In the US, the album enjoyed a four week stay at #1 during an initial chart life of 55 weeks.Įach of the CDs is packaged with replicated original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. 1 for a three week stay during its 59 week chart stay. The Long And Winding Road, which had been given a new musical arrangement featuring orchestra and choir, was released as a single in the US and other markets but not the UK and became the group's final # 1 single. A second single from the album, which was now titled Let It Be appeared on 6th March.Up to now the idea behind the album had been to capture the group "live in the studio" without overdubs or effects but this changed when producer, Phil Spector was brought in to re-produce the tracks. This was remedied on 3rd January, 1970 when George, Paul and Ringo performed it without John who was in Denmark.
Once Abbey Road had been issued and the completion of the documentary film now imminent, it was noticed that rehearsals of George's song "I Me Mine" featured prominently in the film but had not been recorded in the studio. Rehearsals and recording sessions for the album had taken place in January, 1969 first At Twickenham Film Studios and later in the basement and on the roof of their Apple headquarters in London's Savile Row.Ī single comprising of "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" was released in April, 1969 but as The Beatles focussed their energies on a new album mainly recorded at Abbey Road, The "Get Back" album as it was then called remained unreleased. And, as you would expect, the boys are all outfitted in their own idiosyncratic styles: John in his tabby-brown fur coat over a black zip-up sweater and those beat-to-shit sneakers Paul in a black suit and a striped dress shirt open at the collar George in lime green pants, his black Mongolian lambs’ fur coat, a bright red short, and black Chuck Taylors and Ringo in a shiny red raincoat that hints at the storm that would lead to band’s end within the year.The final Beatles album was first released on 8th May, 1970, just prior to the launch of the cinema film of the same name.
This is one of the greatest moments in pop culture history. In the end, they famously end up on the Apple rooftop for their last live performance ever. Various locales are floated, including an ancient amphitheater in North Africa. George Gets ShaggyĪ post shared by The Beatles the band has been cobbling together the songs that will become the Let it Be album, the filmmakers scramble to find a location to perform and shoot the climactic final scene-an indelible live concert where the Beatles will play the music we’ve just watched them write and rehearse and shape and reshape.
It’s like a candy-colored eight-hour men’s runway show. Just watch the evolution from Paul strumming the first licks of the song “Get Back” and how is gradually evolves into the classic we now know.Īnd then there’s the clothes… Get Back is brimming with some of the nattiest, grooviest, most sartorially fly ensembles you’ll likely ever lay your eyes on. And then there’s the music- Get Back is the greatest film ever made about the act of artistic creation. What makes Jackson’s Get Back so great is that it mostly shatters these hardened myths and gives us a close-up glimpse of new information: yes, George walked off, but his bandmates recognized what drove him out and apologized sure, Paul thinks he’s daddy, but this was a band that desperately needed someone to step up and make the trains run on time you bet Yoko’s bound-at-the-hip act with John is distracting, but the other members are surprisingly cool about it. For decades, the Let it Be sessions were regarded as a time of nasty infighting (George quits!), dueling egos (Paul thinks he’s daddy!), and the divisive presence of Yoko Ono at John’s side.