Let It Be

Occupation

Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by the Beatles. Originally it was to be called Get Back. Although it had been recorded already to a large extent before Abbey Road, it was not published until after, on 8 May 1970, the eponymous film Let It Be. This album has not - as most of the previous albums - by George Martin produced all the songs instead were revised after the studio recording of Phil Spector, who had never previously worked with the band. In particular, Paul McCartney was with the way Spector worked on the album, do not agree. He published a few titles too much of Spector's orchestral enthusiasm overloaded.

Formation

After the problems and numerous disputes between the group members when working on the album The Beatles, it was Paul McCartney who was looking as the driving force for a way out of the crisis. He envisioned the group due to their origins back to reactivate the Beatles as a live band. His bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison showed little enthusiasm. A concert was by no means be considered, but Harrison agreed with a film or a TV show.

Without a clear idea about the project to have the Beatles studios found on January 2, 1969 in Twickenham film to rehearse pieces for a possible live performance. For sound recordings Glyn Johns was responsible. George Martin had after the problems in the recordings for the term of his double album not want to expose themselves to the bickering again. Since it had been decided to document the work cinematically, Michael Lindsay - Hogg was hired as a director.

The tensions within the group, however, stopped and reached a climax when George Harrison after repeated disagreements with John Lennon and Paul McCartney on January 10, 1969 his departure from the Beatles and declared his Employees temporarily ended the project. Harrison returned after a few days, but the idea of a live TV show was abandoned and instead decided to make a documentary about the making of the new Beatles album. The last recordings in Twickenham took place on 16 January 1969. On January 20, 1969, the Beatles moved into her own studio in the basement of the Apple offices in London's Savile Row to. Two days later there began the first shots.

The mood in the recordings improved. Firstly, because the Beatles themselves in their own studio felt more comfortable than in the impersonal environment of the film studios, partly because Billy Preston came at the invitation of Harrison to the group. By his presence, the Beatles tried to ensure that friendly interaction with each other. By the end of the month produced numerous recordings - but most of them lack structure - in spontaneous jam sessions. The group played it alongside some new own songs, many cover versions of rock 'n' roll era. The final recordings took place on 30 and 31 January 1969. On January 30, the group was heading - supported by Billy Preston on keyboards - on the roof of the Apple building, where he played the so-called Rooftop Concert. They played the songs Get Back, Do not Let Me Down, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909 Dig a Pony and, some of them several times. The following day the songs were recorded, which were not suitable for the concert on the roof. These were to the acoustic guitar piece Two of Us and the piano pieces The Long and Winding Road and Let It Be.

From Glyn Johns to Phil Spector

In early March 1969 on Lennon and McCartney contributed Glyn Johns the task to look after the completion of the album. Johns had the problem, recorded from the numerous hours sessions - many chaotic and little inspired by it - to find enough material that was suitable for publication. John developed several versions, which he has tried, the recordings as natural as possible and to make it sound " untreated". He also added a lot of studio chatter that had been recorded during the recording sessions, between the individual songs to convey the atmosphere at the studio sessions.

End of May 1969, created his first version Johns. The LP should contain the following items:

Get Back - first version

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The album, however, was not published in this form.

During the year 1969, the director Michael Lindsay - Hogg a rough draft of the recordings documenting film Let It Be had completed. In December 1969, Glyn Johns was commissioned to create a new version of the album as a soundtrack that should fit the song from the film. Therefore, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr one last time met on 3 and 4 January 1970 together at Abbey Road Studios to record additional recordings for the soundtrack to the film. On January 3, the Harrison composition I Me Mine was taken. This had become necessary because the song filmed during rehearsals and would be seen in the finished film. However, there was no complete recording of the piece, because the team had not worked out in the course of the project. On January 4, 1970 some overdubs for the song Let It Be was recorded. For also in the Movie Song Across the Universe Johns drew on older recorded material from 1968, because the images were unsatisfactory during the sessions. The McCartney composition Teddy Boy was not included because McCartney wanted to release the song on his solo album. The title also does not appear in the film.

On January 5, 1970 Glyn Johns had created a new version of the album. The LP should now include the following pieces:

Get Back - second version

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This version also failed to convince the Beatles and remained unpublished.

In March 1970 Phil Spector was commissioned to finally finish the album. He began on 23 March 1970 with the selection of tracks and their remixed at Abbey Road Studios. On April 2, 1970, he completed the works from a remix of the song I Me Mine. The only intersections to earlier version of The One After 909, Let It Be, For You Blue and Maggie Mae, which took over unchanged Spector. He renounced Rocker, Save the Last Dance for Me, and Do not Let Me Down, Dig It shortened considerably and Get back a little. Instead of the studio versions of Dig a Pony and I've Got a Feeling Spector used, however, the live recordings of the Beatles appearance on 30 January 1969 the roof of the Apple building. Among his most controversial changes include the orchestral and choral parts that he added the pieces Across the Universe and The Long and Winding Road. Phil Spector used in contrast to Glyn Johns just enough studio talk that the audience still had the impression that he would listen to a session or a live performance of the Beatles.

Spector's version of the album begins with an absurd of Lennon's wordplay: " ' I Dig a Pygmy ' by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids! Phase One, In Which Doris gets her oats! ". Lennon announced here on the basis of his own composition, Dig a pony song I Dig a Pygmy (, I bury a pygmy ' ), which will be carried forward from the imaginary band Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Charles Hawtrey was a British actor and comedian. Deaf Aid translates hearing aid, so it is the announced band is Charles Hawtrey and the hearing aids that now the first part ( phase one) of the song will play in which Doris gets her oats ( " In Which Doris gets her oats " ). After the song Dig It can be heard again Lennon as he announces a new song: " That was ' Can You Dig It ' by Georgie Wood, and now we'd like to do ' Hark The Angels Come '." It follows the song Let It Be. Georgie Wood was a British actor and comedian. The version of Spector ends with the studio version of Get Back, which had already been used for the single. At the beginning of the song John Lennon expresses: "Sweet Loretta Fart, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan" (, Sweet Loretta Fart, she thought she would be a maid / cleaner, but she was a frying pan ' ). Lennon parodied here the beginning of the second verse of the song Get Back McCartney: "Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she what another man ." The Spector version of Get Back ends with a comment from Lennon's appearance on the roof of the Apple building: " I'd like to say ' thank you ' on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition". He thanked tautological on behalf of the group and themselves ( "on behalf of the group and ourselves " ) and hopes ironic that the band has passed the audition ( "passed the audition" ).

Title list

Cover design

For the cover was originally planned to recreate the subject of the first album Please Please Me. As a photographer Angus McBean was hired, who had photographed the Beatles in 1963 and was posing at the same location of the EMI office building in London. The photo, however, was not used for the album Let It Be, but served as a cover image of the compilation The Beatles 1967-1970 later.

Let It Be ... Naked

In November 2003, a remixed version of the album was titled Let It Be ... Naked, in which it is an approximation to the original version of the album before the producer Phil Spector provided the recordings with orchestra and choir recordings.

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