Let It Be

While looking at YouTube last night I came across The Beatles live rooftop performance in late January 1969 of songs that would eventually be on their Let It Be album. The unannounced concert was recorded on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London.

This was the first time watching the entire set since I saw it as part of the Let It Be film in the early 1970's. We both really enjoyed watching this clip. Afterward YouTube presented us with another Beatles live performance from Japan in 1966. It was truly awful with terrible sound and a bad performance too.

Seeing the rooftop film again was exciting and also made me want to listen to the Let It Be album which I hadn't listened to start to finish in a while. Actually I probably listened to the Let It Be Naked album more recently which is a remix of the original album without all the Phil Spector embellishments.

So today Becky and I listened to the Let It Be album and loved it. It really did sound good again even with all the Phil Spector tinkering. I also was listening using my Random Album Effect mode so the next album up was Let It Be by the Replacements but that's another post.

Also coincidently I just happen to be listening to one of my mixes right now and the song playing as I write this is the Beatle's song Across The Universe from the Let It Be album. I was also just reading about the album and saw that Phil Spector added that song to the album at the last minute and it was originally recorded in a 1968 session. Interesting.