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By demonstrating his will to keep the band together, Sir Paul McCartney subsequently comes off best in the Disney+ series, The Beatles: Get Back.
Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back gave audiences a rare and enticing glimpse of the Beatles in their natural environment, but it was Sir Paul McCartney who ended up seeming the most competent, interested, and engaging member of the iconic band. Jackson's Disney+ documentary series was hailed as a beautifully personal and intimate look at the fab four as they recorded their final album, Let it Be. The series was praised for giving viewers a more amicable vision of the Beatles, as stories had historically suggested that the recording of Let it Be was stifled by constant in-fighting and major disagreements between the four bandmates.
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In The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, Ringo Starr discussed his popularity relative to the other members of the Fab Four. In addition, he said The Beatles “had more to go on” than Elvis Presley. Listeners in the United Kingdom had a different reaction to the Fab Four and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
According to The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, Ringo discussed his place in the Fab Four. “There was never any competition between us, either privately or publicly, though we all have our special fans,” Ringo revealed. “If all four of us had to stand up there in front of a million fans and they had to line up behind the one they liked best, I think Paul [McCartney] would get most.
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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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