“But actually it’s almost the exact opposite. “Everyone sort of thinks it’s a whitewash” because the Beatles have authorized the film, Jackson said with a laugh. Right? It’s just pop culture about some hippies, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?Īt a music industry event last year, Jeff Jones, Apple Corps’ chief executive, promised that the new film would “ bust the myth” that these sessions were “the final nail in the Beatles’ coffin.” Yet Jackson said the band has had no influence over his work.
The fact that Let It Be II: Yet More Bickering & Pimples would make billions less than a sunny revision of the sessions, that means nothing. Don’t let Let It Be, a film so redolent of bad vibes Apple never re-released it, color your opinion-this one looks so much better! Let Peter Jackson, self-professed Beatle nut, and his Magic Editing Machine tell you the story. Don’t let John and George’s opinion, consistent for the rest of their lives, sway you. Don’t look too closely at the torpor or weird bitterness. Just watch the boys do their Goon Show turns, but with long hair and strangely drawn visages. Fear not, subsequent generations raised on The Fabs (and especially Lennon) as harmless avatars of hippie “peace”! There’s no hard truths about drug use or sociopathy here. In other words…įear not, aging Boomers increasingly sentimental about your salad days! John, Paul, George and Ringo were as happy to be Beatles as you were to be their fans. Its big reveal is that, thanks to a new film, maybe the Get Back sessions weren’t utter misery (despite Lennon calling them “hell” and Harrison “the winter of our discontent”). Reading one of a flood of pre- Get Back reviews just now the premise of the piece, in The New York Times no less, is that the breakup of The Beatles had multiple causes and is a topic of debate even today among Beatle fans and scholars. From Faith Current: “The Sacred Ordinary: St.I only wish they would now put out a sequel made up from the parts they left on the cutting-room floor. But praise to all of them for making a most entertaining film. 'I Am The Walrus' has four of them togged up in animal costumes switching at times to them bobbing across the screen as egg-men.Ī special word of praise for Ringo, who more than the others comes over very, very funnily.
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It's a pity that most TV viewers will be able to see it only in black and white. For 'Blue Jay Way' George is seen sitting cross-legged in a sweating mist which materialises into a variety of shapes and patterns. The film sequences for the musical numbers are extremely clever.
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I am convinced they are extremely capable of writing and directing a major movie for release on one of the major cinema circuits. After watching a rough cut of their 'Magical Mystery Tour', which BBC viewers can see on Boxing Day.
If they aren't already planning so, the Beatles should start planning their next full-length film immediately. The US release made # 1 in early January 1968 and stayed there for eight weeks. "Baby, You're A Rich Man" and their current single, "Hello, Goodbye". These titles were "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Penny Lane", "All You Need Is Love" - their anthem that had been broadcast around the world via Satellite in June. In the US, the double-EP format was not considered viable so instead, Capitol Records created an album by placing the six songs from the EP on side one of an album and drawing side two from the titles that had appeared on singles in 1967. 2 in the UK singles chart, held off the top spot by their own single. The EP was a runaway success and reached no. A lyric sheet was also stapled into the centrespread of the booklet. The booklet contained stills from the show along with a comic strip telling the story. It was decided that the soundtrack for the programme would be released on two seven inch discs which would be packaged with a booklet in a gatefold sleeve.
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