Rob LeDonne is a culture and humor writer whose work can be seen in Billboard, The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Interview. He also regularly writes about music for The Recording Academy.
“It’s a significant moment for the entire world when the Beatles have a new song,” so says one of the Fab Four’s biggest fans—a man who just happens to also be one of Hollywood's most beloved directors. Peter Jackson was a precocious teenager when he first came across the Red and Blue compilations in a record store in his New Zealand hometown, buying them with the cash he originally intended to spend on model airplanes.
People don’t know this, but the video contains the first-ever film ever shot of the Beatles, the only film from the Hamburg jackets that was shot. It was about 40 seconds of it and we managed to get the rights. That’s completely unseen footage. How did you hear that that existed?I heard rumours that it existed, and Apple said, “Oh yeah it’s true, but there’s a problem.” They said, “It’s an 8mm film and it’s owned by Peter Best,” the band's old drummer .
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