spectacle narrated yoko ono disrupting beatles

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Her presence has been described as gentle, quiet and unimposing. In the series, McCartney himself - from the vantage of January 1969, more than a year before the band’s public dissolution - pokes fun at the idea that the Beatles would end “because Yoko sat on an amp.”

Spectacle narrated yoko ono disrupting beatles series#

“She never has opinions about the stuff they’re doing,” Jackson, who crafted the series out of more than 60 hours of footage, told “60 Minutes.” “She’s a very benign presence and she doesn’t interfere in the slightest.” Ono, also a producer on the series, tweeted an article without comment that claims she is merely performing “mundane tasks” as the band gets to work. “The Beatles: Get Back” is being read by some as an exculpatory document - proof that Ono was not responsible for destroying the Beatles. I was seeing intimate, long-lost footage of the world’s most famous band preparing for its final performance, and I couldn’t stop watching Yoko Ono sitting around, doing nothing. My attention kept drifting toward her corner of the frame. But as the hours passed, and Ono remained - painting at an easel, chewing a pastry, paging through a Lennon fan magazine - I found myself impressed by her stamina, then entranced by the provocation of her existence and ultimately dazzled by her performance. Why is she there? I pleaded with my television set. The vast set only emphasizes the ludicrousness of her proximity. When George Harrison walks off, briefly quitting the band, there is Ono, wailing inchoately into his microphone.Īt first I found Ono’s omnipresence in the documentary bizarre, even unnerving. Later, when the group squeezes into a recording booth, Ono is there, wedged between Lennon and Ringo Starr, wordlessly unwrapping a piece of chewing gum and working it between Lennon’s fingers. Lennon slips behind the piano and Ono is there, her head hovering above his shoulder. When the band starts into “Don’t Let Me Down,” Ono is there, reading a newspaper.

When Paul McCartney starts to play “I’ve Got a Feeling,” Ono is there, stitching a furry object in her lap.

She perches in reach of John Lennon, her bemused face oriented toward him like a plant growing to the light.

Spectacle narrated yoko ono disrupting beatles movie#

Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage.