Long-standing Beatles producer, on hand at the sessions to oversee microphone positions, advise on acoustics and organise any recording that might take place.
“Who’s that little old man?” Lennon asked his bandmates.
He ended up attending sessions at Twickenham as a spiritual observer. Member of the Radha Krishna Temple group formerly known as Sam Speerstra, who had tracked down George Harrison at Apple HQ the month before the Let It Be filming and introduced him to the Hare Krishna movement. He shot 60 hours of footage and taped 150 hours of audio of The Beatles at work on ‘Let It Be’, often recording them surreptitiously in order to make the film as candid as possible. Michael Lindsay-Hogg – filmmakerĭirector of Let It Be, having previously worked with The Beatles on promotional films for ‘Paperback Writer’, ‘Rain’, ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Revolution’. Producer of the Let It Be film, who loaned The Beatles Twickenham Studios for the duration of January 1969 in order to rehearse and record their planned TV special while preparations were underway for his next movie project The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. Here’s a full who’s who of the supporting players (aka anyone who isn’t John, Paul, George or Ringo). The Beatles had gathered a colourful crew around them by 1969, many of whom drop by the ‘Let It Be’ sessions to hang, hustle or play along, thereby ending up in the background of Peter Jackson’s mammoth new documentary The Beatles: Get Back. Cops and Krishnas, mad inventors and comic geniuses.
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