But even with the absorbing undercurrent of suspense around the band's fate, Get Back is still eight hours of watching some guys sitting around in a room. It's undoubtedly a hypnotic treat for music scholars and Beatles megafans. This exhaustive (and, honestly, slightly exhausting) look inside the songwriting and recording process gives you a closeup of the four most famous musicians in the world as they try to work out whether they want to be Beatles anymore. The series includes the band's last-ever live performance in full, and this concert will be released in IMAX theaters in the US and UK this Sunday Jan. It's a documentary series consisting of three lengthy episodes, streaming now on Disney Plus and coming to Blu-ray and DVD from Feb. I wonder if, while watching John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr messing around together at the very start of their career, he got goosebumps like I got from new documentary Get Back, which gives you an intimate closeup of the fractured Fab Four in their final days.ĭirected by Peter Jackson, Get Back takes us to 1969 and challenges a long-established narrative about the last days of the Beatles.
He was sweeping up after a youth club dance and chanced to catch the night's entertainers, four up-and-coming local lads, jamming together on the stage. Many people did, obviously, but I like to think my dad's story was a bit special.
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The Disney Plus documentary Get Back revisits the occasion decades later. The Beatles gather to record and film Let It Be.