Why is everybody saying it's not on DVD?

I bought such DVD that looks like official release, but in reality it's just a pirate copy of the old VHS. The sound quality is poor (formally it is DD5.1, in reality - noisy mono).

As far as I know, the DVD has been postponed because the content was felt to be too controversial to be made public...


there is also this website, but it's a couple of years old now:

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/403letitbeagain.html

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Not off Amazon UK; the listing page says "currently unavailable; we don't know when or if this will be back in stock". Also, the comments make it clear that this release was a bootleg, not the genuine article.

TheRowdyMan is quite correct.

There, in fact, was an article just about a year and a half ago wherein it was said that, to this day, a major contributing factor to the absence of a legit release of the film is that Paul McCartney simply doesn't want it released.

There were legal problems for years early on, lawsuits and that joker Allen Klein and that joker Phil Spector and so forth. And Paul was NEVER happy with the project from day one. Going all the way back to when they had Spector overdub and change so much on the LP, and Paul was furious about that. And I don't think either of the Beatles ever really wanted the film released to begin with.

Now, in later years, Paul has reportedly talked about how he's seen "having a row" with George in the film, and how everyone knows that this film was rife with infighting among the band, and that with John and George gone, it's just a bad memory of a bad time. He'd like to remember the good times with those guys, allegedly, and he has been very candid about the film making him look negatively these days, to younger fans, who see him being abrasive to George, who is gone, now. Paul allegedly feels that fans today will "judge him" because he's still here, and those others have died and have achieved a type of sainthood.

Ringo, for the record, seems to have no problem with a release.


And, frankly, I don't see what Paul's hangup is, either, as much of the footage from the film can be seen in the readily available "The Beatles Anthology", with much description of the band fighting. The film, itself, doesn't show that much fighting. It's just that we know about it, now.

You are right; I ended up getting a bootleg copy at a music store with German subtitles popping up from time to time; and it doesn't have the UA logo like this version of the film has: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15bafv_the-beatles-let-it-be-movie-01-03_shortfilms