CELLARMASTER’S COLUMN
It’s all in the
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ans of The Beatles were given a treat at the end of 2021 with the release of the Get Back film by Peter Jackson. Running over eight hours across three episodes (streaming on Disney Plus), Jackson spent three years on the project, working with and restoring/enhancing the original 60 hours of film footage and 150 hours of audio tapes that were recorded in January, 1969. The original filming/ recordings captured The Beatles as they embarked on a new project that
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culminated in the famous roof-top performance in London and would – eventually – become the Let it be album. The film sheds new light on that era of The Beatles and paints a somewhat different narrative – certainly, a more expanded, contextual, and informative narrative – than the one that has been accepted as “history” for the last 50 years. For those not in the know, the footage was originally put together as a two hour film, Let it be, 16 months later in 1970, and was released one month after The Beatles had
