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“Get Back” documentary shows the Beatles “like you’ve never seen them”

In a miserable recording studio London, The Paul is working on an early version of “I’ve Got a Feeling“, the Yoko sitting near John, The George struggles to find lyrics for “Something” and Ringo he juggles with his baguettes.

After 50 years locked in a treasury, the director Peter Jackson edited 57 hours of footage in a series of documentaries showing them Beatles to jam, dance, joke, experiment with new songs and overcome their differences.

“These are the Beatles like you have never seen them before. “As human beings,” he said Jackson, The New Zealand director of “The Lord of the Rings”And a fan of Beatles in the Reuters.

Filmed in 22 days in January 1969, the tapes offer a completely different portrait of his band Liverpool in the months before their hard separation.

Contrary to their perceived history Beatles that the four musicians could no longer bear to spend time together, o Jackson found “these four guys who are friends, who have a deep respect for each other.”

“Instead of shouting at each other and blaming each other and going crazy, they just stumble, they are professionals, they have a sense of humor and they go on with it. “And they end up on the roof triumph,” he said Jackson.

The three-part documentary «The Beatles: Get BackWill be released on Disney+ (DIS.N) Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 25, 26 and 27.

The cassettes were recorded when Paul McCartney, The John Lennon, The George Harrison and Ringo Starr met to write 14 songs, record a new album and arrange their first live appearance in three years. This now legendary concert of January 30 – on the roof of its headquarters Apple Corps in the main London – was their last.

As he puts it at one point o McCartney“Our best place has been and always will be when we are with our backs to the wall.”

The tapes were originally shot for a smaller documentary – “Let It Be»Του Michael Lindsay-Hogg – released in May 1970 shortly after McCartney officially left the band.

THE Jackson cooperated with the consent of the surviving members McCartney and Starr, of his widow Harrison, and his son Lennon, Sean, but said none of them ever asked for changes or edits despite being nervous about hosting the documentary.

THE McCartney and Star, he said, they hardly remember the details of those days, so “they actually see it almost for the first time”.

“They also said that the view was very stressful. They know very well that they are pulling the curtain and that you see them Beatles in a familiar, raw way that they have never allowed themselves to see in the past, “he told Reuters.

A staunch Beatles fan who calls “Penny Lane” one of his favorite tracks, Jackson attributes the Beatles’ continued popularity to the breadth and contagious quality of their music.

“One can not imagine that the song”Yesterday” and “Revolution No. 9”Came from the same band. “If you played it to people who didn’t know it in a million years, they wouldn’t think it was the same band.”

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