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Watch the new official music video for The Beatles’ “Let It Be”, filmed on the day after the January 30th rooftop concert. The footage has been meticulously restored from the 16mm negative. Now streaming on Disney+. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Paul McCartney, during the tense recordings of the White Album and the early days of the Get Back project, his mother Mary appeared before him in a dream, calming him and saying "Let it be." Paul took the song to Twickenham Studios, where he presented it to John, George and Ringo, and together they polished it as McCartney finished the lyrics. After the band's last concert on the roof of the EMI studios in Abbey Road on January 30, 1969, The Beatles returned the next day to finish recording and film promotional videos for most of the album's songs. After...

"In 1989 I took Rush Limbaugh's radio show off the air in St. Louis..." Jeff Long had his first "encounter" with Rush way back in the early days of his syndicated radio show. But there was more to come. Jeff would end up working in Rush's home town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He would meet Rush in person but there's more. And at the link below what Paul Harvey used to call on the radio "the rest of the story"... So many memories of Rush that for me include memories of the music that Rush loved. He would play songs...

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...

EXCLUSIVE No more Fag Four Beatles One for the road ... Beatle Paul McCartney with a cigarette in his hand on the original 1969 album cover By SIMON WHEELER THE classic Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover showing the band on a zebra crossing has been altered – to remove the cigarette in Paul McCartney’s hand. The original image shows a barefoot Macca third in line holding his ciggie. The 1969 photo has been a poster best-seller since it was shot near Abbey Road studios in North London, where the Fab Four recorded most of their music. But companies including...