Hours of footage of the Beatles' writing and recording have been released after 50 years, part of Peter Jackson's new documentary, 'Get Back.'
By Jon WertheimIt's January 1969, and the Beatles are unrecognizable from the wide-eyed mop-tops who appeared on the Ed Sullivan show just five years prior. Their popularity is unrivaled. They've stopped touring and fame is exacting its price. Now comes a self-imposed stress: they've given themselves three weeks to record 14 songs that they'll play to a live audience, all the while, trailed by cameras.
Peter Jackson: Suddenly, bang, out of nowhere comes this incredible treasure trove of fly on the wall material 52 years later. It still blows my mind. It actually honestly still blows my mind. Paul McCartney: I mean, corny is alright in this one because what he's doing is corny. But see that's the thing that will make it not corny is if we sing different words. So it's, I'm in love for the first time.
Back in New Zealand, Jackson began the ultimate binge-watch, screening this musical motherlode, frame by frame. Given that any Beatles fan will tell you that"Let It Be" comes shrouded in sadness—forever associated with the great divorce in rock and roll history—Jackson braced for the gloomy worst. Giles Martin: You can see the cracks appearing. The one thing about this movie is that people understand why they were getting tired of each other. 'Cause you get the sense of what it was like to be in a room with them, which is such-- a privilege for all of us.Peter Jackson: At one point we have footage of Paul McCartney sort of strumming on-- on his bass, which he uses as a guitar half the time, just sort of strumming.
Giles Martin: My impression of it is that Paul and John kinda knew that they were growing apart and Let it Be was almost like a marriage that's failing and they wanna go back on their date nights again.Compounding matters, George Harrison—restless in his role and bristling under Paul McCartney's driving ambition—leaves the band after a week.
Paul had, grudgingly, become the band's hall monitor, more lead than singer. George was persuaded to come back, but with the live performance approaching, the Beatles decided they needed a change of scenery. They relocated to a makeshift studio in the basement of Apple Records.
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