Let It Be - The Beatles

My review of the 'Let It Be' Album - by The Beatles INTRODUCTION Let It Be is like no other Beatles album, it represents to me the Beatles at their most raw - when their interpersonal inter-band relationship were often at their most strained. This was the bands attempt to recapture the 'feel' of their early days (John especially always felt that The Beatles music lost something when they got signed - and that although they became very creative -they regressed as a cohesive 'live' entity)... ...but as anyone who's watched the (well worth a look for the roof top gig alone!!) film footage knows; the project failed. Let It ...  Read the complete review

This is the most slandered Beatles album of the lot and before i begin, i would like to say that i may anger some people and say that i love this record. It is a different style of Beatles, free and rocking, trying their hardest to create a more natural sound that they had left off from many of the previous albums and this is the result. And as to the producing by Phil Spector, have you listened to Let It Be...Naked, as this sounds just as good, although i will admit that i do prefer some of the tracks on the latter made album due to the sparser feel of some of the tracks, expecially Long And Winding Road 1. Two Of Us - A very nice starting track, that shows ...  Read the complete review

Let It Be was released just before the Beatles broke up but there are certainly no audible signs of such fractures in the band as Let It Be shows more unique musicality from the Fab Four. There are a few things to notes of Let It Be. Phil Spector produced it and in typical Spector fashion he felt inclined to put strings on some of the tracks which is something I'm not a great fan of. Some of the tracks are taken from the rooftop concert and so explains the rawer sound of the album, Lennon refusing to use George Martin as they didn't want any of his 'production s@#&'. Two Of Us Two of us is a galloping acoustic number featuring stomping bass drum, ...  Read the complete review

Fab Four - the end.... Whoever you are, you'll have a view about The Beatles, even if it's despising them as irrelevant old Scousers, but I can't believe that there's too many people who'll fall into that latter category and this album is a good entry point to the Beatles catalogue as it captures them warts and all in the last throes of a desperate life struggle. But while 'Let It Be' was the final Beatles album released before they split up, it was actually made before 1969's 'Abbey Road'. It was conceived as a documentary type exercise and a film of the making of this album was made. Now that is a ...  Read the complete review

As we near the four decade mark since the release of the The Beatles' final release, Let It Be, it now seems an appropriate time to re-evaluate an album which has received much criticism as the years have gone by. Initially intended for release a year prior to Abbey Road, but delayed by lengthy recording sessions, endless post-production, and internal conflicts within the band, Let It Be, sees The Beatles going down unfamilair territory, in an album drenched by Phil Spector's famous "wall of sound" production. So what about the songs? First of all, Let It Be is not as consistent an album as say Revolver or Sgt ...  Read the complete review