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New Let It Be trailer released

Take a sneak peek at the restored footage

By Paul Sinclair

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The Beatles and Disney have released a trailer for the newly restored version of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be film. This comes to streaming via Disney+ 8 May 2024.

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  1. Apple Corps. finally came through on their promise in January 2019 on their Get Back film project of re-releasing the Let It Be film. May we be able
    to hold this physically on blu-ray with the Peter Jackson new interviews as bonus features sometime later in the year.

  2. When they announced “Get Back” back in 2021 they alluded to the fact that the original “Let It Be” would follow. Well, I waited and waited and had given up all hope. That is until this great news was announced last week. Whilst i enjoyed “Get Back”, I personally found it overlong and decided against purchase. I just hope that this doesn’t take too long to be released onto BluRay. That will be a definate purchase.

    1. Almost 8 hours of footage and Jackson couldn’t include the complete performances of “Two of Us,” “Let it Be” and “The Long and Winding Road?” Ridiculous…

  5. Let It Be has been shown four times on BBC TV over the years….

    26th December 1975 at 10.55am on BBC One
    24th August 1976 at 6.50pm on BBC One
    26th December 1979 at 5.50pm on BBC Two
    8th May 1982 at 3.10pm on BBC Two (back in the day when BBC Two used to show films on Saturday afternoons!)

    1. I’m sure you’re right and have the receipts to prove it, but if that’s the only occasions they showed it I must have watched it every time. It feels like I saw it way more often. It’s possible I taped the 82 showing, but it’s the kind of thing I’d have kept and I have no memory of having it on tape, also I turned 18 that year and my memory is of watching it at home as a kid, I left home when I was 17.

      Maybe it just really made a huge impact on me.

  6. I’m sure I remember (please excuse the dementia recently kicking in) that BBC2 had a Beatles season at Christmas (in the days when they would show seasons of Marx Brothers and other classics that don’t get shown anymore) including LIB. I too remember seeing it on it’s own one early afternoon (and YS at Easter). But then I also remember seeing the wonderful Ferry Cross The Mersey on a Saturday morning – now that’s something that will never be restored due to the world cancelling J.S. .

    1. Yep, that’s right – The Beatles At Christmas season was on BBC2 back in 1979. My VHS copy of Let It Be is from that Boxing Day ‘79 broadcast – complete with the iconic BBC2 ident from my childhood!

  7. Very happy to see this again. It was a staple on tv during the summer holidays growing up. It feels like I watched it frequently on BBC in the early afternoons but that could be the mind playing tricks. I certainly watched it on tv a few times. Haven’t seen it since the early 80’s would be my guess, but it could even be earlier than that.
    I never thought this would see the light of day again, especially after the Joy of ‘Get Back’, this film sends a completely different message. Surprised Sir Paul let this one through the gates.

    1. I watched my crappy dvd bootleg of the VHS right after the first time seeing Get Back twoish year ago, and yeah it’s a different vibe but I think having just seen the new long film there exists a context that we didn’t have when seeing it before. It also occurs to me that the original film fills out my biggest complaint about the new film, not having those full performances of the 1/31 piano songs.
      Kind of a funny thing now about the original film is that Michael is NOT a character in it!! haha.

    2. Let It Be was first shown on UK TV on 26th December 1975 (BBC1).
      It was repeated on 24th August 1976 (BBC1) and again on 26th December 1979 (BBC2).
      Its fourth and last showing was 8th May 1982 (BBC2).

  8. Curious. Is the trailer the original trailer that they’ve restored? The voice-over at the end sounds like a real time capsule.

    1. Apparently the voice-over is an edited version of the original – they’ve removed a reference to the Beatles “rapping” to avoid confusion.

        1. Box fresh vhs,Panasonic nicam video player,good nicam Sony 29 inch TV.this was my setup in 96.let it be looked very good to my eyes. As I said it was a brand new old stock vhs

          1. You must have won the pools, John. My world was still very much in Black and White back in ‘96… or was it ‘69 ? Those upside down years have always confused me.

          2. Not at all venom! The TV which I believe was the biggest crt telly at the time I got from my mates wife who ran a catalog so I paid it up over a couple of years! But before I paid it off I sold it as Costco had just opened up in Springburn glasgow just up the road from me and I got one of the new fangled wide screens, only 28 inch ( can’t remember the brand it might have been Toshiba) so paid off the Sony! But it was the best TV ever for playing house of the dead on the dream cast!I later got the 36 inch Sony windscreen which was the biggest ever,took 4 of us to get it to the top floor of a red sandstone tenement in ibrox,after that in 2003 it was a Panasonic viera ion plasma,,don’t even ask wot that cost! I’ll give you a clue that the stand was £300 extra. Must have been mad.

          3. My black and white days ended in summer of 1976, when my dad bought colour tv!

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