When the band rehearsed McCartney’s “Two of Us” on 6 January, a terse exchange ensued between McCartney and Harrison about the latter’s lead guitar part.
The atmosphere in the film studios, the early start each day, and the intrusive cameras and microphones of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s film crew combined to heighten the Beatles’ discontent.
McCartney’s attempts to focus the band on their objective were construed as overly controlling, particularly by Harrison. Harrison presented several new songs for consideration at Twickenham, some of which were dismissed by Lennon and McCartney. By contrast, Harrison was inspired by his recent stay in the US there, he enjoyed jamming with musicians in Los Angeles and experienced a musical camaraderie and creative freedom with Bob Dylan and the Band in upstate New York that was lacking in the Beatles. Unable to supply his quota of new songs for the project, Lennon maintained an icy distance from his bandmates and scorned McCartney’s ideas. Lennon and his partner Yoko Ono had descended into heroin addiction after their arrest on drugs charges in October and Ono’s subsequent miscarriage. The Twickenham rehearsals quickly disintegrated into what Apple Corps executive Peter Brown characterised as a “hostile lethargy”. Although the concert venue was not established when rehearsals began on January 2, 1969, it was decided that the 18th would serve as a potential dress rehearsal day the 19th and 20th would serve as concert dates. The band intended to perform only new material and were therefore under pressure to finish writing an album’s worth of songs. The project’s timeline was dictated by George Harrison being away in the United States until Christmas and Ringo Starr’s commitment to begin filming his role in “ The Magic Christian” in February 1969. Michael Lindsay-Hogg had agreed to direct the project.
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The initial plan was that the rehearsal footage would be edited into a short TV documentary promoting the main TV special, in which the Beatles would perform a public concert or perhaps two concerts. When this plan came to nothing, Denis O’Dell, the head of Apple Films, suggested that the group be filmed rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, in preparation for their return to live performance, since he had booked studio space there to shoot “ The Magic Christian“. The following month, Apple Corps announced that the Beatles had booked the Roundhouse in north London for 12–23 December and would perform at least one concert during that time. Paul McCartney – Interview with Melody Maker, September 14, 1968
I love the idea of playing again – and I know the others feel the same way.
I don’t know about a concert, but it might lead to that. We will be doing a live TV show later in the year. The idea of singing live is much more appealing to us now – we are beginning to miss it. In early October 1968, Paul told the press that the band would soon play a live show for subsequent broadcast in a TV special. They really enjoyed this experience, and Paul McCartney tried to motivate the three other Beatles to perform live again. In September 1968, they filmed a promotional clip, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, for their last single, “ Hey Jude“, and were joined by 300 people. Their last concert happened on August 29, 1966. Towards the end of 1968, The Beatles (mainly Paul McCartney) formed a project to get back in front of an audience.
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