Michael Lindsay-Hogg talks about the remastering of ‘Let It Be’
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2024
- ABC News’ Phil Lipof sat down with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on the restored 1970s film “Let It Be,” an intimate documentary that followed the Beatles recording their 12th and final album.
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Great thanx to Mr. Lindsey-Hogg for leaving that much film and audio material for us.
First off, it's great to know that Lindsay-Hogg is still alive. It's awesome that Let it Be is finally coming out again. My bootleg DVD copy has seen better days. Ty, Michael, and I'm certain that the remaster will pass the audition. 👍
Michael Lindsay Hogg doesn't get enough credit for Let It Be and what then became Get Back. We have that treasure trove of hundreds of hours of video and audio thanks to him! I hope we see it ALL one day!
He's the one who filmed all that stuff, so yeah, he gets credit, even if the audio tracks were not always matched up.
Simply the greatest group and songwriting team that has EVER been
He didn’t talk about the remastering of Let It Be.
Well you know what they say, Can't polish a ....
Let’s see it on Blu-Ray/4K.
GenZ hate the music of their parents , and then are shocked by how better their grandparents music is.
well, their parents were listening to such crap like that no-talent ass-clown michael bolton so... yeah. they should be lucky that their grandparents were cooler. when tony bennett had a comeback in the 90s and gen x found him to be cool. the parents were like... "first grunge, gangsta rap, and now this!" but the grandparents stepped in and like "hey! tony bennett! i'm glad you kids like this" "dad, why are you making my kids like this garbage!" "SHUT THE F*** UP!!!! TONY BENNETT IS AWESOME! FRANK SINATRA IS COOL! NOT THAT MICHAEL BOLTON-KENNY G BULLSHIT YOU ASSWIPES LISTEN TO! NOW GO TO YOUR F***ING ROOM!" "so grandpa, what do you think of snoop dogg?" "i like him! he's all about them bitches and ho's! just like sammy davis back then".
The rooftop concert was the last time they played together LIVE. They played/recorded together several times together during the recording of Abbey Road (which was recorded after the Get Back sessions).
54 years ago and watching it all again....the movies, videos, anything Beatles.... makes it seem like they are still together.
Not the last album. Last _released_ album.
Spot on
Yes, that what last album means.
@@REAL_ROGER_WATERS guess you don’t see the significance in this common mistake.
Like so many others…
@@REAL_ROGER_WATERS No. Their “last” album was Abbey Road. Recorded six months after Let It Be.
@@stephenoleary5627 Not entirely true, I think there's enough contributions to Let It Be after Abbey Road, including its track listing and name, that I feel it can be counted as their "last" album from a certain point of view. Stuff like orchestral and choral overdubs were done as late as April 1970 for Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road and I Me Mine, the lead vocal for For You Blue was recorded in 1970, and an entire song was recorded in 1970 - I Me Mine.
This guy was the main villain in Get Back
At the time of original release it was a sad film because we knew they were apart. We missed them and their songs. We still do in 2024.
5 of them, played on the roof.
i just saw it and... it's beautiful. thank you mr. lindsay-hogg and mr. peter jackson for giving us this film to be seen once again and in a proper light.
Abbey Road is the last studio album. Let It Be was delayed.
Because Let it Be was terrible. Not produced by George Martin. So they made Abbey Road and released it to end on a high note.
@@dynjarren8355Let It Be is terrific
@@TheJayson8899 It has a few good songs and some Drek that are their worst early songs.
I dig a Pony? Long Winding Road is boring. One after 909? Across the Multiverse? No thanks! Yuck! I’ll pass.
And Martin didn’t add his great production skills.
Phil Spector added the Violins 🎻 which make it syrupy and cheesy. Syrup and Cheese 🧀. My favorites! 🤢🤮
In addition to this, Lindsay-Hogg also directed The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus film and several episodes of Ready Steady Go
I hope he writes a memoir one day
I'm looking forward to seeing the restored version of the Let It Be film. Thanks for sharing.
It will only depress you Ron.
My dad is very very excited to see it . He saw it in theaters when he was a teenager and he said it was such a great and depressing film when the Beatles broke up
Depressing at least.
My Dad is in prison
@@user-ob1oi7kn2wgood for you
Can we have a version of the rooftop without cops and the people on the street. Just would like a full rooftop with just the Beatles playing
No way !! The main reason we see the cops and the people on the streets is because this was an unplanned event until it was decided at the last minute it's completely spontaneous and that's why it works so well. We all wanted to know just how much longer can the Beatles keep playing, before they get arrested ? And will they actually be arrested?
Yea, so annoying that they don‘t offer a cut of the show without that distractions
I think that the movie version Is without the cops, but i'm not sure
@@ildirettoredimediaset2376 No
@@dinshawpocha4882 in the context of a documentary it is interesting to see - but as a bonus feature it would be great to see the remastered performance edited like a concert film without interruption - or at the very least, a selectable secondary audio track so at least it would have been an uninterrupted listening experience. When this was released on DVD/Blu-ray, there was the ability to make that happen with minimal effort, and it likely would have encouraged sales.
I knew his cousin, Sir Dennis Eaton-Hogg, when I was an A&R rep at Polymer Records.
my youngest daughter goes to school and is a huge Beatles fan. This is very important especially for the younger generation. Thanx from Ukraine for all you doing
Stay strong, we are with you. Slava Ukraine. The Beatles unites us together.
@@terrier53 героям слава ! We are all stand together! Beatles unites!
I've seen both versions, I may re watch the old one since it's higher quality
Sir Michael was a boy back when get back and LIB was filmed. As a film maker he should be proud of his early work being relevant and so well crafted. He sounds so america no w where he sounded so brit back then
The roof wasn't his idea
Yeah I thought of it first.
I'm thinking everyone has taken credit for the roof idea at some point.
@@phillydisco I had to talk George into it, he was going through his anti-everything phase.
"GMA with the first ever exclusive video of Let It Be" .... reality: nearly all those video snippets have been seen / available for 54 years. Gotta love modern media (smh)
Is this the original Let It Be or the Get Back sessions?
The original "Let It Be" movie
Same thing. Two movies were made from the same sessions -- the original one in 1970 was called Let It Be, and unused footage was used to make the opus Get Back a couple of years ago
@@Matthew-ve7uvGet Back was a series, not a movie
@@Matthew-ve7uv can you explain to me what is the main difference between the Get Back S01 series and the Let It Be movie?
Creation of the Let It Be album, the rooftop performance, literally everything that we are getting to see here in the Let It Be movie was already showed in the Get Back S01 series right?
@@GBOAC can you explain to me what is the main difference between the Get Back S01 series and the Let It Be movie?
Creation of the Let It Be album, the rooftop performance, literally everything that we are getting to see here in the Let It Be movie was already shown in the Get Back S01 series right?
All of the people who watched "Get Back" on Disney are going to tune in to see "Let It Be" and wonder why Disney is showing "Get Back" again. LOL.
Yeah or they could've waited a little longer ....
It's like the Get Back series minus the fun parts.
it's really the same stuff? 😐
@@antonio_qp From what I understand, Peter Jackson went out of his way to not negate the "Let It Be" film when making "Get Back". "LIB" features full length performances of the songs whereas "GB" usually cuts away from the performances and focuses on the rehearsal. Ultimately "LIB" is a documentary film about The Beatles making an album and giving what ends up being their final performance, and "GB" is an 8 hour documentary about the making of that film.
@@JimmyNotes I see, both footage complement each other.
There's no stopping Tony Stark. Whether it be rocket engines, weapons, or just plain old remastering.
Looking the worst for wear though.
It's a depressing film but Lindsay a genius, son of Orson Welles, did the Stones 1968 Rock N Roll Circus too!🎉🎉
Urban legend / myth though
@@GBOACDNA test proved inconclusive. Not necessarily a myth at all.
Linsay-Hogg is the opposite of genius. Let It Be is a poorly directed film. The guy has barely worked. There are reasons for that.
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse Michael's directed some of the finest British TV drama and comedy over the last 50 years.
Didn't Peter Jackson's the Beatles get back doc show us all this already?? 🧐
No he did a film of all the available footage. This is a remastering of the film, 'Let it Be' at the time.
The footage in Get Back that is in Let It Be, was trimmed or edited. Let It Be will have the full footage. I'm also hoping it's not visually over-produced, since they had remastered it as recently as the 1990s, and most likely did it again later, as Let It Be has almost been released for the last 20 years.
Sort of a big time jump....It was released in movie theaters....then went to VHS...well yes....but 11 years later.
And CVD and LaserDisc
@@GBOAC Yes! For about 30 years the copy I had was from Laser....it looks like garbage now that "Get Back" came out...and now this!
@@GBOAC And Betamax.
ABC doesn't have a clue about the Get Back series obviously.
O clue… lol!!
No idea.. 😂
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2 more days! People think the Get Back doc makes Let It Be redundant, but actually MLH was smart. He most likely had Peter Jackson only use footage that wasn't in Let It Be, with exception of the Rooftop concert. The January 31st performances were great, and not in Get Back.
Gracias Michael por Let It Be, pero principalmente muchas gracias por la obra maestra Two Of Us, hermosa película.
Okay, I'm not sure that any of these Beatle fans are talking about the remaster when they are literally talking about the film's quality. LIB had extra shots that were either cut or shortened in GB. LIB also holds a memory for the other Beatle fans. Can't yall just accept that one half has Get Back and the other half is waiting for LIB. Nobody can't hate at this moment cause the film hasn't been released yet, nor can you bring up the old film when the whole entire point of this film is to remaster the old one.
What I'm also hopeful is that Let It Be doesn't have the over-production that Get Back had on the film footage. I think it may be more 'natural' because I'm assuming they cleaned up the film some time prior to Anthology, which is why the performances included in that mini series looked so crisp. And that was in the 90s.
I'm a huge Beatles fan but after the Get Back series this seems superseded and is being released just for its historical value.
There's stuff in Let It Be that's not in Get Back. Also, I think it's totally valid to release it for it's considerable historic value.
@@tombeyerlein3813 can you explain to me what is the main difference between the Get Back S01 series and the Let It Be movie?
Creation of the Let It Be album, the rooftop performance, literally everything that we are getting to see here in the Let It Be movie was already showed in the Get Back S01 series right?
A lot was deliberately left out to make space for the original film @@rajasik_ghosh
Historical value is huge, considering all the Beatles were alive when it was released.
@@johnmc3862 agreed - I didn't say it shouldn't be released, but that it's content and story is now much more explained in detail in the TV series. As a historical document, i.e. as a cleaned up version of the original, is important as well. But I'm not nearly as half excited than I was when Jackson's Get Back was announced.
Does anyone own a dvd player I can borrow?
They already did this a couple years ago.
The is the original 1970 cinema release. Newly restored - much of the footage did not feature in Peter Jackson's recent Get Back project.
It wasn't MLH's idea to play on the Savile Row roof.
He didn’t say anything about the remastering.
If you’ve seen “Get Back”, is it really necessary to see “Let It Be”?
I thought 'Get Back' was supposed to be the new improved 'Let It Be'? If Let it Be is exactly the same as it was I feel sorry for Beatle fans who have never seen it, It is depressing and should never have been released.
salve , ho anch'io il DVD fatto da me in italiano 15 anni fa e sicuramente guarderò domani il film ma i 3 Blu-ray di Get Back è la cosa migliore mai uscita in video sui Beatles (a me Anthology annoia un pò) però sarà bello riguardarlo in 4K ( Hi, I also have the DVD made by me in Italian 15 years ago and I will definitely watch the movie tomorrow but the 3 Blu-ray of Get Back is the best thing ever released in video on the Beatles (Anthology bores me a bit) but it will be nice to watch it in 4K )
I guess there is no "and now your host, the rolling stones" in this one.
Let It Be.
11th album.
Thought that was Gary Oldman
The original focused on their troubles as they were indeed "breaking apart". The newly released version focuses on those rare inbetween moments when they were enjoying themselves while playing together.
The original is, sorry to say, closer to reality, though they did reunite in the summer of 1969 to record (in only 5 weeks!) Abby Road.
How do you know? The TV series also had the times when they were arguing but it wasn't the full picture.
@@olivarionline1you both are right. The original was about their relationship because it was made to fit the narrative about them breaking up and what led to it because they were already done by the time the film was released but the problem with that was like ringo said “it was very narrow” because of it and with the new version they showed, as much as they could, what the original didn’t have because they didn’t want to tamper with that films mark but I do think they should release the entirety of the footage with both versions cut together.
No one has ever been as wrong as you are right now.
@@MortimerSnerdVideos both, this is not a non binary discussion
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Let it be was such a wasted opportunity. Michael Lindsay Hogg had them for an entire month and never thought to interview the band together or to interview them separately. What a mistake!
That wasn’t his assignment. He was charged with directing a fly-on-the-wall documentary without interaction between crew and artists.
@@GBOAC But in reality all he did was interact with the band directly. So he failed in that aspect as well.
He filmed dozens of hours of the Beatles at work. That alone is a preservation of very important music history. Peter Jackson would have not been able to do what he did without Lindsay-Hoggs work.
It was meant to be a fly on the wall doucmatary ..
I agree. It's a horrible and poorly directed film. Lindsay-Hogg failed basic directing and editing 101 completely. Worst music documentary ever, and it created a false narrative about the ending of the Beatles.
Was filmed in January of 1969
Surprised to find that Michael Lindsay-Hogg doesn't look anymore like his father Orson Welles. In younger years he did.
Lemme tell ya, the documentary for the making of this movie THE BOMB!! 🤣🤣🤣
Is this one also DNR'd to hell and back or did they actually do a restoration to retain the 16mm look lol?
Let’s hope for the latter
He kinda looks like an older Michael J. Fox
He knew he couldn't last
Can’t wait!!!! The Beatles "Let It Be" - Is this the BEST ROCKUMENTARY ever? MAY 2024 Re-Release
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It WAS NOT the last album ABBEY ROAD was the last
Yes, it was their last album released, as The Beatles.
Peter Jackson's Get Back was made for Beatles fans. This movie was for people who didn't care about them. I saw Let It Be about 20 years ago and, other than showing one awesome jam session, it was just a meandering mess.
Can you explain to me what is the main difference between the Get Back S01 series and the Let It Be movie?
Creation of the Let It Be album, the rooftop performance, literally everything that we are getting to see here in the Let It Be movie was already showed in the Get Back S01 series right?
@@rajasik_ghosh Yes, you are right. The big difference is the way it was edited. Let it Be is around an hour long, it has no narration or explanatory notes and sometimes cuts forwards and backwards in time. You see the band suddenly jamming, cut in with sudden interruptions where the band is not doing very much at all, without any story developing. You get a real sense of the director's frustration that they weren't seriously preparing for a spectacular live concert in Libya, but that's about all you get.
No no, this was also made for Beatle fans. I'm pretty sure you and other Beatle fans don't want anyone other Beatle fans to have a film that they literally waited for since it dropped in theaters. Enjoy Get Back but don't tell others they're wrong for watching this and that they should stick to a 9 hour long documentary.
@@rajasik_ghosh Get Back was a lot of footage not in Let It Be, but it also did not include many of the complete performances used in Let It Be. Anyway, who is going to sit through 9 hrs of Get Back over and over again? You can watch Let It Be and get the same joy (or depression) in 1.5hrs.
@@FogUpOnALake Only because it hasn't been available, not because it's good. There was a bootleg in my local video store and I watched it plenty of times despite it being a very disappointing film. I just think that, with a really good and insightful film in Get Back, releasing a poor 1970s version of Get Back isn't that important.
Maybe next time do your homework for an interview lol
I think it's a mistake. The Get Back film is a much better version.
Agree. This is nothing more that a shameless money grab by Disney and the Beatles-Industrial Complex. Horribly directed film that created a false narrative about the ending of the Beatles.
Get Back is missing a lot of stuff that was in Let It Be. It was probably one of the conditions for letting Peter Jackson use the original footage. Get Back can be seen as an expanded Let It Be, but not a replacement.
Yes I think so too. I thought the whole idea was to re edit (with more content) Let It Be footage into Get Back so it wasn't so God damn depressing, why in the world would they now re release LIB?
what's the point of re-releasing the film when we already have "Get Back" ??? seems pointless. cash grab
Saw it in theater.. been wainting years for it ti be restored...then...the Peter jacksonbthing comes out .....which i havent see yet. So now what ???
Kids love the Beatles until one of their friends tells them it's old & it's not cool.
11 year old me didn’t listen to
@@TheJayson8899 Good for you. Yeah, there are some kids who decide for themselves what they like or don't like. But they are definitely not the majority.
Looking forward to getting together with some of my fellow Beatlemaniac friends and watching this. I had a bootleg VHS tape I bought on the streets in NYC and it looked like it was filmed in mud so this should be a revelation, especially when compared/contrasted with Peter Jackson's Get Back doc from 2 years ago.
It's too bad Disney got their hooks into this for another cash grab. It should have come back to the big screen, then streaming then to DVD /BR. I will skip Disney and wait for the DVD in the comfort of having my original VHS and a really nice Euro bootleg copy of the movie to tide me over. I must admit that I am disappointed in The Beatles having gone the Disney route for what I suppose must be a wonderful payday.
I'll stick with Get Back - happier context..
Ya got that right comrade.
Get back is great, Let It Be is a wasted opportunity, it was depressing in 1970 and no better now except for better video quality. The Let It Be narrative by ML-H was unsympathetic to the band because he was struggling to find an artistic thread in these endless sessions of a band that was somewhat adrift after Brian Epstein's demise in 1967. Even George Martin had been sidelined as a producer and the Twickenham Studio location was pretty unsuitable to the Beatles because of its non-recording studio vibe and unfamiliar surroundings. Strange Days have found us......
Seems completely irrelevant since Get Back came out, The original Let it Be sucked big time and was so one sided , all apparent after watching Get Back.
FORGET IT ...!! We all seen it, "Get Back" was what people wanted ! I AM NOT PAYING FOR IT ON PARAMOUNT, OR BUY IT.
What "Let it Be did is show how Miserable in that huge filming studio and they couldn't make music at 7 am. So they went
Back to Abbey Road Studio which wasn't as Cold,Drafty and more productive.
Well See
Happy Beatlemania 60th
hopefully new generations break the pattern of "modern" crap music and go back to music
Isn't this just Get Back?
Yeah except the depressing version.
this guy is 83, i thought he was like 60
Wealth preserves, look at Shatner. The more you know.
that would have made him 6 years old when he directed Let it Be in 1970. LOL
@@weeniehutjunior he looks 60
He always looked much younger, in the footage you see him smoking a cigar which is hilarious as he looks like a grandchild taking a puff of grandpa’s cigar 😂
Glad to see Hogg finally getting a significant payday from this.
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The only thing Lindley-hog got right was to film all the footage, his editing on the let it be movie was terrible just look at what the great Peter Jackson did with the rest of the footage why didn't useless Lindley-hog use some of it ,stop giving this muppet airtime,he's got as much sense as Joe Biden 😂
Lindsay Hogg probably has more editing skills than you.
@@FogUpOnALake LOL yeah probably Fogs. Your comment wins reply of the day, go to the front office to get your Kqpwee doll.
Good lord he is a terrible director
Mmm maybe but he did a champion job on the 'Two of Us'