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November 6, 2003
Let it Be...Naked. Or not quite naked.
A new version of the Beatles' last album, Let it Be, is about to be released [nyt]. The big news is that the overbearing orchestral garbage that Phil Spector added over simple, acoustic songs like 'The Long and Winding Road' and 'Let it Be' has been removed, so we can hear the songs as they were originally recorded. Sort of--there's now a new layer of studio mucking, with new versions of songs constructed from multiple takes. The article gives a good overview of the many iterations this album went through before its release in 1970, without much input or consensus from band members.
