Tom and I watched Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back 2021 documentary over three nights–Saturday, Monday, and tonight (Wednesday). It’s a brilliant documentary. It’s been many, many years since I saw the Let It Be documentary, and I tried really hard not to read reviews or spoilers about this one, because I knew it’d be a while before I could devote time to seeing it plus be emotionally in the right head space for it.
While working on the documentary, Peter had an idea when Paul was on his 2019 tour. He wanted to pitch it to him, but then the pandemic hit, nobody was touring, so he figured the moment had passed. When Paul announced his tour this year, Jackson reached out, worried Paul would think he was being a geeky fan boy, but Paul was all for it. Here’s what they put together for the first encore of Paul’s concerts.
Magic, magic, magic.
We’d have had a blast if we could have watched The Beatles: Get Back with Riley. It would have taken a lot longer, but Tom would have learned way more about Beatles band dynamics than I can tell him. Plus Riley would have given us a private concert of Beatles music, and I’D be the geeky fan girl for all of it.
ETA Fun Fact: Lynne’s cousin Nicky took the two of us to see the movie Let It Be on Thursday, July 16, 1970.