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Peter Jack­son will bring The Bea­t­les’ famed rooftop con­cert to IMAX cinemas

05 Jan 2022

Words by Charles Bramesco

Rock band performing on a rooftop, with crowd watching. Guitarist, drummer, and other musicians on stage.
Rock band performing on a rooftop, with crowd watching. Guitarist, drummer, and other musicians on stage.
The high­light sequence of the recent Get Back doc­u­men­tary will be seen as nev­er before.

Since its pre­mière on Dis­ney Plus about a month and a half ago, The Bea­t­les: Get Back has proven one of this season’s most pop­u­lar binge-watch­es, as fans of the Fab Four have devoured the eight-plus hours of archival footage painstak­ing­ly restored and arranged by Peter Jack­son. Those des­per­ate for more are in luck, as one key piece of the three-part series will soon be seen as nev­er before.

Get Back cli­max­es with The Bea­t­les’ famed con­cert on the rooftop of their Apple Corps stu­dios, a last hur­rah before call­ing it quits as a group enti­ty. The band’s offi­cial Twit­ter account announced today that this final per­for­mance is com­ing to cin­e­mas as a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion in IMAX for audi­ences in the US and UK.

For one night only on 30 Jan­u­ary, a 60-minute edit of the leg­endary show will play in a siz­able num­ber of cities. On that fate­ful day (which just so hap­pens to have been 30 Jan­u­ary, fifty-three years ago), The Bea­t­les made it 42 min­utes before the author­i­ties showed up to fee­bly put the kibosh on the pro­ceed­ings, by which point they’d already made history.

Their setlist con­sist­ed of choice cuts from their then-in-progress album Let It Be, includ­ing the much-rehearsed Get Back’, I’ve Got A Feel­ing’, and Don’t Let Me Down’ It was an emo­tion­al­ly cathar­tic expe­ri­ence for a close-knit group on the verge of break­ing apart, shed­ding the acri­mo­ny that had often cloud­ed the record­ing process and remem­ber­ing the sim­ple plea­sure of play­ing music with your friends.

An exclu­sive Q&A with Jack­son will pad out the presentation’s run time, as he pre­sum­ably fields inquiries about his polar­iz­ing deci­sion to smooth out everybody’s faces until they look like Insta­grammed ver­sions of them­selves. That, or we’ll find out what his favorite Bea­t­les song is. There should be time for both.

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