The Beatles: Get Back Part 3 (2021) Review

 

The Beatles: Get Back Part 3 (2021)

Part 3 of Get Back follows The Beatles, as they look to hammer home the remaining songs on their new album and put on their surprise rooftop concert. 

The rooftop concert. What more needs to be said about this legendary act? Pretty much what we’ve been building towards the entire documentary, Get Back provides an extensive look at the famed concert from every imaginable angle, from on the roof itself, across the street, down below, and even inside, for when the police eventually show up to put a stop to the noisy spectacle heard around London. It’s genuinely mind blowing not only seeing it in such vivid detail, but in it’s entirety, something I never imagined I would see in my lifetime. And for it to be their last ever live performance together, as a group, and then having it all right here as pretty much the entire back half of Part 3, just a wild experience. 

You also see, as part of the rooftop concert, the songs that eventually made it onto Let It Be, as Glyn Johns was recording the whole show in the studio downstairs, a statement to just how fucking good they were as a band (unlike the auto-tuned nonsense we get nowadays). And probably my favorite bit, how they, throughout the whole show, have everybody in the building in on jerking around the police to prolong the concert longer, even playing long after the cops show up on the rooftop to shut it all down (with hidden cameras catching it all). 

While their breakup was all but inevitable after this point in history, having them, after it’s all said and done, friendly and reminiscing on what would be one of the most legendary concerts ever, and having it all documented and out in the air no less, just wonderful to witness, in all of it’s restored glory. 

Get Back Part 3, directed by Peter Jackson, is one final look at the infamous Get Back sessions that strained The Beatles, but aside from Part 1, we see a band that is focused, creative, and quite literally on top of the world, as their final live performance blasts from the rooftops to all of London below. Simply amazing stuff here. 

10/10