New Fab Four record to follow

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54 years ago today - a littler more than 3 weeks after The Roof - the Beatles & Billy Preston (minus George Harrison's tonsils) were marvelously loud at Trident in their first recorded stab at "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" -- the blurry line between end of Get Back sessions & start of Abbey Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvT4BUFauqc
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👋 Morning! I made a poster with my #GetBack piece 🎸

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Have I said enough about this? For today, yes. Going forward? Impossible. Thanks to everyone for reading here and http://theymaybeparted.com and joining this conversation, it made it incredibly fun, and something I looked forward to every day.

Shine until tomorrow!

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Meanwhile, instead of tiring of it, I've enjoyed Get Back with every subsequent rewatch. Thanks to my family for watching with me and giving me a completely different POV on things.

And I haven't tired listening to the Nagras either, as challenging as that can be. Like Get Back - even moreso simply because of how much more of it there is - it really brings you so close to the Beatles. Who wants to be anywhere else?

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There's a lot of Get Back that directly nods - and replies - to Let It Be. But missing what its responding to is a problem. If Let It Be falls deeper into obscurity, we're losing the answer to a lot of "why" questions about the way the Beatles were considered for a long time.

So that's my Let It Be rant. I could go on. But I'll save it for another day.

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None of this is to say I don't like Get Back or think we didn't need it. I love it in every possible way. It sets the story straight(er) as a much more sincere & accurate look at the sessions. Having 8 hours vs. 80 minutes helps. But mostly, it tells a better story. We needed it.

BUT. Much like Get Back has rewritten the Beatles' history, Let It Be wrote it the first time. That matters. The response to it affected actual events & opinions for a really long time.

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As I wrote here about the film's chronology, since Let It Be was last officially available (on VHS & Laserdisc), you could have bought A Hard Day's Night on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-Ray *and* streamed it online. And 4K/UHD if that counts as a different thing than Blu-Ray

https://theymaybeparted.com/2021/11/22/tmbp-extra-that-road-before/

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This is a good time for a poll.

When was the last time you saw Let It Be?

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But Let It Be, with its timing after the breakup, reflected all the negatives. Every book, documentary & the individual Beatles themselves referred to that period - January 1969 - as the problem, the end. Then they had the coda of Abbey Road, to go out on a high, and that was it.

Let It Be has been allowed to die. Apple promised a rerelease at the announcement of Get Back, but a "will" became an "if" at some point.

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But the important part of this What If is changing what Let It Be forced upon us, including the four Beatles, in reality. The movie resulted in such an outsized reaction to events: the Paul/George argument, Paul yawning, Ringo exhausted, John disengaged. This defined Jan 1969.

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They would still have put out solo LPs, still break up. Nothing else around it different, *only* they just didn't put the film & LP in spring '70. Maybe in '73, instead of the Blue/Red we get the "lost Beatles album" and the film. We can go in lots of directions from there.

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Gonna *get back* to the Let It Be film for a little bit. Let's see where this lands. I love to play the butterfly effect/What If game. So what if the sessions happened exactly they did, but after all the delays, they just shelved the film entirely? So no Let It Be film/LP in 1970.

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Each of them had more songs. Some were holdovers, sure, but most weren't and they were writing and sharing songs to the very last day. January 1969 was the Beatles' most productive period, and I can't see an argument otherwise.

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My biggest takeaway from Jan 69 is always the relentlessness of their creativity. This is when I say "dayenu" - b/c even if the #Beatles gave us ONLY their output from that month, it would have been enough for a career.

I've posted this before, but it really is one of my fave moments. John rattles off 17 titles, songs they worked on in Jan 69. 11 to appear on Let It Be, 2 would be B-sides, 2 for Abbey Rd, 1 each for All Things Must Pass & McCartney. And this wasn't everything!

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My wife is lucky enough to be married to perhaps the internet's most beloved writer/researcher of the Get Back-era. So she's read about the sessions, seen Get Back and Let It Be multiple times. She brings strong insight.

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The 12yo, usually a man of few words, had none. I begged him for a take and only had, "I don't have anything to say." But I do think he liked it. I know he did. He was the first one to ask if we could watch again next year.

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Watching Get Back with my kids not only ages me terribly, but it definitely does reinforce the greatness of the group and of the story. They loved watching, and acknowledged we'll watch every year. They sincerely like the music and the people who created it. They get it.

I interrogated the family after the monthlong rewatch. This was the second time we've done this. First up, the 10yo. Profoundly, he said, "I learned they all had much bigger feelings than I thought."

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Back to #GetBack. It seems to get better every time I watch it. I wasn't expecting that. One reason, I think, is that they're stuck in time while I keep getting older (you are too, sorry). Watching Let It Be in the 80s it wasn't THAT long from'69. But this isn't the same.

We keep hurtling into the future. We see the #Beatles & friends reading newspapers, talking about busy signals on a phone, using analog SLR cameras, recording on reels. All of these things exist, but are relics, relatively.