The Beatles: Get Back (2021)

Watchseries; Worth 10 just for the restoration work on the film and making it so uncannily fresh.

The whole project was Paul's idea and destined to fail, as did Magical Mystery Tour. This can be seen in his face at the end on part 2 when he says nothing as John sums up the state of play. The whole project of writing new songs and recording a TV special in 28 days was doomed to failure.

Brian Epstein would not have let this happen, it was his passing that ultimately split up the Beatles at the point it did.

Yoko was pilloried by the press for being responsible, but honestly she did nothing but sit at John's side. She hardly said anything and one of the best moments was seeing her and Linda chatting like a couple of normal girls out with their boyfriends.

Another highlight was seeing how everybody reacted to 6 year old Heather Eastman. She was a star.

One thing was very clear and that was how conscious the Beatles were at being filmed. They very rarely let their guard down and stopped themselves a couple of times when the conversation got deep; but there was nothing contentious as has been suggested over the years.

Blink and you would miss George "leaving" the band.

To be honest I think what went on off camera and between the rehearsals would have been more interesting. Ringo turned up each morning looking wrecked.

Yoko speaking for John at the meeting with George at Ringo's house after he "left" would have been interesting.

Anyway, thanks Peter Jackson for taking us back to 1969 and I have a bit more appreciation for the music they created during that period, although it will never rate as amongst their best work.

Worth 10 just for the restoration work on the film and making it so uncannily fresh.

The whole project was Paul's idea and destined to fail, as did Magical Mystery Tour. This can be seen in his face at the end on part 2 when he says nothing as John sums up the state of play. The whole project of writing new songs and recording a TV special in 28 days was doomed to failure.

Brian Epstein would not have let this happen, it was his passing that ultimately split up the Beatles at the point it did.

Yoko was pilloried by the press for being responsible, but honestly she did nothing but sit at John's side. She hardly said anything and one of the best moments was seeing her and Linda chatting like a couple of normal girls out with their boyfriends.

Another highlight was seeing how everybody reacted to 6 year old Heather Eastman. She was a star.

One thing was very clear and that was how conscious the Beatles were at being filmed. They very rarely let their guard down and stopped themselves a couple of times when the conversation got deep; but there was nothing contentious as has been suggested over the years.

Blink and you would miss George "leaving" the band.

To be honest I think what went on off camera and between the rehearsals would have been more interesting. Ringo turned up each morning looking wrecked.

Yoko speaking for John at the meeting with George at Ringo's house after he "left" would have been interesting.

Anyway, thanks Peter Jackson for taking us back to 1969 and I have a bit more appreciation for the music they created during that period, although it will never rate as amongst their best work.

The Beatles: Get Back watchseries. Greatest Band Of All Time Recording Some Of The Greatest Songs Of All Time Directed By One Of The Greatest Director Of All Time In One Of The Best Documentary Of All Time.

Peter Jackson, ever since the Lord of the Rings (which, like this, was good, but could have been better, see: SCOURING OF THE SHIRE, which he left out), is too self-indulgent when it comes to his lack of editing. This showed in the terrible Hobbit films as well as everything he's done after The Lord of the Rings. Did we really need shots of cars driving past and long shots of buildings and such? No. That could have been edited out. I love the Beatles and have totally enjoyed the remastered music, but there was a lot in here, that simply didn't need to be. As a final note: It's clear to anyone who's an honest fan that Yoko didn't break the Beatles up. Infighting between John (who felt the Beatles were his band-an incorrect assumption since without the other three, there was no band and at this time, they belonged to the world) and Paul (who shows what a prat he can be through much of this. They really needed another Brian Epstein. They should have asked George Martin to manage them) and their total ignoring of George as a burgeoning song writer. Paul clearly put him down way too much. A good, but not great effort.

The Beatles were like a soundtrack to my life-long love of music. Being a fan like this I will not see this as too slow, too long, or repetitious. I see it like an unearthed treasure of seeing The Beatles at a nexus of profound change after all of the amazing music and success. Was a new chapter beginning? They definitely had an idea of returning to playing live. This is that story in great completeness. Like a fly on the wall we get to-candidly see the band in trying to harness the greatness for something special and now, thanks to Peter Jackson, we get it. Amazing candid look at late Beatles like no other. Disturbing the peace my left foot...the last concert deserved better than those "Bobbies" little snit!

Wow. Watching the Beatles rehearse and interact is mesmerizing. The music is better than anything over the past fifty plus years. My only complaint is the presence of Yoko Ono, who sits and stares into space and does her ridiculous screamimg routine for a couple of minutes each episode. Jackson should have left her on the cutting room floor. Otherwise, this is a must watch for all music lovers. It gives a new perspective on the history of the relationships between the four young men who changed the course of the history of music. Do not miss this great series.

I've already reviewed the three separate episodes of Peter Jackson's marvellous editing and production job on the mammoth Beatles' "Get Back" / "Let It Be" film and audio footage shot in early January 1969 by original director Michael Lindsay-Hogg but just wanted to come here to summarise my feelings on the overall project.

I've been a Beatles fan since I can first remember. Although I was born in 1960 and was too young to appreciate them in their heyday, I still remember the first second-hand single I ever bought in the early 70's in Glasgow's "The Barras" market-place for used goods was "Help!" and in about 1971 or 1972 requesting of my parents, a couple of Beatles L. P.'s as Christmas presents and them gifting me "With The Beatles" and "Abbey Road", talk about different ends of the spectrum.

"Let It Be" the original Spectorised album release was termed by one music paper of the time a shoddy epitaph to a trailblazing recording career and then when the movie itself was released, with the group split already announced, the critics tended to focus on the perceived negative vibes of the sessions as caught on video-tape by Lindsay-Hogg's omnipresent camera-crews.

I'm delighted that Jackson at last provides an alternative version of this almost universally "truth" which was bolstered by images of McCartney trying to gee up his jaded bandmates in the mixing room, Yoko's "invasion" and yet seeming indifference to the hallowed group sessions and most famously that spat between Paul and George over the guitar line in "I Got A Feeling". What people forget is that the shoot and sessions ended up with a blisteringly tight group performance on the Apple Building roof and three great studio performances the day after, also caught on film of "Two Of Us", "Let It Be" and "The Long And Winding Road".

Yes there are tensions but why wouldn't there be, working to a tight deadline in the dead of winter in a cold, cavernous studio under an informal agreement not to allow overdubs, which means we get to see the odd sight of Lennon playing lead guitar and bass on some of the tracks. Jackson simply but cleverly breaks the three weeks of sessions into three separate films, each over two hours long and then further sub-divides these into day-by-day summaries which deadline brings a mild frisson to affairs. It has to be said that comparing the quality of the group performances from day one to day last is remarkable but not too surprising given the personal and musical relationships they'd built up over the previous ten years. The two major catalysts to the turnaround in my view were the move to the smaller, more intimate and acoustically superior studio set up at Apple and the addition of the super-talented keyboardist Billy Preston to the group.

Perhaps one or two of the sometimes over-indulgent jams could have been edited down a little but by the end, there's ample proof that there was still some life left in the band as witness the magnificent "Abbey Road" album.

Like the rest of the world, I've waited fifty years to see this amazing peek behind the curtains at the best-ever-band at work and wasn't disappointed. We'll not see their like again.