![]() ![]() What if we could re-cut it, so that it told “the full story”? And that full story just happened to be one a lot more pleasant and marketable than “watch these four brilliant guys hate each other”? That’d be a billion-dollar property, wouldn’t it? That’d make The Beatles something you could sell lock, stock and barrel to Disney for what, $100 billion? The January 1969 sessions are the one bit of the Beatles story which hasn’t been sanded smooth, because all the grimy footage and acrimonious tape was there for us to see/hear. All that footage would be a goldmine…if it didn’t show the group breaking up. The Get Back sessions are the one time (apart from Magical Mystery Tour) where the Beatles magic fizzled. That doesn’t makes anybody a liar…but it does inform how smart fans should be watching. Truth is whatever opens your pocketbook, and we have the editing equipment to make nearly any version of The Beatles you will pay for.Īlso? That quote from Jeff Jones shows exactly why this project happened. In the end, this is a rather Trumpian maneuver-“People say Get Back is fake news, but Let It Be is the real fake news!” Get Back is the Beatles for our post-truth era. ![]() I wanted to make a movie that fans, myself included, would enjoy more, and buy.” But Jackson doesn’t say that he claims to be telling the truth. It’s a very unflinching look at what goes on.”Ĭould not show? Why couldn’t Michael Lindsay-Hogg show anything? Who does Jackson think controlled every frame of Let It Be? Is he saying that The Beatles themselves wanted the 1970 movie to be a drag? Why? And doesn’t that fly in the face of what Lennon said in Lennon Remembers, about the film being edited to show “Paul as God”? In an attempt to justify his version of events, Jackson opens up a huge can of worms-rather than stating the obvious: “Bickering Beatles is a drag, especially to a big ol’ fan like me. It shows everything that Michael Lindsay-Hogg could not show in 1970. “But actually it’s almost the exact opposite. “Everyone sort of thinks it’s a whitewash” because the Beatles have authorized the film, Jackson said with a laugh. Right? It’s just pop culture about some hippies, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?Īt a music industry event last year, Jeff Jones, Apple Corps’ chief executive, promised that the new film would “ bust the myth” that these sessions were “the final nail in the Beatles’ coffin.” Yet Jackson said the band has had no influence over his work. The fact that Let It Be II: Yet More Bickering & Pimples would make billions less than a sunny revision of the sessions, that means nothing. Don’t let Let It Be, a film so redolent of bad vibes Apple never re-released it, color your opinion-this one looks so much better! Let Peter Jackson, self-professed Beatle nut, and his Magic Editing Machine tell you the story. Don’t let John and George’s opinion, consistent for the rest of their lives, sway you. Don’t look too closely at the torpor or weird bitterness. Just watch the boys do their Goon Show turns, but with long hair and strangely drawn visages. Fear not, subsequent generations raised on The Fabs (and especially Lennon) as harmless avatars of hippie “peace”! There’s no hard truths about drug use or sociopathy here. In other words…įear not, aging Boomers increasingly sentimental about your salad days! John, Paul, George and Ringo were as happy to be Beatles as you were to be their fans. Its big reveal is that, thanks to a new film, maybe the Get Back sessions weren’t utter misery (despite Lennon calling them “hell” and Harrison “the winter of our discontent”). ![]() Reading one of a flood of pre- Get Back reviews just now the premise of the piece, in The New York Times no less, is that the breakup of The Beatles had multiple causes and is a topic of debate even today among Beatle fans and scholars. From Faith Current: “The Sacred Ordinary: St. ![]()
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