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Subject: Let It Be - Naked
I heard on the radio tonight that The Beatles "Let It Be" album has been digitally stripped down to remove all the overdubs applied by Phil Spector after the band broke up and before the album was originally released. It's due to be released as the "Let It Be - Naked" album. This includes changes lsuch as all the orchestration and choral parts being removed from "The Long And Winding Road" (which apparently Paul McCartney violently objected to, but it was too late to change) and a purely voice and acoustic guitar version of "Across The Universe".
There's also going to be lots of previously unreleased material on the CD as well including recordings of discussions between the band. They played some of this on the radio - Paul McCartney talking quite seriously about hiring a large cruise ship (the QEII), taking a load of fans on it, sailing over to Turkey while The Beatles played a concert on the top deck....until George Harrison pipes up at the end at the end to say "This is absoutely insane!".
Any comments anyone - keen to hear this or would you prefer to stick with the original?
Subject: Re: Let It Be - Naked
I 'm interested to hear it, and will probably buy it, although I've heard the disc of unreleased material isn't that great.
The stripped down L&WR has already been heard on Anthology III.
Subject: Re: Let It Be - Naked
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There's also going to be lots of previously unreleased material on the CD as well including recordings of discussions between the band. They played some of this on the radio - Paul McCartney talking quite seriously about hiring a large cruise ship (the QEII), taking a load of fans on it, sailing over to Turkey while The Beatles played a concert on the top deck....End Quote
I'm not a Beatles fan by any stretch (although I like "Wings" and even some of Julian Lennon's songs -- go figure!) but could you imagine if they did that? That would have been a concert to remember.
Subject: Re: Let It Be - Naked
Personally I consider the "Naked" version is the original. In that - thats how the guys recorded it before Phil took it away and ruined it.
My radio station here played the entire "new" album all day on the official release day and it sounded awesome. Fresh and the way it should have always sounded.
Subject: Re: Let It Be - Naked
I heard this album in about 1970, it was raw and uncut, included some live recording session material. The Beatles sounded gear, bling bling, awsome. Paul's rendition of Long and Winding Road brings tears. Song called Teddy Boy also Maybe I'm amazed, all of it was beautiful. Presume the subject album is the same thing I heard?