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  • John Lennon and Paul McCartney looking like they're genuinely having a good time rehearsing a fast version of "Two of Us", singing into the same microphone, goofing around and making each other laugh.
  • George Harrison helping Ringo Starr with "Octopus's Garden" on the piano.
  • Any scene with Paul's little soon-to-be stepdaughter Heather Eastman, but mostly this one.
  • The Rooftop Concert. Just plugging in, setting up, and rocking out for a half-hour and enjoying every bit of it. Coming during a time the band was on the verge of breaking up, the fact that doing what they loved to do - play - could bring them back together like four lads from Liverpool having a laugh.
  • John and Yoko dancing together to "I Me Mine" is adorable.
  • The Get Back documentary has many of these, but one of them is a conversation between Lennon and McCartney in the Twickenham canteen that was recorded using a hidden microphone, after Harrison had walked out of the band. Lennon and McCartney agree that they're guilty of not paying Harrison enough attention and McCartney tells Lennon straight out "You're the boss [of this band]". Nothing is actually resolved, but after all the legends over the years about how the band weren't talking to each other at this period, to hear them talking frankly about their problems and wanting to solve them is genuinely heartwarming.
  • Elsewhere in Get Back, after Harrison has left the band, the remaining three Beatles sit on chairs at the end of the day with nothing in particular to do. McCartney in particular is sipping a glass of wine and looks exhausted and stressed. Then Lennon, as if worried that the film is no fun at this point, starts coming out with a stream of surrealist nonsense which he delivers absolutely deadpan to the camera and to the others, making McCartney laugh. Later, as there'll about to leave, there's a long shot of McCartney talking to Starr and putting a hand on his arm. Lennon comes over to them and puts his hands on both of their arms, and we learn in a caption that they're agreeing to go to Harrison's house and attempt to convince him to rejoin the band. (They weren't successful on that occasion, but they tried again a couple of days later, and it worked.)

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