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NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions - Again!
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Anyone watch this?
I watched the first one and it was surprisingly riveting. The documentary was taken from 60 hours of the Beatles prepare for their last performance before a live audience. It is a fascinating look into the dynamics of the break up of this group, but maybe more interestingly, the dynamics of how they would write a song. Pressed to come up with 14 new songs, the group sits down six days a week in a warehouse and starts banging things out. It is fascinating to watch McCartney take a chord or two and and slowly through them together into a song adding nonsense words along the way until finally he chugs out the songs that we all know. Watching Lennon and McCartney interact with each other and throw ideas off each other is fascinating. It's also interesting to see the extent that they are dismissive of George Harrison.
Also interesting to me is the groups ability to play other instruments. McCartney and Lennon take turns on the piano while Harrison takes an occasional turn on the drums. In a different documentary I learned that McCartney doesn't read music so basically he's doing everything by ear. When he plays a song for the rest of the group Lennon would watch his singers on the guitar as he worked to learn the song. Meanwhile McCartney is mouthing drum sounds for Ringo.
Each of these are long, over 2 1/2 hours but I have to say the first one seemingly went pretty quickly. Highly recommend. If there's any drop off in the second I'll come back with a follow up post. I think the third one contains the full rooftop concert.
I watched the first one and it was surprisingly riveting. The documentary was taken from 60 hours of the Beatles prepare for their last performance before a live audience. It is a fascinating look into the dynamics of the break up of this group, but maybe more interestingly, the dynamics of how they would write a song. Pressed to come up with 14 new songs, the group sits down six days a week in a warehouse and starts banging things out. It is fascinating to watch McCartney take a chord or two and and slowly through them together into a song adding nonsense words along the way until finally he chugs out the songs that we all know. Watching Lennon and McCartney interact with each other and throw ideas off each other is fascinating. It's also interesting to see the extent that they are dismissive of George Harrison.
Also interesting to me is the groups ability to play other instruments. McCartney and Lennon take turns on the piano while Harrison takes an occasional turn on the drums. In a different documentary I learned that McCartney doesn't read music so basically he's doing everything by ear. When he plays a song for the rest of the group Lennon would watch his singers on the guitar as he worked to learn the song. Meanwhile McCartney is mouthing drum sounds for Ringo.
Each of these are long, over 2 1/2 hours but I have to say the first one seemingly went pretty quickly. Highly recommend. If there's any drop off in the second I'll come back with a follow up post. I think the third one contains the full rooftop concert.
