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Ethan Russell and his close-ups with the Beatles, Stones and Who

Ethan Russell was a young San Franciscan when he saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up and decided to move to Swinging London with...

To sit or to stand while singing?

One more Get Back-inspired thought: The Beatles do a lot of recording, including vocals, while sitting down. Then again, some of their...

Five takeaways (plus bonus tracks) from Get Back, Part 3

1. Wow. I may have mentioned that I’m quite the Beatles nerd, so I’m very much the target audience for Peter Jackson’s Get Back. That...

Five takeaways from 'Get Back' Pt. 2

“Come on now, back to the drudgery.” —Paul McCartney, Get Back, Part 2 1. This is a lot. People who aren’t that into the Beatles, whoever...

Five takeaways from 'Get Back' Pt. 1

1. I’d read a lot about the Get Back sessions and listened to many bootlegs, but seeing this all was something else. Fears from the jolly...

'Let It Be' revisited: digging into the Beatles' rushed, troubled, non-breakup project

Here’s a key point often overlooked regarding Let It Be, the persistent problem child in the Beatles catalog: The album’s sessions began...