Let It Be interactive
January 30, 1969: The Beatles perform for the last time in public, on the roof of the Apple building in London.
“Don’t Let Me Down?” Fans have been hoping for the past forty years to finally get a studio produced, fully sanctioned Let It Be movie with additional footage, including the famous roof top concert with Billy Preston.
2008: Sources for Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr say that because the Beatles are a world brand, and the Let It Be movie shows the band in something other than a positive light, the film will never be officially released. express.co.uk/
2009: We say Let It Be told. This story is part of rock and roll history, and it’s been so well documented that all Beatle fans know this dark side of the band anyway. I’m a Beatle fan and always will be, so as far as I’m concerned, I’ll still buy a copy of the film, if it is ever officially released on DVD.
Apple Corps could do a fantastic job on it, especially if it were re-sequenced and remastered. Look, this is the last big piece of Beatle history, so let the band go out with a big bang. Give it to the fans, the ones who supported the band in the first place. Remaster the film footage, clean up the audio, include the full roof top concert, plus footage of the band recording the rest of the album at their Apple Studios, and clip out most of the long and winding footage filmed at Twickenham film studios.
There’s a video game under development where fans can remix the band’s music, and there’s the LOVE soundtrack album with it’s remixes and mashups, created by Sir George Martin and his son Giles, so why couldn’t that be done for a Let It Be movie?
For that matter, do a video remix and let fans reshuffle film clips to create their own home versions of the movie. It sure would beat all the crappy bootleg copies that have circulated for years. C’mon Apple, if you want a happy ending, give the Beatles back to their fans, and Let It Be interactive!
P.S. Do You Want To Know A Secret? Paul McCartney had sanctioned a new version of Let It Be, that was to be closer to the intended version he had imagined for the band back in 1969, when the sessions began. Originally titled Get Back, the project was supposed to be the Beatles getting back to their rock and roll roots by playing together as a combo, instead of the fragmented recording process that had been taking place over the past few years, like with the white album.
Abbey Road studios then released ‘Let It Be…Naked’ in 2003. The album was much closer to the live sound that The Beatles had originally intended, than the lush studio album Phil Spector had produced in 1970. Much of the audio was cleaned up and edited for a possible DVD release of the movie, but instead became the Naked album.
Let It Be...interactive
Video From the Roof Top Concert:
“Don’t Let Me Down”
Excerpt from Beatles Anthology
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_it_Be…Naked
express.co.uk/
beatles.com/core/films/letitbe
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Written by: Mike Withrow
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