According to ultimateclassicrock.com, the Beatles documentary series, Get Back, won five Emmy Awards during a ceremony in Los Angeles on September third. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were named with director Peter Jackson as recipients of the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Award, along with producers Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Clare Olssen and Jonathan Clyde. Jackson won another award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary or Nonfiction Program, and the production won for picture editing, sound editing, and sound mixing. During Jackson’s acceptance speech he is quoted in saying, “I’d just like to thank everyone who worked on this film, especially our family back home and our second family in London at Apple Corps, [A] big shout out to the Beatles. Thank you so much for the over 60 years of your positive, exuberant, joyous… Your music is so profound and I think it’s actually embedded in our DNA.” The three episode Get Back series was based on film shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for 1970 movie Let It Be. The original movie released showed a more downbeat tone to the Beatles’ final months, whereas, the previously unseen material used by Jackson offers a better look at the band’s final times together.
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