Kennon Gilson

Date of Award

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Clark, Maribeth

Area of Concentration

Music

Abstract

The basic aim of this thesis is to highlight the relationship between the Beatles’ connections with each other and with people and how it impacted their creativity, and then show how their creative progress often required letting go of a connection to open themselves to new connections, and how these new connections brought them closer to who each of them wanted to be. To study this, I use Peter Jackson’s documentary Get Back (2021), which was based on a filmed live album project they did where they attempted to get back together to make something creative as a unified band again. I look at what happens in the film, and then I link it together with some of the Beatles’ history in order to give context to what the audience sees and hears in the film. Then I show what the result of this project was, and why the project was successful in some ways, but unsuccessful in other ways.

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