The Beatles: Get Back, Book Release Announced

The Beatles' company Apple Corps has announced the release of a new book, The Beatles: Get Back. The 240-page richly illustrated hard cover tells the story of the recordings for the 1970 album Let It Be, and coincides with Peter Jackson's eponymous documentary film, which was initially set to premiere this year. The book can be pre-ordered from today, but, like the film, it will not be released for another year.

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The book’s texts contains original conversations between John, Paul, George and Ringo, drawn from over 120 recorded hours of the band’s studio sessions. The Beatles: Get Back is illustrated with hundreds of previously unpublished images, including photos by Linda McCartney and Ethan A. Russel. From the press release: 

This intimate, riveting book invites us to travel back in time to January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles’ last year as a band. The Beatles (‘The White Album’) is still at number one in the charts, but the ever-prolific foursome regroup in London for a new project, initially titled Get Back.

Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras and tape recorders documenting every day’s work, the band rehearse a huge number of songs, new and old, in preparation for what proves to be their final concert, which famously takes place on the rooftop of their own Apple Corps office building, bringing central London to a halt. 

These sessions, which generated the Let It Be album and film released in May 1970, represent the only time in The Beatles’ career that they were filmed at such length while in the studio creating music. Simultaneously, they were exclusively photographed and their conversations recorded. The Beatles: Get Back is the band’s own definitive book documenting those sessions.”

The book will be released on August 31, 2021, the film gets it's premiere four days earlier, on August 27, 2021.
You can pre-order your copy here

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