In fact there are two bands, which play on different nights. The 'Sgt Pepper's' section offers a ravishing wall of psychedelic sound and impressive day-glo costumes, while a delightfully loose acoustic run through late classics 'Blackbird', 'The Two of Us' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' benefits from the odd flubbed note – the sterility of the early sections is gone, and the four musicians playing together actually sound like a real band. With the stage flanked by kitschy big screens displaying Beatles trivia and a first section slavishly adherent to the band's clean cut early TV appearances, it gets off to an overly nostalgic start: sexless, rinky-dink takes on 'She Loves You', 'Please Please Me' et al rattled out without any of the guts or élan of a real gig.īut the Beatles ceased to play live in their later, more productive years, and 'Let It Be' moves up a gear when it stops trying to recreate archive footage and starts imagining what might have been. And it is what it is: four blokes wearing wigs, playing instruments and changing costumes while bashing out proficient covers of the Fab Four's greatest hits in roughly chronological order. In fact, it's not even really a musical: it's basically a posh tribute gig, masterminded by one Joey Curatolo, mainstay of long-running US Beatles revue 'Rain'. Some day, somebody will surely write an absolutely stonking Beatles musical, one that will turn the astonishing journey of the most successful band of all time into a mind-frazzling odyssey of fearless sonic exploration, Jacobean grade emotional strife and general '60s grooviness.
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