JOHN: We were limiting our capacity to write and perform by having to fit it into some kind of format, and that’s why it caused trouble. It’s not that we didn’t like each other. I’ve compared it to a marriage a million times, I hope it’s understandable for people. It was a long relationship. It started many, many years before the American or English public knew us. Paul and I were together since he was fifteen and I was sixteen. It’s a long, long time that the four of us had been together. And what happened was, through boredom and just too much of everything, the pressure of it finally got to us. So, what people do when they’re together, they start picking on each other. It was like, ‘It’s because of you, you got the tambourine wrong, that my whole life is a misery.’ It became petty, but the manifestations were on each other because we were the only ones we had.
PAUL: At one point George went and we had a meeting at John’s house, and I think John’s first comment was, “Let’s get Eric [Clapton] in.” And I said, “No!” I think John was half-joking. We thought, “Wait a minute. George has left. We can’t have this. This isn’t good enough.” (…) In fact, what happened is we showed how the breakup of a group works. We didn’t realize that we were breaking up as it was happening.
GEORGE: I think the original idea of Let It Be was Paul’s idea to do a live album. We were gonna rehearse all these songs, and then make an album out of a live show. The album became us in the studio, rehearsing the songs as they were recorded. (…) [After I left] it was decided that we would get back together and finish the record. Twickenham Studios was very cold, and not a very nice atmosphere, so we decided to abandon that and go to Saville Row into the recording studio.
RINGO: It shows on the record that when we were excited, the tracks are exciting. We all put in a thousand percent. When we were working on something good, the bullshit went out the window, and we got back to doing what we did really, really well. (…) A lot of days, even with all the craziness, it really worked still.
PAUL: To me, the Beatles were always a great little band. Nothing more, nothing less. For all our success, when we sat down to play, we played good. From the very beginning when we first got Ringo into the band and before, but when we first got Ringo into the band, it really gelled. We played good. We never had too many of those times where it’s just not working. We had them like any other band, but for a great little rock’n’roll band, it seemed to work.
JOHN: That’s the thing I miss most about the Beatles: just sitting down with a group and playing.
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