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* MythologyGag: One scene has the band jamming "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9same_Mucho Besame Mucho]]". This was a song that the Beatles covered during their early days, and was one of the songs they played during their unsuccesssful audition for Decca Records, Jan. 1, 1962.
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** The film includes the band rehearsing a song called "Suzy Parker" that was never finished or recorded. Suzy Parker was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Parker a real person]].
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The film includes footage of the band rehearsing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "Oh! Darling". Those songs were set aside, only to be recorded later in 1969 and included on the ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' album.
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* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The album was intended as a ''back to basics'' to their original, simpler sound.
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* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The album was intended as a ''back to basics'' to their original, simpler sound. Played straight in the film, where the band sounds raw to the point of painful; violently averted on the album, when John hired Phil Spector to dub strings and a heavenly choir over "The Long and Winding Road", to Paul's extreme displeasure.
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* SpecialGuestStar: Billy Preston on piano. He pops up without explanation, but is prominently featured in the performances that take up the second half of the film.
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* SpecialGuestStar: SpecialGuest: Billy Preston on piano. He pops up without explanation, but is prominently featured in the performances that take up the second half of the film.
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Its CultSoundtrack (which has [[Music/LetItBe its own entry]]) effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long And Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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Its CultSoundtrack (which has [[Music/LetItBe its own entry]]) effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long And Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney
KeepCirculatingTheTapes, as this film hasalways had not been released on home video since a life laserdisc edition back in TheNineties. The long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot absence of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed Be'' from home video has never been officially explained, although it may simply be that the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
surviving Beatles (three were still alive when the film went out of print) don't feel good about it.
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* AlbumFiller: The inclusion of "Across the Universe" and "One After 909" on Let It Be couldn't be anything but filler. The former was recorded in early 1968, long before "Let It Be" was released, and the latter was one of the first songs Lennon and McCartney had ever written; they recorded a version of it in 1963, which was never included on an album because they were never satisfied with it. They recorded a new version of it for Let It Be. "Dig It" too. When the album was remixed as "Let It Be... Naked" in 2002, it was even dropped from the track list.
* AndStarring: Billy Preston on piano. The "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
* BookEnds: The original ''Get Back'' album was supposed to have a 1969 photo of the Beatles in the exact same pose that they used for their breakout 1963 Please Please Me album. This idea was abandoned when the Get Back album was reworked into Let It Be, but the photo was eventually used for the cover of the 1967-1970 compilation album.
* AndStarring: Billy Preston on piano. The "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
* BookEnds: The original ''Get Back'' album was supposed to have a 1969 photo of the Beatles in the exact same pose that they used for their breakout 1963 Please Please Me album. This idea was abandoned when the Get Back album was reworked into Let It Be, but the photo was eventually used for the cover of the 1967-1970 compilation album.
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* ChangedForTheVideo: The filmed performances of "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" from the 1970 Let It Be film are different from the versions which were later released. The "Let It Be" recording, both single and album versions, is based on take 27-A from the Jan. 31, 1969 session, while the film version, which has never been released as an audio recording, was the next take, 27-B. In the filmed video, McCartney sings "there will be no sorrow" in the last verse instead of "there will be an answer". Similarly, the filmed performance of "The Long and Winding Road" is from the Jan. 31 session, while the released song is based off a recording from five days earlier. Also, the live performance is in accordance with Paul's original conception of the song as a simple piano ballad, while the released version includes the stringed instruments and backing choir overdubbed by Phil Spector.
* ConcertFilm: "Maggie May", a Liverpudlian traditional folk song.
* ControlFreak: A big reason why the band had so much fall-outs during the recordings.
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* ConcertFilm: "Maggie May", a Liverpudlian traditional folk song.
* ControlFreak: A big reason why the band had so much fall-outs during the recordings.
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* ChangedForTheVideo: The filmed performances of "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" from the 1970 Let It Be film are Road"are different from the versions which were later released. The "Let It Be" recording, both single and album versions, is based on take 27-A from the Jan. 31, 1969 session, while the film version, which has never been released as an audio recording, was the next take, 27-B. In the filmed video, McCartney sings "there will be no sorrow" in the last verse instead of "there will be an answer". Similarly, the filmed performance of "The Long and Winding Road" is from the Jan. 31 session, while the released song is based off a recording from five days earlier. Also, the live performance is in accordance with Paul's original conception of the song as a simple piano ballad, while the released version includes the stringed instruments and backing choir overdubbed by Phil Spector.
*ConcertFilm: "Maggie May", a Liverpudlian traditional folk song.
ConcertClimax: Although the real sessions didn't end with the concert (see ManipulativeEditing below).
* ControlFreak:A big reason why Paul comes off as this, especially during his infamous sniping with George and with the long scene where Paul blathers about the direction of the band had so much fall-outs during while Lennon gives him the recordings.
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* EvolvingMusic: We see the band running through a hard rock version of "Two of Us" during the Twickenham sessions. When they play the finished version in the studio, it is a mellow acoustic pop song.
* [[SixthRanger TheFifthBeatle]]: Billy Preston was nicknamed this after he joined the band for this album.
* [[SixthRanger TheFifthBeatle]]: Billy Preston was nicknamed this after he joined the band for this album.
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* EvolvingMusic: EvolvingMusic:
** We see the band running through a hard rock version of "Two of Us" during the Twickenham sessions. When they play the finished version in the studio, it is a mellow acoustic pop song.
* [[SixthRanger TheFifthBeatle]]: Billy Preston was nicknamed this after he joined ** In one scene Ringo demonstrates his new composition "Octopus's Garden", which is pretty much only one verse. George, inspired, goes to a piano and pounds out the band for this album. chords that became the song's chorus (the "We would be so happy, you and me" part).
** We see the band running through a hard rock version of "Two of Us" during the Twickenham sessions. When they play the finished version in the studio, it is a mellow acoustic pop song.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "I've Got A Feeling" informs us that everybody "had a wet dream".
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* ItsAllAboutMe: ''I "I Me Mine''.Mine".
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* LiveAlbum: ''Let It Be'' was supposed to be this, with the band rehearsing and recording their new songs live. The sniping and tension within the band (as well as the creative funk John Lennon was mired in at this time) led to several songs being dubbed or altered in the studio, most infamously Paul's "The Long and Winding Road". However, despite all the band's problems seven tracks were still laid down live: "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909" and "I Dig a Pony" from the Apple rooftop performance, and "Get Back", "Two of Us", "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" from studio performances. ("Don't Let Me Down", left off the album after being released as the B-side of the "Get Back" single, was also recorded live.)
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* ManipulativeEditing: The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31, 1969. Music/PhilSpector's ExecutiveMeddling with the songs on the album could also count as this.
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* ManipulativeEditing: ManipulativeEditing:
** The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31,1969. Music/PhilSpector's ExecutiveMeddling 1969.
** Some of the editing was due to the evolving nature of the project. The original idea was simply to film video clips that would be part of a television broadcast in which the Beatles played their new songs live. After The Beatles completely failed to get their crap together and organize themselves well enough to put on a TV show, the footage was repurposed as a film which would both recoup their investment and finish their contract with Creator/UnitedArtists. However, not all of the songs were properly filmed and/or recorded, requiring some creative editing. No one is performing "I Me Mine" when the song plays on thealbum could also count as this.soundtrack because that song wasn't properly recorded until a year after the "Get Back" sessions.
** Then there's everything left out of the movie, like George Harrison's RageQuit from the band, which lasted for nine days and only ended after Paul and the film crew agreed to abandon Twickenham Studios and reconvene at Apple.
** The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31,
** Some of the editing was due to the evolving nature of the project. The original idea was simply to film video clips that would be part of a television broadcast in which the Beatles played their new songs live. After The Beatles completely failed to get their crap together and organize themselves well enough to put on a TV show, the footage was repurposed as a film which would both recoup their investment and finish their contract with Creator/UnitedArtists. However, not all of the songs were properly filmed and/or recorded, requiring some creative editing. No one is performing "I Me Mine" when the song plays on the
** Then there's everything left out of the movie, like George Harrison's RageQuit from the band, which lasted for nine days and only ended after Paul and the film crew agreed to abandon Twickenham Studios and reconvene at Apple.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: Music/TheRollingStones album ''Music/LetItBleed'' was released in 1969, so their title was not a pun on ''Let It Be''. Theirs appeared first.
* RevisitingTheRoots: The album was originally going to be called ''Get Back'' because this was precisely the idea (and that of course is also the reason the song was called "Get Back"). This was an attempt to return to the sort of spontaneous, energetic rock and roll they'd played at the beginning of their career - as opposed to the sophisticated and intricately produced music they'd moved on to. The recording sessions were a disaster, and they largely abandoned the "back to basics" approach for their last recorded album, ''Music/AbbeyRoad''.
* RefrainFromAssuming: Music/TheRollingStones album ''Music/LetItBleed'' was released in 1969, so their title was not a pun on ''Let It Be''. Theirs appeared first.
* RevisitingTheRoots: The album was originally going to be called ''Get Back'' because this was precisely the idea (and that of course is also the reason the song was called "Get Back"). This was an attempt to return to the sort of spontaneous, energetic rock and roll they'd played at the beginning of their career - as opposed to the sophisticated and intricately produced music they'd moved on to. The recording sessions were a disaster, and they largely abandoned the "back to basics" approach for their last recorded album, ''Music/AbbeyRoad''.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't get it."
** ''Music/TheRutles'': The Rutles released an album called ''Let It Rut'' and perform a rooftop concert and a song named "Get Up And Go".
** The album cover of Music/{{Gorillaz}}'s ''Demon Days'' references the one on ''Let It Be''.
** The film ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' lends its title from the Beatles song of the same name.
** ''Music/TheRutles'': The Rutles released an album called ''Let It Rut'' and perform a rooftop concert and a song named "Get Up And Go".
** The album cover of Music/{{Gorillaz}}'s ''Demon Days'' references the one on ''Let It Be''.
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* StudioChatter: The second disc of "Let It Be...Naked" is a fly-on-the-wall recording of the band taking during the sessions for the song "Get Back".
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* WagTheDirector -- Paul attempts this, unsuccessfully.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: "Get Back".
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Its Music/LetItBe CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long And Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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Its Music/LetItBe CultSoundtrack (which has [[Music/LetItBe its own entry]]) effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long And Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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Its Music/LetItBe CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and And Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: Though Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/LetItBleed'' was also released in 1970 their title was not a pun on ''Let It Be''. Theirs appeared first.
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** Lennon namedrops Music/BobDylan's ''Like A Rolling Stone'', the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, Music/BBKing, Creator/DorisDay and Scottish soccer player Matt Busby during ''Dig It''.
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** Lennon namedrops Music/BobDylan's ''Like "Like A Rolling Stone'', Stone", the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, Music/BBKing, Creator/DorisDay BB King, Doris Day and Scottish soccer player Matt Busby during ''Dig It''."Dig It".
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* LastNoteNightmare: The dissonant swirling effects at the end of "Blue Jay Way".
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** "Across The Universe" uses the Sanskrit phrase "Jai Guru Deva". The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't get i."
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't get i."
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** "Across The Universe" uses the Sanskrit phrase "Jai Guru Deva". The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev.
Dev".
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't geti.it."
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This film was released about a year later than planned; it took that long for there to be any consensus about what the accompanying album would be like. Unfortunately, it was an incomplete consensus; while JohnLennon and GeorgeHarrison were happy with it, [[PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]] wasn't even aware of the finishing touches until they were a ''fait accompli.'' This led to a chain of events that led to the film being released in May 1970--and ''after'' Paul had issued a press release saying he was leaving the band indefinitely. Instant HarsherInHindsight, since this film already depicted stressful relations between the Beatles.
Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which finally showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which finally showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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This film was released about a year later than planned; it took that long for there to be any consensus about what the accompanying album would be like. Unfortunately, it was an incomplete consensus; while JohnLennon Music/JohnLennon and GeorgeHarrison Music/GeorgeHarrison were happy with it, [[PaulMcCartney [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]] wasn't even aware of the finishing touches until they were a ''fait accompli.'' This led to a chain of events that led to the film being released in May 1970--and ''after'' Paul had issued a press release saying he was leaving the band indefinitely. Instant HarsherInHindsight, since this film already depicted stressful relations between the Beatles.
Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, whichfinally showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy some of the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which
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** The album cover of Music/{{Gorillaz}'s ''Demon Days'' references the one on ''Let It Be''.
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Its CultSoundtrack effectively became the last official Beatles album to be released as a result. It won the 1970 Academy Award for ''Best Score''. "Let It Be", "Across The Universe", "Get Back" and "The Long and Winding Road" would become the band's final hits. Music/PaulMcCartney has always had a life long CreatorBacklash about the album, because RecordProducer Music/PhilSpector added a lot of TastesLikeDiabetes choirs and other schmaltzy arrangements to the songs, without consulting the band about this. In 1995 the third album of ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' set a few things straight by letting the audience enjoy the material without Spector's ExecutiveMeddling and in 2003 the album ''Let It Be... Naked'' was released, which finally showed the world how Macca intended their final album to sound: raw and simple.
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** "Maggie Mae"
** "Mother Mary" and "'''W'''hisper '''w'''ords of '''w'''isdom, let it be..."
* AlbumFiller: The inclusion of "Across the Universe" and "One After 909" on Let It Be couldn't be anything but filler. The former was recorded in early 1968, long before "Let It Be" was released, and the latter was one of the first songs Lennon and McCartney had ever written; they recorded a version of it in 1963, which was never included on an album because they were never satisfied with it. They recorded a new version of it for Let It Be. "Dig It" too. When the album was remixed as "Let It Be... Naked" in 2002, it was even dropped from the track list.
* AndStarring: Billy Preston on piano. The "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
* BookEnds: The original ''Get Back'' album was supposed to have a 1969 photo of the Beatles in the exact same pose that they used for their breakout 1963 Please Please Me album. This idea was abandoned when the Get Back album was reworked into Let It Be, but the photo was eventually used for the cover of the 1967-1970 compilation album.
* BrokenRecord: The word "everybody" in "I've Got A Feeling".
* ChangedForTheVideo: The filmed performances of "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" from the 1970 Let It Be film are different from the versions which were later released. The "Let It Be" recording, both single and album versions, is based on take 27-A from the Jan. 31, 1969 session, while the film version, which has never been released as an audio recording, was the next take, 27-B. In the filmed video, McCartney sings "there will be no sorrow" in the last verse instead of "there will be an answer". Similarly, the filmed performance of "The Long and Winding Road" is from the Jan. 31 session, while the released song is based off a recording from five days earlier. Also, the live performance is in accordance with Paul's original conception of the song as a simple piano ballad, while the released version includes the stringed instruments and backing choir overdubbed by Phil Spector.
* ConcertFilm: "Maggie May", a Liverpudlian traditional folk song.
* ControlFreak: A big reason why the band had so much fall-outs during the recordings.
* CoverVersion:
** "Maggie Mae"
** "Mother Mary" and "'''W'''hisper '''w'''ords of '''w'''isdom, let it be..."
* AlbumFiller: The inclusion of "Across the Universe" and "One After 909" on Let It Be couldn't be anything but filler. The former was recorded in early 1968, long before "Let It Be" was released, and the latter was one of the first songs Lennon and McCartney had ever written; they recorded a version of it in 1963, which was never included on an album because they were never satisfied with it. They recorded a new version of it for Let It Be. "Dig It" too. When the album was remixed as "Let It Be... Naked" in 2002, it was even dropped from the track list.
* AndStarring: Billy Preston on piano. The "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist.
* BookEnds: The original ''Get Back'' album was supposed to have a 1969 photo of the Beatles in the exact same pose that they used for their breakout 1963 Please Please Me album. This idea was abandoned when the Get Back album was reworked into Let It Be, but the photo was eventually used for the cover of the 1967-1970 compilation album.
* BrokenRecord: The word "everybody" in "I've Got A Feeling".
* ChangedForTheVideo: The filmed performances of "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" from the 1970 Let It Be film are different from the versions which were later released. The "Let It Be" recording, both single and album versions, is based on take 27-A from the Jan. 31, 1969 session, while the film version, which has never been released as an audio recording, was the next take, 27-B. In the filmed video, McCartney sings "there will be no sorrow" in the last verse instead of "there will be an answer". Similarly, the filmed performance of "The Long and Winding Road" is from the Jan. 31 session, while the released song is based off a recording from five days earlier. Also, the live performance is in accordance with Paul's original conception of the song as a simple piano ballad, while the released version includes the stringed instruments and backing choir overdubbed by Phil Spector.
* ConcertFilm: "Maggie May", a Liverpudlian traditional folk song.
* ControlFreak: A big reason why the band had so much fall-outs during the recordings.
* CoverVersion:
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: "Let It Be" was inspired by a dream Paul had about his mother, who passed away when he was young.
* [[SixthRanger TheFifthBeatle]]: Billy Preston was nicknamed this after he joined the band for this album.
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* ManipulativeEditing: The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31, 1969.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "I've Got A Feeling" informs us that everybody "had a wet dream".
* GriefSong: It's difficult to listen to "The Long and Winding Road", without thinking of it as a goodbye song to the individual Beatles and each one of them parting to go their own way.
* ItsAllAboutMe: ''I Me Mine''.
* LastNoteHilarity: John's "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition", which he originally said at the end of the rooftop concert, but Spector edited it into the "Get Back" song.
* LastNoteNightmare: The dissonant swirling effects at the end of "Blue Jay Way".
* LiveAlbum: ''Let It Be'' was supposed to be this, with the band rehearsing and recording their new songs live. The sniping and tension within the band (as well as the creative funk John Lennon was mired in at this time) led to several songs being dubbed or altered in the studio, most infamously Paul's "The Long and Winding Road". However, despite all the band's problems seven tracks were still laid down live: "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909" and "I Dig a Pony" from the Apple rooftop performance, and "Get Back", "Two of Us", "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" from studio performances. ("Don't Let Me Down", left off the album after being released as the B-side of the "Get Back" single, was also recorded live.)
* LyricalColdOpen: "The Long And Winding Road".
* ManipulativeEditing: The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31, 1969. Music/PhilSpector's ExecutiveMeddling with the songs on the album could also count as this.
* NumerologicalMotif: ''One After 909'', a reference to the fact that Lennon considered ''nine'' his lucky number.
* OneWomanSong: "Maggie May".
* GriefSong: It's difficult to listen to "The Long and Winding Road", without thinking of it as a goodbye song to the individual Beatles and each one of them parting to go their own way.
* ItsAllAboutMe: ''I Me Mine''.
* LastNoteHilarity: John's "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition", which he originally said at the end of the rooftop concert, but Spector edited it into the "Get Back" song.
* LastNoteNightmare: The dissonant swirling effects at the end of "Blue Jay Way".
* LiveAlbum: ''Let It Be'' was supposed to be this, with the band rehearsing and recording their new songs live. The sniping and tension within the band (as well as the creative funk John Lennon was mired in at this time) led to several songs being dubbed or altered in the studio, most infamously Paul's "The Long and Winding Road". However, despite all the band's problems seven tracks were still laid down live: "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909" and "I Dig a Pony" from the Apple rooftop performance, and "Get Back", "Two of Us", "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" from studio performances. ("Don't Let Me Down", left off the album after being released as the B-side of the "Get Back" single, was also recorded live.)
* LyricalColdOpen: "The Long And Winding Road".
* ManipulativeEditing: The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31, 1969. Music/PhilSpector's ExecutiveMeddling with the songs on the album could also count as this.
* NumerologicalMotif: ''One After 909'', a reference to the fact that Lennon considered ''nine'' his lucky number.
* OneWomanSong: "Maggie May".
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Whatever had been ProtestSong: "Get Back"
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** The film was originallyintended conceived as a documentary of the Beatles' "rebirth" as a live performing band. Instead, by capturing the tension and infighting among the band members (including a famous spat between McCartney and Harrison), it became a chronicle of the band's break-up, lampshaded by the choice of name. When originally conceived as a chronicle of the band's rebirth, the project was entitled "Get Back". By the time the pieces had been picked up and enough footage cobbled together to release as an album and film, it had metamorphosed into "Let It Be", effectively serving as the band's epitaph.
** "Get Back" was written as a TakeThat against the then recent anti-immigration laws in the UK.
* RecordProducer: Music/PhilSpector.
* RefrainFromAssuming: Though Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/LetItBleed'' was also released in 1970 their title was not a pun on ''Let It Be''. Theirs appeared first.
* RevisitingTheRoots: The album was originally going to befilmed, it probably wasn't what got filmed.called ''Get Back'' because this was precisely the idea (and that of course is also the reason the song was called "Get Back"). This was an attempt to return to the sort of spontaneous, energetic rock and roll they'd played at the beginning of their career - as opposed to the sophisticated and intricately produced music they'd moved on to. The recording sessions were a disaster, and they largely abandoned the "back to basics" approach for their last recorded album, ''Music/AbbeyRoad''.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** The film was originally
** "Get Back" was written as a TakeThat against the then recent anti-immigration laws in the UK.
* RecordProducer: Music/PhilSpector.
* RefrainFromAssuming: Though Music/TheRollingStones ''Music/LetItBleed'' was also released in 1970 their title was not a pun on ''Let It Be''. Theirs appeared first.
* RevisitingTheRoots: The album was originally going to be
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* ShoutOut:
** Lennon namedrops Music/BobDylan's ''Like A Rolling Stone'', the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, Music/BBKing, Creator/DorisDay and Scottish soccer player Matt Busby during ''Dig It''.
** "Across The Universe" uses the Sanskrit phrase "Jai Guru Deva". The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't get i."
** ''Music/TheRutles'': The Rutles released an album called ''Let It Rut'' and perform a rooftop concert and a song named "Get Up And Go".
** The album cover of Music/{{Gorillaz}'s ''Demon Days'' references the one on ''Let It Be''.
** The film ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' lends its title from the Beatles song of the same name.
** Paul's line "Thanks, Mo" in "Get Back" refers to Maureen, Music/RingoStarr's wife who was applauding nearby.
** Lennon namedrops Music/BobDylan's ''Like A Rolling Stone'', the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, Music/BBKing, Creator/DorisDay and Scottish soccer player Matt Busby during ''Dig It''.
** "Across The Universe" uses the Sanskrit phrase "Jai Guru Deva". The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Near the end of "Homer Barbershop Quartet" the B-Sharps perform on top of a roof. Music/GeorgeHarrison, guest starring in the episode, drives by and says: "Eh... ItsBeenDone". As the end credits roll Homer quotes Lennon's final line on "Let It Be": "I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and I hope we passed the audition", followed by the crowd laughing, then Barney saying: "I don't get i."
** ''Music/TheRutles'': The Rutles released an album called ''Let It Rut'' and perform a rooftop concert and a song named "Get Up And Go".
** The album cover of Music/{{Gorillaz}'s ''Demon Days'' references the one on ''Let It Be''.
** The film ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' lends its title from the Beatles song of the same name.
** Paul's line "Thanks, Mo" in "Get Back" refers to Maureen, Music/RingoStarr's wife who was applauding nearby.
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* SomethingBlues: ''For You Blue'' was originally titled ''George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)''.
* StudioChatter: The second disc of "Let It Be...Naked" is a fly-on-the-wall recording of the band taking during the sessions for the song "Get Back".
* StudioChatter: The second disc of "Let It Be...Naked" is a fly-on-the-wall recording of the band taking during the sessions for the song "Get Back".
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "Don't Let Me Down".
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The album was intended as a ''back to basics'' to their original, simpler sound.
* TrainSong: ''One After 909''.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The album was intended as a ''back to basics'' to their original, simpler sound.
* TrainSong: ''One After 909''.
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* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like Music/AllThingsMustPass into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
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* ManipulativeEditing: The film ends with the concert on the roof, but in fact the "Apple studio performance" (the takes of "Let It Be", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Two of Us") happened the day after the rooftop performance, on the last day of filming and recording, January 31, 1969.
* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems likeMusic/AllThingsMustPass "Music/AllThingsMustPass" into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like
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* ASimplePlan: The Beatles had already tried to get out of their obligation for a fourth movie with WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine. Failing that, this was probably seen as the next easiest thing to do.
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* ASimplePlan: The Beatles had already tried to get out of their obligation for a fourth movie with WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine. ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. Failing that, this was probably seen as the next easiest thing to do.do.
* TimeSkip: Not that you would know it from the movie. The pause in recording that lasted more than a week, after Harrison temporarily quit the band, is omitted.
* TimeSkip: Not that you would know it from the movie. The pause in recording that lasted more than a week, after Harrison temporarily quit the band, is omitted.
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* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like "All Things Must Pass" into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
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* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like "All Things Must Pass" Music/AllThingsMustPass into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
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* BreakawayPopHit: the entire ''Let It Be'' album, and especially "Let It Be" and "Long and Winding Road."
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* ThrowItIn: Lots of {{studio chatter}} is thrown into the songs on the album, including the quote above, which closes the album in the same way it closes the film.
* TroubledProduction: It wound up being a documentary on one.
* TroubledProduction: It wound up being a documentary on one.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This film was last available on the free market (on VHS and laserdisc) in 1991. It has been pulled until it can be remade into something that the current heads of Apple (Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison) can find acceptable. Even after the release of ''Let It Be...Naked'' (a remix of the ''Let It Be'' album), it hasn't been a high priority. Netflix had it for some time, but it vanished again.
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* DeletedScene: Lindsay-Hogg cut a LOT out of his movie. There is no trace of the violent argument between John and George that (legend has it) came to blows, no mention of George quitting the band in the middle of the sessions, and no hint that the sessions were suspended for nine days while the Beatles figured out what to do next. Additionally, Billy Preston materializes at Apple with no explanation. (George brought his friend in to support the Beatles' live ensemble with keyboards, and to help calm down a fractious group.)
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* CreativeDifferences: And how. In particular, one famous scene features Paul and George sniping passive aggressively at each other over a chord.
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The last film TheBeatles Music/TheBeatles made before their break-up. It is a {{Documentary}}[=/=]{{Rockumentary}} that covers what was supposed to be the making of an album and the concert that followed. This didn't work out well because different Beatles had different ideas about what should be done with the project and how it should be done. The personal relationships between the members of the band were also decaying quite rapidly at the time, which the movie quite bluntly reveals; several scenes involve the members of the band arguing and sniping pettily with each other. The concert ended up being held on the rooftop of the building of Apple Corps.
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* YokoOhNo: She's there watching the whole thing, but except for dancing with John, she doesn't really say or do much. The Beatles manage to create enough conflict by themselves.
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->''"I'd like to say 'Thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition!"''
-->--'''Music/JohnLennon'''
The last film TheBeatles made before their break-up. It is a {{Documentary}}[=/=]{{Rockumentary}} that covers what was supposed to be the making of an album and the concert that followed. This didn't work out well because different Beatles had different ideas about what should be done with the project and how it should be done. The personal relationships between the members of the band were also decaying quite rapidly at the time, which the movie quite bluntly reveals; several scenes involve the members of the band arguing and sniping pettily with each other. The concert ended up being held on the rooftop of the building of Apple Corps.
This film was released about a year later than planned; it took that long for there to be any consensus about what the accompanying album would be like. Unfortunately, it was an incomplete consensus; while JohnLennon and GeorgeHarrison were happy with it, [[PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]] wasn't even aware of the finishing touches until they were a ''fait accompli.'' This led to a chain of events that led to the film being released in May 1970--and ''after'' Paul had issued a press release saying he was leaving the band indefinitely. Instant HarsherInHindsight, since this film already depicted stressful relations between the Beatles.
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* BreakawayPopHit: the entire ''Let It Be'' album, and especially "Let It Be" and "Long and Winding Road."
* CreativeDifferences: And how. In particular, one famous scene features Paul and George sniping passive aggressively at each other over a chord.
* DeletedScene: Lindsay-Hogg cut a LOT out of his movie. There is no trace of the violent argument between John and George that (legend has it) came to blows, no mention of George quitting the band in the middle of the sessions, and no hint that the sessions were suspended for nine days while the Beatles figured out what to do next. Additionally, Billy Preston materializes at Apple with no explanation. (George brought his friend in to support the Beatles' live ensemble with keyboards, and to help calm down a fractious group.)
* {{Documentary}}
* EvolvingMusic: We see the band running through a hard rock version of "Two of Us" during the Twickenham sessions. When they play the finished version in the studio, it is a mellow acoustic pop song.
* FinaglesLaw: there were many disasters in the making of this film--many of them filmed.
* IceCreamKoan
* ItGotWorse
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This film was last available on the free market (on VHS and laserdisc) in 1991. It has been pulled until it can be remade into something that the current heads of Apple (Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison) can find acceptable. Even after the release of ''Let It Be...Naked'' (a remix of the ''Let It Be'' album), it hasn't been a high priority. Netflix had it for some time, but it vanished again.
* MissingEpisode
* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like "All Things Must Pass" into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: whatever had been originally intended to be filmed, it probably wasn't what got filmed.
* RooftopConcert: TropeCodifier. What most people don't remember is that the Apple rooftop performance only came after the band tried and failed to agree on anywhere else to play the planned live show--a North African ampitheatre, a cruise ship, the Royal Albert Hall, etc. After failing to come up with anything better they simply went to the top of their own building. And they still managed an iconic, much imitated rock music moment.
* ASimplePlan: The Beatles had already tried to get out of their obligation for a fourth movie with YellowSubmarine. Failing that, this was probably seen as the next easiest thing to do.
* ThrowItIn: Lots of {{studio chatter}} is thrown into the songs on the album, including the quote above, which closes the album in the same way it closes the film.
* TroubledProduction: It wound up being a documentary on one.
* WagTheDirector -- Paul attempts this, unsuccessfully.
* YokoOhNo: She's there watching the whole thing, but except for dancing with John, she doesn't really say or do much. The Beatles manage to create enough conflict by themselves.
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->''"I'd like to say 'Thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition!"''
-->--'''Music/JohnLennon'''
The last film TheBeatles made before their break-up. It is a {{Documentary}}[=/=]{{Rockumentary}} that covers what was supposed to be the making of an album and the concert that followed. This didn't work out well because different Beatles had different ideas about what should be done with the project and how it should be done. The personal relationships between the members of the band were also decaying quite rapidly at the time, which the movie quite bluntly reveals; several scenes involve the members of the band arguing and sniping pettily with each other. The concert ended up being held on the rooftop of the building of Apple Corps.
This film was released about a year later than planned; it took that long for there to be any consensus about what the accompanying album would be like. Unfortunately, it was an incomplete consensus; while JohnLennon and GeorgeHarrison were happy with it, [[PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]] wasn't even aware of the finishing touches until they were a ''fait accompli.'' This led to a chain of events that led to the film being released in May 1970--and ''after'' Paul had issued a press release saying he was leaving the band indefinitely. Instant HarsherInHindsight, since this film already depicted stressful relations between the Beatles.
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* BreakawayPopHit: the entire ''Let It Be'' album, and especially "Let It Be" and "Long and Winding Road."
* CreativeDifferences: And how. In particular, one famous scene features Paul and George sniping passive aggressively at each other over a chord.
* DeletedScene: Lindsay-Hogg cut a LOT out of his movie. There is no trace of the violent argument between John and George that (legend has it) came to blows, no mention of George quitting the band in the middle of the sessions, and no hint that the sessions were suspended for nine days while the Beatles figured out what to do next. Additionally, Billy Preston materializes at Apple with no explanation. (George brought his friend in to support the Beatles' live ensemble with keyboards, and to help calm down a fractious group.)
* {{Documentary}}
* EvolvingMusic: We see the band running through a hard rock version of "Two of Us" during the Twickenham sessions. When they play the finished version in the studio, it is a mellow acoustic pop song.
* FinaglesLaw: there were many disasters in the making of this film--many of them filmed.
* IceCreamKoan
* ItGotWorse
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This film was last available on the free market (on VHS and laserdisc) in 1991. It has been pulled until it can be remade into something that the current heads of Apple (Paul, Ringo, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison) can find acceptable. Even after the release of ''Let It Be...Naked'' (a remix of the ''Let It Be'' album), it hasn't been a high priority. Netflix had it for some time, but it vanished again.
* MissingEpisode
* PerformanceVideo: Most of the movie, with the first portion being The Beatles rehearsing their new material and the latter portion being them playing the finished songs live. A careful viewer will notice that the finished products are mostly [=McCartney=] songs. George could not get the others to give his material equal attention, even while he was bringing gems like "All Things Must Pass" into the studio, and Lennon was at an all-time creative ebb.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: whatever had been originally intended to be filmed, it probably wasn't what got filmed.
* RooftopConcert: TropeCodifier. What most people don't remember is that the Apple rooftop performance only came after the band tried and failed to agree on anywhere else to play the planned live show--a North African ampitheatre, a cruise ship, the Royal Albert Hall, etc. After failing to come up with anything better they simply went to the top of their own building. And they still managed an iconic, much imitated rock music moment.
* ASimplePlan: The Beatles had already tried to get out of their obligation for a fourth movie with YellowSubmarine. Failing that, this was probably seen as the next easiest thing to do.
* ThrowItIn: Lots of {{studio chatter}} is thrown into the songs on the album, including the quote above, which closes the album in the same way it closes the film.
* TroubledProduction: It wound up being a documentary on one.
* WagTheDirector -- Paul attempts this, unsuccessfully.
* YokoOhNo: She's there watching the whole thing, but except for dancing with John, she doesn't really say or do much. The Beatles manage to create enough conflict by themselves.
