I'm with you. That footage was incredible to watch. I had tears of joy in my eyes at several points in the series and it was a treat to watch them in their rawest form just creating and performing and writing and being a band. Few documentaries top what we got. 

It really made me appreciate a lot of the Let it Be songs, especially I Got a Feelin', Dig a Pony and Two of Us. Two of Us, especially. I love how John and Paul perform that with a distinct comraderie and brother-like love for each other, and then them trading vocals on I Got a Feelin', you see what makes those songs special. Love it. 

I’m about an hour and a half in and the footage is incredible.

My main take away’s so far are.

John is clearly on another planet during the session.

Paul is an overbearing leader. He might have kept them together but I think he also hastened their departure.

The project was doomed from the start because I don’t think Paul was capable of rehearsing in a style required to pull it off.

The general dismissive attitude towards George is ridiculous. The amount of effort they have spent so far on Maxwells Silver Hammer rather than All Things Must pass is a case in point 😂. That two master songwriters can’t see its quality is ridiculous.

Mal Evans is top man.

Unfortunately like The Beatles themselves, many within their circle struggled personally after the split. Evans was a big loss. Sad endings all round for a large group of Liverpudlian folk who were all a tight unit well before they were famous.

Limmy knows the score.

But it's also partly true. Although overbearing, The Beatles would have been stumbled to a feeble demise without his intense work ethic and focus.

I always thought Let It Be was just fine. My only complaint is that “Don’t Let Me Down” wasn’t on the final album. It’s literally the best thing during that period. What a tune! Outside of that what was going to make it better? Use future Abbey Road songs?

I think though we have too much benefit of hindsight. We know the songs they turned into but in that room in that very moment in time they weren’t catching fire with the band and that is what counts.

Gotta say I'm not fully convinced Gimme Some Truth would have been right on Let It Be, anyway. A great song (but a big part of its greatness is the lyrics which were changed later) and it was fun to see Paul playing with it, but I don’t personally see it belonging on that album much. Not the right vibe. But that’s for me part of the whole point. They were each by the late 60s on different wavelengths, starting down their own personal roads (John getting more and more political for one thing and Let It Be is not an overtly political album), and what is captured in Get Back is a bit of that last hurrah when they were still able to vibe together if only for some brief, beautiful moments. 

Maybe you’re right about Gimme Some Truth. I still think the other two would fit on there well.

The biggest problem doesn’t seem personal, to me it looks professional, it’s not the idea but how they’re going to do it. You can see the life drain out of George after some initial enthusiasm.

It’s good that George got to do a similar sort of project in style he probably preferred for Travelling Wilbury’s.

Not Guilty is a masterpiece when compared twee nonsense like Maxwells Silver Hammer.

But as the above says, Paul's a grafter so is going to become tedious and overbearing. His perfectionism, attention to detail and craftsmanship is what set him apart from Lennon and Harrison. Lennon and Harrison certainly more raw, but The Beatles wouldn't have been the lush sophisticated pop band without McCartney. Despite misgivings towards his attitude in some places, he was the one who held it all together and eeked the last bits of greatness from the band.

I like the album but I can never get into “The Long and Winding Road”. Just isn’t for me. Has nothing to do with Spector mix because none of the versions suit me.