Get Back

This week's movie rental was The Beatles: Get Back ...

a 2021 documentary series directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It covers the making of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be (which had the working title of Get Back) and draws largely from unused footage and audio material originally captured for the identically titled 1970 documentary of the album by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The docuseries has a total runtime of nearly eight hours, consisting of three episodes between two and three hours, each covering roughly weekly periods of 21 days of studio time ...

Here's a review: The Beatles – Get Back review: Peter Jackson documentary is a seven-hour masterpiece

I've only seen the first disk so far, which ends when George Harrison, upset with how he is being treated, quits the band. Yoko is there every minute, it seems, but also visiting are Paul's wife Linda and Ringo's wife Maureen. I noticed a couple of things. One was the way Paul easily created songs out of thin air, on the fly. The other was how unhappy George seemed, and how often he mentioned his friend Eric Clapton.

A couple of clips ...





I'm looking forward to the next 2 disks.