You notice the clothes, although, aside from some ridsiculous fur coats, their gear looks like it all came from The Gap. Really what they’re doing is allowing Chuck Berry to lead them back up to speed. You see a lot of what seems like horsing around as they whip through the rock ‘n’ roll standards of their youth. Individual parts on ever more sophisticated recordings. Live recording style of their early days after a few years of tracking Instead of their Abbey Road music playpen. Surroundings, walled up in the cavernous Stage One of Twickenham Studios
Numbers at once, have we?” The task is amplified in that they’re in unfamiliar As John Lennon says at one point, “We’ve never learned so many new What you see are the four lads – all 28 or younger – working
Out to created 14 songs, shoot a movie and perform their first live concert in two-and-a-half He then takes us day-by-day through the three weeks they had carved He opens withĪ quick newsreel of the band from their skiffle days as the Quarrymen to the Even if it is a record of the world’s biggest band at the end of their long and winding road, being a fly on this wall is amazing.įirst up, Jackson does not gimmick it all up. Having seen the first two hours, however, I’m happy to report that getting back is a blast. The hype has been bubbling for a few years now, usually the kiss of death. News that Jackson has taken all 57 hours of footage out of the vaults and turned it into something Fab was heartening to any Beatles fan. I do remember it showed Paul McCartney to be a bit of an ass, which is probably why he always vowed the film would only be re-released over his dead body. Their last live show was on the roof of this building as seen on “Get Back”Ī few years later, at a screening of Beatles films at the Canadian National Exhibition, I saw a 16mm print of “Let it Be.” That was the original documentary from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who had first crack, 51 years ago, at “Get Back.” Being that this wasn’t a first-run theatrical screening, the print was a bit worn and muddy, and it was not the right place to see the film. In 2018, while in London, I stopped at the Savile Row shop once owned by The Beatles.
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