Get Back documentary series dispels, and confirms, some Beatles myths

For 50 years, the fixed narrative had the Beatles' Let it Be recording session as a miserable experience with a band where members were sick of each other, sick of their work and in the process of breaking up.

Jackson, the Academy Award-winning maker of the Lord Of The Rings series, was discussing another project with the Beatles when he enquired about what happened to all the outtakes of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 Let It Be film. Oh, there's conflict. History overshadows the enjoyable moments revealed in the outtakes, like John Lennon singing Two Of Us as a Bob Dylan impersonator, or he and Paul McCartney challenging each other to a run-through without moving their lips. Jackson restores the balance.

The filmmaker is sensitive to the idea that he was brought in to"sanitise" the sessions, pointing out that Get Back depicts George Harrison briefly leaving the band, an event Lindsay-Hogg was not permitted to show. "I'm scared of me being the boss, and I have been for a couple of years," he says."I don't get any support."Verdict: Not true. She's there at virtually every recording session, but mostly as a benign force sitting next to Lennon. The other Beatle spouses all show up in the studio, although not as often. At one point, McCartney even makes a prescient joke about her.they broke up because Yoko sat on an amp," he says.

"A glimpse of them working together is an enormously important artifact, not just for Beatles fans but for anybody who is creative," said Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles: The Biography, published in 2005.Verdict: Essentially true. It becomes clear that Lennon and Harrison's enthusiasm for being Beatles is waning. Lennon is clearly in love with Ono; McCartney tells Harrison and Starr that if it ever came down to a choice between her and the Beatles, Lennon would go with her.

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