Let It Be was The Beatles' last album to come out (it wasn't the last they recorded, it was Abbey Road). The album was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which followed the Beatles in the making of a new record. The film is the report of a slowly falling apart band, and relentlessly shows the bad atmosphere and mutual friction. The band was determined not to be guided by technology anymore
… and advocated a back-to-basics approach, expressed in the single Get Back. However, the rough recordings mainly showed that the group, by not performing for years, was no longer a shadow of the former stage band. At a late stage producer Phil Spector was brought in to produce a good record from the many hours of recording material. He partially passed, especially the recordings at the end of the film, when the band on the roof of the studio rises above itself one more time, sound good. But other songs (Dig It, Maggy Mae, For You Blue) sound sloppy and uninspired, making Let It Be only partially successful as an album. McCartney was so outraged by Spector's bombastic version of The Long And Winding Road that he committed himself to the project Let It Be ... Naked, which was released in 2003, and on which the recordings can be heard without Spector's input. (MS) McCartney was so outraged by Spector's bombastic version of The Long And Winding Road that he committed to the project Let It Be ... Naked, which was released in 2003, and on which the recordings can be heard without Spector's input. (MS) McCartney was so outraged by Spector's bombastic version of The Long And Winding Road that he committed himself to the project Let It Be ... Naked, which was released in 2003, and on which the recordings can be heard without Spector's input. (MS)more
