There is skiffle-like fun in “Maggie Mae,” while the rocker “I’ve Got a Feeling” was a melding of two individual songs by McCartney and Lennon, something they did frequently. Harrison contributes wonderful guitar to the song. Billy Preston’s organ and McCartney’s piano highlight “Let It Be,” written about McCartney’s dreams of his dead mother. The band liked “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and built “Dig It” around one of the show’s stock, repeated phrases. One of George Harrison’s two contributions, “I Me Mine,” quickly turns into a retro rocker. For “Across the Universe,” Lennon used a swirl of elemental images. Lennon wrote “Dig a Pony” about his love for Yoko Ono. McCartney was writing about himself and new bride Linda on “Two of Us,” and he and John Lennon were singing like the Everly Brothers, who they had long admired. Of the original album, the first two songs were about relationships. The set also comes with a 100-page, hardcover book with in-depth essays, track-by-track recording information and a forward by Paul McCartney, who admits he did not like some of the flourishes Spector added to the original record. The Blu-ray contains the remixed original album in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround and PCM stereo.
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Disc four is the previously-unreleased Glyn Johns mix of the alternate “Get Back” album, with additions of “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Teddy Boy,” plus a different version of “Dig It,” here called “Dig It Up.” The final CD is a four-song EP, highlighted by Johns’ mixes of “Across the Universe” – without the strings and backing choir added by album producer Phil Spector – and “I Me Mine.” The second disc consists of 14 tracks, including five bits of studio chatter, from the recording sessions, while disc three has eight rehearsal recordings for the live rooftop show, the basis of the “Let It Be” live documentary, and three studio jams. This new box set, the last in a string of special editions covering the band’s final albums, contains a wonderful new mix of the original album by Giles Martin, son of George Martin, who produced 13 of The Beatles’ album but not “Let It Be,” and engineer Sam Okell. The album, however, does contain the classics “Let It Be,” “The Long and Winding Road” and “Get Back,” as well as the darn good “Two of Us,” “Across the Universe” and “I’ve Got a Feeling.” Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” or “Abbey Road” as that. While good, The Beatles’ final album, recorded when the band was starting to break up and released on May 8, 1970, about a month after the actual break-up, was not their best album. The Beatles: Let It Be super deluxe edition (Apple/Universal, 5 CDs + Blu-ray).
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