Let it be available! The Beatles’ 1970 documentary “Let It Be,” which has never been on any streaming service, Blu-ray Disc or DVD format, will finally land on Disney+. The 54-year-old documentary that followed the band as they recorded their 12th and final studio album will land on the streamer on May 8, Disney announced Tuesday. It features a famous scene in which Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr perform a spontaneous concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps in London — only to be shut down by the cops. Disney isn’t just dropping the flick willy-nilly. “Let It Be” has been restored by Beatles’ director Peter Jackson, who was also responsible for the popular “The Beatles: Get Back.” The announcement of the rare film’s release will make fans twist and shout. Until now, the doc had only officially been sold on out-of-print — and grainy — VHS and laserdisc copies. Reviews of “Let It Be” weren’t euphoric at the time, but The Post enjoyed it. “The most remarkable thing about the picture is the way it sustains interest, so unexpectedly, throughout the long session and without all the written assists that customarily pep up entertainments of this sort,” Post critic Archer Winsten wrote in May 1970. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 83, said in a statement that the release was hampered by the Beatles’ recent split. “ ‘Let It Be’ was ready to go in October/November 1969, but it didn’t come out until April 1970,” he said. “One month before its release, The Beatles officially broke up. And so the people went to see ‘Let It Be’ with sadness in their hearts, thinking, ‘I’ll never see The Beatles together again. I will never have that joy again,’ and it very much darkened the perception of the film.” But, Lindsay-Hogg added, this new version brings the film new life. “I was knocked out by what Peter was able to do with ‘Get Back,’ using all the footage I’d shot 50 years previously,” he said. More than a half-century after The Beatles broke up, the band has been having a big year. Their newly released song “Now and Then,” which was completed with the help of AI, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. And it’s been announced that “1917” director Sam Mendes plans to direct a four-part series of bio pics — one for each Beatle.
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