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Beatles-Get Back on Disney Plus

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Sparklingbrook · 04/12/2021 12:19

Started watching. there was a thread about The Beatles on here last week and I realised I know nothing about them. (Well a thread about Heather Mills but it took quite a bonkers turn to say the least)
I'm about an hour in and a bit meh so far and I've learned nothing. is it worth carrying on?

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beguilingeyes · 04/12/2021 20:09

I'm jealous. We don't have Disney plus and the clips I've seen are golden. Paul McCartney writing Get Back in about five minutes waiting for the others to show up.
Breaks my heart a little bit, they're all so young and happy.
Fucking Mark Chapman.

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Sparklingbrook · 04/12/2021 20:41

DH seems to think there's about 7 hours to go. The first hour is interesting, they are writing and trying out songs etc. I know it's about them writing the album but I wouldn't want to watch 8 hours of it IYSWIM.

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FlorrieLindley · 05/12/2021 19:05

I binged it, two hours at a time. I am a Beatles fan, though, and I don't think it's for the casual viewer, who might find all the studio time a bit boring. I loved seeing them so young and silly and so talented. They all seemed to be able to switch instruments too, which I'd not known. I knew Paul was proficient on drums and piano as well as bass, but there's Ringo jamming on piano with Paul, John on keyboards and drums. I absolutely loved it, it's so intimate it's like you're hanging out with them in the studio. The final episode - the famous roof-top concert is great too. PC Plod turning up to try and close it all down.

ScabbyHorse · 05/12/2021 19:07

I'm enjoying it they were ahead of their time

CalamariGames · 05/12/2021 19:16

I enjoyed it too. Interesting Beetles fact, this documentary was made by Peter Jackson who made LOTR but the Beetles actually wanted the make a film of LOTR themselves, John was going to play Gollum! They got turned down by the Tolkien family but Peter Jackson said he would have been interested to hear the soundtrack they would have written for it.

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Sparklingbrook · 05/12/2021 19:40

Thanks for the replies. I don’t think I’ll continue with it.
I would imagine for huge fans it would be more enjoyable.

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GozerTheGozerian · 05/12/2021 19:42

I think it’s definitely one for the fans. I absolutely loved it. But it’s also an amazing time capsule of the late 60s - the clothes, the shit food, the cars, London skyline etc. It’s like going back in time for a few hours.

Also, Paul was beautiful and George rocked every outfit possible.

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Sparklingbrook · 05/12/2021 19:54

I think had I been a teen at that time it would definitely have been Paul for me.
It was funny to see Yoko sitting there sewing at one point.

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PloptheBarnOwl · 05/12/2021 22:02

If I were you I would skip to the rooftop concert in episode 3- it's fascinating! All the voxpops with the public out on the street, the looks on the band's faces when they realise everything's just clicking and they're playing really well, and the element of jeopardy with when the police will stop the concert. I found the first episode a bit of a slog, the second episode was better because the band cheered up when they moved to recording in Apple Studios, but episode 3 with the concert is a stone cold banger!

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Sparklingbrook · 05/12/2021 22:04

Thanks @PloptheBarnOwl, I really tried to stick with EP1 but I wondered if it got more interesting. I'll put EP3 on tomorrow and watch the concert.

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LookslovelyinSpringtime · 05/12/2021 22:10

I absolutely loved it. I am a lifelong Beatles fan so every little thing was fascinating. It is a capsule of the 60’s as said above. I found the dynamics between them all riveting. I enjoyed it all as it is a developing situation. The end is just so absolutely joyous and so very poignant as it is the end of the Beatles. The looks on the faces of the Police who don’t know what to do! The interviews with the public. I felt so sad at the end because it is a world that has vanished for ever along with the band itself.

You have to be a Beatles fan though or it is just tedious.

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Sparklingbrook · 05/12/2021 22:15

The Beatles have just never been on my radar, no strong feelings one way or the other. I thought this might be the thing to watch but it's not what I thought it was possibly.

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LookslovelyinSpringtime · 05/12/2021 22:21

In that case it probably isn’t worth sticking with it. I certainly wouldn’t watch hours and hours of any other band in rehearsal.

whenwillthemadnessend · 05/12/2021 22:21

My dh is a huge fan.

I enjoy the music and been to Liverpool museums etc but I found watching in 1hour chunks better for me Less tedious.
Im enjoying it that way

Dh would watch the whole thing in a day I reckon.

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Sparklingbrook · 05/12/2021 22:26

@LookslovelyinSpringtime

In that case it probably isn’t worth sticking with it. I certainly wouldn’t watch hours and hours of any other band in rehearsal.
I think that was going to be hours and hours of a band rehearsing, so when EP1 turned out to be just that I was a bit confused. I was fully expecting to be so gripped I'd be binge watching the lot.
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Shouldbedoing · 05/12/2021 22:33

For me, there was a moment when I suddenly realised that these songs I've known all my life were actually still being written in the studio. And that I'm very familiar with the images of them playing on the rooftop but the people in the street in 1969 had never heard those songs before.
Also these millionaire geniuses living on tea and toast. Stunning footage for a Beatles fan

Wbeezer · 05/12/2021 22:39

Im enjoying it, it feels weirdly like lloking through a little window back in time (to me). I keep thinking about the fact that I was alive at the time but only 1 so can't remember it.

NoSquirrels · 05/12/2021 22:45

I think you have to understand that the purpose of it is to sort of correct the established narrative that these sessions were ‘the end of The Beatles’ and really acrimonious and full of fallouts and Yoko Ono being awful etc.

Part 1 is totally dull unless you understand the history.

I’d agree it’s fascinating if you’re a fan - or live with a fan, in my case.

Pay 3 is brilliant though for anyone.

LookslovelyinSpringtime · 05/12/2021 22:56

Watching the process at work in creating these amazing songs that I have known all my life is just incredible. Like watching the conception and birth of someone you have loved a long time. I am fascinated by the relationship between them all and the creative process. All that bickering, being late, messing around . Then the magic of the rooftop performance when it all comes together .

Handsnotwands · 05/12/2021 23:08

I thought this was a nice little synopsis of why it’s interesting guardian review

Shouldbedoing · 05/12/2021 23:09

They were in their twenties, too

wolfstarling · 19/01/2022 10:35

Wow as PP said the backdrop to a childhood in the 70s I was a bit blase about The Beatles - totally get it now.

Sublime. Peter Jackson has made an incredible film reel into a masterpiece of British history.

Paul McCartney has gone up in my book by 100% he is an absolute legend.

beguilingeyes · 19/01/2022 11:04

Just read an interview with Guy Garvey where he said he went to the premier and was sitting behind McCartney and watching his face during it. It must be so incredible for Paul and Ringo to watch this footage.
Fucking Mark Chapman.

bigTillyMint · 19/01/2022 16:49

I’ve just finished this - it was fantastic, loved the way it was filmed as fly-on-the-wall, and with snippets of London life between. The fun they had jamming together and bouncing off each other. Im from Liverpool and was a Beatles fan from being about 3 - my best friend and NDN’s teenage sisters played the songs and had their posters up in their rooms… I knew all their songs and was aware when they split. They were the backdrop to my childhood too.

I too hadn’t realised how they were all able to swap instruments and also how Billy Preston had been there too. And the Bizzies - what stiffs
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@beguilingeyes, it’s worth paying a months subscription (I got a month free with my phone contract!) And yes, I remember the day John was shot so clearly - hearing it first thing on my transistor radio, and going into school - we were all so shockedSad