I Would Watch Eight More Hours Of ‘The Beatles: Get Back’
Peter Jackson’s new doc is like hanging out with the lads
I spent the weekend hanging out with me mates, John, Paul, George, and Ringo. While I sat back and relaxed on the couch, the lads fooled around, plucking guitar strings and cracking jokes and then, you know, creating immortal pop songs on the spot, before lunch.
It was a good time. They were rehearsing for a TV special that would never happen but the good news was a lot of ‘Abbey Road’ would be written, the last of the twelve immaculate studio albums they would record in eight short intense years.
I didn’t want it to end. But it had to end.
It was a pure pleasure to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with the Fab Four in The Beatles: Get Back, an epic, three-part, eight-hour-long documentary exclusively on Disney+. Imagine being able to watch your heroes up close and personal: Mary Shelley scribbling in a notebook, or Mozart conducting a Viennese orchestra, or Booker T. Washington speaking to crowds in the American south.
In this new docuseries, director Peter Jackson wrestled with 60 hours of footage and 150 hours of audio that climaxes in an infamous rooftop concert on Savile Row in London that would be the last time these four performed live together.
