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Peter Jackson's mesmerizing Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back was supposed to be a six-hour immersion into the recording of Let It Be and the last live concert by rock music's most famous band before they split up and headed toward solo careers. “I didn't want to make the movie about the Beatles breaking up,&#8221…

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr paid tribute to George Harrison today on the 20th anniversary of their Beatles bandmate’s death. “Hard to believe that we lost George 20 years ago,” McCartney posted on Instagram along with a Beatles-era photograph of the two in a recording studio. “I miss my friend so much.” Starr…

“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we’ve passed the audition,” says John Lennon near the end of The Beatles: Get Back, premiering on Disney+ today. Almost all fans of the Fab Four have seen the quip from Lennon in the 1970 Let It Be movie as the band finishes up their last ever…

It’s not quite as arduous as Hobbits venturing to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson’s immersed himself for four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of The Beatles. The result is the seven-hour The Beatles: Get Back, which Jackson culled and restored from 60 hours of studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Midas Man, the biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, has hired a new director as it looks to get back into production as soon as possible. Sara Sugarman, known for directing movies including music comedy Vinyl, Lifetime’s House of Versace and Disney’s Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, is newly…

The endless fascination with The Beatles continues on Disney+, which is celebrating its second anniversary with a cavalcade of new content, including director Peter Jackson’s three-part examination of the Fab Four’s lasting influence as seen in its creative process. The first clip from The Beatles: Get Back rolls out…

The first official trailer dropped today for Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, which chronicles the band’s creative process as they attempt to write 14 new songs in preparation for their first live concert in over two years. It would also be the band’s final live performance. While Jackson previously released a…

In an excerpt of an interview with The Guardian, Paul McCartney has blamed John Lennon for initiating the breakup of The Beatles more than 50 years ago. McCartney has long been blamed for the split, but now calls the breakup and its aftermath the “most difficult period” of his life. “Stop right there. I am not the…

UPDATED with Ringo Starr reaction: Astrid Kirchherr, photographer and early friend of the Beatles whose avant-garde style helped transform the young band from ’50s-era greasers to moptop trend-setters, died Wednesday in her native Hamburg, Germany. She was 81. The German newspaper Die Zeit reports that Kirchher died…

It’s an argument that dates back to the early 1960s, and sharply divides the world into two camps. No, not Republicans and Democrats. We’re talking Rolling Stones or Beatles. The ancient rivalry seemed to resume this week, as Paul McCartney claimed The Beatles were bigger than The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger responded…

The UK’s National Trust is looking for a passionate fan to guide tourists interested in the childhood home of Beatle Paul McCartney and the nearby abode of John Lennon. The BBC reports that the UK charity, which spotlights environmental and heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, needs a new…

Robert Freeman, the photographer whose iconic photos and album covers of The Beatles had a major cultural impact, has died. No cause of death was given, but he had been ill for some time. His death was confirmed by official The Beatles’ Twitter page. Freeman began his career as a photo journalist at the British…