{"id":200001,"date":"2021-11-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=200001"},"modified":"2021-11-22T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:25:28","slug":"i-just-cant-believe-it-exists-peter-jackson-takes-us-into-the-beatles-vault-locked-up-for-52-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/i-just-cant-believe-it-exists-peter-jackson-takes-us-into-the-beatles-vault-locked-up-for-52-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Just Can\u2019t Believe It Exists\u2019: Peter Jackson Takes Us into the Beatles Vault Locked Up for 52 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 Nov 2021 – Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four \u2013 and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2018The whole thing boggles my mind\u2019 \u2026 Jackson on The Beatles: Get Back.
Photograph: Don McCullin\/Press Images\/Eyevine<\/p><\/div>\n

W<\/span><\/span>hen the world closed down in March 2020, most of us had to make do with pretending to enjoy video calls with friends or baking bread. Peter Jackson<\/a>, meanwhile, was busy sifting through a mountain of unseen footage \u2013 60 hours in total \u2013 of the Beatles, shot by the director Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n

His four-year project is now finished \u2013 \u201cwe finally completed it on Friday,\u201d says a relieved-looking Jackson from his home in New Zealand \u2013 and the resulting series, The Beatles: Get Back, will be released on Disney+ from 25 November. Originally envisaged as a feature film, Covid uncertainty saw plans revised. It is now three two-hour episodes, using the mass of outtakes from Lindsay-Hogg\u2019s work on what would become Let It Be, the band\u2019s fourth feature film.<\/p>\n

It is striking just how much joy is contained within the vivid and eerily detailed footage. Contrary to almost all accounts over the past 52 years, John, Paul, George and Ringo are seemingly happy to be in the studio: laughing, joking, singing in the style of ventriloquists, talking about last night\u2019s TV (Peter Cook and Zsa Zsa Gabor having a spat) and, of course, writing music. Taken at face value, it\u2019s a unique insight into a band at work, restored to a modern, HD sheen. But, more than that, it\u2019s a study of four of the most idolised and scrutinised individuals in the world in their prime. This is not just a music documentary, it\u2019s a history book come to life.<\/p>\n

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