Let It Be wasn’t just a monthlong session in 1969 and a movie premiering after a breakup in May 1970. TheLet It Beexperiencespanned the 16 months in between too. That’s alongtime.
To celebrate the release this week of theDisney+/Peter Jacksonmarathon re-cut of the originalLet It Befootage, here are some of the movie theatre lobby cards (and a poster) from the 1970 movie-length version, directed byMichael Lindsay-Hogg: In the vacuum of the year-long delay surrounding...
In the wan Let It Be movie, you can see John Lennon looking pensive as the band runs through this piffle, wondering how his life has come to this. Docked 50 notches for the verse in which Maxwell kills the pataphysical scientist. She seemed cool. 181. “Wild Honey Pie,” The Beatles...
Some of it is well-known: the “Commonwealth”/”Enoch Powell”/”No Pakistanis” riff that morphed into “Get Back”, the countless oldies covers they played to pass the time, and of course That Argument between Paul and George. Thanks to the Let It Be movie, we’re kind of led to...
In early June 2012, the album was remastered and reissued as part of the remastered digipack series launched in 2009, along with a revamped version of the movie.724359571324 The Beatles Let It Be Naked Released 17 November 2003. LPs were imported from the UK, but CDs were made in Canadan...
You didn’t really think we weren’t going to mention it, did you? In recent years, children of the ’90s have insisted that they grew up watching a movie calledShazaamstarring Sinbad as a genie who grants wishes to two children. They can describe the poster, they can recite the plot,...
Again, it’s the three of them bouncing off each other. Paul is definitely in a bit of a quasi-leadership role. 57:30 — The beginning of the“I’ll play whatever pleases you” scene— Seeing the full lead-in and lead-out from that, unlike in MLH’sLet It Be— you now see it...
It’s something of an accident that Mike got caught on film at all when Michael Lindsay-Hogg was directing the originalLet It Bemovie. “I bought this bright orange shiny leather jacket, and I simply wanted to show it to our kid and the boys,” he remembers. Going to Apple Studios as...
If you don’t want the record player, the four 3″ singles will be sold separately, also housed in an outer box, with a picture sleeve and poster. The records only have music on one side: The concept of these 3″ singles and their accompanying tiny record player have been around for ...
The Beatles crossed the road a number of times while Macmillan photographed them. 8 August was a hot day in north London, and for four of the six photographs McCartney walked barefoot; for the other two he wore sandals. #OTD1969, Abbey Road cover shoot: 'We're meant to be recording, ...