The Ultimate Let It Be Companion

The Beatles
 
Ultimate Let It Be Companion (DVD) - Front cover Ultimate Let It Be Companion (DVD) - Rear Cover
The Ultimate Let It Be Companion (DVD) - Front Cover The Ultimate Let It Be Companion (DVD) - Rear Cover

Label His Master's Choice
Catalogue No.   HMC 036
Release date September 2016
Total time Disc 1 - 82 minutes 38 seconds
Disc 2 - 77 minutes 02 seconds
Comments :                            TMOQ Gazette - Volume 24

This is the second "Let It Be" collection from HMC - a follow-up to the superior quality movie finally available in stereo.
It is designed for both the casual fan and the completist as the essential supplement to the film.
Contains unreleased video material !

Over 2 and a half hours spread across two DVDs, this set also includes all versions of all the videos that are no longer available.
Plus TV broadcasts, promotional specials, commercials and everything else -
all in the most complete and best available quality.

It also contains a great deal of footage, some of it believed lost forever, making it's appearance here for the first time.

The 24 page stiff card booklet for the TMOQ Gazette has a much more detailed write-up from which the above was extracted.
It also has a biography of Ed Sullivan, an account of an interview on their return to Heathrow, a BBC interview broadcast during Grandstand(!),
details of the first U.S. interview at Kennedy International, some excellent photographs and typical HMC asides.


D.V.D. One - Outtakes & More

No. Title Track Detail Time
Complete Outtake Sessions

1 Chapter - total: 8:26
1 Let It Be Brother Malcolm version - 2 full takes in colour from 31st January 1969.
Take 22 (DDSI no. 31.49) - During guitar solo Paul says, "Let it be" and
Take 23 (DDSI no. 31.50) - At start John says, "Are we supposed to giggle in the solo ?"
The first is taken from a side view, the second full face.
8:26
Two Of Us Rehearsal Session

1 Chapter - total: 10:27
2 Two Of Us
(Version 1)
Rehearsing Two Of Us - plus improvising some old classics
DDSI no. 31.1 - 31.18 (although not all complete):
Two Of Us (breakdown)/Hey Good Lookin'/Take This Hammer/Long Lost John
Five Foot High And Rising/Bear Cat Mama/Run For Your Life/Two Of Us (3 incomplete takes)
Friendship/Two Of Us/Step Inside Love/Let It Be (acoustic improv)
10:27
For You Blue - Brand New Re-edit

1 Chapter - total: 2:44
3 For You Blue
(Version 2)
Starts with the well known Let It Be footage with the Beatles arriving at Apple.
But then from about 47 seconds switches to unreleased black-and-white footage again of the Beatles arriving, BUT,
A different day and different angles.
(Almost two minutes of unseen material)
4:27
Newly Discovered Sound Outtake Snippets

9 Chapters - total: 3:45
4 I Me Mine 8th January 0:17
5 Don't Let Me Down 22nd January 0:37
6 Two Of Us 31st January 0:33
7 Paul with Heather 26th January 0:09
8 Besame Mucho 29th January 0:18
9 I Told You Before 27th January 0:37
10 Three Cool Cats 29th January 0:35
11 Let It Be 31st January - Take 27a 0:27
12 Two Of Us 31st January 0:09
Newly Discovered Silent Outtake Snippets

3 Chapters - total: 2:40
13 After John's "Charles Hawtrey" speech "I Dig A Pygmy" was DDSI no. 21.68, so 21st January ? 1:06
14 After Paul's "Maharishi" story Possibly 25th January ? 1:11
15 Paul singing at the piano No indication of date ? 0:21
From the Long And Winding Road Special

2 Chapters - total: 5:45
16 Improvisation with Yoko (upgrade) 10th January (DDSI no. 10.62) 4:49
17 You Win Again (upgrade) 8th January (DDSI no. 8:42) 0:53
Trailers etc.

5 Chapters - total: 14:25
18 Original Movie Trailer Theatrical Version 1:02
19 Original Movie Trailer T.V. Version 0:57
20 Original Slate from 1992 Restoration Dated 31/03/1992 0:10
21 Ed Sullivan's "The Beatles Songbook" 25th February 1970
With slate, plus two clips from the film: Two Of Us and Let It Be
9:36
22 Don't Let Me Down From Imagine 1988 workprint.
(Edited rooftop performance with inserted scenes)
2:36
Let It Be ... Naked Promotion

7 Chapters - total: 31:30
23 April Trailers Three trailers:
Version 1 - 1:51
Version 2 - 2:12
Version 3 - 1:33
7:11
24 Japanese TV Commercial (previously available) 0:33
25 Let It Be ... Naked Medley (previously available) 5:52
26 Trailer from 17th November (with text) (previously available) 6:27
27 Trailer from 17th November (without text) (previously available) 6:29
28 Web Trailer (previously available) 4:31
29 iTunes Trailer from 2013 (previously available) 0:24
Get Back - Quad View

1 Chapters - total: 3:44
30 Get Back Four versions simultaneously 3:44


D.V.D. Two - Promotional Films

No. Title Track Detail Time
The Promotional Videos

1 Chapters - total: 27:08
1 Don't Let Me Down 1969
Features outtake footage not seen anywhere else
3:20
2 Get Back 1969 3:11
3 Let It Be 1970
A video from 1970 that features some alternate footage
3:40
4 Two Of Us 1970
Direct clip from the movie - nothing different
3:31
5 Don't Let Me Down 1992 (not true - this is a concocted version)
Intro cut as the first 2:48 is from Anthology Director's Cut
The next 17 seconds is patched with the film version as in the Anthology version Paul spoke -
this is also very apparent from the audio levels.
Then 4 seconds from the first Get Back performance -
3 seconds of footage from the end of One After 909 -
Final 5 seconds is more footage from Get Back
3:18
6 Get Back 1992 - 30th Anniversary
This is from 1992 - but includes Misterclaudel's watermark !
3:20
7 I Me Mine 1992 - (No it's not, this is completely from a later date mashup)
Includes remastered footage from the Ballad Of John And Yoko video,
combined with scenes from the Let It Be film and scenes from Anthology ....
Badly edited and repeating scenes again and again and ...
2:24
8 For You Blue 1996 - Promotional video (includes Apple slates)
Created to promote Anthology 3 CD and Anthology TV series
3:25
9 Let It Be 1996 (actually NOT officially a promo)
This extract is taken directly from the Anthology DVD release
4:01
10 Two Of Us 1996 - Promotional video (includes Apple slates)
Created to promote Anthology 3 CD and Anthology TV series
4:09
11 Get Back 2000 - Promotional video (includes Apple slates) 3:34
12 Let It Be 2000 - Promotional video (includes Apple slates) 4:17
13 Don't Let Me Down 2003
Features outtake footage not seen anywhere else
3:38
14 Don't Let Me Down 2003 - Same as version above, just diff.Apple logo at end 3:24
15 Get Back 2003 - This is version 1 with slates
Created to promote Let It Be ... Naked
Uses mixed footage from Twickenham and Apple studios
3:14
16 Get Back 2003 - (NOT)
This is version 3 from 1+ 2015 release whcih was a mixture of version 1 & 2 (2 not seen here)
2:35
17 Let It Be 2003 - (NOT)
There was no new version in 2003, this is a repeat of the 2000 version (losing the slates)
3:59
18 Two Of Us 2003
This is the animated video correctly produced at that time for the official web page
3:35
19 One After 909 2009 2:51
20 Don't Let Me Down 2015
Ostensibly the same version as the 2003 version, but from 1+
this remaster features full picture, whereas the earlier version was cropped
3:30
21 The Long And Winding Road 2015
As previous track, taken from the 1+ box set
3:50
HQ Videos With Native Audio Re-Dubbed

7 Chapters - total: 28:39
22 Let It Be Taken from the 1+ box set with alternate audio 3:50
23 Two Of Us The 1996 remastered video set with alternate audio 3:30
Other Promotional Films Utilising Let It Be Footage

7 Chapters - total: 28:39
24 Old Brown Shoe 2007
All allegedly a fake creation created by web based makers
Uses footage from all possible sources, even the early years.
3:36
25 Old Brown Shoe 2007
All allegedly a fake creation created by web based makers
Same as previous version above, but with awful digital effects
3:36
26 The Ballad of John And Yoko 1969 (Censored)
From Music Scene TV - editing out the Christ references
4:14
27 The Ballad of John And Yoko 2000
Restored video as part of the "1" promotion using unique Let It Be footage
3:23

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