The Beatles' Let It Be

Disappointingly dry and bogged down with details of the recording, rather than personal perspective from the author. Nothing to really distinguish it from the mountain of other books written about Let It Be.......more

Geez. Do I really need to know what instrument everyone played at every session? Some interesting facts here, but the narrative constantly stalls out with needless details.......more

A very disappointing introduction to the 33 1/3 series. Much of this book read like a pre-first draft — as if the roughly chronological notes had to be turned into sentences and rushed to the printer, without anyone having tried to impose any narrative structure, or stylistic polish. Far too many st......more

This would have been a better book if it had focused less on what day such and such happened and more on the actual music. The story of how the album came to be is definitely fascinating, but I wanted there to be more discussion of the songwriting process or at least a deeper analysis of the musical......more

Describes the making of the Beatles's Let It Be album, including the Twickenham rehearsals, the rooftop concert, and the Phil Spector production in a straight forward, factual way. Full of Beatlegeek lists of people, equipment, and song names. It held my interest throughout, but I found myself wishi......more