Ep311: The Beatles Finally Let It Be w Bruce Spizer
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In January 1969, the Beatles embarked on an ambitious yet doomed attempt to record an album while being surrounded by onlookers and a film crew. After multiple conflicts, compromises and producers, the album and film "Let It Be" emerged. Beatles author & historian Bruce Spizer takes us on that journey.
Topics include:
- The state of The Beatles in 1969
- The involvement of Allen Klein
- The state of Apple
- George Harrison quits the Beatles
- The song prep for the sessions
- The "Nagra reels"
- The Bootlegs of the "Get Back" sessions
- The Beatles publishing
- Twickenham to Apple studios
- George Martin and Glyn Johns
- The breakup of the Beatles
- The physical vinyl package of 1970
- Special issues of Let It Be in 1970
- The 2021 "Let It Be" boxset
- The upcoming "Get Back" documentary
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| 0:32.3 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate Nate welcome to episode 311 of the vinyl |
| 0:41.0 | guide the podcast for record collectors and music nerds and today you're all in for a |
| 0:46.0 | real treat joining us will be Bruce Spizer Beatles historian author of multiple |
| 0:52.4 | books on the Beatles universe and one of the top authorities |
| 0:55.5 | on collectible Beatles records. Bruce has several books available at beetle.net, all of which are |
| 1:01.9 | stunningly great, including The Beatles Finally Let It Be, a book all about the Beatles in the |
| 1:08.1 | twilight of their collective creativity and the story of what |
| 1:11.7 | became Let It Be. Now today we talk to Bruce about that story. The Beatles at Twickenham, |
| 1:18.2 | the film crew, the Niagara Reels, the Let It Be bootlegs, some of them even spawned by the Beatles |
| 1:23.8 | themselves. Bruce and I talk about the pressings of Let It Be, the booklets from |
| 1:28.2 | 1970, the 2021 box set, even the film Let It Be, and the upcoming Get Back documentary by Peter Jackson. |
| 1:37.1 | Beatles fans and music nerds rejoice. I think you're all going to enjoy our chat today with Bruce. |
| 1:43.5 | And by the way, if you want to learn more about Bruce and his Beatles books, I suggest |
| 1:48.0 | going to beetle.net. There, Bruce has dang near a dozen books, each one focused on a special |
| 1:55.0 | Beatles release or time in their career. For example, there's a book all on the White |
| 2:00.0 | album and the launch of Apple. |
| 2:01.7 | There's a book on Sergeant Pepper. There's one book that focuses exclusively on the Beatles |
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