![]() And while Harrison’s and Lennon’s songs fell into urgency, slowly shifting their gazes towards introspective, sometimes socio-political songs, it was McCartney who ascended higher into the pop stratosphere. In the band’s early years, McCartney’s work didn’t stand out as much from that of the other three, aside from him being relegated to the role of the token acoustic love song writer (“I’ll Follow the Sun,” “And I Love Her”). “Hey Jude” was my first favorite song I had a Wings poster on my wall “I Will” was my and my first girlfriend’s “song” one of my first tattoos was McCartney’s Yellow Submarine character. Still, they fed into the long-standing institution of passing The Beatles’ music down between generations, symbolic of how you didn’t have to be present for their greatness to fall in love with it.Īnd from a young age, it was Paul McCartney’s contributions to the band that I gravitated towards. My dad technically lived through the entirety of The Beatles’ American success, but my mom was born six months after the band broke up. I was only a toddler when the early-aughts Beatlemania surged across America, but 1 was presented to me as a stocking stuffer, tucked beneath a half-dozen chocolate Santa Claus bars, to go along with the small CD/tape player my folks gifted me that same Christmas. In less than a decade, The Beatles accumulated 20 #1s, and-30 years after their highly publicized break-up-Apple/Parlophone Records released them for the first time in CD format. The Beatles’ greatest hits compilation, 1, was released the year prior. This sumptuous book also features many unseen high-resolution film frames from the same restored footage.In 2001, George Harrison passed away after a battle with lung cancer, after the 20th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder had already come and gone. Peter Jackson’s documentary film will reexamine the sessions using over 55 hours of unreleased original 16-millimetre footage filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969, now restored, and 120 hours of mostly unheard audio recordings. Russell and Linda Eastman (who married Paul McCartney two months later). The majority of the photographs are by two photographers who had special access to their sessions-Ethan A. It brings together enthralling transcripts of their candid conversations, edited by leading music writer John Harris, with hundreds of extraordinary images, most of them unpublished. THE BEATLES: GET BACK is the band’s own definitive book documenting those sessions. Simultaneously, they were exclusively photographed and their conversations recorded. These sessions, which generated the Let It Be album and film released in May 1970, represent the only time in The Beatles’ career that they were filmed at such length while in the studio creating music. And it is here that we have the privilege of witnessing their early drafts, the mistakes, the drift and digressions, the boredom, the excitement, joyous jamming and sudden breakthroughs that led to the work we now know and admire.” Legend now has it that these sessions were a grim time for a band falling apart, but, as acclaimed novelist Hanif Kureishi writes in his introduction to THE BEATLES: GET BACK, “In fact this was a productive time for them, when they created some of their best work. ![]() Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras and tape recorders documenting every day’s work, the band rehearse a huge number of songs, new and old, in preparation for what proves to be their final concert, which famously takes place on the rooftop of their own Apple Corps office building, bringing central London to a halt. The BEATLES (‘The White Album’) is still at number one in the charts, but the ever-prolific foursome regroup in London for a new project, initially titled Get Back. This intimate, riveting book invites us to travel back in time to January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles’ last year as a band. THE BEATLES: GET BACK will be a special and essential complement to director Peter Jackson’s “ THE BEATLES: GET BACK” feature documentary film, set for release exclusively on Disney+ Over Three Days, November 25, 26 and 27, 2021. The book’s texts are edited by John Harris from original conversations between John, Paul, George and Ringo spanning three weeks of recording, culminating in The Beatles’ historic final rooftop concert.
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