“The Beatles: Get Back” depicts Paul McCartney’s frustration with his bandmates during the making of “Let It Be. “Well, learn them,” says McCartney, throwing not-so-subtle shade. “Yes, I’ve got ’em here,” responds Lennon, pointing to his lyric sheet. So I just say, ‘Hell, well, f – – k it.’ ”Īt one point, McCartney chastises Lennon about not learning the lyrics to “Two of Us.” “You have to remember the words,” he says. “And I never get any support or anything. Meanwhile, McCartney - as “the captain of the ship” - is frustrated about having to play the taskmaster: “I’m scared of me being the boss, and I have been for, like, a couple of years,” he says. “It should be where if you write a song, I feel as though I wrote it. Yoko Ono was always by John Lennon’s side during the making of “Let It Be.”Īfter having more creative input on 1969’s “Yellow Submarine,” Harrison - no longer content to simply take a backseat to McCartney and Lennon - wants The Beatles to have a more collaborative vision.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” this was the band making music to be played live again.īut while the docuseries shows them working out songs such as “Don’t Let Me Down,” “I’ve Got a Feeing,” “Two of Us” and “One After 909” - which Lennon reveals that he had written when he was about 15 - the tension is clear from the start. So, after the complex studio wizardry of albums such as 1967’s “Sgt. “Get Back” - which takes its name from the closing track of “Let It Be” and was originally supposed to be the album title - was intended to get The Beatles back in front of audiences after they had decided to stop performing live at the end of 1966. 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. ‘All Things Must Grass’: George Harrison estate teams up with cannabis maker to sell weed Superfan turns George Harrison’s childhood home into Airbnb and house museum Paul McCartney returns to stage for John Lennon ‘duet’ after 2-year hiatus ISIS ‘Beatles’ member learns his fate for role in brutal beheadings of US hostages