"Let It Be...Naked"

[Paragon]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18698

The Beatles' Apple Records will release a stripped-down version of Let It Be, the group's 1970 swan song, on November 18th. Dubbed Let It Be...Naked, the album does away with the orchestration added by legendary producer Phil Spector and restores Paul McCartney's "back to basics" concept that originally underpinned the project. Two songs, "Maggie Mae" and "Dig It," have been removed from the new set, while "Don't Let Me Down" and background dialogue from the studio sessions have been added. The Let It Be...Naked package will also feature a twenty-minute bonus disc of material culled from rehearsal sessions...

Most of the Let It Be material was recorded in early 1969 for an album and movie originally to be called Get Back. Though the project was intended to showcase the Beatles' returning to their roots as a four-piece rock band, it instead captured the band in the throes of its breakup. The album was temporarily abandoned, and the film, retitled Let It Be, was released the following year.

Spector was later brought in at John Lennon's insistence to compile an album from the hundreds of hours of tape. However, Spector's work, undertaken after the group had effectively split, has always been a source of irritation to Paul McCartney, who took particular exception to the string arrangement on his composition "The Long and Winding Road."...

Starr also said that George Harrison approved the release the stripped-down version of Let It Be before his death in 2001. The project has been underway for at least two years, and it instigated the recovery of the missing Let It Be audio reels by police in the Netherlands in January.

[sabbat hunter]

1. i heard the album.....

in its entirety last week on the scott muni show here in ny on Q104.3.

i thought the album both rocked and rolled. highly recommended for any classic rock/beatle fan.


peace
david
:hippie:

[oustemnow]

2. weird, "Maggie Mae" and "Dig It" are two of the most stripped down

bits on the album.

I really look forward to this release; I'm a huge Beatles fan, and Let it Be has always been a fascinating and contentious release. I'm glad that GH approved this version; if you watch the Let it Be movie, he got smacked down pretty hard by McCartney at one point, while recording "I've Got a Feeling."

What I really want is a DVD version of the movir, with a lot more footage left in. Apparently they filmed a ton of stuff.

[mac56]

3. One of the scenes edited out was a guest appearance by Peter Sellers.

(According to the book "Mr. Strangelove".)

He popped into the studio looking to get high with the lads.

McCartney reportedly made some reference to Lennon's recent drug bust, which pissed Lennon off mightily.

[Loonman]

4. Freaking excellent

Phil Spector's production made that one of the weakest Beatle's albums, now it's perfect.

[Ishoutandscream]

5. Firewall at work blocking Rolling Stone article

Did it mention a release of the Let It Be movie on dvd? I haven't seen it since I saw it at a midnight movie in the summer of 1980.