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The Beatles : get back

2021
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The Beatles: Get Back is the band's authorized account, in their own words, of the creation of the 1970 album Let It Be. It brings together transcribed conversations edited from over 120 hours of original sound recordings, along with superb candid photographs of the sessions, and film frames selected from 55 hours of restored footage.
Main title:
The Beatles : get back / by the Beatles ; featuring photography by Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney ; foreword by Peter Jackson ; introduction by Hanif Kureishi ; edited by John Harris from transcripts of the original recordings.
Author:
Russell, Ethan A.McCartney, LindaJackson, Peter, 1961-, author of introduction, etcKureishi, Hanif, author of introduction, etcHarris, John, 1969-, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
London : Apple ; New York : Callaway, 2021.©2021
Collation:
238 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm.
Notes:
"Note to the reader: The text primarily consists of conversations between The Beatles and their associates that took place during the Get Back sessions throughout January 1969. These have been carefully transcribed and edited from the original Nagra sound recordings"--Title page verso.Tie-in to the three-part Disney+ 2021 documentary series directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It covers the making of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be--adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Get_Back
Contents:
Foreword / Peter Jackson -- Introduction: All you need / Hanif Kureishe -- Dramatis personae -- Act one: Twickenham Film Studios -- Act two: Apple Studios -- Act three: The rooftop -- Afterword: What happened next / John Harris.
ISBN:
9780935112962 (hbk)9780935112962 (hbk)9780935112962
Dewey class:
782.42166782.421
Language:
English
BRN:
491639
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