Beatles: Classic or Dud?

You can hear just the strings here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZA6jtxtTfQ

As someone says in the comments it sounds (in places) quite like Bernard Herrmann's score of Psycho.

George Martin:

I was very much inspired by Bernard Herrmann, in particular a score he did for the Truffaut film Farenheit 451. That really impressed me, especially the strident string writing. When Paul told me he wanted the strings in Eleanor Rigby to be doing a rhythm it was Herrmann's score which was a particular influence.

Geoff Emerick:

On Eleanor Rigby we miked very, very close to the strings, almost touching them. No one had really done that before; the musicians were in horror.

If this is the closest we're ever going to get to a restoration of Let It Be, I guess I'll take it.

Just announced: Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, featuring never-before-seen footage of the legendary band, comes to theaters September 4, 2020.
Photo Credit: ©1969 Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney pic.twitter.com/8BM11NH3Iz

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) March 11, 2020

p excited for this tbh

and I haven't cared about anything Peter Jackson's done in ... 20 years?

Sounds about right!

the WWI restoration footage thing he did was incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcgceA64aAI

really looking forward to this

xxxp me too, except They Shall Not Grow Old was pretty good

ha, fuck, beaten to it