![]() ![]() But the resulting film, Let It Be, turned out to be something very different, as by the time it came out, the Beatles were no more. They also decided to film the whole thing. But a side effect of the time-saving technological innovation of multitracking meant they played individually rather than together as a unit, just as other commitments and relationships put their friendship under strain.įeeling they needed to recapture their old energy, the band decided to write and record an album in two weeks, building toward their first live gig in years. After a backlash from American religious types against Lennon's glib remark about being more famous than Jesus, they gave up touring to focus on increasingly complex and experimental music. ![]() Having grown from a gang of bequiffed teenagers in the late 1950s into the lauded lords of Beatlemania in the 1960s, by 1969 the group found itself adrift. But even with the absorbing undercurrent of suspense around the band's fate, Get Back is still eight hours of watching some guys sitting around in a room. It's undoubtedly a hypnotic treat for music scholars and Beatles megafans. ![]() This exhaustive (and, honestly, slightly exhausting) look inside the songwriting and recording process gives you a closeup of the four most famous musicians in the world as they try to work out whether they want to be Beatles anymore. ![]()
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