Director Kevin Macdonald Details His New Documentary 'One to One: John & Yoko'

Watch the video interview here via Deadline.

Some tidbits:

"The thing that’s probably the raison d’etre for the film is that John only gave one full length concert after the end of the Beatles touring. The Beatles stopped touring in ’66. He gives one concert, which is this one-to-one concert. They do two shows in one day, 1972 Madison Square Gardens, and that’s it. He does a couple couple of songs with Elton John a couple of years later. He does a little bit of this, a little of that, but he never does a full length concert. He never has his own band and plays live. And so what you’re seeing here in this concert is the master musician and you see how brilliant his live performance is, how he brings this kind of pub band that he’s put together. They’re not like the best musicians. They’re not certainly not Ringo Starr and George Harrison. And he makes them great...

[Yoko’s] actually got a great voice. This is one of the great misunderstandings that people have is that they think that they’ve heard Yoko doing her sort of screechy songs, and she did do that, but that was, as you say, more like a performance piece. She was like a proto punk in a way. She’s getting there two or three whatever years before punk gets going. And the particular song of hers where she’s really screeching that we use in the documentary is actually one about her missing daughter. … But then you hear her other times in the documentary where she’s singing so sweetly and beautifully and she does harmony with John, and you think, oh, you really can sing."