I'VE BEEN ALONE
I 'VE CRIED
Let It Be
is the twelfth
and final
studio album
by the English
rock band
It was released on
May 8th 1970,
nearly a month
after the
official announcement
of the group's
public break-up,
in tandem with
the documentary
of the same name.
Concerned about recent friction
within the band,
Paul McCartney
had conceived the project
as an attempt to
reinvigorate the group
by returning to simpler
rock 'n' roll configurations.
Its rehearsals started at
Twickenham Film Studios on
January 2nd 1969
as part of a
planned television documentary
showcasing the Beatles'
return to live performance.
The filmed rehearsals
were marked by
ill feeling,
leading to
George Harrison's
temporary departure
from the group.
As a condition of his return,
the members reconvened at
their own Apple Studio,
and recruited
guest keyboardist
Billy Preston.
Together,
they performed a
single public concert
on the studio's rooftop
on
January 30th,
from which
three of the album's tracks
were drawn.
In April,
the Beatles
issued the lead single
"Get Back",
backed with
"Don't Let Me Down",
after which
engineer
Glyn Johns
prepared and
submitted mixes
of the album,
then titled
Get Back,
which the band rejected.
As bootlegs
of these mixes
circulated widely
among fans,
the project lay in limbo,
and the group
moved on to
the recording of
Abbey Road,
released
that September.
In January 1970,
four months
after John Lennon
departed from the band,
the remaining Beatles
completed
"Let It Be"
and recorded
"I Me Mine".
The former was issued
as the second single
from the album
with production by
George Martin.
When the documentary film
was resurrected for
a cinema release,
as
Let It Be,
Lennon and Harrison
asked American producer
Phil Spector
to assemble the
accompanying album.
Among Spector's choices
was to include a
1968 take of
"Across the Universe"
and apply
orchestral and choral overdubs
to
"Across the Universe",
"I Me Mine"
and
"The Long and Winding Road".
His work offended
McCartney,
particularly in the case of
"The Long and Winding Road",
which was the third
and final single
of the album.
Let It Be... Naked
is an alternative mix of
1970 album
Let It Be,
released on
November 17th 2003
by Apple Records.
The project was initiated by
Paul McCartney,
who felt that the
original album's producer,
Phil Spector,
did not capture
the group's
stripped-down,
live-to-tape aesthetic
intended for the album.
Naked
consists largely
of newly
mixed versions
of the
Let It Be tracks
while omitting
the excerpts
of incidental
studio chatter
and most of
Spector's embellishments.
It also omits
two tracks
from the 1970 release
"Dig It"
and
"Maggie Mae"
replacing them with
"Don't Let Me Down",
which was the
non-album
B-side of the
"Get Back" single
TRACKLIST
Two Of Us
Dig A Pony
Across The Universe
I Me Mine
Dig It
Let It Be
Maggie Mae
I've Got A Feeling
One After 909
The Long And Winding Road
For You Blue
Get Back
Get Back
(Naked)
Dig A Pony
(Naked)
For You Blue
(Naked)
The Long And Winding Road
(Naked)
Two Of Us
(Naked)
I've Got A Feeling
(Naked)
One After 909
(Naked)
Don't Let Me Down
(Naked)
I Me Mine
(Naked)
Across The Universe
(Naked)
Let It Be
(Naked)
With BONUS CD
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