Let It Be

8 May 1970 – THE BEATLES Released Final Album ‘LET IT BE’ 55 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from the past

8 May 2025

Today 55 years ago, on 8 May 1970, THE BEATLES
released their twelfth and final LP LET IT BE.

A criminally underrated Beatles album to my ears, featuring supreme
tracks such as Across The Universe, Let It Be, Get Back, I Got A Feeling and
The Long And Winding Road.

In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from
the band, the remaining Beatles completed the LP with the song
‘I Me Mine’.

Despite the longplayer’s commercial triumph – it topped
the charts in America and the UK – the reviews were mixed
when the record came out, later the opinions got suddenly
much better.

NME critic Alan Smith wrote (probably with earbuds in) : “If the new Beatles’
soundtrack is to be their last then it will stand as a cheapskate epitaph, a cardboard tombstone, a sad and tatty end to a musical fusion which wiped clean and drew again
the face of pop. The album showed contempt for the intelligence of today’s record-buyer”
and that the Beatles had “sold out all the principles for which they ever stood”.

Then again Let It Be was ranked number 86 on
Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums
of All Time in 2003.

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Back sleeve

Macca, who actually didn’t actually Phil Spector production, enforced for a more pure rock remix of the album years later. It came out in 2003, titled Let It Be… Naked.

It featured alternate takes, edits, and mixes of the songs, mainly removing elements
added by Spector. The album omits the group chatter, ‘Maggie Mae’ and ‘Dig It’, and adds a live rooftop performance of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, the B-side of the ‘Get Back’ single. It wasn’t on the original longplayer.

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24 April 1969 – THE BEATLES Scored No. 1 Hit In The UK With ‘GET BACK’ 55 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

24 April 2024

Like for millions of people on this planet, THE BEATLES are also for me,
the best band ever. Their virtuoso musical talent, their innovatory songwriting,
their Lennon/McCartney magic, their vocal bliss, made them turn pop music
into something that elevated pop-ular music to an ingenious, very accessible
form of entertaining art all over the world.

This day 55 years ago, they scored one of their countless No.1 hits
in the UK with GET BACK. Also, No. 1 in the US, in several European
countries, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. It featured on their
final LP Let It Be

Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Jojo

They played the song on their famous rooftop performance.

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This Day 55 Years Ago THE BEATLES Played Five ‘LET IT BE’ Tracks On The Rooftop Of Their APPLE Office In London

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30 January 2024

This day 55 years ago, on 30 January 1969 THE BEATLES played at lunchtime on the rooftop of their Apple office building in London. Lasting for just over 40 minutes, it was the last time The Beatles performed live. The performed 5 tracks from their final LP LET IT BE: ‘Get Back’ (2 takes), ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, ‘The One After 909’ and ‘Dig A Pony’.

Traffic was brought to a standstill as crowds of people gathered below and watched from windows in nearby buildings. John Lennon ended the performance by saying “I’d like to say ‘Thank you’ on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.”

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Now Playing – The Final BEATLES Album ‘LET IT BE’ That Topped The UK Charts Tis Day In 1970

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Like for millions of people on this planet, THE BEATLES are also for me, the best band ever. Their virtuoso talent and innovatory skills made them turn pop music into something that elevated pop-ular music to an ingenious, very accessible form of entertaining art all over the world.

Their final LP LET IT BE was/still is, underrated. You read more about the difficult recording sessions and the animosity among the Fab Four than about the series of pearls such as: Across The Universe, Get Back, Long And Winding Road, I’ve Got A Feeling and For Blue. It’s quite simple: it’s one of their best albums in my Beatles book.

53 years ago today – 23 May in 1970 – the longplayer
started a 3-week run on top of the UK Charts.

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THE BEATLES – Deluxe Edition For Their Final And Underrated LP ‘LET IT BE’

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29 August 2021

Deluxe edition: LET IT BE
Original LP: Released 8 May 1970 – 51 years ago

Content: The expanded version will be available in several different formats
and packages. Producer Giles Martin (yes, the son of fifth 5th Beatle Martin) and
engineer Sam Okell have put together a new mixi in stereo, 5.1 surround DTS, and
Dolby Atmos, sourced from the original tapes. There’s also the Super Deluxe edition
of all reissue options, including four LPs, an EP, and a book. It’ll feature 27 previously unreleased session recordings, including the 14-song Get Back stereo record mix that engineer Glyn Johns put together in May of 1969 before the Fab Four decided to throw
the raw album mix in the dustbin.

Turn Up the Volume: Like for billions of people on this planet, The Beatles are
also for me, the best band ever. Their virtuoso talent and innovatory skills made
them turn pop music into something that elevated pop-ular music to an ingenious
and very, worldwide, accessible form of entertaining art. Let It be wasn’t a
masterpiece but it made zillions of bands jealous. Say no more.

Full original album…

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Order info here.

Crooner MATT BERNINGER Shares New Dreamy Lullaby ‘LET IT BE’

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New sonic impulses…

21 February 2021

Last October The National maestro MATT BERNINGER released his praised solo debut album Serpentine Prison. The LP was canned with the legendary musician/producer Booker T. Jones.

All recorded tracks – including some covers – didn’t show up on the longplayer. One of them is LET IT BE. The song will, along with some other unreleased pieces appear on a new deluxe edition of Serpentine Prison, out digitally in March.

Let it be here.

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THE BEATLES Released Their Final Album ‘LET IT BE’ 50 Years Ago Today

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8 May 2020

Today 50 years ago, on 8 May 1970, the Fab Four released their twelfth and final album
LET IT BE, a month after they split up. An album Macca wanted it to sound as a classic rock record. During the recordings, George Harrison left for a brief period of time and producer Phil Spector moved, as usual in mysterious ways.

It topped the charts in America and the UK and several other countries

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