Leading the Beatles was just part of his long and winding career
HUDSON, N.Y. — Of course, I wanted to talk about The Beatles with Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Everyone wants to talk to him about the Beatles, especially since his star starred in "Get Back," Peter Jackson's epic documentary, which debuted last fall on Disney+.
In January 1969, Mr. Lindsay-Hogg was the hot-headed young director who tried to charm and cajole John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr through bellicose agendas as they concocted new songs and gave their last gig on a London rooftop. Soon after, he began shaping his nearly 60 hours of footage into the documentary "Let It Be," a film largely unavailable since its first theatrical release in 1970.
Mr. Lindsay-Hogg's footage, along with more than 100 hours of audio he recorded with his team, some of it with hidden microphones, took on new life when Mr Jackson cleaned it up and reassembled it for his series of nearly eight hours. Mr. McCartney and Mr. Starr, along with most critics, hailed "Get Back" as an upbeat corrective to Mr. Lindsay-Hogg's darker take.
So would he like to talk about his time with the Beatles?
"It was a small part of a long career," he said. said in the living room of his three-bedroom Civil War-era house in Hudson, N.Y.
He was right. In the so-called Swinging London of the 1960s, Mr Lindsay-Hogg made a name for himself as a music video designer, making promotional films, as they were then known, for the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Who is a decade and a half before MTV. In the early 1980s he was a trailblazer again, as co-director of 'Brideshead Revisited', an 11-hour adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel that was a precursor to high-profile TV dramas like 'The Sopranos'. . He is also a director, painter and Tony nominated author. Oh, and Orson Welles could very well be his biological father.
It's almost too much to go through. No wonder he had a request, uttered in a deadpan voice, "Please do the entire article on my painting." But eventually, over three interviews, we met John, Paul, George and Ringo.
The third manMr. Lindsay-Hogg, 82, lives with his wife, Lisa Ticknor Lindsay-Hogg, a former model and casting agent, in a cramped cream-colored house in this river town nestled in green hills. The rooms feel lived in, with stacks of books rising from tabletops and walls covered in paintings, many salvaged from flea markets, and photos from his varied career. /p>
"I'm the maximalist", he said. "Lisa is the organizer."
HUDSON, N.Y. — Of course, I wanted to talk about The Beatles with Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Everyone wants to talk to him about the Beatles, especially since his star starred in "Get Back," Peter Jackson's epic documentary, which debuted last fall on Disney+.
In January 1969, Mr. Lindsay-Hogg was the hot-headed young director who tried to charm and cajole John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr through bellicose agendas as they concocted new songs and gave their last gig on a London rooftop. Soon after, he began shaping his nearly 60 hours of footage into the documentary "Let It Be," a film largely unavailable since its first theatrical release in 1970.
Mr. Lindsay-Hogg's footage, along with more than 100 hours of audio he recorded with his team, some of it with hidden microphones, took on new life when Mr Jackson cleaned it up and reassembled it for his series of nearly eight hours. Mr. McCartney and Mr. Starr, along with most critics, hailed "Get Back" as an upbeat corrective to Mr. Lindsay-Hogg's darker take.
So would he like to talk about his time with the Beatles?
"It was a small part of a long career," he said. said in the living room of his three-bedroom Civil War-era house in Hudson, N.Y.
He was right. In the so-called Swinging London of the 1960s, Mr Lindsay-Hogg made a name for himself as a music video designer, making promotional films, as they were then known, for the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Who is a decade and a half before MTV. In the early 1980s he was a trailblazer again, as co-director of 'Brideshead Revisited', an 11-hour adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel that was a precursor to high-profile TV dramas like 'The Sopranos'. . He is also a director, painter and Tony nominated author. Oh, and Orson Welles could very well be his biological father.
It's almost too much to go through. No wonder he had a request, uttered in a deadpan voice, "Please do the entire article on my painting." But eventually, over three interviews, we met John, Paul, George and Ringo.
The third manMr. Lindsay-Hogg, 82, lives with his wife, Lisa Ticknor Lindsay-Hogg, a former model and casting agent, in a cramped cream-colored house in this river town nestled in green hills. The rooms feel lived in, with stacks of books rising from tabletops and walls covered in paintings, many salvaged from flea markets, and photos from his varied career. /p>
"I'm the maximalist", he said. "Lisa is the organizer."
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