⁍ ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ will be released next August as a companion to a film by ‘Lord of the Rings’ director Peter Jackson.

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⁍ The book features transcribed conversations between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr from more than 120 hours of recordings.

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⁍ It culminates in the band’s famed final live appearance on the rooftop of their offices in central London.

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– The Beatles are getting back together. A new book and documentary on the band’s infamous Let It Be recording sessions will be released next August, Reuters reports. The book, The Beatles: Get Back, contains transcribed conversations between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr from more than 120 hours of recordings. The documentary, by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, includes 55 hours of unreleased footage and 120 hours of audio recordings. The sessions were documented in the 1970 movie Let It Be, but novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi writes in the book that “in fact this was a productive time for them, when they created some of their best work. And it is here that we have the privilege of witnessing their early drafts, the mistakes, the drift and digressions, the boredom, the excitement, joyous jamming and sudden breakthroughs that led to the work we now know and admire.”