The Parable of The Beatles: Get Back

Andrew Donaldson

Born and raised in West Virginia, Andrew has since lived and traveled around the world several times over. Though frequently writing about politics out of a sense of duty and love of country, most of the time he would prefer discussions on history, culture, occasionally nerding on aviation, and his amateur foodie tendencies. He can usually be found misspelling/misusing words on Twitter @four4thefire and his food writing website Yonder and Home. Andrew is the host of Heard Tell podcast.

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  1. It would be much shorter without all the CGI battle scenes.Report

  2. Fish says:

    I have to go back and give it my full attention, but wandering in and out of the room I happened to catch the bit where the band was waiting for John and Paul just…kind of sat down with his guitar and started putting together “Get Back.”Report

  3. Kolohe says:

    I’ve only seen the first episode so far, and I agree with all this.

    Then another. Finally, with the whole band present, they make music together, along with the joking, comradery, and brotherhood shining through for a few moments along with snippets of music and smiles of those involved.

    And just to echo this point again, the diamond in the whole thing is that these guys were so talented, the performances they gave when just futzing around trying to think of ‘real work’ were dazzling and electrifying.

    A pivot that made the latter efforts revolutionary but the absence of the former taking away some essential life force a band needs to center itself

    One thing I never knew is how their manager died really young, and at perhaps the critical point in the trajectory of the Beatles as a band. One wonders if they would have someone they trusted to handle the ‘business’ and free of the stress of that they would have been able to keep it going another couple of years. And moreover someone to manage the tension of that ‘essential life force’ – balancing the need for an audience but having enough ‘infrastructure’ to not be overwhelmed by them.

    Though really, that part of the job probably wasn’t one of Brian Epstein’s strong suits* and why they quit performing in public – in that opening montage they were numerous scenes where there could have been (and was?) similar tragedy to what happened in Houston a few weeks ago w/ Travis Scott

    *but to be fair to him – nobody had experience with that sort of thing, it was pretty much the dawn of modern celebrity cultureReport