Beatles Documentary by Peter Jackson (1 Viewer)

[Nooooo9]

I finished watching the new Beatles documentary and it is excellent. Peter Jackson has edited and restored the over 50 hours of footage that Michael Lindsay- Hogg had shot in 1969 as director of the Let it Be film. He edited it down to about nine hours which are broken down into 3 episodes, each covering a week of the production of an album, culminating in the live performance on the roof of the Apple building. The results are magnificent and mundane. We get to be in the room with them as they write and perform some of the best songs ever written. It is fascinating to watch the process. They spend a lot of time joking around, smoking cigarettes and eating toast. Then they will hit upon an idea and develop it. You see on camera Paul McCartney create the song Get Back and play the Long and Winding Road while he is still working the lyrics out. Similarly George Harrison has an idea he’s working on . Something in the way she moves me like… well, he’ll figure it out. Highly recommended. Spoiler Alert - Yoko doesn’t break up the band.