How much Beatles is too much? Our experts gorge on the new docuseries, 'Get Back'
,” both of which allow us access to people and moments we might’ve thought were lost to time. But Jackson’s epic is a singular immersion. Times pop music critic Mikael Wood, staff writer Randall Roberts and columnist Gustavo Arellano gathered to discuss it.everything ended.
But what about you guys? Did “Get Back’s” framing — its explicit appeal to your emotions — entice you the way it seems to have enticed others?I was born a year after you, Mikael, but the Beatles remain my favorite band of all time — no one else even close. I mourned their premature end once I learned about it and still do to an extent. But the framing that Jackson is using isn’t new.
Older me wonders why Paul, Ringo, Yoko and Olivia Harrison think it’s important to reframe the end of the Beatles as, if not necessarily happy, then definitely not sad. What does the Beatles empire gain from being as positive as possible, or reinterpreting the very messy end we slowly see unfolding here as just something that happened?I was born a few years before the Beatles broke up and was inculcated into the Beatles cult in the mid-1970s through my older sister.
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