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| George Harrison wrote this and sang lead. He said it is "About the ego, the eternal problem." |
| This uses a 3/4 time signature like a waltz, rather than the standard 4/4. |
| The Beatles recorded this without John Lennon. Around this time, a lot of The Beatles songs were recorded without all members present. |
| This almost didn't make the album. Let It Be was going to be a live album, and film footage of their rehearsals in the studio were going to made into a TV special. When the live album idea was killed, Glyn Johns, who engineered the rehearsals, was asked to put the album together from those recordings. He left this off, but when The Beatles decided to turn the rehearsal footage into the movie Let It Be, he was told to include it because the song would appear in the movie. After further delays, The Beatles broke up and Phil Spector was brought in to produce the album from the tapes. |
| The first version The Beatles recorded was about 90 seconds long, but this was their best take. Phil Specter copied parts of that recording to double its length. |
| In the movie Let It Be, this was used in a scene where John Lennon does a waltz with Yoko while the other Beatles perform. |
| Harrison's 1980 autobiography is titled "I Me Mine." The book was reissued in 2002. |
| When the album was re-released in 2003 as Let It Be... Naked, the songs were remixed to eliminate most of Phil Spector's lush production. His edit to make this longer was one of the few things he did that was left alone. |
Let It Be Lyrics
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