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The whole thing boggles my mind Jackson on The Beatles: Get Back. Photograph: Don McCullin/Press Images/Eyevine
Andy Welch
Sat 20 Nov 2021 07.00 EST
Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down
When the world closed down in March 2020, most of us had to make do with pretending to enjoy video calls with friends or baking bread. Peter Jackson, meanwhile, was busy sifting through a mountain of unseen footage 60 hours in total of the Beatles, shot by the director Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969.
His four-year project is now finished we finally completed it on Friday, says a relieved-looking Jackson from his home in New Zealand and the resulting series, The Beatles: Get Back, will be released on Disney+ from 25 November. Originally envisaged as a feature film, Covid uncertainty saw plans revised. It is now three two-hour episodes, using the mass of outtakes from Lindsay-Hoggs work on what would become Let It Be, the bands fourth feature film.
It is striking just how much joy is contained within the vivid and eerily detailed footage. Contrary to almost all accounts over the past 52 years, John, Paul, George and Ringo are seemingly happy to be in the studio: laughing, joking, singing in the style of ventriloquists, talking about last nights TV (Peter Cook and Zsa Zsa Gabor having a spat) and, of course, writing music. Taken at face value, its a unique insight into a band at work, restored to a modern, HD sheen. But, more than that, its a study of four of the most idolised and scrutinised individuals in the world in their prime. This is not just a music documentary, its a history book come to life.
FULL story: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/20/i-just-cant-believe-it-exists-peter-jackson-takes-us-into-the-beatles-vault-locked-up-for-52-years
sinkingfeeling
(51,493 posts)Beatles for 60 years.
Omaha Steve
(99,843 posts)bahboo
(16,383 posts)but I will be searching for deals...
Botany
(70,635 posts)n/t
Haggard Celine
(16,866 posts)Never liked her either.
Botany
(70,635 posts)n/t
thucythucy
(8,117 posts)that say Lennon wouldn't have attended these sessions at all if Yoko hadn't been there.
He was already unhappy as a Beatle as early as 1965. He spent most of 1967 in what is described as pretty severe depression.
If Yoko hadn't been there, we might not have the White Album, Abbey Road, or Let It Be.
Besides, what's so weird about having friends and lovers at a recording session? Paul brought Linda, Ringo brought Maureen (as is shown in these clips). Elvis would bring his entire "Memphis mafia."
Anyway: here's one of my favorite Yoko songs:
appalachiablue
(41,197 posts)This" From YouTube, Read more at https://www.thebeatles.com
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