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Peter Jackson

Exclusive: film director Peter Jackson tells us how he made The Beatles' last music video

When Apple asked me to make the music video for The Beatles' last single, I was very reluctant. I thought my next few months would be a hell of a lot more fun if that tricky task was somebody else’s problem, and I could be like any other Beatles fan, enjoying the night-before-Christmas anticipation as the release of a new Beatles song and music video approached – in 1995, l loved the childlike excitement I felt as the release of Free As A Bird was inching closer.  

I could have that experience once again – all I had to do was say no to The Beatles.

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