Beatles Get Back documentary

@larsman 

George Martin is present throughout in a kind of overlooking role as Glynn Johns sets about trying to produce the album.

I've not heard the Glynn Johns mix of Let It Be but apparently the Beatles didn't like it and lost interest in the project thereafter.

As Get Back shows, the Beatles were always working continuously as a unit. By the end of the film most of their final album Abbey Road is already in the making.

Contrary to Beatles history, there exists a tape where they seem to have been considering a follow up album to Abbey Road.

One of the most chilling moments is where Lennon casually mentions that he's just been to see Allen Klein...

John was very present and productive in these sessions.
I thought he would be more indifferent and disengaged at this time.

He’s banging out “Don’t Let Me Down” before Paul even arrives on Day 1.  He’s jumping on the organ or the piano to help develop a Paul or George song, he’s presenting songs that are just as good as Paul or George’s, he makes great suggestions and decisions as to how the songs should be, he try’s his damndest to sing and play well, and brings forth some great, great songs.  
“Jealous Guy/On the Road to Rishikesh/Child of Nature” is a better song than most of the ones that made it on the album. “Gimme Some Truth” would have been cool to hear as a Beatles song.

They’re all great. Paul’s talent is stunning. The dismissive attitude towards George from both Paul and John sucks.  It’s great watching George not take any crap anymore.

@cd318 - Didn't Phil Spector have something to do with this? 

What an amazing 6 hours.  Watching masters of their craft create the classics knowing how they came about musically and lyrically was soooo good.  For me one of the best parts is when they got thru the drudgery of creating the music, the joy they exhibited performing as band.

I've seen it twice and will watch several more times I'm sure.

@larsman

Yes, Phil Spector was later drafted in to try to assemble an album out of the wreckage.

Probably by Lennon or Harrison.

Definitely not by McCartney.

I’m a fan of Phil’s work on Let It Be but I wish he’d included Don’t Let Me Down in the finished album as it’s surely one of the key songs of the period.

According to some reports it would appear that both the original Let It Be film and Jackson’s Get Back left out a few key details.

"The atmosphere in the film studios, the early start each day, and the intrusive cameras and microphones of Lindsay-Hogg’s film crew combined to heighten the Beatles’ discontent.

When the band rehearsed McCartney’s "Two of Us" on 6 January, a tense exchange ensued between McCartney and Harrison about the latter’s lead guitar part.

During lunch on 10 January, Lennon and Harrison had a heated disagreement in which Harrison berated Lennon for his lack of engagement with the project.

Harrison was also angry with Lennon for telling a music journalist that the Beatles’ Apple organisation was in financial ruin. According to journalist Michael Housego’s report in the Daily Sketch, Harrison and Lennon’s exchange descended into violence with the pair allegedly throwing punches at each other.

Harrison denied this in a 16 January interview for the Daily Express, saying: "There was no punch-up. We just fell out."

After lunch on 10 January, Harrison announced that he was leaving the band and told the others, "See you round the clubs."

Starr attributed Harrison’s exit to McCartney "dominating" him."

In Jackson’s version all this is only alluded to, but Harrison’s leaving followed Ringo’s from the year before. However, the next ones to leave weren’t so easy to entice back.

Perhaps more detail will be included in the extended version if Jackson gets a free hand to tell like it was?