numerous times, including being detained in  jail  in Japan, arrested at the airport, where he wrote Band on the Run.
Ringo was  into booze and pills, and George  into cocaine.

Anyway, both John and Yoko were taking  heroin at this time apparently - I'd thought he only got into that on his 'lost weekend' episode, in the States.

So, the health warning about the comparatively innocent  fag smoking habit, which most people had at the time, seems very ironic.

The book raise the question - how much was the Beatles creativity linked to drug use?
Well,  probably true about most 60's musician's, in that extraordinarily creative time, and musicians and artists generally - but you still need the basic talent, of course, and the ability to be  creative without  outside stimulants.

Also, the 60's culture of self- expression and 'doing your own thing' must have helped. Imagine if the Beatles, instead  going to art college in some cases, and then to  work as a band in Hamburg and honing their trade, had  all got regular jobs instead.

Yeah, that book looks really interesting, I think I saw a guy on YouTube talking about it and highly recommending it too, and I also think he said Paul was kind of into cocaine quite a bit around the time of this Get Back documentary, which might account for his seeming "business" or some might say "bosiness" (I don't, I think that he was doing what was necessary to keep them going, I think he did brilliantly really).

[Stevieboy]

Actually saw The Beaties twice at Hammersmith Odeon in 1965 for their Christmas Shows.
Nobody has mentioned who compared the gigs............🤫....!!

[Dr Know]

Actually saw The Beaties twice at Hammersmith Odeon in 1965 for their Christmas Shows.
Nobody has mentioned who compared the gigs............🤫....!!

Wasn't it Jimmy Sa Vile !