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After this, they reconvened to The Beatles’ Apple Records studios, which made for a better environment musically, especially when keyboardist Billy Preston was brought in to give the band’s sound a new dimension. This led to George Harrison quitting the band, though a meeting was held a few days later and the rest of the Beatles were able to convince Harrison to rejoin the group. However, as both documentaries show, this plan quickly starts to unravel, as Twickenham Studios, where the band was to write and rehearse these new songs, turned out to not be conducive to The Beatles’ endless creativity. Just like Get Back, Let It Be chronicles The Beatles writing and recording new music over the course of a tight three-week schedule in January 1969 before rehearsing and then performing their new songs for their first live performance in three years. First, because the film has been near impossible to see over the years due to a lack of release on home video or streaming, but also because Peter Jackson has made it clear that he didn’t make Get Back with the intent of erasing Let It Be from existence, and in fact, it may lead to the 1970 doc soon seeing the light of day. But despite the availability of the more comprehensive Get Back now, Let It Be still remains an alluring piece of Beatle history. One huge reason that Get Back is so illuminating is it doesn’t have any of the constraints which were placed on the original Let It Be film, which was released shortly after The Beatles broke up and had a more compact 80-minute runtime.
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While it’s completely understandable that more casual fans of The Beatles could find the documentary cumbersome, for more dedicated Beatlemaniacs (like yours truly), it’s a fascinating look into how this most legendary of rock groups operated. One of the most unexpected streaming surprises of 2021 (especially for Beatles fans) has been The Beatles: Get Back, the 8-hour docuseries that chronicles the sometimes fraught, sometimes inspiring making of the Let It Be documentary and album.