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Harrison’s contributions are, in comparison to those that would show up on Abbey Road and All Things Must Pass, little more than filler, but “For You Blue” and “I Me Mine” are both pleasurable blues and rock workouts, the latter of them perhaps a dig-and-diss at his bandmate. Lennon is less present on Let It Be, his “Across the Universe” pure poetry and “Dig a Pony” an enigma.
McCartney’s signature ballads were moving, memorable, and timeless, even if “The Long and Winding Road” bordered on the mawkish with notorious overproducer Phil Spector’s orchestras, choirs, and harps. “Two of Us” and “I Got a Feeling” featured old friends John and Paul singing together in ways that moved from the casual to the exuberant, acoustic to electric, in simply-but-energetically performed folk and rock. A ten-year-old kid in a North Dakota farmhouse bedroom, did I know the band was already broken up, the album rejected by the foursome, its contents only grudgingly released after its reportedly acrimonious sessions? No, and I hardly would have cared, for the music itself was plenty for me a mix of the earthy, jovial, crotchety, and heartfelt, Let It Be helped me to understand friendship, patience, charity, even acrimony. And boy did I treasure it, from its mega hits to its offbeat gems to its witty banter and even its perplexing song snippets. vinyl release back in May 1970-was the first album I ever purchased with my own allowance money.
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His three-part series The Beatles: Get Back resuscitates the vexed legacy of the troubled sessions for the Get Back album that never happened-at least until its later, post-breakup release as Let It Be-and shows the group’s prickly, productive creative process at work with a sense of joie de vivre that few at the time, or since, knew existed.
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Peter Jackson’s new documentary project, a minor miracle of restorative editing, proves just that, presenting the foursome in a new, full light, with a richness of detail literally never seen before. More than fifty years after their breakup, The Beatles can still entice and enthrall.
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