Let It Be

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Days after the sessions at Apple had ended, Glyn Johns put together a rough mix acetate of several songs, for the band to listen to. A tape copy of this acetate made its way to America, where it was played on radio stations in Buffalo, New York and Boston over September Johns also favoured earlier, rougher versions of "Two of Us" and "The Long and Winding Road" over the more polished performances from the final, 31 January session which were eventually chosen for the Let It Be album.

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Get Back version one, May The Get Back album was intended for release in July , but its release was pushed back to September to coincide with the planned television special and the theatrical film about the making of the album. In September, the release was pushed back to December, because the Beatles had just recorded Abbey Road and wanted to issue that album instead. By December, Get Back had been shelved. On 15 December, the Beatles again approached Johns to compile an album, but this time with the instruction that the songs must match those included in the as yet unreleased Get Back film.

Between 15 December and 8 January , new mixes were prepared.

Glyn Johns' new mix omitted "Teddy Boy" as the song did not appear in the film. It added "Across the Universe" a remix of the studio version, as the January rehearsals had not been properly recorded and "I Me Mine", on which only Harrison, McCartney and Ringo Starr performed.

The Beatles once again rejected the album. Get Back version two, January Spector remixed all of the tracks, adding orchestra and choir to three tracks, and compiled the eventually released album — by now entitled Let It Be. The album and the film of the same name were released on 8 May ; the Beatles had already broken up by that time.

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The film captured the critical tensions within the band, and also included footage from the rooftop concert. The rooftop performance closed with the song "Get Back", and afterwards Lennon said, "I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition. Several songs from the recording sessions have been released officially in versions different from those on the Let It Be album.

McCartney had conceived of the song as a simple piano ballad, but Spector dubbed in orchestral and choral accompaniment. McCartney unsuccessfully attempted to halt release of Spector's version or at least have it altered. Despite the criticisms levelled at Spector over the years for his handling of the material, Lennon defended him in his December Rolling Stone interview, saying, "He was given the shittiest load of badly-recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever, and he made something of it.

Despite its commercial success, according to Beatles Diary author Keith Badman, "reviews [were] not good". In terms of having the judgment to avoid either over-producing yourselves or casting the fate of your get-back statement to the most notorious of all over-producers, you didn't. However, John Gabree of High Fidelity magazine found the album "not nearly as bad as the movie" and "positively wonderful" relative to the recent solo releases by McCartney and Starr.

Gabree admired "Let It Be", "Get Back" and "Two of Us", but derided "The Long and Winding Road" and "Across the Universe", the last of which he described as "bloated and self-satisfied — the kind of song we've come to expect from these rich, privileged prototeenagers". They aren't having to scrape the barrel yet. In a retrospective review, Richie Unterberger of AllMusic described Let It Be as the "only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews", but felt that it was "on the whole underrated".

Several months later, the album was reissued in a standard LP jacket the same one that was included in the box set , sans book. EMI subsidiary Capitol , which held the Beatles' US contract, had simultaneous rights to the music on the album, allowing them to distribute pre-recorded tape versions of the album, as well as to release its songs on singles and compilation albums.

Capitol, however, did not have the rights to release or distribute the album in LP format. To indicate that Let It Be was not distributed by Capitol, the Apple logo and record label in America sported a red apple, rather than the Beatles' usual green Granny Smith apple. The album was first released on CD on 19 October At the same time the film's re-release was announced, McCartney announced plans to release a new version of the album that is closer to what he had originally intended for the project.

The new collection, Let It Be Naked , was released on 17 November , in a two-disc format—the second disc contained fly-on-the-wall recordings of the band chit-chatting during the Get Back sessions. The songs were re-mixed from the original multitrack recordings.

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The album received mixed reviews, with some critics praising the simpler re-mixes and others expressing disappointment that the new album lacked the fun and humour of Let It Be. BPI certification awarded only for sales since From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the Beatles album. For the album's title track, see Let It Be song. For the film about the making of the album, see Let It Be film. For other uses, see Let It Be disambiguation. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up — Let It Be Apple ". Available at Rock's Backpages subscription required. I have no problem with that. I think it's a great thing to have faith of any sort, particularly in the world we live in. Nothing to do with The Beatles. It could've been Wings.

I don't know what he's thinking when he writes Let It Be. I think it was inspired by Bridge Over Troubled Waters. That's my feeling , although I have nothing to go on.

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