Let It Be - Let It Be

What this video is

This file represents the 2009 remaster audio-visual release of footage originally captured on 31 January 1969 — the day after The Beatles' legendary final live performance atop the Apple Corps rooftop, Savile Row. The song 'Let It Be', written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, was released as a single on 6 March 1970 and became one of the band's most enduring recordings.…

Why it matters

As a document of the late Beatles era, this footage is foundational to the rock documentary genre. Lindsay-Hogg's observational, cinema-vérité approach — static camera, available lighting, minimal editorial intervention — established a visual template for studio-as-subject documentary filmmaking…

The director

Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet (born 5 May 1940, New York City) is a British-American television, film, music video, and theatre director. A pioneer in music film production, he directed promotional films for the Beatles ('Paperback Writer',…