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  • The Beatles' reunion that would have been.

    From Laughing Jaw@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 25 17:42:47 2023
    An official documentary on the Beatles career had been in the pipeline as early as 1970. Long-time friend and Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall had compiled footage of concert, interview, and television appearances from various sources around the world.
    From this archival footage, he assembled a 90-minute feature film which was tentatively titled The Long and Winding Road and was completed in 1971. At this point, none of the former members had any involvement with the project, and plans for its release
    lay dormant until 1980, when John Lennon made a statement as part of a legal deposition against the producers of the musical Beatlemania. "I and the other three former Beatles have plans to stage a reunion concert", he said, referring to an event that
    was to be filmed as a finale of The Long and Winding Road (which was now to be a television special)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology_(TV_series)

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Laughing Jaw on Sat Jan 28 09:33:53 2023
    On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 8:42:48 PM UTC-5, Laughing Jaw wrote:
    An official documentary on the Beatles career had been in the pipeline as early as 1970. Long-time friend and Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall had compiled footage of concert, interview, and television appearances from various sources around the world.
    From this archival footage, he assembled a 90-minute feature film which was tentatively titled The Long and Winding Road and was completed in 1971. At this point, none of the former members had any involvement with the project, and plans for its release
    lay dormant until 1980, when John Lennon made a statement as part of a legal deposition against the producers of the musical Beatlemania. "I and the other three former Beatles have plans to stage a reunion concert", he said, referring to an event that
    was to be filmed as a finale of The Long and Winding Road (which was now to be a television special)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology_(TV_series)

    Lennon said that in 1980? Is he to be believed. He seemed really against the idea of a Beatles reunion in some of those last interviews, saying it would be 'boring',, etc

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  • From Laughing Jaw@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 10 00:29:38 2023
    On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 12:33:55 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Anthology_(TV_series)
    Lennon said that in 1980? Is he to be believed. He seemed really against the idea of a Beatles reunion in some of those last interviews, saying it would be 'boring',, etc

    Well, the lawsuit was real but the source they give isn't any court transcripts. The source is from writer Keith Badman who has two books on the Beatles. So, I guess you'd have to check the references he gives in whichever book he made the comments in.

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