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It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Attribution 3. The filmed account of the Beatles's attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
The film, which was shot in January , was originally intended to be a TV special called Get Back featuring the group rehearsing for their first live show in over two years.
The early rehearsals captured the group, along with John Lennon's soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono, clearly bored, with only Paul McCartney showing any real enthusiasm for the new material. The first part of the film shows the strain of the early morning sessions held in a cavernous soundstage at London's Twickenham film studios.
Producer George Martin recalled in The Beatles Anthology that the Let It Be project held great promise in the beginning: "They were going through a very, very revolutionary period at that time. And they were trying to think of something new. They did actually come up with a very good idea, which I thought was well worth working on; The wanted to write an album completely and rehearse it and then perform it in front of a large audience -- and for that to be a live album of new material.
And we started rehearsing down at Twickenham film studios, and I went along with them. I suppose kinda like they do these days on Unplugged, except, y'know, it wasn't to be unplugged.
It was to do a live album. In John Lennon recalled the nearly month-long film shoot saying: "It was just a dreadful, dreadful feeling being filmed all the time.
I just wanted them to go away. And we'd be there at eight in the morning and you couldn't make music at eight in the morning, or 10, or whatever it was. Reviews for the film, which was released a month after the group's breakup, were mixed, citing the sluggish and depressing nature of the film, as well as director Michael Lindsay-Hogg's sloppy editorial choices.
But across the board, both critics and fans agreed on the power of the group's triumphant rooftop set. Y'know, even before they assembled in January, the idea was, 'Let's get back to playing as a live band' -- pretty good idea.
But then it was, 'Let's make it an album and a film, and we're going to make the album a film of us doing a concert of songs we've never recorded before.
And then you're recording it -- the comparison I made in the book is kind of Nixon's 'The Watergate Tapes,' you have no idea that this stuff is going to comeback to haunt you forever. But, what made it worthwhile was the rooftop, y'know? Because when I left that theater, I was this far off the ground. Despite the fact that we knew everything that happened afterward. Yeah, that saves the film. He recalled prior to the lunchtime gig walking in on the four Beatles who were using one of the Apple offices as a makeshift dressing room: "It was like walking in on a band, a nervous bunch of guys getting ready to do an audition.
I don't know if it's because they hadn't played together, or whether they were trying to put the set together, but it was one of those kind of tense things where they were nervous. When we locked the doors upstairs, and the minute they started playing -- and y'know all the. It's like it all went away and I really believe in my mind that they forgot everything and they were what they were. They were the Beatles. Let It Be is a filmed documentary of the Beatles rehearsing and recording their new album in The film culminated with a concert by the group set on the rooftop on their own Apple office building in London's west end.
Paul McCartney's concept for the album and film was that it wasn't going to have studio trickery like overdubs and effects. It was "back to the roots" with the Beatles performing the songs in a natural way. The film and it's accompanying soundtrack was delayed while the Beatles recorded and released their final album "Abbey Road". For the Beatles completist and serious fans, the biggest frustration has been in not finding the "Beatles - Let It Be" in a complete, uncropped, great quality version.
The reason for this is quite interesting. The original film was shot in 16mm standard TV 4x3 format. John Lennon John as John uncredited. Paul McCartney Paul as Paul uncredited.
George Harrison George as George uncredited. Ringo Starr Ringo as Ringo uncredited. Leo McKern Clang as Clang. Eleanor Bron Ahme as Ahme. Victor Spinetti Foot as Foot. Roy Kinnear Algernon as Algernon. John Bluthal Bhuta as Bhuta.
Patrick Cargill Superintendent as Superintendent. Alfie Bass Doorman as Doorman. Warren Mitchell Abdul as Abdul. Peter Copley Jeweller as Jeweller. Bruce Lacey Lawnmower as Lawnmower. Danny Almond. Thomas Baptiste. Ronnie Brody Priest as Priest uncredited …. Richard Lester. Marc Behm screenplay story Charles Wood screenplay. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. An Eastern cult discovers that the sacrificial ring is missing. Sir Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles has it; sent by the girl who's to be sacrificed as a gift.
Clang, Ahme, Bhuta, and several cult members leave for London to retrieve the ring. After several failed attempts to steal the ring, they confront him in an Indian restaurant.
Ringo learns that if he does not return the ring soon, he will become the next sacrifice. Ringo then discovers that the ring is stuck on his finger. Its a race against time; John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney, and George Harrison try to protect their friend while they're all being chased not only by Clang and his minions, but also by two mad scientists and the Chief Inspector of Scotland yard.
Will Ringo be saved, or will he be sacrificed? The colorful adventures of the Beatles are more colorful than ever Did you know Edit. Trivia While the Beatles are attempting to solve Sir Ringo Starr's ring problem at the jeweler's, George Harrison can be seen quietly shoplifting various jewels and slipping them into his overcoat pockets.
Goofs During the scene in the Beatles' home where John defends himself from cult members using a telephone, one of his blows accidentally connects; he can be heard saying, "Oh sorry, I hit him!
Crazy credits This film is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Mr. Elias Howe, who, in , invented the sewing machine. Alternate versions When released on video for the first time in , the film remained in mono but the songs were remixed into stereo, dubbed over with the recordings from the stereo album. Soundtracks Help! User reviews Review. Top review. Music video before there were music videos.
This is an entertaining movie that serves its sole purpose very wellto showcase a bunch of terrific Beatles songs.
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