Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of the Beatles "Let It Be" Disaster
Beatles experts Sulpy and Schweighardt have written a detailed chronology of the Let It Be sessions. Studying hundreds of hours of tapes originally filmed for a television special and later released as a movie, the authors provide a minute-by-minute account of the events from January 2 to January 31, 1969. They divide the rehearsals into songs/improvisations by day: A take of "I Me Mine," for example, becomes 8:39 as the 39th Beatle activity of January 8. The authors find imbedded in the sessions familiar causes of the Beatles' breakup: John concentrating on Yoko Ono; George feeling a lack of respect from the others; Ringo bored and haggard; and an optimistic Paul seemingly the only Beatle interested in continuing the legacy of the group. Though meticulously researched, this compilation of Beatles minutiae sheds little light on the Fab Four, and its minute details will appeal to Beatles fanatics only.?David P. Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, SeattleCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.