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Peter Jackson’s three-part documentary chronicles an intensely productive month for the band, culminating in the legendary Jan. 30, 1969, public performance that would be its last.They might have been the most famous musicians in the world, but there was a bit of understandable nerves when The Beatles convened just after New Year’s in 1969. For the past two years they’d sworn off touring, focusing instead on studio experimentation with such aurally adventurous releases as Sgt. Pepper’s and Magical Mystery Tour. Now they wanted to write songs together again, the old-fashioned way, and perform them in front of people.
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‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Review: Peter Jackson’s Documentary Epic Is an Addictive Look at Who the Beatles Were
A heady expansion of the "Get Back" footage becomes an essential diary of the group's greatness.
How does anyone, especially a Beatle, write a melody? The answer may be as simple as it is mysterious. In “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s sprawling and revelatory fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary, there’s a great moment when we get to see it happen. It’s January 1969, and the Beatles — long-haired, scruffy, bearded, looking less like the “lads” they still call themselves than the grown men they’ve become — have taken over the colorfully dank, cavernous Twickenham Studios. There, they have just three weeks to create and rehearse 14 songs, at which point they’re supposed to play them in front of a live audience for a TV special. (They’re locked into the timing because Ringo has been cast to star opposite Peter Sellers in “The Magic Christian,” a movie set to begin shooting on Jan. 24.)
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The nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards were announced Tuesday, and AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney and the late Chris Cornell all received multiple nominations.
All four artists will compete for the Best Rock Album prize, nominees for which include AC/DC’s Power Up, Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight, McCartney’s McCartney III, and Cornell’s posthumous No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1.
Among the Best Rock Song nominees are Foo Fighters’ “Waiting on a War,” McCartney’s “Find My Way,” and the Wolfgang Van Halen-led Mammoth WVH‘s “Distance.”
For Best Rock Performance, the nominees include AC/DC’s “Shot in the Dark,” Foo Fighters’ “Making a Fire,” Cornell’s cover of Prince‘s “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
Meanwhile, AC/DC’s video for “Shot in the Dark” scored a nod in the Best Music Video category.
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When Peter Jackson’s new docuseries The Beatles: Get Back launches on Disney+ this Thursday, his three-part, six-hour deep dive into the making of the Beatles’ Let It Be album will redefine the fractious period in the band’s history for even the most diehard armchair historians, while also giving a stunningly intimate look into the creative processes of arguably the greatest collaborative relationship of the last 100 years.
“I was always moaning about the original film, because there was no real joy in it,” Ringo Starr recalls of the original 1970 documentary film Let It Be, released just weeks after news that the Beatles had split had hit the press. “I think everyone will enjoy Get Back, though, because you get to see this band work really hard and go through emotional ups and downs to get to where we got in the end. And we did get there. Every time.”
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A new documentary about The Beatles streams on Disney+ November 25. Produced by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, it casts new light on the legendary band’s final days. The Let It Be sessions were famously turbulent.
Director Peter Jackson spent four years assembling a documentary of footage about The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions. Originally filmed for the accompanying film of the same name, the nearly 200 hours of video and audio footage ultimately went unused. Jackson narrowed it down to seven hours, showing much more than the well-known infighting and drama behind the band’s final album.
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It’s not quite as difficult as hobbits driving to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson‘s undertook four years to bring an end to the long and winding road of life The Beatles. The result is 7 hours The Beatles: Go back, which restored Jackson from 60 hours of studio sessions to a rooftop concert. Everything was shot in 1969 by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for his film let it be at a time when Apple forbade him to contain much that created understanding and context of the group’s creative process and difficulties that led to controversy and separation. A fan of the hits John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison in the Ringo Starr since he was a pint-sized kiwi, Jackson used the technical cleaning process that brought his WWI documentary to life. They will not grow old so that it seems as if you are watching live matches. The film will be released from 25-27. November shown in three parts at Disney +. Here he explains the monumental task and reveals who really broke up the band. Contrary to legend, it was not Yoko.
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The Beatles reconvened at George Harrison's home in the spring of 1968 upon their return from Rishikesh, India. It was time to get to work.
They recorded 26 rough demos — five from Harrison, 14 from John Lennon and seven from Paul McCartney. The next step was to take the tapes to the studio for refinement and recording, but one song among the McCartney contributions did not jibe with the others.
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" had begun to take form while the Beatles were still in India expanding their spiritual horizons and embracing the practice of meditation. One day, author and fellow meditation student Paul Saltzman witnessed McCartney and Lennon begin to work out the structure of the song.
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Let it Be was a divisive project. The original concept was that The Beatles would set up in Twickenham Film studios in January 1969 to write and record a new set of songs. Cameras would film their every move until after only three weeks they would perform these as a live TV concert.
It was, even for them, a ridiculously ambitious plan. As the days wore on it became apparent it wasn’t going to happen. Tensions mounted and eventually the band opted for the famous rooftop performance instead.
Chastened, perhaps, by this experience the Beatles took a break before reconvening back in Abbey Road Studios, to record one more masterpiece. With George Martin back at the helm, normal service was resumed. Abbey Road is many people’s favourite Beatles album.
It was only at this point that it all unravelled. Wildly different views of how their business concerns should be managed, the intrusion of new relationships and differing artist visions became their undoing. John, in particular, wanted out.
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This Thursday marks the release of the first episode of The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+. The six-hour three-parter features tons of unseen footage and audio of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr during their 1969 recording sessions of their last album Let It Be. A special premiere of the new documentary took place in Hollywood last week attended by friends and family of the Fab Four.
Alongside Stella McCartney and Olivia Harrison, were John’s sons Julian Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon.
Julian’s mother was the Beatle’s first wife Cynthia Powell and Sean’s is his second Yoko Ono.
Now his firstborn has shared his reaction to The Beatles: Get Back with an emotional message on his Instagram.
He wrote: “What an Amazing night, firstly seeing Get Back & then Stella’s Event afterwards…”
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The Beatles: Get Back will show The Beatles like fans have never seen them before. Director Peter Jackson pored over all the footage captured for the film Let It Be and assembled previously unreleased footage into a new three part series. Jackson promised many surprises for Beatles fans, including one moment where George Harrison put his foot down with John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The personalities of each of The Beatles came through to Jackson as he reviewed the footage. He found Harrison to be the voice of reason.
“George, I love,” Jackson said. “One, he’s the pragmatic one which everyone needs that.”
The Beatles: Get Back shows the band discussing their final concert in the theater ruins in Libya. That concert might have been even more elaborate if Lennon and McCartney had gotten their way. Apparently, Ringo Starr stayed out of it.
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