You have never gotten over the breakup of the Beatles, even though it happened in 1970. You scrutinize everything they ever did, front to back, looking for new meaning in every archival scrap, the outtakes, alternate takes, and rehearsals revealed on the reissues that come out to celebrate another anniversary. (The present is a mixed bag, but the sound keeps improving.)
You watched every moment of Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. Sure, George left, and you understood why, but then he came back, and the magic circles kept widening. Reality was just too much to maintain the fab. They had to grow up and apart from each other. But a true Beatles fan never wants to let go.
