Originally published at: George Harrison tells Dick Cavett about Beatles breakup, John and Yoko in 1971 interview | Boing Boing
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It is just me, or is it possible that George was maybe a little bit altered?
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Either way he seems like a really cool dude.
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I only just recently saw the Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” doc, and it’s clear the original “Let It Be” film cherry picked a lot of the more tense moments. They mostly seemed to be having fun, at least once they got out of that cold sound stage. I’d say the ever-presence of cameras, and the clock running out on the spectacular live show they wanted to do as a finale was probably more annoying than Yoko sitting there quietly next to John. The whole endeavor may as well have been designed to bring the band to an end.
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I know this isn’t the point, but did anyone else watch this and think of how amazing Diane Rehm and Terry Gross are/were as interviewers?
C’mon, Dick, step it up.
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I’ve always thought he was a pretty lousy interviewer. He always seems to be trying to impress his subject and the audience with his intelligence. Like Charlie Rose, although he wasn’t a great interviewer he had a great booker.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t read George’s jumping up from the chair (on hearing Yoko had sat there) as mock disgust. I thought it was him trying a bit of Marx brothers-ish humor, as if he’d realized in horror he might have sat on her. That was supposed to be the cue for Dick Cavett to say, “no, it’s okay, she got up again!”
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