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I like the fact that Peter Jackson's Get Back was also a documentary about the making of Michael Lindsay Hogg's documentary.

I'm eternally grateful for the footage this man and his team were able to capture. But it took until 2021 for someone to present it to us properly. A big thanks to Peter Jackson and his team.

Michael was making editorial choices at the time for the final cut. We've had 20 to 30 years of reality TV and MTV unplugged and various styles of documentary making. So for today's audience you would make different choices like Peter Jackson did. But this man had foresight to put cameras where they just didn't in the 60s and record things nobody thought of recording. So I thank you

One of the most interesting parts of this doco is Mal Evans, seeing how he looked after the boys, and played Anvil in Maxwell's silver hammer. What a great big bear of a man, an Beatle legend. His end in LA was a tragedy.

This man helped present a MAJOR gift to the world! 52 years later. Finally seen in my lifetime. Just wow..

The Get Back documentary made me fall in love with The Beatles all over again. The rooftop concert was amazing seeing how they outsmarted the cops that were trying to shut it down. The reaction from Paul when he saw the cops finally making it to the roof and his refusal to stop playing was AMAZING.

I'm surprised this interview wasn't conducted in the desert with 2,000 Arabs and friends.

Dear Host, please thank the Director for the "hidden mic in the cafeteria". That conversation answered what some Beatles fans consider "the single most important question" in Beatles-dom all these years.

Seeing him alive and well cements how John should still be here

Michael Lindsay Hogg, if you're reading this, I just want to thank you. I hope you never feel like you're seen as some kind of "Beatle villain". Hindsight is 20/20. You shot this incredible footage, you did the best job you could and what's great about the "Get Back" documentary is that it REALLY is just a long, "special feature" about the making of your movie. Your movie is mostly music, and I think your cut of the Rooftop Concert is THE cut of it. Ideally, you watch YOUR cut of the Rooftop Concert.....then you watch the last section of "Get Back" to see how it was filmed and what happened in real time. "Get Back" builds to this rooftop concert, but lots of the music is drowned out by the cops talking in the lobby.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg filmed it in a time there was no reality television. So he couldn't just show the images purely, as Peter Jackson did recently. He needed a narrative to guide it through, so it is understandable his approach. This raw approach woudn't work very well back in 1970, today we are used to see it, so that's why putting together this unreleased material is so great and joyful to watch. We are beings from another generation, another sensibility brought by new medias, so watching all of this it makes it feel like a time machine indeed.

So many amazing scenes from the new movie. I just loved it. I’m saddened that this gem was hidden for so long and we have lost so many of them Linda, Maureen, Mal, George Martin, George and John. It was not a sad story of their breakup but was actually a glorious redemption story of 4 guys who put themselves under an insurmountable task and emerged gloriously with so many amazing songs and along the way you got to see them really work so hard and were genuinely nice people who really did care for each other.

Fascinating to see how people's recollection from that time gets so distorted, same thing hearing Glyn Johns or the remaining Beatles themselves talk about all these things and finding in the Get Back documentary that a lot of what they remembered wasn't exactly right.

I loved Let IT BE . , I saw it when it came out I was 17 at the time, saw it a few times. I never got thst negativevof a vibe off it! It was unique in its time for sure....that type of footage of The Beatles is priceless. Peter Jackson's access to it has just expanded it 100 fold because he had a free hand 50 years later and could go ove 7 hours in the series firmat streaming. But thanks to Lindsay- Hogg for capturing it!

Get Back is a priceless gift to every Beatles fan … thanks to all who made this amazing documentary.I loved every second of it!!!

In Get Back he mentions the microphones having a hard time picking up their conversations because they would strum their instruments while talking. So I believe the footage he used was the best he could find. That's why Let it be movie has more full songs and jams then Get Back.

Michael, I want to thank you profusely for your work. The Peter Jackson production of your team's footage brought tears of joy to my eyes. Your tenacity and determination are palpable through the filming. That was no east feat. The result is worth its weight in gold. I didn't think my love for this band could ever grow as it has been growing since I first heard them in the mid-1960s as a child. What I love most is how each of their personalities shines through. It shines without judgement or bias. 4 lads from Liverpool under pressure to create art on demand under imperfect conditions. The respect for each other at that point is abundantly apparent despite the little riffs. I feel I got to know George a lot better through the first episode. Seeing a glimpse of how John and Paul worked together was priceless. It was messy. It was silly. At times it was boring. But from emerged genius. Nonsense lyrics gave way timeless poetry. Thank you for capturing the Billy Preston affiliation. Even from a young age it was apparent to me the impact of Billy's playing had on those songs. You gotta love how Billy showed up, sat down, brought his best stuff, ..., all without complaining or asking for a contract. What I saw was a passionate player with genuine affection for this band with the ability to kick it up a notch. The Beatles, in turn, paid Billy with their welcoming attitude. I love every one of the people in this film for the roll they played creating the operating manual for my life. Even at age 58 I still listen, read, and ponder the songs of the Beatles and come out smiling every time. Bravo sir.

Anybody who knows anything about production should have a great deal of respect for Hogg. For him to come out of that chaotic jam session with a viable product and narrative was a miracle in itself.

Thank You For Everything, It was fantastic

PS: Thanks also to Michael Lindsay Hogg for things like the Paperback Writer/Rain videos, and the "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" videos as well. And all the other great musical acts you captured during that time....like the Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus! THANK YOU.

The original project was supposed to be a TV special and ended up as a film. Jackson’s project was supposed to be a film and ended up as a TV special.

Brilliant director- the first director to shoot documentary footage of the Beatles playing an rehearsing and the only director to shoot the very last footage of the Beatles playing together- quite something

Michael Lindsday-Hogg did an awesome job gathering all that wonderful footage.

Thanks a MILLION, Michael. What a treasure you have made and left to us🙏🙏🙏❤️

Perfect ending to the film. Couldn’t be better.

Michael Lindsay Hogg shot and directed some all-time classics. Glad you posted his if for no other reason than because he talked about precisely why Mal Evans had unplugged John's and George's amps. A fairly obvious reason but it's good to hear it from an eyewitness with the authority of Lindsay Hogg. So thanks.

They played 'Get Back' three times. 'I've got a feeling' two times, 'Don't let me down' two times, 'One after 909' once and 'Dig a Pony' once.

I agree with the sentiments that he was so important in this iteration because of the tons of footage and shot angles and audio. He shouldn’t be vilified but instead celebrated.

Great insights! The Let It Be film footage is wonderful. I loved The Beatles since 1964 and The Ed Sullivan Show appearances. I bought every single and every album as soon as they were released. To see them creating some of the most beloved songs of all time is majestic. This is so wonderfully nostalgic nearly 60 years later. Loved it! Teri

I saw Peter Jackson's edit and it is amazing. Let's not forget none of that would have been possible if not for the vision and phenomenal oversight of MICHAEL LINDSAY HOGG. - Mr. Hogg earned a great seat very near to the fab 4 at the table of Beatle chroniclers.

The roof gig is just a wow moment in history let alone musical history, they were cultural icons. Those people that climbed the roof to see them (for free) at the pinnacle of their career. I wonder which of them thought wow this is lucky and a special moment. Wait till I get home and tell everyone what I saw today. Especially when they see themselves on the big screen as well later. I saw the movie in a cinema when it came out, I was 10 years old. Thanks Michael for your story and the filming of course, you had to put up with a lot of crap making that.

Thank you Michael!

A fun drinking game for the Beatles “get back” documentary is to take a drink whenever Hogg mentions performing in Tunisa at the amphitheater

It was around 7°C/45°F in London that day, not counting the wind chill factor. I can just imagine how much the strings contracted on their guitars from the cold weather. I bet it took them a while to get tuned up.

I appreciate Micheal filming them, I own let it be on vhs, and its all over the place, it just jumps over there here..it wasn't put together right. I'm glad Peter Jackson fixed it up so we got what i think, Hogg wanted to do. A masterpiece of a documentary about the best band in the bloody universe 👍🏻😃🎸

2000 Arabs light by torchlight. Just picture it, fellas.

I got so hyped when I watched George plug the amp back in, it was amazing lol

Michael Lindsay-Hogg did a fantastic tour de force that January 1969, always propositive, creative and clear in his director role with the Beatles regearsings, I admire his films like Stone's R&R Circus, Becket's Godot and the 56 hours of Let It Be now seen in Peter Jakson as Get Back for Disney. My best wishes to him always!

Having been there when all this happened and buying 'Let It Be' when it was released and going to the theater and watching the movie when it was released, it's so cute to watch people 50 years later with all the hype about it. Michael LH worked with them after 'Paperback Writer'; he filmed 'Hey Jude'.

He recalls that Ringo wasn't really into the idea of going on the roof, but in the Peter Jackson version Ringo is clearly the one that wants to go up the most when the other guys aren't as into the idea.

Thanks, Michael You deserve a lot of my respect for what you directed and Paul refused the green light to the project Peter Jackson wanted to bring to fruition, and He finally did, all of which has been a true revelation of the Beatles volatile relationship, a gem of documentary indeed!

Thank you Michael for shooting the original footage. I don't like the fact that there seems to be an urge to edit the raw footage to "Tell a story". No, we all know the story or can research it. Let's just see ALL the footage.

Looking at the Get Back sessions it was Paul and Michael who were both keeping the band together at this point.

I wished he would have been asked why the disposition and attitudes of The Beatles in “Let it Be” are diametrically different than in “Get Back”.

The rooftop gig was iconic. The Libyan amphitheatre in the desert surrounded by local tribes and lit by moonlight would have been BIBLICALLY-EPIC.

The word "iconic" is so over used, but in the case of the Beatles, we can make an exception 🙂

Nice to hear his perspective on the footage he shot. Michael received a lot of undeserved flak for the " Let It Be " compilation in 1970. He also filmed four Beatles' songs for promotional media and had a respected career afterwards. Thanks to him, we have Jackson's " Get Back. "

"Let It Be" was the first of amazing 70s ultrarealistic documentaries, total pioneer.

TRES Cool

The lads were cold on the roof. I was surprised Lyndsay Hogg did not have some small heaters for them, and gloves with the finger tips cut out like the Stones use. I guess that stuff had not been invented for rock. Peter Jackson made a mistake of not using the day-after-the rooftop footage featuring "Two of Us," "The Long and Winding Road," "Let it Be, " etc. He did not want to reuse "Let it Be" material. But so what? Millions upon millions of young people have not seen it. The music was the main thing, and the best thing. Lyndsay Hogg does have an Orson Welles demeanor in the film.

That interviewer is the most stoned guy I've ever seen in my life.

John’s last comment on the film is iconic… “thank you and on behalf of the group I hope we pass the audition”

after Get Back, i actually have more...much more respect for Mr. Hogg. despite all the reluctance and seemingly challenges the band and various circumstances were throwing at him..he persisted and still did his job professionally...and it paid off...TWICE.

They did get back, don't let me down, dig a pony, I've got a feeling, 909. 5 songs on the roof.

Fascinating that in another interview with Glyn Johns, he says HE, and Ringo, came up with the rooftop idea.

Congratulations glyn Jones for the Beatles get back album I bought bootleg years ago on cd and the quality was great

It was very difficult for him as the director to actually know exactly what he was doing from day to day as they kept changing their minds as a group but at least he got the footage of them rehearsing…

Great comments from Michael Lindsay Hogg on an extraordinary film. The interviewer seems to be drifting in and out of sleep. How do such uninteresting and seemingly unprepared people get such interesting guests?

I was thrilled seeing this Get Back documentary, but I don’t recall them performing all of Let It Be songs on the rooftop concert. Did I miss something?

I think the real question is why MLH chose the footage he did. Seeing far more of the film through the recent documentary you get a really different take on this than came out of the film release in 1970. While there were tensions the recent doc shows a much more harmonious atmosphere. We were lucky he filmed it all, but not what he chose to portray in his film.

Hogg and team made amazing job. Let It Be movie is very good actually.

Incredible how his accent changed

PJ did a great editing job and told the story (but it took him 4 years).

Mr. Hogg sounds the same as he did 50 odd years ago. He still has a sharp memory in his seventies.

I saw it on the 10 to 6 news the same day it happened. A very short remark by the news host. I didn't it would become history

Here's someone who brought more turmoil into an already rocky and rough situation....love the footage that he and his crew captured...BUT not even a 20 Pack of "1000 Sheet Per Roll" TP would clean him up after watching all of GB.

This Michael Lindsay Hogg was only 29 years old when he directed the Beatles in this documentary. Amazing since he looked like a kid to. How did he ever get this assignment?

I caught that Drifters reference, Michael Lindsay Hogg

Fab and Gear.

1:23 it feels so strange hearing it be called "a couple years earlier", seems like at least a decade of change between that era and let it be

Great interview! So nice to hear him these many years later without that very weird posh British accent he was sporting in Let It Be.

Am I the only one who wants to know who those officers are? I wonder if they are alive? I'd LOVE to hear an interview with them.

big history

To be fair to Michael, he had almost no time to edit the movie together. Peter Jackson had five years.

Get Back is a documentary about Michael Lindsay Hogg creating a documentary or TV Special about The Beatles rehearsing, cursing, singing and jamming.

I do love his film Two of Us...

born 1940. looks in fine form ! TU

he gets credit for creating the raw footage - beyond that he was a waste of time....

Interesting. I keep reading that the idea to play on the roof was Glyn Johns and Ringo’s idea.

This interview should have been held in Libya.

This is the baronet with the performative cigar who suggested taking the whole thing to Libya? The person who set up in Twickenham, until a showdown with George got the four back into Abbey Road. And until the new edit he had clearly been happy with the world putting it all on Yoko. It's clear from his poncing about in the studio he would be the sort to still take himself seriously decades on. But why should anyone else?

Apple should have released an "I Like Mike" Tee Shirt to coincide with the Peter Jackson release. From one angle on this shirt, you see Lindsay-Hogg with a flat expression on his face; from a different angle you see him grin as he takes a puff from a cigar.

This guy also shot 1968 Rolling stones rock and roll circus

3:00 Young Paul makes a cameo hahahaha

when he was younger, he looked like Orson Welles - now he has aged into Paul Williams

I don’t think Mal Evans unplugged George’s amp. Instead, he turned it off. You can clearly see George reach to the rear panel to turn it back on.

This was reality tv 'avant la lettre'

It been awsome if the Beatles didn't decide to tour after the roof top. I seen the Get Back film and the Beatles were having a great time playing live.

He captured some amazing footage but did The Beatles dirty with the way he edited the final product. He picked so many moments of the boys looking pissy, annoyed, and/or detached to paint a false picture of such misery. I saw in a comment thread a theory that he may have exploited the fact that the band was breaking up at the time he was editing to sensationalize the situation and make himself look like he was smart & savvy.

Michael Lindsay has been shit on for years .ppl saying he was green to film this.to be trusted with the let it be movie. But he's why we have this footage.paperback writer is just one if tge coolest 2 minutes filmed ever

He is a genius and we are lucky to have him. People who insult him are stupid

The roof gig idea was based on Jefferson Airplanes rooftop gig in New York the year before..if you check it out it is remarkably similar in style and feel to to The Beatles impromptu performance, even the way its filmed with cameras filming office workers leaning out of windows trying to see what's happening..and ultimately, also getting halted by the intervention of the police. Mr Hogg doesnt refer to it but would have been aware.

I have never seen anyone less able to read a room than Michael Lindsay Hogg. His lack of emphatic ability is astounding.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Beatle or one of those involved in the recording that put in the complaint.

2:37 Whut? Get Back shows he definitely wanted to do it!

I was under the impression it was Glyn johns and Ringo's idea to do the roof concert. Oh the differing versions of well documents events... Lindsay Hogg was all for Tunisia and QE2 right?

Haha 6:08 George turning on the amp again

What happened to Harper Simon? He’s “ate up”

Interesting that he says Paul was enthusiastic about the rooftop gig. He seems very apprehensive about it in the documentary.