![]() ![]() Peter Jackson’s Get Back, on the other hand, provides context for the film: the band, who quit touring in 1966, have increasingly relied on studio technology for their recording career, resulting in them spending less time playing “live” together as a cohesive unit on record. ![]() With 150 hours of audio recording and 60 hours of film footage, it’s not too surprising. The original film (which I never saw until I downloaded a bootleg after being frustrated with all the Let It Be questions hampering my speed of victory in Beatles Trivial Pursuit) is dark, jumbles some performances and conversations together, and calls it a day. (At one point during my viewing, my husband asked me, “So are you actually learning anything new from this or did you already know everything?” To which I immediately replied, “Yes, I am. I was excited, highly suspected I would love it, yet I did not truly expect to love the film so much nor learn so much. Yet, I went into Get Back with no preconceived notions or expectations. And I just never really counted any of its songs among my favorites. ![]() It has felt more like a funeral procession than the metaphorical cover of Abbey Road. The four somber, separate images of the Beatles on the album’s cover, pasted against a solid black background, are representative of the fractured band. “We showed how the breakup of a band works,” Paul McCartney stated in The Beatles Anthology, the seminal documentary of the band’s career in their own words.Ĭonsequently, Let It Be has never been a favorite album of mine. The original Let It Be film has yet to be given an official release, and it (and the accompanying period in the Beatles’ career it documents) has been canonized as a miserable portrait of the Beatles breaking up. Thanksgiving 2021 brought an opportunity to reflect and express gratitude for many blessings, culminating in the long-awaited premiere of Peter Jackson’s three-part series The Beatles: Get Back. ![]()
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