Let It Be is the Beatles’ twelfth and final studio album. On 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the group’s public break-up, the album was released along with the documentary of the same name. Having experienced recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had envisioned the project as a way […]
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Lennon’s quotes about “Dig A Pony” JOHN 1972: “I was just having fun with words. It was literally a nonsense song. You just take words and you stick them together, and you see if they have any meaning. Some of them do and some of them don’t.” JOHN 1980: “Another […]
GEORGE 1980: “‘For You Blue’ is a simple twelve-bar song following all the normal twelve-bar principles, except that it’s happy-go-lucky!” About “For You Blue” “For You Blue” is a song written by George Harrison as a love song to his wife, Pattie Boyd. It was included in their 1970 album […]
PAUL: “It’s complicated now. We can get it simpler, and then complicate it where it needs complications.” GEORGE: “It’s not complicated.” PAUL: “This one is like, shall we play guitars through ‘Hey Jude’ …well, I don’t think we should.” GEORGE: “Ok well I don’t mind… I’ll play, you know, whatever […]
PAUL 1970: “The album was finished a year ago, but a few months ago American record producer Phil Spector was called in by John Lennon to tidy up some of the tracks. But a few weeks ago, I was sent a re-mixed version of my song ‘The Long And Winding […]
PAUL 1969: (describing a guitar lick for the middle-eight, during the recording sessions) “It’s coming down too fast– the note. There shouldn’t be any recognizable jumps. Falling… Falling…” About “I’ve Got A Feeling” “I’ve Got a Feeling” was featured on Beatles’ final studio album, Let It Be, released in 1970. […]
JOHN 1980: “That was something I wrote when I was about seventeen. I lived at 9 Newcastle Road. I was born on the ninth of October– the ninth month. It’s just a number that follows me around, but numerologically, apparently I’m a number six or a three or something, but […]
About “Maggie Mae” “Maggie May” is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a sailor. It has been the informal anthem of the city of Liverpool for about 150 years. “Maggie May” was recorded in the studio by the Beatles during their Get Back sessions in early […]
GEORGE 1980: “‘I Me Mine’ is the ego problem. I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego. You know, like ‘that’s my piece of paper,’ and ‘that’s my flannel,’ or ‘give it to me,’ or ‘I am.’ It drove me crackers– I hated everything about […]
About “Dig It” This 51-second version on the album Let It Be is an extract taken from a 12-minute jam (recorded at the Get Back/Let It Be Sessions in January 1969 at Apple Studio), which evolved from a loose “Twist and Shout” jam. A segment of the jam session, clocking […]