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Most people can remember the first time they heard The Beatles. However, for director Peter Jackson, it’s a little more complicated. Jackson just released the new three-part documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. So, naturally, many probably assume that the director has been a die-hard Beatles fan since childhood.
Jackson is a die-hard Beatles fan. He had to be to take on the mammoth of a project that was Get Back. It would have been a daunting task sifting through 60 hours of film footage and over 150 hours of audio.
However, the director, famous for helming other mammoth-like projects such as the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, first heard The Beatles in an unexpected way.
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“It’s happening, isn’t it?”
Record producer George Martin says this to The Beatles almost two thirds of the way through Get Back, the eight-hour Peter Jackson documentary that arrived around Thanksgiving like a gigantic gift for the holiday down time. Martin, the man they called “the fifth Beatle,” brings a pleading uncertainty to his rhetorical question. He’s hoping in his soul, just as we viewers are by that point, that the Beatles are cohering, that tensions and slackening and that magic’s being made at last.
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One of the most talked-about musical acts of 2021 had an album reach number 5 on the Billboard 200 and some singles on the charts as well. Not bad for a band that broke up half a century earlier.
The Beatles generated those headlines and sales thanks to Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary, a photo-heavy book about the making of the film and the release of the remixed “Let It Be.” They’re also the subject of the tome, “The Beatles 100: One Hundred Pivotal Moments in Beatles History,” published by Rare Bird Books.
The author John M. Borack is Southern Californian through and through: Raised in Hacienda Heights and educated at Cal State Fullerton, he now lives in Fountain Valley and, in addition to his career as a music journalist, has a day job in Whittier as manager of communications and community engagement for The Whole Child, a non-profit organization that assists vulnerable families.
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Celebrating his 80th birthday back in July 2020, many fans reflected on Ringo’s life. In stark contrast to the life that he enjoys now, when the star was born in 1940 his family were suffering from poverty. Living in one of the poorest areas of Liverpool, Dingle, and a father who walked out on him and his mother, Ringo’s start to life was hard. Unfortunately for both Ringo and his mother Elsie, Ringo’s health rapidly deteriorated after he was rushed to hospital at the age of six with a ruptured appendix.
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Although medical professionals are still unsure what causes the condition, the appendix will need to be removed straight away. Today the surgery is normally carried out as keyhole surgery, unless the appendix has burst or is difficult to access.
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John Lennon had already left the band following the release of Abbey Road in 1969, and though it wasn’t officially revealed that The Beatles were no more until April 1970, Ringo Starr already started working on his solo material, and the makings of his debut album Sentimental Journey.
Returning to Abbey Road with a new slate of songs by Feb. 1970, Starr worked around the 12 tracks of the album but ended up pulling one track “You Don’t Come Easy,” a song he had started writing in 1968 and was ultimately co-written with George Harrison (uncredited at the time with Harrison’s blessing). Throughout the years, Starr still gave credit to Harrison as the co-writer of the track and began revisiting it.
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At this point, everyone is always being filmed and photographed all the time, in a way, since we’re armed with phones and surrounded by surveillance cameras. But to get that sense of real time with people from way back when, well it’s remarkable. I wish we had that kind of intimate and vivid photographic and video coverage of people from 200 years ago.
“Get Back” also has a place in the genesis of reality TV. It’s an early attempt to impose an artificial narrative onto real people. The Beatles have been gathered together to create a live performance with new songs in a limited amount of time. They’re thrown together with their wits and talents, given a deadline, and filmed constantly — which is the blueprint for so many of the reality contests that have been all over TV for the past 20 years.
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Director Peter Jackson’s recently released documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back, has prompted debate around the Fab Four’s legacy as pioneers of popular music.
Fifty-two years following the Beatles’ breakup, it’s worth examining what made their vocal harmonies and arrangements so innovative and enduring. But understanding the Beatles requires context; it requires understanding the era in which they bloomed.
Still reeling from the Second World War, the U.K. in the 1950s was draped with a dreary aura that permeated most facets of life and culture. While war-time rationing persisted and unemployment soared, rock-and-roll was still inchoate. In its primal state, pop music was channeled by such American artists as Buddy Holly, Elvis, and Check Berry; in Britain, reams of angsty teenagers still looked for a cultural unifier.
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Taking a trip down memory lane on the Fab Four and their cinematic endeavours
Fans and music buffs alike have been flocking to their streaming service to check out Peter Jackson’s take on the world’s most famous band. Whether you love the mini series or would rather watch Magical Mystery Tour on repeat, it’s hard to deny that Get Back is fuelling the Beatles conversation yet again. If you’ve found yourself transported back to 1964 and want to bask in the glory of Beatlemania for a little while longer, taking a trip down memory lane with the band’s own endeavours into cinema is the perfect place to start.
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George Harrison‘s son, Dhani Harrison, remastered songs from the former Beatle’s album All Things Must Pass. During an interview, Dhani said one of the songs from All Things Must Pass made him cry. Dhani also revealed that his mother, Olivia Harrison, had a strong reaction to the same song. All Things Must Pass was the first famous album George released after the breakup of The Beatles. It has some similarities to the music of The Beatles’ folk period. During an interview with Guitar World, Dhani said his father may have wanted to capture the sound of certain Beatles songs in All Things Must Pass.
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Phil Collins has opened up about a feud with Paul McCartney – revealing how his encounter with The Beatles legend left a long-lasting grudge.
This week saw the former Genesis turned solo star announce his live return with the ‘Not Dead Yet’ tour of Europe and the UK – but not before he revealed why he dislikes a certain ex-Beatle so much.
“I met him when I was working at the Buckingham Palace party back in 2002,” he told The Sunday Times. “McCartney came up with Heather Mills and I had a first edition of The Beatles, by Hunter Davies, and I said, ‘Hey, Paul, do you mind signing this for me?’” he told the paper. “And he said, ‘Oh, Heather, our little Phil’s a bit of a Beatles fan.’ And I thought, ‘You fuck, you fuck.’ Never forgot it.”
Collins added: “He has this thing when he’s talking to you, where he makes you feel [like], ‘I know this must be hard for you because I’m a Beatle. I’m Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me.’”
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