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'The Beatles: Get Back': release date, synopsis and documentary data

2021-11-23T18:58:38.813Z


Attention, Beatles lovers. The week has come when you will see the "Liverpool Quartet" like never before in the new Disney + docuseries.


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(CNN Spanish) -

Attention, lovers of The Beatles, because the long-awaited week has arrived in which you will see the "Liverpool quartet" like never before.

The documentary series

The Beatles: Get Back

premieres Thursday on Disney +, one of Disney's streaming platforms.

  • Paul McCartney says it was John Lennon who broke up with the Beatles

Why does it attract the attention of The Beatles fans?

Disney has commented that this new docuseries will be something never seen before.

We will see the band in their creative process to write 14 new songs in 1969, and we will also see how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr prepare to give their first concert in more than two years.

"

The Beatles: Get Back

transports audiences to the band's 1969 recording sessions, which became a watershed moment in music history," Disney + notes on its press website.

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But there is more

It should be noted that the documentary series is temporarily located in what were the last moments of The Beatles as a band, since the separation of the "Liverpool quartet" came in 1970, when their last studio album, called

Let It Be

(which includes, among other great hits, the song "Get Back").

The docuseries includes "60 hours of never-before-seen footage, shot over 21 days under the direction of Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969 and more than 150 hours of unreleased audio, most of which was stored in a vault for more than half a century, "according to Disney +.

As if that were not enough, for the first time in history we will be able to see The Beatles' last live performance complete: the concert on the roof of Savile Row in London.

Also, the docuserie presents, according to Disney +, "other songs and classic compositions from the last two albums of the band,

Abbey Road

and

Let It Be

".

When it premieres?

The Beatles: Get Back

is a three-part docuseries: the first opens on Thursday, November 25, the second on Friday, November 26, and the last will be on Saturday, November 27.

All episodes will be available on the Disney + streaming platform.

Direction and production

The Beatles: Get Back

: docuseries by The Walt Disney Studios with Apple Corps Ltd. and WingNut Films Productions Ltd.

Director: Peter Jackson, who also directed the

Lord of the Rings

trilogy

and is the winner of three Oscars.

Producers: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison, Peter Jackson, Clare Olssen (

They Shall Not Grow Old

) and Jonathan Clyde (

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

).

Executive Producers: Jeff Jones (

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years

) and Ken Kamins (

The Hobbit

Trilogy

), Apple Corps.

Publisher: Jabez Olssen (

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

)

Music Supervisor: Giles Martin (

Rocketman

)

Mixing and re-recording: Michael Hedges (

The Adventures of Tintin

) and Brent Burge (

The Hobbit

trilogy

)

Music Mix: Giles Martin and Sam Okell (

Yesterday

)

Fun facts

  • The rooftop concert was on January 30, 1969 at the Apple Corps building on London's Savile Row.

    Although other locations were also considered to do so, including "a Roman amphitheater in Sabratha (Libya), the pyramids of Giza and the ocean liner QE2," Disney + mentions in a statement.

  • For this concert, John Lennon was located in the center of the stage, something unprecedented since he was always located on the right side of the stage, according to Disney +.

  • "The studio microphones used to record the rooftop concert were wrapped in stockings to eliminate wind noise," he adds.

  • One of the police officers present at the concert on January 30, 1969 later became part of Princess Diana's security escort.

  • The Beatles are winners of an Oscar and a Grammy for the music from the

    1970

    documentary film

    Let It Be

    .

  • On July 20, 1969, Michael Lindsay-Hogg presented The Beatles with a first cut from the documentary

    Let It Be

    .

    That same day, Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon.

  • The idea for the song "Let It Be" came to Paul McCartney after a dream about his mother, Disney + mentions.

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Source: cnnespanol

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