History Music / LetItBe

* RevisitingTheRoots: The album was originally going to be called ''Get Back'' because this was precisely the idea (and that of course is also the reason the song was called "Get Back"). This was an attempt to return to the sort of spontaneous, energetic rock and roll they'd played at the beginning of their career, as opposed to the sophisticated and intricately produced music they'd moved on to. This is also why they recorded "One After 909", a song that sounds like the early Beatles sound because it ''was'' the early Beatles sound, having been written and first recorded in 1963 but then shelved. The recording sessions were a disaster, and they largely abandoned the "back to basics" approach for their last recorded album, ''Music/AbbeyRoad''.

* RecordProducer: Music/PhilSpector. This was the only Beatles album which wasn't produced by George Martin.

* ProtestSong: "Get Back" was written in reaction to the anti-immigration laws in the UK.

* MinisculeRocking: "Maggie May", at forty-one seconds.

** The inclusion of "Across The Universe" and "One After 909" couldn't be anything but filler. The former was recorded in early 1968, long before ''Let It Be'' was released, and the latter was one of the first songs Lennon and [=McCartney=] had ever written; they recorded a version of it in 1963, which was never included on an album because they were never satisfied with it. "One After 909" at least is the 1969 version, recorded live during the famous RooftopConcert. The band ran through several rehearsals of "Across the Universe", but never managed to record a releaseable track. Consequently, the album version is actually the original 1968 track, just slowed down and re-mixed.

--> ''Jai Guru Deava Ommm'' (Which means "Thanks spiritual master" [[BilingualBonus in Sanskrit]])
--> ''Nothing's gonna change my world.''

-->And for the first time that she really done me\\
Ooh she done me\\

Oh she done me\\

** "Dig a Pony" has "You can penetrate any place you go" - and that's just for starters...

--> ''All I can hear''
--> ''I Me Mine''

--> ''And when the broken hearted people''
--> ''Living in the world agree''
--> ''There will be answer, let it be''
--> ''For though, they may be parted''
--> ''There is still a chance that they will see''
--> ''There will be an answer, let it be''

--> ''I got my bag, run to the station''
--> ''Railman says you've got the the wrong location''
--> ''I got my bag, run right home''
--> ''Then I find I've got the number wrong''

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** "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" too. When the album was remixed as ''Let It Be... Naked'' in 2002, both were dropped from the track list, replace by Lennon's "Don't Let Me Down".

* CultSoundtrack: Subverted. The film ''Film/LetItBe'' was actually intended to be a companion piece to the album. However, seeing that the movie has rarely been seen on TV ever since and is not available on DVD yet, this may be one example where the CD is better known than the movie.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Get Back" was written as a Take That against the then recent anti-immigration laws in the UK.

* SixthRanger: Or Fifth Beatle, in the case of Billy Preston after he joined the band for this album. The piano solo in "Get Back" was composed by Preston.

** Lennon namedrops Music/BobDylan's "Like A Rolling Stone", the FBI, the CIA, the BBC, BB King, Doris Day and Scottish soccer player Matt Busby during ''Dig It''.

''Let It Be'' is the thirteenth and final studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1970. However, it was mostly recorded before ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', which got a release in 1969. It is also the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, instead being produced by Creator/PhilSpector.

* RecordProducer: Creator/PhilSpector. This was the only Beatles album which wasn't produced by George Martin.

* WhatTheHellHero: John's bass playing on "The Long And Winding Road" is terrible--he rarely played bass, but Paul was needed on piano for the live recording. The fact that Lennon not only let it stay in the finished track but also hired Phil Spector to dub strings and a choir over the top in the hope that it would [[DistractedByTheShiny distract attention]] from its terribleness, together invoke this trope. (Another mystery is why nobody thought to have [=McCartney=], one of the best bass players to ever live, simply record a new bass track.)

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[[caption-width-right:320:''"I wake up to the sound of music..."'']]

[[caption-width-right:320:''I wake up to the sound of music...'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''I wake up to the sound of music...'']]

* WhatTheHellHero: John's bass playing on "The Long And Winding Road" is terrible--he rarely played bass, but Paul was needed on piano for the live recording. The fact that Lennon not only let it stay in the finished track but also hired Phil Spector to dub strings and a choir over the top in the hope that it would [[DistractedByTheShiny distract attention]] from its terribleness, together invoke this trope.

Music/PaulMcCartney hated what Spector did to their final album. In 2003, a total new version of the album was released, named ''Let It Be... Naked'', where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound with its intended final tracklisting. As a bonus CD a [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Leave the Microphone Running]] recording from the Beatles in their studio was released too, which is more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.

* LiveAlbum: ''Let It Be'' was supposed to be this, with the band rehearsing and recording their new songs live. The sniping and tension within the band (as well as the creative funk John Lennon was mired in at this time) led to several songs being dubbed or altered in the studio, most infamously Paul's "The Long And Winding Road". However, despite all the band's problems seven tracks were still laid down live: "I've Got A Feeling", "One After 909" and "I Dig A Pony" from the Apple rooftop performance, and "Get Back", "Two Of Us", "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" from studio performances. ("Don't Let Me Down", left off the album after being released as the B-side of the "Get Back" single, was also recorded live).

* WhatTheHellHero: John's bass playing on "The Long And Winding Road" is terrible, and the fact that he not only let it stay in the finished track but also hired Phil Spector to dub strings and a choir over the top in the hope that it would [[DistractedByTheShiny distract attention]] from its terribleness, together invoke this trope.

# "Two Of Us" (3:37)
# "Dig A Pony" (3:55)
# "Across The Universe" (3:48)

# "I've Got A Feeling" (3:38)

# "The Long And Winding Road" (3:38)

'''''Let It Be''''' is the thirteenth and final studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1970. However, it was mostly recorded before ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', which got a release in 1969. It is also the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, instead being produced by Creator/PhilSpector.

Music/PaulMcCartney hated what Spector did to their final album. In 2002, a total new version of the album was released, named ''Let It Be... Naked'', where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound with its intended final tracklisting. As a bonus CD a [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Leave the Microphone Running]] recording from the Beatles in their studio was released too, which is more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.

Music/PaulMcCartney hated what Spector did to their final album. In 2002, a total new version of the album was released, named ''Let It Be... Naked'', where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound. As a bonus CD a [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Leave the Microphone Running]] recording from the Beatles in their studio was released too, which is more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.

'''''Let It Be''''' is the thirteenth and final studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1970. However, it was mostly recorded before ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', which got a release in 1969. It is also the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, instead being produced by Creator/PhilSpector. For a long time this was seen as the least good Beatles album, mostly because of Spector adding rather schmaltzy choirs to several of the songs and because a lot of the material were ThrowItIn songs, all recorded when the unity in the band was basically gone. The CriticalBacklash and passing of time have actually [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated]] the album as being not that bad after all, even perfectly able to stand next to the other Beatles albums. It was listed at nr. #392 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]].

Still Music/PaulMcCartney always hated what Spector did to their final album. On ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' (1995/1996) he let the audience hear some of the unaltered tracks, which have a more simple and raw sound. Later, in 2002, a total new version of the album was released, named ''Let It Be... Naked'', where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound. As a bonus CD a [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Leave the Microphone Running]] recording from the Beatles in their studio was released too, which is more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.

Still Music/PaulMcCartney always hated what Spector did to their final album. On ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'' (1995/1996) he let the audience hear some of the unaltered tracks, which have a more simple and raw sound. Later, in 2002, a total new version of the album was released, named ''Let It Be... Naked'', where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound. As a bonus CD a LeaveTheCameraRunning recording from the Beatles in their studio was released too, which is more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.

'''''Let It Be''''' is the thirteenth and final studio album by Music/TheBeatles, released in 1970. However, it was mostly recorded before ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', which got a release in 1969. It is also the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, instead being produced by Creator/PhilSpector. For a long time this was seen as the least good Beatles album, mostly because of Spector adding rather schmaltzy choirs to several of the songs and because a lot of the material were ThrowItIn songs, all recorded when the unity in the band was basically gone. The CriticalBacklash and passing of time have actually [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated]] the album as being not that bad after all, even perfectly able to stand next to the other Beatles albums.