#LET IT BE THE BEATLES WRITTEN BY SERIES#

Paul McCartney spearheaded the 2003 release 'Let It Be. 'Let It Be' has been reworked and reevaluated in the five decades since its release. Paul did sing in the church choir when he was very young and I think he brought some of that into 'Let It Be.' ' It'sВ such anВ optimistic, powerful song and those gospel chords comeВ right out of the church. 'You can interpret it as religious if you want to, but you can also interpret it as just a general (message of) 'Let your problems go,' which is a very nice thing. 'It's a very moving, inspirational song and very gospel inВ the way it's constructed вЂ“ that's why it's been covered by people like Aretha Franklin,' FreimanВ says.

20 on Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Songs of All Time' list. It's since been covered by Joan Baez and Ray Charles, and ranks No. While we can thank Lennon for the stirring, psychedelic 'Across the Universe,' it was McCartney who wrote the emotional title track, inspired by his late mom. The majority of the album's 12 songs were written by either John Lennon or Paul McCartney, who were 'rivals in songwriting and spurred each other on,' FreimanВ says. 'The Beatles had no input whatsoever,'В Somach says.В 'Spector changed a lot of the album aroundВ вЂ“ heВ added horns вЂ“ and basically, that's the album that was released.'Д«ut 'Let It Be' is not without its high points. The Beatles' managerВ Allen Klein stepped in, turning the tapes over toВ Phil Spector to work on. 'Some people attributed it to theВ fact there were cameras on and they just weren't getting along, so they scrapped the idea for a bit.'ДЄfter taking a couple months off, the Beatles reunited at EMI studios to record the seminal 'Abbey Road,' released in September 1969. 'They started having personal problems,' Somach says. The project sparked the idea for their now-legendary rooftop concert in January 1969, recording and filming album cuts 'Get Back,' 'One after 909' and 'Dig a Pony' before the show was shut down by police. So, they got back into the studio and recorded live, with the idea of making a documentary about the process. 'The Beatles decided they wanted to get back to their roots and just be a band again,' says Denny Somach, a rock historian and author of 'A Walk Down Abbey Road.' They were originally going to call it 'Get Back.' Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967) and the critically acclaimed 'The White Album' (1968).

#LET IT BE THE BEATLES WRITTEN BY SERIES#

The Beatles started recording 'Let It Be' as a series of jam sessions in early 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios in London, coming off a fruitful creative period of more experimental fare like 'Sgt. And then you have these masterpieces like 'Let It Be' and 'The Long and Winding Road' and 'Across the Universe.' So critics thought it didn't feel like it jelled together like previous Beatles albums, and it certainly didn't have the band working as a unit like they had on previous albums.' The consensus was 'there were highlights on the album, but it felt kind of smushed together,' says Scott Freiman, creator of the 'Deconstructing the Beatles' lecture series. Music magazine NME went even further, calling it a 'a cheapskate epitaph, a cardboard tombstone, a sad and tatty end' to a group that changed pop music. Rolling Stone compared the projectВ to 'costume jewelry,' lobbing criticism at the Beatles' quasi-collaborator Phil Spector for his overcooked, 'absurdly inappropriate' production. Released 50 years ago on Friday on May 8, 1970, the Fab Four's 12th and final studio effort is best remembered for its soulful title track and classic songs 'Get Back,' 'Across the Universe' andВ 'The Long and Winding Road.'Д«ut the album itself got a bad rap from critics when it first hit shelvesВ less than a month after Paul McCartney announced the band's split on April 10, 1970. You might say 'Let It Be' is the ugly duckling of Beatles albums.

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