Let It Be... Naked

Let It Be... Naked
A series of black-and-white images of the Beatles with the colors inversed
Remix album by
Released17 November 2003 (2003-11-17)
Recorded4 February 1968, 2–31 January 1969, 3 January 1970
VenueApple Corps rooftop, London
StudioApple, EMI and Twickenham, London
Genre
Length34:49
LabelApple
ProducerPaul Hicks, Guy Massey, Allan Rouse
The Beatles chronology
1
(2000)
Let It Be... Naked
(2003)
The Capitol Albums, Volume 1
(2004)

Let It Be... Naked is an alternative mix of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be, released on 17 November 2003 by Apple Records. The project was initiated by Paul McCartney, who felt that the original album's producer, Phil Spector, did not capture the group's stripped-down, live-to-tape aesthetic intended for the album.[1] Naked consists largely of newly mixed versions of the Let It Be tracks while omitting the excerpts of incidental studio chatter and most of Spector's embellishments. It also omits two tracks from the 1970 release – "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" – replacing them with "Don't Let Me Down", which was the non-album B-side of the "Get Back" single.[2]

  1. ^ DeCurtis, Anthony (20 November 2003). "Let It Be... Naked". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Let It Be - the Beatles". AllMusic.