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1970 LET IT BE
La fine dei Beatles, la fine di un decennio, la fine di una filosofia di vita… Let it be, lascia stare, adesso bisogna pensare a cosa fare da grandi… Ci siamo divertiti un sacco, ma adesso è tempo di mettere la testa a posto. Ora, ognuno per sé e il dio del rock per tutti.
Quando uscì "Let it be", il gruppo più famoso del mondo non esisteva (ufficialmente) più da un mese ed erano già usciti gli album solisti di Paul, Ringo e John. I quattro erano separati perfino in copertina. Tutto l'album ha un po' il sapore di qualcosa che "si doveva fare", perché era proprio impossibile mollare tutto senza neanche un capitolo finale. Non precisamente un happy end, ma almeno i titoli di coda e la parola fine i Beatles a questa grande storia, li dovevano.
Evidentemente “Abbey Road” non era stato ritenuto un commiato sufficiente, chissà… Probabilmente se la vicenda dei Fab Four non fosse finita, queste canzoni (registrate antecedentemente a quelle di "Abbey Road" che invece era uscito prima) non sarebbero mai state pubblicate e comunque non in questa veste, ma si tratta di una mera supposizione. Invece i quattro decisero che comunque si doveva pubblicare un "ultimo disco", così misero in mano al produttore Phil Spector un pugno di canzoni di seconda scelta (rispetto il loro standard) registrate senza averne nessuna voglia in un periodo di noia e di litigi. Spector, poi, a detta di quasi tutti e di Paul in particolare, riuscì a rovinare con una produzione pomposa e pretenziosa anche quel poco di buono che c'era. Lui all'epoca era considerato il miglior produttore al mondo, ma il materiale su cui si trovò a lavorare non era eccelso.
John disse: "Gli è stato dato il più merdoso cumulo di merda mal registrato e con un feeling schifoso e ne ha cavato qualcosa", Paul disse: "Il suo lavoro in tutto il disco e in particolare su 'The long and winding road' è terribile, e in più rappresenta un'intollerabile interferenza con il mio lavoro".
George Martin rimase scandalizzato nel sentire cosa aveva combinato Spector, la stampa parlò di "un EP gonfiato" e di "una lapide di cartone"… Ma è un disco così orribile "Let it be"? Alla fine probabilmente no. Forse bisognerebbe ascoltarlo con le orecchie di allora, bisognerebbe ascoltarlo venendo da tutto quello che i Beatles avevano fatto prima, per capire le reazioni del periodo, ma ascoltato oggi, l'album non appare così terribile. Contiene sicuramente alcuni momenti di alto livello ( le due canzoni di Harrison "I Me Mine" e "For You Blue", ma anche "The Long And Winding Road" "Two Of Us", "Get Back" e la stessa "Let It Be"), “Across The Universe”, composta da Lennon oltre un anno prima ma poi relegata in un album benefico per il WWF, viene qui ripescata e arricchita con diverse sovraincisioni, e nella sua lamentosa psichedelia è uno dei momenti migliori dell’album. E pure gli episodi non memorabili ("Maggie Mae" e "One After 909" che appartenevano addirittura al periodo Quarrymen, la fiacca "Dig It") non sembrano peggio di altre cose minori dei Beatles.
Forse il più grande gruppo pop del mondo avrebbe meritato un commiato migliore, ma, chissà, forse un grande album avrebbe reso il dolore dei fans e il loro rimpianto ancora maggiore…
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01 Two of Us (03:36)
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
02 Dig a Pony (03:54)
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 Across the Universe (03:47)
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
06 Let It Be (04:03)
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
07 Maggie Mae (00:40)
Oh, dirty Maggie Mae
they have taken her away
and she'll never walk
down Lime Street anymore
Oh, the judge she guilty found her
of robbing the homeward bounder
dirty no good robbin' Maggie Mae
It's the part of Liverpool
She returned me to
Two pound ten a week
that was my pay
09 One After 909 (02:53)
(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
11 For You Blue (02:32)
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
12 Get Back (03:07)
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...]
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