While they all certainly care about each other and have deep connections, this is a group whose relationship has simply run its course, and they-and the audience-all know it. It’s obvious after watching Get Back that Yoko didn’t break up The Beatles-they did that all by themselves. There are even times she hops behind the mic and the band plays a raucous accompaniment. We see her having polite conversations with Linda McCartney (nee Eastman) and sitting quietly next to John, working on some paperwork or a craft or maybe handing John a snack. Yoko is accepted by everyone in the group and their inner circle. The Get Back docuseries also finally puts the idea that Yoko Ono broke up the band to rest. King, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly are just a few of the artists the band lovingly covers. I’d estimate about a third of the songs performed by The Beatles in Get Back are tunes the group plays just for fun. The group also finds inspiration from other musicians. But that’s the method The Beatles used to work things out, playing with words until they found the right ones. They both have a laugh at the absurdity of the lyrics and we all know how the song turns out. He has the line, “something in the way she moves” but can’t finish “attracts me like…” so John suggests “attracts me like a cauliflower” before George settles on “attracts me like a pomegranate.” At one point George is struggling with the words to Something. Several times Paul and John are often shown playing with lyrics, sometimes even making parodies of their own hit songs. It’s like watching a sculptor carve a statue from a block of marble.Ī sense of play and experimentation is something The Beatles have always been known for, but watching these masters at work is riveting. Watching one of The Beatles’ greatest songs get workshopped into existence is an amazing sight to behold. It’s clearly an incomplete idea, but the more he toys with it, the more the lyrics take shape and soon the words “Get Back” pop out, and Ringo and George join in. Paul keeps playing with the words, sometimes humming or using made up words, as he already has the music in his head. Paul McCartney is strumming a guitar, messing around with an idea as Ringo and George look on while waiting for John to rehearse. Jackson’s docuseries features touching moments filled with laughter, soul-shaking music and incredible inspiration.Ī prime example occurs in Episode 1, when viewers watch the birth of the song Get Back.
What is surprising is finally being able to witness the love between The Beatles that every fan of the group has always felt in their music. At one point in Get Back McCartney even laments the loss of Epstein by saying, “Daddy’s gone away.” The band clearly misses the focus provided by manager Brian Epstein, who died in 1967-in fact, they still call him “Mr. Much like McCartney, Lindsay-Hogg is annoyed as The Beatles go around in circles, indecisive not just with the directions of their own songs but with what they plan on doing with them. In this new docuseries, the director is shown repeatedly, but politely, pushing the group to find some direction for their genius. Growing tension between members of The Beatles at this point in their partnership isn’t a surprise as their rift during the production of their last two records is well documented, most notably in the 1970 documentary “Let It Be,” directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. But for director Peter Jackson, who has taken nearly 60 hours of unseen footage shot over 21 days along with more than 150 hours of unheard audio to make the new 8-part docuseries Get Back for Disney+, this dust up is a clear sign that the fracturing of The Beatles started well before the band’s January 1969 recording sessions for the album, Let It Be. This brief tiff, done with typical British decorum, could come across as a minor disagreement between people who know each other inside and out and something to ignore. However, Harrison is chafing at his role but isn’t offering any real alternatives for McCartney, who’s clearly perturbed and seems ready to walk out of the studio. While working on the song Don’t Let Me Down he provides direction to Ringo Starr and George Harrison, telling them how he’d like them to play. McCartney’s comment comes from a place of frustration. “And have been, for like, a couple of years.”
“I’m scared of me being the boss,” says Paul McCartney after a Beatles rehearsal.
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