On November 20, 2003, two days after the release of Let It Be … Naked, Phil Spector was formally charged with the murder of Lana Clarkson. It had been some nine months since she was found dead at his home.
As for the legal case involving the discovery of the 500 missing tapes, repeated attempts to ascertain information from the City of London’s press office about those arrested and possible court dates in England have not been successful. The case is in sub judice, effectively barring the release of any information.
The DVD of Let It Be is slated for a release in late 2004. Color correction by the film’s cinematographer, Anthony Richmond, has been completed and additional footage and newly shot interviews with the film crew are scheduled to be included. Michael Lindsay-Hogg talked about why the film has not been available for so many years either in the cinemas, on television, or on videocassette. “Paul said that for George it represented a bad time in his life,” he began, “and he [George] was sort of partly responsible for it being taken off the market.” “I think the fact that George has died … that resistance within the Apple family was removed,” he continued. “I think they felt more able to revisit the picture as a company.”
Whether the recovery of the stolen Nagra tapes will impact the fate of the new DVD remains to be seen.
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