Over 50 years after the film’s release, Beatles fans will finally be able to stream the 1970 Beatles documentary, Let It Be, online, starting this week. The release of the original 1970 film, directed ...
Even if you don't know much about the Beatles, you're probably familiar with "Let It Be," the No. 1 title track of the band's last album. "Let It Be" was a huge hit when it was released as a single in ...
For years, decades actually, it was more like “Don’t Let It Be.” But for the first time, The Beatles’ 1970 documentary “Let It Be” — which had never been available on DVD, Blu-ray or, basically, ...
Here are similar Beatles songs that share themes or emotional elements with “Let It Be”: Hey Jude – Another comforting McCartney piano ballad, written to console John Lennon’s son Julian during his ...
The journey to the completion of 1970's Let It Be was best described by the title of one of its songs: a long and winding road. Allison Rapp: I think it has to be Glyn Johns' Get Back mix. The rawer, ...
In the most basic terms, “Let It Be” is the abbreviated version of “Get Back,” with fewer takes of “Don’t Let Me Down” and no toast. But that oversimplification of what’s wrongly remembered as The ...
Of all the Beatles’ classic albums, Let It Be is the one with the most daunting reputation. We’re all used to hearing it as their break-up album. The one where the Fabs fall apart. The one they began ...
The original film has been notorious for being the one item in the Beatles’ catalog that Apple seemed to want to suppress rather than exploit. “Let It Be” has not been officially in circulation in any ...
“Let It Be” knocked Simon & Garfunkel’s enduring tune “Bridge over Troubled Water” from No. 1 on the Hot 100. It spent two weeks on top of the chart before being replaced by The Jackson 5’s pop smash ...
There’s a great tradition of pop songs that sound like gospel music without being religious per se. These tracks include Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Elvis Presley’s “Burning Love ...
Of all the revelations on the Beatles’ new Let It Be box set, the biggest is the song that didn’t even make the original album. “Don’t Let Me Down” is John Lennon’s raw love ballad to Yoko Ono, much ...