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It was 50 years ago to the day when four of the very few people in the world who can actually say “I was there” talked to RHOD SHARP about The Beatles’ rooftop concert on January 30, 1969. In a conversation broadcast on BBC 5 Live’s Up All Night in 2019, Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Apple Corps’ Kevin Harrington and Ken Mansfield and Metropolitan police constable Ken Wharfe provide a fresh take on the events depicted anew in Peter Jackson’s extended documentary.
From the archive:
The Glasgow Herald / April 9 1985
Michael Powell’s 60 glorious years
Rhoderick Sharp talks to the British director whose Scottish trilogy has been rediscovered by Americans and who has recently made a film with the Russians. On a fiercely rainy March…
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The Glasgow Herald / April 1 1985
Respectable return behind the wheel for Moss at 55
STIRLING MOSS got back behind the wheel of a competition racing car on Saturday for the first time in 23 years. Moss, now 55, had his racing career and most…
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The Glasgow Herald / June 25 1985
Beer and bikes lure kin of Forty-niners
Take two log cabins and a general store. Strike gold. Add a thousand hardy, hungry, money grubbing and just plain ornery fortune seekers and you have the most famous gold…
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The Glasgow Herald / March 5 1985
New factory costs Irish taxpayers £37 per head
IRISH TAXPAYERS may have paid £20m more than they need have to attract a major American electronics company to Ireland. Sources in Dublin say Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority has promised…