I've never liked the sound of LIB - to me it 'sounded and felt' more amateurish' than it was 'raw' imo. But then in the years since its release Paul has finally quit whining about what Phil Spector did to the original Let it Be, so at least there is that. The impressive thing about it is the only thing going on in the movie while the music is playing is some guy is running around in a graveyard. Not everyone agrees, you can get on the Steve Hoffman forum online and read a lot of those audiophile poseurs who post there who are going on about how they “sucked all the life out of the mixes” and “it sounds too digital” and things that those of us with merely mortal hearing can’t detect, and they sound a lot like wannabe winetasters waxing grandiloquent about stuff that may or may not be mere figments of their winetasting imaginations, saying things like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti Grand Cru has a “nice, piquant after-dinner flavor – heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness”. There was already a de-Spectorized version of the original on Anthology 3, but instead of using that the producers opted to include a take recorded five days after the original instead, which includes the absolute lamest organ solo ever committed to tape in all of history.

It was obvious that, at times during these sessions (especially after they moved out of the Twickenham movie studio and into their premises in Savile Row - and added Billy Preston, who may have had a calming influence), they actually appeared to get on quite well. I hadn’t listened to it in years, decades maybe, because at the time it was released I came to the conclusion that there were two things in the universe that were completely, undeniably pointless – human existence, and Let It Be…Naked. Also included in the package is an extra disc of "Fly On The Wall" outtakes from the January 1969 sessions. Like “I’ve Got a Feeling” – mixing the two versions rather than just using the first take makes this something very different than simply a de-Spectorized Let It Be, and wasn’t that the point to begin with?And with LIBN I finally have it, so I treasure this release despite it’s confusions and inconsistencies. In Rob Sheffield’s excellent book Dreaming The Beatles, there’s a chapter titled “Paul Is a Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain”, and his horrendous live recreations of those originally horrendous strings and choir is a prime example of this “concept”.

Instead we get a mostly forgettable "fly on the wall" bonus disc, containing some rehearsal material and bits of conversation. We are available to book for live shows and events, as well as bespoke licensed music for videos, commercials, TV, film and more.

Skip anything they removed Phil Spector’s arrangements from – even if you don’t like Spector’s orchestrations (and I do), better de-Spectorized versions of all of these songs already exist on Anthology 2 and 3. The other incarnations of it 'sometimes' lean more towards a tongue-in-cheek joke at times, or too self-conscious. Let It Be…Naked is a hopelessly botched attempt, a complete misfire, and an unfortunate blemish on the Beatles’ discography. Instead of several discs of music from these tapes we should have got, we got 20 minutes of snatches of bits of songs and mumbled conversations that sound like they were assembled by someone with severe ADHD, who after a couple of seconds went “OK, on to something else now”. In my opinion, "Let it Be" was always something of a B-grade Beatles album, a mish-mash of doodles with some faulted gems within the Phil Spectorised structure and production.