How a rediscovered footage of The Beatles proved the ‘holy grail’ for fans
For a band that broke up five decades ago, The Beatles are still remarkably productive.
Right now, the remaining members of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, can be found on the production credits of The Beatles: Get Back, a blockbuster new Disney+ documentary culled from some infamous lost Beatles tapes. Lots and lots of tapes, in fact.
Director Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame shared a making-of clip last year, revealing a whole roomful of film canisters that he was ploughing through.
That may sound a grind, but for Beatles obsessives, getting access to those tapes would be the culmination of an epic, Rings-like quest.
“The January ’69 recordings are definitely the biggest holy grail out there,” says Aaron Krerowicz, arguably America’s most dedicated Beatles lecturer, author, and fan. “I have long wondered why the powers that be weren’t marketing the stuff like crazy because there’s such demand for it.”
That footage was originally captured for a 1970 documentary, Let it Be, about the recording of the similarly titled Beatles album. But only a fraction was used in that rather downbeat film.
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