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Rolling Stone Music Now

The Secret History of the Beatles' 'Let It Be'

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode taped live in front of a studio audience at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, legendary producer Glyn Johns looks back at the real story of the Beatles' Let It Be sessions — and actual Beatle Ringo Starr weighs in as well. Rob Sheffield and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame VP of education Jason Hanley join host Brian Hiatt for the discussion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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or lowercase that Shopify dot cokeel. C. Music Now. Today we have a special Beatles themed live episode recorded at the Rock and

0:36.5

Hall Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. While we were there we checked out their

0:40.4

exhibit called Get Back to Let It Be, which is built around footage from Peter Jackson's

0:45.5

Get Back documentary from 2021, as well as some amazing artifacts.

0:49.4

And that's very much worth seeing.

0:51.2

We taped the episode on Ringel's Star's 83rd birthday and Ringo himself briefly chimed

0:56.6

in with some thoughts on Get Back and more. We'll start by letting you hear a little bit of my conversation

1:01.2

with Ringo and then we'll move on to the live episode which features an interview with the legendary producer Glenn Johns who recorded the original Let It B sessions and also made a very different version of that album that you were finally able to hear officially on the Super Deluxe Edition that came out last year.

1:18.0

He also talks about his groundbreaking work with Led Zeppelin, the Who, The Stones, and more.

1:23.0

But first, here's Bringle's Star.

1:25.0

This is what he had to say about his birthday tradition of people

1:28.0

giving a peace and love salute around the world.

1:31.0

In 2008, I was on tour, we were in New York and then my birthday was like 10 days later.

1:37.7

I was being interviewed.

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