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NOVEMBER 24�DECEMBER 1, 2021
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THE OPENING ACT
RAISING THE CURTAIN
ON THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
What we’re into
PETER JACKSON’S DOCUMENTARY ‘THE BEATLES: GET
BACK’ STREAMS ON DISNEY+ THIS WEEK
The Beatles have for so long
been the most famous rock band in
history, and not by a small margin,
that it might seem unlikely, 51 years
after the group broke up, that there
could be anything new to reveal
about the foursome.
Peter Jackson disagrees.
And over the Thanksgiving
weekend, the esteemed director
of both feature fi lms — Tolkien’s
“Fellowship of the Ring” trilogy
— and documentaries — 2018’s
“They Shall Not Grow Old” — will
prove the fallibility of that claim by
giving fans of The Beatles, myself
included, an early Christmas gift.
Jackson’s three-part, six-hour
documentary, “Get Back,” will debut
on the Disney+ streaming service.
The fi rst two-hour segment will
be available on Thanksgiving, with
the second part coming out Friday,
Nov. 26, and the fi nal episode the
following day.
Jackson’s documentary truly
marks a milestone in the legacy of
The Beatles, whose story dates to
1950s Liverpool, England, and, in
the U.S., to their epochal 1964 per-
formances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Longtime fans are certainly
familiar with the subject, and the
period, that Jackson explores in
“Get Back.”
In January 1969 the group gath-
ered in London to work on songs
for an album they intended to name
“Get Back.” That’s also the title of
a Paul McCartney song on the re-
cord. The idea was they would “get
back” to their earlier days of mak-
ing records basically by recording
the band members playing live in
the studio. Since 1966, when the
band abandoned concert tours,
The Beatles had used a dramati-
cally diff erent approach, assem-
bling their albums by layering on
multiple individual instruments and
voice parts — a process known as
“overdubbing” — in EMI Studios in
London (now known, in homage to
The Beatles’ last recorded album,
as Abbey Road).
The recording sessions for the
“Get Back” project, which ended
after about a month with rancor —
Courtesy Apple Corps Ltd./Disney+
From left, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison in
“The Beatles: Get Back.”
lead guitarist George Harrison quit
the band briefl y in the interim —
were fi lmed almost in their entirety.
This resulted in a documen-
tary, “Let It Be,” also the title of
another McCartney tune and of
the album that wasn’t released
until the spring of 1970. But “Let It
Be,” directed by Michael Lindsay-
Hogg, was never as widely known,
or available, as The Beatles’ two
earlier feature fi lms, “A Hard Day’s
Night” from 1964 and “Help!”
released the next year.
And so, for most of the ensuing
half century, fans have wondered
whether another, more detailed
documentary, was forthcoming.
And now, fi nally, it is.
The chance to watch The
Beatles play, chat about and create
some of the music that remains so
beloved today was, until now, the
province of hope rather than reality.
It’s little wonder, then, that no
production involving The Beatles,
including the TV documentary
series “The Beatles Anthology,”
which aired over three nights in
November 1995, has generated
so much excitement as Peter
Jackson’s “Get Back.”
— JAYSON JACOBY, EDITOR,
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