The Beatles’   film “Get Back” — a Peter Jackson-directed documentary culled from the footage from the 1970 “Let It Be” film — has premiered at Disney Plus now is avalable on the web  

In January 1969, the group gathered to record what would eventually see release in 1970 as the film and soundtrack album Let It Be.

George Harrison walked out of the group on 10 January 1969 . He did it over lunch at Twickenham Film Studios in London and the plans for the television special were abandoned. He agreed to rejoin The Beatles only if they moved from Twickenham Film Studios to their new recording studio in the basement of their Apple HQ in London's Savile Row. Instead, McCartney created a recipe for disaster. (Credits: The Beatles.com -The Beatlesbible.com - Rolling Stone-com)

When Harrison walked out, he  was getting out of a living hell. The final Beatles album was first released on 8th May, 1970 - just prior to the launch of the cinema film of the same name. Rehearsals and recording sessions for the album had taken place in January, 1969 - first At Twickenham Film Studios, later in the basement and on the roof of their Apple headquarters on London's Savile Row.

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The idea behind the album had been to capture the group "live in the studio" without overdubs or effects but this changed when producer, Phil Spector was brought in to re-produce the tracks. The Long And Winding Road, which had been given a new musical arrangement featuring orchestra and choir, was released as a single in the US and other markets, but not the UK. It became the group's final # 1 single.

The events leading to the disagreement began whenJohn  was unhappy about the middle eightof his song ‘Don’t Let Me Down- Paulcomesup with a potential solution: he and Georgesing a ‘call andresponse’ style duet using different words than the ones sung by John

McCartney countered Lennon's fuck-it attitude – compounded by Lennon's addiction to heroin at the time – by assuming almost dictatorial control of the group. He pushed the idea of touring, of recording live without overdubs. He wanted to record the Get Back songs in concert.  McCartney was ready to go to any extreme to keep the Beatles a band.

"In a nutshell, Paul wanted to make - it was time for another Beatle movie or something, and Paul wanted us to go on the road or do something. As usual, George and I were going, 'Oh, we don't want to do it, fuck,' and all that. He set it up and there was all discussions about where to go and all that. I would just tag along and I had Yoko by then. I didn't even give a shit about anything. I was stoned all the time, too, on H etc. And I just didn't give a shit. And nobody did, you know..."

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"Paul had this idea that we were going to rehearse or... see it all was more like Simon and Garfunkel, like looking for perfection all the time. And so he has these ideas that we'll rehearse and then make the album. And of course we're lazy fuckers and we've been playing for twenty years, for fuck's sake, we're grown men, we're not going to sit around rehearsing. I'm not, anyway. And we couldn't get into it. And we put down a few tracks and nobody was in it at all. It was a dreadful, dreadful feeling in Twickenham Studio, and being filmed all the time. I just wanted them to go away, and we'd be there, eight in the morning. You couldn't make music at eight in the morning or ten or whatever it was, in a strange place with people filming you and colored lights." (John Lennon)