Let It Be (Remastered) (1970)
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Two of Us
2. Dig a Pony
3. Across the Universe
4. I Me Mine
5. Dig It
6. Let It Be
7. Maggie Mae
8. I've Got a Feeling
9. One After 909
10. Long and Winding Road, The
11. For You Blue
12. Get Back
13. Let It Be Mini ~ Documentary
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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LET IT BE...NAKED contains a FLY ON THE WALL bonus disc including song rehearsals and conversation snatches. |
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The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. |
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Additional personnel: Billy Preston (keyboards). |
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Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett and interview excerpts with The Beatles |
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from the original LET IT BE book. |
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This reissue of LET IT BE has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art, an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. |
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The Beatles: Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, piano, bass instrument); John Lennon, George Harrison (vocals, guitar); Ringo Starr (drums). |
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Additional personnel: Billy Preston (keyboards). |
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Audio Mixer: Peter Bown. |
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Audio Remasterers: Sam Okell; Steve Rooke; Guy Massey. |
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Recording information: 02/1968-04/1970. |
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Photographer: Ethan Russell. |
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In its original form, LET IT BE signaled the end of an era, closing the book on the Beatles, as well as literally and figuratively marking the end of the '60s. The 1970 release evolved from friction-filled sessions the Beatles intended to be an organic, bare-bones return to their roots. Instead, the endless hours of tapes were eventually handed over to Phil Spector, since neither the quickly splintering Beatles nor their longtime producer George Martin wanted to sift through the voluminous results. |
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LET IT BE... NAKED sets the record straight, revisiting the contentious sessions, stripping away the Spectorian orchestrations, reworking the running order, and losing all extemporaneous in-studio banter. On this version of the album, filler tracks ("Dig It," "Maggie Mae") are dropped, while juicy b-side "Don't Let Me Down" is added. The most obvious revamping is on the songs handled heavily by Spector. Removing the orchestrations from "The Long and Winding Road" and "Across the Universe" gives Paul McCartney's vocals considerably more resonance on the former, doing the same for John Lennon's voice and guitar on the latter. This alternate take on LET IT BE enhances the album's power, reclaiming the raw, unadorned quality that was meant to be its calling card from the beginning. |
Producer: Phil Spector |
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Engineer: Glyn Johns; Geoff Emerick |
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Musical Guests | |
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Billy Preston |
Compilation Appearances
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Best Of George Harrison |
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Gold:british Invasion |
Associated Artists and Works
Technical Info
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Release Date : 09/08/2009 |
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Original Release Date : 1970 |
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Catalog ID : 82472 |
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Label : Apple Corps |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Mixed |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : AAD |
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UPC : 00094638247227 |
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.116)
- Ranked #86 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Some of the strongest rockers and most poignant ballads in their entire canon..."
- Ranked #86 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Some of the strongest rockers and most poignant ballads in their entire canon..."
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.207)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...It's nice to have the sparer rendition of 'Across the Universe' that Lennon recorded, and the sonic improvements to the album as a whole are undeniable..."
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...It's nice to have the sparer rendition of 'Across the Universe' that Lennon recorded, and the sonic improvements to the album as a whole are undeniable..."
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.36)
- Ranked #45 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Beautifully explores a nostalgia for simpler times - theirs 'and' ours..."
- Ranked #45 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Beautifully explores a nostalgia for simpler times - theirs 'and' ours..."
Entertainment Weekly (11/21/03, pp.81-2)
- "...Some of these changes are for the better. The sonic clarity is welcome and the revamped album concludes, as the original should have, with the title track, one of the most moving songs McCartney ever wrote..." - Rating: B
- "...Some of these changes are for the better. The sonic clarity is welcome and the revamped album concludes, as the original should have, with the title track, one of the most moving songs McCartney ever wrote..." - Rating: B
Mojo (Publisher)
(12/03, p.134)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "[T]he cleaning up, editing and re-sequencing has brought out a warmth and depth of colour we've not heard before..."
(12/03, p.134)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "[T]he cleaning up, editing and re-sequencing has brought out a warmth and depth of colour we've not heard before..."
Bio
The Beatles"I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met the Beatles when they took the stage after what seemed a hundred years of earlier acts. All very good, all marking time, because no one had come for anything other than the Beatles...
Then the theatre went wild. First aid men and police -- men in the stalls, women mainly in the balcony -- taut and anxious, patrolled the aisles, one to every three rows.
Many girls fainted. Thirty were gently carried out, protesting in their hysteria, forlorn and wretched in an unrequited love for four lads who might have lived next door.
The stalls were like a nightmare March Fair. No one could remain seated. Clutching each other, hurling jelly babies at the stage, beating their brows, the youth of Britain's second city surrendered themselves totally."
- Derek Taylor (From his book Fifty Years Adrift)
