![]() ![]() George Martin: Let It Be was the worst time of all, really disruptive. ![]() Because he is confident of his own abilities. He took me to lunch, and said: ‘You’re not to worry about a thing.’ I was feeling really awkward about the whole thing, and he was completely at ease about the situation. George Martin, being the gentleman that he is, realised that I had been compromised in a way, and he saw fit to put me at ease about the situation. I was the same as every other punter on the planet, who saw them as these extraordinary icons of marvelousness. But when I got the call, to walk in and be privy to those guys sitting around, doing what they did, and to be invited in, was pretty astonishing. Glyn Johns (engineer/producer): I was quite used to being around people who were famous. We had two cameras and just about did the same thing. The sound crew instructions were to roll/record from the moment the first Beatle appeared and to record sound all day until the last one left. Les Parrott (cameraman): My brief on the first day was to ‘shoot The Beatles’. Paul McCartney: The idea was that you’d see The Beatles rehearsing, jamming, getting their act together, and then finally performing somewhere in a big, end-of-show concert. The project will eventually morph into the Let It Be album and film. Alas, it would also be the last single ‘The Fab Four’ would put out as a collective unit.Jan 2, 1969: At 10am The Beatles arrive at Twickenham Film Studios to begin rehearsals for a proposed TV show, Get Back. On release, the single hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it The Beatles 19th song to reach the top spot. While Lennon may have loathed the song, the rest of the world clearly felt differently. When Phil Spector was bought in to complete Let It Be in 1970, he even included audio of Lennon teasing McCartney’s efforts, in which he can be heard saying “And now, we’d like to do ‘Hark the Angels Come'” at the end of ‘Dig It’. Considering Lennon was strongly against organised religion, it’s understandable why he felt nervous about being associated with a song that, from certain angles, reads like a hymn. In the song, Paul McCartney makes frequent references to ‘Mother Mary’. ![]() It’s much more likely that Lennon opposed the strident religiosity of ‘Let It Be’. I know he wanted to write a ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters.'” However, Lennon’s memory was clearly playing tricks on him by this point because ‘Let It Be’ was recorded a whole ten months before ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ was taken into the studio. ![]() On hearing McCartney’s song, Lennon was convinced he was trying to recreate the folkish poignancy of Simon & Garfunkel: “I think it was inspired by ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ - that’s my feeling, although I have nothing to go on. Perhaps Lennon found ‘Let It Be’ regressive, the kind of song that would have been perfect in the mid-’60s but which felt archaic, dull, and conservative by 1969. I don’t know what he’s thinking when he writes ‘Let It Be.'” What can you say? Nothing to do with the Beatles,” Lennon would later explain to David Sheff. Lennon’s biggest problem with ‘Let It Be’ was that it felt more like a song Paul had written for one of his side-projects and then decided to pass on to The Beatles. ![]()
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