10 Facts We Learned After Watching Peter Jackson’s The Beatles Get Back Documentary
10 Facts We Learned After Watching Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back Documentary
With more than seven hours of new Beatles footage, The Beatles: Get Back has a lot to teach fans about the legendary band.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Beatles on music and pop culture. The foursome from Liverpool were together for less than a decade but left an indelible mark on music history. Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back offers fans of the band an unprecedented look at more than 60 hours of never-before-seen footage condensed into a three-part documentary series.
Though the Beatles are one of the most celebrated bands of all time, there was a lot of new information about the band to be gleaned from the Disney+ series. The band’s legions of fans from multiple generations know there’s always something new to discover about the Beatles, and Peter Jackson’s new docuseries didn’t disappoint.
Changing Purpose
When the Beatles set out on the endeavor that would eventually lead to The Beatles: Get Back, they originally intended to record a new album and shoot a television special. However, as rehearsals proceeded at Twickenham Studios, it became obvious that the band couldn’t agree on how to proceed. Eventually, they downsized to only producing an album and doing a single live performance that would be recorded. All of the behind-the-scenes footage that had been shot up until that point was then repurposed as a feature documentary film.
Billy Preston, Session Musician
Legendary keyboard player Billy Preston was already an established player when he met the Beatles. Preston had backed other great acts such as Ray Charles and had caught the attention of the British rockers. Being a friend of the band, Preston stopped by the Apple Studio in London while he was in the city working on a television appearance. On a whim, he was asked to sit in with the band and play the keyboard to add some flavor to the new songs. Eventually, the band liked his contributions so much that he was asked to stay throughout the entire session and his work even appears on the album Let It Be.
Secret Recordings
Fans of the Beatles have always been desperate for new media from their favorite band. Though they have been separated for over 50 years, the band still amassed a massive library of audio and video recordings for fans to pour over including many other documentaries about the Beatles. Despite all of this exposure, there was still an aspect of privacy within the band that fans always dreamed of being let in on.
In the documentary it is revealed that the film crew that was recording their rehearsals secretly taped private conversations between the band members. Though the ethics is questionable, there is no doubt that fans had never been let into such intimate conversation between the band members.
George Harrison Leaves
The breakup of the Beatles was a monumental moment in music history and though the writing was on the wall for years, it was still shocking to fans. What the documentary reveals though is that George Harrison actually quit the project and the band for a few days during rehearsals. Obviously fed up with the dominant personalities of Lennon and McCartney, Harrison walked off set and had to be coaxed into returning a few days later. Though McCartney and Lennon wrote most of the popular songs, including most of the Beatles songs that appeared in movies, George Harrison’s contribution to the band was undeniable.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg Directs
Though Peter Jackson collaborated to assemble all of the loose footage of Get Back, it was Michael Lindsay-Hogg who directed the original footage that made up the documentary. Lindsay-Hogg had already made a name for himself as a director for the Rolling Stones and would go on to become a famous filmmaker who also made music videos. Though Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be film from 1970 is somewhat overshadowed by the new Get Back doc, his contributions to the project are impossible to ignore.
From Sabratha To The Rooftop
One aspect of The Beatles: Get Back that hangs over the entire film is the question of where the band will perform. It was well known that the band had quit performing live in 1966 to focus on recording, therefore, their return was considered with all of the gravitas it deserved. The plan always was for them to write new songs and perform them live in hopes that the recording of that performance would be turned into an album. The location though was up in the air and even several ideas were played with, some even wanted the band to travel to Libya and perform at the ancient theater in Sabratha. Eventually the band simply performed on the roof of Apple Studios in London.
Keeping It Simple
After the Beatles gave up touring in 1966, they focused solely on the album recording process and along the way they revolutionized music. With the burden of performing live removed, the band could make their albums as rich and complicated as they wanted.
However, when they returned to produce the albums that would be the focus of Get Back, they had grown tired of the overly complicated recording process and hoped to strip things down to basics. The recordings they hoped to pull from the sessions were recorded live without the use of overdubbing of tracks. They hoped that the band all being together playing would return them to a simpler sound.
Alan Parsons
There were many legends of the music industry within the Beatles’ sphere of influence and one such future icon was Alan Parsons. Parsons worked on the sessions as a tape operator with Glyn Johns who was the engineer in charge. Though he didn’t have anything to do with the actual production of the albums, Parsons would go on to work with acts such as Pink Floyd. On top of producing some of the most important music of the time, Parsons fronted his own band that became big within the progressive rock genre. The Beatles: Get Back offered viewers an amazing glimpse within the music industry, including many of the important figures behind the scenes.
From The Roof
The Beatles’ 1969 rooftop concert has become the stuff of legend. Though the performance was wrought with complications, the band showed that they were not rusty when it came to giving an audience a show. Surprisingly though, several of the songs that would eventually end up on Let It Be, their final album, were recorded from the rooftop concert. Classic songs such as Get Back and I’ve Got a Feeling were pulled from the rooftop performance and remastered for the album.
Nonsense Or Politics?
Perhaps the most important song that was bandied about by the Beatles during the sixty hours of footage was Get Back. Not only was it the title of the Peter Jackson documentary but it became the entire focal point of the recording sessions. Though Let It Be would eventually become their final album’s title track, Get Back grew as they rehearsed and changed from something silly to an important statement. The film shows the band working on lyrics and though they sound silly they actually begin to morph and poke fun at Great Britain’s anti-immigration policies at the time.
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