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04.12.2021 / 13:01

Archives of The Beatles’ road manager to be published starting in 2023

The Beatles’ longtime roadie, manager and general acquaintance, who featured prominently in Peter Jackson’s docuseries The Beatles: Get Back – have announced the publication of an authorised biography set to cover his storied life and career.HarperCollins’ Dey Street Books imprint will publish it in 2023, with Evans’ estate working closely with author Kenneth Womack – himself an accredited Beatles scholar and, per his own website, “one of the world’s leading authorities on The Beatles and their enduring cultural influence” – to tell his story in resounding detail.The biography, as yet untitled, will be followed in 2024 with a sprawling compendium of Evans’ personal archives, which Rolling Stone reports will feature diaries, manuscripts and

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04.12.2021 / 00:21

Peter Jackson Details How ‘Get Back’ Used Machine Learning to Restore the Beatles’ Sound and Footage (EXCLUSIVE)

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.comThere were several hurdles Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” had to mount before the eight-hour documentary could premiere on Disney Plus, including persuading the surviving members of the Beatles to OK this pursuit, and sifting through 150 hours of audio and 60 hours of vintage footage and then restoring that delicate footage into crystal-clear quality.

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thewrap.com

03.12.2021 / 22:07

9 Great Documentaries to Watch Next If You Loved ‘The Beatles: Get Back’

“The Beatles: Get Back” has viewers buzzing from the level of intimate access the footage provides, and if you’re wondering what other documentaries are out there that might deliver similarly, we’ve got you covered.Peter Jackson’s three-part “The Beatles: Get Back” assembles candid footage from the band writing and rehearsing what would eventually become the album “Let It Be,” all while tensions slowly simmer underneath.

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thesun.co.uk

03.12.2021 / 03:07

Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella slammed over £70 Beatles socks

STELLA McCartney’s new fashion line should come with the message, “Can’t Buy Me, Love” — due to the sky-high prices. Sir Paul’s daughter has launched a “Get Back” collection, with a pair of socks costing a whopping £70.

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thesun.co.uk

02.12.2021 / 19:58

Peter Jackson hits back after Beatles fans slam ‘boring’ 8-hour Disney+ documentary

PETER Jackson, the director behind the documentary The Beatles: Get Back, has hit back at their fans after they complained the series was “boring” and “unnecessarily long”. Best known as the director for The Lord of the Rings, Peter had reportedly gone through 60 hours of personal footage from the 1970 film Let It Be to piece together the three-part documentary. The series is centred around the making of The Beatles' twelfth and final studio album of the same name - but fans aren’t happy. The series ended up totalling a whopping 468 minutes in running time, with each episode lasting between two to three hours - and some fans have deemed it as "pointless".

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30.11.2021 / 22:29

How to Watch ‘The Beatles: Get Back’: Streaming Details and More

“The Beatles: Get Back” is all the rage at the moment, as Oscar-winning “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson’s docuseries shines a new light on the most iconic band in history. But while many seem to be talking about “The Beatles: Get Back,” which features candid footage of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr writing and performing their songs, even more may be wondering exactly where and how to watch this new series – and what, specifically, they’re getting into if they do.Find out everything you need to know about “The Beatles: Get Back” below.“The Beatles: Get Back” is exclusively streaming on Disney+.

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theplaylist.net

30.11.2021 / 19:59

‘Lord Of The Rings’: Peter Jackson Shares Story About The Beatles’ Failed Attempt To Make A Film Adaptation Of Tolkien’s Work

Peter Jackson is an incredibly accomplished filmmaker who just recently completed work on a new Beatles docuseries that just debuted on Disney+, titled “Get Back.” But for many people, Jackson is best known for his work as the filmmaker behind the acclaimed “Lord of the Rings” film series. But what you might not know is that his Beatles work and ‘Rings’ work has a bit of a crossover.

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nypost.com

30.11.2021 / 04:23

Beatles doc director reveals Disney wanted to erase swearing, smoking

“Get Back,” now streaming on Disney+.The series includes several scenes featuring smoking and explicit language; however, the group refused to have them removed.The three-part show includes a disclaimer from the streamer ahead of each episode that reads: “This footage contains explicit language, mature themes and smoking.”The “Lord of the Rings” director, 60, explained in an interview with NME that Beatles members Paul McCartney, 79, and Ringo Starr, 81, refused to have the swearing eliminated from the final product.“Paul [McCartney] describes it as being very raw,” Jackson said. “He said to me: ‘That is a very accurate portrayal of how we were then.’ Ringo [Starr] said: ‘It’s truthful.’ The truthfulness of it is important to them.

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30.11.2021 / 00:07

The New Beatles Doc 'Get Back' Almost Came Without Swear Words

The Beatles’ Get Back three-part docuseries was almost a little different, as Disney wanted to remove the swearing in it.

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nme.com

29.11.2021 / 23:45

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr pay tribute to George Harrison on 20th anniversary of late Beatle’s death

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have shared tributes to late The Beatles bandmate George Harrison on the 20th anniversary of the latter’s passing.Harrison, who was the longtime guitarist of the Fab Four, died of lung cancer on November 29, 2001 at the age of 58.McCartney took to Twitter to share an old image of himself and Harrison in the studio with a caption reading: “Hard to believe that we lost George 20 years ago. I miss my friend so much.

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thewrap.com

29.11.2021 / 19:53

‘The Beatles: Get Back': Come for the Joy, Stay for the Angst (Guest Blog)

For the last couple of years, filmmaker Peter Jackson had assured Beatles fans who have waited over 50 years for a “Let It Be” reboot that his version was going to be more about the joy and camaraderie, and less about the in-fighting and tensions that were eating away at the Fab Four during the January 1969 recording of the group’s final studio album. But there were conflicts, and that’s what makes Jackson’s seven-hour-plus homage into a historical event worth watching. Classic conflicts that inspire great cinema. Now The Beatles are characters in their own movie, “The Beatles: Get Back.” There’s the hero (Paul McCartney), the affable confidant whose presence calmed the waters (Ringo Starr), the faltering antihero (John Lennon) and the

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nme.com

29.11.2021 / 16:25

Peter Jackson defends ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ doc’s lengthy runtime

Peter Jackson has defended the hefty runtime of his new documentary series The Beatles: Get Back, admitting he wanted to include everything “important”.The newly-released three-part Disney+ series saw the Lord Of The Rings director wade through 60 hours of footage from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 film Let It Be, which covers the making of the band’s final studio album.However, each episode of the documentary still comes in at between two and three hours long, with the whole series running at 468 minutes.Speaking to NME, Jackson explained that he feared leaving anything crucial out, suggesting it may have taken “another 50 years” to uncover otherwise.“I’d like to say that I didn’t really leave out anything that I thought was important,” he

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nme.com

28.11.2021 / 22:09

Yoko Ono shares article saying new Peter Jackson film proves she didn’t break up The Beatles

Yoko Ono has shared an article online which says the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary, Get Back, dispels rumours that she broke up the group.On Saturday (November 27), Ono shared an article titled “Beatles Fans Think ‘Get Back’ Dispels The Idea That Yoko Ono Broke The Band Up” on Twitter, where she has 4.6 million followers.The director’s three-part film charts the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’, and shows their final concert on London’s Savile Row rooftop in its entirety.The archive footage in Jackson’s documentary shows Ono apart from The Beatles during the recording sessions for ‘Let It Be’ and busying herself with her own tasks, contrary to reports that she was involved while they were making the

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28.11.2021 / 03:45

Questlove Digests New Beatles Doc: ‘To Create Under These Circumstances is CRAZY’

In his review of the documentary, TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote, “The Beatles: Get Back” is a three-part documentary series from Peter Jackson that asks a simple question: How much do you love the Beatles? And honestly, the answer has to be “a lot” if you’re going to sit through another supersize Jacksonian trilogy, in which the “Lord of the Rings” maestro gives us three installments that average more than two-and-a-half hours each to dig deeply in the Beatles’ rocky journey through January 1969.”

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nme.com

26.11.2021 / 20:09

Disney wanted to remove swearing from ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ but the band refused

Disney wanted to remove all swearing from his The Beatles: Get Back documentary, but were convinced otherwise by Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.The director’s three-part film charts the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’, and shows their final concert on London’s Savile Row rooftop in its entirety.Speaking to NME, Jackson recalled Starr and McCartney’s first reactions to the documentary, who, to the director’s surprise, didn’t ask for any changes to be made.“When they got to see the finished thing, I was expecting notes,” Jackson said.

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nypost.com

26.11.2021 / 19:33

The Beatles actors revealed for upcoming ‘Midas Man’ biopic

As reported by Deadline, Jonah Lees, 26, of UK series “The Letter For The King,” is John Lennon; musician Blake Richardson, 22, from British pop trio New Hope Club, is Paul McCartney; Leo Harvey-Elledge, 19, who played rocker Liam Gallagher in “Creation Stories,” is George Harrison; and newcomer Campbell Wallace is Ringo Starr.“Peaky Blinders” actor Adam Lawrence, 30, also joins as former Beatles drummer Pete Best, and “The Queen’s Gambit” actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, 33, has been chosen to portray Beatles manager Epstein, a record shop manager from Liverpool who would discover the greatest band of all time.Filming “Midas Man” began last month in Liverpool but soon ran aground since the film’s initial director Jonas Akerlund was said to be

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nme.com

26.11.2021 / 02:35

Peter Jackson speaks about The Beatles’ failed attempt to make ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ movie

The Beatles once tried to make their own The Lord Of The Rings movie in the 1960s.The director who’s The Beatles: Get Back documentary debuted on Disney+ today (November 25), previously spoke about the failed project back in 2002, during the making of his trilogy.“It was something John [Lennon] was driving and J.R.R. Tolkien still had the film rights at that stage, but he didn’t like the idea of the Beatles doing it.

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theplaylist.net

25.11.2021 / 23:01

‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Review: Peter Jackson Gets Lost In The Treasure Trove Of Fab Four Footage

Let’s get this out of the way quickly: no matter how boring, predictable, rote and maybe Dad-rock-y it may sound to some, The Beatles remain one of the greatest bands of all time. The group was a towering collection of musicians who wrote the blueprint for almost all of the modern rock and pop genre, bold experimentalists and one of the first bands to use the studio as an artistic instrument.

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nme.com

25.11.2021 / 19:31

Robert Plant suggests resolution to the The Beatles vs The Rolling Stones feud

Robert Plant reckons he knows how The Beatles and The Rolling Stones can resolve their long-running feud.Both iconic bands have taken a pop at each other over the years, with the most recent dispute kicking off last month when Paul McCartney branded the Stones “a blues cover band”.Mick Jagger hit back at his comments during a recent show in Los Angeles. “There’s so many celebrities here tonight.

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etcanada.com

25.11.2021 / 16:24

Peter Jackson Reveals How He Would Have Cast The Beatles In A ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Film

If history had gone a bit differently, it might have been The Beatles who first brought The Lord the Rings to the big screen.

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thesun.co.uk

25.11.2021 / 16:04

Inside The Beatles’ raucous final days – from willy jokes to Paul & John’s tense showdown talks caught by secret mic

“It’s going to be such an incredibly comical thing in 50 years time,” says Paul McCartney on a chilly Monday morning in January, 1969. He predicts people will say, “They broke up ’cos Yoko sat on an amp,” and, “Well, you see, John kept bringing this girl along.” Now, 50 plus two years on, we can finally see the funny side as The Beatles headed towards the end of their journey.

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variety.com

25.11.2021 / 14:21

The Beatles to be Played by Jonah Lees, Blake Richardson in Brian Epstein Biopic ‘Midas Man’

K.J. Yossman Despite recently losing its director just three weeks into shooting, “Midas Man,” the music biopic about The Beatles’ wunderkind manager Brian Epstein, has now cast its fab four.John Lennon will be played by Jonah Lees (“The Letter for the King”), Paul McCartney by Blake Richardson (“Eleven Days”), George Harrison by Leo Harvey Elledge (“Creation Stories”) and Ringo Starr by newcomer Campbell Wallace.

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nme.com

25.11.2021 / 13:19

The Beatles actors revealed for upcoming ‘Midas Man’ biopic

The Beatles in the forthcoming Midas Man film have been announced.As revealed earlier this week, the biopic of the Fab Four’s manager Brian Epstein will see Jay Leno take on the role of late TV host Ed Sullivan (The Ed Sullivan Show).Now, as Deadline reports, Jonah Lees (The Letter For The King) is set to portray John Lennon while musician Blake Richardson (from the band New Hope Club) will appear as Paul McCartney.Leo Harvey-Elledge – who played Liam Gallagher in this year’s Alan McGee biopic, Creation Stories – has been lined up to portray George Harrison, with Campbell Wallace appearing as Ringo Starr.

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nypost.com

25.11.2021 / 13:11

How The Beatles almost broke up while making ‘Let It Be,’ their final album

“The Beatles: Get Back,” a three-part docuseries premiering Thursday on Disney+, which traces the making of “Let It Be.”With tensions already running high on a tight, two-week deadline to write and record an entire album before Starr begins filming the movie “The Magic Christian,” George Harrison was having creative differences with McCartney while John Lennon was increasingly tied to an ever-present Yoko Ono.

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variety.com

25.11.2021 / 11:23

‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Review: Peter Jackson’s Documentary Epic Is an Addictive Look at Who the Beatles Were

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHow does anyone, especially a Beatle, write a melody? The answer may be as simple as it is mysterious. In “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s sprawling and revelatory fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary, there’s a great moment when we get to see it happen.

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thewrap.com

25.11.2021 / 11:09

‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Review: Peter Jackson’s 3-Part Documentary Is Great, and There’s Too Much of It

The three episodes of “The Beatles: Get Back” will premiere on consecutive days beginning on Nov. 25.

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deadline.com

25.11.2021 / 11:01

Beatles Actors Revealed For Brian Epstein Movie ‘Midas Man’, First Look Images

The actors portraying the Fab Four have been revealed for Beatles manager movie Midas Man.

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nme.com

24.11.2021 / 18:31

John Lennon’s son Julian says new Beatles documentary “made me love my father again”

Julian Lennon says that watching the new Beatles documentary Get Back was a “life-changing” experience that “made me love my father again”.Peter Jackson’s three-part film, which is coming to Disney+ tomorrow (November 25), focuses on the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’ and showcases their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.Last Friday (November 18), Julian and brother Sean – sons of the late John Lennon – attended a special screening of the documentary in Los Angeles ahead of an event held by Stella McCartney.“What an Amazing night,” Julian reflected in an Instagram post after the event.

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24.11.2021 / 04:43

How to Watch the Beatles Documentary

Peter Jackson, contains never before seen footage and previously unheard audio of the iconic band while they were working to create their final album, . After over a year of delays due to the pandemic, what began as a film has now been transformed into a three-part series. With a reported run time of nearly eight hours, will premiere on Disney+ across three consecutive days, starting this Thanksgiving, Nov.

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23.11.2021 / 01:33