When I was a young boy my parents had very few records but my mother was a Beatles fan and had the ‘Beatles 1962-1966’ album which was the ‘red’ one which had two pictures of the Beatles on each of the two album covers - one taken in 1962 and used as the cover for ‘Please, Please Me’ and a similar one taken on the balcony of the same building at the end of the 60s.
I loved this record and we played it time and time again and came to love the early Beatles songs from ‘Love Me Do’ to ‘Eleanor Rigby’, however it was not until I was much older that I discovered the ‘1967 -1970’ album when I discovered a totally new side to the group and a new direction in their music.
In 1977 Robert Stigwood made a rather bizarre film called ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ which starred (among others The BeeGees, George Burns and Frankie Howerd) and predominantly featured the songs from the ‘Sgt Pepper’ and ‘Abbey Road’ albums which awakened (for me) an interest in listening to the originals. That Christmas Santa bought me ‘Abbey Road’ and the BBC decided to show the Beatles films…
‘Let It Be’ is one of my favourite Beatles songs which I discovered for the first time when I saw the film and got hold of that 1967-1970 album.
Now listen to the song….
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