I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

The mix, on that first version of Get Back on the roof, is absolutely thumping. It might just be the ‘Dolby Atmos’ or whatever but jeez.

I have never thought Paul remotely attractive or sensual except when bearded or shouting "Oklahoma was never like this!"

Tracer otm

wow, i sincerely did not realize paul's beard had so many stans! i've just always thought he looked so good clean-shaven. probably one of my unacknowledged personal style icons along the way.

rewatched part 3 last night. . . does Mal turn off George's amp at one point? Right at the end?

George's wisened billy goat beard is the best, but that comes a bit later. I think I prefer the mustache stage to the beard stage for everyone else, because they're so silly, but the man-fur coats rule regardless, because they are silly, too.

aren't they their wives/girlfriends coats?

Beatles should have worn fur coats and the wives/girlfriends should have grown beards.

george and john realized there was no way anybody was going to drag that anvil up there.

JL: Yoko's always going to be by my side, and I'm always going to be by her's!

PM: I'll show you!

also those who've watched the new series can correct me, but i am going on the assumption that the main reason they chose the roof is that george and john realized there was no way anybody was going to drag that anvil up there.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXKGwNOnuU

Watching this tomorrow!

GUYS IT'S NOT ACTUALLY AGAINST THE LAW TO JUST CUT A FUCKING SONG WITHOUT DOING IT IN A GOOFY VOICE

Paul's beard is great, best he's ever looked

the Beatles quippy thing is cool in a montage of press conference highlights but I'm really wanting to tell Lennon (esp) and Paul to stfu sometimes

I am honestly surprised Jackson didn't use CG to sync up the mouths to the dialogue better, at least at the start.

yeah some kung fu movie moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8cMTcEUpY

CG

maybe Andy Serkis was busy

lol worst xpost ever

that video is disturbing

the Beatles quippy thing is cool in a montage of press conference highlights but I'm really wanting to tell Lennon (esp) and Paul to stfu sometimes

I would very quickly get worn down by John's hippie little bojangles moments where his arms get all wavy and he does a little tap dance.

I am honestly surprised Jackson didn't use CG to sync up the mouths to the dialogue better, at least at the start.

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the completely out of sync “hey jude” footage during the opening of the first episode was pretty bad.

Hey Pete, don't be a fool. Take a lame song and sync it better.

glad this thread has rounded into "fuckin' John and Paul singing in silly voices all the time is super annoying" because it drove me nuts

i couldn't have dealt with John like he was in part 2

Part I: Damn, John. Lighten up a little. Join the band.

Part II: Good Lord, will you fucking chill out for a second?

I did lol at in Part II where John and Paul stand up to record, go really off the deep end, and then have to sit down again because "we get too excited!"

I deeply identified with Peter Sellers leaving after a few uncomfortable minutes of trying to deal with the Beatle banter.

lol the silly stuff was the stuff i liked the most! tough crowd

Paul on beards, 2012:
One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing-- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

yes you can tolerate any beard you grow

god no kidding they're just dicking around xpost

the silly stuff, they were probably doing a lot of it so not as to have to think about the band they'd been in since they were kids was breaking up in front of their eyes

yeah def a lot of that

I've been in a lot of bands where the goofing off was the point, because the stakes were low - like, does anyone give a hoot if we play well or poorly, or if we get a gig in one month or six months? No they do not. But those bands were not the globally famous and quite talented Beatles.

To some extent the "we have to do this in three weeks" or whatever was artificially imposed - they could have just sat round their mansions and enjoyed owning absurd coats. But the world is ever-so-slightly richer for their having done this completely unnecessary thing, so.

I deeply identified with Peter Sellers leaving after a few uncomfortable minutes of trying to deal with the Beatle banter.

Poor Yoko asking, "Why are they laughing?" only made it funnier.

It's not even that the banter is unfunny or annoying, it's just the feeling of being dropped in some group with an impenetrable mode of communicating with each other and years-old in-jokes.

yeah i get that, but it totally worked for me. i don't think it was impenetrable. but I can see that some people feel that way, but it was delightful for me.

i learned a lot by googling and keeping captions on the whole time--at one point, in the 3rd ep, Lennon mentions he's had a few to George Martin and says "remember Bob Wooler." Who the hell is Bob Wooler I thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wooler#:~:text=Famously%2C%20Wooler%20was%20physically%20attacked,trip%20to%20Spain%20with%20Epstein.

Yikes!

I didn't realize it was John doing the lead guitar on "Get Back". That's some smooth riffin'!

Mal Evans memoir coming out now:

https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/get-back-beatles-roadie-mal-evans-will-get-archive-memoir.html

oh cool

Today I learned that the band started working on three or four Abbey Road songs with leftover time from the Let It Be sessions, which is a curious bit of overlap. Let It Be, the album and sessions, were such odd outliers.

I think only four songs were new compositions during the Abbey Road sessions: You Never Give Me Your Money, Come Together, Here Comes the Sun and Sun King.

Which is so odd, because this movie depicts the band struggling for material, scraping the barrel even, when there were all these other songs apparently far enough along that they went to work on them immediately.

pretty grim reading about mal evans.

Maureen Starkey is a pretty brutal wiki read as well.

Maureen Starkey is a pretty brutal wiki read as well.

Very. "When the Harrisons were visiting the Starrs, Harrison confessed how much he loved Maureen, which led to an affair" - I remember this being a bombshell when I picked up Rolling Stone's special issue on George after he died. That issue didn't mention Starr's own infidelities and growing alcoholism, which may have helped push Maureen into it.

Zak Starkey reposted some of Rob Sheffield’s RS Get Back piece on his Instagram (@therealzakstarkey), along with a neat photo of Maureen with Zak’s “uncle” Keith Moon.

Nobody on the roof is a bigger fan than Mo. She was a screaming girl back at the Cavern Club — she’s the only person here who ever stood in line and paid money to hear this band. … She’s waited years for this gig.

Mo was the Beatle wife everyone loved. Even Ringo. Apparently he was by her side when she died.

Mo is the best

Yes you can vindicate any coat of Mo

And you gave me a hard time the other day for a bad pun, on a thread dedicated to suchlike?

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