The Beatles’ “Get Back” Turns 52
On this date 52 years ago—May 8, 1970—The Beatles released its 12th and final studio album. The Beatles started recording "Let It Be" as a series of jam sessions in early 1969. They recorded those sessions with the idea of making a documentary about their music-making process.
The project sparked the idea for their now-legendary rooftop concert in January 1969, recording and filming tracks like "Get Back," "One after 909" and "Dig a Pony" before the show was shut down by police.
The rooftop concert—and the collaboration, drama, and breakup that took place while making it—was recently showcased in a new three-part documentary directed by Peter Jackson of “The Lord of the Rings” fame.
Released on Disney+, “The Beatles: Get Back” takes audiences back in time to the band’s recording sessions, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look into The Beatles’ creative process as they wrote 14 new songs in preparation for their first live concert in more than two years.

I love The Beatles. It started when I was a young child hearing my father play his vinyl Beatles records on the turntable. It increased exponentially when I was 14 and saw a Beatles exhibit in Dallas in 1987. It was the lone stop for the exhibit outside of the United Kingdom.
My love for The Beatles has continued since, with the release of The Beatles’ albums on compact discs (remember those?) later that year and my numerous attendance at Paul McCartney concerts (which are basically mini-Beatles concerts, with some Wings tunes sprinkled in between). My last Fab One concert was at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky in 2019 with my mom (Happy Mother’s Day) and dad.
"Do You Want to Know a Secret?" I can’t get enough of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. If you “Drive My Car,” you’ll find the SiriusXM tuned to The Beatles channel. And “I Want to Tell You” that in almost every Beatles song—“Here, There, and Everywhere”—you can relate the song back to some important legal rule or tip for the bar exam. "Dig It." So, “From Me to You,” “I Want to Tell You” some of my favorites (it’s obviously not “Every Little Thing”). (If you’re counting, that’s eight references to Beatles songs in this paragraph.)
Here’s an old blog post that discusses “Help!” (and the excited utterance exception), “Day Tripper” (and the defense of intoxication), “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” (and the common law requirements of burglary), and several other songs that can help you learn the law.