Imagine Another Day
The Beatles Didn’t Have to Break Up
It’s been over 50 years since The Beatles called it quits and broke our hearts. It never had to happen. They let it be, but they could have worked it out.
AMERICANS OF A CERTAIN AGE still remember vividly the years when — through a cloud of pot smoke — young music lovers would talk about how much longer the world’s greatest rock group would play together before breaking up. Everyone just knew The Beatles were finished, sooner than later. Every album from the White Album on felt like it could be the last.
These feelings have all been brought back to life by director Peter Jackson’s three-part Beatlefest now airing on Disney+. It’s the most complete immersion therapy for Beatles fans next to listening to their entire catalogue alphabetically. Ostensibly a documentary about the making of the Get Back album (released over a year later as Let It Be) or even a proposed concert, it turns out, according to Rolling Stone, that’s not the point at all.
It’s funnier, louder, sadder, realer than anyone even hoped… It’s a stunningly intimate portrait of a friendship — the world’s favorite foursome, then as now, John, Paul, George and Ringo have come to symbolize the whole idea of a team…
