The Beatles’ Let It Be Film to Stream Exclusively on Disney+
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Let It Be, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 film chronicling The Beatles’ album of the same name, will be restored and brought to Disney+ on May 8th.
The restored version arrives courtesy Peter Jackson, who used Lindsay-Hogg’s extensive footage to create the immersive, intimate three-part docuseries Get Back in 2021. Now, Let It Be will be widely available to watch for the first time in 50 years, featuring remastered audio using the same technology as Get Back. The original film premiered one month after The Beatles announced their breakup in 1970, and features a plethora footage not used in Get Back. The film culminates in The Beatles’ famed Apple Corps London rooftop concert, which was their final concert as a group.
“I’m absolutely thrilled that Michael’s movie, Let It Be, has been restored and is finally being re-released after being unavailable for decades,” Peter Jackson said in a statement. “I was so lucky to have access to Michael’s outtakes for Get Back, and I’ve always thought that Let It Be is needed to complete the Get Back story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and The Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and Let It Be is that documentary – the movie they released in 1970. I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades.”
“Let It Be was ready to go in October/November 1969, but it didn’t come out until April 1970. One month before its release, The Beatles officially broke up. And so the people went to see Let It Be with sadness in their hearts, thinking, ‘I’ll never see The Beatles together again. I will never have that joy again,’ and it very much darkened the perception of the film,” Michael Lindsay-Hogg said of his original film.
“But, in fact, how often do you get to see artists of this stature working together to make what they hear in their heads into songs? And then you get to the roof, and you see their excitement, camaraderie, and sheer joy in playing together again as a group and know, as we do now, that it was the final time, and we view it with the full understanding of who they were and still are and a little poignancy. I was knocked out by what Peter was able to do with Get Back, using all the footage I’d shot 50 years previously.”
Let It Be will arrive on Disney+ on May 8th.
The Beatles’ Let It Be Film to Stream Exclusively on Disney+
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