Viewers watching Peter Jackson’s eight-hour docuseries Get Back soon feel very comfortable with the four Beatles, because the way they relate, joke and discuss problems feels entirely normal and modern. It is not until the end of the series, when the cameras go outside into the streets of London, that you are hit by how far back in history all this was. The flat caps and bowler hats, along with the clipped accents and headscarves, plunge you into a very different, long-gone world. The four Beatles then appear like modern people marooned in the distant past, waiting for society to catch up with
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