Let It Be

This idea mirrored the "back to basics" attitude of a number of rock musicians at this time in reaction against the psychedelic and progressive music dominant in the previous two years. The concert itself would be filmed for broadcast on worldwide television, with the album released to coincide with it. McCartney also decided to invite audio engineer Glyn Johns to contribute to the recording. As a result, Johns was not entirely sure whether he was supposed to be producing or co-producing the album or merely engineering it, with Martin having no clear idea of where he stood either.

The other three Beatles were less enthusiastic about McCartney's proposals. They had just completed five months' work on their previous album and were sceptical about the prospects of returning to live performance. In the end, the group agreed to convene for rehearsals immediately following 1 January , even though no firm direction for the new project had been agreed on. The rehearsals and recording sessions for the album did not run smoothly.

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The acrimony that began during the recording of the White Album resumed soon after the rehearsals began. The Beatles were not getting along, and Lennon and McCartney weren't working together as before. McCartney assumed the role of the leader, while a detached Lennon was more interested in spending time and making music with his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono , who was present in the studio with him at all times.

Lennon was in a fragile emotional state, with Ono having suffered a miscarriage of their child just six weeks before the start of the sessions, following a drug bust the month before. All of these factors led to friction within the band. At one point, Harrison quit the group after several arguments with McCartney and a falling out with Lennon, due to the former's perfectionism and the latter's disengagement.

Harrison was coaxed back a few days later. The film version is famous for showcasing a number of conflicts between the group members and has frequently been referred to as a documentary that was intended to show the making of an album but instead shows "the break-up of a band". Since all the rehearsals were to be filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and his film crew, the decision was made to use a film studio for rehearsals and the sound stage at Twickenham Studios was chosen. Rehearsals began on 2 January Sound recordings were made on Nagra mono recorders solely for the purpose of the film sound track; no professional multi-track recordings were made of the Twickenham sessions as the Beatles were simply rehearsing for a proposed live performance.

Phil Spector later used a snippet of dialogue from one of these rehearsals Lennon announcing "Queen says no to pot-smoking FBI members" to introduce " For You Blue " on the finished album. Numerous bootleg records taken from the many hours of soundtrack recordings are in wide circulation, and various bits of music and dialogue from the same source were eventually used on the second disc of the release Let It Be The rehearsals quickly disintegrated into what one biographer characterised as a "hostile lethargy".

Although the very first song to be worked on, " I've Got a Feeling ", had been semi co-written by Lennon and McCartney in the days leading up to the start, Lennon quickly ran out of ideas himself, and showed little interest in the songs McCartney and in particular Harrison were offering. Unable to generate much enthusiasm or focus their attention, the Beatles' playing was largely ragged and unprofessional, not helped by the fact that they were severely out of practice at playing as a live ensemble. McCartney tried to organise and encourage his bandmates, but his attempts to hold the band together and rally spirits were seen by the others as controlling and patronising.

Matters came to a head on 6 January, when Harrison had a heated argument with McCartney during a rehearsal of " Two of Us ", which later became one of the most famous sequences in the Let It Be film.

What is not shown in the film is another, allegedly much more severe argument that Harrison had with Lennon on 10 January. Harrison had become fed up with Lennon's creative and communicative disengagement from the band and the two had a heated row during the day's lunch break. According to journalist Michael Housego of The Daily Sketch , this descended into violence with Harrison and Lennon allegedly throwing punches at each other. Harrison denied this in a 16 January interview for the Daily Express , saying: We just fell out.

A week later the band agreed to Harrison's terms for returning to the group, which included abandoning the cold and cavernous soundstage at Twickenham. Multi-track recording began on that date [8] and continued until 31 January. Preston worked with the group throughout their stay at Apple. As another condition of his rejoining the Beatles, Harrison had the others agree to drop the plan of making a return to public performance. From now on, the filming would simply capture the band making a new album.

The band subsequently revisited the idea of playing a concert merely to provide a suitable ending for Lindsay-Hogg's film. On 30 January, the Beatles and Preston performed on the rooftop of the Apple building before a small audience of friends and employees.

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Only Harrison was against this, calling it "silly", but went along with it for the sake of the film. The performance was cut short by the police after complaints about noise. The complete concert has circulated among bootleg collectors for many years. Three numbers recorded at the rooftop concert — " Dig a Pony ", " I've Got a Feeling " and " One After " — were subsequently issued on the Let It Be album, while several portions of dialogue from the live performance appear between tracks that were taped in the studio.

The final rooftop number was that day's third performance of " Get Back " and featured McCartney's ad-lib about getting arrested for playing on rooftops. This version was released on Anthology 3. Aside from original songs ultimately released on Let It Be , there were early versions of many tracks that appeared on Abbey Road , including " Mean Mr.

Throughout the rehearsals and recording sessions, much of the band's attention was focused on a broad range of covers, extended jams on bar blues , and occasional new efforts such as Lennon's uncompleted " Madman ". Two songs appearing on the album were not recorded during the January sessions. Lewisohn recognises "I Me Mine" as the final song to be recorded by the Beatles before their official dissolution.

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Overdubbing of vocals and instrumentation for other tracks continued into April , just before the album's release. After increasing use of overdubs and multi-layered recordings on recent albums, there was at first a consensus to record the new album live. In keeping with the back-to-roots concept, the cover artwork was planned to be an update of the cover of their first album, Please Please Me , with the band looking down the same stairwell of EMI 's headquarters office block in Manchester Square, London , and in the same poses, as in the earlier cover photo.

The photograph was later used instead for the cover of the compilation album — the "Blue Album". Days after the sessions at Apple had ended, Glyn Johns put together a rough mix acetate of several songs, for the band to listen to. A tape copy of this acetate made its way to America, where it was played on radio stations in Buffalo, New York and Boston over September Johns also favoured earlier, rougher versions of "Two of Us" and "The Long and Winding Road" over the more polished performances from the final, 31 January session which were eventually chosen for the Let It Be album.

Get Back version one, May The Get Back album was intended for release in July , but its release was pushed back to September to coincide with the planned television special and the theatrical film about the making of the album. In September, the release was pushed back to December, because the Beatles had just recorded Abbey Road and wanted to issue that album instead. By December, Get Back had been shelved. On 15 December, the Beatles again approached Johns to compile an album, but this time with the instruction that the songs must match those included in the as yet unreleased Get Back film.

Between 15 December and 8 January , new mixes were prepared. Glyn Johns' new mix omitted "Teddy Boy" as the song did not appear in the film. It added "Across the Universe" a remix of the studio version, as the January rehearsals had not been properly recorded and "I Me Mine", on which only Harrison, McCartney and Ringo Starr performed. The Beatles once again rejected the album. The folky "Two of Us," with John and Paul harmonizing together, was also a highlight.

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Introspection Late Night Partying. The song is not finished and paul is humming in a lot of it. Has ajyone heard something like this. Any information wouldbe great. It sounds like there are two bass parts together in those spots.

One night during this tense time I had a dream I saw my mum, who'd been dead 10 years or so. And it was so great to see her because that's a wonderful thing about dreams: It was so wonderful for me and she was very reassuring. In the dream she said, 'It'll be all right.

I felt very blessed to have that dream.

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So that got me writing the song Let It Be. I literally started off 'Mother Mary', which was her name, 'When I find myself in times of trouble', which I certainly found myself in. The song was based on that dream. Mother Mary makes it a quasi-religious thing, so you can take it that way. I'm quite happy if people want to use it to shore up their faith. I have no problem with that. I think it's a great thing to have faith of any sort, particularly in the world we live in. Nothing to do with The Beatles. It could've been Wings. I don't know what he's thinking when he writes Let It Be.

I think it was inspired by Bridge Over Troubled Waters. That's my feeling , although I have nothing to go on. I know he wanted to write a Bridge Over Troubled Waters. MikeP Friday 15 September Lane Friday 15 September Let It Be is gorgeous.