Beatles Get Back documentary

It's simply amazing what Jackson has done with the picture quality.

Looking at Let It Be and then at Get Back and it's hard to understand the difference in image.

One looks dark and grimy and the other looks bright and clear, uncannily clear, (some might say digitally artificial).

Some of the differences are due to the original being shot on 16mm as a documentary and then, shock horror, pan and scanned onto a 35mm film for cinema release to satisfy their contract with United Artists.

I've already signed the online petition for Disney to allow Jackson to release an extended version with 5 /6 extra hours.

Why not?

Nothing else gives a better insight into how the Beatles worked and much of the Abbey Road is here in the making.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-jackson-get-back-extended-edition/

@larsman 

George Martin is present throughout in a kind of overlooking role as Glynn Johns sets about trying to produce the album.

I've not heard the Glynn Johns mix of Let It Be but apparently the Beatles didn't like it and lost interest in the project thereafter.

As Get Back shows, the Beatles were always working continuously as a unit. By the end of the film most of their final album Abbey Road is already in the making.

Contrary to Beatles history, there exists a tape where they seem to have been considering a follow up album to Abbey Road.

One of the most chilling moments is where Lennon casually mentions that he's just been to see Allen Klein...

@larsman

Yes, Phil Spector was later drafted in to try to assemble an album out of the wreckage.

Probably by Lennon or Harrison.

Definitely not by McCartney.

I’m a fan of Phil’s work on Let It Be but I wish he’d included Don’t Let Me Down in the finished album as it’s surely one of the key songs of the period.

According to some reports it would appear that both the original Let It Be film and Jackson’s Get Back left out a few key details.

"The atmosphere in the film studios, the early start each day, and the intrusive cameras and microphones of Lindsay-Hogg’s film crew combined to heighten the Beatles’ discontent.

When the band rehearsed McCartney’s "Two of Us" on 6 January, a tense exchange ensued between McCartney and Harrison about the latter’s lead guitar part.

During lunch on 10 January, Lennon and Harrison had a heated disagreement in which Harrison berated Lennon for his lack of engagement with the project.

Harrison was also angry with Lennon for telling a music journalist that the Beatles’ Apple organisation was in financial ruin. According to journalist Michael Housego’s report in the Daily Sketch, Harrison and Lennon’s exchange descended into violence with the pair allegedly throwing punches at each other.

Harrison denied this in a 16 January interview for the Daily Express, saying: "There was no punch-up. We just fell out."

After lunch on 10 January, Harrison announced that he was leaving the band and told the others, "See you round the clubs."

Starr attributed Harrison’s exit to McCartney "dominating" him."

In Jackson’s version all this is only alluded to, but Harrison’s leaving followed Ringo’s from the year before. However, the next ones to leave weren’t so easy to entice back.

Perhaps more detail will be included in the extended version if Jackson gets a free hand to tell like it was?