Now, in what feels like a supersized uncut version for Beatles super fans, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson takes you inside the making of “Let It Be” - and the disintegration of The Beatles - practically in real time. In exhaustive and intimate detail, “The Beatles: Get Back” captures a group on the verge of the biggest band breakup in pop history over almost eight hours of footage that director Michael Lindsay-Hogg originally shot for the 1970 documentary “Let It Be.” “Get Back” reveals that “Let It Be” was intended to get the Beatles back in front of audiences.
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With tensions already running high on a tight, two-week deadline to write and record an entire album before Starr begins filming the movie “The Magic Christian,” George Harrison was having creative differences with McCartney while John Lennon was increasingly tied to an ever-present Yoko Ono. “And then there were two,” says Paul McCartney when only he and Ringo Starr show up to the studio in “The Beatles: Get Back,” a three-part docuseries premiering Thursday on Disney+, which traces the making of “Let It Be.” In fact, the Fab Four almost split up midway through the making of their final album, 1970’s “Let It Be,” in January 1969. The songwriting was on the wall for The Beatles long before they officially called it quits. Time to ‘Get Back’: Teen cop who silenced Beatles’ last gig speaks for first time Peter Jackson’s Beatles doc brings us back to that shared place we once belongedīilly Joel thinks Taylor Swift is the younger generation’s Beatles Julian Lennon is selling The Beatles memorabilia as NFTs