This session will be the final studio appearance for The Beatles, as a group. (The final date that all four of The Beatles were in the studio together is August 20, 1969).
The final Beatles album was first released on 8th May, 1970 - just prior to the launch of the cinema film of the same name. Rehearsals and recording sessions for the album had taken place in January, 1969 - first At Twickenham Film Studios, later in the basement and on the roof of their Apple headquarters on London's Savile Row. (theBeatles.com)
But the day before, on January 3rd 1970, the Beatles returned to Abbey Road Studios for the first time since August 1969 to record ‘I Me Mine’ for the ‘Let it Be’ album. It was to become the last Beatles song to be recorded (well, at least until ‘Free as a Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ for the ‘Beatles Anthology’)
Only Paul, George and Ringo were present. The official reason that John wasn’t there was that he was on holiday in Denmark, but actually he had left the Beatles some months earlier, but it hadn’t been officially announced. During the recording session, George said ‘You will all have read that Dave Dee is no longer with us, but Mickey and Titch and I would just like to carry on the good work that’s always gone down in number two’.
I Me Mine actually dated back to the ‘Get Back’ sessions in January 1969, almost exactly a year earlier. It had been rehearsed during the first part of the sessions at Twickenham Film Studios, with great footage of John and Yoko waltzing to it. That clip was chosen to be in the film, but the song wasn’t recorded during the subsequent sessions at the Beatles’ Apple Studio. Therefore a recording had to be made to go on the album.
Beatles’ Let It Be Movie is to be re-edited into a new film
The Beatles’ movie Let It Be captured the band as it disintegrated into four solo careers.
This may be one of the reasons the documentary is only available on old formats and is now something of a collector’s item. That may all change soon according to Paul McCartney, who told a Canadian radio station the Beatles film may hit DVD and Blu-ray in 2020 in time for its 50th anniversary. But there’s a twist. It won’t be the original film. according with Den of Geek.
“I think there may be a new version of it,” McCartney told Yannick Tremblay during an interview for Canada’s Radio X. “That is kind of the latest gossip.”
I tell you why I think it’s gonna happen. I think there may be a new version of it. That is kind of the latest gossip. Because there’s a lot of footage and the original movie came out and it was really… sort of… about the break-up of The Beatles.
And so for me, it was a little sad, the movie. But I know people are looking at the footage; there’s about 56 hours of footage.
