“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we’ve passed the audition,” says John Lennon near the end of The Beatles: Get Back, premiering on…
“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we’ve passed the audition,” says John Lennon near the end ofAlmost all fans of the Fab Four have seen the quip from Lennon in the 1970movie as the band finishes up their last ever live performance on the Savile Row rooftop of their Apple Records.
Over the last several years, Jackson and editor Jabez Olssen have been diving into the 60 hours of footage shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg over 50 years in those recording sessions and on that chilly London rooftop as they played tunes that would end up on both theThe Beatles: Get BackPeter Jackson On His Four-Year Obsession That Led To ‘Get Back’ & Who Really Broke Up The Beatles
Full disclosure: I was born a big Beatles fan, suckling from the bottle of the band’s songbook via my British parents from the jump Yet, as much as I love the Liverpool boys and knowing the tales of their formative hardcore days in Hamburg way way back, I’ve never really thought of them as a rock band. To me, the best rock’n’roll, like the best hip hop, soul, funk, jazz, Afrobeat or blues, is visceral. The music makes you either want to fight or …well let’s just say get physically intimate with someone you have a consensual groove with.