Beatles - Let it Be... Naked 1970

One of the biggest complaints about the Let It Be album throughout the years has centred on Spector's "Wall of Sound" technique, with many critics claiming the quality of the music was diminished by his orchestration and use of choirs. The Beatles' original intent in the early 1969 sessions had been to keep the music simple, both to remain true to their rock 'n' roll roots and to enable them to easily replicate the songs in possible future live performances.

The origin of the Let It Be…Naked project arose during a chance reunion of Paul McCartney and "Let It Be" film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on an airplane flight in the early 2000s. McCartney and Lindsay-Hogg discussed the unavailability of the film on both VHS and DVD, which led to discussion of a possible remixed "soundtrack" to accompany a proposed future DVD release. In early 2002, McCartney recruited Abbey Road in-house engineers Paul Hicks, Guy Massey and Allan Rouse to go back into the vaults and assemble a brand new studio album from the 30 reels of tape recorded during the January 1969 sessions. Since much of the Let It Be material had been recorded live, many sound anomalies existed on the tapes. Hicks, Massey and Rouse did extensive work digitally cleaning up each individual track of every song before remixing it. Some takes were edited together to come up with the best possible final version. In the case of one song–"Dig a Pony"–one errant note sung by John Lennon was even digitally pitch-corrected



All tracks written by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.

1 Get Back 2:34
2. Dig a Pony 3:38
3 For You Blue (Harrison) 2:27
4 The Long and Winding Road 3:34
5 Two of Us 3:21
6 I've Got a Feeling 3:30
7 One After 909 2:44
8 Don't Let Me Down 3:18
9 I Me Mine (Harrison) 2:21
10 Across the Universe 3:38
11 Let It Be 3:55