MEET THE BEATLES (AGAIN)

In January 1969, filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg was asked to film The Beatles getting back to their roots. The plan was to film them writing, recording and then performing new songs in front of an audience for a live album, to air as a TV special. All of this in just three weeks.

The pressure was on. And the received wisdom is that it caused relations between The Beatles to implode. This was, we have been told for the last 50 years, the beginning of the end of The Beatles.

And because the original film of was shelved for a year, during which The Beatles recorded and released , and was eventually released in May 1970 – just months after The Beatles had disbanded, that idea was reinforced. It became the truth. For 50 years, we’ve been told that The Beatles were a fractious foursome in these recording sessions, constantly at loggerheads, and that this was the catalyst for