The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles (Hardcover, 2021)

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The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (The White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras and tape recorders documenting every day's work and conversations, the band rehearse a huge number of songs, culminating in their final concert, which famously takes place on the rooftop of their own office building, bringing central London to a halt. The Beatles: Get Back tells the story of those sessions through transcripts of the band's candid conversations. Drawing on over 120 hours of sound recordings, leading music writer John Harris edits the richly captivating text to give us a fly-on-the-wall experience of being there in the studios. These sessions come vividly to life through hundreds of unpublished, extraordinary images by two photographers who had special access to their sessions-Ethan A. Russell and Linda Eastman (who married Paul McCartney two months later). Also included are many unseen high-resolution film-frames, selected from the 55 hours of restored footage from which Peter Jackson's documentary is also drawn. Legend has it that these sessions were a grim time for a band falling apart. However, as acclaimed novelist Hanif Kureishi writes in his introduction, In fact this was a productive time for them, when they created some of their best work. And it is here that we have the privilege of witnessing their early drafts, the mistakes, the drift and digressions, the boredom, the excitement, joyous jamming and sudden breakthroughs that led to the work we now know and admire. Half a century after their final performance, this book completes the story of the creative genius, timeless music, and inspiring legacy of The Beatles. It would be fair to say that today Let It Be symbolizes the breaking-up of The Beatles. That's the mythology, the truth is somewhat different. The real story of Let It Be has been locked in the vaults of Apple Corps for the last 50 years. - Peter Jackson

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PublisherCallaway Editions,U.S.
ISBN-139780935112962
eBay Product ID (ePID)9049046786

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Book TitleThe Beatles: Get Back
AuthorThe Beatles
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic
Publication Year2021
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages240 Pages

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Item Height302mm
Item Width250mm
Item Weight1980g

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Title_AuthorThe Beatles
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
EditorJohn Harris

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  • Excellent, in decent packaging &sealed copy. What's not to like. Terrific addition to the whole get back/let it be scenario.

    Excellent, in decent packaging &sealed copy. What's not to like. Terrific addition to the whole get back/let it be scenario.

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  • Beatles addict dream

    Great book. Great pictures.

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  • Great photos capture it all.

    The photos capture the mood through the process of the making of Let it Be.

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