New Beatles CD coming: "Let It Be Naked" in shops in October

Fox News ^ | September 7, 2003 | World Entertainment News Network

[ejdrapes]

Beatles Strip 'Let It Be' for 'Naked' Release

The surviving members of rock legends The Beatles are releasing a new version of their last ever album, "Let It Be" - with a different name.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have spent months working on the album, which includes classics "Long and Winding Road" and "Get Back" - and are promising an entirely new sound for fans.

The pair have stripped back the Wall Of Sound effect put on the LP by producer Phil Spector, so just the Fab Four themselves can be heard.

The new release - called "Let It Be Naked" - will be in shops in October.

An excited Ringo reveals, "It's coming out as the new CD, the cleaned-up one.

"We're rolling back the Phil Spector part of the CD so that you can hear just the band. I've heard it and it's great."

"Let It Be" was originally released in 1970, shortly before The Beatles split for good.

[Chad Fairbanks]

"Let it be naked". "Let it be raw" would have been a cool title, too..

[JoeA]

If you've heard any of the bootlegs that have circulated for years, or seen the movie, you know how great some of the music will be. This is very exciting news.

[Revolting cat!]

It's called let's sell the suckers another version of the same thing, since a new recording medium is kinda slow in coming, and quadraphenia hasn't caught on!

[TalBlack]

I've heard the stripped version of the music and for my money Specter lets us hear it the way Paul hears it. Paul has been gripeing for years about Specter ruining his song. A while back I heard Paul's version and it sounded rickety, underplayed and a bit out of time even. What I think Paul doesn't realize is that as a songwriter he hears things in the mere strumming of a chord that others may not hear. This is how songs come into being, seemingly out of thin air, in the first place. For him a little reverb on a clean guitar sound can have violins and chellos horns and pianos in it. Take my word for this. I've been writing music and recording it for years and I've made this mistake myself. The Phil Spectors of the world have a knack for making music a bit more accessable to the general ear.

[nothingnew]

What you said.

FMCDH

[weegee]

The assembly of the original Let It Be album was handed off to someone who culled through the tapes looking for what he wanted to release; the Beatles' seemed burned out by the experience of it all.

This is just an opportunity for some of them to decide what gets released as an "album" (songs to be heard in proximity to one another). Track order is as important as song selection.

I always get a laugh when the statement comes out from Beatles Inc. (Apple Corps?) that "this is it, there are no more new/unreleased songs in the vault". Those who have listened to Beatles bootlegs know that there were hundreds of songs never officially relased. The Anthology released resolved some of that but then Anthology also included cuts that were combinations of different mixes of alternate takes too (so those who listen to bootlegs, still have to seek them out to hear some of the actual alternate takes).

[Wooly]

In the early days of Phil Spector's producing, the studio equipment was really bad and his wall of sound made up for this. But when he was brought in to produce Let It Be, the wall of sound technique just turned it into a run of the mil album. The Beatles should have stuck with George Martin as the producer as he knew them inside and out.

[proxy_user]

It will also be available as an LP, pressed in the UK. US price is $28.50.

It will be sold by the usual audiophile vinyl dealers and websites.

[MikeD]

Amen brother -- Spector's work on "Two Of Us" (the crispness of the acoustics) and "Dig A Pony" (he omitted the opening and closing "All I Want Is" lines) justify his work on the albums. Plus, his work on "Across the Universe" is beautiful, he had the sense to use the cool guitar solo in "Let it Be," and he turned "I Me Mine" into something longer than 1:30.

Besides, as much as I love McCartney, he won't have the guts to officially release "No Pakistanis." Heck, I'd settle for the remake of "Love Me Do" or "Save the Last Dance For Me..."

MD

[Rome2000]

They don't need the money, so they should release it free on the internet, or give all of the proceeds to charity.

[Chad Fairbanks]

They can make all the money they want, for all I care. If they want to give to charity, fine, if not, ain't my business. Unlike the liberals, I don't care about what they do with their money. :0)

[Rome2000]

They probably are liberals, which is why they will put the proceeds in the bank and then call for higher taxes on the working class.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yeah, but being English, don't they pay over half their income in taxes anyway?

[eddie willers]

This is very exciting news.

And how!

[eddie willers]

Spector's work on "Two Of Us" (the crispness of the acoustics) and "Dig A Pony" (he omitted the opening and closing "All I Want Is" lines) justify his work on the albums.

Yep....but what he did to "The Long And Winding Road" was a crime.

[weegee]

Besides, as much as I love McCartney, he won't have the guts to officially release "No Pakistanis."

It certainly seems odd that he would record it in the first place. The version I heard was from the Get Back sessions. He goes from playing No Pakistanis to Get Back. Is this how the song is supposed to go? I haven't heard Paul McCartney outed as a racist.

[DoughtyOne]

With all due respect to "Let it Be" fans, if I never hear that song again it will be too soon. While that's not good English, it sums up my thoughts perfectly.

As for any Beatles songs released after the group split up, they pretty much remind me of the Blue "Plastic Ono Band" Album. Half the stuff was marginal at best, the other half was "Oi Oi Oi Oi, Eee Eee Eee... (lasting for 15 to 30 minutes)"

I would have loved to see the Beatles produce more of the White Album and Abby Road sounding songs. Alas, it was never to be.

Yoko, you gigantic rat turd, you sure had a great impact on the group. Woman, you're fifteen minutes of fame was over twenty-five to thirty years ago.

[weegee]

So a naked photo of John and Yoko's rumps got pulled?

Better hope than no photos get posted to this thread:

Yoko Ono to Repeat Naked Appeal for World Peace