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Let It Be (Music)
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Let It Be is the thirteenth and final studio album by The Beatles, released through Apple Records in 1970, almost a month after the group's breakup. However, it was mostly recorded before Abbey Road, which got a release in 1969 and was the actual final album recorded during the band's lifetime.It is also the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, instead being produced by Phil Spector, who incorporated his trademark "Wall of Sound" production techniques by adding prominent orchestral embellishments throughout the album, as well as their only album to be partially recorded at Twickenham Film Studios rather than EMI (now Abbey Road) Studios. Most of the album, however, was recorded at the band's own Apple Studio, including three tracks ("Dig a Pony", "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909") from a famous rooftop concert which marked the band's final live performance before an audience.note The band also performed "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" at the rooftop concert; the Let It Be... Naked version of "Don't Let Me Down" is a splice of the two rooftop performances, while the version released as the B-side to "Get Back" was recorded in the studio two days earlier. "Get Back" itself, both on the album and in its single release, are an earlier studio performance, though Spector spliced in some applause and chatter from the end of the rooftop concert at the end of the album. Only one track, George Harrison's "I Me Mine", was recorded after Abbey Road, by then John Lennon had departed the band in late 1969.Paul McCartney hated what Spector did to their final album, having intended for it to be a "back-to-basics" Blues Rock approach for the Beatles rather than the Chamber Pop record Spector turned it into. Lennon, for his part, felt completely different, crediting Spector for crafting something listenable out of what he called "badly recorded" tracks.To this day, Let It Be ranks as the most divisive Beatles album among fans, who argue as to whether it's an underrated masterpiece or an overblown mess emblematic of just how far the band had fallen on a personal level. However, that difference in opinion did not stop the album from winning numerous awards, such as the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score and the Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.In 2003, a totally new version of the album was released, named Let It Be... Naked, where Paul's original vision could finally be heard. All the material on this album was devoid of Spector's production and showcased a simple rock sound in-line with the pre-Rubber Soul era, with its originally intended track listing in place. (Lennon's "Dig It" jam and the brief cover of "Maggie Mae" were both deleted and replaced with "Don't Let Me Down".) As a bonus CD, a Leave the Microphone Running recording from the Beatles in their studio was released, too, containing more chatting and clowning about than actual recording.The making of the album was documented in a film, also titled Let It Be, which was released in 1970. The Beatles: Get Back, a three-part miniseries produced by Peter Jackson and comprised of six out of 57 hours worth of footage shot at Twickenham, was released on Disney+ in November 2021. The miniseries serves as a corrective to some longstanding myths about the sessions: contrary to her reputation, Yoko Ono does not influence the band's creative process at all, and despite Harrison's brief departure, the sessions weren't as acrimonious as they were reputed to have been, particularly once they moved from Twickenham to Apple Headquarters; the band are mostly cordial with one another, joking around and having fun playing covers of old rock tunes.A five-disc reissue of the album also appeared in 2021; highlights include a new stereo remix of the album by Giles Martin (son of the Beatles' longtime producer George), which effectively splits the difference between Spector's mix and Let It Be... Naked, and a remaster of Glyn Johns' long-bootlegged original mix, which is much rawer than the official versions. There are also multiple discs of outtakes and jams. | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "Get Back" was written in reaction to the anti-immigration laws in the UK, though most of the original, overtly political lyrics got cut, probably because the satire would've been easy to miss. The only clue to the song's political origins is in the chorus; the remaining lyrics come closer to Word Salad Lyrics. An excerpt of the original version can be heard in the Get Back miniseries. An unreleased improvised song from the sessions, "Commonwealth", is a very blatant attack on the anti-immigration movement, specifically subjecting the leader of the movement, Enoch Powell, to a Take That!. The Get Back miniseries also contains an excerpt of "Commonwealth". Also from the sessions, an early version of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (which later made it to Abbey Road with much more minimalist lyrics) featured Billy Preston singing portions of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Four individual photos of the band members. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: In a way. It's certainly not like any other Beatles album. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: Subverted. The film was actually intended to be a companion piece to the album. However, seeing that the movie has rarely been seen on TV ever since and has been unavailable on home media since the 1980's, this may be one example where the album is better known than the movie. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: In 1969, the band decided to record some songs together in a studio, and later in an impromptu concert on the Apple rooftop, in what would become the album Get Back, all while filming a documentary about the experience. The Glory Days revival would even be illustrated with an album cover replicating the Please Please Me one. The whole ordeal wound up just raising tensions and ultimately leading to the Beatles' breakup, but not before they decided to make Abbey Road before calling it quits. Then the Get Back sessions were submitted to Phil Spector for an orchestral makeover, and the result was Let It Be. The Please Please Me parody was later famously repurposed for the compilation 1966-1970, a.k.a. The Blue Album. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Let It Be" Not to mention that "Get Back" was originally planned as the album's title. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: "Maggie Mae", at forty-one seconds. "Dig It" is a short excerpt of an improvised jam that runs around 15 minutes in its unedited state. As recorded, "I Me Mine" only clocked in at 1:34. Spector decided to repeat a chorus and verse, extending the run time by 51 seconds. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "Dig a Pony" has verses of thirteen measures and a refrain that could be counted as any number of beats due to lengthy pauses. | |
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Numerological Motif | |
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Numerological Motif: "One After 909", a reference to the fact that Lennon considered nine his lucky number. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: George Harrison sings lead on "I Me Mine" and "For Your Blue". It is one of the few Beatles albums not to have Ringo Starr on any vocals. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The original Get Back album was supposed to have a 1969 photo of the Beatles in the exact same pose that they used for their breakout 1963 Please Please Me album. This idea was abandoned when the Get Back album was reworked into Let It Be, but the photo was eventually used for the cover of the 1967–1970 compilation album. | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: The album was intended as a back to basics to their original, simpler sound. | |
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Rooftop Concert | |
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Rooftop Concert: "Dig a Pony", "One After 909", and "I've Got a Feeling" were recorded on the roof top of the Abbey Road Studios, January 30, 1969. This also makes them the Trope Namer. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: The liner notes say the album was "reproduced for disc by Phil Spector", making it the only Beatles album without George Martin credited as producer. Martin got a "special thanks" credit, but he took over as the de facto producer after the studio facilities at Apple proved unusable. Another person in the "special thanks" list, Glyn Johns, was technically the album's engineer, but was given enough input into the album that he could arguably be considered a producer as well. | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
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Pep-Talk Song: "Let It Be" | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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"Dig It" is a short excerpt of an improvised jam that runs around 15 minutes in its unedited state. | |
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George Lucas Altered Version | |
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George Lucas Altered Version: In 2003, Paul McCartney would release Let It Be... Naked, a remixed version of the album that stripped out Phil Spector's choral and orchestral overdubs (which were probably necessary at the time to salvage parts of the material), and digitally cleaning tracks using technology not available at the time. Unlike most iterations of this trope, both versions remained readily available. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Get Back" was written as a Take That! against the then recent anti-immigration laws in the UK. | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The band once got bored with the void life of a superstar, so they went to India (or somewhere) looking for a spiritual guide to give them the purpose of life. It failed. The result was the song "Across the Universe": | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: Bits of nonsensical babbling from Lennon between several tracks, as well as the outro which features cheering and clapping, Paul's "Thanks Mo" (directed at Ringo's wife Maureen), and Lennon's famous "I hope we passed the audition" bit of snark. That Studio Chatter was actually recorded at the end of the Rooftop Concert (the actual track on the album was recorded in the studio three days earlier, on 27 January). The album track of "Dig a Pony" was recorded on the roof. At the end Lennon can be heard saying "Me hand's getting too cold to play chords." | |
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Something Blues | |
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Something Blues: "For You Blue" was originally titled "George's Blues (Because You're Sweet And Lovely)". | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
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Revisiting the Roots: The album was originally going to be called Get Back because this was precisely the idea (and that of course is also the reason the song was called "Get Back"). This was an attempt to return to the sort of spontaneous, energetic rock and roll they'd played at the beginning of their career, as opposed to the sophisticated and intricately produced music they'd moved on to. This is also why they recorded "One After 909", a song that sounds like the early Beatles sound because it was the early Beatles sound, having been written in the Quarrymen days, then first recorded in 1963 but then shelved. The recording sessions were a disaster, and they largely abandoned the "back to basics" approach for their last recorded album, Abbey Road. | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "The Long and Winding Road". | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come: "Let It Be" was inspired by a dream Paul had about his mother, who died when he was young. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: As heard in the outtake version recorded in 1963 (and released on Anthology 1), "One After 909" was originally midtempo, but they sped it up for the rooftop performance. "Across the Universe" was originally released on the 1969 charity compilation No One's Gonna Change Our World, as a sparse, acoustic-driven song. When included on Let it Be, Phil Spector lowered the playback speed and added the same orchestral embellishments that the rest of the album received. When the song was included again on Let it Be... Naked, the song was restored to the original 1969 version, but received extra digital modifications to correct tuning errors. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Maggie Mae". "I Me Mine" "Mother Mary" and "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be...". | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: "I Me Mine". | |
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Character Check | |
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Character Check: "One After 909" was actually one of the earliest songs that Lennon and McCartney ever wrote, but never actually made it onto an album until this point. It accordingly sounds a lot more old-school rock-pop than most of the music they'd been producing since the mid-1960s. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: A meta-example. The sessions for what would become Let It Be were intended by the band as a back-to-basics reset which would enable them to recharge their creativity and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the resulting sessions ended up becoming so tense and bitter that Harrison quit at one point, and the album / film is ultimately remembered as one of the final nails in the coffin before they eventually split up for good (although they managed to rally themselves sufficiently to record Abbey Road). Even better? Paul wanted to do the sessions in a soundstage to allow them to work for a live show that would be filmed and broadcast on TV as a special treat for fans, and wanted the back-to-basics approach because the production style they'd become acclaimed for meant the band spent most of their time holed up in a studio. But when tensions were rising to the point where George quit and they needed to just finish the album what did they do the fix it? Abandon the soundstage and go back to the studio (Though they still performed as live to preserve the original intent), ditch the TV show that was supposed to be one last Beatles hurrah completely, and they didn't even end up doing a proper live show and instead resorted to the now famous Rooftop Concert. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: Paul McCartney (who was the main advocate of the "back to the roots" approach in the first place) wasn't happy with Phil Spector's production. Decades later, when the opportunity arose to re-edit the album, Paul jumped at it. The new version, Let It Be... Naked, stripped away Phil Spector's overdubs, featured a different song selection and track order, and used different takes of some of the songs. Naked also used digital editing (which obviously hadn't been available when the album was originally released) to remove tape noises and to pitch-correct a few of the vocals. It was released in 2003. | |
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Counterpoint Duet | |
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Counterpoint Duet: After Paul sings his part of "I've Got a Feeling" and then John sings his part, this effect is produced at the end when each sings their own song at the same time. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Billy Preston on piano. The "Get Back"/"Don't Let Me Down" single was attributed to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". This was the only time the band shared billing with another artist. Preston played keyboards and piano for all ten days of recording after the band reconvened at Abbey Road studios, and can be seen in Let It Be film. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Maggie Mae". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Elmore James ain't got nothing on this, baby! Lennon name-drops Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", the FBI, the CIA, The BBC, B.B. King, Doris Day and Scottish soccer notable Matt Busby (who was the manager of Manchester United at the time) during "Dig It". "Across The Universe" uses the Sanskrit phrase "Jai Guru Deva". The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev". "I Dig a Pygmy" by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids! Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats! | |
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Musical Squares | |
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Musical Squares: One of the Trope Codifiers for the four squares version. | |
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Train Song | |
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Train Song: "One After 909". | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Maggie Mae". This was an old Public Domain traditional song that Julia Lennon taught her teenaged son John as she was teaching him how to play banjo. | |
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Live Album | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_d29f109e | comment |
Live Album: The original idea, with the band rehearsing and recording their new songs live. The sniping and tension within the band (as well as the creative funk John Lennon was mired in at this time) led to several songs being dubbed or altered in the studio, most infamously Paul's "The Long And Winding Road". However, eight tracks were still laid down live: "I've Got A Feeling", "One After 909" and "I Dig A Pony" from the Apple rooftop performance, and "Get Back", "For You Blue", "Two Of Us", "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" from studio performances. ("Don't Let Me Down", left off the album after being released as the B-side of the "Get Back" single, was also recorded live). | |
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| Let It Be (Music) / int_d6de6609 | type |
In Harmony with Nature | |
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In Harmony with Nature: "Across the Universe" where the protagonist is in harmony with the universe, despite it never changing, but accepts it for what it is. | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_dabc7a46 | comment |
Sixth Ranger: Or Fifth Beatle, in the case of Billy Preston after he joined the band for this album. The keyboard solo in "Get Back" was composed by Preston. | |
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| Let It Be (Music) / int_ddf8c5ba | type |
Album Filler | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_ddf8c5ba | comment |
Album Filler: The inclusion of "Across the Universe". "Across the Universe" had originally been recorded in 1968, poorly, and given away to a World Wildlife Fund charity album. John Lennon, who was struggling to come up with material during these sessions, went back to "Across the Universe" and the band rehearsed the song extensively. Unfortunately they failed to record a decent track, and in the end Phil Spector simply took the original 1968 version, slowed it down, and put it on the album. "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" were both jams that Glyn Johns had placed in his early mixes of the album, to give a sense of the spontaneous feel of the sessions, and Spector re-used them (cutting "Dig It" down to less than a minute), but they still weren't really part of the project. When the album was remixed as Let It Be... Naked in 2002, both were dropped from the track list, replaced by Lennon's "Don't Let Me Down". The band rehearsed "I Me Mine" during the sessions, and a clip of them playing it is included in the Let It Be movie. But they never got a good take recorded, so Paul, George, and Ringo assembled on Jan. 3, 1970 (a year to the day after the Get Back sessions started) and recorded the song to fill out the album, in what turned out to be the last ever Beatles recording session. | |
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Broken Record | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_e085feeb | comment |
Broken Record: The word "everybody" in "I've Got A Feeling". | |
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| Let It Be (Music) / int_e0d20ea6 | type |
Intentionally Awkward Title | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_e0d20ea6 | comment |
Intentionally Awkward Title: Let It Be...Naked. Often called "Naked" for short and to differentiate it from the original. This trope makes it easier, alas, for "Naked" not to exist. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: "Dig a Pony" is Lennon in full wordplay mode ("I pick a moondog. Well, you can radiate everything you are"). Hilariously, the people who produced the bootleg album Kum Back at the end of 1969 (taken from a tape of an early mix of the album, before anyone knew what most of the songs were called) didn't even want to try to guess what the song's title was, listing it as "Who Knows?". | |
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Grief Song | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_e680af6f | comment |
Grief Song: It's difficult to listen to "The Long And Winding Road", without interpreting it as a goodbye song to the individual Beatles and each one of them parting to go their own way. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
| Let It Be (Music) / int_eeb4a5eb | comment |
Anti-Climax: Many critics and listeners considered the album as a whole to be this for The Beatles' career. The NME famously dismissed it as "a shabby epitaph, a cardboard tombstone". Although a lot of people still consider the album to be quite good, and with some genuinely great songs, there is a fair bit of debate over whether it or Abbey Road should be considered their true "final album", as Abbey Road was the last to be recorded and is viewed by many as a more fitting finale. | |
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| Let It Be (Music) / int_f0f4b47 | type |
Vocal Tag Team | |
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Vocal Tag Team: A relatively rare example of John and Paul doing this in the same song, as a Lennon composition tentatively titled "Everybody Had a Hard Year" was mashed together with Paul's "I've Got a Feeling". | |
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Last Note Hilarity | |
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Last Note Hilarity: The Studio Chatter has some moments, such as John's childish voice after "Dig It", and "Get Back" featuring "I'd like to thank you all on behalf of ourselves and the group, and I hope we passed the audition." | |
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