Producer Mark Hudson On Why 'The Beatles: Get Back' Doc Is So Important

Famed producer and songwriter Mark Hudson believes The Beatles: Get Back documentary series zeroed in on something extremely important about The Beatles: their humanity.

Hudson, who's best known for his work with Ringo Starr, Aerosmith and Ozzy Osbourne, addressed the series on the latest episode of Ken Dashow's Beatles Revolution podcast.

He complimented director Peter Jackson for showing The Beatles as the multi-faceted people they truly were. Whether they were happy, surly, high, depressed, bored or elated, it's all plain to see onscreen.

"I think that we need to be able to see that," Hudson said, "because it also made The Beatles human in a complete different way. ...I want to see gods that are human. That's really what they were to me."

Hudson, who worked with Ringo live and in the studio for close to 10 years, then pivoted to one of the doc's more subtle revelations: how Ringo's professionalism anchored The Beatles through all of their highs and lows.

"There has never been a drummer on this planet that plays a song like Ringo Starr, it does not exist," Hudson emphasized. "He stayed out of all of the talking, he was sitting there, sticks in hand, 'Two, three, four...' And he just would start playing."

The Beatles: Get Back shows the competing ambitions among Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon, the ways their lives were diverging by the late-'60s and how they were still able to do great work in spite of everything.

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