New Official Book The Beatles: Get Back Arrives Next Week

The Beatles: Get Back , the British band’s first official book since The Beatles Anthology (2000), will be published next October 12 in the United Kingdom and other countries and October 13 in Spanish.

In its 240 pages it tells the story of the creation of the album Let It Be by The Beatles (published in 1970), through the transcribed conversations of more than 120 hours of recording of the band’s studio sessions, edited by John Harris.

According to a statement released this Friday by Libros Cúpula , Grupo Planeta’s music label, also has hundreds of unpublished images, including some signed by the famous rock photographer Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney.

Also includes a foreword written by Peter Jackson, who has directed and The feature-length documentary of the same name that will premiere at the end of November on Disney +.

• Disney + will premiere The Beatles: Get Back on November 25, 26 and 27

The original conversations during three weeks of 1969 between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr culminate with their historic final concert on the roof of their own Apple Corps office building, which would paralyze central London.

The general opinion is that these sessions were a dark time for a band that was falling apart, but novelist Hanif Kureishi assures in the introduction of The Beatles: Get Back that “in fact, this was a productive moment for them, when they created some of their best work.”

“This here where we have the privilege of witnessing its first drafts, the mistakes, the deviations and digressions, the boredom, the excitement, the joy and the sudden advances that led to the work that we now know and admire », he adds.