The Beatles: Get Back (Collector's Set)

I saw Let It Be when I was 10 years old and knew I wanted to be a musician. This is a great, albeit long, story of the Beatles concert on 3 Savile Row. There are good times and bad times in this film. I'm grateful for the authenticity and transparency of the band members, facing a deadline and putting aside the rivalries to make Let It Be happen. Good stuff. Highly recommend.

As a fan of the Beatles music, movies and documentaries, I always wondered why the Let It Be film was never released on DVD. Several years ago, someone had posted the entire Let It Be movie in 10 minute segments on YouTube, and I watched it for the first time before it was quickly removed. It wasn’t a great documentary, but it wasn’t bad either. But after having seen the epic Peter Jackson produced Get Back documentary, I completely understand why the surviving Beatles and those who manage John Lennon’s and George Harrison’s estates said no to having Let It Be available for people to purchase or watch. After watching Get Back, I realized John, Paul, George and Ringo didn’t hate each other as more and more cracks began to form in their band in early 1969, but it got to the point where they couldn’t stand being around each other and they all wanted to do things that they couldn’t do while performing as the Beatles. I think when all 4 Beatles were done with the tremendous effort of what was originally the Get Back project, and it didn’t work, they tried their best to cobble something together as an album and a movie and move past it as best as they could. This resulted in the Phil Spector produced Let It Be album and the Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed movie of the same name. Personally, I much prefer the Let It Be . . . Naked and Super Deluxe versions of those recording sessions. What I liked most about the Get Back documentary was it included a calendar of January 1969 that showed day by day what happened, what changed, and what goals the Beatles eventually settled on before the end of the month. The best part of the documentary is by far the rooftop concert which shows so much more of what happened on that January 29th day as people stood on the streets and looked upwards to hear the Fab Four performing live for the last time, and the police were called to 3 Saville Row to stop the noise people in the area were complaining about. Paul said in the Beatles Anthology documentary that although they didn’t realize it at the time, they were filming the process of a rock group breaking up, and Get Back does an excellent job of showing that.

Details are remarkable! Two discs of the 3 are practice sessions preparing for the first live concert in years so if you're a Beatles fan you'll find it very compelling but perhaps not so much if you're not. The actual concert footage is brief by comparison but all-in-all a must have for those of us who glued are 10-year old eyes to that most memorable Sullivan show and combed our hair differently in school that following monday.

If you're even a casual Beatle's fan or a lifelong fanatic like me, you'll thoroughly enjoy this 3-DVD set of the band during a creative session to knock out an album and decide on where to play a gig for fans. I didn't want to subscribe to Disney + just to watch this, rather I waited until it became available. It didn't disappoint! Run, don't walk, and order this, as you'll be pleasantly surprised on how brilliant they were when sitting down to create songs and eventually, a classic album. Just wished that their early, more creative years could have been recorded too. Peter Jackson is remarkable in his delivery of sound and picture quality on this box set. Cheers!

This is a "must have" for any Beatles fan. Six hours of great music! Fantastic!

If you don't subscribe to Disneyplus but want to watch this documentary, this BluRay is the only way to do so. The whole thing is on three discs and they look great. The design of the box is nice and there are some extra photos inside. The only thing that was a bit disappointing was that this BluRay set did not have any extra special features. As something that is called a Collector's edition, you would expect this to have a least something about the making, so that was a bit disappointing. As for the content itself, this is more of a reality TV show than a documentary. You follow the Beatles over a course of a month and see all the ins and outs of recording their final albums and preparing for their rooftop concert. Parts of it were fun to watch, but there was a lot of content that was not as exciting and rather dull. Best for the true Beatle fan.

In the debate of stream vs. blue-ray, we ask "is the video/sound quality worth the inconvenience of handling the disk?" This is one clear case where the answer is "yes." Go ahead and stream sitcoms and romcoms but the Beatles deserve full bandwidth uncompressed sound. We've watched it all the way through three or four times, except for the last disk, which we've watched three or four dozen times.

The documentary was great fun to watch. Seeing those guys at that age was amazing. The option for a narrated audio was nice, but would have been nicer if closed captions had been provided for that too. The captions were only provided for the regular talk by the participants.

No good contrast in the picture. Booklet in german

Me tocó como a muchos fans del grupo, ver este excelente documental grabado en enero de 1969 en Disney+, resultó ser ¡TODA UNA EXPERIENCIA!, como muchos la única referencia oficial en video que documenta este periodo era la película Let It Be de 1970, resultado de todo lo grabado en enero del 69. Aunque el ánimo del grupo no se percibía como el más sano, a mi siempre me fascinó todo la música que ensayaron para el proyecto "Get Back - Let It Be" en esos días de enero de 1969. Luego llegaron los materiales de esta etapa contenidos en la Antología del grupo (tanto en audio, video y libro) en los 90's y por último el álbum Let It Be Naked de 2003 que aunque no hubo mucha material promocional en video para este lanzamiento, los fans sí pudimos ver un video nuevo de Get Back con escenas inéditas y "muy limpias". Superando las expectativas de muchos llegó el documantal armado por Peter Jackson, que es lo que compramos en este set de colección, bellamente confeccionado en una caja elegante, con tres discos bluray, cuatro postales. Realmente vale mucho la pena hacerse de este set de colección, como fan lo agradecemos y lo atesoramos, y creo que sin temor a equivocarme, muchos deseamos ver más de este excelente tesoro documental del grupo. Por cierto, para quien lo necesite, cabe mencionar que los bluray vienen en idioma original y con algunos subtítulos como muestro en mis fotos. Espero que esta información les sea de utilidad para que se decidan a adquirir este box set de colección.

Als Teenager habe ich zum ersten Mal den Film Let It Be gesehen. Das dazugehörige Album war für mich für Jahre das beste Album der besten Band überhaupt. Als Sammler möchte man immer mehr, mehr, mehr, am liebsten alles. Nun, von den Get Back Sessions gibt es tatsächlich viel mehr. Auch wenn die Veröffentlichungen nicht autorisiert sind ist es ein Leichtes sich den Zugang zu verschaffen. Hat man sich durch das Material durchgearbeitet muss man feststellen, dass die offiziellen Veröffentlichungen Let It Be / Let It Be Naked / Let It Be (Film) tatsächlich bereits das Beste enthalten. Die Titel auf den Inhaltslisten der alternativen Veröffentlichungen lesen sich oft interessanter als sie sich anhören. Alte Beatle Hits, Rock’n’Roll Standards und unveröffentlichtes Material wird meist nur kurz angespielt, oft ohne jeglichen Ernst und geringer Textsicherheit. Interessanter sind frühe Versionen von Songs, die sich später auf dem Abbey Road Album oder gar erst auf Soloveröffentlichungen nach Auflösung der Beatles wiederfinden. Großartige Songs wie I‘ve Got A Feeling verlieren etwas an Reiz wenn man sie im Zuge der Proben fünfmal hintereinander zu Hören bekommt. Kommt der Let It Be Film mit 80 Minuten aus sind es bei Get Back über 7 Stunden. 60 Stunden Film-, bzw. 150 Stunden Tonmaterial sollen insgesamt von den Sessions verfügbar sein. Das Werk hätte also noch umfangreicher werden können vermutlich ohne weitere Steigerung des Seh- und Hörgenuss. Der Höhepunkt des Films, das Rooftopconcert wird hier in voller Länge gezeigt. Wobei die Verlängerung vor allem auf Zweit- und Drittversionen der 5 gespielten Titel zurückzuführen ist. Die Meinungsverschiedenheit zwischen Paul und George am 6.1.1969 wird in einer Langversion gezeigt. Und der Ausstieg von George am 10. 1.1969 was im Let It Be Film ganz ausgeklammert wird. Übrigens soll diesem Ausstieg ein Streit mit John und nicht mit Paul vorangegangen sein. Wurde die Geschichte der Get Back Sessions wirklich neu erzählt? Nun zumindest stimmt die chronologische Reihenfolge und man kann im zweiten Teil deutlich die verbesserte Stimmung nach dem Umzug ins Apple Gebäude, dem Wiedereinstieg von George und dem Einstieg von Billy Preston spüren. Bild und Ton sicher besser als im Original. Auch wenn die erhoffte Genusssteigerung ausblieb gibt es 5 Sterne für die Aufmachung der BlueRayDisc, die Bild- und Tonqualität und den umfangreichen für Sammler interessanten Inhalt.

If you a beatles fan , a must have!

After watching Let it Be way too many times, this is a revelation ! Brilliant !!!