Screenings of The Rooftop Concert — which is pulled from Peter Jackson’s recent Disney+ docu-series, The Beatles: Get Back — will be accompanied by a filmmaker Q&A, broadcast simultaneously via satellite. Sure, it’s not quite the same as having attended the rooftop concert in real life, but IMAX’s visual and sound quality will make this a pretty unparalleled experience.
On January 30th, 1969, The Beatles spontaneously previewed songs from their forthcoming final album Let It Be during the impromptu 42-minute rooftop gig. Before Metropolitan police eventually halted the performance, filmmakers captured nine takes of five songs: “Get Back,” “Don’t Let Me Down,” “I’ve Got a Feeling,” “One After 909,” and “Dig a Pony.”