According to a couple of articles found via Google News, apparently, The Beatles' Let It Be is finally coming out on DVD in September, two years after the remastered Let It Be...Naked was released on CD, and at least 20 years since the film was available on videotape:
Beatles "Let It Be" Film Coming To DVD July 15, 2005 2:59 p.m. EST
Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff ReporterDenver, CO (AHN) - The Toronto Sun reports today that the long-awaited release of The Beatles swan song "Let It Be" film is on its way to DVD.
According to an interview with Bob Smeaton, who directed the "Beatles Anthology", the DVD will be in 5.1 sound along with tons of lost and bonus features.
No word on whether or not the legendary "roof top" performance above Apple Studios will be on the set. Fans have petitioned for decades to have the entire performance released in its original form. The original Naga recordings will be on the DVD version of "Let It Be", which itself has not been on home video for over two decades.
The Naga recordings were only discovered during a 2003 police raid of a bootlegers home in the Netherlands. They had been missing since the early 1970s. The DVD is due in September.
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Needless to say, I'm excited by these announcements. I just hope they aren't false alarms--my 25 year old VHS copy of Let It Be is looking worse for wear these days.The Beatles Let It Be Heads to DVD by Paul Cashmere
20 July 2005The Beatles documentary Let It Be is finally going to be released on DVD.
Apple Records, the company started by The Beatles to produce their music, will release the Let It Be DVD in September.
The disc will also include bonus footage not seen in the movie.
The Let It Be documentary was meant to track the recording of The Beatles in the studio but instead captured the disintegration of the band.
However, the footage is legendary.
The now classic Beatles rooftop appearance was part of the movie. The scene was recently recreated by U2 and was also sent up in the Simpson's Barbershop episode.
Let It Be was produced by Neil Aspinall and directed by Michael Lindsey-Hogg.
It features songs such as Don't Let Me Down, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Two Of Us, I've Got A Feeling, Oh Darling, One After 909, Across The Universe, Dig A Pony, I Me Mine, For You Blue, Besame Mucho, Dig It, Get Back and Let It Be.
Article comments
1 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
fantastic news! indeed, my copy of the flick is decidedly unwatchable nowadays. now, if only Renaldo And Clara could be granted the same!
2 - Justice John Roberts
Interesting. I've been waiting to see this.
3 - eddie
well here we are in oct and i haven't seen any DVD? has anyone ?
4 - Dana
What's the latest?? Been waiting for this dvd for ever. Can anyone get some sort of recent press?
5 - Jim
I read it's been pushed to fall 2006 because of the George Harrison dvd release this past fall
6 - Legs Larry
What George Harrison DVD release ?! You mean the Concert for Bangladesh?! I am really intrigued to hear about these extra bits of LIB footage uncovered from the raid in the Netherlands ... does anyone know what is expected to be on there?
7 - The Mojo Man
I`ve read the Netherland tapes consist the whole 35 - 40 min Rooftop gig. But what worries me: the article about the dvd release of let it be is about one year old, so what the hell happened?! I guess we have to wait a couple of years longer...
8 - john
where ma let it be dvd!?
9 - confused
it's 2008 and still waiting...
10 - Jerry
Isn't it Bad Enough that even if there is a Capitol Albums Vol.3 that we have to wait and then the outcome is what some writers or corporate heads decide. I, as a DIEHARD BEATLE FAN, am willing to pay for these things but this wait game and money factor sucks.
Paul & Ringo with all honesty forget get Listen To What The Man Says and how about Listen To What The Fan Says?
Where the hell is Let It Be?
Thank You
Jerry
11 - George Lennon
Maybe we will see it on Blu-ray now.That would be fab. It would be looooooong overdue.