Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Diaries

I spotted the image below in a recent New York Times article about Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the filmmaker who directed the Beatles documentary “Let It Be.”

The diaries described as follows in the article:

He has preserved much of what he went through with the Beatles in diaries, which he has kept since the “Ready Steady Go!” years.

He led me to a bookcase in the memento-filled library next to his art studio. It was filled with dusty leather-bound diaries, many overstuffed with letters and photos. At my suggestion, he dug out the volume from 1969. It was curiously slender.

He thumbed through the pages and landed on January 30, the blustery day in London when the Beatles played in public for the last time. As captured by Mr. Lindsay-Hogg and his team, their swan-song performance was the climax of both “Let It Be” and “Get Back.”

The diary page was blank, except for one word scribbled in black ballpoint pen.

Roof.

“The busier you are,” Mr. Lindsay-Hogg said, “the less you write down.”

I’m sure there’s a lot of other interesting material in those diaries! They look to be bound in an interesting way, as if they are designed to be more of a scrapbook or album, with extra room for stuff to be pasted in. But Mr. Lindsay-Hogg seems to have used up all that room and more! Those diaries look super-stuffed!

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