Remembering The Beatles Rooftop Concert (50th Anniversary)

The New York Post ^ | January 30, 2019 | Michael Starr

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

“As the week went on, The Beatles sort of pawed at the idea. If you gave them an idea, it was like throwing meat into a lion’s cage — they’d sniff and paw at it and throw it at each other, then that piece of meat came back in the end, but was different from what you put in the cage. “We were going to film it the day before, but the weather was too cloudy and too murky. This was London in January,” Michael Lindsay-Hogg recalls. “Then we decided for the next day, Thursday. We wanted to hit 12 or 12:30 p.m. for the lunchtime crowds. We were standing in a little room at the bottom of the ladder which went up to the roof. George didn’t want to do it, he didn’t want to perform in public. He was more comfortable recording and getting it just right. And Ringo said, quite rightly, ‘It’s cold up there!’ Paul, who had been the most closely allied with me, said, ‘Let’s do it. It’ll be fun.’ The one voice we hadn’t heard from was John, who finally said, ‘Ah, let’s do it.’ ”

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The bruhthuh had that award winning “Fro of the 70s”! Some of my HS classmates couldn’t grow it THAT big and keep it in place.

[PhiloBedo]

Not that it matters, but didn’t The Who do it first in NYC?

[jdsteel]

Bingo.

[sparklite2]

And only four months until the 77th anniversary of the Battle of Midway.

[shotgun]

“I’d like to thank you on behalf of the group and myself and hope we passed the audition”...John Lennon, as they were being shutdown by the police.

“Back tomorrow”... Paul McCartney

[shotgun]

They filmed the making of the last album in the documentary movie, “Let it Be”. This was part of it. My brother bought it on Laser Disc back in the day.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

nah, that was made by the kids over at the setlistfm.com website.

[stylecouncilor]

“Get up and go, get up and go, get up and go back home!”