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For one reason only, really: because I love the songs, love the music. “It’s not the Beatles I find interesting, to some degree it’s the music,” Jackson told Rotten Tomatoes of his decision to take on a project that is going to be met with as much scrutiny as the original film. Others are more serious, such as when a broken down George Harrison comes into the studio after staying up late to write “Old Brown Shoe” - or when he quits the band. Some of Jackson’s miniseries is lighthearted and fun, with McCartney and Lennon do-si-doing around a cramped recording space or a young Heather McCartney, McCartney’s adopted daughter, spinning around and singing with the band.
That film was meant to be a companion piece to the band’s similarly titled twelfth studio album, but fans considered it proof of (and causes for) the group’s impending breakup.Īlthough Lindsay-Hogg’s film is largely taken out of circulation and exists on bootlegs, the footage that ended up in it - as well as the extra pieces he and his crew captured - have been remastered and re-edited by Jackson and his staff to create a new, perhaps definitive narrative of what happened during those recording sessions and the subsequent infamous rooftop concert when the band gathered with musician Billy Preston to play their last show together. The miniseries, which premieres its first episode November 25 on Disney+ with the other two subsequently hitting the streamer on the 26th and 27th, respectively, is based on the cinéma vérité-style footage that documentarian Michael Lindsay-Hogg captured while making Let It Be. In The Beatles: Get Back, director Peter Jackson’s three-part, six-hour documentary surrounding some of the Fab Four’s final days, some of these myths will be disrupted. The band’s breakup is all Yoko Ono’s fault. There are certain stories about the rock band The Beatles that pop culture has cemented as fact.