Let It Be

This is a controversial choice for bottom of the list, but maybe some people agree.

There has been so much in recent years about the film Let It Be, the restored outtakes and revamped album with extras. And I remember seeing it when it first came out, at the Capitol cinema with Yellow Submarine as support.

There are no comments about any of that. We are here to talk about the album as an album.

It came with a book (mine is falling apart, of course, they do, but not too bad, nor are all the sleeve and inserts in such a bad condition). It came out in 1970 and is short (by late Beatles’ standards) at barely 35 minutes. This includes short track snippets that amount to nothing, like Dig It, and some talking as filler, irritating filler.

Famously, George Martin did not really produce. He was around during the recordings, but Phil Spector butchered the tracks and this is his work.

The idea was to be filmed rehearsing for a concert and then doing the concert, and this would be the soundtrack to the film. The songs are mostly pretty unexceptional, like no-one had any enthusiasm or any great ideas for what to perform. Some very old oldies were dug out. Other tracks, eg Two Of Us, I’ve Got A Feeling and Dig A Pony are just pretty dull.

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