Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy The world owes Yoko Ono an apology He wasn’t as creatively involved as the other three, but when needed, he was there – drunk or hungover if Get Back is anything to go by – whether bashing a piano lid, slapping his thighs or caressing his drum kit – and better than anyone. But once again, his input is here for all to see. Let’s blame Jasper Carrott for adding fuel to this particular fire.

Starr is not some journeyman who got lucky – he’s one of the best drummers ever and the Beatles wouldn’t have been as good without him. Ringo is an amazing drummerĪnother long-running non-debate that really needs putting to bed. For those of us seeing this for the first time, it looks like some kind of witchcraft. The fact that Ringo Starr is sitting opposite yawning and Harrison looks equally bored suggests McCartney did that kind of thing a lot. One second, the song doesn’t exist the next, he’s playing it and improvising the lyrics, bringing it into being by sheer force of will. Macca’s songwriting skill was hardly in question prior to the release of this documentary, but watching him muster Get Back out of thin air is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Blaming it on her was always an absurd, lazy accusation Paul McCartney is really good at writing songs “Not one where they’re really sick,” he adds, as if that makes his awful idea any better.

He just will not quit with his idea for a trip to Libya, and at one point suggests filming in an orphanage, or a children’s hospital.

Throughout Let It Be, no matter what’s happening, he’s there, puffing on a cigar, chiming in with unhelpful comments and directions, or stories about working with Orson Welles when he was a child actor. Sometimes you need to know when to shut up and listen. Michael Lindsay-Hogg made a terrible film and had a lot of bad ideas Yesterday – it’s a wound that festered even deeper, and we didn’t give him any bandages.” While it was thrilling to hear that secret, candid chat, I can’t have been alone in feeling slightly cheapened by the experience. “It’s a festering wound that we’ve allowed. “George said he didn’t get enough satisfaction any more because of the compromise he had to make to be together,” says Lennon.

Some kind of wonderful music