The intentionally primitive, slapdash, in-and-out, less-than-inspired Let It Be sessions and the album that resulted in May ‘70 weren’t the Beatles’ “swan song,” as the Variety headline for Jem Aswad’s 10.15 story contends.
Aswad knows that Let It Be was the group’s second–to–last album, and was recorded a few months before the actual swan song of Abbey Road, as the article clearly informs. But Variety’s headline writer wanted “swan song” and here we are.
The Let It Be sessions were a drag all around…an unfortunate McCartney-driven experiment in search of a raw garage-band sound, and now the whole mess is receiving a way-out-of-proportion six-hour tribute from Peter Jackson and Apple+.
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