The Beatles Playing On The Roof

It s hard to believe but the beatles rooftop concert on apple is approaching its 50th anniversary on jan.

The beatles playing on the roof. Joined by keyboardist billy preston the band played a 42 minute set before the metropolitan police asked them to reduce the volume. The beatles gave their last live performance on the roof of their savile row headquarters in london on january 30th 1969. That afternoon the pay off appeared to have presented itself when lindsay hogg with mccartney and beatles roadie mal evans in tow stepped out onto the rooftop above savile row. The beatles rooftop concert was the climax of a project originally titled get back.

The beatles played on a london rooftop in 1969. On 30 january 1969 the beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their apple corps headquarters at 3 savile row within central london s office and fashion district. Ken was one of a handful of people on the roof that historic day. Admittedly i m a fan of ken mansfield s past work which offers fresh and original takes on the beatles.

It ultimately became the final public performance of their career. It turned out it was their last ever live performance and here are some strange facts about the gig. This is what the beatles. In the roof mansfield manages to top himself.

It was planned as the climax to the documentary get back which later became let it be. No one knew the concert staged for the documentary let it be would be the band s final performance. The beatles rooftop concert was the final public performance of the english rock group the beatles. On january 30th 1969 the beatles staged an impromptu performance on the rooftop of their record label apple in savile row london.

Although the concert was conceived just days before the beatles were planning a return to live performances throu. It wound up being their last show. The beatles played on the roof for just under 45 minutes which engineer glyn johns recorded the audio in the basement and lindsay hogg s cameramen caught the action.