![]() ![]() ![]() So I love Peter and I love what he's doing. “There's laughter and there's joy, and (footage) of the band being the band: digging each other, fooling around. “We had lots of those moments, but we had a lot of loving too,” he told USA TODAY in March. Starr, 81, remembers the tensions – the new film shows Harrison briefly quitting the band – but is pleased with the balanced retelling. So their memories of the ‘Get Back’ sessions are their memories of the movie rather than what happened (when they were filming).” The band went on to write and record one final classic album, “Abbey Road.” “But they do remember seeing ‘Let It Be’ when they were breaking up, at a very stressful time of their lives. “They weren’t breaking up when it was shot,” he reminds. Jackson has his theories about why The Beatles’ memories of the project are faulty. What are you doing with it?’ You don’t get that, ever.” When Lennon shows McCartney something he’s written, “it’s like, ‘Should we work on this song?’ ” says Martin, son of Beatles producer George Martin. What struck Giles Martin, who remixed the music heard in the film and on a new deluxe edition of the album, was the effort The Beatles still devoted to developing each other’s ideas. 'A blues cover band': Paul McCartney disses The Rolling Stones Ringo Starr: The drummer talks new EP, 'groovy' vaccine and finding Beatles' humor in Peter Jackson documentary That’s not what I saw, I saw something completely different.” “Every negative spin you could ever imagine has been put on this by different (biographers) over the years, and to be truthful, by The Beatles themselves. It’s not what you think,’ ” the director says. “I said to him, ‘Well, I’ve seen all the footage,’ and I can still see the tension in Paul’s face because he was expecting me to say, ‘and it’s really awful,’ “ Jackson recalls. No one could have been more surprised than McCartney, now 79, who nervously met up with Jackson before a 2017 concert in New Zealand. “If it was truly miserable, I would have said to Apple (Corps.), ‘Look, thanks very much for the offer, but this is not a film I want to make,’ " says the “Lord of the Rings” director, who volunteered for the project and decided to expand it into a docuseries. He dug into the source material fervently hoping for more. He knew the original Michael Lindsay-Hogg film from a VHS bootleg (“a horrible, fourth-generation thing”) he’d rabidly watched as a lifelong Beatles fan. The grainy look of the first movie has disappeared, replaced by crisp footage with lifelike clarity.Īfter plowing through nearly 60 hours of film and 150 hours of audio, Jackson’s sense of relief at what he’s found is palpable. headquarters plays out in full, running 42 minutes. ![]() The beloved rooftop concert at their Apple Corps. Arms are thrown around shoulders and lunch plans are made. Lennon cracks a lewd joke about “I’ve Got a Feeling” as The Beatles fumble and bumble through unfamiliar material, and no one can remember the title of “The Long and Winding Road.” Ringo Starr chummily shares a piece of gum with Yoko Ono, who does needlework at John’s side. ![]() In segments screened for USA TODAY, John Lennon and Harrison snicker like schoolboys when engineers pause the recording to announce McCartney’s bass is out of tune. Remembering John Lennon: 80 quotes for his 80th birthday 'The Lyrics': Paul McCartney reveals crush on queen, how John Lennon 'gleefully' quit Beatles “ ‘Let It Be’ had the aura of this sort of miserable time.”īut what “Get Back” teases is a deeper dive into long-vaulted outtakes shot in January 1969, in which the four friends gamely make the best of bad acoustics, growing divisions and a tight timeline. Fans who’ve seen the fly-on-the-wall footage of the band writing and recording live takes of 14 songs in 22 days – which includes a painful exchange in which Paul McCartney and George Harrison bicker about Harrison’s guitar playing – “naturally assume” they’re viewing the band’s demise. “It’s forever tainted by the fact The Beatles were breaking up when it came out,” Jackson says of the original 1970 movie. That’s the promising premise behind director Peter Jackson’s new six-hour documentary “ The Beatles: Get Back” ( streaming Thursday, Friday and Saturday on Disney+), which revises the narrative around “Let It Be,” a gloomy behind-the-scenes film about the album of the same name that arrived in theaters after the band revealed its split. What if everything you thought you knew about The Beatles’ breakup was wrong? Watch Video: 'The Beatles: Get Back' to air on Disney+ in time for Thanksgiving ![]()
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