Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290476 in DVD
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Running time: 81 minutes

Customer Reviews

The Beatles' swan song
Before pulling it together for "Abbey Road" later that year, The Beatles limped through sessions for "Get Back", which would finally be released as "Let It Be" in 1970 with a little help from Phil Spector. John was more or less pleased with the end result - "When I heard it I didn't puke" - but Paul was said to have been horrified by the chorus of female voices on "The Long and Winding Road". The recording sessions seem to be less than pleasurable; Paul lectures George on how to play guitar and George snaps back while John merely glares when Paul starts in on him. Ringo sits off on the periphery during these tense moments. It's not all sour apples, though. There's some laughter and cheerful jamming in the studio, and the finale is the riveting concert on the roof of Apple that brings the town to a standstill. Distribution of this film has been slim to none over the past twenty years, so let's hope for a DVD release soon!

Paul, if you're reading this...
This film is of tremendous historical value, and quite entertaining as well. The rooftop concert is so much fun, and is The Beatles last live performance! Paul, if you are reading this, please do all of us fans a favor. As a bonus to the Let It Be release, why not show the entire rooftop concert without the edits of crowd reactions, just as the studio versions were shown in their entirety? It's the last Beatle performance, and deserves to be shown complete. Give the greatest band in history their due.

A fabulous piece of documentary
I understand that the Vhs and LD versions of this documentary were released around 1981. Since then I have never heard of it being released again. I watched it on television some time in the early eighties (unfortunately I did not record it then).
It seems that most visual products of the Beatles have already been released either in Vhs tapes, LD or DVD but not this documentary. There must be a reason behind that bearing in mind that it is still a very much if not the most sought after item by millions of beatle fans in the world, young and old, who have yet owned it. It might be that the surviving members of the Beatles did not want it to be released again. Why? Simply because it was a sad and miserable documentary which showed how the band was about to be broken up under the tension among its members. Following the death of George Harrison, I wonder and I very much doubt that this will ever be released again in DVD, Vhs or whatever version.
Luckily, a friend of mine bought the bootleg VCD version of it somewhere and somehow, and he kindly let me watch it in his place.
The Beatles is still the all time greatest and the most influential rock n' roll band in the world. There is no question about that. It has even become part of the western civilization. I do not see that the popularity of the band would ever fade or even lessen in decades to come. More than 30 years after the breakup of the band, even its out-take (visual or audio) is treasured by the fans. There can be no other successful band in the world, past present or even in the future, which can reach such a dimension.