ABSTRACT
In Let It Be, the gang discourse and discourses around the Beatles' real-life relationships with women come together. Neaverson cites the influences of other pop music documentaries on Let It Be, in particular Jean Luc Godard's One Plus One, in which the Rolling Stones were filmed in rehearsal, and D. A. Pennebacker's Don't Look Back, which chronicled Bob Dylan's visit to the UK in 1966. The idea for the film had come during the previous year following the bad-tempered sessions for what is now known colloquially as The White Album. The actual title is The Beatles. Marwick outlines a number of key political flashpoints across Europe and the USA in 1968, and debate which surrounded Lennon's position within counterculture/political life, much of which centred on the song 'Revolution'. The complexities around the notion of masculinities that, in retrospect, can be seen to be emerging by the late 1960's are well reflected by the competing discourses at work in Let It Be.
