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Lennon on heroin during a TV interview. Harrison brawling after a nasty jibe about Yoko. Macca behaving like a dictatorial gym teacher. As a new version of Let It Be is released, PHILIP NORMAN recalls... My ringside seat watching The Beatles self-destruct
Out of the 12 studio albums The Beatles recorded, there was one their fans greeted without the usual joy but with a mix of disappointment and dread. That was Let It Be...
John had recently left his wife and infant son for the Japanese-American performance artist Yoko Ono and with her begun a career of anti-war campaigning through outrageous conceptual art events that baffled and offended The Beatles' global public. Spector treated John's and George's work like Sevres china but showed no such respect for Paul's two masterpieces, the album's title track and The Long And Winding Road, saturating them with melodramatic strings and a kitschy choir. Even John's New Musical Express champion, Alan Smith, called album and film together 'a cheapskate epitaph, a cardboard tombstone, a sad and tatty ending to a fusion which wiped clean and drew again the face of pop'.
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