Get Back, Low-retta

Peter Jackson's long-awaited Get Back is now set to be a 6-hour miniseries over Thanksgiving:

Rolling out in three two-hour installments on November 25th, 26th, and 27th, The Beatles: Get Back utilizes over 60 hours of unseen film footage from January 1969 — shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the original Let It Be film — and 150 hours of unheard audio, as well as — for the first time ever — the Beatles’ complete rooftop concert from atop London’s Savile Row. Paul McCartney previously shared a five-minute clip from Get Back in December.

Additionally, the Beatles’ Apple Corps will release a companion The Beatles: Get Back book on October 12th, a 240-page hardcover that complements the documentary with transcriptions of the Beatles’ recorded conversations and hundreds of exclusive, unseen photos from the three weeks of sessions.

This thrills me because the timing AND the accompanying book make it an echo of the phenomenal Anthology:

I can remember breathlessly watching the three nights they originally ran this back in 1995, and thinking "who the fuck on the planet ISN'T watching this?" As the respective albums were released I'd buy them at Sounds at the mall in Oxford, running to the mall shitter to read the liner notes cause I couldn't wait until I got home.