NEW RELEASE
The Beatles: Get Back book and Let It Be special edition album releases
“It would be fair to say that today Let It Be symbolises the breaking up of The Beatles. That’s the mythology, the truth is somewhat different. The real story of Let It Be has been locked in the vaults of Apple Corps for the last fifty years.”
PETER JACKSON
The Beatles: Get Back
by The Beatles
The beautifully presented book The Beatles: Get Back is the official companion to the Peter Jackson-directed documentary series streamed on Disney+ 25,26,27th November and the official account of the creation of their final album, Let It Be.
Told in The Beatles’ own words, The Beatles: Get Back book features transcriptions of recorded conversations and is illustrated with hundreds of previously unpublished images, including photos by Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney.
The biggest publishing event since The Beatles Anthology, Get Back sheds new light on one of the most talked-about periods in the history of the biggest band on Earth.
Let It Be Special Edition Releases
by The Beatles
The Beatles present their 1970 chart-topping album Let It Be in sweeping new Special Editions across Vinyl and CD, as you’ve never heard it before.
Featuring new mixes by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo, 5.1 surround, and Dolby Atmos; expanded with previously unreleased session recordings and demos.
Choose from a single vinyl or CD or a collectable box set.
The Beatles: Get Back Docuseries
by The Beatles
The Peter Jackson-directed docuseries (originally streamed on Disney+) will be released on Blu-ray in a collector’s 3 disc set. The set will be accompanied by four collectors cards with photos of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Released late February 2022.
This book is drawn from the same source material as the soon to be released feature movie to be produced by WingNut Films, Apple Corps and Walt Disney Films. Peter Jackson announced the movie last year, noting he was working with 55 hours of previously unseen film shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and 140 hours of audio the band recorded in January 1969.
The director called the footage “an amazing historical treasure trove. Sure, there’s moments of drama but none of the discord this project has long been associated with. Watching John [Lennon], Paul [McCartney], George [Harrison] and Ringo [Starr] work together, creating now-classic songs from scratch, is not only fascinating, its funny, uplifting and surprisingly intimate.”
The Beatles: Get Back tells the story of the ‘Let It Be’ sessions through transcripts of the band’s candid conversations. Drawing on over 120 hours of sound recordings, leading music writer John Harris has edited the richly captivating text to give us a fly-on-the-wall experience of being there in the studios.
These sessions come vividly to life through hundreds of unpublished, extraordinary images by two photographers who had special access to their sessions-Ethan A. Russell and Linda Eastman (who married Paul McCartney two months later). Also included are many unseen high-resolution film-frames, selected from the 55 hours of restored footage from which Peter Jackson’s documentary is also drawn.
Half a century after their final performance, this book completes the story of the creative genius, timeless music, and inspiring legacy of The Beatles.
The Beatles: Get Back
by The Beatles
Global publication date: 12 October 2021
Contributors: Foreward by Peter Jackson, introduction by Hanif Kureishi, edited by John Harris from transcripts of the original sound recordings and featuring photography from Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney
Publisher: Callaway Publications and Apple Corps
Edition: Hedley’s Books has guaranteed copies from the first pressing of the first edition
Binding: Full colour, illustrated hardback
Specifications: Size 302mm x 254mm, 240 pages, 200+ photographs
