"Who's The Redhead On The Roof....?": My life with The Beatles

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Added a new transparency version of one of Mal’s photos, and a Japanese single cover with the same photo.

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Another unique addition to the lot are four Eero Saarinen tulip chairs from Lennon’s Kenwood home in Surrey. Paul went on to complain about the delays of the record’s release in interestingly prescient terms while blaming Klein for the holdup. A week later, May 20, the film received a more proper launch, premiering in London and Liverpool with the pomp missing stateside. In London, Beatle exes Jane Asher and Cynthia Lennon were among the guests, which also included Mary Hopkin, Lulu, Spike Milligan and other notables as thousands of fans showed up at the scene. Kevin Harrington, assistant roadie at the time, wrote in his memoir that he took an Apple Scruff to the premiere. No Beatles were present, however. To put 51 years into context, it’s 11 more years than John Lennon spent in the material world. It’s about as far away from today as the release of Let It Be was from the Treaty of Versailles. It’s a relative eternity.

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The article prompted a further response, a phone call from fellow director — and father, as he later learned — Orson Welles, who asked Michael if he was happy with Let It Be. Lennon and Harrison were the first to arrive, the former with his then-girlfriend Yoko Ono. As they tuned their guitars, the musicians played snippets of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ and ‘All Things Must Pass’. Both attempted to play along with each others’ songs, and were joined by a recently-arrived Ringo Starr on drums during a version of Don’t Let Me Down. The most accurate review yet: “Singing their songs, doing their thing!” (From the May 13, 1970, Californian)

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I didn’t know that “Across the Universe” was recorded completely separately from everything else. I didn’t know that “I Me Mine” was done at Abbey Road and was the last thing the Beatles recorded. So the album in that sense is kind of a hodgepodge of different kinds of processes. And so you say, “How do we make this sound more like a record, a finished record, as opposed to something that is contentious?” And so you change your outlook slightly.Some of it,” Michael replied. “It’s hard when your stars are your producers. And there were four of them. … A lot I liked got cut out. … But the footage was good.” The full list of songs played on this day, including fragments and off-the-cuff, unpublished songs with presumed titles: From Macmillan’s transparency, a dye transfer print was made using separation negatives, (you end up with a set of three pin registered matrixes, magenta,cyan and yellow, which are then individually placed on top of a print to transfer the 3 colours that make up the Dye Transfer).