Can I have some information about the Beatle's accomplishments, and their final song "Let it be"?

Following the White Album(and the magnificent Hey Jude) they made Let It Be and with the final regal glory of Abbey Road they left their grieving fans a legacy that will never be matched.

In the inevitable breaking down of old liaisons, there was room for growth. John met and married Yoko; Paul met and married Linda. George matured far beyond his years, settled into his spiritual space and expressed himself writing classic songs; Ringo was now writing his own numbers and was widely acknowledged as a supreme drummer and a very good actor. To everything there is a season.

That the rift between The Beatles, evolved with much public angst was a pity but this is not a perfect world is it?

Relationships anyway, were repaired long ago.

And in the end, the equation between the love they took and the love they made was intact into infinity. They still represent the twentieth century’s greatest romance.

-- By "D.T."

they made"let it be" beacuse--

" All good things come to an end. And The Beatles, as the best thing that ever happened to music in the 20th century couldn't be an exception. On may 8th, 1970, exactly two years before the author of these pages was born, Let It Be, the last album ever recorded as such by the four Beatles was issued. By that time, the group didn't exist as such, and only the delay in assembling an LP from what had been the Get Back sessions took the story of The Beatles into the next decade.

Let It Be was recorded during 1969, under the Get Back concept. What the fab four tried to do was to regain their live feeling, the one that had been captured in their first LP Please Please Me recorded in only 11 hours. Apparently this had been John's idea, but it was Paul who suggested a film showing The Beatles at the recording studio. However both the film and the sessions became a historic document in which generations to come will be able to presence how the group was falling apart in those days.

The Beatles began recording Let It Be at Twickenham film studios (where both A Hard Day's Night and Help! had been filmed) to allow the rehearsals to be filmed for a TV film. Allen Klein, the group's new manager (brought in by George, John and Ringo against Paul's will) later realized that the film should be released as a big screen film accompanied by the album. The truth is that recording conditions in Twickenham were poor and inadequate, and only rehearsals were performed. For 3 weeks, The Beatles waited and hoped the new Apple studios at 3 Saville Row were finished. However, the work done there by Alexis Mardas (Magic Alex) was far from convincing and recording equipment had to be borrowed from EMI.

Musically, the recordings soon became a nightmare. The personal relationships of the members of the group were poor and playing songs together got quite complicated. On top of that, The Beatles hadn't seriously played live since 1965 and they no longer had the freshness of early days. Billy Preston was called in for two reasons. A fifth player on the keyboard was needed to complete the group if all songs were to be played live and with no overdubs. Also, an outsider would probably calm some of the arguments between some of The Beatles. And so, Billy Preston became in the Get Back single the first outside musician to be credited in a Beatles single.

George Martin started producing the Get Back recordings. However, soon the atmosphere became also unbreathable for him. As he decided he had had enough, with little or no room at all for his work, Glynn Jones, the recording engineer was left in charge of the project. Jones collected twice a bunch of songs that were to be the "Get Back" album, and both times The Beatles and Allen Klein rejected the mixes. The truth is that those of us that have listened to those mixes agree that although historically more valuable than the final LP, commercially they both would have been a flop. Allen Klein and John Lennon brought in Phil Spector, considered by many the world's best producer (I prefer ol' George Martin by far) to make something out of the Get Back tapes, and what he made out of them is what you have at home under the name of Let It Be.

The work of Phil Spector has been praised and depicted. He has been called a genius and a butcher. While John said his work was great, Paul will never forget him for what he did to The long and Winding Road. But, let's get to the facts so each one of you can judge by yourself. The tapes taken by Spector to make an LP were simply NOT up to a Beatles standard. It is true that some of the songs are overproduced by his famous "wall of sound" however, many others were saved from mediocrity by his work. Probably, the worst sin ever committed by Spector was not to check with Paul on all of his songs. His best virtue was to deliver an album that was not ranked separately, but among all the other Beatles jewels.

Personally, I think Spector did no great thing with Let it Be. Anthology 3 and the film show us that all songs that were originally great, remained as such. John was quite thankful with the job done with Across the Universe. The truth is that with the exception of the excessive production on The Long and Winding Road (to which even in later versions Paul and George Martin added synthesizer strings and choirs in "Give My Regards to Broad Street", certainly much subtler than Spector had done) Spector did a fairly decent job with the tapes and presented an LP good enough to be sold under the name of The Beatles.

The film, the second half of the project, has remained a secret for many young fans. I recently had the unique chance of seeing it in wide screen, twice, and can say that you shouldn't miss the chance of doing so if it ever comes across. Let It Be was shortly released in video (even Laser Disc) but soon retired from the market. For a decade, fans have been buying bootleg tapes to watch this incredible film. If you were planning to do this, I would recommend you to wait. It seems that Let It Be will be released before the end of the year, and although these kind of rumour should always be taken with precaution, all logic leads to a Christmas release of the tape. The truth is that the film, although sad by moments (specially an argument between George and Paul over a riff, that later was followed by George leaving the recordings for 3 days) holds at some songs all The Beatles magic. Once John sung "Beneath this mask I'm wearing a frown". Well, in Let It Be one tends to think that all Beatles behind their frown are wearing still a deep feeling for the other 3. Maybe life, success and music took them apart, but believe me, the Let It Be performance couldn't be done without some special feelings.

The rooftop concert, that ends the film and the album, is a living proof that The Beatles could still do it live. Although some authors insist in putting down all live performances in the Get Back tapes, I disagree tremendously, specially on Get Back. The released version was played live on a windy rooftop in a grey day at lunchtime. Maybe the time of the day, like in the Cavern in the old days, put together these four lads (and an impressive Billy Preston) to perform one of their best rock numbers. Watching the performance on the top of the Saville Row building is an incredible experience no fan should miss.

Let It Be was for the world the last album of the best group. Later, compilations, unreleased songs, Anthologies and even Free as a Bird and Real Love came. They even recorded Abbey Road after Let It Be. But the truth is that the four separate pictures on the cover made it clear enough for all, that from that moment on we should treasure what they had done, for nothing better would ever come again."

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Dig A Pony I've Got A Feeling For You Blue I just like the unmarried models of Across the Universe and Let It Be and it used to be nonetheless tough to opt for. Interesting to notice that is the one album to not function Ringo on lead vocals