11 New from $15.99 94 Used from $0.94 16 Collectible from $10.99
LET IT BE...NAKED contains a FLY ON THE WALL bonus disc including song rehearsals and conversation snatches.
Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett and interview excerpts with The Beatles
Original Soundtrack/The Beatles: Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, piano, bass instrument); John Lennon, George Harrison (vocals, guitar); Ringo Starr (drums).
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.
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.
from the original LET IT BE book.
The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr.
Additional personnel: Billy Preston (keyboards).
30 PCRolling 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..." 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..." 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..." 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+ 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..."
let it be album bootleg versions are better than this offical album Submitted by clbronzno2 (mint hill n.c.) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 2 found this helpful.
This album rocks!! Everything the Beatles did was cool!!! If you don't like them, you just have no damn taste!!!!!!! Submitted by Mike (Nevada) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Let It Be Is my Favotite Album Let It Be is my favorite album
if the beatles could of done anything better, I would still keep Let It Be
Submitted by Julio (Inglewood, CA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
"Mixed Reviews?"...Tsk, Tsk... I was born in 1960, but I showed keen pop music interest from about the age of 4 - "go ahead and invade - I'm listening, I'm listening!"-
By the time this "last" LP comes out, I'm as sad as anyone at the recent breakup of the Beatles - but I'm even sadder by all the negative reviews it got!
Let's review this record with a current perspective...
If any current pop band can write better songs than TWO OF US, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, LET IT BE, & GET BACK, then I'd love to hear their efforts...but I'd likely need 4 of their albums bought, to do that...
The next 'tier' of songs on this LP would be a debate, but the only 'weak' tracks would be the ones that any fan or curious observer would consider to be the albums' charmers - DIG IT, MAGGIE MAE, & ONE AFTER 909 (which I believe John and Paul wrote while they were even still illegal drinkers).
These songs, and the preamble/apres to GET BACK, as well as John's nasal needs before I DIG A PONY, are a rare glance into the lads' mood and general disposition, that we hadn't seen much of since the incomparable film A HARD DAYS' NIGHT.
I'll bet too, that any 'sound byte' fans out there, would rate this a 5+ star effort, from that perspective...
while for us pop music & Beatle fans, this LP is simply, a classic.
Submitted by crysalis (ontario, canada) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
THE BEATLES LAST ALBUM LET IT BE (1970)
Sometimes when I listen to other bands like the Doors and Led Zeppelin or whatever, I think, wow, this is better than the Beatles. But then I go back to the Beatles and nothing really compares to them and this is an amazing album that proves it, also their last original album released.
Submitted by keithsilvers (Wausau, WI, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
let it be album
This album rocks!!
Share this Product