NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Last week, a new docuseries titled "The Beatles: Get Back" was released on Disney+. Told in three parts over six hours, the series chronicles the Beatles’ creation of their final album "Let It Be."
While a documentary about how the album was already made in 1970 by frequent Beatles collaborator Michael Lindsay-Hogg, this series delves much deeper into the behind-the-scenes process and the problems that may have contributed to their breakup more than Hogg’s original 80 minute documentary ever could.
Speaking with 1010 WINS in an exclusive interview, Lindsay-Hogg actually explained that his original film wasn’t even supposed to be a documentary. He said, “[It] was originally going to be a television special appearance by the Beatles, since they stopped touring in 1966. After about a week of trying to figure [the logistics] out, it turned into a documentary.”
Shot in 1969, Let It Be wasn’t planned to be the band’s final film either. However, because it took so long to edit the film, it came out the following year. By then the band announced their breakup and, as a result, fans “took it as the break up movie,” Lindsay-Hogg said.
He added that between 1969 and 1970, “money issues started to come between [the guys]...and the money issues brought up personal issues.”
The new film, or “the documentary about a documentary” as creator and Academy Award winner Peter Jackson calls it, is surprisingly not the last we’ll see from the band though.
Lindsay-Hogg told WINS that because Apple owns most of the rights to the band, the company plans to, "[rerelease] 'Let It Be' some time after Peter’s movie...We don’t know whether it will be streaming. We don’t know whether it’ll be limited-theatrical, but it will be the original movie with a new soundtrack from Giles Martin.”
He said he hopes that when people get a chance to revisit his film - and even while they watch Jackson’s new one - that they don’t view it as the “breakup movie” anymore.
“Yes, they had moments of tension between them because they were grown up - they were going in different directions. They weren’t ‘the Fab Four’ [or] ‘the mop tops’ anymore. They were like brothers.”