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Non sono il solo, spero, a pensare che gran parte delle produzioni discografiche dei Beatles successive al loro scioglimento siano per lo più delle eccellenti operazioni di marketing. Fra queste "Real Love" aveva raggiunto l'apice della volgarità musicale, prima facendo passare per inedito un pezzo di Lennon, che inedito non era per nulla, poi sovraincidendo sullo stesso i pezzi di bravura dei superstiti.
Non un primato, vedi Natalie Cole (argh!), ma pur sempre un'operazione macabra.
Dopo altre prove di gran classe, vedi il fondamentale dubbio edipico - amletico McCartney-Lennon o Lennon-McCartney, ora che i Beatles si stanno pian piano riunendo sotto terra (perdonate l'uscita non proprio Oxfordiana, ma visto il contesto... ), vien fuori una versione nuda di Let It Be. Nuda perchè priva degli arrangiamenti delle parti orchestrali, dei cori e degli effetti voluti dall'allora produttore del disco Phil Spector.
Ne avevamo bisogno? Secondo ciò che si legge un po' ovunque pare di sì.
L'incisione viene, infatti, giustificata dal fatto che i Beatles non amarono gli orpelli voluti dal produttore, chiamato dalla Emi a completare l'opera incompiuta dei Fab Four, ormai in aperto conflitto. In particolare, pare che McCartney non avesse per nulla gradito gli arrangiamenti orchestrali di "The Long And Winding Road".
C'è da crederci? Mah.
Visto lo spessore di Ringo Starr ed essendo di fatto McCartney il custode dell'eredità artistica beatlesiana, non potendo, quindi, essere smentito da Lennon e Harrison, qualche dubbio mi è venuto in mente.
Non raccontiamoci le favole. Siamo dinnanzi all'ennesima operazione di marketing.
Che poi il disco presenti più di un motivo di interesse è un altro discorso.
In effetti è differente dall'originale. Oltre il restyling che ha ripulito il suono, infatti, è stata modificata la scaletta, sia nell'ordine dei brani, che escludendo "Dig It" e "Maggie Mae" e introducendo "Don't Let Me Down".
Il disco, inoltre, presenta alcuni dialoghi dei Beatles in sala di registrazione. Il tutto viene completato da foto e materiali inediti, presenti all'interno di un bonus cd, che potrà soddisfare i feticismi più variegati, across the universe.
Ma tutto ciò non giustifica un'operazione che appare tutto sommato inutile per comprendere la storia musicale dei baronetti di sua maestà.
Già la storia. Una parola chiave importante.
"Se nel 1969 avessimo avuto la tecnologia di adesso, saremmo riusciti a pubblicare 'Let It Be' come volevamo" ha dichiarato McCartney. Si sa che la storia non concorda con i periodi ipotetici dell'irrealtà. Andò diversamente.
Sui Beatles, su quello che hanno rappresentato, sulla loro storia, dice molto di più Let It Be dressed, che naked.
Se proprio non potete farne a meno, non compratelo. Magari la Emi impara qualcosa. Quanto al voto sul disco non può che essere cinque, perchè comunque sono delle canzoni immortali.
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01 Get Back (02:34)
Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
for some California grass
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo Jo
Go home
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Loretta
Ah, get back
Yeah, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Yeah get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, Ooo
[Past Masters/single version only:
Get back, Loretta,
Your mommy's waiting for you,
Wearin' her high heel shoes and her low neck sweater,
Get back home, Loretta
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back, get back...]
02 Dig a Pony (03:38)
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, dig a pony
Well you can celebrate anything you want
Yes, you can celebrate anything you want
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, do a roadhog
Well you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, pick a moondog
Well you can radiate everything you are
Yes, you can radiate everything you are
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, roll a stoney
Well you can imitate everyone you know
Yes, you can imitate everyone you know
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, feel the wind blow
Well you can indicate everything you see
Yes, you can indicate everything you see
Ooh
I hi hi hi hi hi hi, cold and lonely
Well you can syndicate any boat you row
Yes, you can syndicate any boat you row
I told you so
All I want is you
Everything has got to be
just like you want it to
Because
03 For You Blue (02:27)
Because you're sweet and lovely girl, I love you
Because you're sweet and lovely girl, It's true
I love you more that ever girl, I do
I want you in the morning girl, I love you
I want you at the moment I feel blue
I'm living every moment girl, for you
Bob, bobcat Bob
Go Johnny go
Same ole 12-bar blues
(Elmore James got nothin' on this baby)
I loved you from the moment I saw you
You looked at me, that's all you had to do
I feel it now I hope you feel it too
I'm having the blues
05 Two of Us (03:21)
I dig a Pygmy by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids.
Phase One in which Doris gets her oats.
Two of us riding nowhere
spending someone's hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
Two of us sending postcards
writing letters on my wall
You and me burning matches
lifting latches on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
longer than the road
that stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
You and I have memories
longer than that road
that stretches out ahead
Two of us wearing raincoats
standing solo in the sun
You and me chasing paper
getting nowhere on our way back home
We're on our way back home
We're on our way home
We're going home
We're going home
07 One After 909 (02:44)
(Intro)
My baby says she's traveling
on the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby,don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I begged her not to go
And I begged her on my bended knees
You're only fooling around
You're only fooling around with me
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I've got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you've got the wrong location
Picked up my bags, run right home
Then I find I've got the number wrong
Well, I said I'm travelingon the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
I've got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you've got the wrong location (yeah)
Picked up my bags, run right home (run right home)
Then I find I've got the number wrong
Well, I said I'm traveling
on the one after 909
I said move over honey
I'm traveling on that line
I said move over once
Move over twice
Come on baby, don't be cold as ice
I said I'm traveling on the one after 909
Yeah
10 Across the Universe (03:38)
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my opened ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the universe
Jai Guru Deva, Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai Guru Deva
Jai Guru Deva
11 Let It Be (03:57)
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right it front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
And when the brokenhearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted
There is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Yeah, there will be an answer let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Yeah, let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom
Let it be
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Altre recensioni
Di fosca
Let it be resta un capolavoro, ma nella sua versione originale, sofferta e vestita.
Queste riesumazioni post mortem mi lasciano una sensazione di freddezza e speculazione, niente altro.
Di ste84
Sembra di ascoltare delle demo: sentite “The Long And Winding Road” prima e dopo la cura, poi capirete l’abisso che separa le due versioni.
In finale questo album suona poco più rock del vecchio ma non aggiunge niente di nuovo a quanto già sapevamo sui Beatles.
Di cece65
Finalmente Sir Paul s’è fatto giustizia.
"The Long And Winding Road" con solo il piano di Paul e la batteria di Ringo è ancora più magica dell’originale.
