“Let It Be” on Disney+: the Beatles as you’ve (almost) never seen them in a remastered documentary

A documentary dating from 1970, unobtainable for years, has just been released on the Disney+ platform.

After the impressive Get Back put online on Disney+ two and a half years ago, the platform this time offers a remastered version of Let It Be, a 1970 documentary recounting and showing the Fab Four’s final rehearsal moments before their breakup. If the original film has not been available for many years, the “astounding” effect of seeing the Beatles in high definition has already largely been exhausted.

It was one of the highlights of Get Back, the eight-hour documentary series released online on Disney+ in fall 2021, Paul McCartney at the piano, who reveals to the three other Beatles the fruits of his work. A piece titled Let It Bewhich will forever remain as one of the most iconic in music history.

With this new montage, director Peter Jackson gave a less dark color to the final hours of the Fab Four, widely chronicled for fifty years. The four friends were tense, annoyed by the conditions of recording what was supposed to be a television show, George Harrison had even left, but the pleasure of playing together was still there. This Let It Be remastered is another exercise.

Released in theaters in 1970, this hour and twenty-long documentary by Michael Lindsay-Hogg has been left as is, the moments of life are still there, like Paul greeting Ringo at the start of a long day of work. It is therefore the quality of the image that makes all the difference, this always striking impression, even if now known, of seeing part of the story in high definition, characters of a definition never before achieved, in the service of pieces in full development.

Not found commercially for several decades, Let It Be the film, once again shows the musical genius of the Beatles, while its release, in 1970, shortly followed the separation of the group. Time passes, the music remains.