The “Wall of Sound” is officially torn down, with Glyn John’s original fly-on-the-wall approach in its place. “It is how I want to remember the Beatles,” he writes in the forward of the Deluxe Edition’s hardcover book.Ī vital part of the correcting lies in Phil Spector’s production, which McCartney first tried to strip off on 2003’s Let It Be….Naked. Each component does its job to correct the past - and in the case of the expanded album - present the music as McCartney originally intended. The five-disc collection is part of the Let It Be -aissance, which also contains the massive Get Back book (spoiler alert: there’s transcripts of their conversations!) and Peter Jackson’s upcoming film of the same name (spoiler alert: the band still loves each other!). Pepper, the White Album, and Abbey Road, but unlike these releases, this one has something to prove, something to clear up: that despite being on the verge of disbanding, there were still glasses to left smash, and sing about. The new Special Edition of the album follows the box sets for Sgt. In the case of the Twickenham sessions, where they recorded and filmed the messy making of Let It Be, these intimate moments are crucial. Hearing these moments more than 50 years later, it makes the greatest band of all time seem human.
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“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” might be one of the most achingly beautiful ballads John Lennon ever wrote, but you can’t help but crack up at the version captured on Anthology 2 Lennon tries to kick it off but he fails after Paul McCartney shatters a glass and erupts in a silly rap about the tune. Morning, camera.”īeatles studio banter always offers us a glimpse of what the Fab Four were really like - a dusty stained glass view of their personalities and how they interacted with each other. “Morning, everybody,” he cheerily told his bandmates. One frigid morning in January 1969, Ringo Starr walked into London’s Twickenham Studios and took a look around.