YOKO Ono and Olivia Harrison were both at FACT on Friday night for the UK premiere of All Together Now, the film about the making of Cirque du Soleil's Beatle show Love.
A twinkly-eyed Giles Martin, who worked on the reworking of Fab Four tracks with dad Sir George Martin, the film's Canadian director Adrian Wills, Mike McCartney and 60s popster Joe Brown were also there, and there was rumour Roy Orbison's widow Barbara was due but I didn't spot her.
The film was actually remarkably moving (I heard there were people openly blubbing in the public showing earlier in the evening).
I think it is seeing the young Beatles, and hearing both their singing voices - stripped of the accompanying bells and whistles - and audio of them messing around in the Abbey Road studios, which was a little emotional.
It was also very interesting to watch the creative process for the show, and amusing at times - such as when a very English AC-tor playing "Mr Piggie" engaged the Sugar Plum Fairy (a street dancing kid from Johannesburg who had never heard the Beatles' music before) in polite backstage chit-chat.
Olivia Harrison described the film before before the screening as showing "all the care and emotion and sensitivity that went into making the Love show."
Yoko pointed out that Love came out of the friendship between George Harrison and Guy Laliberté, but then added: "Before that il all started in Liverpool.
"It's such an incredibly powerful city. It gave the Beatles to the world. The world is very respectful of Liverpool and I'm very happy to be here on this very, very important weekend."
A shame then that certain elements didn't return that respect.
Unfortunately the evening was marginally marred by some idiot who insisted on shouting out abuse when Ringo Starr appeared on screen, abuse which could coyly be described as the "see you next tuesday" word.
After the second expletive, he was escorted out of the screening.
Now, whatever Ringo has or hasn't done, whether he has or hasn't offended people, that was simply embarrassing.
Liverpool was hosting a lot of people from outside the city and we must have sounded horribly parochial as well as just plain rude.
