LET IT BE

Considered to be the last ever Beatles album,Let It Be is the band's 13th studio album since their debut in 1963 with Please Please Me.Billed also as the second to the last album which came out to be the last.The album was first created as far back as January 30,1969,during which the Beatles were into a moment of dissolution.

Originally titled "Get Back",the whole concept and idea was that of Paul McCartney's.For the band to be able to go back to its roots and do a live performance.The Beatles were a big mess in 1968 and 1969 during which business problems arised.The group has not played onstage since 1966 and Paul was ready to go extremes to keep the Beatles a band.Assuming almost dictatorial control of the group.The sessions at first doesnt have any discipline and direction that the band was open to play anything they like.While the group rehearsed, a film crew documented the whole sessions directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.George Martin,the group's producer was only given a thanks credit on the album.

"There was no one in charge,there was no George Martin around but he did popped in a couple of times",said Glyn Johns who engineered the sessions.McCartney pushed the ideas of touring and recording without any overdubs.Adds Johns,"They'd already proven themsleves to be the greatest innovators of modern music with the albums Revolver,Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper,this was the complete reverse of that,I was so blown away by the fact that they were able just to play and sing live."

With all the problems arosed and after seven years the Beatles were breaking up and the title of the album was changed to Let It Be on a more appropriate McCartney song of reflection and surrender.The album has its own hard road to release.In March 1969,Johns compiled two different acetates of material for the Beatles to evaluate.Johns' May 1969 Get Back test pressing was rejected by the band;they'd also turned down a second disc with a new track lineup in January 1970.In February,Lennon invited Phil Spector to review the tapes,with the Let It Be movie slated for May,Spector had two months to make silk out of a year old rawhide.Spector pulled a meager ten songs from Apple sessions and rooftop concert for the album.He filled the album with a 1968 Lennon outtake "Across the Universe" and George Harrison's "I Me Mine" both topped with mountains of brass and strings.He also infuriated McCartney by pouring orchestral schmaltz on "The Long And Winding Road".McCartney later used the word "butchery".The group officially broke in April following a statement from Paul that he's no longer working with the group and will be a solo artist from now on.

On May 20,1970,the Let It Be film premiered in London,none of the ex-Beatles bothered to attend.The dream is over.The following month of June,the album went to the number one spot on Billboard's album charts marking the very end and the last Beatles album ever to do so.A feat that wasnt repeated until 25 years later when Anthology 1 topped the charts in 1995 and Anthology 2 and 3 topping the charts in 1996 and 1997.