Now, more than 50 years after the release of the song, The Beatles' official Instagram account have shared a rare promo for the song, featuring the band with their wives.
According to the post, the video has only been shown once before in the UK, on Top of The Pops, when it was in black and white. The video was filmed in four different locations for each of the couples. Of course is not true: the video is on YouTube since ages, and you can watch it below the Instagram's one.
There’s still 50 hours of additional Beatles footage
Meaning, there’s still a staggering amount of Beatles footage from this era (another FIFTY hours or so) that Jackson couldn’t shoehorn into this project for one reason or another. Which is to say: The original perceptions about the end of the group could very well still hold up. Assuming all that extra content ever gets released.(Bgr.com)
According to Antenna, which collects anonymous data about US spending habits through third-party email and budgeting apps , the three-part Beatles doc from director Peter Jackson prompted 209,000 Disney+ sign-ups during its first three days on the service. The first installment of "Get Back" premiered on Thanksgiving day, partway through Disney's fiscal first quarter.(Businesinsider)
Until now. Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” is the only mega-movie you’d really need to show to an alien wanting to understand the creativity and psychology of the rock ‘n’ roll "In 60 years’ worth of pop music movies, that’s something we’ve never really gotten."
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Get Back” is a great, maybe the greatest, movie or series about rock ‘n’ roll is accurate, but slightly reductive. What it might really be about is the art of negotiation … which means that it’s also kind of about what it takes to survive in marriage, family and business, on top of music, film or theater. You don’t have to have been in a band to relate to the dynamics that make “Get Back” fascinating, though it doesn’t hurt. You just have to have had a spouse, sibling, boss or employee that you played mental chess with, to try to get to a place where everybody wins. Really, you just need to have had a best friend.
Jackson has taken 468 minutes to tell the story of roughly 20 days in the life of history’s greatest band. It sounds grueling, but it’s hard to think of many of those minutes that feel wasted. I may think this epic could have done without the scene where Peter Sellers shows up at the recording sessions doing nothing but anxiously grinning; you may in turn believe it could have done without an entire take of John Lennon and Paul McCartney singing “Two of Us” through clenched teeth, for no other reason than maybe considering ventriloquism as a backup career if this Beatles thing really goes south.
Most music performed by a group is the product of constant, gracious compromise. In the Beatles circa 1969, Paul McCartney is the negotiator-in-chief, and he’s aware of every eggshell he has to walk around or smash to achieve greatness or just to get shit done. Perhaps not hyper-aware, at all times, or else George Harrison wouldn’t have quit the band for a few days, setting up “Get Back’s” Act-1-ending cliffhanger.
John, and now he’s playing de facto manager to everyone — not necessarily because he’s taken pole position in the band on merit alone, but because Lennon is suddenly more invested in a woman than he is in being in even the world’s greatest boy band. Seeing McCartney recognize and articulate all these shifts, and soldier on while he gets a little bit sad about them, is one of the pleasures of “Get Back.” If you don’t come away from this with just a little more admiration for Paul, you may just be too in the bag for John and Yoko and their bag-ism, but that’s all right. Everybody is going to be your favorite or most admired Beatle, some time before you complete the eight-hour Get Back Challenge.
“Shall we go to lunch?” someone asks. “Um, I think I’ll be leaving the band now,” Harrison offers. “When?” “Now.”
When Lennon and McCartney go to lunch, and they aren’t aware there’s a microphone in that flour pot, they can react with more tenderness, or real concern: “It’s a festering wound” with Harrison, Lennon is able to admit, “and yesterday we allowed it to go even deeper, and we didn’t even give him any bandages.”
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