The Beatles: Get Back
Last night I finished watching the three-part series on Disney+, “The Beatles: Get Back”. I’m really impressed by the work that Peter Jackson did with the 60 hours of unused footage from the old “Let It Be” movie. He showed those sessions, long described as acrimonious and destructive, as what they were: happy, sad, exciting, boring, productive, unproductive. In short, completely different than what was depicted in the original film. What follows are some of my personal highlights. The first big highlight for me was when Paul McCartney was simply stunning his bass guitar trying to come up with a lick, and it morphed into the beginnings of the song “Get Back”. To see one of rock’s most famous songs being conceived from scratch was jaw-dropping and amazing. Part I ended with George Harrison leaving the Beatles, and the filming at Twickenham studios ended abruptly, which really lent an air of seriousness to the situation. Even though us hard-core Beatles fans knew that George was eventua