Paul, when you wrote 'Let It
Be' and like John, you know,
he said this is not a Beatles song. So
he could have vetoed that song and said,
sorry Paul, that's not going on.
Yeah, he could have. Yeah, I,
John didn't mind 'Let It Be.' I mean the
thing about John is that he would just
take the piss out of anything
he wanted to, you know,
he would make fun of things and
you just knew that that was wrong.
I'll tell you what's really
great is that Peter Jackson,
the director who did 'Lord of the Rings'
and various other great films has got
hold of about 54 hours of footage,
film footage that was done when we did
the film 'Let It Be,' and he's edited it
into a new form. And I'll
tell you Howard, it's great.
I mean, I'm not bullshitting
and you see this kind of thing,
you see this relationship between
me and John, me and George,
and you get it.
When is that coming out, Paul?
Nobody knows when anything's
coming out right now.
But it will come out. Disney
is going to release it.
But it's so lovely for me,
because I'd kind of bought
into this whole idea that,
Oh, me and John were rivals and
didn't like each other and stuff,
but you see the film and it's like,
thank God it's not true. We're guys,
we obviously having fun together,
you can see it, you know,
we respect each other and we're
making music together and it's,
it's a joy to see it unfold.
Paul,
how is it that 53 hours of this stuff
has been sitting around and it's now just
being discovered?
We thought, well, we'd
done the film, 'Let It Be'.
But then this idea came up
for Peter to look at this.
We played New Zealand a couple
of years ago and I met him.
He was starting on the project
and I said, um, well, you know,
how's it looking? You
know, things, you know,
it's going to be a bit more sort
of prelude to the band breaking up,
it's going to be a bit dull. It's
going to be a bit sad for me. You know,
I can't believe you said that's what I
thought. So, but the more I look at it,
he said, it's great. He said,
you look like friends and he
looked like you're having a ball.
