Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. If the band is up there making a film, can’t they just dub in the sound later? As he laments from the depths of his prudent English guts, “Surely, this can’t be necessary, is it?”
There’ve been 30 noise complaints down at the station already, PC Dagg repeatedly moans.
But only now do we get to hear the ganglier one-I think he’s PC Ray Dagg, and the other PC Ray Shayler-haggling at length with Apple staff in the office’s front hall, his helmet strap dangling awkwardly at his chin. He’s one of the two officers who come to Apple Records HQ on Savile Row to try, and mostly fail, to shut down the legendary January 30, 1969, rooftop performance that climaxes both films. The chubby-cheeked London copper, who can’t be much past 21, was previously glimpsed in the footage of Let It Be, 1970’s original behind-the-scenes look at the creation of what became the Beatles’ final album. The Baby-Faced Bobbie is one of the many indelible additions to Beatles lore to be found in director Peter Jackson’s new documentary Get Back, which premiered in three parts over the Thanksgiving weekend on Disney+.