This Wednesday, May 8 Disney+ will release a remastered version of Let It Bethe 1970 documentary that recorded the creation and recording process of the album of the same name by the Beatles. The film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg showed an unhappy side of the Fab Four: ego struggles, creative disagreements and the breakdown of their work and personal relationship.
This is the first time in more than 50 years that the film is available and since the announcement of its re-release Several statements were made known that focus on what is shown and what it meant for everyone involved..
long ago, Paul MCCARTNEY I speak of The Beatles: Get Back (2021), a series that takes material from the filming of Let It Be, and admitted that it changed his perspective on the group’s breakup and the bitter taste that the film left in him. “I had bought into the idea of the dark side of The Beatles’ breakup and thought, ‘God, I’m to blame,’” she recalled.
Besides, Ringo Starr He stated that for him “there is not much joy in the original version” and that is why he values the new treatment he gave it. Peter Jackson to this restored version. Lastly, and not least, is the opinion of Lindsay-Hogg, the director of the original film.
The director confessed that when people went to see the film for the first time, they did so “with sadness” after the band broke up, thinking that they would never see them playing together again. Furthermore, he spoke about the premiere in an interview with Rolling Stone and assured:
“There were no Beatles anymore. There were four people, but they were no longer Beatles. […] When it came out, it was before today’s social media. But in those days, people communicated with each other about his dissatisfactions. They were primarily upset about the Beatles breaking up, not about the film itself. But some gave him ‘bad vibes’. There were legal things that became personal things, and everyone was surprised at how they got really nasty. Especially with the way Paul and John were really drifting away from each other. They were brothers. One was called Lennon, another was called McCartney, but they were brothers. […] Watching the movie the other night, I saw how happy they were on the terrace, the joy they felt playing with each other. That was a very high moment in their lives together. And then, of course, there’s a kind of pathos, because now we know what the end of some of those stories was: John is murdered, George is stabbed. It’s like a novel, his life is. So it’s the novel it is Let It BeI think, divided in part between Peter’s and mine.
Read our review of Let It Be and watch the trailer.
