The Beatles, and the public were not satisified and called the album a "second class send off." Using the "Wall of Sound", Spector produced the album in a way different to Glyn John's. The Beatles stopped working on Let It Be when arguments reached an all-time high.Īfter the disastrous Get Back sessions, the album was shelved for a year until Phil Spector decided to produce it. Many of the songs would be included on Abbey Road or were used on the band members' solo albums. The Beatles performed hundreds of songs during the then-called Get Back sessions. John Lennon also brought his partner, Yoko Ono, to many of the sessions, which caused some of the band members to be uncomfortable. Tensions were high in the studio, with George Harrison and Paul McCartney often feuding.
The footage would eventually be used for the film of the same name. While The Beatles were recording Let It Be, they were being filmed at almost all times. Naked, which removed Spector's production work and used different takes of some songs, was released in 2003.
An alternative mix of the album titled Let It Be. While " Get Back" / " Don't Let Me Down" and the title track were released as singles before the album's release, the first and third songs were remixed by Spector for the album, and the second was not included on the final version. As a condition of his return, the Beatles reconvened at their own Apple studio, where they completed the recordings with the help of guest musician Billy Preston.įollowing several rejected mixes by Glyn Johns, a new version of the album was produced by Phil Spector from March to April 1970. A project initiated by Paul McCartney, the rehearsals were marked by ill feeling, leading to George Harrison's temporary departure from the band. Rehearsals began at Twickenham Film Studios in London in January 1969 as part of a planned documentary film showing the Beatles preparing to return to live performance. Issued almost a month after the band's breakup, it was originally conceived as Get Back, a return to their earlier, less complicated approach to music. Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by English rock band The Beatles, released on by Apple Records. He did a great job.” Both Lennon and Harrison went on to work closely with Spector, who produced Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and All Things Must Pass - arguably the three best albums of the Beatles’ solo years.EMI Studios, Apple Studio, and Twickenham Film Studios, London But here, on the other hand, is Lennon’s assessment of Spector’s work on Let It Be: “He was given the shittiest load of badly recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever, and he made something out of it.
The unfortunate truth is that John Lennon and George Harrison are dead, and, whatever its merits, Naked exists essentially as an excuse for Paul McCartney, after decades of complaining, to finally remove Phil Spector’s production effects from “The Long and Winding Road.” As a result, the song - a technologically souped-up version of the take in the Let It Be film - now sounds like a vaguely interesting demo, rather than the lavish (and frankly emotional) epitaph for the Beatles that Spector turned it into.ĭoes an artist of McCartney’s stature deserve to have his songs sound exactly as he wants them to? Absolutely. For a start, Naked is being hyped (in a musical nod to the “director’s cut”) as the “band’s take” - that is, the stripped-down version of the album the Beatles intended to make as they embarked on what was then thought of as Get Back in 1969. Naked without drowning in the welter of vexed issues that shattered the Beatles.
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