Let It Be... Naked
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| Remix album by the Beatles | ||||
| Released | 17 November 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 4 February 1968, 2–31 January 1969, 3–4 January 1970 | |||
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 35:04 | |||
| Label | Apple | |||
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| Metacritic | 68/100 |
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| Pitchfork Media | 7.0/10 |
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Let It Be... Naked is a 2003 album by the English rock group the Beatles. It is a remixed and remastered version of their 1970 album Let It Be. The project was initiated by Paul McCartney, who had always felt that Phil Spector's production did not represent the group's stripped-down, back to their roots intentions for the album.
Let It Be... Naked presents the songs "naked" – without Spector's overdubs and without the incidental studio chatter featured between most cuts of the original album. Let It Be... Naked also omits two minor tracks, "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae", replacing them with "Don't Let Me Down", originally featured only as the B-side of the "Get Back" single.
The album is presented in a form which Paul McCartney considered closer to its original artistic vision: to "get back" to the rock and roll sound of their early years rather than the orchestral overdubs and embellishments which were added by Phil Spector in the production of the final Let It Be album. McCartney in particular was always dissatisfied with the "Wall of Sound" production style of the Phil Spector remixes, especially for his song "The Long and Winding Road", which he believed was ruined by the process.George Harrison gave his approval for the Naked project before he died. McCartney's attitude contrasted with Lennon's from over two decades earlier. In his 1971 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Lennon had defended Spector's work, saying, "He was given the shittiest load of badly recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever, and he made something of it... When I heard it, I didn't puke."
In January 1969, the Beatles began rehearsals for what was planned to be their first concert in several years. The concert was to be recorded for a television special and album, and the rehearsals were filmed for accompanying documentary footage. The project's original working title was Get Back, and an album and film were to be the end products of these sessions. Being older and more independent, the individual Beatles' tolerances for each other's quirks had decreased: for instance, on 10 January, George Harrison walked out of the sessions after the latest in a series of arguments with John Lennon over his music and after being criticized by Paul McCartney about his playing style on the song "Two of Us". By the time the sessions ended, all parties involved were so aggrieved that all of the resultant recordings were left on the shelf for over a month, with no one wanting to face the grueling editing process. In the meantime, later that year, they recorded and released Abbey Road – with sessions running smoothly and tensions largely abated. Also issued was the single "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe", recorded in April and released on 30 May.
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