See also: Let It Be

Let It Be is a Film of 1970 showing the Beatles at the time of repetitions and recordings of songs in January 1969 for the album of the same name.

In the beginning, the object of this fim was to show Beatles playing on line ( live ) in studio, creating their next disc, the whole being completed by a concert. However, the group started to be dislocated at the time of turning, and this filmed document is the testimony of part of the events which led to its separation.

History

The Beatles gather starting from the January 2nd 1969 in the movie studios of Twickenham, accompanied by the team by turning (Yoko Ono present also, sitting beside John Lennon) and start to record. Environment is tended, of the dissensions appear, without counting the fact that the members of the group do not appreciate the conditions under which they repeat in this particular place. Each day, they start to work the morning early, which changes them radically their usual night meetings in the studios of Abbey Road. They play of all and of nothing, much (nearly 100 titles will be approached), make “ox” ( jamming ), often badly, forgery and without conviction.

George Harrison, exceeded, leaves his/her comrades during ten days, which does not appear in film. The group ends up giving up Twickenham to be folded back on its own studio, in the basement of the building of their company Apple, to the 3, Saville Row. Harrison returns with Billy Preston which will accompany the group with the electric Piano and to the Orgue.

The film includes full versions of Two Of Custom , Long And Winding Road , Let It Be , Get Back , Don' T Let Me Down , I' ve Got has Feeling , One After 909 and Dig has Pony .

The Rooftop Concert

According to its original concept, the film must be completed by a concert, which would be the first public service of the group since the end of their last round, the August 29th 1966, in Candlestick Park of San Francisco. However, the group has evil to agree on a format. Paul McCartney suggests going to play in a small club, as Beatles did it at the beginning of their career. John Lennon thinks on his side of further doing it possible, such as for example in Africa. One as intends it to say sarcastically as they should play in an asylum. Ringo Starr wants to remain in England. George Harrison is reticent with any public performance.

Not having succeeded in agreeing on some place that it is, the members of the group choose finally a concert “deprived” on the roof of the Apple building, with London. Beatles thus occur at this place in company of Billy Preston on January 30th, 1969. The film shows passers by surprised by the emanating noise top of the building towards which they raise the head. The rooftop concert and the film are completed when the police force intervenes to put an end to this service which will have lasted 42 minutes, following complaints.

Beatles play five titles on the roof of the Apple building: Get Back (three times), Gift' T Let me Down (twice), I' ve Got has Feeling (twice), One After 909 , Dig has Pony , a short version of the God Save the Queen , and approach quickly I Want You (She' S So Heavy) , which one finds on the album Abbey Road , and which will not be recorded this day, the second sound engineer Alan Parsons being changing band.

After the last song that Beatles interpret, one intends Paul McCartney to say: “ Thanks Mo'! ” (“thank you Mo'! ”), thus greeting the enthusiastic applause and the encouragements of Maureen Starkey, the woman of Ringo. John Lennon concludes with his famous note:: I' D like to say “thank you” one behalf off the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the hearing! (“I would like to say “thank you” in the name of the group and of ourselves and I hope that we made a success of hearing! ”).

Song interpreted by Beatles in the film Let It Be

All signed Lennon/McCartney, except mentioned.
  • Intro with the piano of Paul McCartney
  • Don' T Let Me Down
  • Maxwell' S Silver Hammer
  • Two off Custom
  • I' ve Got has Feeling
  • Oh! Darling
  • One After 909
  • Jazz Piano Song (McCartney/Starkey)
  • Across the Universe
  • Dig has Pony
  • Suzy Parker (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
  • I Undermines Me (Harrison)
  • For You Blue (Harrison)
  • Bésame Mucho (Consuelo Velázquez/Sunny Skylar)
  • Octopus' S Garden (Starkey)
  • You' ve Really Got has Hold one Me (Smokey Robinson)
  • Long And Winding Road
  • Shake Rattle and Roll (Jesse Stone a.k.a Charle E.Calhoun)
  • Kansas City (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)
  • Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Lloyd Price)
  • Dig It
  • Let It Be
  • Get Back

First of film and rewards

The first of film takes place in Liverpool Gaumont on May 20th, 1970. It gains the Oscar in the category “ Music (Original Song Score) ” (Better original song) and a Grammy Award the same year.

Availability

The film Let It Be is not any more in circulation from its exit in VHS (and on other supports now obsolete) with beginning of the year 80. These copies are of a quality definitely less than the original left to the cinema. The pirate DVD of film result in general from copy VHS.

In an interview given as a févier 2007, Neil Aspinall, owner of Apple, was expressed on the possibility of a remasterisation of film for an official exit in DVD: The film was very discussed at the time of its exit. When we arrived halfway of his restoration, and that we saw the result, we realized that this material remained polemical, and that many old problems remade surface there . A republication of Let It Be in DVD thus does not seem with the day order.

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