BEATLES Get Back LP the original Let it Be concept

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May 29, 2006 Sold Date

May 22, 2006 Start Date

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This is an "example" of what the long rumored LET IT BE album was to be, what you might call the earliest version of"Let it Be Naked" although it never commercially saw the light of day. Of this "genre" of Beatle releases, this is a great visual.

The album which became Let It Be was originally titled Get Back, and was planned to be a return to the Beatles' roots. McCartney in particular was eagar for the Beatles to perform in public again, over two years after they abandoned touring. The other band members, especially Lennon, were resistant to this idea. After increasing use of overdubs and multi-layered recordings on recent albums, there was a general concensus to record the new album live in the studio, just as they had done for their first albums in the early 1960s. In keeping with the concept, the cover artwork was planned to be an update of the cover of their first album, Please Please Me, with the band looking down the stairwell of EMI's headquarters office block in Manchester Square, London. The photograph was later used on the compilation album The Beatles 1967-1970 (aka "The Blue Album").

The Apple album jacket work-up is first class all the way as the boys had planned. The record label is generic with no titles.

Clear recordings, but not brightly produced. Not your normal commercial quality. This is a near perfect copy.

This has been lightly played so I cannot call it mint.

In May 1969, Glyn Johns and producer George Martin made a new rough version of the Get Back album. This was the first serious attempt to put the album together for release. The track listing included:

"One After 909"

. "Don't Let Me Down"

"Dig a Pony"

"I've Got a Feeling"

"Get Back"

"For You Blue"

"Teddy Boy"

"Two of Us(On our way Home)"

"Dig It"

"Let It Be"

"The Long and Winding Road"

Those are what is represented on this disc.