Special Edition Super Deluxe 180g Vinyl 4LP + 12" Box Set featuring New Stereo Mix of Original Album, 27 Previously Unreleased Session Recordings, Let It Be EP, and Never-Before-Released Get Back Stereo LP Mix Compiled by Glyn Johns Plus 105-Page Hardbound Book!
The Beatles' chart-topping 1970 album Let It Be receives a range of beautifully presented Special Edition packages in October 2021! The new Special Edition follows the universally acclaimed remixed and expanded anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), The Beatles (aka The White Album) (2018), and Abbey Road (2019). All of the new Let It Be releases feature a new stereo mix of the album, as guided by the original "reproduced for disc" version by Phil Spector, sourced directly from the original session and rooftop performance eight-track tapes. The Super Deluxe collection also features 27 previously unreleased session recordings, a four-track Let It Be EP, and the never-before-released 14-track Get Back stereo LP mix which was compiled by engineer Glyn Johns in May 1969.
The Super Deluxe vinyl collection's beautiful book features Paul McCartney's foreword; an introduction by Giles Martin; a remembrance by Glyn Johns; insightful chapters and detailed track notes by Beatles historian, author, and radio producer Kevin Howlett; and an essay by journalist and author John Harris exploring the sessions' myths vs. their reality. The book is illustrated, scrapbook style, with rare and previously unpublished photos by Ethan A. Russell and Linda McCartney, as well as never before published images of handwritten lyrics, session notes, sketches, Beatles correspondence, tape boxes, film frames, and more.
While recorded in 1969, Let It Be remains the Beatles' final salvo due to its release in 1970 and the internal tensions that mark the album. Filled with a litany of underrated gems, it also hosts the universally recognized gospel-laden title track, on a par with the best material the Beatles ever recorded. Controversial due to its involvement of Spector, Let It Be marks a return to a drier, back-to-basics live-in-the-studio sound. Seldom, if ever, were the Beatles so raw and direct, as the folksy harmonies on "Two of Us" and straight-ahead charge of "I've Got a Feeling" demonstrate. And the orchestral and choir arrangements on the Spector-treated "The Long and Winding Road" simply soar.
The Beatles - Let It Be | Special Edition Releases [Official Trailer]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmqd6PYAvJ8
Features:
• Special Edition Super Deluxe 180g vinyl 4LP + 12" EP + book box set
• Let It Be (new stereo mix of original album): 12 tracks
• Previously unreleased outtakes, studio jams, rehearsals: 27 tracks
• Previously unreleased 1969 Get Back LP mix by Glyn Johns, newly remastered: 14 tracks
• Let It Be EP: 4 tracks
• 105-page hardbound book
• 12.5" by 12.5" die-cut slipcase
- Two Of Us
- Dig A Pony
- Across The Universe
- I Me Mine
- Dig It
- Let It Be
- Maggie Mae
- I've Got A Feeling
- One After 909
- The Long And Winding Road
- For You Blue
- Get Back
- Morning Camera (Speech – mono) / Two Of Us (Take 4)
- Maggie Mae / Fancy My Chances With You (Mono)
- Can You Dig It?
- I Don't Know Why I'm Moaning (Speech – mono)
- For You Blue (Take 4)
- Let It Be / Please Please Me / Let It Be (Take 10)
- I've Got A Feeling (Take 10)
- Dig A Pony (Take 14)
- Get Back (Take 19)
- Like Making An Album? (Speech)
- One After 909 (Take 3)
- Don't Let Me Down (First rooftop performance)
- The Long And Winding Road (Take 19)
- Wake Up Little Susie / I Me Mine (Take 11)
- On The Day Shift Now (Speech – mono) / All Things Must Pass (Rehearsals – mono)
- Concentrate On The Sound (mono)
- Gimme Some Truth (Rehearsal – mono)
- I Me Mine (Rehearsal – mono)
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Rehearsal)
- Polythene Pam (Rehearsal – mono)
- Octopus's Garden (Rehearsal – mono)
- Oh! Darling (Jam)
- Get Back (Take 8)
- The Walk (Jam)
- Without A Song (Jam) – Billy Preston with John and Ringo
- Something (Rehearsal – mono)
- Let It Be (Take 28)
- One After 909
- I'm Ready (aka Rocker) / Save The Last Dance For Me / Don't Let Me Down
- Don't Let Me Down
- Dig A Pony
- I've Got A Feeling
- Get Back
- For You Blue
- Teddy Boy
- Two Of Us
- Maggie Mae
- Dig It
- Let It Be
- The Long And Winding Road
- Get Back (Reprise)
- Across The Universe (unreleased Glyn Johns 1970 mix)
- I Me Mine (unreleased Glyn Johns 1970 mix)
- Don't Let Me Down (new mix of original single version)
- Let It Be (new mix of original single version)
