More than 30 years after the initial release of the Beatles’ swansong, Let It Be, Paul McCartney can finally stop complaining. The album, which was released in 1970 to coincide with a film of the same name, was cobbled together from numerous recordings the Fab Four initially laid down for an LP to be titled Get Back. However, tensions in the band caused plans for that album to be scrapped, with the group instead going on to record Abbey Road before finally splitting up. Since Let It Be was released after the fact, producer Phil Spector was brought in to spruce things up, adding extra strings and production to a number of songs - much to the ire of Mr. McCartney. Now, for the first time, Apple Records will be offering a new version of Let It Be featuring all of the songs in their original form, before Spector got his hands on them. In conjunction with the CD release, the difficult-to-come-by Let It Be film will also be offered on DVD for the first time. Release dates have yet to be set for both the CD and DVD.
