a a life long beatles fan do not expect objectivity here i first saw this in the early 70 and find it rivet and get the same feeling tonight . this be an early ordinary rockumentary about 4 ordinary yet very talented bloke in their late 20 at the peak of their creative power and in the process of readjustment to be mere hairy bickering mortal again after experience a few year of quasi godhood . mr. epstein be long dead although paul be try to fill his shoe and and their apple empire be shrink . the beatles almost on their own create intelligent pop or rock music and which imho have not move on since 1969 where they leave it . there have be many excellent innovative and intelligent rock band that have come and go since and many borrowing and adapt from the beatles back catalogue however i do not count the many cash in rip off band such a oasis . have anyone since not rip them off at some point . i have lose count of the number of time over the decade i have hear a new piece of music and say to myself i have hear that before somewhere ah yes and such and such by the beatles . apart from the quantum leap in sound technology since then nothing of any lasting musical value have be add there have be no progression . lead zeppelin fill stadium but do they fill billion of heart . queen be popular but do they rule the world . pop and rock music may have always be ephemeral and but along with louis armstrong and bix beiderbecke and lata mangeshkar and frank sinatra and jimi hendrix the beatles weren not . never mind about their timeless music and they even manage to look timeless while everyone else around them in here look date by the early 70 . god work in mysterious way . john and paul and george and ringo get together first in twickenham studio then in the apple basement in january 1969 to rehearse some new song with the assistance of almost 5th beatle billy preston ( and occasionally actual 5th beatle george martin ) and with the hope of play live again sometime soon . yoko ( definitely not 5th beatle ) would have probably be on stage with them . a it turn out on they only make it to the apple roof on 30th january and disturb the peace of the police on the street of london below . the roll stone review of the film from 9th july 1970 that i remember so well be typically over reverential but have some tell point the first be how deliberately grainy the photography be which still can take some get use to and that there be over 800 hour of footage from 4 camera to edit down to the brief 80 minute we get . how on earth can it ever be properly remastered and will more ever be officially available in our lifetime . maybe we should also bear in mind that the film be to be call get back a a return to simplicity for the band and and that mccartney originally pen racist lyric for this sublime song which thankfully weren not incorporate into any of the final version . there a lot of classic pop music in here from their own then new stuff to rocknroll standard from the 50 and which the beatles be in an ideal and unchallengeable position to translate for listener both of the old world of pop and the new world of rock that they leave behind them . highlight represent a splendid cod version of bessame mucho from mccartney while a loving version of you really get a hold on me from lennon while the video for two of u and let it be and long and wind road while and get back and don not let me down up on the freezing roof while so many others . overall represent to a fan and a beautiful and sad account of a unique group of individual struggle and fail against disintegration while this should also be essential view to fan of intelligent pop or rock music who might have sometimes wonder where u2 and bon jovi and king of leon et al come from so far though and this be the artistic pinnacle .