Product Description

Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. Released 12 days after the album, it was the last original Beatles release. The premise of the film shows the Beatles rehearsing and eventually performing a live concert. However, the band members had begun to drift apart for some time, and the project documents some of the aspects leading to the band's eventual break-up. The Beatles assembled at Twickenham Film Studios on January 2, 1969, accompanied by the film crew, and began recording. There were tensions and disagreements among them and they disliked the conditions at the Twickenham Studios and the working schedule. They started work in the morning rather than working late into the night as they had been accustomed to doing at Abbey Road Studios, where they usually recorded their songs. The film continues at Apple's headquarters in Saville Row, London. For the sessions at Apple, Harrison brought in keyboardist Billy Preston to play electric piano/organ. The film shows the band rehearsing and performing the songs that wound up on the Let It Be album, as well some of the songs from the Abbey Road album. The film ends with a concert atop their own building, Apple's headquarters in Savile Row near Piccadilly Circus. The Beatles, with Preston, performed on January 30, 1969. The performance and the film close with the police arriving and shutting the concert down. The final public performance by the Beatles. The complete 81 minute movie - BONUS: 35 minutes of bonus footage Selections include: Don't Let Me Down, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Two of Us, I've Got a Feeling, Oh! Darling, One After 909, Jazz Piano Song, Across the Universe, Dig a Pony, Suzy Parker, I Me Mine, For You Blue, Bésame Mucho, Octopus's Garden, You've Really Got a Hold on Me, Long and Winding Road, Shake Rattle and Roll, Kansas City, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Dig It, Let It Be, Get Back

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90977 in DVD
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Formats: NTSC, Color, Import
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 119 minutes

Features

• Beatles
• John Lennon
• Paul McCartney
• George Harrison
• Ringo Starr

Customer Reviews

BOGUS
This disc is as much of a bootleg as all those others and anyone who's dumb enough to buy it deserves the poor quality and crappy sound these bogus discs offer. LET IT BE has never been on DVD. The best we can do is to find it on a laser disc or an old VHS tape, period. That's the truth. Check for official Beatles movie releases and such, check one of those books by Mark Lewishon. You'll see just how laughable the claim is that this is an official release. "Anniversay edition" "Limited Edition" all these claims are distracting, but if you have a brain, you'll remember that these things are fake. The day you can go buy LET IT BE on a dvd from Wal Mart or Best Buy and the Beatles' site has a blurb about the release, then you can be assured you're getting the real deal. This disc here, probably made in Korea from an old transfer. In other words, it's a bootleg.

This DVD is a great piece of historical documentation of the breakup of a great band
This DVD is of tremendous historical value, and quite entertaining as well. The rooftop concert is so much fun, and is The Beatles last live performance!This DVD should be in every Beatles fan collection.

Fabulous piece of documentary
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.