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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Theme Thursday - ROOF
This is considered the Beatles last live concert, January 1969. The Beatles' celebrated rooftop show. An idea conceived during a meeting on 26 January, it was the first of two consecutive Beatles/Billy Preston performances which concluded the Get Back project, for on 31 January they ran through numbers inside the basement studio.
This day's work has passed into history as the Beatles' last live performance, even if it couldn't be classified as a concert. The 42-minute show (about half of which comprises the sensational close to the Let It Be film) was a lunchtime blast into the cold wind - imagine a high London rooftop in January - that brought part of the capital to a standstill, until the police, in turn, brought the show to an enforced conclusion. (Info copied from YouTube video...)
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what a great memory they created for those passing by. great vid! nice play for TT!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Wonder if the people knew they were viewing something more than just a popular band playing music? End of an era, in a way, right before their eyes.
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! Kinda think Bono got the idea from here, wot?
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much for posting this! It had been ages since I'd seen it.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine walking down the street and suddenly hearing the Beatles start playing up above you on somebody's roof? Thanks for posting this, Chris.
ReplyDeleteWow, I wish I had been there to hear it live!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the video and the info!
ReplyDeleteHappy TT
xoxo
I can remember going to school the next day after they had played on the Ed Sullivan Show. If someone mentioned their name then all the girls would start screaming. After a while the boys just started having fun saying "Beatles", just to see the girls scream. It was so funny, I was not really into them like they were and took me a few weeks to really like them. But I never screamed or fainted.
ReplyDeleteI own a picture of George Harrison at one of his Hari Krishna meeting places and is supposed to be very rare. No one was allowed to openingly take pictures of him there. I sometimes wonder if it is worth anything and if the world should see it. But I hoard it to myself. My secret picture.
Thanks for the video.
God bless.
can't get enough of the Beatles..awesome post
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Let It Be when it first came out. Such a sad end to a world changing era in music. It was interesting seeing Paul wearing a beard and Yoko on the sidelines. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteamazing--Paul testing the roof as they walked out, ringo, john and george all looking like some band we go to hear at the neighborhood bar --how great they sounded--ahh memories--thanks c
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