Please Please Me | With the Beatles | A Hard Day's Night | Beatles for Sale | Help! | Rubber Soul | Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Magical Mystery Tour | The White Album | Yellow Submarine | Abbey Road | Let It Be
Past Masters | The Beatles Anthology | The Beatles: Get Back
- Applicability: Paul McCartney's mom was the inspiration for the "Mother Mary" lyric from "Let It Be". When asked if the song referred to the Virgin Mary, McCartney has typically answered the question by assuring his fans that they can interpret the song however they would like.note
- Common Knowledge: The Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed was released in 1969, so their title was not a Pun-Based Title on Let It Be. Theirs appeared first.
- Critical Backlash: For decades this album was considered to be the least good Beatles album. However, with the passing of time it has been Vindicated by History as not as bad as some people make it out to be, and with plenty of other people who will defend it outright.
- Older Than They Think: While obviously they recorded it first, the long delay time in the release of the material for the album sessions allowed Aretha Franklin to release "Let it Be" before The Beatles. Her take was a track on the This Girl's in Love With You album, issued in January of 1970, while the Beatles didn't release it as a single until March. Paul had offered her the song and sent her a demo tape so she could learn it.
- Signature Scene: The entire rooftop concert at the end of the film, if only for the fact that it was the very last concert the Beatles ever did. To this day, it remains such an iconic element of popular music history that it's still a common subject of parodies and pastiches, ranging from a homage by U2 to a parody by The Simpsons.
- Tear Jerker: The film is this at several points, as quite a few scenes show this legendary rock band quarrel among themselves to the point that they can no longer stand each other, after all the magnificent art they have created together and the world they changed.
- Vindicated by History:
- The 1970 Phil Spector mix was originally derided as overproduced and missing the point of the original recordings, which were created with the intention of making a Revisiting the Roots album. However, decades later, it now spoken of more fondly by a considerable amount of Beatles fans and critics, who feel that the Spector mix is good in its own right. John Lennon himself being a fan of the Spector mix certainly helps.
- The original concept was to capture the Beatles in their magic creating a new album. The original film cut captures little magic, depicting a band at each others throats. The Beatles: Get Back shows these guys working quite well together, working through their problems.
