Don't Let Me Down on the Rooftop

[bobzilla]

Rewatching the rooftop concert yesterday for the millionth-ish time, I had to chuckle at this segment of the first Don't Let Me Down performance because if you just watch these three without the music you would think they were all playing different songs the way they are all "dancing" so differently.

[alphabeatles]

That's funny!

Now, has anyone ever studied the crowd? ie, how it grew, who was there on the different rooftops?

[BDJ]

Now, has anyone ever studied the crowd? ie, how it grew, who was there on the different rooftops?

• Alan Parsons – Sound engineer
• Anita Kass – Mrs. Ron Kass
• Billy Preston – Guest artist
• Chris O’Dell – Audience member (Staff)
• Dave Harries – Technical engineer
• Ethan Russell – Photographer
• George Harrison – Beatle
• Jack Oliver – Apple Executive
• John Lennon – Beatle
• Keith Slaughter – technical engineer
• Ken Mansfield – Audience member (Apple US) (white coat)
• Kevin Harrington – Beatles equipment manager (red hair)
• Mal Evans – Apple Executive
• Maureen Starkey – Audience member (Ringo)
• Michael Lindsay-Hogg – Film Director
• Paul McCartney – Beatle
• Peter Brown – Apple Executive
• Ringo Starr – Beatle
• Ron Kass – Apple Executive
• Tony Richmond – Director of Photography
• Yoko Ono – Audience member (John
- Ken Wharfe, Ray Shayler, and Peter Craddock (police)

[cliftdean74]

Does anyone know why Linda and Pattie weren’t there?

[JosRem]

Now, has anyone ever studied the crowd? ie, how it grew, who was there on the different rooftops?

- Ken Wharfe, Ray Shayler, and Peter Craddock (police)

Ray Dagg was another police officer. He was only 19 years at the time.

See

[Rickenbacker325]

Now, has anyone ever studied the crowd? ie, how it grew, who was there on the different rooftops?

• Alan Parsons – Sound engineer
• Anita Kass – Mrs. Ron Kass
• Billy Preston – Guest artist
• Chris O’Dell – Audience member (Staff)
• Dave Harries – Technical engineer
• Ethan Russell – Photographer
• George Harrison – Beatle
• Jack Oliver – Apple Executive
• John Lennon – Beatle
• Keith Slaughter – technical engineer
• Ken Mansfield – Audience member (Apple US) (white coat)
• Kevin Harrington – Beatles equipment manager (red hair)
• Mal Evans – Apple Executive
• Maureen Starkey – Audience member (Ringo)
• Michael Lindsay-Hogg – Film Director
• Paul McCartney – Beatle
• Peter Brown – Apple Executive
• Ringo Starr – Beatle
• Ron Kass – Apple Executive
• Tony Richmond – Director of Photography
• Yoko Ono – Audience member (John
- Ken Wharfe, Ray Shayler, and Peter Craddock (police)

If I’m not mistaken I believe Tony Bramwell was up there as well

[JosRem]

Who's Who On the Roof: (clockwise from lower left) Camera operator Mike Malloy (on an Auricon 600 Pro), camera asst Gordon Clarke, a Fender PA column facing street (behind Clarke), Vox PA column at floor level, Mole-Richardson Mini-Brute light fixture, asst Nigel Cousins, operator Colin Corby (with Mitchell 16mm cam behind him), (unknown in black hood), other Fender PA column, asst Terry Winfield (loading film into Auricon), DP Tony Richmond (in hat), (unknown), 2nd engineer Alan Parsons (orange shirt), operator Ronnie Taylor (in front of Parsons), unknown (possibly roof deck contractor), unknown, boom operator Roy Mingaye (in cap), Peter Sutton (with headphones, at Nagra, Sutton's mic in Rycote housing to his right), Fender PA amp (also on parapet), Billy Preston, Mal Evans, Dave Harries, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (hand on mic). Credit: Ethan A. Russell / © Apple Corps Ltd.

[alphabeatles]

Thanks! But not those roof people, the fans climbing the walls like ants!

[BDJ]

Behind Starr’s kit is a painting by Tom Newman, singer with British psychedelic band July. He can be seen in the live scenes wearing a maroon jacket and standing beside a chimney stack behind The Beatles, and at the end of the concert retrieving the painting.