The Beatles’ Final Album Wasn’t a Bitter End. It Was a Return to Joy.

Fresh reassessment of the Abbey Road sessions, fueled by Peter Jackson’s Get Back, dismantles decades of myth around the band’s last days together.

The Beatles spent January 1969 being filmed for a documentary that would freeze them in public memory as four men barely tolerating each other. Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s cameras caught the writing and recording of Let It Be at Twickenham and then at 3 Savile Row. The resulting 1970 film let the world watch a band seeming to run out of road. For years, that was the official story of the breakup.

Peter Jackson’s 2021 eight-hour Get Back challenged all that. Looking at