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Let It Be
by The Beatles
from Capitol

Features:

• Soundtrack

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Let It Be
  By the time this album came out the Beatles broke up and were finished, and would never reunite again. The recording sessions for Let It Be were finished before 1970 and were recorded the same time during the sessions for the album, "Abbey Road". By 1969 The Beatles had wanted to get back to there roots like many other bands at the time. Let It Be is like the part two to Abbey Road being just as good, except for some reason Let It Be gets a really bad rap though its a good album.
  The album was mainly... more info

• Their worst
  The Beatles were pretty much over by the preceding album (White Album) which consisted mostly of solo performances with some perfunctory overdubs. This album was their attempt to recapture their "roots" but they could not rekindle the innocence of bygone years. Only Billy Preston's keyboard work redeems this otherwise slapped-together effort. Put it this way: if this album had been a demo by some unknowns, no record company would have touched it.

• we all wanted more...
  This was the last Beatles album that you could buy if you bought them all sequentially. This was the first Beatles album that I bought as it was released because I was 11 years old at the time. I love them all and I love The Beatles more than any other musicians and this is still my favorite from them. Sure, they revolutionized what could be done in a studio, but this is essentially a "Live" album by the greatest rock and roll band there ever was. They had already announced their breakup by the time this... more info

• Wonderful and Not Over-played
  Easily the most disregarded album amongst the Beatles' body of work, Let it Be contains some of the bands best tracks, even if they were basically solo efforts. Although it was recorded prior to Abbey Road, Let it Be sat shelved for about a year before it finally saw the light of day. The story goes that Paul and John were belligerent with each other during the making of this album but that didn't seem to effect the quality of music that they were able to contribute together. "Across the Universe" and "Let... more info

Tracks:

1. Two Of Us
2. Dig A Pony
3. Across The Universe
4. I Me Mine
5. Dig It
6. Let It Be
7. Maggie Mae
8. I've Got A Feeling
9. One After 909
10. The Long And Winding Road
11. For You Blue
12. Get Back

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